Chapter 76: Another high-end grouper, the effect of bait
Zhang Ze reached into the small basket where the bait was placed and took out a small squid that looked unremarkable at all.
This little squid is so wet that you really can’t tell any difference from the surface.
After smelling it, it smelled like seafood, but it seemed quite fresh?
It seems that there is really no difference on the surface. It just depends on how fishing will change next.
Hold the fishing rod in your right hand and let go of the bait with your left hand. The bait swings forward due to gravity. When it reaches a position slightly in front of the rod, the bait has drawn a short small channel on the water surface and is submerged in the water.
Zhang Ze lowered the angle of the fishing rod, hoping that the bait would sink deeper. Unexpectedly, there was a sudden splash of water in the shadow of the cliff not far away, and then a black shadow quickly rushed towards the position of the bait.
When the black shadow reaches the bait position, the rod bends down almost simultaneously.
Is this a bit of a hook?
Catching this fish was easier than he thought, and the effect of the bait was completely beyond his expectation.
It was promised that it would only increase the chance of being hooked by 30%, but why did the fish feel like they had never had enough to eat since they were children?
The fishing rod squeaked. Zhang Ze tried to lift the fishing rod after stabbing the fish, but it didn't work. The fish was still a bit too big and he couldn't lift it up directly with brute force.
Fortunately, the fish is on the surface of the water. Just take a short walk and it will be much easier to catch it than at the bottom of the water.
When Tong Yuanhang heard the noise, he turned his head and glanced. When he found that Zhang Ze had caught a fish and it looked like a grouper from the figure on the water, he couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth.
How many times has this happened? Why is it that my brother-in-law catches the fish first every time? How about respecting the three fishhooks on his side?
The two of them have been fishing for more than 20 times. He really didn't realize that his brother-in-law had any special skills in fishing, but why was he always the first one to fish with him?
Tong Yuanhang was puzzled.
Ten minutes later, a clouded grouper that looked about ten pounds appeared on the board of the boat and kept flapping its tail.
"Wow, what a big oil spot. This is a bit too much of a good start!" Zhang Ze has gone fishing a lot since his rebirth, and this is the first time he has caught a relatively high-end grouper.
There are 11 genera and 65 species of grouper distributed along the coast of my country, and no more than ten species may be caught along the coast of the East China Sea. The rest are all distributed in Baodao and the coast of the South China Sea.
Among these types of groupers, the most expensive is the sea red grouper, followed by the moire grouper he caught, which is also the oil grouper.
Tiger grouper can only be regarded as an ordinary grouper, and the price is a little higher.
Moreover, this fish prefers warm water. It is possible to catch it in hot weather in summer, but don’t even think about it in this weather.
"Isn't this piebald? You call it oily spot?" Tong Yuanhang was envious when he saw this big fish weighing more than ten kilograms. This fish is worth twenty or thirty yuan!
"Is it called Pied Spot? I saw that its belly is bulging, and it is probably fat and oily, so I called it Oil Spot." Zhang Ze smiled and pretended to be stupid. After all, he couldn't act more like his uncle.
Yes, and he really doesn’t know what the fishermen of this era called some seafood.
"The fish are very fat now and are much more delicious than in summer."
It is almost winter now, and fish are beginning to eat a lot and accumulate fat to survive the winter. Fish with thicker fat will of course taste better.
That is to say, in this era, seafood prices will not change with the seasons. Regardless of seafood or other things, prices are basically relatively fixed throughout the year.
Catching oil grouper is something to be happy about, and Tong Yuanhang knows this fish, so he doesn’t need to worry about Ou Shuxiang not knowing the goods and giving the price of an ordinary grouper.
But Zhang Ze will be more concerned about whether the bait is still in the fish's mouth. If you are lucky, one small squid can catch several fish, and the bait can be reused.
But after he opened the fish's mouth and looked inside, he was a little disappointed. There was not even a shadow of the bait. It seemed that the bait provided by the space was really disposable.
After removing the hook, put the fish into the fish protector and then put his hand into the bait basket, and another grouper bait appeared in his hand.
Hang it on a fishhook and throw it into the water, but this time no fish will come to eat it.
The bait slowly sank, and some of the snappers and other miscellaneous fish swimming nearby changed their normal behavior today and turned a blind eye to this attractive bait in the water.
But some of them were still attracted, and a big black snapper touched the bait with its mouth.
But with just such a touch, it suddenly smelled a smell that made it extremely disgusting. The next moment it flicked its tail and left immediately.
It was lucky that it triggered the passiveness of the bait and escaped.
And just after it left, several nearby groupers also came.
The bait that black sea bream hates is a very delicious food in their eyes. Several groupers accelerated directly towards the bait, everyone wanted to be one step faster than their competitors and grab the bait.
In the end, a gray grouper weighing just over three pounds swallowed the bait first because it was closer.
Zhang Ze quickly yanked the fishing rod and successfully inserted the hook into the mouth of the grouper, hooked it firmly, and then started to pull.
He first used force to pull the fish to the water surface, and then dragged it to the side of the boat. When the fish came to the side of the boat, he grabbed the fishing line and suddenly exerted force while the fish was not paying attention, and lifted it onto the board of the boat.
In fact, Zhang Ze could also directly lift the fishing rod to lift the fish up, but it would be too easy to unhook.
It’s okay if the fish runs away, but if you can’t sleep well for a few days at most, the bait will be gone if it gets into your mouth.
By then the fish had gone and the bait was gone, and he was afraid that he would still be able to dream about it when he was seventy years old.
Gray grouper, like blue grouper, is a common grouper. This fish has no distinctive appearance, with mainly brown-gray skin. At first glance, it looks a bit like Oriental perch, but it is shorter and fatter.
Two baits and two groupers greatly increased Zhang Ze’s confidence in the fish provided by the space.
Moreover, the attraction range of the bait reaches two nautical miles. If the bait effect is really good today, then he can usually go fishing by himself where the shrimp pots are placed.
Fishing with Tong Yuanhang can only last one day at most, and even if you go out to sea for a short time, you won’t gain much.
The most important thing now is to continue fishing and see how many groupers can be caught with ten pieces of bait.
More than an hour later, all ten baits were used up, and Zhang Ze caught seven groupers.
Three of the baits were caught by other fish, a 15-pound catfish and two sea bass.
Even if the probability of being hooked is reduced by 15%, it is still possible to cut off the fish when it is hungry, which is understandable.
Moreover, Zhang Ze is quite satisfied with the effect of the bait. Even if he found a good fishing spot before, if he could get three groupers out of ten fish, it would be a very lucky situation.
This is because they deliberately hung the whole small squid and eliminated many fish with small mouths in advance, otherwise the ratio would be even lower.
Zhang Ze looked at the time and thought he could fish for another hour, so he used his experience points to exchange for another piece of bait.
The data of ten pieces of bait is a bit one-sided, and ten more pieces can be used to get a more precise effect of the bait.
Soon, more than an hour passed. The sun was almost setting, and the golden sea was quite beautiful.
This time, after all ten baits were used up, Zhang Ze caught a total of six groupers.
Although there was one less item than last time, the data error was not large, so he had a good idea.
In the past ten, there were one or two groupers, and when I was lucky, there were three.
Now he doesn't know whether his luck is good or bad, but if he gets six at a time and seven at a time, the actual data increase should be more than 30% of the chance of being hooked.
Chapter completed!