Chapter 208 Caught a giant clam
Because it was already very late, there was no need for Zhang Ze to save his energy.
So he put the fishing rod against his belly, and every time he lifted the rod he could pull the fish back more than half a meter. With his right hand he reeled in the line, and it only took five or six minutes before a fish of about seventy or eighty centimeters appeared on the water surface.
It was indeed a red-billed sturgeon, and it looked like it must weigh more than ten kilograms, so it was worth a lot of money.
Use a scoop net to scoop it up and put it into the space.
I took a look and it was a little over 15 kilograms, which was pretty good.
Next, Zhang Ze kept on fishing and used up all the remaining six red-billed sturgeon baits.
The redmouth sturgeons caught ranged in weight from three to eighteen kilograms, and none of them weighed more than twenty kilograms, which was a bit of a pity.
However, the fish are biting so well today that even though it is already past midnight, Zhang Ze still continues to exchange the red-billed sturgeon bait.
I caught two more fish, but these two times it took longer and longer to hook the fish. Apparently there were fewer and fewer red-billed sturgeons nearby.
Looking at the continuous fishing posture just now, Zhang Ze thought he could catch at least twenty fish today, but now it seems that he can only catch more than ten.
I continued to hang the bait and threw it into the water. This time the bait was not eaten directly like before, but slowly sank to the bottom.
Feeling that the fishing line was no longer releasing, Zhang Ze closed the fishing reel and then reeled in a few turns of line to prevent it from getting stuck on the bottom.
After waiting for a while, the fishing rod finally moved again.
Zhang Ze tried to lift it up suddenly, but it didn't move! "What's going on? Is it stuck?" Zhang Ze tried to pull it back hard, but the fishing line didn't move at all, which made him sure that it was stuck.
If it gets stuck on the bottom, you can either pull it hard to break the sub-line, or cut the fishing line with a scissors.
No matter which option is chosen, it will be a loss for Zhang Ze.
After all, the fishing lines and fish hooks used are produced by the system and will not be damaged, and exchanging one requires a lot of experience points.
Zhang Ze continued to pull hard and tried a few more times, but found that he really couldn't pull it out, so he had to get a pair of scissors and cut the fishing line.
Just as he was about to use the scissors, he suddenly had an idea.
Since the fish hook and fishing line will not be damaged, and he can't pull it by himself, he can use the winch on the boat to pull it!
Although it is not a big deal if twenty or thirty meters are missing from a thousand-meter fishing line, it would definitely be better if there was no loss.
So Zhang Ze put down the scissors, picked up the fishing rod, and let out the fishing line.
Pull it all the way to the winch next to it, then pull out some extra fishing line and wrap it around the winch.
Turn on the winch and the loose fishing line begins to slowly tighten.
As long as the fishing line does not break, Zhang Ze is not worried that the hook will bounce back and hurt him. The depth of more than 20 meters under the water is enough to buffer the force.
Sure enough, it’s different with the help of a winch.
He tried to pull the fishing line, but it didn't work. The winch only held out for a short while before it was pulled up.
Seeing this, Zhang Ze quickly turned off the winch, untied the fishing line that had only been wrapped five times from the winch, then picked up the fishing rod and turned the crank to reel in the fishing line.
As the fish kept spinning, most of the loose fishing line was soon recovered.
Just as the fishing line was stretched straight, Zhang Ze felt a heavy weight again.
He was stunned. Could it be that he was so unlucky? What had caught the hook he had just pulled out? Then, he continued to reel in the line and found that there was indeed something hanging on the hook. However, he pulled hard and the thing still moved. Apparently, the thing on the hook had been pulled up with the winch.
Zhang Ze thought it should be some kind of coral, but he didn’t know whether it looked good or not. If it looked good, he could clean it and put it at home as a decoration.
But this thing is really heavy, heavier than the yellowfin tuna I caught before.
Of course, in reality it should not be as heavy as the yellowfin tuna. After all, there is a difference between pulling dead things and living things.
"I should have known I wouldn't have taken the fishing line off the winch!" After pulling it a few times and feeling very tired, Zhang Ze sighed and wrapped the fishing line around the winch again, letting the winch pull up this thing that was suspected to be a coral.
To be honest, he was a little curious about how big the coral was and why it was so heavy.
However, when the object hanging on the hook emerged from the water, it was far beyond his expectations.
It was not the coral as imagined, but a giant giant clam.
The giant clam was about 70 to 80 centimeters wide, very large. Its shell tightly clamped the fishhook inside, no wonder Zhang Ze couldn't pull it out by himself.
“I didn’t expect that I could catch this!”
Zhang Ze never expected to catch a big giant clam. This thing is usually found in the south, but he didn't expect to find one here too.
Giant clams are not very common in southern Guangdong, but if you go to the islands further south, you will probably find quite a lot of them.
It is not difficult to do this for those who can dive, but the efficiency is too low. Fishermen usually just plow through with a trawl net.
He reached out and touched the giant clam, and it was immediately taken into the space, and the intact fishhook fell to the ground.
[Successfully caught a Giant Clam, weighing 192.32 catties, experience +150. ]
"Hiss, this experience value is a bit outrageous!"
Unfortunately, there are not many giant clams, especially in this sea area, so you are lucky to see one.
I just don't know how much this thing can be sold for. The giant clam shell is a rare organic gem and a sacred Buddhist object. Its value is very high.
It's not so bad now. In a few years, giant clams will be fished crazily and forced to be included in the protection list! Especially the giant clam in Zhang Ze's space, which is distributed in the South China Sea islands and is also the largest type of giant clam.
It is known as the king of bivalves, with the heaviest being up to 400 kilograms and the shell being up to 1.2 meters wide.
Zhang Ze accidentally caught this thing today, and he suddenly felt excited and wanted to get more.
He should go back and find out how much this thing can be sold for. If the price is really high, he will then go get a set of diving equipment.
From now on, whenever you come across a place with a lot of corals, you can go into the water to look for them.
Although giant clams will become protected species due to overfishing in the future, Zhang Ze cannot stop this.
If you can't beat them, just join them. It's better to benefit yourself than to benefit others.
Although it was late at night, Zhang Ze was not sleepy at all, so he simply untied the fishing line and continued fishing.
He hesitated when he put up the bait, but finally decided to fish for the redmouth guppy again, and then change it when the fish stopped taking the bait.
The bait sank to the bottom again, and this time Zhang Ze pulled in a little more fishing line.
Obviously, the underwater terrain is undulating, and the fish hook is easily caught on high corals or other things due to the current.
This is what happened to the giant clam just now. He had already reeled in some of the fishing line, but the hook was carried by the current and drifted into its shell.
After waiting for a while, perhaps because the nearby red-billed sturgeons had been almost all caught, there was not a single one caught.
In this situation, Zhang Ze had no choice but to change the bait. The disappearance of the red-billed sturgeon did not mean that there were no other fish.
Now he changed to ordinary bait, and the hook and bait had just touched the bottom. When he was reeling in the line, the fishing line suddenly became tight, which meant that a fish had intercepted the food.
The fish was originally sleeping, but unexpectedly a particularly attractive food suddenly fell in front of it.
Originally it was still wondering if this was a trap, but the next moment the food was running upwards.
This was too much, it gave up thinking and quickly chased after it, swallowing the food in one gulp after it had just moved a short distance, and then its mouth was hooked by the fishhook.
Feeling the foreign object and pain in its mouth, the fish that had taken the hook subconsciously dived towards its hiding place.
It was a shelter it had recently found, allowing it to avoid many natural enemies.
Zhang Ze felt the movement from the fishing rod, turned off the line-releasing switch of the fishing reel, and then lifted the fishing rod with force.
The tip of the fishing rod made a whooshing sound, and the fishing line suddenly became taut. At the same time, the force made the fishhook penetrate deeply into the fish's mouth, firmly hooking the fish.
However, the familiar feeling of hanging on the bottom made Zhang Ze's heart skip a beat.
I won’t be so unlucky today, will I fail again?
After all, the fishing line was taut at the moment and there was no sign of the fish struggling.
Don’t panic when something happens, use your phone to post a circle of friends first.
Oh, it’s okay without a cell phone!
Zhang Ze tried to pull it hard and found that he could actually pull it. At the same time, the fishing rod finally emitted the sound of a fish struggling.
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His eyes lit up, it seemed that the fish had gone into the coral cave.
Groupers and some parrotfish have this habit. When frightened, they immediately hide in caves and pretend to be dead.
After fishing for grouper for so long, Zhang Ze is very familiar with it.
There are different techniques for fishing this type of fish. When the fish tries to drill into the cave, you have to pull it hard to prevent it from entering.
But if you don't react in time and the fish has already gone in, you have to change your approach.
If you pull ordinary fishing line hard, it will rub against coral reefs or rocks, and then the line will be cut.
At this time, hard pulling is the worst option. The correct approach is to deceive the fish.
You can let out the line first to relax the fishing line and reduce the vigilance of the hooked fish.
When it feels there is no danger, it will leave its hiding place, and this is a good time to fish.
However, this also requires a certain amount of experience, and a novice may not be able to tell whether the fish has escaped or not.
Zhang Ze didn't need to go to so much trouble. It was just bad luck for the fish to have encountered a fishing line that would not break.
He simply pushed the fishing rod up with all his strength. Judging from the noise, the fish was not too big. Even if the fish was hiding in a cave, it would not be able to withstand his brute force.
As expected, the fish tried hard to resist this inexplicable force, but was still pulled out of the cave little by little. The main reason was that the severe pain in its mouth made it unbearable.
The fish was pulled out of the cave, and the rest was easy.
Zhang Ze quickly reeled in the line, and in just a short while, a mainly red grouper appeared on the sea surface.
The fish was not very big, probably about three or four pounds, so he didn't even need a scoop net, he just grabbed the fishing line and pulled it up directly.
It was an expensive sea grouper, which made him very satisfied.
These fish were stored in the space not only because their freshness was guaranteed by being alive, but also because the lactic acid produced by the fish's violent struggle after biting the hook would be naturally dissipated. Zhang Ze learned this from the restaurant manager.
Of course, the manager didn't know that the lactic acid produced by the fish's violent struggle would affect the fish meat.
Because deep-sea fish basically cannot survive after being hooked, many fishermen now do not provide bleeding services, which also leads to the mediocre quality of the deep-sea fish they purchase.
The more lactic acid accumulates, the more damage the fish meat will suffer. In the future, the price of fish will be affected as a result.
After these deep-sea fish were collected into the space, the lactic acid naturally decomposed. Even if Zhang Ze took them out without bleeding them, the fish blood would not affect the quality of the meat in a short period of time.
Therefore, except for some specific fish, he was too lazy to bleed most deep-sea fish; yet the quality of the fish was praised by others.
Now the restaurant has gradually shifted its purchasing focus to him, and even many popular fishes are purchased from him. This is why Zhang Ze considered getting a truck first.
Selling to restaurants is always more profitable than selling to Jin Guangcheng. Now there are more and more large boats in the fishing village.
The impact of his absence is not as great as it was at the beginning. After all, Zhang Ze would not sell the high-priced fish to him.
A sea grouper came up, and Zhang Ze's interest in fishing was aroused again.
Continue to use ordinary bait. Although the probability of catching grouper will be higher if you change it to grouper bait, the coral reef is not only valuable for grouper.
For example, the prices of some parrotfish, bluefin trevally and even humphead wrasse are very high, comparable to the highest-grade grouper, so it is best to use ordinary bait so as not to miss these fish.
Gently twitch the fishing rod to make the ordinary bait that has been transformed into sea shrimp move like a live shrimp.
Twenty seconds passed, and without any warning, a strong pulling force suddenly came from the fishing rod.
It’s eating so much, maybe it’s grouper again.
This time, Zhang Ze's hook and bait stayed in the water layer at a depth of about 20 meters. At this depth, the fish could not hide in the cave like the sea red spot before.
Before, he was taking advantage of a loophole when he was reeling in the line, and the spool was open.
Feeling the pulling force of the fishing rod, Zhang Ze used brute force.
With the help of the fishing reel's unloading force, he can basically pull up any fish weighing less than 20 kilograms at the bottom of the water.
This fish is stronger than the 15-pound red-billed sturgeon that I caught at the beginning, but not by much.
Zhang Ze immediately showed off his best skills and kept lifting the rod and reeling in the line.
However, when the fish burst out with strength, it was able to briefly stalemate with him for a few seconds.
The fish didn't last more than three minutes before appearing on the sea surface. It took about three minutes to swim about twenty meters, and that was with his full strength. The fish can be proud of itself.
I was lucky enough to catch a genuine green fish, also known as Shu's tuskfish.
This fish is very famous and its price is not too bad. In later generations, it costs about 180 yuan per catty. Naturally, its price is far less than that of Shanghai red grouper.
After all, the price of sea grouper weighing only one kilogram or even seven or eight ounces is more expensive than this one.
Zheng Qingyi is still very popular in restaurants, especially this one weighing more than 15 kilograms, which can be sold at an estimated price of around three yuan per piece.
Dozens of dollars for a fish is already very expensive!
Next, not only the real bluefin bream, but also the fake bluefin bream, grouper, eastern grouper, western grouper, and various high-value fish were caught by Zhang Ze one by one.
Of course, there are expensive ones as well as cheap ones, such as black bream, rock bream, yellowfin bream, and even a few cheap parrotfish and peeling fish.
This is also the shortcoming of ordinary fishing baits. You can catch any fish, but the value varies.
“Ha~”
I don’t know how long I fished until I yawned involuntarily and then Zhang Ze came back to his senses.
I looked at my watch and it was already past three in the morning.
No wonder there are more than seventy fish in the space. It turns out that so much time has passed.
(End of this chapter)
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