Reborn in the Millennium: Building a Fortune from Fishing

Chapter 576 Fishing Four Tons in One Day?

Only high-value catches can be placed on the loudspeaker, which seems to be worth more than 300 on the market and is also the standard for entering the ultra-low temperature freezer.

The market price mentioned here refers to the price at the dock, not the purchase price on land. Boss Li helped them sell fish at very high prices.

The red snapper he caught wasn't even worthy of being featured on the loudspeaker.

A group of people were immediately filled with envy.

Everyone started bottom fishing again, and float fishing only caught small fish, preying on mahi-mahi, tuna, and the like. These fish are worthless.

If yellowfin tuna is going to cost over 300 yuan per kilogram, it has to be at least 150 kilograms or more, and it has to be exceptionally fat.

Qin Dahe was starting to get itchy too, but for now, his priority was to accumulate bait. If a big catch came later, he could just bait the hook with golden threadfin bream and go for it. There was no need to rush.

He would throw the larger fish to the crew to cut up the bait, and he would save the smaller ones, which weighed half a pound to a pound, and when the tackle box was full, he would ask the crew to help him deliver it to the refrigerated storage.

The fishing boats only provide bait for the first couple of days; afterwards, you'll have to figure out your own way. There aren't any fishing boats selling small fish and shrimp in the open sea right now.

If we wait until the fishing moratorium ends and there are many fishing boats in the open sea, we can contact them directly by radio, and the fish at sea are especially cheap.

Another fishing rod caught five fish, three small and one large. The hook also snagged some miscellaneous items, which were barnacles, so I just threw it out.

The big one is a mahi-mahi, this fish is the least valuable, so we gave it to the guy to chop up.

Feeling that he had caught enough small fish, he switched to a heavy surf rod with three hooks on it. How could he not catch big fish?

Groupers stay in the bottom obstacle area and don't come to the surface to feed.

The leading hook is a No. 5 hook from Dahe Fishing Gear. Because it has a wide mouth, the hook gap is more than two centimeters.

The fish I hung were golden threadfin bream weighing three to four ounces. These fish are brightly colored and quite eye-catching underwater, making them good for diving.

I just don't know how long it will take for them to take the bait; the fish below the drilling platform are quite small.

Before he could even catch a fish, the rich kid in seat number four next to him hooked a fish that seemed quite big, pressing his entire body against the fishing rod.

"Don't lock the drag." Qin Dahe was getting anxious. Did this idiot not know how to fish?
The guy quickly stepped forward to help control the fishing rod, and then turned on the drag, and the fishing line sped forward with a creaking sound.

Then it started to tighten the release again, and only began to slow down when it reached 10 kilograms.

This indicates that the fish below are not very big, weighing at most forty or fifty pounds.

Five kilograms is considered a lot for a freshwater wheel, but it can't withstand the force of a fishing boat in the ocean. The drag force of an electric winch can even reach 100 kilograms, which is too heavy for an adult to pull.

It wasn't until he started catching the fish that the other guy used a hook to pull it up.

"Wow, that's a big golden tuna! Young Master Guo is awesome!" Qin Dahe exclaimed as he turned the reel. The fish in his hand wasn't that big, yet he still had time to brag.

"A golden gun weighing only forty pounds, what a big bastard."

When going out to sea with the Li family's boat, it's not uncommon to find a hundred-pound golden spear; it's quite common for one to come ashore.

"Haha, I'll grill it tonight and eat it. The belly of the fish is alright." This one is considered fat; it would sell for forty or fifty yuan a pound.

"I don't think that will work. It needs to be frozen to remove the acidity," the waiter said, cutting the edible fish into pieces with a knife, which would be sent directly to the refrigerated storage room later.

The tuna caught from fishing is burnt and has accumulated lactic acid, so you have to wait until at least the next day to eat it.

"Forgot about this." The pressure on his hand began to decrease, and Qin Dahe started to reel in the line.

The more it struggled, the stronger it became, but he simply and violently cranked the wheel.

The heavy surf rod used a #5 Dyneema line, which has a stronger pulling force than a #30 nylon line. I was just trying to save some energy. Without the guy even needing to hook the fish, a very long one was quickly pulled up. "Is that a mackerel?"

It's over a meter long, thin and long.

"Blue-spotted mackerel are frequently caught by fishing boats in the first half of each year," the man asked. "Have they been caught?"

"Cut it up for baiting, it's not worth much." He shook his head.

You can actually catch fish here without baiting, but it's always good to have a baiting spot. The same applies to subsequent fishing spots on tour boats; you slowly build up the baiting spot, since you can't take these fish back with you anyway.

These ten people caught an estimated five or six hundred pounds of fish in two hours, which is simply outrageous.

"What's the highest record for a fishing boat catching fish in a day?" Qin Dahe handed a cigarette to his crew member and lit one for himself, taking a deep drag.

Fishing is exhausting, I'll take a break now before continuing.

"The highest yield was at Yitong Ansha. In the first half of the year, our boss personally led the team, and we caught nearly four tons of fish in one day at fourteen fishing spots."

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Eight thousand catties of fish, fourteen fishing spots—at this moment, he was deeply shocked, with each person averaging over five hundred catties.

"We happened to come across a level 2 fishing spot. Our company's purse seine boat was quite far away, so we decided to fish there ourselves," the guy said with a chuckle.

"Third Master said that if there are no third-level markers this time, all the second-level markers encountered before the 20th will be fishing boats."

Upon hearing this news, both Uncle Qing and Young Master Guo were startled. "Really?"

"Haha, of course it's true." Boss Li returned to the ship at some point and walked over with a cigar in his mouth.

Standing at 1.9 meters tall, with broad shoulders and a thick waist like a bear, he casually pulled up a stool and sat down.

"Boss Li is very generous."

"The fishing moratorium was delayed by half a month this year, and the sea was also closed for a period of time. There was nothing we could do about it." He waved his hand. "You guys should try to catch as much fish as possible and fill the boats to go back, so everyone can earn some money for cigarettes."

Without a large school of fish, Qin Dahe wasn't in a hurry to fish. Instead, he started chatting with Boss Li to learn about the equipment on the fishing boat.

When I'm worth hundreds of millions in the future, I'll get a fishing boat and go out to sea from Shanghai to fish with giant fish whenever I want.

I never expected that such an inconspicuous fishing boat would have so much hidden equipment.

Leaving aside the obvious electric winches and cryogenic warehouses, ship stabilizers, weather instruments, seawater desalination facilities, and so on, none of them are cheap.

Apart from being a bit slow, it has no other problems.

The entire boat cost over ten million yuan to build. This family owns three of these top-of-the-line fishing boats. Wenwen would probably drool if she heard that.

His yacht wasn't cheap either; the engine alone cost several million. But yachts are expensive to build, and he's not even a professional in this field. It's nowhere near as comprehensive as a fishing club.

If it weren't for the lack of signal at sea, Qin Dahe would have liked to call and show off.

After chatting for a while, he had rested enough and then put his hook back on for golden threadfin bream.

Tuna were brought aboard the boat every few days. Although they were not very big, the violent pulling force was still very exciting.

By the end of the fishing trip, Qin Dahe had caught a golden spearfish weighing thirty or forty pounds. Today's catch was at least a hundred pounds.

This takes an entire afternoon; you can't catch more than 200 jin (100 catties) in a whole day.

(End of this chapter)