Bai Yu and his friends fished near the island for more than an hour. Apart from losing a lot of fishing lines, they caught quite a lot of fish.
The two of them alone caught as many as nine fish, and if you add the fish lines that were cut, most of which were caused by the fish biting the hook.
This alone shows how abundant the resources are here; at least their losses in fishing line can be completely compensated by these catches.
"Ah Hai, let's pack up and have some lunch before we go fishing again."
Bai Yu looked at its completely ruined fishing line and said to Wang Hai beside it.
"Brother Yu, you go ahead. I'll prepare some bait for the fish here. If I throw in two or three pounds of shrimp, do you think there will be more grouper after we finish eating?"
Wang Hai, who was originally very interested in food, did not respond immediately when he heard that it was time to eat. Instead, he took a bag of shrimp and prepared to make a fish nest in the sea.
Wang Hai's idea is also something Bai Yu wants to do, but Bai Yu may not necessarily do it.
After all, there are too many variables on the high seas. The seawater is constantly moving, and both the waves on the surface and the currents beneath the surface can carry the bait away from where you want to bait.
The end result is that no matter how much bait you put in, the final effect is not as good as you imagined, and it's a case of not getting your money back.
Therefore, Bai Yu only considers the practice of baiting the area. He only baits the area with frozen bait when fishing for big fish. Otherwise, he does not bait the area.
But since Wang Hai wants to do this this time, let him do it; maybe it will work.
"Okay, you can do it here. I'll go get you some food. I heard they're having braised pork ribs for lunch today. Do you want some?"
"Yes, Brother Yu, I want the spare ribs, and also some meat broth with rice."
"Okay."
After Bai Yu finished speaking, he walked towards the cabin.
He doesn't need to cook lunch today; the staff will do it. Even if any of the fans want to show off their skills, that's fine too.
Anyway, today's meal was pretty good, six dishes and a soup, four meat dishes and two vegetable dishes.
Bai Yu carried two rice plates, first filling each person with a bowl of rice, then adding a serving of braised pork ribs, which was poured directly over the rice, along with a few pieces of salt and pepper fish, a large chicken leg for each person, and a spoonful of stir-fried pork with chili peppers.
For vegetarian dishes, there's bean sprouts and stir-fried dried tofu, both are quite good, let's order some of each.
After Bai Yu finished getting her food, Wang Hai also arrived at the restaurant, and then he and Bai Yu each carried a tray and went to eat.
There were many people on their fishing boat, so the space in the restaurant area was very limited, but there was more space in other areas.
Then, at mealtimes, the people on the fishing boat would scatter to different places to find an empty spot to eat.
Many fans bring a plate of food and eat on the deck, which is actually very bad.
As everyone knows, it's windy at sea. If you swallow a few mouthfuls of wind while eating, you'll be in for a rough time after you've finished eating and drinking.
Bai Yu and Wang Hai carried their lunch trays back to the crew quarters, where they ate their lunch.
To be fair, the employees at Bai Yu's company are quite talented. The cook is particularly skilled; the dishes taste just like they've been served in a restaurant—delicious and perfect with rice.
In any case, Bai Yu and Wang Hai ate their fill; the two brothers never skimped on themselves in this respect.
When the two brothers returned to the stern to prepare for fishing, Wang Hai, who had arrived at the stern first, immediately shouted.
"Brother Fisherman, come and see! There are so many groupers on the sea, they're all striped sea bass, so many!"
Striped nine-spined perch?
Upon hearing Wang Hai's voice, Bai Yu quickly walked to the side of the boat and craned her neck to look at the sea beside it.
Just as Wang Hai said, there was a group of striped sea bass chasing and swimming on the sea surface.
Upon closer inspection, Bai Yu realized that what was being chased by these striped sea bass were not living creatures, but rather shrimp heads floating on the surface of the sea.
"Ah Hai, don't tell me you threw away all these shrimp heads? How did you even bait the spot?"
Bai Yu looked at the shrimp heads on the water's surface and asked Wang Hai, who was standing beside him.
"It's just breaking the shrimp into pieces and throwing them in. You can break each shrimp into three parts: the head and the body in half."
"Broken it into pieces? My goodness, it has to be you, Ah Hai, who prepared the bait in such a unique and elegant way, attracting so many groupers."
Aside from being striped nine-spined bass, they're perfect, but how are we supposed to fish for them? Are we supposed to just put the hook right in front of them?
"How about we give it a try?"
After having the idea, Bai Yu and Wang Hai prepared to put it into practice.
The two brothers took the fishing rods off the holder so they could easily throw them into the mouths of the nine-spined bass later.
Then he took out some shrimp from the bait bag next to him, hooked the shrimp on the bait, and prepared to fish.
As for what Bai Yu said earlier, besides the fact that the grouper was a striped sea bass, it mainly meant that this type of fish was relatively inexpensive.
There are several types of nine-spined perch, and the red grouper is also a type of nine-spined perch. It is called the red nine-spined perch and its price is quite reasonable, sometimes reaching over a hundred yuan.
However, the striped grouper is different from the red grouper. This fish gets its name from the several horizontal stripes on its body, and its price is among the lowest in the grouper family.
Even outside, people don't call this striped nine-spined perch grouper, but simply nine-spined perch, while the red nine-spined perch is called red melon seed grouper.
Among groupers, only one type is comparable in value: the pearl grouper, which is priced between thirty and fifty yuan, and sometimes even cheaper.
That's why, after seeing a large number of striped grouper, Bai Yu said it was a pity they were striped grouper. If they had been other grouper, even slightly more valuable ones, Bai Yu and his friends could have made a good profit.
After baiting the hook, the fisherman gently swung the fishing rod, and the shrimp, hooked and pulled, landed next to a nine-spined bass.
Faced with the shrimp falling from the sky, the nine-spined perch showed no fear whatsoever, turning around and biting at the shrimp.
In just a moment, Bai Yu felt the fishing rod in his hand sink down. That's when he caught a fish, right there and then.
Bai Yu didn't need to react at all. The fishing rod sank a little, and he just needed to lift the rod up. He also took in two turns of the fishing line, and he caught a nine-spined bass weighing about two pounds.
This size of nine-spined bass is just average, well within the range that the fishing line can withstand. He doesn't even need to use a landing net; when a fish bites, he can just fly it onto the deck.
Everything happened so naturally, and a nine-spined bass was acquired very quickly. Even though this kind of fish isn't expensive, this one still cost several tens of yuan.
After removing the fish from the hook, Bai Yu casually tossed it into the fish box beside him and hooked a shrimp on the hook to continue fishing.
This time, the shrimp were a little too far from the sea bass when casting the line, but that didn't deter the sea bass from feeding.
They can smell the shrimp on the sea surface from a great distance, and then they will rush towards their target with a wag of their tails.
This time, it wasn't just one spiny bass that had its eye on this shrimp, but three spiny bass at the same time, all charging towards it.
Little did they know that this shrimp was only delicious on the surface; inside its body, a sharp fishhook was waiting to catch them.
In such a situation, whoever runs the fastest, whoever can bite the shrimp and put the fishhook in their mouth first, will have their fate rewritten.
Obviously, the bigger and faster a person swims, the greater their chances of having their fate rewritten.
The last one, a nearly three-pound perch, was successfully hooked and then caught by Bai Yu.
"Ah Hai, go back to the freezer and get some more shrimp. Let's throw a few more down there and give those fans at the bow some fun."
After catching three or four sea bass, Bai Yu looked at the twenty or thirty more sea bass still on the surface of the sea and said to Wang Hai beside him.
Many groupers are just like other sea fish; they are also social marine creatures, such as the nine-spined grouper, the red grouper, the brown-banded grouper, and the pearl grouper.
However, due to differences in group size, some groups of fish have only a few individuals, while others have dozens, resulting in varying numbers.
Now, Baiyu plans to use a large number of shrimp to attract more grouper to the surface of the sea, and then let the fans at the bow of the boat go fishing in a way that is visible to the naked eye.
"Brother Yu, this might be difficult. Unfrozen shrimp won't float. If you throw shrimp in, no matter how many you throw in, they'll all sink to the bottom."
When Wang Hai said that, Bai Yu realized that frozen shrimp could not float and had to be thawed first, but thawing takes time and is not an easy task.
"Okay, Ah Hai, go to the freezer and get a box of shrimp. I'll go to the bow of the ship and ask the fans how many shrimp they have. I'll gather them all up for us to use first."
Once the shrimp here have thawed, you can give them some more bait.
After Bai Yu finished speaking, he and Wang Hai went their separate ways.
Wang Hai went to the freezer to get some shrimp. He went to the bow of the ship to chat with his fans and see who was interested in getting some shrimp from them.
When the fans at the bow of the boat heard that there were groupers on the sea, they said that when fishing, all they had to do was throw the bait near the groupers, and they would bite the hook.
Such a simple fishing method naturally piqued the interest of the fans, who immediately followed Bai Yu to the stern of the boat to take a look.
Sure enough, there were quite a few spiny sea bass on the surface of the sea. The fans immediately accepted Bai Yu's suggestion and gave him their thawed shrimp.
In just a short while, Bai Yu received more than ten kilograms of shrimp, and these fans also had a small amount of stock left over.
All of the shrimp that Bai Yu obtained can be used to attract fish, meaning that these shrimp will all become bait.
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