The Top Fishing
Chapter 73 - 072: Fishing for a Giant Catch

Chapter 73: Chapter 072: Fishing for a Giant Catch

The agreed time between the two was Saturday, but the next day Wang Jian Country posted explosive news in the black pit group.

[To better facilitate long-term development, Dongyang Fishing Ground will undergo a thorough renovation for the next week and will temporarily cease operations! We plan to construct an 80-meter × 22-meter pit in the east-west direction to provide higher quality services.]

In addition to the construction plans, related fishing ground rules were also issued.

For example, limiting the length of fishing rods from 5.4 meters to 4.5 meters, abolishing manual nest throwing, and replacing spot reservation with a lottery system, and so on.

Overall, it basically followed most of the suggestions Lin Yang had made, making it fairer and more transparent.

Seeing the news, the folks in the group got excited; Brother Jian Guo was really going big.

Currently, in the vicinity of Jiangdong City, fishing grounds where rods are put up for a fee are almost all relatively natural scenes like various river branches, large bays, and small reservoirs. Dongyang Fishing Ground was the first to specifically dig such a large pit for stocking and fishing.

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The next day, Lin Yang continued his routine of morning live-stream fishing at Qingshui River and spent the afternoon at home helping with parcel delivery.

Honestly, selling a thousand bottles of rice wine a day was indeed a lot.

Even though many people bought two or three bottles at a time, he still had to send out four to five hundred parcels each day on average.

Four to five hundred parcels, a 4.2-meter box truck, he had to make two trips a day.

Luckily, the tasks of labeling and packaging were handled by the courier’s boss, otherwise Lin Yang’s parents really couldn’t have managed it all.

Now Yue’er’s job wasn’t easy either; she was responsible for editing Lin Yang’s live-stream videos, then compiling the previous day’s order information, making sure details like names, addresses, and phone numbers were correct, and she also had to act as customer service.

Seeing her busy all day, Lin Yang was now considering giving her a raise next month.

The local courier station’s boss wasn’t having an easy time either; for Lin Yan, a major client, he had even specially hired an extra person to help. Otherwise, he alone definitely couldn’t cope.

There might also be curiosity about the courier costs.

Actually, for business clients like Lin Yang who send large quantities of goods every day, there are many options for courier costs.

The most economical option is to sign a contract with the courier company, then choose either a monthly or an annual package.

This is easy to understand; for example, you pay 5000 in courier fees per month, then within that month you can send any number of parcels.

Of course, the courier company will set a suitable price based on your volume of shipments, and if your sales continue to increase, so too will your monthly courier fees.

This is also why when you buy something for under 10 yuan on Taobao, the seller still offers free shipping, because their courier costs are most likely on a monthly package and they send out large quantities every day, so the cost is the same whether more or fewer parcels are sent within a certain range.

Lin Yang was currently using this model too; he and the courier’s boss had agreed on a price of 8000 per month for courier fees, which averages out to about 266 yuan per day.

Using the calculation of four hundred parcels a day, the cost for each parcel was about sixty-seven cents, which was very cheap.

You should know, sending a single parcel from a courier station starts at 12 yuan for the initial weight and an additional two yuan for every extra kilogram....

Compared to this, Lin Yang’s monthly expense of 8000 yuan for courier costs was really as cheap as it could get.

Watching the courier truck leave the yard, Lin Yang was also considering whether to rent a warehouse in the city center in the future.

This yard was, after all, his family’s private residence, and it wasn’t ideal to have people coming in and out every day, plus sending parcels from the countryside was not very convenient.

Renting an office warehouse directly in the city center would be quite convenient; he only needed two rooms, one as a warehouse and one as a production workshop, and with two more machines and two additional employees, everything would be set.

Compared to other people’s factories, his small workshop was indeed about as simple as it got.

Of course, this was just his plan for the future; for now, due to various issues, he still had to make do with working at home.

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After dinner, lying in bed scrolling through videos, Lin Yang suddenly remembered that tomorrow seemed to be the day he and Wang Bo had agreed to modify his car.

After buying the car from the 4S shop last time, he and the owner of the shop, Wang Bo, had agreed to go there for the modification a week later.

With that in mind, he opened WeChat, planning to contact Wang Bo to talk about the modification in their shop tomorrow.

Very soon.

Wang Bo replied quickly, saying that all the parts needed for the modification had arrived at their shop, and they were just waiting for Lin Yang to drive over tomorrow.

The two chatted for a while longer.

Suddenly Lin Yang remembered that Wang Bo also seemed to love fishing and had even modified his car into a fishing vehicle.

These days, he had been worrying about not having a place for wild fishing, so maybe he could ask if Wang Bo knew of any good fishing spots.

After all, anglers around the world were one big family; having more friends meant knowing more fishing spots.

After sending the message, seeing Lin Yang asking about wild fishing spots, Wang Bo immediately suggested a place, "Master Lin, how about I take you somewhere to fish tomorrow? It’s wild fishing, but I heard there are wild carps weighing thirty to forty pounds there!"

"We’ve been baiting that spot for a week now. If we guard it tomorrow, there’s a very high chance of catching a super big carp!"

"Really? Thirty to forty pounds of carps?" Seeing the reply, Lin Yang’s eyes lit up, and he immediately became interested.

Unlike the bream, which can grow up to one or two hundred pounds and for which thirty to forty pounds isn’t considered big, a carp weighing over ten pounds is already considered very large.

A twenty-pounder is already classified as a giant carp, let alone one weighing thirty to forty pounds. If it’s true, it’s not just an ordinary carp; it’s practically a king of carps!

This unheard-of type of fish greatly piqued Lin Yang’s interest.

Of course, he was only interested at this point and wasn’t convinced it was true, especially since Wang Bo also mentioned they’d only "heard" about it.

The two chatted a few more sentences, arranged for Lin Yang to drive to their shop for the modification early tomorrow, and then they would drive together for wild fishing.

After ending the chat with Wang Bo.

Lin Yang thought it over, wondering if he should find someone to go with him tomorrow?

Wang Bo had said they were going to the mountains tomorrow to catch big fish. If they really caught one, he wouldn’t be able to handle it alone, especially since just carrying the fishing gear would occupy both of his hands.

And since Wang Bo would also be fishing, it wouldn’t be right to expect him to play the role of a lackey hauling fish.

After pondering for a moment, he decided it was essential to call another person to join them.

Lin Yang first contacted Yang Xincheng, given that his uncle was a devoted fishing enthusiast. If he heard about the thirty to forty pound carps, he would definitely be eager to go.

Unfortunately, after connecting with Yang Xincheng, his uncle replied that he was busy tomorrow and had been fishing for several days already and couldn’t break away.

Lin Yang then contacted Wang Feng, who also said he had arrangements at work tomorrow and couldn’t make it either.

Scrolling through his limited WeChat contacts, when Lin Yang saw his cousin Li Xiaopeng’s name, his eyes lit up: "This kid must have some time!"

Although they hadn’t been in touch much recently, seeing Li Xiaopeng’s activities on social media, Lin Yang knew he had also been looking for places to fish lately.

So, when Lin Yang told him they were going to the mountains tomorrow to fish for big catches, Li Xiaopeng didn’t think twice and eagerly agreed right away.

The two also planned to meet early tomorrow morning in the city.

Turning off his phone, just thinking about fishing for big catches tomorrow made Lin Yang too excited to sleep.