This situation was quite astonishing, not only to the viewers in the live stream but also to the guy who caught the starfish.
He was amazed that he had caught a starfish, and he didn't even want to dispose of it. Instead, he planned to find someone online who could make specimens so that he could preserve the starfish permanently.
Although the starfish wasn't very big and its intrinsic value was limited, it was a badge of honor in his sea fishing career.
That alone is enough for them to keep it.
Compared to the other contestants' catches, Bai Yu's situation was slightly better. Apart from a few snags, he didn't encounter any other problems and caught mostly sea fish.
Around 10 a.m., Bai Yu was playing on his phone while fishing with a rod when suddenly the rod in his hand dipped sharply – a fish was attacking!
Fortunately, Bai Yu had anticipated this situation and had already firmly gripped the fishing rod in his hand.
No matter how sudden this guy's attack was, it was impossible for Bai Yu to pull away the fishing rod.
Bai Yu, on the other hand, reacted immediately. He stuffed his phone into his pocket, grabbed his fishing rod, and jerked it up sharply, giving the fish that had taken the bait a hard thud.
Just as Bai Yu was about to reel in the line, he made a surprising discovery: the fish that had taken the bait this time seemed to be quite big!
This is really strange. How can you catch a big fish here?
It's not that there won't be big fish around Huangyan Island, but the distance to the island is relatively close, and the water is shallower, so the probability of finding big fish is relatively low.
Oh, no, that's not right either. There is a type of larger fish that can be found here, but it's only slightly more likely than other sea fish. That is the shark.
So when Bai Yu realized that he had caught a large fish weighing several tens of kilograms, he immediately suspected a shark, but then quickly dismissed the idea.
His chances of catching a shark this time are slim, because the bait he's using is small, just a shrimp.
If it were a shark, would it even bother with a shrimp hanging on a fishing hook? It probably wouldn't even have enough energy to eat that thing.
But if it's not a shark, then what kind of fish is it? What other large fish might appear here?
Having sensed the size of the fish that had taken the bait, Bai Yu decided against a direct confrontation and instead opted for a more conciliatory approach.
Since Bai Yu was using a limited-strength fishing line this time, and he wasn't here to catch big fish, he naturally didn't need to use a super line.
After all, the line for giant fish is a bit too thick. For fish that only weigh a few pounds, this kind of fishing line is too obvious and makes it easy to expose their target.
Once the fishing line is exposed, I think even if it's a fish, it won't bite the bait with the hook.
But who could have imagined that Bai Yu, who hadn't planned to catch any big fish, would actually catch one, and one that was beyond the reach of his fishing line?
Now, Bai Yu can only pray for one thing: that he can exhaust the fish's energy before the 300-meter fishing line in the reel is completely drained.
Otherwise, the final result will most likely be the end of the tangent line.
As Bai Yu successfully hooked the fish, he kept the fish that had taken the bait and then quickly started jerking the rod to put more pressure on the fish.
At the very least, the fish needs to feel a sense of urgency, as if something is constantly threatening its life, forcing it to flee the area.
Once this guy starts running, his stamina will be continuously depleted. Before long, the roles of offense and defense will be reversed, and Bai Yu will switch to the offensive side.
Sure enough, after being teased by Bai Yu a little, the creature in the sea immediately started swimming faster, trying to find a safe place.
Bai Yu wasn't going to let this guy have his way. He immediately turned the decelerator to its maximum setting and grabbed the reel with his right hand.
Although he didn't immediately lock the fishing line, he was also exerting force with his right hand, hindering the guy's escape.
Exhausting the fish's energy is a specialty of the white-haired fisherman; as long as he can provoke the fish, this goal is easily achieved.
The simplest way to provoke a fish that has taken the bait is to make it feel pain.
First, use a certain frequency to make it feel the pain of the hook being stuck in its flesh. Then, after a while, once it gets used to that frequency, suddenly increase the speed.
Caught off guard, the fish that took the bait was bound to be enraged. After all, the feeling of a hook stuck in the flesh is really unpleasant, and few fish can remain calm under such circumstances.
As the sound of fishing rods being cast continuously echoed from the bow of the boat, Bai Yu's fishing trip got on track, and the battle of attrition officially began!
Every time Bai Yu casts his line, it causes pain to the fish that bites the hook, letting it experience what it means to have a toothache that isn't a disease, but can be excruciating.
In the blink of an eye, dozens of meters of fishing line were released, but Bai Yu did not feel any signs of exhaustion from the fishing rod.
You should know that the pressure that the white fish is putting on it right now is enormous; it's just a hair's breadth away from completely locking the fishing line.
Even so, after several minutes, this guy still looked energetic.
Big fish are big fish; they are stronger than small fish in terms of both physical strength and endurance.
But compared to the big fish that had taken the bait, Bai Yu only wanted to say one thing: 'Little brother, there's always someone better, I'm stronger than you!'
Another few minutes passed, and Bai Yu kept repeating the same thing, the same action: casting the line, casting the line, and casting the line again!
As Bai Yu kept twitching the rod, he could feel the tension on the rod decreasing, indicating that the fish that had taken the bait had already exhausted a lot of its energy.
This gave Bai Yu a sense that hope was about to arrive. He was about to catch the fish, and it was time for him to make his counterattack.
A few more minutes passed, and this time Bai Yu could clearly feel that the tension on the fishing rod had decreased significantly. With a flick of the rod, he was even able to pull the fish back.
Based on this, Bai Yu made a bold deduction: even if he hadn't completely outmaneuvered the fish yet, he was close to it.
In that case, Bai Yu's side began to exert its strength, directly switching from defense to offense.
He was still pulling the rod back, but now, as he pulled the rod back, Bai Hao also started reeling in the line.
As he prepared to reel the fish in, it resisted, but its resistance was futile; Bai Yu simply continued reeling in the line as before.
He reeled in the line twice on his first cast. The line wasn't very long, but this was just the beginning. He would have plenty of time to cast the line later.
After casting the first line, he immediately cast the second line. This time, he raised the fishing rod even higher and reeled in the line four times, doubling the catch.
As he reeled in the line, the fish that had taken the bait tried to resist, but it didn't work very well; it couldn't withstand the pull of the white fisherman as he pulled the line back in.
After all, it's just one fish that's biting the hook, and it doesn't have any extra fishing line to use as a buffer. When faced with the white fish reeling in the line, it can only tough it out. If it can withstand it, then it has to withstand it. If it can't, then it'll just have to obediently be reeled in by the white fish.
The current result is quite obvious. It couldn't withstand the force. The power exerted by Bai Yu had exceeded its limit, and it was forced to be pulled back by Bai Yu.
In the previous ten minutes or so, Bai Yu had released a little over two hundred fish lines, which seemed like a lot of fishing line.
However, for the white fisherman who has switched from defense to offense, reeling in this amount of fishing line is actually very easy. It's not something that can be done in the blink of an eye, but it's something that can be done very smoothly.
Sometimes, isn't smooth sailing a form of speed? And a very stable and efficient one at that!
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