As a Fisherman, My Fish Can Level Up
Chapter 355 - Chapter 355 Chapter 284 Legs 4 Meters Long

Chapter 355: Chapter 284: Legs 4 Meters Long Chapter 355: Chapter 284: Legs 4 Meters Long Zhang Wei shook his head, “No, I’ve been broke recently, so would a bow serve as an apology?”

“Pfft… Hahahaha…” Jiang Luoluo could no longer hold back. She laughed so hard on the sofa that she was all over the place, “You guys are really too funny. You might as well go perform a sketch at the Spring Festival Gala! The current Spring Festival Gala is nowhere near as interesting as you guys.”

Zhang Wei, chuckling, put the fish-killing knife back, “Last year’s Spring Festival Gala was actually quite good; that round butt was stuck in front of the TV.”

Everyone: “…”

After chatting a bit more, Jiang Luoluo ended the video call, not wanting to distract them from their fishing any longer.

The three of them fished in three different directions, not interfering with each other.

The bait hadn’t been in the water long before there was some action, but today Zhang Wei was the lucky one, with the first catch on his side.

He quickly pressed the button, and the fishing line was reeled in rapidly.

“Feels like the fish isn’t very big, the line’s coming in a bit fast.”

Within just two minutes, the fish from the bottom was pulled up.

Zhang Wei saw that the fish indeed was not big. Since the fish pulled from the deep sea wasn’t very lively anymore, he used both hands to grab the fishing line and pulled it up.

The fish’s back was red turning to purple, while its belly was pink. It looked fairly ordinary, somewhat resembling a silver carp, but its body was much more slender.

The fish Zhang Wei caught weighed about three to four pounds; though not big, it also wasn’t small.

Chu Mingcheng came over to take a look, raised an eyebrow, and said, “This is a Purple Bream. The price is quite good; it can sell for fifty to sixty yuan per pound in the market.”

“Only fifty to sixty per pound?” Zhang Wei, hearing the price was good, was quite hopeful, but his face fell when he heard it was only fifty to sixty yuan.

“Are you kidding? Complaining about fifty to sixty?” Chu Mingcheng immediately slapped the back of his head, chiding with a laugh.

Chen Yang chimed in from the side, “Probably because he’s seen too many high-priced fish, he thinks these few dozen yuan a pound fish seem very cheap.”

Zhang Wei nodded, “Seeing too many valuable fish does have some influence.”

“The price of this fish indeed isn’t very high, but the meat quality is good. It has red meat like the Golden Spearfish, and the taste is very good when eaten as sashimi,” Chu Mingcheng explained, then went back to his spot because he too had a fish on the line.

But the fish also surprised him; no wonder after engaging the fish attracting function, the first one to bite was at Zhang Wei’s side.

Because this fish didn’t belong to the premium fish category, it wasn’t affected by the fish attracting feature.

After a while, he hauled up a fish weighing over five pounds, and Chen Yang, not wanting to be outdone, also raised one that was about four to five pounds.

There were plenty of fish underwater, and after each of them caught their first fish, they kept getting bites without stop.

They fished until eleven o’clock at night when the school of fish dispersed. Only Chu Mingcheng managed to catch an additional two Groupers; the rest they caught were all Purple Breams.

However, they all had a sizable catch, each of them filling up two full boxes of fish. The quantity was roughly the same, the difference being only the size of the fishes.

It took Chen Yang and Zhang Wei two trips to transfer all the fish back to the White Dragon, and they also took away two foam boxes belonging to Chu Mingcheng.

After the two left, he too carried the boxes full of fish into the cold storage, reeled in his fishing rod, washed up, and went to bed.

Back in the bedroom, after another phone call with Jiang Luoluo, Chu Mingcheng lay in bed. He felt like there was something he had missed.

He remembered that there was a very valuable kind of fish in the East Sea, which seemed to be found near the continental shelf.

For a moment, he couldn’t recall the name of the fish, so he picked up his phone and began to search online.

After searching for a while, a fish with a brown back appeared on his phone screen. His eyes lit up; he had found it.

Once he knew the name of the fish, he immediately checked the geographic location of where it lived and learned that it was found near the waters of Liuqiu; he now had a plan in mind.

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Originally, Chu Mingcheng planned to delay another day, take Zhang Wei and the others fishing for Golden Spearfish or other large fish, and then leave to fish for the kind he had discovered the day before.

However, when collecting the crab pots in the morning, he unexpectedly caught some aquatic creatures that were a pleasant surprise, Gan’s Giant Claw Crabs.

This type of crab could stretch its legs to 4.2 meters, looking very massive.

Unfortunately, the thirteen crabs Chu Mingcheng caught were not very big; he specifically measured the largest one.

The shell length was just twenty-three centimeters, the leg span one meter five, and it weighed thirteen pounds.

Gan’s Giant Claw Crab was also known as the Killer Crab, not because it actually kills people, but its terrifying appearance led to the nickname.

However, for those who love eating crabs, it really was a ‘killer’, tantalizingly so.

That Chu Mingcheng managed to catch thirteen this time was quite lucky.

Because Gan’s Giant Claw Crab could survive in waters as deep as one thousand meters, his crab pots last night were only at a depth of two hundred meters, which normally meant a very low chance of encountering them.

But this helped Chu Mingcheng realize the deep sea might contain some very high-value seafood.

His current diving record was over three hundred meters, but from what happened that time, it was far from his limit.

Now that Jiang Luoluo wasn’t around, it seemed he could do something.

Yesterday, while searching for an area suitable for fishing Golden Spearfish, he had found a region with depths of over six hundred meters connected to this one.

As for whether it was deeper further away, he hadn’t had a chance to check yet.

But Gan’s Giant Claw Crabs would gather together when molting, so if he actually encountered them, he might be able to catch many.

The price for these crabs wasn’t low; live frozen ones could reach two hundred yuan per pound, and the fresh living ones could even fetch five hundred yuan per pound.