Feng Ye randomly chose a direction and rowed his small wooden boat to an area of sea where there were no buoys nearby.
He took out the broken fishing rod, scooped a small white shrimp out of the bucket, and hooked it onto the hook.
Live shrimp are such a great bait; they truly are an all-purpose bait.
Therefore, he specially bought some live shrimp before going out to sea, just in case he didn't have enough shrimp for the traps.
After all, he needs to use bait in many places, including fishing and longline fishing with five hundred hooks.
Feng Ye confidently cast his fishing hook into the sea and then waited quietly.
Waiting and waiting...
Time ticked by relentlessly, but the fishing rod remained completely still.
Feng Ye was puzzled. What was going on today?
Why aren't the fish biting the hook?
Are there no fish down there?
"Hold……"
He lifted the fishhook and looked at it, and he almost cursed.
Just like the first cast the day before yesterday, the bait was gone.
They had no choice but to catch another shrimp, hang it up again, and throw it back into the sea.
This time I got it.
In about half a minute, the float sank, and a pulling force was felt on the fishing rod.
He quickly lifted the fishing rod and pulled a black sea bream out of the water; it looked to weigh about two pounds.
"One black sea bream, not bad, good luck with your opening."
He happily freed the black sea bream from the hook and threw it into an empty bucket that was more than half full of seawater.
The reason he didn't throw the fish into the live water tank but instead used a bucket was to see how many he could catch.
His confidence returned after he caught a black sea bream.
"Keep going, keep going."
The bait is on, and the hook is lowered into the sea.
This time, the fish took longer to bite. More than three minutes passed, and he was almost losing patience. Just as he was about to pull up the hook to check if the bait was still there, the fishing rod finally made a move.
A smile immediately appeared on his face. He lifted the rod to hook the fish and pulled it out of the water.
The smile on Feng Ye's face froze the moment he saw the fish.
"Damn, it's Qing Zhanyu! How could it be this guy? He made me wait so long, what a waste of my time."
Although this mackerel weighs over a pound, making it a large mackerel, it's just too cheap.
The acquisition value is only a little over two cents. If the quantity is large, it might be worth selling, but with such a small quantity, it's practically worthless.
He angrily unhooked the fish, threw it into the bucket, and went home to gut and dry it.
Another shrimp was hooked up and thrown into the sea. Within just a dozen seconds, there was movement, and a pulling sensation could be felt from beneath the surface.
When he pulled him up, Feng Ye was speechless.
Another bluefin bream.
"I refuse to believe that the next one will be a cheap item."
Unconvinced, he set off the bait again.
Half a minute later, Feng Ye angrily rowed away from the spot in his small boat.
There are too many mackerel in the sea, so he's not going to fish in the middle of the sea anymore. He wants to try fishing near a deserted island instead.
So he rowed the small wooden boat to the nearest island.
Only when they got closer and saw what the island looked like did they realize that he and Ah-Can had visited this small island a few days ago.
I had planned to fish on the island, but I couldn't get there and had to leave.
Looking back now, even though the tide has almost completely receded, it still can't get up.
Fortunately, he wasn't there to fish, but to go fishing, so whether he could get ashore or not wasn't important.
The broken bamboo fishing rod was put back into service, the hook was baited with live shrimp, and the fish was thrown into the sea.
About a minute later, the float sank, indicating that a fish had taken the bait.
"I don't believe it will be a bluefin bream."
Feng Ye raised his rod and pulled the fish up.
"Haha, it really isn't that cheap bluefin bream."
The fishhook is hooked with a sea bass, weighing about two pounds.
Although it's just ordinary stuff, it can at least sell for more than a dollar a pound, which is much more expensive than bluefin tuna.
A smile returned to his face as he unhooked the sea bass and re-baited it.
It took a while for the fish to bite; it was more than two minutes before the first bite came.
Upon pulling it up, it turned out to be a black sea bream.
"Indeed, you can't fish in the middle of the sea."
After catching two more fish, Feng Xuan rowed over in his small boat: "A-Ye, what are you doing fishing here?"
“There were mackerel swarming around in the middle of the sea. I caught three out of four mackerel, so I thought I’d try fishing here.”
“There are so many blue mackerel these days, I keep catching them with my net.” Feng Xuan said helplessly, “It’s gotten to the point where I don’t even want to cast the net anymore. I might as well go fishing with you.”
As he spoke, he took out a bamboo fishing rod, exactly the same as Feng Ye's.
They used live shrimp as bait and started fishing.
"Too many mackerel is really not a good thing for us. They have no price and we can't make much money selling them."
As soon as Feng Ye finished speaking, he felt the fishing rod in his hand move and quickly pulled it up.
"Heh, Shi Jiugong, it's quite big, no wonder it can bite the bait."
A bright red fish was hanging on the hook. The fish wasn't big, only about half a pound.
The shrimp he used weren't small; usually, only fish weighing over a pound could bite the hook.
But Shi Jiugong is not very big, but his mouth is quite large and weighs half a pound, so it's normal that he can bite the hook.
The key is that this guy eats a wide variety of foods, he's not picky, he eats fish, shrimp, shellfish and all sorts of things.
In addition, Shi Jiugong is a common name; its scientific name, which many people may not know, is *Scorpionichthys rubrotinctum*.
Feng Xuan laughed and said, "Such a large stone is not common. Usually, it only weighs about two or three ounces. This one should weigh about half a pound, right?"
"That's about right."
Feng Ye carefully untied Shi Jiugong and put him into the bucket.
The thorns of Shi Jiugong are poisonous. Although they are not usually fatal, if you are accidentally pricked, you will feel a very intense pain.
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