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Chapter 608 - 608 595 Manual Labor

608: Chapter 595 Manual Labor 608: Chapter 595 Manual Labor Students who have studied junior high school physics should know that air pressure exists in the air, and by the same logic, similar pressure exists underwater, where the deeper the water, the greater the pressure!

In the natural world, fish living in the deep sea have gradually evolved various strategies to combat this water pressure.

These evolutionary mechanisms ensure they can live normally at the bottom of the sea, but they can also cause certain harm to the fish.

When deep-sea fish are artificially pulled up from the depths, the internal pressure becomes too great, and it can force their internal organs out, similar to how packaged instant noodles expand at high altitudes due to the pressure difference.

“Eh…

so, does that mean once this fish is pulled up, it dies?” the kid asked.

Brother Gu nodded and then shook his head, “This fish definitely won’t survive, but with some species, if the water isn’t too deep, we can puncture a specific spot on the fish’s belly to release the gas, and the fish can live!

Overall though, it still does quite a bit of damage to the fish!

Especially the bottom-dwelling groupers from deeper waters, they die once they’re fished up!”

“Oh oh!”

While they were talking, the crew already started to assist with pulling the spotted grouper onto the boat using the hook.

The fish wasn’t big, weighing around seven or eight jin by eye, and only upon closer inspection could you see the skin’s spotted pattern, with blue spots on the vivid red skin making it very beautiful!

“It sure is pretty, but it’s a bit small!” Yue Feng muttered softly after taking a glance.

Together with Brother Gu, the kid, Yue Feng, and a few other crew members and the captain, in total, seven or eight people, such a fish was indeed not enough to go around.

“It’s not small!

Spotted groupers are no cabbages; they’re widely distributed but can’t be caught en masse.

The wild spotted groupers on the market are basically all caught by rod and line!

Normally, when you go to a seafood restaurant to eat it, a two or three jin spotted grouper can sell for four to five hundred yuan per kilogram.

Like the one we just fished up, it looks like it’s around six or seven jin, by three kilograms, it’s conservatively valued at a thousand bucks!”

“Damn, that’s expensive!

I thought at most a few dozen yuan per jin!” exclaimed Yue Feng, unable to help but salivate.

“A few dozen yuan a jin?

Even a small farmed spotted grouper weighing over one jin sells for a hundred yuan a piece!”

“Oh, then why am I fishing for Japanese horse mackerel?

I might as well switch to the Iron Plate Bait and catch a few more.

If we can’t finish them, we’ll sell them!

That’s all money!” Yue Feng’s small-farmer thinking habit crept up again.

“Ha ha, brother, you’re so funny, we’re live streaming, are you not embarrassed!” Gu Qingtian chuckled as he reminded Yue Feng.

Embarrassed or not, as soon as the live stream audience heard how valuable the catch was, they all went crazy suggesting switching gear to fish for spotted groupers.

Looks like it wasn’t just Gong Zheng who was greedy for money.

Gu Qingtian said, “If you really want to switch, you don’t need to look for a new rod.

Let’s swap, I’ll try jigging for a while, and you can try the Iron Plate Bait!”

Yue Feng nodded, “Alright!

Let’s swap then!”

Gu Qingtian handed his rod to Gong Zheng and roughly explained the basics of working the Iron Plate Bait.

Iron Plate Bait fishing doesn’t require casting; just swing the rod forward a few meters to let the bait sink in the water, and rely on the angler’s control of the depth to find the fish layer.

With the rod in hand, Yue Feng said, “Fellas!

The rod’s swapped; let’s also try Iron Plate Bait fishing to see if we can catch some big ones!

I’m not greedy, just a few dozen jin worth of big spotted groupers will do!”

“Brother Feng is so funny!”

“You must be dreaming, spotted groupers as big as tens of jins?

It’s debatable if they can even grow that large!”

“Fish from the grouper family are often quite valuable, and it’s okay to catch other types too!

Keep it up, Brother Feng, you can do it!”

Yue Feng: “Of course, I can definitely do it!

How can a man not be able to!”

Gu Qingtian smiled and said, “It’s not that simple.

You try jigging for a while, I predict that with no experience in iron plate bait for the first time, you’ll surrender pretty quickly!

You think this thing is easy, but that’s real physical work!”

Ten minutes later, Yue Feng realized he had been too rash!

The iron plate bait used by Big Brother Gu was a full 250g, which is about half a pound.

It might not sound like much, but considering the water depth of at least seventy or eighty meters, jigging became incredibly challenging.

Jigging the iron plate bait is indeed a test of physical strength, no lies there.

But Yue Feng had made his grand claims, he couldn’t just chicken out now.

Gradually finding the right intensity to wind in the line and combining it with proper breathing rhythm, he endured the initial difficult phase and, surprisingly, he actually got the hang of it!

Yes, you read that right, he got the hang of it!

How is that?

Is there really such a thing as getting the hang of the sport of jigging the iron plate bait?

Indeed, there is!

If one simply considers this sport as brute force using the arms, that’s the performance of a novice.

An angler who has truly mastered it uses the body’s core strength when pulling and jigging, coordinating multiple body parts to exert force, to ensure that any single muscle group isn’t overly fatigued too quickly and loses its effectiveness.

It had been almost twenty years since Gu Qingtian first learned how to jig the iron plate bait.

In the beginning, he too painfully relied on brute strength to reel in the line, until he understood the skill to use the full body’s strength, which is when he started feeling much more at ease.

The day it all clicked for Gu Qingtian, he even felt as though he had opened the door to a new world.

Not long ago, Yue Feng, this guy, was obviously very unfamiliar with it, pulling and tugging with raw force, just like Gu Qingtian had done in his early days.

But in just a short span of over ten minutes, Yue Feng had slowly adjusted and found the point of exerting his core strength, which was astonishing.

“Yue, did you ever learn how to jig the iron plate bait before?” Gu Qingtian still didn’t give up, holding onto a sliver of hope as he asked.

Yue Feng shook his head: “No?

Wasn’t it you who just taught me?

I feel like there’s a knack to this thing too.

At first, I didn’t quite get it and was just pulling and tugging with arm strength.

Now I’m using the full strength of my waist and abdomen, and it’s obviously much more comfortable!”

“Awesome!” Gu Qingtian was thoroughly impressed by Yue Feng, and admiringly raised his thumb.

As the two chatted, Yue Feng suddenly felt a heavy tug at the tip of his rod.

Lift the rod to set the hook!

He hit it!

“Got a bite!” Yue Feng called out, and with all his might, he lifted the rod.

Catching a fish in deep water is different from catching one at the surface, both in terms of the way you exert your strength and angle.

Yue Feng felt an immense force coming from under the water, so powerful that he nearly lost his grip on the rod.

The force was tremendous, the reel clicked rapidly under the strain, but after the fish’s short burst of sprinting following the bite, its momentum clearly wasn’t as strong, showing signs of fatigue.

After stabilizing his stance and bending his rod without moving, about a hundred meters or so of line had been taken out, and the fish’s speed of attack had slowed down.

“What depth did you catch that fish at just now?

Given how steady it feels, it must be a big one!” Big Brother Gu asked with concern.