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Chapter 769: 756 What Are Resources?

Chapter 769: Chapter 756 What Are Resources?

Seeing Uncle Victor just cast the fishing rig into the water, driven by curiosity, Yue Feng did not cast his own rod, but instead observed Uncle Victor’s fishing technique.

The uncle’s method was very simple: he dropped the lead sinker and string hook vertically off the boat and just steadily let out the line. Soon, the rig sank to the bottom due to the weight of the lead sinker!

After that, Uncle Victor locked the drag, picked up the rod tip, and began to tease it up and down.

The posture could only be described as standard, but Yue Feng was not optimistic about it!

Why say that? Observing the line being let out just now, the water depth here was estimated to be at least thirty or forty meters. At that depth, the light underwater is rather dim. The hook is bare, and relying solely on the faint reflection of a bit of fish skin to attract the fish and provoke an attack, objectively speaking, the probability that a fish would discover and attack the bait should be very small.

However, soon Yue Feng was taken aback again.

It only took Uncle Victor a few moments of teasing up and down to see the rod tip bend down forcefully and nod quickly.

This was a sign that a fish had taken the bait, and Yue Feng became nervous as well.

“Got a bite?” Yue Feng asked.

Uncle Victor waved his hand: “Just a nibble for now, wait a moment!” After saying that, he gently lifted to set the hook into the fish, and soon resumed the act of teasing up and down.

Soon the fishing rod bent again, and just when Yue Feng felt his compulsion was about to get the better of him, Uncle Victor leisurely began to reel in the line. In less than half a minute, he pulled the rig out of the water.

Quickly, the first dark yellow fish emerged, and as the line was reeled in further, a second and third appeared!

Goodness, it was only the first cast, casually thrown down and teased a bit, and the string hook had caught three fish! Each one was over two-to-three pounds!

“This is? Yellow fish?” Yue Feng scrutinized it a bit, uncertain.

This type of yellow fish is also found in domestic seas, but due to overfishing, it has become extremely rare, especially the larger specimens.

Yet here, the two fish hanging on the hook, each weighing at least two-to-three pounds, would easily fetch a few hundred yuan each if taken to the domestic market!

While skillfully removing the fish, Uncle Victor nodded: “Yes, we also call it yellow fish. The taste is okay, but not as good as the more delicious cod! These two are too small; they’re all over the nearby waters!”

After saying this, Uncle Victor casually tossed the caught fish back into the water. It was as nonchalant as throwing a crucian carp caught by the riverside.

“Two-to-three pound yellow fish are considered small? These fish aren’t cheap in our country!” Yue Feng still found it hard to believe.

“They’re everywhere, no matter how much you fish, you won’t run out! You can try it yourself. Fish for a little while and you will be driven mad by these fellows! Oh, right, if you want to have even more fun, I’ll teach you a trick!”

It seemed that Uncle Victor had just thought of something. Instead of throwing back the second fish he removed, he took out a utility knife and swiftly cut off two slices of succulent fish meat.

“Here, slice the fish meat into small strips and hang them on the hook. You’ll have a higher chance of catching fish!” Uncle Victor handed over both the fish meat and knife to Yue Feng.

Yue Feng had no time to think too much at that moment. Following the fishing method introduced by Uncle Victor, he cut some fish meat and hooked it, then casually threw the lead sinker and string hook fishing assembly into the water.

Yue Feng was not unfamiliar with this string hook boat fishing technique. Back in his hometown in Beihai, many fishing enthusiasts used string hooks in autumn to fish for Seven-star Sea Bass. However, the bait was different; Seven-star Sea Bass liked to eat Skull Shrimp, whereas what was now hanging on the string hook was the fresh flesh of yellow fish.

No sooner had the first rod hit the water, still in the process of letting out line at a depth of about fifteen meters, than Yue Feng felt the rod tip shudder violently and bend downwards. He had an attack on the bait even while still letting out line!

Yue Feng couldn’t resist the urge to lift the rod when there were fish to be caught; he quickly locked the drag and started reeling in with all his might.

Fish weighing two to three pounds didn’t require playing the fish. Reeling them in was quite easy, and in no time he pulled the fishing assembly out of the water. Indeed, hanging on the bottom hook was a sea fish slightly darker than the sturgeon he had just seen.

“This is a Sea Black Fish; they swim shallower than yellow fish and are also quite common!” Uncle Victor glanced at it casually and commented nonchalantly.

Upon seeing this fish, Yue Feng was dumbfounded once again!

If he wasn’t mistaken, this should be a Black Sea Bass, also known as Black Sea Bass, which is also widely distributed in different regions in China, and they can still be caught there. However, they are usually quite small in size, with many weighing half a pound to one pound, and larger ones are rare. But the one on the hook was at least three and a half pounds, an exceptional catch in China!

“Brothers, Uncle Victor really wasn’t kidding! Our very first cast and we’ve caught this Sea Black Fish! Look at the size of it, what do you think?” Yue Feng removed the hook, secured the fish with a fish controller, and showed off his first catch to the viewers in the live stream.

“Damn, that Black Sea Bass is not small at all! Sometimes we don’t catch one this big even after fishing at sea for three to five days!”

“I’ve heard the old folks say that there used to be Black Sea Bass weighing over ten kilograms, but they’ve grown rarer over the years. Catching one weighing at least two pounds is considered good in domestic sea fishing, but this fish is at least three and a half pounds. Steam it, and it’ll taste extremely delicious!”

“Ah! Look at the resources over here, then look at our own in China, it’s embarrassing!”

Yue Feng did not continue with this heavy topic. After showing off his catch, he casually tossed the fish into the live-well behind him, baited his hook with fresh fish meat, and cast the fishing assembly out again.

This time he was lucky; there was no interference midway, and the lead weight took the fishing assembly down to a depth of around thirty meters before he stopped letting the line out.

Yue Feng simply tightened the fishing line to make it taut and, imitating Uncle Victor, teased it up and down a few times. Soon, he distinctly felt the bite through the tip of the rod, and the rod tip started bobbing rhythmically up and down again.

Yue Feng couldn’t hold back and lifted the rod again, quickly pulling the fishing assembly back up.

This time, the resistance was noticeably greater than before. When the fish came out of the water, lo and behold, in just a few seconds of slight pause while hooking, there were two fish on the string hook.

Both were yellow fish. The smaller one weighed about two and a half pounds, while the one that came up on the bottom string hook was much bigger, looking to be four or five pounds by estimation. No wonder the force to reel in was so much greater!

“This one can be kept; it’s around five pounds. You’re in luck!” Uncle Victor took a glance and continued to fish.

“My gosh, such a big yellow fish! In China, you might not encounter one this big even after a year of fishing!”

“Jealous and envious! This is what resources are, seriously, the density of this fish population is just too exaggerated, isn’t it!?”