After processing the brown-banded grouper, Bai Yu took out a squid from the box, hooked it on his fishing hook, and continued fishing.
It's unclear whether the sea area they were in was truly rich in resources and environment, or whether Bai Yu was just exceptionally lucky.
After casting his line again, he waited for another ten minutes or so before his fishing rod caught a fish again!
Although the wait was a bit long, the fish he caught were quite big.
In summary, that was his catch, and it was worth the time he spent.
On his third cast, the white fisherman caught another grouper, but it wasn't a brown-banded grouper; it was an oil grouper.
The oil-spotted grouper and the brown-banded grouper look quite similar; in fact, the brown-banded grouper is even known as the "fake oil-spotted grouper."
As for why it has such a title?
That must be because some unscrupulous merchants are passing off brown grouper as oil grouper.
This shows that the value of the oil grouper is higher than that of the brown-banded grouper, which is only worth a few dozen yuan, with the best ones selling for a little over a hundred yuan.
However, oily spots can sell for over two hundred, making them very profitable.
The grouper that Bai Yu caught here isn't too small either, weighing about 20 pounds.
Just one oil stain like that would cost several thousand dollars.
For Bai Yu, catching two grouper in a row brought his total catch to over fifty pounds.
At this moment, Bai Yu was in a completely different state. He picked up his fishing rod and started swinging it around, already looking forward to the next catch.
Unfortunately, the fourth cast still took more than ten minutes to hook the fish, but Bai Yu failed to seize the opportunity and his attempt to set the hook missed.
It's not that Bai Yu didn't hook it, but rather that the fish that took the hook simply didn't bite it. When he pulled the hook back, all he saw was half a squid left on it.
The fourth fish that took the bait was very clever. It didn't swallow its food whole, but rather took a tentative bite, and thus escaped unharmed.
In this situation, what could Bai Yu do? He could only blame himself for not waiting a little longer; if he had waited a little longer, he might have been able to hit the target.
On his fifth cast, Bai Yu caught another grouper from the sea. This time, it was a different species – a tiger grouper.
Tiger grouper, well, it has a powerful name, but no economic value commensurate with it.
The tiger grouper that Bai Yu caught was brown. It's not very valuable economically, only a few dozen yuan per kilogram, which is even less than that of the brown-banded grouper.
The key point is that this tiger-spotted catfish is not very big. The one that Bai Yu caught weighed less than ten pounds, only about five or six pounds.
On his sixth cast, Bai Yu caught a sea wolf fish, and a large one at that, weighing over ten kilograms.
On his seventh cast, Bai Yu caught another barracuda, about the same size as the previous one.
On his eighth cast, Bai Yu caught a nine-spined bass. The fish wasn't very big, only about three or four pounds.
The ninth cast missed again.
On his tenth cast, Bai Yu caught a yellow-eyed ribbonfish from the South China Sea. It was quite big, weighing over a pound, but it wasn't worth much.
On his eleventh cast, Bai Yu caught a striped snapper. It wasn't very big, only about a pound or two.
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It wasn't until 6 p.m. that Bai Yu finally packed up his fishing rod.
In one afternoon, Bai Yu was able to catch a fish from the sea every ten minutes or so.
These fish vary in size, with the smallest weighing only one or two pounds, while the largest weighs ten or twenty pounds, and some even twenty or thirty pounds.
At six o'clock sharp, the four fishermen packed up their fishing rods and prepared to have dinner.
In Bai Yu's view, no matter how good the fish are, it can't stop him from eating, right?
Besides, he had caught a couple hundred pounds of sea fish that afternoon, which had greatly depleted his energy. He desperately needed to eat something to replenish his strength.
Of course, eating is one thing, but fishing can't stop!
Tonight, Bai Yu is having cold noodles, a cold noodle dish with seafood and braised meat.
This food was very easy to eat. Bai Yu simply took five servings of cold noodles from the dinner pick-up area and then returned to his fishing spot.
He baited his fishing rod and continued fishing.
Anyway, every time he gets a fish, there's always a waiting time, which he can use to eat.
What Bai Yu didn't expect was that the fish that used to take ten minutes to bite the hook actually took the bait this time, right after Bai Yu finished eating two bowls of cold noodles!
"Oh my god, are you not going to let me have a peaceful meal? Or are you guys out foraging for food and got caught by bait?"
No matter the reason, as long as the fishing rod moves and you hear the sound of a fish being caught, Bai Yu is not going to let it go.
Bai Yu then put his dinner aside, picked up his fishing rod, and lifted it up, causing the rod to bend downwards.
His hookset allowed him to keep the fish, but this time the catch wasn't very big; it was a three- or four-pound perch.
While Bai Yu was having dinner, the sea fish, in an attempt to cause him some trouble, sent out two groupers, one snapper, and one ribbonfish.
Nine-spined perch is also a type of grouper, and the red nine-spined perch is also known as the red melon seed grouper by many people.
Bai Yu eats very quickly, but even though he eats very fast, these guys just keep bothering him, preventing him from enjoying his meal.
However, to the surprise of these sea fish, Bai Yu was not bothered by them disturbing their meals; in fact, he wanted them to bite the hook more frequently.
After all, Bai Yu is in a competition right now. The more fish he catches, the better his score will be. Under these circumstances, he won't complain about having too many fish biting the hook.
They started having dinner a little after six o'clock and continued until eight o'clock in the evening when the second day's competition ended. Bai Yu caught another eight fish, increasing his score by thirty or forty pounds.
That night, Bai Yu and his three companions didn't use squid fishing rods to catch fish bait; instead, they focused on improving their individual scores.
Of course, Bai Yu's squid fishing rod wasn't idle either; it was borrowed by another contestant who hadn't prepared a squid fishing rod. The bait he was using today was all small sea snails and clams.
Today's fishing spot is on the beach, which is different from the reefs of the previous day. It's not easy to find seashells or anything like that on the beach.
As for whether there are rocky beaches on this small island?
Yes, there are definitely some, but they are quite far from the area where they are competing. If they go there to collect seashells, it will take a lot of time to go back and forth, and they may not even be able to find any.
Then they fished all day using the clams that had dried on the beach.
As night fell, the beach lights were turned on, attracting a large number of squid and octopus.
Then they can fish and catch fish, since these lights are on the beach, and these phototactic marine creatures will definitely come to the beach if they follow the light source.
This gives those who lack bait an opportunity, a chance to turn their lives around.
In this situation, Bai Yu also took advantage of this opportunity to widen the gap between herself and some other contestants.
At eight o'clock, the four fishermen packed up their fishing rods and, after seeing the staff seal their catch boxes, they took a speedboat back to the cruise ship.
With the conclusion of the second day of competition, the competition is now nearly halfway through for all the participants.
In the past, after each competition, some contestants would stay on the island for a while, whether to enjoy the night view or chat with other contestants; they would not return to the cruise ship immediately.
But today was different. As soon as the second day of the competition ended, the contestants gradually returned to the cruise ship by speedboat.
There were only a few men and women still on the beach, chatting and flirting while looking at the night view.
The ratio of men to women in this competition was about 7 to 3, with 20 to 30 female contestants, including amateurs, fishing bloggers, and internet celebrities.
The same applies to the male contestants. For those contestants who are also bloggers or internet celebrities, they finally got together because of a competition, so they had to have a good chat.
What if there's an opportunity for cooperation in the future? What if we get along well and end up working together?
They didn't care about the players' little schemes, as long as it didn't affect others.
For players who care about results and prize money, the right thing to do after the competition is over is to rest well and prepare for the next competition.
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