As a Fisherman, My Fish Can Level Up
Chapter 330 - Chapter 330 Chapter 277 Ejected Ambergris_3

Chapter 330: Chapter 277 Ejected Ambergris_3 Chapter 330: Chapter 277 Ejected Ambergris_3 “`

Next, Chu Mingcheng went to the third floor and observed the condition of the sea surface through binoculars.

From high up, one can see far, and it was currently low tide; he actually spotted a group of submerged reefs poking above the water.

That might be a good hunting spot, and Chu Mingcheng steered the Sea God toward it.

Through binoculars, it seemed not too far, but by the time he arrived near the reef, it was already two in the afternoon.

Chu Mingcheng looked at the fish finder and was immediately brought to a halt when he discovered that there were signs of big fish moving near the bottom of the deep waters by the reef.

The water was 283 meters deep here, and the fish finder showed a thick line, but its movements were not as fast as those of a golden spearfish; it barely moved at all.

Even though he couldn’t identify the fish, Chu Mingcheng quickly moved to the stern, ready to fish.

He installed the fishing rod, chopped up some squid as bait, and started fishing with a spiny pomfret on the hook.

With nearly three hundred meters depth and since it wasn’t a golden spearfish, Chu Mingcheng didn’t use a mackerel block as chum but employed his usual deep-sea fishing techniques.

But after a long while, there was no movement from the fishing rod.

Chu Mingcheng wondered if the fish had already fled, so he especially went to the pilot house to check the fish finder.

Little did he know that the big fish was right under the boat, and if he wasn’t mistaken, it was even near the fishing rod.

He had indeed noticed a few movements of the fishing rod just now, but no fish had taken the bait. Could it be that the bait was too large for the fish to swallow?

Carrying his doubts, Chu Mingcheng first retrieved the bait.

The spiny pomfret had cooled due to water pressure, and while its body was still intact, there were bite marks on it.

Perhaps, as he suspected, the fish’s mouth was too small to swallow the whole spiny pomfret.

Therefore, Chu Mingcheng chopped the dead spiny pomfret into pieces, hung a piece of fish on the hook, and cast it back into the water.

Sure enough, after switching to a smaller bait, it didn’t take long for a fish to take the hook.

Chu Mingcheng hurriedly lifted the fishing rod to snag the fish and simultaneously got a rough idea of the fish’s weight.

This fish wasn’t nearly as large as the golden spearfish he had caught previously; even the smallest one he had caught in the past two days weighed much more than this one.

But the fish did have some weight to it, and lifting the fishing rod, he could feel its heft, which might have been related to the fish being from the deep sea.

Turning the handle and with the drum reel slowly winding the line back in, there was not much resistance, much easier than he had anticipated.

This, however, left Chu Mingcheng somewhat disappointed; it seemed the fish wasn’t as big as he had imagined, or perhaps a different fish had taken the bait first.

But pulling a fish up from nearly three hundred meters depth wasn’t quick, and he kept turning the handle. Even if he didn’t feel much resistance from the fish, it still took him more than ten minutes to get it up to the surface.

The fish was all white and elongated with an ugly face but big, bulging eyes, making it look extremely odd.

Its body was very long and seemed to be a type of ribbon fish. Due to being brought up from the deep sea, it was almost motionless, appearing to be dead.

Chu Mingcheng directly grabbed the fishing line, intending to pull it up.

But even as he lifted his hands over his head, the lower half of the fish was still hanging outside the gunwale.

Therefore, he had to grab the fish’s body and pull it up onto the boat.

The strange fish felt extremely soft in his hands, yet its skin was rough, with a slight granular feel.

Once the whole fish was laid on the deck, its length looked to be around three meters.

At this moment, the sea lions gathered around, thinking it was something they could eat, and immediately tried to bite into it.

Chu Mingcheng was startled and quickly drove them away.

But then the kittens also came over, seeming to want to bite as well.

Chu Mingcheng had to shoo them away too, but unlike the sea lions, the kittens couldn’t understand his words and kept coming back after being chased away.

He had no choice but to pick them up one by one and take them into the cabin, closing the door behind them.

Returning to the fish, Chu Mingcheng had already identified what kind of fish it was.

Known as the Ishikawa Coarse Fin Fish, this fish resembled ribbon fish but was unrelated; it belonged to the Moonfish Order, similar to the Emperor Fish.

However, compared to the Emperor Fish, the taste of the Ishikawa Coarse Fin Fish, at least when steamed, was quite nice.

Chu Mingcheng lifted the fish to weigh it and measure its length, finding it to be two meters ninety-two in length and weighing forty-one jin.

The fish didn’t take up much space, so he simply took it into the cold storage, and froze it next to the bluefin tuna.

He then checked the fish finder again and saw that there were no longer any traces of large fish at the bottom. It seemed that the thick line from before was this Ishikawa Coarse Fin Fish.

He wasn’t far from the submerged reef, so Chu Mingcheng decided to simply turn off the engine and stay put.

He returned to the cabin to change into a wetsuit and picked up a spear gun, ready to dive and check out the reef.

Bluefin tuna may be valuable, but other fish species shouldn’t be overlooked either.

Especially within the reef clusters, it was possible to find some precious fish hiding in there.

As he dived into the water, Chu Mingcheng swam toward the reef.

The water quality in the Far Sea was clear, although it hadn’t reached the crystal clarity of the blue waters, it wasn’t far off, and one could clearly see for more than ten meters.

As soon as he entered the water, Chu Mingcheng saw an empty stretch before him without any living creatures.

However, as he approached the reef, suddenly a large school of mackerel appeared in front of him, moving leisurely in the current.

There were no large predators hunting them, so even as Chu Mingcheng drew closer, they remained nonchalant.

But he wasn’t interested in these mackerel, so he continued swimming toward the reef.

What had been unclear from the surface, now became visible as he drew nearer.

He had reached an area where the water was only about thirty meters deep, the bottom was strewn with sand and lined with reef formations.

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