Bai Yu and the others didn't know much about bait either. When they bought bait, they just bought it based on their own preferences.
Bai Yu, for example, prefers to eat shrimp, so he bought a pound of live shrimp as bait. Wang Hai likes to eat shrimp and squid, so he bought both.
Li Xue bought some of everything except sandworms and small crabs, which weighed about two pounds in total.
With the bait they had bought, Bai Yu and his two companions arrived at the rocky beach, where they decided to fish.
Based on their experiences watching others fish, the three of them knew that the village's anglers all loved fishing on the rocky beach, and their catches were always excellent.
This time, they also planned to learn and try fishing at the rocky beach.
Bai Yu chose a large rock on the reef beach, sat down on it, and took out his fishing rod to start assembling it.
He didn't know much about what kind of fishing line to use, but when Brother Tongzi gave him the beginner fishing rod, he also gave him five sets of fishing lines. These five sets of fishing lines were all different sizes and could withstand different tensile forces.
These fishing lines are all spinning reel lines. The weakest ones, capable of catching ten-pound fish, are all 100 meters long, while the largest ones are 1,000 meters long. Brother Tongzi said that these fishing lines can easily catch giant fish weighing 100 pounds.
Bai Yu took out a fishing line that could catch fish weighing up to 30 pounds. In his opinion, 30 pounds was about the limit when fishing by the sea, and there were almost no fish bigger than that. This kind of fishing line was enough.
The beginner's fishing rod is about 1.6 meters long. It's hard to tell what material it's made of, but it's very resilient.
According to Brother Tongzi, catching fish weighing up to 200 pounds is generally not a problem, as long as the fishing line is strong enough.
After Bai Yu finished assembling the reel, he hooked a shrimp onto the hook and then threw it into the sea.
Once the fishing officially started, Bai Yu took out his phone and started searching for videos.
He wasn't just playing around; he was learning fishing techniques while waiting for the fish to bite.
Unfortunately, short video platforms are still in their infancy. Although there are fishing bloggers posting fishing videos, these videos are mostly about catching freshwater fish, and there are no videos of fishing at sea.
However, based on the idea that colleagues in the same field share common interests, Bai Yu decided to just watch it anyway.
As Bai Yu was watching, she suddenly heard Li Xue's voice.
"I caught a fish! I caught a fish! Brother Xiaobai, I caught a fish!"
"You caught a fish? You caught one already? Xue'er, do you know how to fish? Do you need me to come help you?"
Bai Yu perked up when he heard Li Xue's voice. He hadn't expected that Li Xue would be the first to catch a fish; her luck was just too good.
Li Xue's fishing spot was right next to Bai Yu's, only about ten meters away from him. At that moment, she was reeling in her fishing rod.
Just looking at Li Xue's reeling method, it looks incredibly amateurish. She just reels it in dry, without any intention of pulling or casting the rod.
But even with this simple method, Li Xue actually managed to catch a fish, and it wasn't small at all; she caught a round, golden fish.
"Brother Xiaobai, I caught it! I caught it! A pomfret bigger than my face! Hahahaha!"
As Li Xue caught the golden pomfret, she became very excited. If she hadn't been on the rocks, she might have jumped up and down.
People who have never fished won't understand that the moment you hook a fish, when it's caught, you're in a state of excitement.
Especially after the fish is caught, the excitement and joy will reach a climax, and the whole person's body and mind will be satisfied.
This is the state Li Xue is in at this moment.
"Xue'er, be careful, don't fall again, it hurts a lot if you bump into this."
Bai Yu looked at the golden pomfret in Li Xue's hand, feeling both envious and needing to remind her to be careful.
Today was probably Bai Yu's most frustrating day. He was clearly the one among the three who had the cheat code, and his luck stat was also quite high, over forty points.
But why is it that he can't beat Wang Hai and Li Xue today?
It's one thing to be outmatched at beachcombing, but now that it's fishing time, he's still outmatched. Even if Li Xue is incredibly lucky, is being incredibly lucky really more powerful than cheating these days?
Just as Bai Yu was thinking this, his fishing float, which had been drifting with the current, suddenly disappeared without a trace.
Seeing this, how could Bai Yu not understand what had happened? He had said it all along: a cheater is a cheater after all, and a cheater will never fall behind others.
Recalling the video he had just watched, he imitated the way the blogger caught the fish, and immediately lifted the rod sharply.
This technique is called "fish-hooking," and its purpose is to make the hook more secure when the fish takes the bait, so that the fish cannot easily get rid of it.
Bai Yu suddenly lifted the rod, and he could clearly feel the pull from it. The pull was still there after his thrust, proving that the fish that had taken the bait was still there, and his hooking the fish was basically successful.
Bai Yu then tested the guy's pulling force; it was quite strong, but for him, it was still a minor issue.
Bai Yu then unlocked the lock on the reel and immediately began reeling in the line.
Pulling the rod is essentially lifting it up repeatedly, only with a larger range of motion, basically lifting it as high as possible.
After lifting the rod, reeling in the line will be much easier, since lifting the rod is the same as reeling in the line.
You asked Bai Yu who he learned these skills from?
I just saw this online. It was from someone on Kuaishou who calls himself the "King of Fishing in China." He has educational videos about fishing, as well as videos of him fighting big fish. It's really exciting to watch.
Bai Yu reeled in the fish quickly, not only because the fish that bit the hook wasn't very big, but also because of the depth he was fishing at.
When they went to buy bait, Uncle Bai, an experienced fisherman, told them that if they were to fish on the rocky beach, they should try not to fish too deep, just one or two meters below the surface.
According to Uncle Bai, there are too many crevices in the rocks at the reef beach, and if they use live bait bottom fishing, the hooks will easily get snagged on the bottom.
If the hook gets snagged on the bottom, they will most likely lose a hook and a piece of fishing line.
Bai Yu has always been a person who listens to advice. When he goes fishing, the distance between the float and the hook is about one and a half meters. In addition, his hook doesn't go very far, only about ten meters.
This made his reeling-in process exceptionally smooth. As the fishing line was reeled in, Bai Yu flicked the fishing rod upwards, and another fish, gleaming with golden light, flew up.
Like the fish Li Xue had just caught, Bai Yu's fish was also a golden pomfret, and it looked a bit bigger than Li Xue's.
Golden pomfret is actually a yellow sea pomfret. It gets its name from the yellow color of its fins, tail, and back.
Besides the golden pomfret, there are also white pomfret, silver pomfret, and the most expensive fighting pomfret along the coast of my country.
The golden pomfret caught by the white fisherman was not small; it was over 30 centimeters long and wide.
It weighs about two pounds, which is quite a good size for a golden pomfret.
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