Chapter 287： More lively fishing competition than imagined

Chapter 287 A more lively fishing competition than expected

(The reason for not updating yesterday was posted by the author)

After finishing the meal, Chu Mingcheng cleaned up and returned to the cab, driving the Poseidon to find suitable fishing spots.

Oriental perch is a deep-sea fish. It usually lives in waters of about 100 meters and likes places with reefs.

This fish can theoretically grow up to one meter, but there is no specific data on how big it is.

There are very few studies on oriental perch in the biological world, and there are almost no research reports, and I don't know what's going on.

However, Chu Mingcheng has been catching fish for so long, and he can guess the approximate weight of the fish based on the length of the fish by looking at the photos of the oriental perch.

Its actual size is similar to that of a sea bass, but it will be fatter. Therefore, for a fish of the same meter, an oriental sea bass will weigh about ten to twenty kilograms.

Only ten minutes later, he found a suitable fishing spot and stopped in a water area more than 120 meters deep.

Along the way, lines representing fish will appear on the fish finder from time to time, but so far, a large number of fish have been found at the bottom of the water at this position.

Recording the coordinates, Chu Mingcheng did not stop the boat immediately, but stuffed some chopped mackerel baits into the crab pots and shrimp pots near the fishing point, and put them down one by one.

If the bottom of the water is full of rocks, you might be able to catch some lobsters.

Crab pots and shrimp pots were put away, and Chu Mingcheng sailed to the area with the densest fish.

With a water depth of 100 meters, he did not use an electric winch tonight, but chose a spinning wheel and iron pole.

Hanging up a long row of slow iron plates, Chu Mingcheng threw the iron plates into the water.

Today he did not twitch the fishing rod vigorously and rhythmically as before.

He holds the iron pole horizontally at a relatively slow pace, and will take in a circle or less of the line after each lifting of the pole.

Mainly use the elasticity of the iron pole to bounce the iron plate, so that the iron plate has a natural fish luring action of a small jump.

When the iron plate rises, it will attract nearby fish, and the attack time of the predator is the state of the iron plate when it stops.

Today I chose long-line slow-speed iron fishing, and the slow-speed iron fishing method is mainly because the current here is relatively fast, which is relatively suitable for this kind of fishing.

After repeated pulling and stopping several times, a fierce pulling force was suddenly transmitted from the fishing line to the fishing rod, causing the tip of the fishing rod to bend into a bow in an instant.

Chu Mingcheng raised his left hand to finish stabbing the fish. His right hand was not slow, and he quickly turned the handle to retract the line.

But he was lucky and the first fish had a strong pull.

During this period of time, he had been fishing for tuna and was used to heavy boat rods. He really couldn't estimate the weight of this fish for a while.

I only feel that the pulling force is good, but the fishing rod in my hand seems to be a bit unbearable.

Of course, this is just his illusion. A thinner fishing rod with higher sensitivity can control such much smaller fish at any time.

Holding the fishing rod in his left hand, every time he pulls up, there will be a "swoosh" sound, and then he can take this opportunity to retract the line several times.

No matter how strong the pulling force of the fish was, it was impossible to compare with the tuna he had caught before, so he caught it quite easily.

It took only five minutes to reach a depth of 100 meters, and the fish was pulled to the surface.

A fish appeared on the surface of the water, brown in the light, its eyes were bulging and almost bulging.

Chu Mingcheng looked at the mouth of the fish, and found that the internal organs did not spit out to the mouth. Obviously, the impact of water pressure was not great, that is, its eyes were like this.

For some reason, he always felt that these eyes were staring at him, giving him an illusion of "wisdom".

Shaking his head, to get rid of this illusion, Chu Mingcheng used a copying net to catch the fish.

Although the whole body is brown, this one is indeed his main target this time, the Oriental perch.

The length of the first piece reached seventy or eighty centimeters, so he used the copying net cautiously.

The fish is very fat, and it looks chubby overall.

Chu Mingcheng untied the iron plate, and then brought a scale and a ruler.

Put the ruler under the body of the fish, and found that the fish was over 80 centimeters. Thinking of Jiang Luoluo asking him to take some videos, he hurried back and put the camera on his head.

Then he picked up the fish and weighed it, thirty-six catties and seven taels.

Chu Mingcheng was a little surprised. He didn't expect the oriental perch to weigh thirty-six catties at this length.

The unit price of such a large oriental perch can definitely be more than one thousand, so doesn't that mean that this fish can sell for thirty-six thousand?

It’s no worse than a two-hundred-pound bigeye tuna, but tuna is so difficult to catch, even if it takes him an hour to catch one.

And he caught this oriental perch in less than ten minutes, using iron bait.

Put the fish into the refrigerated compartment, and he hurriedly went to the warehouse to take out three foam boxes, and then shoveled some crushed ice that had been prepared earlier and put them in. He was going to do a big job tonight and fish at least three boxes.

Get ready, then throw the iron bait into the water and continue to catch the second one.

The function of gathering fish is turned on to increase some efficiency.

After waiting for two minutes this time, another fish was hooked.

But the pulling force was far inferior to the previous one, and the fish was pulled up in less than three minutes.

This fish has a brown upper body and a silvery white lower body, but it is actually an oriental perch.

The skin color of the oriental perch seems to change depending on the size. This fish is less than 40 centimeters, which is just over four catties.

Throwing the fish into the foam box, soon, he caught a third one.

But the third one is not an oriental perch, but a deep-sea giant carp.

Although bigeye silver carp can be regarded as a high-quality fish, it is only the lowest grade of high-quality fish, and there is a huge gap with the highest-grade fish such as Oriental perch.

But at least it weighs six catties and is worth six to seven hundred yuan.

The fish-suction effect within a radius of 15 meters further increases the density of fish on the bottom of the boat. In addition, it is the peak season of fish activity, and Chuming City can catch a fish weighing less than 10 catties in almost five or six minutes.

An hour later, he caught thirteen more fish, all of which weighed about five or six catties, but even if the foam box was added casually, it was only half full.

Because of his strength now, he bought a larger foam box, reaching 120 liters.

Judging from the current efficiency, he wants to catch three full boxes of fish, maybe all night.

And among the thirteen fish, only three are oriental perch, and the rest are all other deep-sea fish.

The efficiency of the iron plate is a bit slow, Chu Mingcheng began to consider whether to replace it with two electric winches, and secondly, the efficiency of fishing and hunting is also very fast.

But after thinking about it, he decided to choose fishing and hunting.

I caught fish for an hour, and I have the material now, so I don’t have to keep shooting.

So he took the camera off and put on the headlight.

The others also carried two fishing ropes, a carbon speargun, a small net bag and a spear.

Compared with fishing, his diving skills are obviously stronger. Today, fish gather, and the efficiency of fishing and hunting is naturally higher.

And after returning home, he has to start preparing for the tuna fishing competition. When Jiang Luoluo is by his side, he will not be able to go fishing and hunting in the deep sea.

Jumping into the water, Chu Mingcheng swam vertically to the bottom of the water.

The speed was extremely fast, and he dived to the bottom in just over a minute.

He looked around with the headlight and found that there were quite a lot of fish at the bottom of the water. Long-tailed sea bream, red friend fish, deep-sea bigeye carp, deep-sea grouper, etc. all appeared in his sight.

It’s just that there are surprisingly few oriental perch. As far as the eye can see, only three are found, and they are not very big, probably weighing only five or six catties.

No wonder he caught more than a dozen bass, but so few perch.

Other deep-sea fish, Chu Mingcheng, are temporarily ignored. The main reason is that these deep-sea fish basically don’t appear in shallow water except for a few groupers.

When it comes to fishing and hunting, the wound will be suspicious.

Oriental perch does not have this problem. Although most of them stay at a depth of about 100 meters, it does not mean that they will not run into shallow water.

Secondly, the vast majority of people don’t know much about Oriental perch. It’s enough to know that it is a high-level fish, and they don’t care about its living habits.

So Chu Mingcheng first got rid of the three oriental perch he found and hung them on the fishing rope, then collected all the groupers he saw before leaving here, and continued to look for other oriental perch and grouper.

The bottom of the water here is full of large and small reefs, and he found a lot of oriental perch in the crevices of the reefs.

In just one hour, two fishing ropes are full of oriental bass and a small part of grouper.

The big one weighed more than a dozen catties, the small one weighed four or five catties, and he didn't touch the smaller one.

Bring the fish back to the boat, more than 20 fish immediately filled the first foam box.

The fish in this box plus crushed ice weighs about two hundred catties.

Chu Mingcheng closed the lid, and carried the box of fish into the refrigerated compartment.

Then he entered the water again, changed direction, and swam north.

The terrain here is relatively high, and the bottom of the water is still full of reefs, and occasionally some huge reefs will appear. Chu Mingcheng not only found some hidden oriental perch here, but also caught a few lobsters.

After hitting an oriental perch weighing about fifteen kilograms under a huge reef, Chu Mingcheng swung his legs and swam over the reef.

Suddenly, a broken board appeared in the light.

Chu Mingcheng stretched out his hand suspiciously and grabbed it, but the wooden board was much softer than beeswax, and the place where he grabbed it was directly crushed. From this, it can be seen that it has been corroded on the bottom of the sea for an unknown period of time.

He continued on, only to find more broken planks and even broken logs.

After swimming for more than 30 meters, the owner of these broken boards finally appeared in front of his eyes, an overturned huge wooden shipwreck.

Chu Mingcheng's heart was pounding, it looked like an ancient shipwreck, if there was something in it, wouldn't he be mad?

At that time, you still need to consider where to buy a house?

Just ask for all of them!

It’s just this location, which still belongs to domestic waters. In theory, this ancient sunken ship belongs to the state’s property.

And if he reports it, he can get a small mouthful of soup according to the value of the items inside.

The value of this small sip of soup may be as low as 50,000, and the highest is estimated to be around 1 million. No matter how high it is, it is unrealistic.

But no matter what, Chu Mingcheng has to enter the boat to observe it before speaking.

However, half an hour later, he swam out of the boat depressed.

There is nothing in this boat, only some aquatic creatures, such as octopus and lobster.

I didn't see any treasure or anything, not even a skeleton, as if it had been looted long ago.

Not only that, the appearance of this ship is also a bit strange, much like the pirate ship in the movie.

The bow of the ship is very long, which is a bit different from the ancient shipwreck in Huaxia. Chu Mingcheng suspects that this may be an ancient shipwreck from childhood, after all, it is very close.

But where the ship is, he has to go back and look it up online.

Wandered around here again, but did not find the second sunken ship, so he had to go fishing first.

I don’t know how long it took, Chu Mingcheng returned to the Poseidon with a large handful of fish, and spread the fish into the last empty foam tank.

The fish in the last two boxes are basically divided into half of Oriental perch and half of grouper. Although the search range has been expanded, the number of Oriental perch is still small.

After moving all the fish into the refrigerated compartment, he first checked his mobile phone in the toolbox, and found that there were two missed calls on it, both from Jiang Luoluo.

Seeing that the time above was already one o'clock in the morning, Chu Mingcheng was a little puzzled, it's not the right time for the watch to break!

If the watch is on, at least he won't be busy so late.

Jiang Luoluo made a phone call at ten o'clock, and another one at eleven o'clock.

But it was too late now, so Chu Mingcheng had no choice but to send a message explaining the situation.

After he didn't reply to the message for a long time, he knew that Jiang Luoluo had fallen asleep.

So I went to take a shower and changed clothes, and then lay on the bed.

Just got busy and didn't feel sleepy for a while, Chu Mingcheng simply looked up some information about the ancient shipwreck he saw.

Through understanding, he found that the shipwreck was very likely to be an ancient shipwreck from the childhood.

"Could it be a tribute ship from the Tang Dynasty?"

Chu Mingcheng muttered in doubt, but after thinking about it, he felt something was wrong.

How could Xiaotian go to the Tang Dynasty? It is impossible to appear in this position. They can directly enter Huaxia from the west.

The distance is short and the risk is small.

When Chu Mingcheng saw that some archipelagos in the east of the northern part of Baodao were the eastern line of the Maritime Silk Road, he had some guesses in his heart.

Those archipelagos are just transit points, and the goods need to be transported back on a small day, and there is indeed a great possibility of going by sea.

The location of the shipwreck is a bit wrong, but Chuming City is not a researcher of historical archeology, so it is impossible to guess the specific situation.

But through this incident, he also knew the benefits of deep sea diving.

In case luck breaks out and encounters a sunken ship full of cargo, wouldn't he be out of luck?

The next day, Chu Mingcheng put away the crab pots and only harvested a few lobsters.

Last night when he was diving and hunting, he had a hunch that there were no crabs in the bottom of the water, only occasionally encountering some lobsters.

Continue to change places for fishing and hunting during the day, but it is inconvenient not to have a diving watch.

However, there are not many oriental perch in this area, and after a long time, the vitality of giant crabs and langoustine has deteriorated significantly. Chu Mingcheng decided to go back and rest for a few days, so as to recharge his mind and wait for the fishing competition. start.

On the way back, he first contacted Chen Yang. There are still ten days before the fishing competition, and they plan to stay at sea for another five days.

So Chu Mingcheng specially went to meet them and asked them to help take care of Xiaomi's family.

He himself planned to sell the goods and park the ship at the port of Modu, and then fly back to Xiamen City.

After handing the cat to Chen Yang and the others, Chu Mingcheng drove the boat directly to the pier in Wen City.

Customers have already made an appointment, this time compared to tuna, other seafood is the big head.

Among them, the oriental perch weighed more than 300 catties. Depending on the size, the price was a bit different. A total of 167,000 were sold.

Chuming City has a lot of customers now, and most of the oriental perch weighs only four or five catties a piece. In the end, it is not enough, and the customers just ask for half of it.

Those who open catering can only divide up those that weigh more than ten catties.

The remaining deep-sea fish were more than 300 catties. This one was much cheaper, and in the end it was only sold for a little over 50,000.

The langoustine has good vitality, and there are 87 catties left. Some of the original 100 catties were eaten by Chu Mingcheng, and some were not vigorous enough, so he took them to freeze.

He didn't sell the frozen ones, but kept them for his own use.

Eighty-seven catties of langoustine sold for 25,000 yuan, and the actual unit price was only two hundred and eighty-one catties.

Gan's giant crab, Chu Mingcheng originally thought that the owners of the restaurant would take them all away, but other individual customers showed great interest.

Originally, a total of fifty-five were caught, and I ate one by myself, but six were frozen because of lack of vitality.

There are forty-eight more vigorous ones left, of which forty-two are over ten catties.

A total of 632 catties, with a unit price of 500 yuan per catty, sold for 316,000.

The main reason why Chu Mingcheng was able to sell so much was that all he caught were large-scale goods at the time, which increased the total weight.

The crab gathering place I found, if I catch it two or three times, it may not be so big. Then I can only catch some small ones, and the price will be much cheaper.

There are a total of twelve small ones and frozen ones left, and customers bought them all, and sold a total of 32,000.

Except for tuna, other seafood Chu Mingcheng earned more than 590,000 points, almost 600,000.

It was mainly because of the high unit prices of Giant Claw Crab and Oriental Sea Bass that Chu Mingcheng made so much money.

However, it is impossible for giant crabs to sell so well every time. If individual customers will buy them today, they will just try to find something new.

After tasting it, there is a high probability that I will not buy it again next time, unless it is a treat or something.

It is not sure if this kind of crabs are sold well in restaurants. If they are sold well, there will be a long-term sales channel in the future.

Finally, seven to eighty catties of yellowfin tuna, each of the seven restaurants ordered one, and Chu Mingcheng offered a price of 45 yuan per catty.

Let them pick the fish by themselves, and they are lucky if they can pick fatter fish.

This kind of bulk sale is a fixed price, it is impossible to specifically test the fat content and then calculate the value of the tuna like the one in Shanghai.

Seven yellowfin tuna, a total of 534 catties, sold for 24,000.

There are still thirteen yellowfin tuna left in the refrigerated compartment (one was eaten), two bigeye tuna weighing more than 300 catties, and three bigeye tuna weighing more than 200 catties.

Leaving Wenshi Wharf, Chu Mingcheng hesitated again and again, but in the end he didn't go home, and went directly to Shanghai.

There are still ten days left. At that time, he can stay home with Jiang Luoluo for two days, and then go to Hangzhou for two days.

Only about ten minutes after Chu Mingcheng left the port of Wenshi, a fishing boat about 16 meters approached slowly and stopped at the pier.

Then, four men and one woman got off the boat.

If Chu Mingcheng was still here, he would definitely recognize the woman among them as Yao Xin who once took him fishing.

Among the four men, there was also someone he was familiar with, He Zheng.

It was the middle-aged man who waived Chu Mingcheng's boat fee twice and took him to fish hairtail and big yellow croaker.

After three of the men left with their own fishing tackle, Yao Xin came to He Zheng and whispered, "Brother Zheng, can these three do it?"

He Zheng sighed and shook his head: "It's almost embarrassing. The minimum weight of tuna required by the fishing competition is 100 catties. They can't handle it after a long time."

"But they are much better than the previous group of people, if it doesn't work, just let them!"

"That's it, then I'll call a few more people tomorrow, let's continue watching!" Yao Xin also had a headache.

The preparation time for this tuna competition is too tight, and there are naturally many people in the fishing circle that the two of them know.

It's just that most of them are capable, and they all form their own teams to fight, which makes it difficult for them to find three strong teammates.

Of course, the main reason is that they have high requirements.

But it has to be treated like this. After all, there is already a woman among the teammates who can be in charge of logistics, so naturally the stronger the others, the better, and they are mainly responsible for fishing.

He Zheng is also searching for who else is suitable among the people he knows.

Suddenly, a handsome figure appeared in his mind, making his eyes shine.

"By the way, what about that little brother you knew before? I think that little brother is pretty good, with a good physique and good luck. He was a novice at the time, and his performance was no worse than that of a veteran, and he caught more fish than others."

"You mean Ah Cheng, right? He went to Xiamen City to develop, and I don't know what's going on with him now, maybe he doesn't fish anymore." After being reminded, Yao Xin also thought of Chu Mingcheng. After all, he was a rare handsome guy, so he was naturally impressed.

But she looked a bit embarrassed, mainly because she didn't have enough contact with her at the beginning, so the other party ran to Xiamen City, and then the two parties broke off contact.

Actually, she hesitated two days ago whether to ask or not, but after much consideration, she finally didn't ask, mainly because she was worried that the other party had forgotten her.

"Why don't you ask, anyway, we all need to test it now, if the other party is willing to come, we will take him out to sea to fish and see the situation. Invite him if he is suitable, and forget it if he is not suitable."

He Zheng asked Chu Mingcheng to come, mainly because he thought he was lucky. Going out to sea to catch tuna or sailfish, if you are lucky, sometimes it is more important than experience.

Hearing what he said, Yao Xin finally nodded, found out the phone number she hadn't called for a long time, and dialed it.

Chu Mingcheng in the cab was a little surprised when he saw the call, but the caller helped him a lot, so he answered it right away.

Seeing that the phone was connected, Yao Xin immediately asked, "Hello, is this Ah Cheng?"

"Well, it's me, Sister Xin, I haven't contacted you for a long time!"

"There is no news about a certain person who went to Xiamen City. Who is to blame?"

"Haha, my fault, I will return to Wenzhou in a few days, and I will treat you to a big meal then."

"Then it's settled. By the way, how are you doing in Xia City?"

Yao Xin didn't bring up the matter of fishing immediately, but first politely asked about the other party's situation.

At the beginning, she knew that Chu Mingcheng was still doing fishing when he went to Xiamen City, but nearly a year had passed, and she was not sure whether her husband still fished.

If there is no fishing, then she will definitely not invite again this time.

Fortunately, she was very satisfied with the result, and found out that Chu Mingcheng was still fishing, so she invited him to go fishing together.

"Sister Xin, I will stay at home for two days when I come back this time, to accompany my parents, and then I will go to the home of my parents-in-law in Hangzhou. I really don't have time!"

Chu Mingcheng was a little embarrassed, but he still refused.

Although Yao Xin gave him some help at the beginning, but fishing delayed his schedule, he naturally would not agree.

"Ah Cheng, don't rush to refuse. This time, there is a tuna fishing competition held in Shanghai, with a maximum prize of 500,000 yuan. If we win, everyone will get 100,000 yuan. I need to be strong here. people, that’s why I want you to come and try.”

Yao Xin had to tell him the reason when he heard his refusal.

I didn’t say it before, because if the trial fishing fails, it won’t offend the other party, and it saves the explanation. Now that I have said it, and proposed to try fishing first, I will not offend you, but if you fail, you will not be able to take care of the other party's mood.

Chu Mingcheng was very stunned, he didn't expect that the other party would also participate in this competition.

This made him realize that the first tuna fishing contest in China might be much bigger than he imagined.

But he has to participate in the competition himself, so he must refuse.

The reason was also explained to Yao Xin. After hanging up the phone, Chu Mingcheng checked it online.

Then it was discovered that many champions of the fishing competition had signed up this time.

For example, Master Deng, who has long since stopped participating, and Master Liu even signed up this time.

But that’s right, before it was a water hole. This time, the challenge for sea fishing is tuna. As long as there is a strong fisherman, it is impossible to miss it.

In addition, there are many opportunities to show up in this fishing event, which can increase your popularity and help your career, so there is no reason not to participate.

Not only these masters, but even many Internet celebrities have signed up for the competition.

Among them is Master Deng's "disciple" Nie Yu.

The Tuna Trading Center also made a publicity announcement to let most anglers in the country know about this event.

Secondly, there is no way to write about some of the later conflicts, and this part of the content must be deleted.

I sorted out the outline today, and now I can only write about some competitions. The male protagonist has always been relatively low-key, so I will write some competitions later, let’s pretend for a while!

The reason for this pigeon is not to play on Valentine’s Day. It was updated yesterday, but it was reviewed and blocked.

Originally, I wanted to write about the conflicts between fishermen in the East China Sea and Xiaori. After all, domestic fishermen have suffered a lot in recent years.

This completely messed up my plan. Not only did some content before the fishing competition have to be deleted, but all the content that was updated yesterday also had to be deleted.

(end of this chapter)