The Top Fishing
Chapter 287 - 167: Off to Sea Fishing_5

Chapter 287: Chapter 167: Off to Sea Fishing_5

"Here it comes!"

Seeing the movement of the fishing rod, Lin Yang smiled, then lifted it quickly. Instantly, the hook pierced the fish’s mouth, and he began to pull it up.

As he continuously reeled in the line, before long, a fish with a body covered in sharp spines, a pair of big eyes, and a brown-green skin, about the size of a child’s palm, was lifted out of the water.

At the sight of the fish, Lin Yang was taken aback, because this fish was exactly the stinky belly fish that Xiao Wu had mentioned to him yesterday.

The stinky belly fish, scientifically known as mudfish, is also called Blue Fish, Elephant fish, among other names, and is a species that specifically lives near reefs, coral groups, and docks.

They mainly feed on seaweed, which easily rots. Therefore, these fish usually die not long after being caught – usually in about half an hour. If you cut open their belly, you’ll find it smells of rotten seaweed.

The name "stinky belly" is derived from this very characteristic!

After lifting the fish out of the water, he removed the hook from its mouth. Thankfully, he was quick enough not to let the fish swallow the hook.

It’s worth noting that sea fish are not like river fish; they can easily swallow hooks whole, and once they do, that hook is ruined.

Fortunately, this fish hadn’t done that, as Lin Yang had been quick.

After removing the hook, he tossed the fish into the live well of the small wooden boat and stealthily checked the reward for unlocking his first sea fish.

The unexpected surprise reward did not appear. He only saw the reward displayed was 200 yuan, then 2 points of experience and points, which was only slightly better than the small mixed fish from the freshwater.

However, Lin Yang was not disheartened, because in the sea, this mudfish was akin to the small white fish found in rivers.

Li Xiaopeng, who was sitting nearby, felt envious upon seeing Lin Yang catch his first fish. Indeed, a Master is a Master; even in sea fishing, he was more skilled than him.

At this moment, his shrimp bait hung motionless underwater, uninteresting to any small sea fish.

Xiao Wu, who was beginning to doze off at the bow of the boat, was actually quite surprised by this turn of events. He had thought Lin Yang would need at least an hour or so, or at least more than half an hour, to catch a fish. Yet it had only been ten minutes and the first fish was already caught.

But upon seeing what kind of fish it was, he felt it was rather normal. After all, this type of mudfish was the most common small fish here, and it was normal to catch one with good luck.

What surprised him, though!

Was that Lin Yang, after casting his second line, only took about four minutes to land the second fish, also a mudfish.

And it didn’t stop there; less than three minutes after the second, the third one was on the line...

Anyone who has been sea fishing knows that it’s not the same as freshwater fishing. No matter how big a lake or a reservoir is, it has limits, but the sea’s limits... are at least not something humanity can currently explore.

Sea fishing is not about the quality of your bait, but about whether there are fish underwater.

Sea fishing relies on finding schools of fish. If there are no fish, even the best bait won’t attract them.

Lin Yang, at this moment, was not using any buffs. His big fish buff was useless here, as there were no big fish in this area. Even if he activated a buff for a +20% chance to catch big fish, it wouldn’t help him land one.

The type of sea fishing he was engaging in didn’t require a float, so the buff for rare fish species wasn’t needed, and neither was the buff for chumming.

The reason he was catching fish now, to put it mystically, came down to a kind of feeling.

Once you’ve caught enough fish and mastered enough fishing techniques, and understand the habits of various fish species, you develop a special sense for fishing which makes catching fish a lot easier.

That was essentially where Lin Yang was at the moment, so even without any special buffs, and not using the fishing methods he was adept at like pole and lure fishing, even though it was his first time sea fishing, he could catch fish more easily than the average person.

The three of them had woken up around six-thirty, finished buying fishing gear and breakfast by around seven, and started fishing here at about eight in the morning.

By the time Lin Yang had caught seven or eight fish, it wasn’t even nine o’clock yet.

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