As a Fisherman, My Fish Can Level Up-Chapter 90 - : The Rare Red Diamond Fish

Chapter 90: Chapter 90: The Rare Red Diamond Fish

Renting a boat in Xisha, finding the right boat is very important.

Chu Mingcheng was lucky, stumbling upon this boat named Sky.

Though the boat rental was one thousand more expensive, the boat’s captain was quite responsible. He had all the necessary fishing gear and baits prepared, and even if they encountered strong currents, using heavier lead weights could still make it possible to fish.

With live mackerel bait, the catch might be smaller, but you would generally not lose money over three days; most people could actually make a profit.

The only downside was how exhausting it was; after a few days, people looked more haggard than if they’d been wrung dry.

The Red Friend Fish was taken by a deckhand, and Chu Mingcheng removed the bait from its mouth, setting aside the dead mackerel. This could be saved to cut up for chumming or fishing for coral fish.

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Catching the first one so quickly, it was clear that there was a good bite below. Chu Mingcheng decided to continue using live mackerel.

There were still plenty of Antarctic shrimp in the shrimp cage, so there was no need to add more at the moment.

After throwing the baited hook back into the water and it reached the bottom, Chu Mingcheng performed the same actions as before, reeling in three meters of line and waiting.

After a small wait, he noticed that the tip of the fishing rod was continuously trembling slightly.

Like before, it was probably a big fish approaching, with the mackerel frantically trying to escape; Chu Mingcheng felt a bit of anticipation.

But after another two or three minutes, this condition persisted without any signs of a fish bite, which puzzled him.

After thinking it over, he pressed the electric button to reel in the line and check the situation.

Once all the line was reeled back, Chu Mingcheng was speechless upon seeing the tackle; the live bait had been swimming erratically and got tangled with the main line, which explained the continuous trembling of the rod tip.

He picked up scissors and decisively cut off the tangled line.

The fish had died while being pulled up due to the water pressure. Chu Mingcheng took it off and also set it aside.

He threw the cut line into the trash bin and then replaced it with a new one.

After fixing the tackle again, he continued fishing with live mackerel.

Line tangles were unavoidable, something all fishermen encountered. Keeping a calm mindset was the best approach.

Just as he cast the bait into the water, he noticed a young man not far away holding a camera, filming a female angler fishing.

From the way the woman was explaining to the camera, it was obvious that she was a video creator who attracted viewers through fishing.

This reminded Chu Mingcheng of the head-mount camera he had left beside his computer.

He quickly called over a deckhand to watch his angling spot, then ran back to his room to put on the head-mount camera.

When he returned to his spot, he found that a fish had already bitten; the deckhand had helped press the button, and the electric reel was now retrieving the line.

Chu Mingcheng hadn’t bought an external microphone, so there was no need for live commentary while fishing.

To be honest, he preferred to record voiceovers in post-production and then add subtitles, because speaking to himself in front of a bunch of strangers would make him feel awkward.

After a short wait, another red fish was pulled to the surface, and just by its appearance, it was more beautiful than the Red Friend Fish.

It was much smaller than the Red Friend Fish, but Chu Mingcheng, wearing cut-resistant gloves, didn’t need any help from the deckhand and just grabbed the rope to pull it up himself.

For fish like this that didn’t struggle much when reaching the surface, it was most convenient to simply pull them up by the fishing line as long as they weren’t too large.

Otherwise, a net or a gaff would only be used for very large fish or those still full of energy.

This red fish was easy to identify; it had a long tail like a swallow’s, clearly a Long-tailed Shore Bream, an extremely precious deep sea fish.

As with the previous Red Friend Fish, this added a bit of experience to the High-quality Atlas.

The market price of the Long-tailed Shore Bream ranged from 280 to 320, but the specific prices varied by location.

In Qiongzhou, it would definitely be cheaper, as Xisha was one of the places with the most Long-tailed Shore Bream.

Chu Mingcheng checked the weight with a fish controller; it was 11 jin and 8 taels.

Though it was half the weight of the Red Friend Fish, its total value was much higher.

The crew tied it up with straps and put it in the ice storage, and Chu Mingcheng honestly became even more puzzled.

A cost of ten thousand yuan seemed very easy to recoup, feeling like he could break even in just one night.

But for most people who come fishing, basically, the fish are taken by the boat owner or the fishmonger, making their breakeven much harder than Chu Mingcheng’s.

After adding some Antarctic shrimp to the shrimp cage and putting the bait into the water, a curious Chu Mingcheng asked the crew member beside him, “Brother, how much did you guys buy that long-tailed drill fish for earlier?”

“We buy them here for one hundred and thirty.”

“What about the Red Friend fish?”

“Thirty.”

“…”

Chu Mingcheng suddenly realized, so the purchase price was this cheap, making the difficulty of breaking even definitely much higher!

And fishing for deep sea fish took quite some time. He had only fished two fish, and with one cut line incident, more than an hour had already passed. It was now half past midnight, with only five hours left until dawn, and he had no idea how many fish he could catch.

Blown by the sea breeze, listening to the girls not far away screaming and shouting when getting a fish, at this moment, Chu Mingcheng didn’t find it noisy. Instead, he felt that women fishing was quite interesting, with their exaggerated reactions.

His bait at the seabed had been there for three minutes, and if there was still no movement after a while, he would have to reel it in to see if the bait had come off.

Just at that moment, the fishing line in the reel suddenly started shooting out rapidly.

Chu Mingcheng quickly pressed the button, and the reel started, stopping the line that was being let out. This sudden reeling in was just like dealing with a Stabbing fish.

But to his surprise, something capable of resisting the reel, which was over a hundred pounds, actually paused for a moment, and the speed of reeling in after that was much slower than before, bending the fishing rod to an unprecedented degree.

No matter how you looked at it, he had hooked a big fish!

Chu Mingcheng immediately thought of the grouper he had seen in the Wen City restaurant before. Could it be that he had also caught such a big grouper?

If that were the case, he would soar with just one fish.

From the initial pause to the slow reeling that followed, a few minutes passed, and it seemed the fish below had grown tired, quickening the reeling speed suddenly; the electric reel resumed its normal “whirring” sound of line retrieval.

Chu Mingcheng placed his hand on the electric reel, feeling its temperature.

If the workload was too heavy, then he would need to pour some water to cool it down.

The tip of the fishing rod nodded little by little, and ten minutes passed, with thirty meters of the fishing line reeled back in.

The fish would frequently struggle, considerably prolonging the time to pull it up.

Looking at the fishing rod, Chu Mingcheng actually felt a bit itchy.

If it wasn’t for the fact that manual reeling for deep sea fish was too exhausting for the arms, he really wouldn’t want to use the electric reel, missing out on a lot of the excitement.

When there were only thirty meters of fishing line left, Chu Mingcheng shouted loudly, calling the crew over to prepare with the gaff hook.

Finally, the fish came into his sight, another red fish, today he was really taking on the Red Fish!

But as the fish surfaced, the experienced crew member blurted out, “Holy shit!”

“A Red Diamond Fish can grow this big? I’ve never seen one this size in the Nansha area, this one’s definitely going to break records!”

“That exaggerated?” Chu Mingcheng was somewhat surprised, not expecting that this fish would make even the experienced crewman curse. Clearly, he had hooked another rarely-seen whopper.

Such a big Red Fish also attracted all the surrounding anglers, with clueless beginners expressing amazement and the more savvy Fishing Men finding it unbelievable.

The crewman, with a serious expression, watched his target as the fish was pulled to the surface. Aiming carefully, he hooked the fish right at the top of its head with the gaff.

He took a deep breath and pulled hard, the fish was lifted up a bit, but it was stuck and could not be lifted onto the boat for a moment.

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Chu Mingcheng quickly went over to help, and with their combined efforts, they managed to haul the Red Diamond Fish onto the deck with great difficulty.

Clearly, as big as the fish was, it was not yet big enough to require a crane.