Chapter 144： head of the fish king

Chapter 144 Head of the Octopus King

It turned out that what he caught was a corrugated lobster that is only found in the Baodao Strait in China and needs to be imported under normal circumstances.

The production of this kind of lobster is also very small here, so it needs to be imported.

The one that Chu Mingcheng caught was only over two catties, which is considered a relatively large individual.

The price is a little higher than that of green lobster, not much higher.

Chu Mingcheng put it in a net bag, and if he couldn't find any other lobsters at night, he would take it.

The fish resources in the shallow water area were still less, so he simply checked the time on his diving watch and planned to go to the deep water area to have a look.

Sure enough, as soon as they came to the deep water area, groups of fish were swimming on the coral reefs, including sea wolves, snappers and other fish that Chuming City had seen.

There are more small ornamental fish, but he is only interested in food and not interested in raising them.

Today, the main target of Chuming City is some groupers that like to hide in coral reefs. As for these fish swimming in the middle and upper layers, let them go for now.

The main reason is that they are not big enough or fat enough, and have no economic value.

He climbed over a coral reef, and accidentally found a very large devil fish swimming slowly not far in front of him.

I can’t tell what species it is for the time being, but its size is estimated to weigh at least a hundred catties.

Chu Mingcheng hesitated again and again, but still didn't want to go back and bring the spear gun.

No matter how big a devil ray is, it can’t be sold for money, even though it weighs more than one hundred catties.

Even if he struggles to get it on board and transport it back to the pier, no one is likely to want it.

Maybe it has to be divided and sold in pieces, and a few hundred yuan in the end is not bad.

But Chu Mingcheng still followed, adjusted the camera on his head, and captured all its swimming postures.

After following for a few minutes, Chu Mingcheng found a rather big hole at the bottom, even he could barely get in.

He came to the entrance of the cave and found a parrotfish with green and yellow all over its body.

This fish is called green point parrotfish, also known as green fish.

Usually, it is used to pretend to be a genuine Tsing Yi like the Shu's Pigtooth Fish. In fact, it is just a fake Tsing Yi. Fortunately, the price is not cheap, and it can be sold for about one hundred and thirty.

The blue-spotted parrotfish inside is not small at all. It was hiding safely in this fully enclosed cave, but it was scared by this sudden intruder and ran around, but it didn't dare to run out of the cave. .

Chu Mingcheng directly stepped forward to block the entrance of the cave, and then picked up the fish spear.

Because of his appearance, the cave suddenly became very crowded, and the blue-spotted parrotfish hid in the corner and shivered.

This is just convenient for him to hunt fish, the spear is aligned, and the arrow enters the meat with a "bang".

The blue-spotted parrotfish struggled desperately, but Chu Mingcheng pressed the spear and pinned it inside, making it unable to resist at all.

After a while, the fish died and was taken out by his hands.

This fish is a bit big, at least over ten catties, but its mouth is not big, and the live fish buckle doesn't seem to be easy to use.

So Chu Mingcheng had no choice but to go back to the boat and store it on crushed ice in a foam box.

The fish is very fat and beautiful, and it makes people like it just by looking at it.

Looking at the time, more than ten minutes have passed, Chu Mingcheng went into the water again and went to the trap to take a look.

The result is also very gratifying, the trap that was put down earlier has already paid off.

He lifted up the bamboo stick, only to find that it was a peatail mantis shrimp with a dark green belly and a reddish-black belly.

This kind is also a kind of prawns, but the body is not so big, and the maximum length is 18 centimeters.

Chu Mingcheng looked at the mantis shrimp caught in the trap, and finally decided to take it back first.

Put the mantis shrimp in the bottle, and he moves on to find the second trap.

Eight of the ten caves were hooked, and except for one mantis shrimp, the rest were all banyan shrimp.

The smallest one was as big as that mantis shrimp, Chu Mingcheng put it away, and the smaller ones would be eaten by themselves.

After swimming around, the ten traps were placed again, and he continued to swim to the deep water area.

Then, a fish slowly wandering on the coral made his heart beat fast.

The body is brownish-white, the brown is lighter and there are black dots all over the body, the back is highly arched, but the head is very small, a bit like a mouse.

This is an extremely precious wild mouse spot, but unfortunately it is a bit small, with a high probability of only a little over a catty.

Chu Mingcheng slowly approached with the fish spear in hand, but Mouse Ban was extremely cautious, he was seven or eight meters away, so he ran away.

He immediately chased after him, and the mouse spotted was swimming in a hurry, but only with high explosive power, it would slow down after swimming a certain distance, and could not continue to burst away.

This also allowed Chu Mingcheng to keep up completely, but it was a pity that he couldn't catch up.

Seemingly realizing that he couldn't escape, the mouse suddenly jumped into the crevice of the coral reef below with a swipe.

Chu Mingcheng's eyes lit up, it really couldn't escape now.

Approaching slowly, he condescendingly looked for where Mouse Ban was hiding.

Soon, he discovered that the mouse spot was only hiding in one place, a bit like a stone at the bottom of an arch bridge.

This space is not big, just enough for it to hide.

This hides beautifully!

Chu Mingcheng put away the fish spear, and approached it obliquely from behind, so that the opponent would not be able to spot him by sight.

After getting very close, he suddenly reached out to block the front and back of its hiding place.

This means that he can almost ignore the resistance in the water, so his movements are so agile.

If it is a different person, the mouse spot will not be caught by this method of blocking the door, and the resistance of the water will slow down the movement of normal people.

Moreover, the water flow brought by it will also make Mouse Ban notice it, so it will run away directly.

The front and back were blocked, Mouse Ban wanted to escape from the gap, but was squeezed on the stone by Chu Mingcheng's hands.

Then, it was controlled by his hands and grabbed it.

Successfully caught a fresh mouse spot, Chu Mingcheng was happier than the green-spotted parrotfish just now.

Don't look at the appearance of this rat, which is only a little over a catty, the price might be sold for 500.

The price of mouse spots is so expensive, fresh ones cost four to five hundred per catty, and the bigger the more expensive.

But if they are dead, it is estimated that they are around 80 to 100.

There is not much difference between the price of some live fish and the price of dead fish, even many marine fish cannot live on the shore, and there is no live fish price at all.

But this kind of rat-spotted live fish is too different from a dead fish, so Chu Mingcheng is so happy to catch a live fish.

He directly took Mouse Ban back to the boat, put the fish tank on it and filled it with oxygen.

The first of the four fish kings on Hong Kong Island, it deserves such treatment.

Then he looked at his spear and felt that killing such a precious fish seemed a bit violent.

So he stopped going into the water, took out the fishing line, hook and lead pendant from the fishing box and tied them up, and then cut some squid meat.

Sure enough, it is more reliable to lure them with bait at the entrance of the grouper. Now the time is coming to the evening. Before 9:30 in the evening, the grouper will be active. At that time, the effect of fishing should be good.

After the squid meat was cut, Chu Mingcheng put everything aside and entered the water again empty-handed.

He wants to catch grouper prawns before dark, and go fishing for grouper after dinner.

Busy until 5:30, Aunt Banqin Shrimp caught a total of 27. Chu Mingcheng took back the bottles and put them all into the live fish cabin.

This thing takes up a bit of space, and Xiagu will die easily if it is placed outside. Now he knows why others don't use this thing at sea.

Trouble aside, it takes up space and it’s not easy to save. They should rather catch some cheap fish than get this.

Take a towel to wipe off the sea water on his body. It's okay in the water, he can't feel the cold.

But when it was blown by the sea breeze, Chu Mingcheng immediately became unbearably cold.

Wiped off the water and hurried into the cockpit, he turned on the air conditioner before he felt comfortable.

I had to go into the water at night, so I didn't take a shower.

Take out the Liujianshenxian and steam it directly. After steaming, pour steamed fish soy sauce, sprinkle with chopped green onion and chili millet. Once the hot oil is poured, it will be fragrant immediately.

This fish is not sold in the market, but the fish is very tender and tastes very good, Chu Mingcheng is very satisfied.

I just don’t know why no one buys them on the market to eat them. Although they are rare, they are not as rare as wild mouse spots.

After having dinner and resting in the cab for a while, Chu Mingcheng went into the water again with the half-cut squid meat in a net bag and the thread set fishhook he had made.

He was not wearing a video camera this time, because he was going to be wearing a diving headlight.

Now is the peak season for fish activity. As soon as it entered the water, Chuming City saw many rare coral fish and grouper swimming at the bottom, and occasionally saw big fish hunting small fish.

Chu Mingcheng swims at a height of about ten meters above the bottom. This height generally does not make fish vigilant. Secondly, he can pull the bait easily after the hook hits it.

It uses a strong horse wire and a steel wire leading, but it is not afraid of breaking.

Soon, Chu Mingcheng locked on the target.

A grouper whose color is hard to see even if there is light, it looks a bit like Dongxing grouper in appearance.

Chu Mingcheng slowly lowered the bait and stopped at a position about 20 to 30 centimeters above the fish.

He can clearly see the fish being attracted and swimming back and forth under the hook bait.

Because of its existence, although the small fish gathered around are greedy for bait, they dare not get too close.

Then Chu Mingcheng watched the grouper come to the bait and swallowed the bait in one gulp.

Suddenly a strong force came from his hand, he happily pulled the line back, first pulled it to the middle waters, and then let it circle around him for a while.

After it was a little tired, Chu Mingcheng pulled all the fishing lines back, and reached out to grab the grouper.

Unexpectedly, it was really a western star spot, which should weigh three or four catties.

He first passed the live hook through the gills of the fish and fastened it, and then took the hook out of its mouth.

Let the fish float two meters behind him, Chu Mingcheng took out a piece of squid meat from the net bag and hung it up again, looking for the next suitable target.

There are a lot of fish, which dazzled him.

After swimming more than 20 meters, he found a suitable target fish again, which was a Zhengqingyi, also known as Shu's pigtooth fish.

The fish is very big, a circle bigger than the blue-spotted parrotfish today.

The resources of coral reefs at night are really good, but if you fish on a boat, the effect may be mediocre.

Compared with precious fish, there are more miscellaneous fish here, and they are easier to hit.

Although it is troublesome for him to do this, the accuracy is high.

Moreover, Chu Mingcheng is much more comfortable in the water. After all, he can swim freely, even in the cold sea, he still feels comfortable, but fishing in the boat with the sea breeze blowing is not so comfortable.

Shu's pigtooth fish was a little dumbfounded. It came out at night just to find something to eat to fill its stomach.

Its main food is some hard-shelled shellfish, sea urchins and slow molluscs.

Unexpectedly, a piece of meat suddenly appeared on its head. Under the two options of eating or not eating, it just hesitated for three seconds, and then took a bite of the food.

Unexpectedly, after eating a piece of squid meat, what he lost was all his worth.

The fish was very big, and it took a lot more effort to pull it up than the previous Dong Xingbai. Chu Mingcheng simply adjusted its position and let it pull itself in the open middle waters.

No hydro assist, but the weight is there.

Shu's pigtooth fish surrendered after running for a while, and was pulled to the front by Chu Mingcheng.

The teeth of this fish are ugly, but the bite force is not a joke, and the fish is big enough, maybe twenty catties.

So he took it directly back to the boat, and kept the fish in the live water tank, and Dong Xingban was put together with Mouse Banner.

(end of this chapter)