32: Rush to the south, oil

This cycle repeated.

Yang Qi also caught a Spanish Mackerel weighing around 10 catties.

At that time, a fellow angler in the same group had a fish on, and Yang Qi hooked his fish while reeling in.

He was worried their lines would tangle, but Yang Qi knew his fish wasn't big and he could handle it.

So, he didn't cut the line, pulling the fish directly to the gunwale, not delaying the anglers on the aft deck from fighting their fish.

After that, Yang Qi didn't go fishing again, because they were due to arrive at their destination that night.

He needed to conserve his energy and prepare for the evening!

After chatting with Zhang Jun and the others for a while, Yang Qi returned to the cabin lounge.

He vaguely heard the broadcast announcing dinner.

By the time Yang Qi arrived at the restaurant, he found everyone already there.

He asked a few people about their catches, which were a mix of good and bad.

In short: the harvest wasn't great, averaging less than one fish per person.

After dinner, everyone went to their cabins to sleep, preparing for the evening's grand event.

The boat traveled non-stop, finally arriving around 8:30 PM.

Adding the one-day return trip, that meant a total of four days and three nights, with the actual fishing time being at most two days and three nights.

The group ate then slept, slept then ate, all in anticipation of the night when they could truly show their skills.

The platform was brightly lit, with the lights reflecting on the sea surface.

Several fishing boats were already docked below the platform, fishing.

As the boat slowly approached the platform, everyone got ready, eager to show off their skills.

Zhang Jun introduced, "This place is basically the most longed-for holy land in the hearts of domestic anglers!"

"The fish resources are extremely rich; the Tuna here are mainly Yellowfin Tuna, with Bluefin Tuna being extremely rare.

You can also catch: various large Groupers, Red Snapper, large Greater Red Snapper, Skipjack Tuna, Giant Trevally, large Beltfish, Porgy, Red Seabream, large Spanish Mackerel, large Yellow Croaker, large Blackfish, and other fish species rarely seen near the coast, and even more."

As Zhang Jun explained, the boat had already steadily docked.

Yang Qi looked up at the sea surface under the lights, which was densely packed with fish schools, mostly fry, but also some Giant Trevally weighing tens of catties.

These upper-layer fish species chased the bait thrown into the water by the anglers.

The fish scrambling for food was a magnificent sight.

However, these fish were not valuable, like some Giant Trevally and similar fish, often weighing tens of catties.

They bite aggressively and are powerful.

It's time-consuming and laborious, and they're not worth much money.

Professional anglers usually just enjoy the thrill, and the fish are mostly thrown back into the sea.

Upper-layer fish on the surface are generally not valuable.

Yang Qi used his ability and found that there were also many fish in the lower layers of the seawater.

Since he had come to the deep sea, small fish and shrimp were definitely not appealing.

"I still need to catch bottom-dwelling fish! First, I'll get some larger live bait."

Yang Qi thought for a moment, then took out his small red reel and cast a few times, catching about ten Skipjack Tuna weighing 1-3 catties, which he put into a livewell.

He attached a squid (he had taken a small bucket from the captain earlier) to the hook of his electric reel and put on a three-catty lead sinker.

Once the large lead sinker perfectly avoided the fish schools feeding on the surface and reached 90 meters, he turned off the automatic line-out brake and left it, letting it fish automatically.

He then started setting up his boat rock fishing heavy rod, putting on a large lead sinker and attaching a Skipjack Tuna of about three catties, sending it directly to the bottom, waiting for a fated fish.

The anglers began to hook fish one after another, though mostly Skipjack Tuna and Dorado.

Zhang Jun beside him also caught four or five Skipjack Tuna.

The Skipjack Tuna, around three catties, was quickly pulled past the surface predators by the large lead sinker.

The lead sinker reached the seabed, and about two meters above it were the leader and the Skipjack Tuna bait with the hook attached to its back.

The Skipjack Tuna, in unbearable pain, struggled and twisted desperately, stimulating a large Grouper hiding in the gloomy depths nearby.

In such a place, where people fish every day, the remaining large fish are all 'slippery' fish.

The rash ones would have long become dinner for anglers.

"Old people are cunning, old fish are slippery!"

Originally, these large fish were inherently suspicious, always feeding cautiously and not easily preying.

But as a predator, how could it resist a small piece of food jumping and showing off right in front of it?

Enough is enough, no need to endure any longer!

It rushed up and swallowed the bait on the hook in one gulp.