181: Crazy Dogtooth Tuna

"Did you say to loosen the drag? I don't remember that?"

Lu Hua stared at Liu Yao and asked.

Stared at like that, Liu Yao even doubted whether he had said it or not. So he quickly changed the subject and said,

"Don't worry about whether you remember it or not, quickly tie the hook, recast the rod, while the fish school hasn't run away, there's still a chance."

"Oh, oh, oh! Brother Yao is right, teach me later!"

Lu Hua immediately sobered up,

"That's right, there's still a chance!"

While Lu Hua was concentrating on re-tying the hook, something was happening with Yang Qi.

He finally saw four or five gigantic creatures following the Dogtooth Tuna.

"What a big Bluefin Tuna!"

So he put the fishing rod back into the rod holder, loosened the drag a little, and gave a wink to Zhang Jun, who was watching him.

Zhang Jun immediately understood, also put his fishing rod back into the rod holder, and pulled out the fishing line.

The two, one after another, scooped out a large Squid, then closed the live fish tank,

Hung it on a palm-sized fish hook, spun the reel a few times, and after letting go, the Squid, with the fish hook, dropped into the sea with a "thud."

The Squid, pulled by the lead weight, constantly spun and jumped, trying to break free from the shackles of the fish hook.

The struggling Squid quickly attracted the attention of those Bluefin Tuna, especially the scent of the punctured Squid, which deeply attracted the Bluefin Tuna.

With a flick of their tails and an acceleration, two sturdy Bluefin Tuna swallowed the two Squids that suddenly appeared.

Yang Qi and the other person knew the Tuna had taken the bait from the pulling force on their hands, and they both exerted all their strength.

They pulled the rope fiercely. The fish hook then deeply embedded itself in the corner of the Tuna's mouth.

Feeling the pain, the Bluefin Tuna quickly turned its head and swam in the direction it came from.

It was fortunate that both of them were prepared and had their gloves on from the start. However, the nylon rope still caused a faint pain in their palms.

The momentum was too strong, and it was clear they couldn't hold on, so Yang Qi could only release the rope.

Seeing Yang Qi start to attach buoys to the fishing line, Zhang Jun also quickly attached two.

After waiting a few seconds, he attached two more.

The fifty-centimeter diameter buoys, combined in pairs, still provided a very large buoyancy.

The Bluefin Tuna, along with the buoys, immediately sank into the sea, and then dragged the other two below the surface as well, dashing away into the distance.

Each of them still had a buoy beside them; these were prepared for when they truly couldn't hold on, to cut the rope tied to the ship's side and then tie it to the buoy.

A thousand meters of rope plus four buoys should be enough.

The two continued to take out their fishing rods and started to fight the fish. At this moment, Wang Jinxi and the Ship worker who was bleeding the Tuna with a knife happened to pass by.

Seeing that both of them had caught two large fish at the same time, they immediately lent a hand.

They continuously took turns fighting the fish, while the two remaining people occasionally pulled the fishing line by hand to interfere with the Tuna, not allowing the fish to stop and recover its strength.

After about fifty minutes, the Dogtooth Tuna on the two boat rods were hoisted onto the deck by the crane.

The aftermath was left to the more professional Ship worker.

The other three continued to take turns fighting the Tuna on the rope.

During this time, Yang Qi noticed that there were still many Dogtooth Tuna circling nearby, and even the other Bluefin Tuna were still feeding a little further away.

All of this was also thanks to the continuous chumming by the fishermen, with boxes and boxes of frozen Blue Mackerel being poured into the sea as if they were free.

"Humans die for wealth, fish die for food."

Yang Qi was also a little emotional, so he hung Squids on two more boat rods and cast them far away with all his might.

His actions were all seen by Zhang Jun, who looked at Yang Qi with an inquiring gaze.

Yang Qi nodded calmly. Zhang Jun understood, grinning silently.

The two rascals communicated silently like spies meeting.

When the Ship worker returned after processing the Tuna, he happened to see two fishing rods, one on the left and one on the right, quickly forming a bent bow.

You should know that these were professional Tuna fishing rods, and for a 2.1-meter rod to be instantly pulled into a bent bow, you can imagine how strong the fish underwater was.

The Ship worker, named Ding Kuan, grabbed Zhang Jun's fishing rod nearby and lifted it hard to set the hook.

At the same time, he called out to Yang Qi, who was leaning against his own fishing rod and had just switched hands.

"Boss, your fishing rod also has a fish, and it looks very big."

Yang Qi immediately turned around, grabbed his fishing rod, and forcefully raised it to set the hook.

It was fortunate that he had loosened the drag on both fishing rods a little at that time.

Otherwise, he might have ended up like Lu Hua: a broken line and a lost fish.

In fact, up to this point, most people on the fishing boat had not yet caught Tuna. Or rather, they had not yet brought them onto the deck.

It's not that live bait is so miraculous, it's just that the effect is a little better than frozen fish.

The main reason was that he had a golden finger that allowed him to see where the fish were.

However, using large Squids to catch Bluefin Tuna indeed had a very good effect. He had researched the information before going out to sea, and Squid is one of the foods that Bluefin Tuna love to eat.

As the saying goes, "First step, first in every step!"

Neither Yang Qi nor Ding Kuan immediately picked up their fishing rods to fight the fish.

Both of them knew how strong the first rush of such a large fish would be. To go head-to-head with it now would simply be asking for trouble.

They could only occasionally pull the fishing rod left and right to disrupt the Tuna's rhythm.

After twenty minutes, the two Bluefin Tuna on the fishing lines finally tired, and were dragged to the ship's side by Zhang Jun and Wang Jinxi like dead pigs.

They were indeed two Bluefin Tuna weighing over five hundred catties, with plump bodies and deep blue, slightly purple skin, very captivating.

Wang Jinxi put ropes around the two Bluefin Tuna, and they were hoisted onto the deck one by one with a crane.

First, a towel was used to cover the Tuna's eyes, then a gaff hook was aimed at its head and plunged in, and the Tuna trembled once before dying completely.

The Tuna was quickly bled and de-acidified.

The other one was also processed in the same way first, followed by gutting the Tuna, removing the internal organs and gills, and using a hose to rinse the internal cavity and blood vessels.

By the time these two Bluefin Tuna were processed, the other fishermen began to pull their fish to the ship's side.

At this point, the crewmen started to get busy, and in a short time, six or seven Dogtooth Tuna were hoisted onto the deck.

This kept Wang Jinxi busy, continuously bleeding and de-acidifying the Tuna, and gutting them.

The one to two hundred catties of Dogtooth Tuna appeared so small and slender in front of the over five hundred catties of Bluefin Tuna.

Half an hour later, except for Yang Qi and Zhang Jun who were still battling Tuna, all the Tuna caught by the entire ship had been pulled onto the deck.

Looking at the dense array of 15 Tuna on the deck, especially the two Bluefin Tuna, the captain kept taking photos and videos with his phone.

He thought to himself, "Are these Dogtooth Tuna crazy?"

He knew that through these videos and photos, his fishing boat business would further improve in the future.