The Top Fishing
Chapter 137 - 125: The Rare Military Fish

Chapter 137: Chapter 125: The Rare Military Fish

And then, knowledge about the fish immediately floated through his mind.

"Wow, Brother Yang, you caught a fish so quickly? What kind of fish is this? It looks pretty nice," said Yue’er, who stopped taking photos and walked over as she saw Lin Yang pulling in a fish.

"This is a stream grouper, scientifically known as light-lipped fish, and not the kind of grouper from the sea. This fish typically only grows this big. It’s a species with a relatively wide distribution in the south, not very rare, but also not commonly seen nowadays. The presence of stream groupers in this lake indicates that the water quality is quite good," Lin Yang explained with a smile as he put the fish into the fish keeper.

Light-lipped fish are widely distributed throughout the country, almost throughout all southern water systems, and are categorized by body size and shape, including the Rainbow Light-lip Fish, Thick-lipped Light-lipped Fish, Half-spined Lightlip Fish, Wen City Light Lip Fish, Nan Zhao Guangchun Fish, and Long-finned Light-lipped Fish that Lin Yang had just caught.

This fish is not a protected species, and its reproduction faces no issues whatsoever.

However, the eggs of this fish are toxic. Consumption by humans can lead to vomiting and diarrhea, and it can be fatal for cats, dogs, and other fish in the water.

Therefore, their juveniles tend to have quite a high survival rate; the only real threats to them are water quality and pollution.

As this fish has high demands for water quality, that’s why this originally inexpensive little weak fish, now sells for up to two hundred yuan per jin (approximately 500 grams) for sizes of around one or two jin, not far off from the prices for ground tigers he caught before.

Protecting this species is quite easy: simply maintain a clean water environment, and the numbers of the fish will steadily increase. It’s not a difficult problem to solve.

After explaining, Lin Yang sneakily checked the rewards for unlocking the light-lipped fish.

Sure enough, as he expected, this fish was just a common species, granting him only two hundred Yuan, along with some points and experience.

Nevertheless, it was better than nothing. After all, their main purpose wasn’t to actually fish here but rather to rest for a bit and enjoy the scenery.

With the first fish secured in the keeper,

Lin Yang continued fishing, Second, third, fourth... one small fish after another was swiftly hooked and tossed into the fish keeper.

Of course, not all of the fish he caught were light-lipped fish; there were also some bream and pangpi, among others.

However, as he was fishing, and after about a dozen small fish, Lin Yang suddenly felt his rod bend into a significant arch as he lifted it again.

He had hooked a big one.

"Looks like there are still big fish in this lake," said Lin Yang, startled as he watched the fishing line being pulled into the water and cutting through it.

But he wasn’t panicked at all. If someone else, even a fishing master, were in his place, they might already be frantic since a 0.8+0.4 line can barely handle a fish weighing about a jin.

And the fish he had hooked certainly weighed more than that.

Lin Yang remained calm, with the protection of the line-buff.

After gauging the situation with the fish below, he gave a strong pull, and a long fish resembling a grass carp, weighing probably two to almost three jin, was lifted out of the water.

When Lin Yang saw the fish, he paused again.

Although he recognized the fish, it was the first time he had seen it firsthand and caught it himself.

"Military fish?"

As he looked at the fish that he had just dragged to the surface and caught in his hand, Lin Yang muttered in surprise.

The military fish, scientifically known as Lightly Barbed Carp, also has many other names such as Qing Gun, Yellow Juan Fish, brick fish, Keng Jian, Light-eyed fish, Coarse Scale Fish, and so on.

It is a species that sounds common, yet it’s not that common – at least over 90% of the nation’s population probably has never seen it in person, and if they have, they might confuse it with grass carp.

This fish usually inhabits rapids in rivers and can grow to a maximum size of about 12 jin.

Generally, encountering this fish is only possible through artificial stocking in mountain valley reservoirs; it’s extremely difficult to catch one in a wild fishing environment.

"Brother Yang, do we have our lunch ingredients now?" asked Yue’er, who originally thought they might not have fish for lunch after seeing the small fish Lin Yang has been catching, but now it seemed the issue had been resolved.

"Indeed, this fish tastes pretty good. It’s called a military fish, famous for cooking without descaling. However, I’ve only heard about it and never seen it myself. Let’s hope the restaurant here knows how to prepare it," said Lin Yang casually to Yue’er, then tossed the military fish into the fish keeper as well.

The fish keeper he brought wasn’t very large. With the two or three jin military fish thrown in, it almost couldn’t hold any more.

Lin Yang also took another look at the illustrated fish book. Though each time he checked it, he did so with great expectations, today his luck wasn’t particularly good.

Whether it was the fish he caught in the cave or at Mingyue Lake, the light-lipped fish and military fish might be less common, but most were still just ordinary species.

The light-lipped fish, being widely distributed and with toxic eggs, doesn’t have any hatching difficulty, has a plentiful population, isn’t fierce, and isn’t hard to catch – making it a normal fish species.

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