The fishing rod was bent into an arc shape, and Mingjing pulled it up with force. When the light shone on it, it was a clownfish.
I don't know how it dared to swallow such a big fishhook. Let's leave it as bait.
Mingjing took off the fishing hook and threw it directly onto the shore, where a shrimp was caught.
According to the system, we should be able to catch a big fish today.
"Make it bait for me." Mingliang turned around, picked up the clownfish, hooked it onto the fishing line, and threw it into the sea.
The tide had come in, and huge waves were crashing against the rocks. The sea breeze was giving her a headache. Mingjing took her fishing rod and moved to the side of a large rock, where the fishing rod was smaller.
She put the bait into the sea, but before she could even sit down, Mingjing felt a weight in her hand. This time, she couldn't lift it while sitting, so she moved back a little.
The fish was very strong, pulling the fishing rod further and further away. It was too dark to see what kind of fish it was, so Mingjing took a few steps back and slowly reeled in the line.
Mingyue curiously shone her flashlight down and exclaimed, "It's a manta ray, sis! And it's quite big!"
"Come on up," Mingjing said quickly, gathering his strength and lifting the manta ray to the surface. It looked to weigh over seven pounds.
"Sister, be careful, the stinger's tail stings can hurt a lot, and it can bite," Mingyue said, stepping on the stinger's tail, while Mingjing put on gloves to remove the fishhook.
The stingray took a bite out of the fish out of the blue.
"Sister, are you alright?" Mingyue exclaimed with concern.
"fine."
Mingjing felt nothing while wearing the gloves; the gloves weren't even torn.
"This luck is unbelievable! Stingrays have strong bites, how come you're alright?" Mingliang thought in amazement.
"You still want something from me?"
Mingjing lifted the stingray by its tail and put it into the bucket. This thing is very fierce, and it would be bad if it ate other fish.
"No, it's because you're from the inland and don't understand. If you get pricked by this thing, you'll be a wooden doll for a week."
Mingliang recalled that Erdan from the village had fished for stingrays before, and the stingray had pricked his chest. It was more feminine than a woman, and if you squeezed it hard, it would burst with juice.
"How much does the ray cost?"
Mingliang shook his head. "I don't know, but I heard them say it's about 40 or 50 yuan per jin. This is just one. If there are more, I can buy more. If there are fewer, I can eat it myself."
"Pan-fried ray is even tastier than squid."
Mingyue swallowed hard when she thought of that taste.
"Is it good?" Mingjing remembered eating Korean stinky ray once before, and the taste was still a trauma for her.
Stingrays can grow quite large and love to lie on the sand. The spikes on their tails are not poisonous, but if you get pricked, you won't be able to get out of bed for ten days to half a month.
"It's delicious, the stingray is very fresh." As Mingyue said this, she felt an extremely strong pulling force on the fishing rod in her hand, which kept dragging the fishing rod along.
Mingyue was pulled to her feet and couldn't stop walking forward.
"Sister, I can't hold on much longer," Mingyue said, her fishing line taut, pulling her further and further away.
"This one's big." Mingjing could tell from the degree of the bend in the fishing rod that the fish was quite large. He threw down the fishing rod in his hand and got up to grab Mingjing's fishing rod.
"Reel in the line," Mingjing said, slowly pulling the fishing rod back.
Perhaps the fish was in pain, because it suddenly thrashed about in the water. Mingjing didn't dare to pull hard for fear of losing the hook, so he could only loosen the fishing line a little more.
"What kind of fish is this? It's so strong!" Mingliang exclaimed excitedly upon seeing it.
Mingjing held the fishing rod, and when the fish stopped moving, he would reel in the line. When the fish struggled violently, he would let out more line.
It was getting late, and the sea breeze was blowing hard. Mingjing didn't dare stand at the fishing spot that was close to the sea last time, so she couldn't reach the fish with the landing net and had to play it.
Sea fish are not as easy to pull up as river fish; sometimes, even clownfish require considerable effort to catch.
Mingjing spent more than ten minutes reeling in and out the fishing line, and my arm was so sore.
"Mingjing, are you sure you can do it? If not, I'll help," Mingliang said, wanting to help as she struggled to pull her up.
"OK."
Mingjing gritted her teeth and pulled back.
The fishing tackle shop indicated she had a large catch today, which I guess is this one.
After a few more minutes of stalemate, she slowly pulled the fish to the bottom of the cliff. The fish weighed about five pounds.
"Stonefish! Sister, it's a stonefish!" Mingyue shouted loudly, shining her flashlight.
Mingliang helped Mingjing pull the fish up, and Mingyue caught them with the net and placed it on the ground.
"Sister, be careful, this Poison King is extremely poisonous," Mingyue warned.
Mingjing nodded. She was an oceanographer; how could she not recognize this thing?
The stonefish lay on the ground, fiddling with its tail and opening and closing its gills; it was just too ugly.
Mingjing stepped on the stone fish, pulled off the hook, and examined it carefully. The fish weighed about five pounds, was entirely red, had no scales, a large and round belly, and a short and narrow tail.
Aside from its bumpy appearance, it looks just like a goldfish, with a grayish-white back, a red belly, and smooth skin covered with stone-like growths.
They are ugly in appearance, with hard spines on their backs containing potent poison. They usually ambush their prey by waiting for them to come to them. They live in crevices of rocks and can weigh up to ten kilograms.
"This fish looks really ugly, but it tastes pretty good. I heard it's very expensive in Hong Kong," Mingyue said, staring at the fish.
"Quickly put it in the water, don't let it die, it's valuable."
Mingliang carried a bucket filled with seawater.
"I'll catch it," Mingjing said, wearing gloves, as she grabbed the stonefish and threw it into the bucket.
"Mingjing, you go fishing first, I have a stomachache and I need to take a dump." Mingliang clutched his stomach and bent down to relieve himself in the bushes not far away.
"A lazy donkey on a millstone produces a lot of excrement and urine."
Mingjing muttered something, rearranged his fishing rod, hooked a shrimp onto it, and threw it into the sea.
There aren't many shrimp left, so she'll have to catch a few small fish later to use as bait.
While Mingyue was also baiting her fish, Mingjing opened the fishing tackle shop. Her luck stat was still very high, indicating that there was more than just that one stonefish.
Mingjing felt relieved and took out a handful of melon seeds, giving some to Mingyue.
The next few casts yielded clownfish, tilapia, and a few sardines.
What happened?
Is today's luck over?
Mingjing, refusing to believe in superstition, hung two large fishhooks, using sardines and tilapia as bait.
The fish were caught right after they were thrown into the sea.
The fish wasn't very big this time, and Mingjing easily scooped it up.
"Another stonefish, not as big as the last one, probably a little over a pound," Mingjing carefully removed the hook and tossed it into the fish basket.
"Sister, I caught a stonefish too." Mingyue lifted her fishing rod, and the stonefish tumbled in the air.
Mingliang returned, pulling up his pants, and saw the fish in the mirror. He exclaimed excitedly, "It's stonefish again! Is the king poison fish causing trouble today?"
"Sister, do you think this looks good?" Mingyue picked it up, holding a slender fish in her hand, which looked a lot like an eel.
The pufferfish, also known as the pipefish, has a slender body and an especially long head.
"Doghead fish, it's quite delicious. I'll make you one when we get back to help you recover."
Mingjing glanced up, threw a stone into the fish basket, and put the pufferfish into the bucket.
She's finally back today. There are probably over 30 pounds of stonefish in the fish basket, worth at least 500 yuan. At least she didn't come back empty-handed.
Mingjing used clownfish as bait again, but this time she waited a long time and no fish took the bait. Not only her, but Mingjing and Mingyue also experienced the same thing.
"What happened?"
Mingjing picked up the fishing rod, but the fishing line had long since disappeared.
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