Bai Yu grabbed the rod and suddenly lifted it upwards, causing the fishing rod to bend sharply.
As he did this, Bai Yu could clearly feel the weight on the fishing rod. This weight was enormous, far greater than that of the squid he had caught before!
"Here you are! I've been waiting for you for ages! You've finally come and had your fill!"
Feeling the weight on the fishing rod, Bai Yu couldn't help but shout out, and then immediately activated the drag.
Although Bai Yu has a very good mindset and doesn't get excited unless absolutely necessary, fishing is not one of those "unnecessary circumstances".
For someone who is passionate about fishing, catching a big fish is bound to cause uncontrollable excitement.
If someone doesn't know how, it just means they don't particularly enjoy fishing.
After turning on the decelerator, Bai Yu seized the opportunity to grab the crank handle of the reel, and then began to exert all his strength, preparing to fight this guy and see how things went.
The simplest way to judge the size of a fish is to fight it and judge its size by the strength of the opponent.
As the muscles in Bai Yu's arm began to bulge, the reel and fishing rod predictably made a clicking sound!
This is the sound of forces colliding, the sound of the reel and the fishing rod near the point of breakage.
Bai Yu has been hearing this sound for several years, but in all that time, his fishing rod has never had an accident.
Every time Bai Yu thought the fishing rod would break in the next second, it always held on firmly.
"Wow, that's quite strong! It must weigh around a hundred pounds! Brother Li, the first big fish we caught on this voyage is about to be caught. We'll soon have a hundred-pound behemoth!"
Although Bai Yu was prepared to fight this guy, it only lasted for a dozen seconds. After Bai Yu had a rough idea of the guy's size, he released the reel.
Faced with a giant fish weighing over 100 pounds, Bai Yu had no intention of confronting it head-on. Instead, he would use a fish-playing approach to wear it down first.
"Xiao Yu, this is a fish weighing over 100 pounds. I remember you used to just take it by the nose. Why didn't you take it by the nose this time?"
When Brother Li heard Bai Yu say that this time it was a giant fish weighing over 100 kilograms, he immediately became interested and asked Bai Yu about his fishing methods.
After all, in his memory, when Bai Yu was fishing for big fish weighing over 100 pounds, he rarely chose to play the fish; most of the time, he would just fight it head-on, prioritizing efficiency.
"Going all out? That's not necessarily a bad idea, but I'm worried that if I exert myself now, I might run out of energy later, which could affect my fishing."
"Forget it, it's almost 2 AM. Let's finish this fish and call it a day. Let's go to bed early tonight and continue fishing tomorrow!"
As Bai Yu was talking, he glanced at his phone screen. Seeing that it was already 1:40, he decided to give up on playing the fish and instead chose to fight head-on.
It's getting late. He should finish fishing for this fish soon so he can go to sleep if he gets too tired.
Bai Yu then grabbed the reel handle again and braced himself against the pull of the fish, his main goal being to restrain it and prevent it from pulling away even a single bit of fishing line.
As for other things, Bai Yu didn't have time to consider them for the time being, let alone going back to the recycling line.
For a creature weighing over 100 pounds, when it was exerting its full strength, Bai Yu really had no way to retract the line.
Although Bai Yu is indeed a sports student, he is a long-distance runner, not a weightlifter. He is good at long-distance running, but he lacks strength.
With Bai Yu exerting his strength, he and this guy reached a stalemate. For a short time, Bai Yu had no way to deal with the other party, but the other party could not take away even a single bit of fishing line from Bai Yu's hands.
However, given the current situation, Bai Yu definitely has the advantage.
After all, he is a higher primate, and he is intelligent, unlike fish.
Moreover, he was on a ship, grounded and with ample space, giving him room to maneuver.
As mentioned before, Bai Yu is a long-distance runner with very well-developed leg muscles.
Bai Yu then took the fishing rod off the rack and, holding it, moved along the corridor of the fishing boat's deck.
He held the fishing rod while leaning back step by step, using his own strength and weight to pull the hooked creature backward.
To be honest, Bai Yu's maneuver was quite effective. He quickly retreated three or four meters and then swiftly moved forward, returning to his original fishing spot.
As Bai Yu walked forward, her hand holding the reel was not idle; she was quickly reeling in the line.
He stepped back more than three meters, but as he walked forward, the fishing line he pulled back was not three meters long.
After all, as Bai Yu moved forward, the fish could feel that Bai Yu's power to restrict him was decreasing, so the fish would not sit idly by and wait to die, but would start a new round of resistance.
That's why Bai Yu's fishing line was less than three meters long.
But it's alright, at least Bai Yu's operation was fine, and he still managed to reel in quite a bit of fishing line.
Bai Yu then repeated his previous technique, holding the fishing rod and starting the operation again. Now, Bai Yu only needed to hold the fishing rod properly and then use the strength of his waist and legs to reel in the fishing line.
With the fishing line still over a hundred meters out, Bai Yu only needs to do forty or fifty more catches to bring this guy up!
Forty or fifty times may seem like a lot, but for catching a 100-pound fish, this is already considered a relatively efficient speed.
And it might not even take forty or fifty tries. Maybe this guy will run out of energy first, then Bai Yu will be able to relax a lot.
Over the next ten minutes, Bai Yu successfully reeled in forty or fifty meters of fishing line using a backflip fishing technique.
In just ten minutes, this guy had already used up a lot of his energy. Now, Bai Yu was retreating much more efficiently and needed to use much less energy.
The only thing that didn't quite satisfy him was that this guy had so much energy; it had been ten minutes and he still had energy left!
"Phew, thank goodness I'm a long-distance runner. I've been holding out against you for ten minutes already, and you still have energy! I don't believe you can last another ten minutes!"
Bai Yu glared at the fishing rod and said something fiercely, then picked up the rod and started fishing again.
Li Ge was watching Bai Yu's actions from the side. Beside Li Ge, a huge net had already been prepared, just waiting for this guy to come out of the water and start catching fish!
Another five minutes passed, and Bai Yu reeled in another thirty or forty meters of fishing line. He could clearly feel that the bite was getting weaker and weaker, and Bai Yu was reeling in the line more and more efficiently.
Moreover, after these five minutes of exhaustion, Bai Yu could clearly feel that the fish that had taken the bait was exhausted, and the resistance on the fishing rod was getting weaker and weaker, almost non-existent.
On the other hand, although Bai Yu's stamina was also depleted in the fifteen minutes, the parts of his body that were most exhausted were below the waist, including his waist.
The upper body was not too exhausted, especially the strength of his arms. Even though he was not at full strength, he had at least 80% of his strength preserved.
Now that the guy who took the bait has almost exhausted his strength, it's time for Bai Yu to make his move, commonly known as show time!
As Bai Yu returned to his fishing spot with his fishing rod, he suddenly lifted it up and then grabbed the reel and pulled the fishing line back in twice.
When the white fisherman pulled the rod and reeled in the line, the creature's resistance was almost nonexistent, which showed that it really had no strength left.
The white fisherman wasn't going to be polite. What awaited him was endless reeling in and casting until he dragged the fish to the surface!
Hearing the sound of the fishing rod cutting through the wind and the fishing line slicing through the water, Bai Yu's adrenaline surged, and he pulled the fish towards the surface of the sea at an extremely fast speed!
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