The Top Fishing
Chapter 371 - 188: Back on the Shark_3

Chapter 371: Chapter 188: Back on the Shark_3

Could it be that the fish caught next to the fish rafts don’t count as wild fish?

Seeing this, Lin Yang was somewhat speechless; such a situation was something he had never discovered before.

After all, most of the fish in freshwater aquaculture farms are bred, and it’s highly unlikely to find any wild ones, at least he had never caught any, but now, the fish raft had taught him a lesson.

Although the lack of a pictorial guide’s cash reward meant a possible loss of 200, he didn’t care too much. It was fine as long as he could catch fish, and this fish could be worth a small 100 yuan, which was a bit of a consolation.

Having thought it through, he then prepared to remove the fish hook.

"Be careful, the spines of this fish are highly poisonous. Although it’s not as poisonous as the tiger fish, it is almost as bad as Stone Nine Public," the fisherman next to him said, walking over to Lin Yang.

Then he specifically taught Lin Yang to grip the fish’s gills and then remove the fish hook. If the hook was too tight to remove, it would be better to cut the line rather than rashly attempt to dislodge the fish hook.

Hearing this, Lin Yang nodded. He knew the fish was poisonous, but he wasn’t entirely sure how to handle it, so now he had learned a new trick.

After re-baiting the hook, he once again cast it into the water nearby.

While waiting for a bite, he glanced at the others’ situations. Li Xiaopeng, Xiao Zhang, and Yue’er had found their own spots to fish outside the net cage, just like Lin Yang, while only Wang Feng was furiously pulling in fish from inside the net cage, seemingly playing with great excitement.

This was understandable. No matter how many freshwater fish you usually catch, when you go sea fishing for the first time, you tend to get very excited because the feel is completely different.

The other fishermen, though experienced anglers, were not having much luck with the fish, even if some of them were using three or four rods at a time for quite some time without a catch.

This was perfectly normal; although the fish farm was a natural feeding point, the fish below were not that easy to catch, otherwise they wouldn’t have chosen to fish here because they couldn’t go out to sea.

Just as everyone was boredly waiting for a bite, Lin Yang’s line had a hit in less than three minutes after being cast into the water.

This time, he caught another Golden Drum Fish, even bigger than the last one, probably weighing between one and two pounds. Such a large Golden Drum Fish was the highlight of the fish raft area.

Out of all the people fishing around the raft, besides Lin Yang, only one fisherman had caught a Golden Drum, but his was only about seven or eight taels, much smaller compared to the two that Lin Yang had caught.

Seeing Lin Yang catch two such large Golden Drum Fish in such a short span of time, many people began to look his way.

Initially, they thought Lin Yang was some rich man who came here to experience life, but now it appeared to be something different.

While they did indeed look like wealthy people, whether they came to experience life was uncertain.

Amid the gazes of these fishermen, Lin Yang’s third Golden Drum Fish was caught. It was slightly smaller than the previous one but still weighed around one and a half pounds.

Watching him catch another fish almost back-to-back, the surrounding fishermen became anxious. Good heavens, who exactly was this young man?

The dark-skinned fisherman next to him stared in disbelief. He had initially thought that Lin Yang was using a novice’s technique, but now, it seemed the joke was on him.

This was because he realized that even though Lin Yang’s method of reeling in fish was very violent, not a single fish got away, and every one was hooked in the mouth properly, which made him seriously doubt his own years of fishing experience.

Just when he started to question his life’s work, Lin Yang’s fourth fish was already on its way up.

Thankfully, this time it was a mudfish, a small white fish from the sea...

Lin Yang threw the little mudfish back into the sea, rebaited his hook, and cast it back into the same fishing spot.

This time, the wait was a bit longer; nearly 15 minutes passed without a bite. The fisherman who kept an eye on him breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that Lin Yang had just been lucky, pulling in a few fish consecutively, but he wasn’t some extraordinary master angler.

However, just as this fisherman was comforting himself with that thought, Lin Yang’s rod suddenly bent violently again with a strong pull.

Seeing this, Lin Yang yanked the rod hard and frowned, feeling a huge force coming from underwater.

"Snagged? No, it’s lifting; it’s not snagged. Might be a big catch..." he hoisted the rod powerfully and muttered to himself.

Though the force was much stronger than the previous few fish, he couldn’t judge how big this fish was since fish from the sea were much more powerful than freshwater fish and different species have different levels of strength. But no matter the size, he knew he’d find out once he reeled it in.

This time, he was more cautious than when he had caught the Golden Drum Fish. Under the watchful eyes of those around him, it took him about ten minutes to pull the fish up from underwater.

And the moment the fish broke the surface, one of the fishermen nearby couldn’t help but exclaim, "Damn, a dog shark, a big dog shark!"