The Top Fishing
Chapter 399 - 198: GT in the Sea_4

Chapter 399: Chapter 198: GT in the Sea_4

First-class products are: wholly light red or with red blotches. Second-class products are: red mixed with black, relatively dark in color. Third-class products are: slightly pinkish. Fourth-class products are: wholly black or with black blotches.

Wild groupers are more valuable the larger they are, with those under ten pounds typically priced between one hundred and four to five hundred per pound. The East Star Grouper I’ve caught belongs to the first-class products, and it was caught by sea fishing. If it were alive, its price could be at least six hundred per pound, and if sold to upscale restaurants, it could even possibly sell for eight or nine hundred per pound..."

"Wow, East Star Groupers are that expensive? I thought they were just a couple hundred per pound. In that case, isn’t the host’s fish worth 4000 yuan?"

"A couple hundred per pound? What are you dreaming about? Even a slightly over one-pound farmed East Star Grouper sells for a hundred yuan each."

Seeing the comments in the barrage, Wang Feng and Li Xiaopeng and the others couldn’t stay calm either.

"Holy crap, a six- or seven-pound fish is worth three or four thousand? Then what’s the point of fishing for Bull Port Mackerel? Everyone should just switch to jigging and catch more, we can’t eat them all anyway. Bring them back and sell them, it’s all money!" Li Xiaopeng’s peasant mentality cropped up again.

"Haha, brother Xiaopeng, you’re so funny. Don’t lose face, we are live broadcasting," Wang Feng reminded him jokingly.

Whether it’s losing face or not, in any case, the live broadcast audience, upon hearing how valuable these things are, crazily started to suggest changing equipment to fish for East Star Grouper.

Well, it’s not just them who are obsessed with money.

Since there are East Star Groupers here, naturally everyone wanted to fish for East Star Groupers. After all, it was a rare opportunity, while Bull Port Mackerel can be fished for at any time.

After just unlocking the East Star Grouper, the catalogue only awarded Lin Yang 1000 yuan, 10 experience points, and 10 points. This reward was exactly the same as unlocking Bull Port Mackerel, and he also realized that as the variety of fish he caught increased, the chance and difficulty of obtaining special rewards also increased.

After everyone changed their equipment, he briefly went over the basic movements and key points of jigging with a few people. Jigging is not only a matter of technique but also of physical endurance. Ordinary people really can’t handle it.

Ten minutes later, the others started feeling that Lin Yang was right.

Everyone was using a 250g jig, which is half a pound. It doesn’t sound like much, but when you have to cast it to at least seventy or eighty meters deep, it becomes incredibly exhausting.

Even though Lin Yang had much more stamina than the average person, he too had to slowly find a line retrieval strength that suited him and combine it with a proper breathing rhythm to maintain the continuous jigging motion for a long time.

If someone just relied on brute force, that was the mark of a novice. A true angler, in each pull and lift, uses their core body strength, coordinating multiple parts of the body to exert power, ensuring that no single muscle area becomes overly fatigued and quickly loses its combat effectiveness.

At first, it was clear that everyone was very unskilled, showing brute strength, but after a few more tries and getting a bit of a handle on it, they managed to gradually find their rhythm and strength.

Just as their arms were starting to get sore, Wang Feng suddenly felt a strong tug at the tip of his rod.

He set the hook, and it was a hit.

"Holy crap, I’ve got a fish!" he called out, vigorously lifting the rod with both hands.

Fishing in deep water is different from fishing on the surface in terms of the force applied and the angle; at that moment, Wang Feng felt an immense power transmitted through, almost causing him to lose grip of the rod.

The strength was still tremendous, the reel screeched as the line rapidly unraveled, but the fish’s burst of speed was clearly insufficient. After Wang Feng stabilized his center of gravity and kept his rod bent without moving, only after about a hundred meters of line ran out did the speed of the fish’s charge slow down.

"What depth did you catch that fish? With such steady force, it should not be small," Lin Yang asked from the side.

Wang Feng said, "I got it just as it hit the bottom. I had only reeled in less than half a meter when it suddenly bit hard!"

"It’s very likely a grouper. Be mindful of the line in your spool, don’t be deceived by the false show of force," Lin Yang advised.

"Hmm? What do you mean by that?"

Lin Yang explained to him, "Most of the fish at the bottom of the water belong to the grouper family, a type of bottom-dwelling fish. This kind of fish has a characteristic: the larger they are, the slower they swim. However, they have great stamina. If you pull them near the middle of the water, they’ll feel the change in water pressure and make a powerful surge that could empty your line spool in one go. But this fish has its advantages and disadvantages: once you get it up to the surface, it’s out of luck."

Wang Feng nodded, "So the strategy for fishing is to pull it out of the water as quickly as possible, right?"

"That’s one way to put it," Lin Yang nodded.

In reality, the final method was still to slowly pull them up so that they could gradually adapt to the change in water pressure and not die as soon as they were brought ashore. However, for novices like them who lacked strength, it was fine as long as they could get the fish up; they shouldn’t set their expectations too high.

"Got it, I’ll give it a try then," Wang Feng tightened the drag a bit more, positioned the rod against his belly, and began to reel in the line and control the fish rhythmically.

As expected, at first the fish was quite docile, but when it was pulled to about sixty to seventy meters depth, the fish underwater started to struggle frantically. It was the standard behavior of a big fish exerting power; it was like the line was tied to the butt of an old ox – not fast, but uncontrollable.

"Wow, Master Wang has hooked a big one."

"Judging by the looks of it, the fish seems to be a big one."

Because everyone was crowded together fishing, it was not as easy for Lin Yang and the others to hook a fish while Wang Feng was reeling his in.

Ten minutes later, Wang Feng finally pulled the big guy out of the water.

The fish had a head and mouth as big as a winnowing basket and a slightly short and stocky build. It appeared grey and drab, and its pink stomach had been ejected, floating almost motionless on the surface of the water.

"Not bad, Brother Feng, a Longdun Grouper, and it’s not small either," Lin Yang recognized immediately what fish had surfaced.

"What?" Wang Feng was unfamiliar with those words and didn’t react immediately. Wasn’t it a grouper? How did it become a Longdun?

"Longdun Grouper, it’s also considered a top-tier catch among groupers. This big one should be close to fifty pounds. I thought we would have done well to eat an East Starfish tonight, but you’ve gone straight for a Longdun Grouper. This big, it will be enough for us to eat for two days," Lin Yang explained again with a laugh.

"Oh, oh, oh, I get it. It’s a kind of grouper, right? Rare and valuable?" Even though Wang Feng didn’t plan to sell the fish, he still instinctively thought about its value, as if he had really made that much money.

"Yes, this kind of fish, like the East Starfish, has a wide distribution, but not many are able to catch the big ones. I’ve been to sea so many times and have only caught one, though it was much larger than yours."

"Ha ha, that means I’m really quite lucky, huh?" Wang Feng, having understood the rarity of his catch, immediately became self-satisfied.

"It’s more than just good luck; you’ve struck it ridiculously lucky," Xiao Zhang also said with a laugh.

"I have a hunch that we might have other catches on our boat today, so everyone stay calm. Who knows, maybe we’ll hook another fish soon."

"Ha ha, Brother Yang, you’re so funny, calculating with your fingers like that. When did you become a Demi Immortal?" Yue’er laughed, her eyes crinkling into crescents.

No sooner had she spoken than Li Xiaopeng, on the other side of the yacht, hooked a fish.

"Oh man, the broadcaster is spot on, said there would be a catch and there was."

"The live broadcast is on; this showing off is scoring full points."

Seeing that Li Xiaopeng had indeed hooked a fish, Lin Yang also went over to his side. At that moment, he was struggling, but judging by the way the fish was exerting itself underwater, Lin Yang didn’t think it was a grouper.

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