As a Fisherman, My Fish Can Level Up
Chapter 422 - Chapter 422 Chapter 304 Originally Bought Fish Let You

Chapter 422: Chapter 304 Originally Bought Fish, Let You Despair_2 Chapter 422: Chapter 304 Originally Bought Fish, Let You Despair_2 Moreover, although anglers need to throw a great deal of bait each time they “chum” the water, in reality, much of the bait is carried away by the current to who knows where.

The attracted golden spearfish (tunas) actually eat very little, so as long as they are lured over, they are basically easy to hook.

Chu Mingcheng, after putting on his belly belt, took the fishing rod from the holder and held it against his stomach, ready at any moment.

After just seven or eight minutes, the rod suddenly dipped, pulling him slightly forward.

But his reaction was quick, he immediately lifted the rod to set the hook, and then he started to struggle with the fish.

Jiang Luoluo became curious and asked, “Is the fish big?”

“Big, its strength is only slightly less than the bluefin tuna we caught last night, at least 250 kilograms.”

Chu Mingcheng was quite satisfied with this weight, and it confirmed his belief that the likelihood of encountering a large catch was higher when golden spearfish were swimming alone or in small groups.

The golden spearfish had no concept of friends or relatives, they gathered in groups of the same size.

Logically, the larger the size, the fewer in number. Chu Mingcheng specially looked for smaller groups on the map, so it wasn’t surprising that he often encountered larger golden spearfish.

“The bigger the better!” Luoluo said with a happy smile on her face, though she slowed down the bait-throwing.

Just now, she had thrown almost fifty kilograms of bait. Now that Chu Mingcheng had hooked one, all they needed was to keep the other one lured and prevent it from escaping.

Slowing down the bait-throwing was to keep it from getting full, as feeding it too much and satiating it would stop it from biting.

This big-eyed gold spearfish took Chu Mingcheng an hour and several minutes to successfully reel in.

After catching the fish, he didn’t idle but quickly removed the hook, baited a small sailfish and threw it back into the water, while taking over the task of bait chumming.

Having her task taken over, Jiang Luoluo didn’t stand idle either. She took out a spike and a hammer and skillfully went about processing the big-eyed gold spearfish.

The fish was hooked just now and although it wasn’t moving much, it hadn’t completely died, so they needed to send it off first.

Then, it was time to bleed and gut the fish, tasks that Jiang Luoluo was also very adept at.

Once the fish was processed, she used the hoist to lift it and check its weight.

The screen on the side of the hoist displayed 287 kilograms, she nodded in satisfaction, then operated the hoist to move the golden spearfish into the cold storage.

She followed it into the cold storage, but the temperature shift from “equator” to “Arctic” made her shiver instantly.

So she quickly untied the ropes and climbed out of the cold storage, closing the door behind her.

As for the golden spearfish, it was just left near the entrance.

Later, when it had frozen slightly and the surface became smooth, Chu Mingcheng could easily push the fish inside to place it properly; these heavy tasks were not something she could help with.

By nine thirty in the morning, they had successfully brought the second big-eyed gold spearfish onto the boat.

Chu Mingcheng was breathing somewhat heavily, and after catching his breath, he took off his T-shirt, twisted it into a rope, and then squeezed it forcefully.

A large amount of water was wrung out from the clothes, all of it his sweat.

Jiang Luoluo handed him the cup she held, containing water she had cooled with a bit of coarse salt added.

Chu Mingcheng drank it all in one go, finally alleviating the dryness in his throat.

“Go take a shower first, we can rest at noon and continue fishing in the evening,” Jiang Luoluo said, taking back the cup.

“No rush, it’s still early, and I’m not very tired. Let’s keep fishing! I need to make an effort with such a big gap to the first place,” Chu Mingcheng replied, although he was initially tempted. Even for him, catching two big-eyed gold spearfish totaling over 550 kilograms in just over two hours was tiring.

However, after opening the map of the bluefin tuna distribution, he suddenly saw that the three bluefin tunas which were thirteen nautical miles away were now only three miles distant.

As they were still moving towards them, given the speed of golden spearfish, it would only take a few minutes to arrive. It was as if they were being served up on a silver platter!

Yet, more than half an hour later, as Chu Mingcheng pulled a bluefin tuna to the water’s edge, a look of disappointment spread across his face.

“This bluefin tuna is so small, isn’t it even under a hundred kilograms?” Luoluo gesticulated the size of the tuna and also felt frustrated.

“Let’s release it,” Chu Mingcheng suggested, asking her to pass the scissors, and then he cut the leader line. Although he had felt the fish was small while hooking it, he hadn’t expected it to be this tiny.

The bluefin tuna, which had been lying on its side as though resigned to its fate, suddenly felt the tremendous force that was restraining it disappear and quickly flapped its tail to make an escape.

This bluefin weighed only around seventy to eighty kilograms, certainly not fetching a high price.

Since it wouldn’t count towards their competition quota, it made more sense to release it and let it grow.

Chu Mingcheng, now equipped with a tracking function, found it simple to look for fish and thus had lost interest in those under a hundred kilograms.

Jiang Luoluo usually had no objections to his decisions, even though they were still far behind the first-place contestant.

If the first bluefin tuna was only around seventy to eighty kilograms, it was unnecessary to fish for the remaining two, as they would likely be of similar size.

They had initially thought that smaller numbers would mean larger fish, but this time they were proven wrong.

Chu Mingcheng glanced at the map and saw the nearest bluefins were over thirty nautical miles away. With such a distance, he no longer felt the urge to fish.

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