Reborn in the Millennium: Building a Fortune from Fishing

Chapter 627 The Great River Cup

The portable crucian carp rod is what Qin Dahe uses to make money; the longest is 3.9 meters and the shortest is 2.7 meters.

The lines had to be beautiful, the patterns had to be aesthetically pleasing, and even the design of the hand-held knot was custom-made by art students at the Academy of Fine Arts, costing five thousand yuan.

Qin Dahe, a scoundrel accustomed to the fine food of later generations, almost suffocated to death from the girl's suffocation.

Only after I added 1,000 yuan did they agree to continue. I had to redo it eleven times on QQ, and the style was barely usable.

The original image still needs to be shipped over, because the entire process is hand-drawn, and computer photos will lose their color.

That six thousand yuan was definitely well spent.

The person was introduced by Wenwen's girlfriend. Having more friends makes it easier to get things done.

The crucian carp rod also comes in a separate wooden gift box, along with the fishing line, float, leader, and a 100-gram package of commercial bait. The whole set sells for between 40 and 100 yuan.

This stuff is mostly made of fiberglass, and the raw materials are incredibly cheap. You can make more than half the profit. It's a "stupidity tax" product from Dahe Fishing Gear.

Those who prefer to travel light should like this product.

The wooden gift boxes were made casually by five master carpenters and their apprentices, simply by applying some wood varnish and printing a pattern.

It's very well-made and unlikely to break. The marketing tactics used twenty years later are quite effective.

This is something used to subsidize giant fishing rods and incidentally give workers something to do. If silver carp and bighead carp rods don't sell well, they make these troublesome things.

Fishing rods for silver carp and bighead carp sell out quickly, making them a type of elastic commodity.

The name was chosen casually; it was "Qingci," named after her own daughter.

The more he sold, the more something seemed off. By the end of July, the profit margin on this thing had actually surpassed that of silver carp and bighead carp rods. He sold fifteen of them on Taobao, and several secondary distributors and fishing tackle shops in other provinces called him, asking him to produce more.

A simple gift box containing a small fishing rod can generate substantial profits even across three tiers of distribution channels.

However, Qin Dahe still insists on the "elastic commodity" attribute and mainly produces silver carp and bighead carp fishing rods.

Brand building requires perseverance. The sales volume of Qinglongyin No. 1 was only 2000 units. However, when it came to selling Qinglongyin No. 10, a mature team of giant fishing rods was formed, and that was when it started to make money.

In mid-August, a competition called the "Great River Cup" was held in Dahu.

Qin Dahe invited a TV station to broadcast the competition, along with an editor from a fishing magazine. This was Dahe Fishing Tackle's first public competition in the fishing tackle circle.

This competition showed everyone what a typical black pit fishing pond looks like, leaving the anglers questioning their existence.

Three contestants in the qualifying rounds suffered setbacks, breaking two fishing rods in a row and having to withdraw from the competition.

Imported carbon fiber fishing rods are indeed good, but they have too high a carbon content and are too brittle, making them very risky for catching big fish.

Conversely, the performance of the Qinglongyin No. 1 and a Guangwei fishing rod was remarkable, with a 15-pound silver carp pulled ashore in just three minutes.

The competition is about efficiency. If you spend more than ten minutes reeling in a fish, what's the point of fishing?

The real test of these anglers' adaptability comes in the final rounds.

Adjusting fishing tackle according to fish behavior is a fundamental skill for competitive anglers, and it's also the key to standing out in high-density fishing ponds.

Because of the need to avoid suspicion, Dahe Fishing Tackle only sent one person to the event. Da Liu, that scoundrel, sat in the chairman's seat and served as the award presenter.

Outside, he is also the chairman of Dahe Fishing Tackle, of course, those who know, know.

When people in the know want to discuss business, they always call Qin Dahe first.

The final champion was the angler who participated in the competition, Long Wanghen, who caught 179 jin (approximately 85.5 catties).

Their skills were indeed formidable. Seeing that the fishing wasn't going well, they took a different approach in the final round, switching from fishing for silver carp and bighead carp to grass carp. However, instead of using the bait that Dragon King Hates, they used a homemade "grass bait".

Similar to loose bait, it detached quite a bit, and had a particularly strong grassy smell and a strong "shit" smell. Qin Dahe took one look and knew what was going on.

The lower three-way trap is indeed dirty, but it's also really useful. Even the bighead carp and silver carp anglers failed, losing by a narrow margin by thirteen pounds less than others.

They received a 50,000 yuan bonus, but nobody cared about details like whether it smelled bad or not.

Anglers want to become famous, because only when they are famous will manufacturers be willing to give them equipment and extra bonuses.

At this point, the only ones who can rival professional anglers in terms of misery are probably esports players.

They earn the same meager income, yet have to spend a lot of time studying and competing everywhere.

After the competition ended, Qin Dahe returned to the factory to continue overseeing production, even postponing his promise to go to Shenzhen with Yanyan.

Because the bait inventory is insufficient, almost all of the 270 tons have been sold, so we need to expedite production.

This year, there are more products available. After Taobao integrated the business of fishing tackle stores, everyone suddenly realized that the fishing tackle industry as a whole experienced a surge.

It's not just Dahe Fishing Tackle; other manufacturers are also ramping up production.

It took half a month of hard work to replenish the remaining pre-sale inventory.

Basically, a year's production is over.

There are a lot of problems with production in hot weather; the products spoil easily, and the next production will have to wait until winter at the earliest.

With enough floats in stock, his father-in-law had some free time and started helping him look after the factory.

There's nothing else to do during this period except for shipping, so it's manageable.

Taking advantage of this time, he plans to take his family to Shenzhen for another two weeks and also book his own yacht.

He originally planned to take his son with him on the trip. It would be more reassuring to have a brother by his side when going out to sea by boat. But then this scoundrel had a second child.

Bao'er had said long ago that she would wait until she was older before having another child after having one, but well, things can't be helped when things go wrong.

The simple-minded boy could only continue to earn money at home, and he even invited his mother-in-law back to take care of the whole family, giving her a monthly subsidy of one thousand yuan.

He was a rather special figure at the float factory, someone Qin Dahe could absolutely trust, and in addition to his basic salary, he also received annual bonuses.

This year, I expect to receive over 20,000 yuan, not much, but definitely enough to make all the employees envious.

Bao'er's younger brother didn't get into university, and he's very good at spending money to get into university. It would be best if her son-in-law could help him out.

With money readily available, the mother-in-law naturally does her best.

After a busy year, Qin Dahe was also unhappy. He was reborn to enjoy life, not to work non-stop in the factory every day. Otherwise, what would be the point of his rebirth?

Before leaving, he felt increasingly uneasy and went straight to the home of Director Li of the flower factory.

Two years ago I was thinking of opening my own factory to poach people, but I forgot about it.

I only remembered this after a year of hard work.

The flower factory's profits have gradually declined due to uncontrollable factors. However, the factory in Xinba made a lot of money in the first year, a little in the second year, and is expected to make only a little this year as well, so the shareholders are naturally dissatisfied.

According to the three-year rule, the small hill reappeared this year, and even Director Li was powerless to stop it.

The two hit it off immediately.

(End of this chapter)