As a Fisherman, My Fish Can Level Up
Chapter 364 - Chapter 364 Chapter 286 The Ancient Sunken Ship with Nothing

Chapter 364: Chapter 286: The Ancient Sunken Ship with Nothing Inside_3 Chapter 364: Chapter 286: The Ancient Sunken Ship with Nothing Inside_3 After arriving at the destination, Chu Mingcheng did not stop, but continued to look for a suitable fishing spot.

Another fifteen minutes passed before he stopped at a spot where the water was more than one hundred and twenty meters deep.

All along the way, the fish finder occasionally showed lines representing fish, but it was at this location on the seabed that a large number of fish were detected.

After noting the coordinates, Chu Mingcheng did not immediately stop the boat; instead, he filled crab and shrimp cages with chopped mackerel bait near the fishing spot, and then lowered them one by one.

If the seafloor is rocky, maybe he could catch some lobsters.

After setting the crab and shrimp cages, Chu Mingcheng drove to the area where the fish were most densely gathered.

At a depth of one hundred meters, he didn’t use the electric winch tonight but chose a spinning reel and an Iron Plate rod.

Attaching a long-jigging iron plate, Chu Mingcheng cast it into the water.

Today, he did not jerk the rod vigorously and rhythmically as before.

Instead, he held the rod horizontally with a relatively slow pace, retrieving a turn or less of the line with each lift of the rod.

He primarily used the elasticity of the Iron Plate rod to flick the jig up, allowing it to perform small, natural, enticing hops.

When the iron plate rose, it attracted nearby fish, and the prime time for predators to strike was when the iron plate stopped.

Choosing the long-jigging slow-paced iron plate and its associated technique was mainly because the current was rather strong here, making it suitable for this type of fishing.

After repeating the lift-and-pause technique several times, a fierce pull suddenly came from the line, causing the tip of the rod to instantly bend into a bow shape.

Chu Mingcheng lifted with his left hand to hook the fish and, with his right hand, quickly turned the handle to retrieve the line.

But he was lucky; the pull from the first fish he hooked was very strong.

Fishing for Golden Spearfish all this time and using heavy boat rods had him unable to instantly gauge the weight of this fish.

He only felt a good pull, as if the rod in his hands could barely withstand it.

Of course, that was just his misconception. The rod was thin and highly sensitive so that he could control these considerably smaller fish at any moment.

Holding the rod in his left hand, each upward jerk produced a “swoosh” sound, giving him the chance to reel in several turns of the line.

No fish’s pull could compare to the Golden Spearfish he had previously caught, so the fishing was quite easy for him.

It took just five minutes to pull the fish up from a depth of one hundred meters to the surface.

A fish with a brownish color under the light appeared at the surface, its eyes bulging almost to the point of protruding.

Chu Mingcheng checked the fish’s mouth: no internal organs had been expelled to the lips, indicating that water pressure didn’t impact it greatly, which meant its eyes were naturally that way.

For some reason, he always felt those eyes were staring at him, giving him an erroneous impression of “wisdom.”

Shaking his head to cast off this illusion, Chu Mingcheng used a net to scoop the fish aboard.

Although fully brown, this fish was indeed his main target for this trip, the Eastern Sea Bass.

The first one he caught measured seventy to eighty centimeters in length, which is why he carefully used a net to lift it.

The fish was quite plump, appearing somewhat chubby overall.

Chu Mingcheng detached the iron plate and then fetched a scale and ruler.

Placing the ruler under the fish, he found it measured just over eighty centimeters. Thinking of the videos, Jiang Luoluo had asked him to take, he quickly went back to put the camera on his head.

Then, picking up the fish, he weighed it: thirty-six pounds and seven ounces.

Chu Mingcheng was somewhat surprised; he hadn’t expected an Eastern Sea Bass of this length to weigh thirty-six pounds.

Such a large Eastern Sea Bass could fetch a price of at least one thousand per pound; didn’t that mean this one could sell for thirty-six thousand?

This was on par with a two-hundred-pound Big-eyed Gold Spearfish, yet Golden Spearfish were so much harder to catch; even he would need an hour for just one.

In contrast, he had caught this Eastern Sea Bass in less than ten minutes using an iron plate jig.

After storing the fish in the refrigerated hold, he hurried to the storage to fetch three foam boxes, then shoveled some pre-prepared crushed ice into them–he planned on having a big night, aiming to catch at least three boxes of fish.

Once ready, he cast the iron plate bait into the water again to continue fishing for the second one.

He turned on the fish-attracting function to increase efficiency.

This time, it took only two minutes before another fish took the bait.

But the pull was nowhere near as strong as the previous one; in less than three minutes, the fish was pulled up.

The fish, brown on the upper half and silver-white on the lower, was actually another Eastern Sea Bass.

The color of the Eastern Sea Bass’s skin seemed to change according to size; this one was less than forty centimeters long and weighed just over four pounds.

He tossed the fish into the foam box, and swiftly, he caught the third one.

However, the third was not an Eastern Sea Bass, but a Deep Sea Big Eye Tuna.

Although the Big Eye Tuna is also considered a premium fish, it’s the lowest grade among them, far behind a top-notch fish like the Eastern Sea Bass.

Still, it was decently heavy at six pounds, worth six or seven hundred yuan.

The fish-suction effect within a fifteen-meter radius increased the density of fish under the boat, and with this being the peak period for fish activity, Chu Mingcheng could catch a fish under ten pounds every five or six minutes.

An hour passed, and he had caught thirteen more fish, mainly weighing around five or six pounds each, but even with ice added, the foam box was only half full.

Now that he was strong, his foam boxes were quite large, with a capacity of one hundred and twenty liters.

Given his current efficiency, he figured if he wanted to fill three boxes with fish, he might have to fish all night long.

Moreover, out of these thirteen fish, only three were Eastern Sea Bass; the rest were other types of deep-sea fish.