10: First time fishing for blue grouper

“Which eye of yours saw that I was tired and needed a rest? I haven’t even caught a single fish yet!”

The older brother cursed inwardly.

Cigarettes and alcohol are bridges between men.

He glanced at the cigarette, took it, and said with a smile, “Little brother, you’re truly a fishing expert. You’ve already caught five or six in such a short time.”

“Not at all! It’s all luck!”

“Brother over there, come have a cigarette first. There’s no bite right now anyway!” Yang Qi then waved to another angler a little further away.

The angler hesitated for a moment, cursing silently, then got up and walked towards the two men.

He approached, took a cigarette, and lit it.

He immediately started, “Brother, you’re a master! You’ve already landed four or five continuously since you arrived! I came half an hour earlier than you, and my fish keep net hasn’t even touched the water yet!”

“Not at all, luck, it’s all luck!” Yang Qi waved his hand.

Many people carry a sedan chair, you carry me, I carry you, everyone is happy!

Amidst the smoke, the three men gathered, chatting idly.

Since they smoked his, they couldn’t not smoke theirs. So, the three of them took turns offering a round.

Looking at the cigarettes the two men took out, “As expected, anglers are never short of money, except for me. But this is good too, they’re all my potential customers!”

After a round of cigarettes, the three added each other on social media, agreeing to fish together when they had time. Then they dispersed back to their respective fishing spots.

Question: “Why agree to fish, and not to eat or drink?”

Answer: “As a pure angler, if you don’t agree to fish, what do you agree to, eating and drinking? That doesn’t exist!”

Yang Qi returned to his fishing spot, used his telekinesis, activated his ability, and began scanning the seabed.

He discovered a complex pile of reefs about ten meters to his left, and about twenty meters from the shore.

He had inadvertently seen a large dark shadow flicker just now. He immediately focused his attention and observed carefully.

It was indeed a large fish, likely a Grouper. Only its head was visible.

Yang Qi quickly walked to his left, causing the two older brothers nearby to look sideways, muttering inwardly:

“Is he crazy! Does he think he’s a mobile company? Still moving around to fish!”

With Yang Qi’s first cast and retrieve, the fishing rod jolted with a “clunk~”.

He lifted the rod and set the hook.

“Got one!”

However, Yang Qi knew it wasn’t the large Grouper. Because the large fish was relatively close to the shore, about 20 meters, and his line was cast too far, over thirty meters.

He was preparing to pull the bait in front of the fish, but it was intercepted by another fish halfway.

It was a Sea Bass, just over a pound. Well, “even a mosquito’s leg is still meat!”

He casually threw it aside,

“Live or die, I don’t care!”

Again, this time he reined in his strength, and thankfully, it was less than thirty meters.

He slowly reeled in the line, moving the small fish, the small fish. It came to the side of the large fish, hoping the large fish would bite.

Suddenly, a black shadow darted out of the reef hole and swallowed the small fish whole.

A pulling force immediately came from his hand, and he instantly lifted the rod and set the hook.

“Hooked!”

Fearing to startle the large fish, Yang Qi immediately tightened the drag and pulled hard on the fishing line, pulling the fish away from its spot at the first opportunity.

Great strength creates miracles, and he reeled the fishing reel like a fire wheel.

This three to four-pound Green Grouper, before it could even react, was pulled and dragged by Yang Qi like a mop, away from that reef.

Two minutes later, the fish was pulled to the shore reef, where the older brother nearby was already waiting with a landing net.

“Do you net it or do I?” This older brother was also a meticulous person.

“You do it! Big brother, it’s not that big of a fish, no pressure!” Yang Qi replied.

“Give it to me!”

It was clear that the older brother’s netting technique was first-class. He extended the net handle, aimed the net opening at the fish’s head, and scooped it up with the flow.

“Slack the line!”

The older brother commanded.

Yang Qi immediately loosened the taut fishing line. The Grouper steadily entered the landing net.

Netting a fish actually requires skill. You need to start from the head. And you cannot net the leader line, otherwise, it’s easy to break the line and lose the fish.

Normally, it requires cooperation between the rod holder and the netter. The moment the fish is about to enter the net, the rod holder must loosen the taut fishing line, allowing the netter to scoop the fish into the net with the flow.

If the two do not cooperate well, the net opening will touch the leader line. The leader line is already thin, and under taut conditions, the force is still relatively even. When the leader line touches the net, it’s like an external force is applied from the side. If the fish struggles even a little, the line breaks, and the fish escapes!

Therefore, experienced anglers generally do not blindly help others net large fish.

I can hold the rod for you, listen to your command to slack the line, and let you net it yourself.

Otherwise, if the fish escapes, whose fault is it!

The meticulous older brother lifted the landing net and handed it to Yang Qi.

“It’s a Green Grouper, about three to just under four pounds!”

Yang Qi took pliers to remove the hook, and along with the small Sea Bass from earlier, he sent it to where he caught the Sea Bass and put it in the fish keep net.

Yang Qi thought for a moment, then picked up the livewell and returned to the spot where he caught the Grouper.

He offered a cigarette to the two older brothers who were whispering together, as a sign of thanks!

He even grinned, explaining with a touch of Versailles, “It’s not big, not even four pounds!”

This immediately drew glares from the two older brothers, “You’re so arrogant, do your family know?”

The two older brothers instantly felt that their Furongwang cigarettes were no longer good to smoke.

It was tasteless, better to go back to fishing!

Maybe they would also catch a big one soon. Then, they would be “the most handsome guy” in this reef area!

Yang Qi, unaware of the two older brothers’ inner thoughts, once again activated fishing mode, casting and retrieving. He again pulled the fishing line to the front of the reef where the Grouper was hiding.

Yang Qi hoped the large fish would make a move. When he saw the large fish move slightly, as if it had noticed the small fish’s provocation, his heart couldn’t help but pound like a frightened deer.

He slowed down the retrieval speed and gently twitched the fishing rod, wanting to attract the large fish’s attention as much as possible.

It was as if time had slowed down by half a beat, and the scene passed frame by frame!

Just as the bait slowly passed the fish’s head, the small fish happened to jump.

Suddenly, the scene flickered.

“Still as a virgin, active as a rabbit!”

The large fish swung its head and swallowed the small fish in one gulp! It was about to retreat into the reef hole.

Because Yang Qi had been staring at the large fish, his muscles were taut. However, the large fish’s movement was too fast, and he didn’t clearly see its actions.

While feeling an inexplicable pulling force on his hand, he instinctively lifted the rod, relying on muscle memory.

Since he was preparing to catch this big guy, the drag was already tightened.

No sooner said than done, he used all his strength in his hand, pulling the large fish out of the reef hole at the first opportunity.

The large fish was momentarily stunned. By the time it reacted, it had already been pulled more than two meters out of the hole. It began to struggle violently.

The hook was deeply embedded in its lip. No matter how it thrashed its head and tail, there was always an inexplicable pulling force, dragging it in one direction.

With the stinging pain from the corner of its mouth, the large fish instinctively wanted to drill into the hole where it usually lived.

As long as it could get into the hole, there were plenty of ways to escape. Several times before, when it encountered similar situations, it hadn’t left the hole. Then it used the reef to break the fishing line and escape.

So much so that later, when it ate, it was always cautious, observing for a long time before biting.

This time, for some reason, it was directly pulled out of the hole.

How could it be led by the nose? It struggled to turn around and swam towards the hole.