As a Fisherman, My Fish Can Level Up-Chapter 232 - 200 It Started Raining Big Fish Today

Chapter 232: Chapter 200 It Started Raining Big Fish Today

Chapter 232 -200 It Started Raining Big Fish Today

Soon after, the group continued fishing, catching mostly small fish, which they picked up and put in a bucket to release after they finished fishing.

Today, they were planning to eat the fish they caught themselves, and the small fish didn’t have the right taste.

Chu Mingcheng soon pulled an octopus weighing over half a pound from the crevice of a rock, “There’s no shortage of octopuses today, perfect for our barbecue tonight!”

“Octopus tastes good, it’s a pity there’s no squid, I feel that squid would taste even better,” Jiang Luoluo said, wiping a droplet of water from her face with her arm and laughing.

“Look, how about this red eel? I think it’ll taste good as well,” Zhang Wei said, showing off a small red eel he had just caught.

Chu Mingcheng looked at the little eel, paused briefly, and said, “You are what you eat, I personally suggest you eat it yourself.”

“Fuck (first tone), who the hell are you calling out?”

“Ah Cheng isn’t cussing at you, he’s just stating a fact!”

Chen Yang joined in the teasing, almost provoking Zhang Wei to prove himself.

But then he thought about the two women present, who might become his sisters-in-law in the future, and he immediately lost interest.

The group kept up their laughter and teasing until the sun had completely set, and they had caught almost all the fish in the pool.

Today’s haul from the pool was not bad, with a cloud-patterned grouper among other ingredients, enough for their meal. However, after discussing, they decided to keep the grouper alive and eat it the next day at noon.

The rest of the mixed fish weren’t bad either, plus the octopus and the sea snails and oysters they collected in the afternoon, it was more than enough food.

This time on the island, they did not encounter any easy prey like Mana, leaving Chu Mingcheng feeling somewhat regretful.

If they had another one, he would consider spending more time with Jiang Luoluo towards the end of the year, and then he could go fishing for white snakes in West Lake whenever he had the chance…

A night passed, and the next day as dawn broke, Chu Mingcheng woke up.

Moving the thighs off of him without disturbing the still-sleeping Zhang Wei and Chen Yang, he left the tent first to wash up in the bathroom.

With two women around, the bedroom was naturally theirs.

The three men made do with a tent barely set up on the deck outside the cockpit, which is why Chu Mingcheng had such poor sleep quality.

After washing up, just as he was about to make breakfast, he saw a flock of sea birds circling in the distant sky.

Chu Mingcheng quickly grabbed his binoculars and went up to the flybridge to check the situation.

Usually, where there are sea birds, there are schools of fish.

And these schools attract many predators, making it a feast of frenzy.

The trip to Dongsha had left a deep impression on him; he had made over two hundred thousand during that frenzy, adding to his previous catch, which allowed him to rake in more than four hundred thousand on that trip.

But the distance was too far; even with binoculars, he could only see the scene of sea birds diving for fish over there.

Next, there was something black and dense pouring down from the sky into the water, then leaping out again.

But the occasional large splash indicated that there were obviously big fish over there.

So Chu Mingcheng hurriedly went back down to the cockpit, started the fishing boat, and headed over there.

On getting closer, he realized that the dense swarm was actually a large group of flying fish.

They leapt out of the water, trying to escape the predators from below, unaware that there were hunters in the sky waiting for their arrival as well.

Obviously, the flying fish wouldn’t stay in one spot and be easily caught and coincidentally, they were moving in his direction, so the two soon met on the open sea.

A series of crackling noises erupted, and Chu Mingcheng didn’t expect the flying fish to not dodge the boat. Perhaps those in the air were already trying to dodge, but too many couldn’t avoid it, resulting in fish raining down onto the boat.

“What’s going on, what’s going on?” The tent was flapping noisily, and its two occupants were immediately woken by the noise. After crawling out of the tent and seeing what was happening outside, they were stunned.

But the next moment, after a series of exclamations, they hurried into the cockpit to dodge.

Luckily, the entrance to the tent faced the cockpit door, which spared them from getting bonked on the head by the fish.

Not just them, even Jiang Luoluo and Zhou Jiayi in the bedroom were woken up by the noise and came to the cockpit, staring through the window at the fish falling from the sky.

The fish shower, however, didn’t last long, only three or four minutes.

“This is too spectacular!” Jiang Luoluo exclaimed as she put down her camera.

“Spectacular? Don’t you find it terrifying?” Zhou Jiayi said, sticking her head out from behind. The sight of fish falling directly from the sky towards them, then hitting the surface with a crash, was almost too much for her to watch.

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“Not really!” Jiang Luoluo shook her head.

She’d known Chu Mingcheng for several months now and had seen much wilder scenes, so a few small fish were nothing.

As for the three men, they had already gone out to pick up fish as soon as the rain stopped, and Chu Mingcheng had even brought out the electric fishing rod.

He noticed on the fishfinder that there were still a lot of big fish lingering under the boat; he wasn’t going to let them go so easily.

The water here was very deep at one hundred and twenty-three meters. He had seen earlier that the school of fish was within ten meters of the water’s surface, practically active at the surface.

Although the flying fish had dodged the fishing boat, many had fallen aboard and some that had hit the boat and died plunged into the water, creating a natural fishing spot.

The predators were certainly not going to let this free feast pass by so easily.

Therefore, after setting up the electric fishing rod, Chu Mingcheng hooked a dead flying fish and threw it into the water.

While waiting for a fish to bite, he was also busy, collecting the flying fish that fell onto the boat together with Chen Yang and Zhang Wei.

At first glance, the boat seemed to be full of flying fish, but after the collection, the fish box was only half full. However, for fishing, that was enough.

Just as Chu Mingcheng finished collecting the flying fish, his electric fishing rod finally began to show signs of life.

“Ah Cheng, we got one, we got one.” Chen Yang hurriedly called out upon seeing this.

Chu Mingcheng saw the rod shaking violently, bending significantly, his face lit up with joy—this fish was not small!

He immediately went over, grabbed the rod, and gave it an upward pull, hooking a Stabbing Fish, and then pressed the button to reel in the line; the electric reel began its work at once.

The speed at which the line was reeled back in was decent, indicating that the weight of the fish was not over a hundred pounds.

The constant whirring of the line being reeled back sounded, and everyone, having finished their tasks, crowded around, watching the water’s surface intently, curious about what kind of fish it was.

Judging by the angle of the line, the fish seemed very fast, having darted quite a distance on the water’s surface.

From the moment it bit to when he pressed the electric button, only about half a minute had passed. Yet, in this brief half minute, the fish had swum more than a hundred meters, even with the drag almost completely locked down.

If the drag hadn’t been locked, wouldn’t the fish have swum out five hundred meters in half a minute?

Fortunately, it didn’t seem to have enough strength to overwhelm the electric reel, which kept pulling it back.

As the number on the screen reached twenty, meaning there were only twenty meters of line left outside, a sword-like projection suddenly appeared on the surface of the sea.

Chu Mingcheng was startled, thinking he had caught a Flagfish. But as the fish got closer, he realized it was a swordfish.

The long bill of the swordfish was different from that of the Flagfish and the spearfish; it was flat like a sword.

Meanwhile, those of the Flagfish and spearfish were round, making them easy to distinguish.

The swordfish Chu Mingcheng had caught was just a small one, a little over a meter in length and likely weighing around sixty to seventy pounds.

He directly hooked it, catching the fish’s brain in one go, and the blood immediately stained the sea red.

The swordfish hadn’t completely run out of energy, but having its brain pierced, its life was promptly claimed, and it stopped moving after just a short while.

Chu Mingcheng exerted force with both hands and pulled the fish up onto the boat.

Zhang Wei and Chen Yang, who had learned underwater fishing and hunting, recognized it as a swordfish right away.

Jiang Luoluo, however, did not recognize it. When she came out and saw the fish, she was surprised: “Huh, I didn’t expect to find Flagfish in these waters?”

Chu Mingcheng was bleeding the fish, but upon hearing her question, he explained with a smile, “This is a swordfish. They don’t just live in the tropics; they’re found in temperate zones too. It’s just that they’re normally not encountered near shore. We probably ran into this one because it was attracted by the group of flying fish.”

“So it’s a swordfish. Then let me help you fish!”

“No need, you go prepare some breakfast. We only have two rods suitable for fishing swordfish anyway, better let me do it.”

Chu Mingcheng shook his head and declined her offer. Whether it was Flagfish or swordfish, both could be quite aggressive, so he decided it was better to handle it himself.

Besides, swordfish can grow up to five meters in length and weigh one thousand pounds. They are not to be underestimated.

Jiang Luoluo had no objections, and knowing that everyone had skipped breakfast, she went back to the cabin to obediently start cooking.

Zhou Jiayi was also curious about the fish, but seeing Jiang Luoluo heading back, she quickly followed.

Chu Mingcheng left the task of bleeding the fish to Chen Yang and Zhang Wei, then he re-baited the electric fishing rod and cast it back into the water.

He then went into the cockpit to fetch another stiff boat rod, obviously intending to fish for the big ones himself.

But as he was tying the line, the electric fishing rod got another bite. The speed at which the fish took the bait increased, probably because the flying fish near the bottom were nearly all eaten, making the bait on the hooks all the more attractive to them.

This time it seemed he had caught an even bigger fish, with the electric fishing rod bending so much that it made sounds as if it were under too much strain.

Upon seeing this, Zhang Wei handed off the fish to Chen Yang for further processing, instructing him to lay out ice cubes, while he himself took over the electric rod.

He had long wanted to try his hand at it, but without a stiff boat rod and the strong Dali Ma Line, he couldn’t fish for swordfish.

Now that Chu Mingcheng wanted to go manual, he decided to indulge with the electric one.

“Uhh uhh uhh… Ah Cheng, this fish seems a bit too big!” Despite pushing the button, not only was the line not being reeled in, it was slowly being pulled further out.

Chu Mingcheng’s eyes brightened, and he quickly stood up to take a look: “Not bad, this one might weigh over two hundred pounds. The crane I installed is finally going to come in handy.”

Zhang Wei, both amused and frustrated, said, “Is that what you’re concerned about?”

“Of course, I’ve never used my crane before, I’ve been waiting for a big fish!”

Fish weighing a few dozen pounds could be quickly reeled in by the electric rod, but one weighing over two hundred pounds was quite a different story.

Zhang Wei had to manually lift the rod to help pull it in while also occasionally turning it off and pouring some ice water over it to cool it down, preventing the reel from overheating and burning out.

By then, Chu Mingcheng had finished preparing the line assembly. He went to the other side of the boat, threw some flying fish into the water to lure and attract fish from the bottom, and then cast the baited hook.

He placed the fishing rod into the holder, the drag almost completely locked, leaving just a bit of leeway for cushioning.

Some of the swordfish from the depths had already left, but there were still some larger ones around, which, due to the effort of chasing the school of fish, had stayed to enjoy the readily available feast.

The fish caught by the electric rod were the big kind, and among the swordfish attracted by Chu Mingcheng’s flying fish, there was one especially large one.