The Top Fishing
Chapter 375 - 190: Giant Yellow Croaker

Chapter 375: Chapter 190: Giant Yellow Croaker

After freezing the yellow croaker they just caught, Lin Yang continued fishing with everyone else.

Especially Wang Feng, at that moment, he was full of enthusiasm. When he realized how valuable the fish was, he was determined to catch one himself.

It wasn’t that he wanted to sell it; he wasn’t in such need of money. He just truly wanted to experience what it felt like to catch a fish worth over ten thousand yuan.

Keep in mind, he used to toil away and only earn a hundred thousand yuan a month. Now, he was making that amount just by catching a few fish. It was so exaggerated that he genuinely felt these fish were like gold bars.

Seeing his excited demeanor, Lin Yang couldn’t help but laugh. This was the joy of fishing.

It has to be said, Wang Feng’s luck that afternoon wasn’t bad at all. In less than twenty minutes, he got a bite, but unfortunately, he missed it.

After another ten minutes, he got another bite. This time he successfully seized the opportunity and landed it.

Pulling it up to take a look, it was a yellow croaker of around three pounds. Although it wasn’t as big as the first one Lin Yang had caught, it should still weigh over three pounds.

A three-pound fish, if sold at the retail price, would easily be worth ten thousand yuan. Even the purchase price would be over eight or nine thousand yuan. This was the first time he caught such an expensive fish.

Immediately, he began to frenetically take photos. However, before he took many, Lin Yang’s fishing rod suddenly sprang to life.

He swiftly lifted the rod to set the hook, and needless to say, he definitely caught something.

Moreover, the moment he lifted the fishing rod, he knew this was a big one—particularly big, extraordinarily big. Besides the shark caught that morning, this was likely the biggest fish he caught so far that day.

"It can’t be over ten pounds, can it?"

Feeling the behemoth still struggling underwater, Lin Yang’s eyes began to sparkle. From the force transmitted through the line, it was very likely another big yellow croaker.

After a fight of about ten minutes, he finally pulled the fish to the surface.

Seeing him bring the fish out of the water, Wang Feng and the others immediately crowded around. When they saw the fish, they all couldn’t help but gasp in shock.

"Holy sh*t, such a huge yellow croaker!"

"This one must be at least ten pounds, right?"

Looking at the fish below, Wang Feng’s mouth twitched. What did a ten-pound yellow croaker represent?

It was known that wild and farm-raised yellow croakers had a huge price difference, and the prices varied greatly with size as well.

This ten-pound wild yellow croaker was at least ten times more expensive than the three-pound one Wang Feng caught earlier. In other words, this yellow croaker was worth at least a hundred thousand yuan.

"I’ll scoop it up!"

As Lin Yang pulled the giant yellow croaker close to the boat, Wang Feng couldn’t wait to scoop it into the net.

After lifting it onto the yacht’s deck, everyone was marveling at such a large yellow croaker—they were a rare sight.

After catching this fish, Lin Yang didn’t plan to keep fishing, as it was already getting dark. They had left the fish farm around one in the afternoon, and it was past five when they arrived here. Now, it was past six, so it was time to prepare for dinner.

After everyone packed up, Yue’er came over and asked, "Brother Yang, what are we eating for dinner tonight?"

"Yellow croaker," Lin Yang said with a smile.

"What? This fish is so expensive, are you really going to eat it?" she asked in surprise.

Li Xiaopeng also came over and said, "Whoa, cousin, you’re really willing to part with it."

"We’ll eat the smaller one that’s just over four pounds," Lin Yang replied.

Lin Yang had caught two yellow croakers earlier, a smaller one weighing four to five pounds and a larger one at ten pounds. He planned to eat the smaller one that evening.

Upon hearing that he intended to eat the smaller one, even Wang Feng and his assistant Xiao Zhang were taken aback. That was a fish worth more than ten thousand yuan, just to be eaten like that?

That was incredibly extravagant—true to Master Lin’s style. Life at sea was luxurious indeed.

But to be honest, they were also really eager to taste whether the fish was truly worth more than ten thousand yuan.

They had never tried it before, but Lin Yang and the others had last time; so the three of them knew that this fish didn’t actually taste much different from farm-raised ones.

Lin Yang had eaten wild yellow croaker only once before, but he had tasted farm-raised yellow croakers many times before, so he always remembered the taste of this fish.

There indeed was a difference in taste between wild and farm-raised yellow croaker, but the difference was minimal. If not comparing them side by side, it would be nearly impossible to tell them apart.

Yellow croaker was so expensive simply because its rarity had inflated its price. However, this didn’t prevent him from making stuffed yellow croaker.

Having the best ingredients, he planned to make a top-tier delicacy specifically using yellow croaker.

Having decided that, they returned inside the yacht.

Lin Yang also went to the kitchen to start preparing the fish.

Stuffed yellow croaker wasn’t a dish from the Manchu Han Imperial Feast; in fact, it was a Huaiyang cuisine.

While not particularly difficult to make, the dish required a lot of preparation and was somewhat troublesome.

First, he needed to use a long pair of chopsticks to stir inside the fish’s mouth vigorously, to remove all the internal organs, and then use a knife to shave off the bones and gills.