As soon as the bait hit the water, Chen Zhiyao felt a slight pull on the fishing rod in her hand.
The force was very light; the fish didn't look very big, but it was the first fish of the day.
Chen Zhiyao stood up excitedly, beaming with pride as she reeled in the wires:
"Haha, I caught a fish."
As soon as he finished speaking, Grandpa Chen felt the fishing rod in his hand suddenly sink.
The old man also stood up and started playing with the fish, proudly showing off as he did so:
“Your rod doesn’t even bend, it’s obviously a small fish weighing about a pound. Look at my fishing rod, it’s bent into a crescent moon, it must be a big one.”
"Hmph, but I was the one who caught the first fish." With that, Chen Zhiyao quickened her reeling in the line.
"When it comes to fishing, it's all about the size of the fish. What's the point of watching those tiny fry that weigh a little over a pound?"
The childish grandfather and grandson started competing again, neither willing to concede.
Soon, a small pink fish was flown onto the deck by Chen Zhiyao.
"It's a red sea bream, and I got it for 50 yuan just like that."
Red sea bream +1
Chen Zhiyao happily removed the fishhook and quickly hooked a small piece of shrimp onto it.
As soon as the bait hit the water, greedy little creatures swarmed around it.
Immediately afterwards, she felt another pull on her fishing rod.
This time, the force was much greater than the previous red sea bream, and Chen Zhiyao's smile became even brighter:
"With that force, it must be a large red sea bream."
Sure enough, two minutes later, she flew another red sea bream weighing more than two pounds onto the deck.
Red sea bream +1
At that moment, Grandpa Chen also pulled up the big fish he had been walking; it was a pepper snapper weighing about 4 pounds.
“It’s a pepper snapper! I’ve never seen such a big stonefish before.” Grandpa Chen’s tone was full of pride and joy.
Stone-carved fish are usually not very big; a 4-pound one like this is considered quite large, which made Grandpa Chen so happy that his eyes narrowed into straight lines.
Looking at the 4-pound pepper snapper in her grandfather's hand, Chen Zhiyao suddenly felt that the 2-pound red snapper in the bucket didn't taste so good anymore.
Just as I was feeling the soreness, I suddenly felt a light but not heavy dragging sensation in my hand.
Without using much force, Chen Zhiyao didn't try to play the fish; instead, she quickly turned the handle of the fishing reel.
Before long, a black sea bream weighing over a pound was caught.
Chen Zhiyao would be very proud, because although the fish she caught were not big, there were many of them.
Not to be outdone, Grandpa Chen, who was standing nearby, also caught a black sea bream weighing over a pound.
As he removed the fishhook, the old man said with a smile:
"We were lucky today, we ran into a school of rockfish, all of them expensive fish like black sea bream, red sea bream and pepper sea bream."
Chen Zhiyao forcefully cast the bait in her hand into the water ahead, nodding happily as she followed.
"Yes, these stonefish are twice as expensive as yellowfin tuna and pomfret, but unfortunately there are coral reefs below and the water is too deep to cast nets."
"Otherwise, we could just use a fishing net to catch them all in one go and make a fortune."
"It's not that easy. If it were that simple, all the fish here would have been caught long ago."
The grandfather and granddaughter had only exchanged a few words when Chen Zhiyao suddenly felt the fishing rod in her hand sink.
It's quite powerful; it looks like a big fish.
After catching several small fish, Chen Zhiyao finally caught a big one and excitedly jumped up from the small stool.
Enraged by the sting of the hook, the fish below began to swim wildly and recklessly.
The fishhook was being pulled desperately, and the stinging pain was getting stronger and stronger. The fish was gradually losing its senses.
As she felt the pull in her hands increase, Chen Zhiyao became even more excited, her heart rate gradually increased, and her palms became sweaty.
The fish below have strong explosive power, but not good endurance; they get tired after a short while.
Taking advantage of its weakness, Chen Zhiyao saw that it was finally tired and quickly began to reel in the line.
The fish wasn't completely exhausted yet, and it struggled to swim forward every now and then.
However, it couldn't withstand the pull of the fishing line and finally stopped, exhausted.
The fish swam with great force just now, and Chen Zhiyao thought it was a big fish.
However, when I was reeling in the line, I felt that the fish wasn't very heavy, and I easily pulled the line back in.
Now she felt that the fish wasn't very big.
The fish below was exhausted, and Chen Zhiyao easily pulled it out of the water.
It's a pepper snapper, but a little smaller than the one Grandpa Chen had just had.
As Chen Zhiyao retrieved the fishhook, she casually weighed it in her hand; it was only about three pounds. She muttered with disappointment:
"The force was so strong just now, I thought it was a big guy weighing several kilograms, but it turned out to be only a little over three kilograms."
"Rock bream aren't very big to begin with, so three pounds is already quite good."
Grandpa Chen gently comforted his granddaughter, but his tone betrayed his pride.
Chen Zhiyao was unconvinced and quickly threw the bait in her hand into the water in front of her.
The school of fish below was quite large, and every now and then one or two of their companions would disappear, but the greedy fish didn't notice.
Unaware of the approaching danger, these little creatures were leisurely chasing and playing around on the seabed.
During that hour, the grandfather and grandson went on a fishing spree, catching black sea bream, pepper sea bream, and various other rockfish one after another.
By the time the fish below dispersed, the bucket at Chen Zhiyao's feet was already teeming with rock bream of all sizes.
Grandpa Chen's situation was similar; his bucket overflowed, and the second bucket also contained several black sea bream weighing over a pound each.
Chen Zhiyao was still quite competitive at this time. She stood aside and secretly looked at her grandfather's catch of fish, comparing it in her mind.
Thanks to the blessing of her lucky fishing rod, aside from the few small fish she caught at the beginning, she mostly caught large stone sculptures weighing two or three pounds afterward.
As for my grandfather's side, apart from the 4-pound pepper fish, the rest were mostly small sea bream weighing a little over a pound each.
The old man saw that the bucket was overflowing, but in reality, the total weight of the catch was less than hers.
Chen Zhiyao was very happy, after all, she had caught a lot of big rock bream, and these guys were quite valuable.
After the fish dispersed, the grandfather and grandson's fishing rods remained still.
They waited for half an hour, but the two of them didn't catch a single small fish.
Chen Zhiyao rested her chin on her hand, looking blankly at the boundless sea in front of her.
In fact, she entered the system.
"Xiao Meng, Xiao Meng, does the system's shop have any diving equipment? I want to go down to the seabed to see corals and schools of fish."
Below is a vast coral reef, filled with corals of all shapes and sizes, and various brightly colored little fish; it must be incredibly beautiful.
Since there weren't any fish biting the hook, she thought she'd go diving for a bit.
"Tangtang, the store doesn't have diving equipment systems right now, and you didn't bring any with you when you came, so it's not appropriate to suddenly take them out."
"That's true, we can't just conjure it up out of thin air."
Just as Chen Zhiyao was about to exit the system, Xiao Meng spoke mysteriously:
"However, I have other ideas."
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