Chapter 296： Marlin

Chapter 296 Marlin Snatches Food

"Acheng, there is a coral reef at nine o'clock!" Jiang Luoluo, who was holding a telescope, suddenly walked into the cab to remind.

The current time is around five o'clock in the afternoon. The Poseidon in cruise mode has been sailing continuously for more than eight hours, but it has only traveled about 130 nautical miles.

At least four hours away from the destination, so Chu Mingcheng decided to find a place to catch other fish for the time being, to see if he could add some experience points to the aquatic product illustration book.

Maybe you can get some live bait to increase the chance of tuna being hooked.

Jiang Luoluo heard that he was going to find a suitable fishing spot first, so he went to the roof of the building with a telescope to help observe.

No, I found a place and immediately came down to notify.

"Nine o'clock direction? Okay, I got it!" Chu Mingcheng got the prompt, and immediately turned the steering wheel to turn the Poseidon to the discovered coral reef.

"Ah Cheng, why did you suddenly want to go fishing for coral fish today?" Jiang Luoluo sat beside him and asked out the doubts in his heart.

After all, it is a competition, and everyone else is hurrying to catch tuna, but he wastes energy and time inexplicably.

"I don't have to fish for coral fish. In fact, I can find a suitable place to fish for deep-sea fish. I haven't encountered tuna yet. It's useless to rush for an hour or two."

Chu Mingcheng naturally wouldn't mention the upgrade of the aquatic product illustration book, but his explanation was fine.

Jiang Luoluo nodded when he heard the words, but didn't think deeply or ask more questions.

Now it's almost dinner time, and it's time to prepare dinner, so I asked, "What do you want to eat tonight, I'll do it."

Chu Mingcheng thought for a while: "How about dried lentils at night? I'll dive to catch some lobsters."

Spear guns and spears are not there, so it is naturally difficult for him to dive to catch fish.

But there must be many other aquatic creatures in the coral reef, various shrimps, snails, and shellfish. He still hasn't caught many of these, so he can try his luck to increase his experience points.

Moreover, while diving, he can also roughly observe whether there are uncaught fish on the coral reef, catch if he can catch it, and try his luck by fishing if he can’t catch it.

Jiang Luoluo couldn't help but smacked her mouth when she heard that she wanted dried lentils, feeling a little greedy.

"Do you want me to come with you?"

"No, you go to prepare first, burn some charcoal, and we will have dinner on the deck at night." Chu Mingcheng quickly waved his hand and refused, how could he open up with someone around?

Jiang Luoluo didn't force her, she nodded and went to the kitchen to make preparations.

The staple food is lobster, but other side dishes still need to be prepared.

Chu Mingcheng soon arrived at the destination to stop the ship and lower the anchor.

His main purpose this time was not fishing and hunting, and it was summer, so he didn't wear a diving suit.

Just pretended to wear a mask and a snorkel, and stepped on flippers all the way to the stern.

Of course, the live fish buckle and the only lasso that can catch fish are still brought. What if you encounter some fish that are hiding?

Xiao Heiye had never seen flippers before, so she was very curious and followed him all the time, her little tail wagging fast.

Xiao Wujin has a relatively stable personality. Although he is also an age with a lot of curiosity, he just looks at it from a distance and does not approach it.

Seeing this, Chu Mingcheng reached out and grabbed Xiao Heiye's neck lifeline, and lifted it up.

"Why, you want to swim with me too?"

Xiao Heiye remained motionless after being mentioned, just looked at him with those watery eyes.

Chu Mingcheng thought that Labrador was a good swimmer, so he tried to put its limbs into the water slowly, submerging a dog's paw.

At first, he thought that Little Heiye would scream in fear, but unexpectedly, it swayed its limbs, which seemed to be very amusing.

"It's interesting, maybe when you grow up and train, you can really go into the water and catch fish!"

At present, Xiao Heiye still needs vaccinations and deworming, and he is still too young to take a bath, so Chu Mingcheng put him back on the deck without throwing him into the water.

Drive the dog away, turn around and close the small door while walking down the steps by yourself, so as not to prevent the brat from jumping down.

Swimming into the water, Chu Mingcheng, who hadn't dived for a long time, looked very comfortable in the water.

Feeling that his body was moving, he swam to the coral reef.

Today's sea water visibility is average, about ten meters. Because of Chu Mingcheng's ability to swim freely, he can see a little further, about twelve meters.

Diving with this visibility is already very good. He swam all the way and found many fish that he hadn't caught before.

It's a pity that they are all fish with no economic value, and occasionally some are caught, so it is not worth his trouble for the time being.

When he almost reached the coral reef, Chu Mingcheng dived directly and began to dive to the bottom of the water.

Later, you can touch the coral reef directly from the bottom of the water to look for lobsters.

However, when he dived to the bottom, he found a group of fish swimming slowly above the sand bed.

Chu Mingcheng glanced at his diving watch. His current depth is 51 meters, so the depth of the water layer where the fish live below is about 60 meters.

The heads of these fish are a bit square, because the bottom of the water is very dark, he can't see what kind of fish they are, he can only see that the largest of these fish is about 50 centimeters.

According to normal logic, these fish should have economic value.

Now there is no speargun, Chu Mingcheng did not rush forward, but swam back to the water to record the location, and then he continued to swim to the coral reef.

Considering that Jiang Luoluo was already preparing dinner, he didn't waste too much time and quickly caught four lobsters.

The two green lobsters were not big, just over a catty, but he met two Jinxiu lobsters that weighed seven or eight catties.

When catching these two beautiful lobsters, Chu Mingcheng hesitated for a while.

This thing is to protect animals, but under the influence of his hack, it is estimated that Splendid Lobster will soon move out of the range of animal protection in the near future.

Two green lobsters don’t actually have much meat, but if there are two Splendid lobsters, there will be no shortage of lobster meat at night.

If there is no cheat, he will definitely release him.

But there are cheats, he felt that he was entitled to eat one or two, so he caught them all.

When caught, one of them was a female shrimp, and when it was turned over, its abdomen was densely packed with seeds.

In this case, Chu Mingcheng would not eat it no matter how insane he was, and chose to release it directly.

As for the other half of it, sorry, he chose to put it in the net pocket first.

But he was somewhat hesitant to eat protected animals.

So he quickly searched in the coral reef again, but unfortunately did not find any other lobsters, only caught a very lucky sea red spot, weighing about three catties.

With no substitutes like this, this Splendid Lobster can only sacrifice itself to fill their stomachs.

When he really wants to eat, Chu Mingcheng will not continue to struggle.

While catching lobsters, Chu Mingcheng also caught two unknown shellfish and a conch.

The experience value of the aquatic product illustration book has been successfully increased by three, reaching seventy. Now catch ten more aquatic products, and it can be upgraded to level four.

But before returning to the boat, he chose to release shellfish and conch. There was not much meat, and the quantity was not much, so it was meaningless to eat.

At this moment, Jiang Luoluo has already set up a table on the deck and lit a charcoal stove.

Beside the charcoal stove, there are dried tofu, enoki mushrooms and baby vegetables.

Seeing him coming back, Jiang Luoluo smiled and said, "How many did you catch?"

"Guaranteed to surprise you!" Chu Mingcheng showed a mysterious smile, walked over and opened the net bag.

Jiang Luoluo stretched out his head to take a look: "Wow, it's so big!"

"Hey, there is also sea erythema, which is great!"

Just looking at it, she suddenly noticed something was wrong. The color and pattern of this lobster, which she exaggerated to be very large, was a bit familiar.

The next moment, her eyes widened suddenly: "Ah Cheng, this is a beautiful lobster, you can't eat it!"

"It's okay. In fact, fishing boats that go out to sea often catch some protected animals. These can't be sold. If they are released, they won't survive. In the end, they can only eat them at sea with tears in their eyes."

"Except for the first-level protected animals, there are many more animals below the second-level protection than you can imagine."

"I searched a lot just now, but I didn't find any other lobsters. As for these two little green dragons, they couldn't get between their teeth, so I simply brought this beautiful lobster back."

"Actually, there was a female, but the abdomen was full of lobster seeds, and I released it."

Jiang Luoluo stretched out her hand and rubbed her temples, and she heard the other party's meaning from Chu Mingcheng's voice.

Two words, want to eat. But one thing to say, she also wants to eat.

But she didn't know that the domestic fish resources are increasing rapidly, so she was a little bit scrupulous.

Seeing that Chu Mingcheng was looking at her all the time, she could only sigh: "Eat it, eat it, let's not be an example. After killing the lobster shells, throw them directly into the sea, don't leave them on the boat."

"Don't worry, I will go to the high seas to catch some beautiful lobsters and come back, and release them in domestic waters, so it will make up for it?"

Chu Mingcheng was joking with a smile, but he didn’t know that because he wanted to eat protected animals, he unknowingly affected the ability obtained after upgrading the aquatic product illustration book.

Jiang Luoluo rolled his eyes when he heard the words, and went to the high seas to catch and release them. Is this inappropriate behavior?

As for the Splendid Lobster, she decided to eat it all, so naturally she wouldn't be entangled.

Let Chu Mingcheng wash it, and he carried the net bag and the knife to handle the lobster and fish, and cut the meat into pieces and placed them on the plate.

After a while, Chu Mingcheng came out of the shower, and began to place the pan on the charcoal stove to dry the lentils.

Jiang Luoluo was free, picked up two pieces of lobster meat, cut them into small pieces to tease the dog.

"Xiao Hei Ye, sit down." She squatted in front of Xiao Hei Ye and ordered.

However, Xiao Hei Ye flicked her tail and arched around her, her nose even went straight to the lobster meat in her hand.

Jiang Luoluo ordered several times in a row, and even pressed Xiao Heiye to sit down, but it was useless.

Helpless, she had no choice but to give up and go to tease Xiao Wujin.

It can only be said that the pastoral dog that survived the fittest is really famous. Jiang Luoluo was afraid that Xiaowujin would not understand it like Xiao Heiye, so he went forward and held it down, letting him sit down.

After the hardware is combined, feed a lobster grain.

Finally, the cleverness of Hardware surprised her. After a short while, it understood the meaning of sitting down and getting up.

Labrador is actually very smart, but it is obviously much more mischievous than the more well-behaved pastoral dogs.

If you want to train, you have to spend more energy.

Enjoyed a delicious dinner, Chu Mingcheng did not rest to digest food, but sailed the boat to the location where the fish school was found just now.

Jiang Luoluo originally wondered why she didn't set off, but came here instead. After seeing the school of fish displayed on the fish finder, she immediately understood the reason.

Since there are schools of fish, it is impossible to miss even if it is not tuna.

Although other fishes are not recorded in the leaderboard, they will not be restricted in the competition, and they can still be caught and sold for money.

Many players will catch some other fish to return blood when they can’t meet tuna or marlin.

The two moved quickly, and soon set up two fishing rods at the stern of the boat.

The fish school was at a water depth of 60 meters, so Chu Mingcheng tied shrimp cages and stuffed them with defrosted Antarctic shrimp.

Antarctic shrimp is also used as bait. After all, the fish is not big, so other baits are not suitable.

It is dark now, and it is the peak time for fish to come out to look for food at night.

Not long after the two put down the bait, some fish took the bait.

Both fishing rods hit a fish, and the interval between before and after was only ten seconds.

Sixty meters deep, the fish is not big, Chu Mingcheng is very easy to pull.

Although he was more than ten seconds late, he caught the fish first.

A pale pink tilefish appeared on the deck. Jiang Luoluo had never seen this kind of fish before, and when he was busy, he didn't forget to turn around and ask, "Ah Cheng, what kind of fish is this?"

"White sweet bream, the scientific name is white squarehead fish." While talking, Chu Mingcheng took out his mobile phone to check the price on the Internet, "The market price of this fish is about 60 a catty, and those of us who catch it should be two times more expensive." Ten, not too bad."

The price of 60 is naturally not high-quality fish, which is why he opened the function of gathering fish, but the fish was Jiang Luoluo's first choice.

"It turns out that this is the white snapper. I heard it tastes pretty good."

After a while, Jiang Luoluo finally pulled up the fish, which was also a white snapper.

Her one is even smaller, less than forty centimeters long, and probably weighs two or three catties.

"We'll know if it tastes good or not if we eat one. Since we encountered a school of fish tonight, let's catch more."

Chu Mingcheng put all the fish into a foam box covered with crushed ice. This fish is rarely seen alive in the market, and it is usually chilled.

Therefore, the price of living and dying is about the same, so there is no need for him to support him.

There is a big difference between live fish and dead fish, which usually appear on grouper or some top coral fish.

For example, there are thousands of mouse spots that weigh a thousand pounds when they are alive. As long as one dies, even just after death, the value will drop sharply, becoming eighty or one hundred and one catties.

Many high-yield fish don’t matter if they are alive or dead, and the price will not change accordingly.

White snapper is not well-known, but the price is good. Chu Mingcheng plans to catch more tonight to give back to his customers.

After the fishing ban this year, some customers often complain that he only sells tuna, leaving them no place to buy fish.

Actually, other fish in Chuming City are still being sold, but the quantity is indeed much smaller than before. With the increase in the number of customers, everyone can naturally get less.

As a result, some of the earliest regular customers could not buy more and save them as before, and eat for a while.

Meet the white sweet bream tonight, Chu Mingcheng thought that he might be able to catch some more hairtail, lest the customers would quarrel in the group every day and there would be no fish to eat.

Time passed slowly, and with the efforts of the two of them, at 10:30 in the evening, they successfully caught a box and a half of white sweet snapper, about 120 catties.

The fish shoal at the bottom of the water is not very big, and the fish left after the peak foraging period, so they haven't gone up for ten minutes.

"Looks like there are no more fish!" Jiang Luoluo said while pulling in the fishing line.

Chu Mingcheng saw that it was almost eleven o'clock, so he didn't plan to change the fishing spot to continue: "Well, let's rest early tonight, and get better and catch big fish tomorrow."

"Well, I'll go first." Jiang Luoluo nodded, and just as she spoke, her hand sank suddenly, and there was a fish cut, "Dizzy, I'm fishing again!"

"It seems that you are lucky." Chu Mingcheng also took the fishing line and said with a smile.

Jiang Luoluo shrugged and was about to catch the fish, but after she tried her best to pull the fish to the surface, a huge monster suddenly appeared on the surface of the water and bit the fish.

"Ah~"

The fishing rod in Jiang Luoluo's hand was pulled away by a huge force, and the rope on the side of the boat suddenly became tense.

Chu Mingcheng was taken aback, and hurried forward to pull Jiang Luoluo away.

The next moment, the taut fishing line suddenly rebounded and hit the side of the boat.

If Jiang Luoluo was still in the position just now, maybe the fishing line would still hit her.

Seeing this scene, she patted her chest with lingering fear, still in shock: "What was that just now, it was so big, it looked a bit like the big swordfish you caught before?"

Chu Mingcheng grabbed her hand and checked, and heaved a sigh of relief when he found that nothing happened.

Immediately afterwards, his eyes began to shine, and he replied: "It seems to be a marlin, and I can't see it very clearly. It seems that there is no rest at night. I will take out the bait and you will help make a nest later."

I was lucky tonight, I caught a white snapper, and when I was about to go back to rest, a marlin appeared.

Just now he saw it a little bit more clearly, and felt that it was indeed a marlin rather than a swordfish. The long beak seemed to be sharper, not flat.

And the fins are a bit different from the previous swordfish, but the difference is not very big, and he is not sure.

But with such a big body, except for marlin or swordfish, he will make money no matter what kind of fish is caught.

He hurriedly went to the refrigerated cabin to pick up two boxes of bait to defrost. Jiang Luoluo was not idle, picked up the fish killing knife and chopped off three of the white snapper he caught tonight.

Chop all the fish into pieces, and then throw them into the water quickly, keeping the marlin that appears first, lest it run away.

They don't know how many marlins appeared at the bottom of the water, but even if it's just one, they won't lose money tonight.

This cost is nothing compared to the size of the marlin just now.

Chu Mingcheng was not idle after taking out the bait, he pulled back the fishing rod that Jiang Luoluo had let go, and then put away his own fishing rod.

He quickly ran back to the tool room with two fishing rods, and when he came out, he brought a heavy boat rod for fishing large fish.

Before fishing for tuna, the fishing line and other things have been set up, and now it is enough to tie the lead pendant and the big hook.

Not to mention other things in sea fishing, the consumption of hooks and some small accessories is not small.

After the hooks were tied, Chu Mingcheng saw that the frozen bait needed a lot of time to thaw, so he simply picked a small white sweet snapper and asked Jiang Luoluo to cut it into two with a fish-killing knife.

Pick up half of the fish and hang it on the hook and throw it directly into the water. If the marlin is attracted back by the fish meat, you will definitely not miss the half white snapper.

Fortunately, so many white snappers were caught tonight. If they didn’t suddenly encounter these marlins that swim very fast, then they probably just got ready, and the fish would have disappeared.

Jiang Luoluo didn't continue to harm the white snapper, but started chopping bait directly.

The fish-killing knife chopped **** the sticky bait, and the ice **** and pieces of meat flew randomly.

"Awwhhhh" because Chu Mingcheng forgot to close the door while taking the fishing rod just now, Xiao Heiye ran out from the cabin.

As a result, as soon as it came out, it saw Jiang Luoluo chopping fiercely on the bait one after another.

Xiao Hei Ye let out a shrill cry out of fright, a puddle fell directly under her body, and her short legs trembled.

Jiang Luoluo didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and got up to drive it back.

As a result, as soon as she stood up, Xiao Heiye ran back to the cabin with her tail between her legs without looking back. The journey was miserable, as if she had been hustled eight hundred times.

"Yes, the shadow of Xiao Heiye's life can't be erased!" Chu Mingcheng stepped forward speechlessly, picked up the water hose, and washed away the puddle left by Xiao Heiye.

"Who told you not to close the door." Jiang Luoluo closed the cabin door and came back to continue chopping the bait, "Xiao Hei Ye is so naughty, it's good to scare her."

Chu Mingcheng nodded approvingly, there must be someone fierce in the family.

Afterwards, he picked up the bait that Jiang Luoluo had chopped, and threw it directly into the water one by one.

Tuna fishing is no different than marlin fishing, both require a lot of bait to attract them.

Just sprinkled a bucket, but the fishing rod still did not move.

Chu Mingcheng saw Jiang Luoluo put down the fish-killing knife to soothe his wrist, so he took the fish-killing knife and said, "Luo Luo, go spread the bait, and I'll chop it up!"

"Um."

After changing positions, Chu Mingcheng chopped the bait very quickly. At the same time, Jiang Luoluo directly sprinkled two buckets of fish, plus the previous bucket, it is estimated that they sprinkled 50 to 60 catties.

But don’t look at fifty or sixty catties, it’s just a small fish nest when sprinkled into the water.

Sometimes it is normal for tuna fishermen to spread hundreds of catties or even more bait in order to attract tuna.

Without such a huge fish nest, how could tuna be attracted.

Three buckets of bait were cast, but neither of them stopped, still doing their work silently.

However, Jiang Luoluo can reduce the amount of bait thrown now. The fish nest has been formed, so there is no need to continue throwing a large amount of bait, and it will be a waste.

But at this moment, the sound of "squeak" suddenly sounded, it was the rapid sound made when the fishing line in the drum was pulled and forced to rotate after unloading.

Jiang Luoluo had sharp eyes and quick hands. Throwing the bucket in his hand, he immediately grabbed the half-moon-bent fishing rod and lifted it up forcefully, and grabbed the crank handle that had been forced to rotate in the opposite direction.

"Crunch~"

The fishing rod was under unprecedented pressure, and the fishing line seemed to be unable to stretch, and kept trembling slightly. All the water droplets contaminated on it were shattered and bounced into water mist.

Jiang Luoluo's face flushed red, she had never experienced this kind of pressure before.

Fortunately, at the next moment, she was surrounded by a pair of powerful arms, and Chu Mingcheng came behind her in time.

He grabbed the fishing rod with one hand to relieve Jiang Luoluo's pressure, opened a little spool with the other hand, and reduced the unloading force to release the pressure on the drum.

"Lolo, help me grab the fishing rod together, I'm going to take the fishing rod out of the fishing hole."

From the condition of the fishing line and rod, Chu Mingcheng could see that the fish caught this time were no smaller than the swordfish caught last time.

At least 700,000 bluefin tuna have not reached this level.

He wants to take the fishing rod out of the fishing hole, naturally he wants to quickly consume the strength of the fish.

Otherwise, a 1,000-meter fishing line can't hold back fish, and the Poseidon is too big to catch up like the original boat.

Therefore, we can only rely on manpower to fight against this big fish. With Jiang Luoluo's help, Chu Mingcheng believes that he can successfully catch the fish.

(end of this chapter)