Chapter 247: A Thousand-Kilogram Grouper is about to be born
It is not a rare fish, but a rather large purple snapper. A quick glance at it shows that it is over a meter in size and weighs an estimated 40 kilograms.
If the fish is big, you can only use a hook to lift it.
As long as the wound is not fatal, the fish can live for a long time even in sea water, and even the wound can heal, not to mention in space.
However, Zhang Ze seldom uses hooks because fish are restless on the water surface and sometimes it is difficult to hook them accurately.
But it didn't matter at the moment. The purple snapper wasn't a valuable fish. If it died, it died! Zhang Ze didn't bother to make any more trouble. He just stabbed the fish's back with the hook and lifted it up and put it into the space.
However, the next moment, the conversion function appeared on the forehead of the purple snapper in the space.
Such a huge purple snapper is full of ciguatera poison, which can directly improve the taste of the fish to a higher level after conversion.
"Damn, it can actually be converted!" Zhang Ze was surprised.
The purple snapper, whose meat had become tough, can now be restored to its juvenile stage. It would be a pity to put it in the freezer after it died.
After Zhang Ze clicked on the conversion, he hoped that it would survive.
The back injury is not particularly serious, and even if I can't survive, I can still hold on for a few more days.
The harvest that night was actually quite good, but Zhang Ze didn't catch even one red-billed sturgeon, which he wanted to catch the most.
But then, he caught several big groupers and even a huge octopus, weighing more than 80 kilograms.
It is rare to encounter such a large cargo in the near sea, and usually you have to go to the open sea.
Zhang Ze didn't know that there were more than one big fish nearby, and some of them were much larger than the red snapper he had just caught.
At this time, a giant grouper was swimming slowly towards him. The giant grouper was moving very slowly. Except for some reptiles and those that did not swim much, there was almost no one slower than it.
But it is so big that even some small sharks avoid it wherever it passes.
After all, these meter-long small sharks are also part of the food of this giant grouper.
But the giant grouper has no time to deal with these sharks today, because there is a deadly temptation not far ahead.
It was completely unable to resist this temptation. Before it even saw it, it was already drooling. Of course, if it had saliva.
The giant grouper was very curious. It had lived here for who knows how many years. If it had any memory, it might be able to recognize some of the young men who used to come here occasionally to fish, but now they have all become old men.
In its long life, nothing had ever attracted it so much.
So, at this moment it left the cave where it usually lived and rushed forward as fast as it could, fearing that something so attractive to it would be snatched away.
Fifty meters. Forty meters. Thirty meters. Almost there At this time, Zhang Ze on the boat didn't know that a big guy was coming.
The four fishing rods in front were still busy, but there was no movement on the bamboo pole.
He wondered if his fishhook was a little too big and he should change to a smaller one.
But just as he went over to start the winch to retrieve the fishhook, the bamboo pole suddenly bent down sharply, as if it was almost being pulled down.
"Fuck!"
Zhang Ze reacted immediately when he caught the big fish. He started the winch to reel in the line without any hesitation, and at the same time grabbed the fishing rod and pulled it up.
However, the strength of the big fish under the water was beyond imagination, and the winch could only turn very slowly for a while, almost coming to a standstill.
The power of these small winches is indeed not as strong as that of the winch used to pull the long rope, but it is much stronger than the largest electric winches in later generations.
Basically, the electric reel is limited to catching fish weighing 200 kilograms. If it is larger, human cooperation is required.
Theoretically, the winch can pull up a weight of one thousand kilograms, so if it is used for fishing, it should be no problem to catch a fish weighing five hundred kilograms.
But it was deadlocked at this moment, which meant that the fish was likely to weigh more than 500 kilograms.
Another point is that the bamboo pole uses a bait specifically for grouper, so obviously more than 95% of the fish that bite the hook will be grouper.
It was so big and it was a grouper. Zhang Ze immediately guessed the origin of the big guy under the water.
Giant grouper, a kind of giant grouper that Lao Chou particularly likes to challenge, is also the giant grouper he has caught before, and its scientific name is Epinephelus grouper.
It is definitely the king of fish when it grows this big. Although the fish meat is very tough, its value is not low at all.
Zhang Ze didn't believe that such a large grouper didn't have ciguatera poison, because the purple snapper just now had it.
After the conversion, the texture of the meat will not taste too bad.
Moreover, he can use the growth function once more, which will definitely shock everyone.
The idea is good, but reality does not allow it.
Faced with such a big grouper, the fishhook he replaced turned out to be too small.
The winch pulled with brute force, and the giant grouper at the bottom of the water did not show any weakness. As a result, with a "whoosh", the fishing rod suddenly rebounded, the fishing line also loosened, and then the winch continued to work and professionally reeled in the fishing line.
Zhang Ze didn't expect this to happen, but he hurriedly exchanged the exclusive bait for saddleback grouper from the space. This bait is only for saddleback grouper, so there is still a chance.
After retrieving the fishhook, he immediately replaced it with the largest one, then hung the saddlebag grouper-specific bait that had turned into a fish on it, and started the winch to release the line.
With the attraction of targeted and exclusive bait, the saddleback grouper at the bottom of the water is basically irresistible.
Look, the giant grouper that was originally frightened and was about to escape to its own cave suddenly braked suddenly, flapped its tail and turned around.
Not only that, there happened to be a few small giant groupers nearby that were also attracted and swam out from the coral reefs.
They are faster and reach the bait first.
They took a bite at the bait, but the bait was too big and they only swallowed the tail of the bait in one bite.
When the giant grouper turned around and saw this scene, he immediately became furious. He didn't care whether they were of the same species or not. He immediately opened his huge mouth and rushed over, swallowing up the two of his same species that were biting the bait.
The bait disappeared the moment it was swallowed, and then a huge force burst out from the fishhook and pierced into its lips.
This time the fishhook was big enough and it not only penetrated less than halfway, but went all the way through, so the giant grouper had no chance of escaping.
Zhang Ze, who was on the boat, smiled when he saw the bamboo pole bend down again. He finally didn't let this big treasure run away.
At this time, the other four fishing rods had stopped working, allowing him to focus on fishing for the big fish.
At this time, the winch was already on, and just like before, it could hardly turn.
However, Zhang Ze grabbed the fishing rod with both hands and lifted it up hard, preventing the giant grouper at the bottom of the water from running away.
On the contrary, the addition of his vitality broke the balance between the winch and the giant grouper, causing the fishing line to begin to be reeled in at an extremely slow speed.
The length of the fishing line is only about 40 meters, so theoretically it doesn't take too much time to catch this fish.
After five or six minutes, the fishing line was successfully recovered about ten meters.
However, when Zhang Ze's arm accidentally touched the winch, he suddenly shrank back due to the burn.
"Hiss~"
The winch was overheating and might burn out if it continued like this, so he quickly turned it off.
But without the power of the winch, even if Zhang Ze was strong enough, he could not compete with the giant grouper at the bottom of the water. He could only watch the fishing line being pulled out bit by bit.
Fortunately, the giant grouper was very slow and couldn't run very far at once.
Now Zhang Ze can only pull the fishing rod and try to consume the fish's energy. Before the fish's energy is completely consumed, the winch cannot be used.
It is just like encountering a giant grouper like this. If it were a tuna weighing five or six hundred kilograms, it would not be so difficult.
In terms of strength, the giant grouper does have an advantage. Tuna is relatively fast and can run far away with good strength, which increases the difficulty of fishing.
As long as you can withstand the giant grouper's early burst, it will be very easy to catch later. According to the game, it is a hero in the early stage but weak in the later stage.
I don’t know how long it took, but with a "splash", waves surged on the sea surface about ten meters in front of Zhang Ze, and a big guy floated to the surface.
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In the early stage, patiently depleting the giant grouper's physical strength will have a very good effect.
When the winch was not so hot, he turned it on from time to time, and turned it off when it was slightly hot. After repeating this process, the giant grouper's energy was severely depleted and he pulled it to the surface little by little.
Although the skin color of the saddle grouper can vary due to environmental factors, this one is mainly yellow with many white spots on its body.
The brown and yellow spots on the fish's fins match each other, which looks very beautiful.
What is most terrifying is its huge mouth, which seems unfathomable and can swallow an adult directly.
He had seen many giant groupers after his rebirth, but they were basically more than 1.5 meters long. Today, this giant grouper with a body size of nearly three meters was the first time he had seen it. It was worthy of the title of the grouper king.
Zhang Ze's fishing equipment is indeed not inferior to the electric fishing rod of later generations, but it is not as convenient to collect fish.
Normally, when he caught such a big fish, Zhang Ze would just take the fishing rod and pull the fish to the stern of the boat and put it into the space. However, the winch is different from the electric winch, so he cannot carry the fish around.
So after Zhang Ze pulled the fish to the side of the boat, he could only take the rope from the crane, make a lasso to circle the fish's tail, and hook the fish up.
Although the giant grouper had exhausted its strength, it was still very frightened to leave the sea water on which it depended for survival, so it twisted its body and struggled violently, splashing sea water all over Zhang Ze.
Fortunately, the crane is not a small winch. It can catch large cargoes weighing several tons, let alone these "little guys" weighing several hundred kilograms.
When the giant grouper was hanging in the air, Zhang Ze looked around, and seeing that there was no ship, he reached out and put it into the space.
You still have to be careful in broad daylight. Fortunately, this place is some distance away from inhabited islands, so fishermen in small boats generally don't come here.
[Successfully caught a saddleback grouper, weighing 787.83 catties, experience (fish king) +500. ]
Seeing that there were only 500 experience points, Zhang Ze's mouth twitched. He forgot that this thing was quite common. Although it grew so big, it didn't have many experience points. It was the same stuff as Qingban and the others.
Fortunately, he had accumulated a lot of experience points recently. When he saw the two functions of growth and conversion, he clicked on them both, consuming a total of 11,000 experience points.
Zhang Ze expected that there would be ciguatera poison. Once the conversion is completed, the taste of this fish will definitely be improved a lot.
However, this weight did shock Zhang Ze. No wonder the length displayed in the space was three meters and thirteen centimeters. Such a large giant grouper had already broken the world record without any growth function.
After using the growth function, the weight of the saddle grouper can increase from 787 kilograms to 1,023 kilograms.
Who would dare to believe that a grouper weighing over a thousand kilograms can be found? I believe this data will become a miracle in the world and will remain a record.
By then, Zhang Ze will have to take a few more photos to pass down, so that future fishermen can envy them.
Because there was no longlining, we went out to sea very early today, setting off at 8 am.
It was only half past nine when we arrived here to start fishing, but by the time we caught the giant grouper, it was already noon.
The afternoon was a good time for him to travel, and after lunch, he drove towards Dongsha.
Dongsha is very famous, and its resources are naturally incomparable to those places in the distant sea.
Originally, Zhang Ze didn't come because he was afraid that after the longline was lowered, it would be discovered and driven away by the Taiwan Coast Guard, thus losing the longline.
Secondly, there is only one bamboo pole, so the efficiency of fishing is not high.
But now that his job mode has changed from longlining to fishing, he can come here from time to time to collect some free money.
Dongsha is not that far away. When Zhang Ze arrived at his destination, the sky had just darkened.
He turned off the lights on the boat, leaving only the warning lights flashing, and went to the kitchen to make dinner.
At this time, two ships were approaching Dongsha.
One ship departed from Hong Kong Island and had been sailing for several hours, and the other ship departed from Bay and slowly came to a location more than ten nautical miles away from the Duoyu.
When Zhang Ze finished his work and started to enjoy his dinner, the two ships finally met on the sea about ten nautical miles away from him.
On the ship departing from Hong Kong Island, a middle-aged man wearing sunglasses, who was suspected to be the leader, walked out of the cabin. He looked like a big boss, but he was wearing sunglasses so late at night, and his IQ didn't seem to be very high.
The leader of the opposing ship was not much better. He looked arrogant, but he was actually a bit effeminate and clean-looking.
"Did you bring the stuff?"
"Of course. Where's the money?"
It seemed that the two sides were doing some kind of deal. I saw the person from Taiwan opened a suitcase, which was full of bags of white flour.
On the Hong Kong side, when the boxes were opened, they were all filled with money. Judging from the color of the money, the transactions were still in greenbacks.
The two leaders shook their heads upon seeing this and asked their younger brothers to take out the items for transaction and inspection.
However, when the younger brothers of both sides came to their respective bosses and whispered in their ears, the leaders of both sides became furious almost at the same time.
"Damn it, how dare you take counterfeit money?"
"Fuck you, I asked for flour and you gave me real flour?"
"Fuck him."
Zhang Ze was still leisurely eating his dinner, completely unaware that two groups of people were fighting on the sea not far from him.
Various hot weapons made "bang bang" sounds, and from time to time people were hit by peanuts and fell off the fishing boats to feed the fish.
Until the last two "bangs", the sea suddenly became quiet, with only two fishing boats left on the sea, constantly rising and falling with the waves.
(End of this chapter)
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