The Top Fishing
Chapter 386 - 194: Fishing for Belt Fish_2

Chapter 386: Chapter 194: Fishing for Belt Fish_2

How many groupers are there, and how many hairtails?

Moreover, if Lin Yang tried to fish for hairtails, he could also incidentally unlock a new aquatic index.

After listening to his plan, everyone naturally had no objections, after all, fishing for hairtails seemed quite fun.

But at this moment, Wang Feng asked, "I heard that hairtails live hundreds of meters below in the deep sea, can we really catch them?"

"Haha, you’re a little out of the loop, Wang Feng. Hairtails don’t always stay at the bottom of the sea. They often come up to feed when the currents pass by. The live hairtails you see are those that surface during this time and are then caught..."

The reason hairtails come up to feed has a lot to do with their spawning season.

During spawning, they need to consume a lot of energy, so their need to eat increases significantly compared to other times. That is why there are only a few months each year when it’s the best time to fish for hairtails.

After his explanation, everyone decided to fish for hairtails by their side later.

However, before fishing for hairtails, everyone still needed to eat breakfast. Breakfast wasn’t particularly luxurious, just some slices of bread and milk.

After breakfast, the group began to prepare their gear.

Fishing equipment and bait were necessary to prepare, but most importantly were the hooks since hairtails are very aggressive. Many people might have seen their teeth, which makes these fish very likely to swallow the hooks whole.

Having prepared the fishing gear and bait, they chose their spots and got ready to start.

Their fishing method was simple; after casting the baited hook into the water, they started fishing at a depth of 10 meters. If there was no bite, they would drop it another 5 meters and then fish back up to 10 meters.

For bait, they directly used the leftover sardine chunks from yesterday.

Hairtails are a schooling species and voraciously aggressive. Lin Yang had already observed hairtail activity below in this area, so as the bait hit the water, he noticed several hairtails slowly gathering around.

The first thing the hairtails noticed was his bait.

With a powerful flick of its tail, a large hairtail shot forward like an arrow and went straight for Lin Yang’s bait before swallowing it in one gulp.

Feeling the movement at the tip of the rod, Lin Yang naturally wouldn’t let it escape. Just as the fish swallowed the bait and tried to make a swift getaway, he immediately lifted the rod to secure it, then rapidly reeled in, forcibly pulling the fish up to the surface.

While the hairtail made a lot of noise feeding underwater, once hooked, the struggle and its own weight felt surprisingly light.

Even though he had never caught a hairtail before, the moment Lin Yang felt the tug, he knew it was probably the target fish.

Sure enough, when he brought the fish on board, Wang Feng and the rest couldn’t help but look over enviously. This hairtail wasn’t small, roughly 1.2 meters long and definitely weighed over a pound.

Its silver glow shone brilliantly under the sunlight, truly beautiful.

After catching the hairtail, Lin Yang took the opportunity to check the index reward. It showed a reward of 500 dollars, 5 experience points, and no more... The reward was quite ordinary.

Generally speaking, due to changes in pressure, hairtails ’explode’ internally when caught and brought to the surface.

But this hairtail had already swum from the deep to the upper layers, relieving itself of pressure beforehand, so its internal organs didn’t ’explode’ after being caught.

In other words, this hairtail could survive.

Lin Yang casually tossed it into the live well, sure enough, it swam around happily inside.

As he observed the hairtail, he replaced the hook with a new one and began his second round of fishing.

One had to say, there really were a lot of fish in this part of the sea.

After Lin Yang’s second hook entered the water, it was promptly swallowed by the target fish, another catch.

Besides him, the others were also catching fish.

Lin Yang had clearly understood through the ’observe fish activity’ skill that there was a sizable school of hairtails beneath their yacht.

Even without any special buffs, Wang Feng and the others could quickly catch these hairtails.

Not only were the hairtails easy to catch, but they were also easy to pull in. For other fish species, like groupers, due to their size, it would take about ten minutes to reel each in.

But on this side, the cutlass fish were basically one every one or two minutes, and factoring in the time to change hooks, Lin Yang could catch one every three minutes.

Even if these cutlass fish were dead when sold, if one fish was worth a hundred points, he could fish 20 in an hour, that’s two thousand, and in 10 hours it would be twenty thousand...

If these cutlass fish were alive, then the price would double, turning twenty thousand into forty thousand.

And it wasn’t just him who could fish so quickly, Wang Feng and the others were also very efficient at fishing for cutlass fish.

It was precisely for this reason that they were all so happy.

From 8 o’clock in the morning until around 12 noon, everyone was pulling in fish non-stop.

Of course, Lin Yang pulled in the most, not only in quantity, but also every single one was quite large, because they actively swam to the upper layer of the water, so most of these fish hadn’t died.

Lin Yang looked at these fish and felt very content, he had made a killing.

Apart from him, the others also had a good catch, but theirs weren’t as big, varying in size, long and short, and there were quite a few other fishes, but still, there were about four or five dozen pounds of live cutlass fish.

At lunchtime, naturally, everyone stopped fishing.

By then, there were very few cutlass fish left below the yacht, partly because they had caught quite a few, and partly because after this period, the fish would dive back into the deep sea.

And from the looks of it, they probably wouldn’t be able to fish in the afternoon either.

During lunch, Wang Feng and the others were discussing where to go fishing in the afternoon.

However, Lin Yang didn’t plan on fishing in the afternoon, he was ready to take everyone to have some real fun.

If they came out on this trip without having swum or played in the water, could that even be called going out to sea?

In the afternoon, Lin Yang opened the map device and found the nearest sandbar, and he directly drove the yacht over there.

That afternoon, the five of them played on this sandbar.

Soon, the sunset dyed half the sky red, and looking at the sky filled with red clouds, Lin Yang and the others prepared to return to the yacht, but they weren’t planning to sleep or cook on the yacht; instead, they planned to take some stuff and move to the island above the sandbar to rest.

Wobbling on the yacht would definitely not be as comfortable as being on solid land.

Lin Yang gathered his energy, and his body stood up; after a couple of paddles in the water, he was ready to swim towards the yacht.

But just then, Wang Feng’s voice suddenly came from the distance.

"Brother Lin Yang, come over here quick, there are so many tiger crabs!"

Hearing Wang Feng’s voice, Lin Yang initially thought something had happened, but after hearing about tiger crabs, he couldn’t help but be amused—it looked like they had their dinner sorted for tonight.

Tiger crab, actually called frog crab due to its resemblance to a frog, is an economical crab species, but the catch volume isn’t particularly large.

They are mainly found in the East Sea and the Southern Sea.

Although there are quite a few of them, maybe because they’re not very common, these crabs are pretty expensive, costing over 120 points per pound.

Lin Yang hadn’t expected to encounter a group of tiger crabs on this fishing trip to the sea, an opportunity like this was something he naturally couldn’t miss.

With a mighty dive, his body propelled forward, and soon he arrived where Wang Feng and the others were.

Seeing him come over, Yue’er, who was still diving nearby, pointed excitedly at the water below: "Brother Yang, quick look, there are quite a few tiger crabs here!"

Following her direction, Lin Yang also looked down.

It has to be said, the water here was extremely clear, the pale blue sea, the white sands, he could even see the seafloor three or four meters deep distinctly.

This particular shade of blue was just like the blue of toilet cleaner.

But this blue didn’t hinder Lin Yang from looking down; he cast a glance and saw quite a few frog crabs lined up, crawling towards the deep sea.

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