"Squeak squeak squeak..."
The fish in the sea swam desperately forward, the fishing line taut, the reel spinning wildly above, making a piercing sound.
At this moment, the fishing rod in Chen Zhiyao's hand was also pulled so hard that it bent over, making a creaking sound.
The long-lost, intense pulling sensation made her heart race involuntarily, and her palms began to sweat with excitement.
The fish in the sea are very strong, but they are not very agile. Chen Zhiyao thinks they must be groupers.
A grouper weighing over 20 kilograms, regardless of its variety, will not be cheap.
Thinking of this, the money-grubbing Chen Zhiyao became even happier, and she became even more imposing when she was playing with the fish.
I just didn't expect that this fish was not only strong, but also had great endurance.
The man and the fish pulled back and forth for nearly 20 minutes, and the fish didn't seem tired at all.
On the other hand, Chen Zhiyao's forehead was already covered in sweat, her arms were starting to ache, and even her expression was somewhat broken.
Not having enough strength herself, she had to turn on her X-ray glasses for beachcombing.
In an instant, all her fatigue vanished, and Chen Zhiyao, radiant with energy, played with the fish below.
A few minutes later, the big fish below finally couldn't hold on any longer and was pulled out of the water, exhausted.
This big guy looks somewhat familiar.
Chen Zhiyao put in a lot of effort to pull it onto the deck. As soon as she saw the diagonal spots, she knew it was a striped grouper.
This fish is different from the one she caught last time that escaped from the fish farm; its color is darker, making it look like it's wild.
Slanted grouper
Wild grouper are extremely rare and cost twice as much as farmed grouper.
Chen Zhiyao excitedly removed the fishhook, then happily ran to Grandpa Chen's side with the fish in her hand.
"Grandpa, look! This banded grouper is wild, isn't it?"
The old man took the grouper with the slanted stripes in front of him, looked it over, and said with a face full of envy:
"It's quite dark in color and rather thin, so it must be wild. You're lucky, girl, to have caught such a big wild grouper."
"Hehe, I was just a little lucky."
After confirming with the old man that the fish was wild, Chen Zhiyao was overjoyed and jumped up and down to weigh it on the electronic scale.
It weighs a full 23.6 jin (approximately 11.8 catties).
Chen Zhiyao grinned, her eyebrows dancing with pride as she began to gloat:
"A grouper of this size, wild-caught, should sell for over 200 yuan per jin (500g)."
"Haha, that's several thousand yuan! I'm rich!"
Just this one fish brought in several thousand dollars, which made the people on the boat very envious.
Chen Weiqiang and his grandfather had caught several small fish in a row when they saw this big guy, and their eyes lit up with green light.
Without saying a word, the father and son, in perfect unison, extended their fishing rods toward Chen Zhiyao's fishing spot.
The two of them shamelessly stood there, directly pushing their daughter/granddaughter out of the way.
Seeing her fishing spot taken away, Chen Zhiyao was so angry that she jumped up and down.
"Hey, hey, hey, this is too much! Mom, Grandma, look at them, they're bullying us!"
Seeing that she couldn't win the argument, she turned to her mother and grandmother to complain, hoping they would uphold justice.
Just as she was complaining, both father and son had fish biting their hooks at the same time, and the fishing rods were bent so badly that they looked like big fish.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law perked up and quickly walked over, seeing Chen Zhiyao's expectant gaze.
However, instead of helping her reclaim her spot, the two threw their bait back to where she had been fishing.
"..."
Chen Zhiyao was completely dumbfounded; none of these four elders were reliable.
Chen Zhiyao, who was so angry she was practically turning into a pufferfish, grabbed her fishing rod and bait and stormed off to the bow of the boat.
Less than a minute after the bait hit the water, she felt the rod in her hand suddenly sink, followed by a moderate pulling force.
The fish wasn't very strong; it started to tire after being played by Chen Zhiyao for a few minutes.
As the fishing line was continuously pulled in, a bright red fish with big, round eyes was soon pulled out of the water.
"It's a bigeye snapper! This guy looks really festive."
Bigeye snapper
The bigeye snapper is a type of rock snapper that likes to live in coral reefs. Its most striking feature is its pair of large eyes.
Chen Zhiyao skillfully removed the fishhook and then hooked a live, fresh shrimp onto it.
Soon, another fish took the bait.
This fish was noticeably stronger than the bigeye snapper from before.
Based on her experience from fishing every day recently, she estimated it was a huge rockfish weighing several kilograms.
Although this fish was a little stronger than the bigeye snapper from before, it was nothing in Chen Zhiyao's eyes.
In less than 10 minutes, she easily pulled the fish out of the water.
It's a rainbow snapper weighing four or five pounds. It looks quite nice, but unfortunately, the price is just average, not as valuable as the bigeye snapper we just saw.
Rainbow bream
Rainbow tilapia, also known as red tilapia, is a new hybrid variety.
Rainbow snapper come in a variety of colors, including pink, red, orange-red, and orange-yellow, and they are all very attractive.
Rainbow snapper are quite popular in the market because they grow quickly, are not prone to disease, and have tender and delicious flesh, so many people here raise them.
Things are valued for their scarcity; anything that is plentiful becomes worthless.
This rainbow snapper clearly escaped from a nearby fish farm.
Chen Zhiyao cast her line a few more times, catching mostly rock bream.
Pepper Snapper +2
Red sea bream +1
Black sea bream +3
They were all quite large, each weighing almost three pounds.
Before she knew it, it was 12 o'clock, and Chen Zhiyao's stomach started rumbling in protest.
At this point, there wasn't much bait left in the bucket; only three small shrimp remained.
In addition, there was some seawater mixed with bait additives in the bucket.
Chen Zhiyao had a sudden inspiration and came up with a good idea.
She threw the remaining three large shrimp into the sea in front of her, and then poured half of the spiced seawater from the bucket into it.
The scent of the bait attracts fish within a 10-meter radius to come this way.
Chen Zhiyao turned on her fishing goggles and saw that there were more and more dark shadows underwater.
These dark figures didn't look very big, but there were quite a few of them, and they were still heading this way.
Chen Zhiyao first sprinkled some seawater with added ingredients from a bucket onto the hand-throwing net, and then forcefully threw it towards the area with the most dark shadows in the sea.
The fishing net smelled of bait additive, and the fish in the sea not only didn't run away, but instead actively crawled into the net.
"It's so heavy."
She knew bait additives were useful, but she didn't expect them to be so powerful.
The net in my hand was heavy, covered with all kinds of rock bream, and I almost couldn't pull it up.
The fishing nets are mostly filled with common rockfish such as red sea bream, black sea bream, pepper sea bream, striped pepper sea bream, and bigeye sea bream.
This single net alone yielded dozens of kilograms.
Chen Zhiyao cast her net several times in a row, and each time she caught a lot of fish. The two buckets of live fish at her feet were already overflowing.
"Great, great, we've had a bumper harvest of rock bream."
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