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Chapter 770: 757: Deep Sea Area

Chapter 770: Chapter 757: Deep Sea Area

In the live streaming room, most viewers were there for the fun while many were seasoned sea anglers themselves. Seeing Yue Feng casually catch such high-quality yellow croakers made them practically drool with envy.

Yue Feng carefully removed the fish hook and tossed both fish into the live fish bucket.

When he lifted this large yellow croaker, he was a bit excited. Uncle Victor had told him it’d be thrilling, but he hadn’t expected it to be this exhilarating. Catching a yellow croaker weighing five pounds so effortlessly had him feeling almost unreal.

What Yue Feng didn’t know yet was that this was only the beginning, the truly surreal experiences were still to come!

It seemed that hanging fresh fish meat as bait and the resulting scent of blood had increased the frequency of fish attacking the bait after several casts with the continuous hook bottom fishing method.

The same method of teasing after reaching the bottom then pulling up when there was a bite, but after a while, the hooks would go from having one or two fish to consistently two or three, and if he reeled in a bit slower, he’d pull up a string of them.

Gradually feeling somewhat numb to the excitement, Yue Feng wanted to see if he could actually catch five fish in one go. After getting a bite, he deliberately delayed reeling in by half a beat, and he actually managed to do it.

One string of hooks, five hooks, five valuable yellow croakers! Fishing like this was just too thrilling!

In the past, some old-school lure anglers used to say that resources were king and density determined everything. Back then, Yue Feng had his doubts about this statement, believing that skill was equally crucial. However, this sea fishing trip in Sahalin completely changed his perspective.

With such fish conditions, who needs technique? To put it bluntly, just hang some meat on the hook, throw the rig into the water, and even tying the rod to a dog would result in continuous catches!

Countless yellow croakers and the occasional sheefish had Yue Feng completely abandoning the idea of bringing every fish back to camp. After fishing non-stop for half an hour like Uncle Victor, he started to become selective.

He didn’t want fishes that were too small, not brightly colored, ugly, with hooks hanging crookedly—none of those!

The core idea was simply this, with resources, you can afford to be capricious!

Even with such picky selection, it only took a little over an hour for the live fish bucket behind him to be filled up! At the very least, there were about twenty carefully selected large yellow croakers, each weighing four to five pounds!

Looking at the now full live fish bucket, Yue Feng asked, “Uncle Victor, I’ve had my fill! Are there other types of fish nearby? Can we try something else?”

Sea fishing to the point of nausea wasn’t an exaggeration! At this moment, Yue Feng had gone from initially being interested and excited to feeling bland and uninterested—a typical angler’s syndrome!

Victor laughed as he threw the yellow croaker he had just unhooked back into the sea and said, “Do you believe what I said now?”

“I believe it! It’s really thrilling! The yellow croaker resources here are just fantastic! With such high density, why not bring in commercial fishing vessels? Yellow croakers have significant value in our country, and even if they aren’t prized here, couldn’t they be exported to earn foreign currency?”

Victor shook his head: “This is Sahalin, the toughest region in the Russian Far East! There are only five months suitable for ordinary activities each year, scarcely populated and with weak infrastructure. The cost of transporting these resources to the mainland exceeds the value of the resources themselves! Commercial fishing isn’t profitable, hence why it’s cheaper for us.”

Yue Feng nodded, “Alright, I get it! Are there other kinds of fish nearby? Yellow croakers are too easy! Let’s try something else.”

“The shallow coastal waters are more populated with yellow croaker and blackhead, but if you want to catch something else, I’ll take you a bit further to a spot where the water is deeper. You can catch cod and flounder there! But are you sure you want to go? It seems like none of us brought electric reels. With the water depth over a hundred meters, cranking by hand is too exhausting. You won’t last through catching many fish!”

Deep water fishing is indeed very tiring with manual cranking, but Yue Feng didn’t mind. For him, the experience was what mattered, not the quantity of fish caught.

“Let’s go then, we’re leaving tomorrow anyway. Let’s have some fun fishing, we have plenty of time!”

“Alright! I’ll take you to a deeper area!” Uncle Victor, seeing Yue Feng’s keen interest, reluctantly agreed.

The fishing boat lifted anchor and then headed toward a deeper area.

After about an hour, the plants and river channels on shore were no longer visible. Looking around, it was all the vast ocean with surging waves.

Yue Feng adjusted the drone to give the live streaming audience a full view of the surrounding terrain, saying, “Guys, after over an hour of sailing, we have moved from the estuary to an area much farther from the shore. Consulting the map, we are probably now in the Pacific Ocean!

You all must have enjoyed the recent explosive yellow croaker fishing. Now that we’ve reached a new spot, let’s try catching some different species!

For deep sea fishing, we cannot use the common small lead weights and hooks like before! After consulting with Uncle Victor, I’ve decided to switch to bottom fishing!

Let’s see if we can catch some tasty cod and flounder! We didn’t bring any electric reels, and it’s uncertain what we’ll catch with manual deep-water bottom fishing. Just watch and see!”

After the greeting, Yue Feng switched to a much harder-tuned sea fishing rod and quickly got busy.

Logically, squid is a good bait for cod, but since there was none prepared on the boat, Yue Feng had to cut the yellow croaker into chunks to use as bait.

After waiting for the boat to stabilize, he controlled the fishing rig and sank the bait down.

“Bottom fishing is a very common technique in sea fishing, especially in deep sea fishing! This method targets fish near the seabed in deeper areas. Since it’s quite deep, we use large weights. We’re currently using two kilogram lead sinkers, and have already let out 130 meters of line, still continuing to let out more. According to Uncle Victor, the water depth here is around 180-200 meters!”

After continuing to let out the line for a while, it finally reached the bottom. Yue Feng tried tightening the line a bit—no fish yet, but just the weight of the lead sinker in deep water already felt substantial.

With the fishing line taut, Yue Feng placed the fishing rod on the boat’s rail mount and let out a sigh of relief. Everything was ready; now it was just waiting for a bite!

“Generally speaking, fish density in deep waters is definitely less than in shallow areas! But the size will be bigger. We’ve set up the fishing rig so let’s rest a bit; there won’t be a bite so soon!”

Yue Feng spoke while settling himself on the platform behind him.

Before he even finished speaking, the fishing rod jutting out of the boat’s railing started to nod, then it forcefully bent downwards.