I Can Fish Up Everything!

Chapter 316: Chapter 210: Stream Viewers: With This Luck, He Must Be the Sea’s Illegitimate Son, Right?

WHOOSH~

The fishing rod bent in an instant. The second fish hit even faster—the bait had only been in the water for about ten seconds. It hadn’t even sunk to the bottom before something snatched it.

”Whoa, this one’s a real fighter!”

Gu Nan felt the fish’s frantic pulling and knew he couldn’t just yank this one in. He had to start playing the fish.

[Hiss~ Does sea fishing always get you bites this fast?]

Seeing this comment, Yi Chen answered quite seriously, ”I can’t say if all sea fishing is this great, but the few times I’ve gone out, the fish were biting one after another. It was definitely a blast.”

[Yeah, right. Last week I spent 8,500 to rent a spot on a deep-sea fishing trip. Four days and three nights. With onboard expenses, it came out to almost 12,000. I thought the fish would be biting like crazy, but I didn’t even make back half of what I spent.]

[Holy shit, I just booked a trip this afternoon and paid the deposit. If I back out now, I’ll lose less, right?]

[To the guy above me, you already paid the deposit. Worst case, you lose a few thousand more. What if you strike it rich?]

”Uh...” Yi Chen scratched her head, a little confused. ’Is it really that expensive to rent a fishing spot at sea?’

But a moment later, her attention was captured by the fish Gu Nan was reeling in. As soon as she saw it, she exclaimed, ”Wow, another grouper! And it looks like a marbled rock cod! This one’s definitely over eleven pounds.”

[So this is the kind of boss lady you are! Such an exaggeration. If that thing is eleven pounds, I’ll eat it!]

[Nice one. I can hear your abacus clacking from the other side of the planet.]

[Based on my many years of fishing experience, that fish is 10.9 pounds at most. Not an ounce more.]

”Oh really? You’re going to doubt me, someone who sells fish for a living?” This was Yi Chen’s first time streaming, and she was getting a little annoyed at the viewers’ teasing and doubts.

Once Gu Nan netted the fish and brought it aboard, she immediately grabbed the fish gripper and lifted it.

She glanced at the number—13.5 pounds. She immediately and smugly shoved the camera right up to it.

”Open your eyes and take a good look! Is this over eleven pounds or not?”

[Whoops, my bad. I’m blind. Didn’t think it’d actually be over eleven pounds. I admit defeat. I’ll eat that fish!]

[WTF, have you no shame, you guy above? I’m the one who said that.]

[WTF, have you no shame, you guy above...]+1

[WTF...]+2

Human nature is to be a broken record. Yi Chen couldn’t help but laugh. It was her first time realizing how fun livestreaming could be.

Seeing his girlfriend so happy, Gu Nan grew curious and came over for a look. He quickly discovered that the viewers were a bunch of characters, and their comments were hilarious.

But his main job was fishing, so after watching for a few minutes, he went back to it.

There were a lot of groupers here, and plenty of coral fish too.

And just like that, Wang Junhe and Guo Xiao each caught a grouper as well. Soon after, even a Spotted Rockfish made an appearance.

Although the hot streak of back-to-back catches only lasted for the first few fish and the bite rate slowed down afterward, the fish here were all quite valuable. No wonder this was a secret fishing spot.

After fishing for about an hour, everyone had an impressive haul.

Gu Nan didn’t actually catch more than the other two tonight. The fish were spread out evenly underwater, so everyone’s catch was about the same.

Guo Xiao got thirsty and went into the cabin to grab a bottle of water.

He opened a bottle and took a couple of sips, his eyes subconsciously drifting to the fish finder on the console.

He was startled to see a large red patch appear on the upper right side of the screen and immediately walked over.

Once he got closer, he confirmed he wasn’t mistaken. There was a huge school of fish near the boat. If they were a valuable species, the haul would be much better than what they had now.

He immediately started the fishing boat, preparing to change position.

The large red mass was still moving, just not very fast.

’If I hadn’t come over for a drink just now, wouldn’t we have missed out on a fortune?’

The three people on deck noticed the boat moving and looked at each other in confusion.

Wang Junhe said, ”What’s with Old Guo? Why is he moving the boat all of a sudden?”

Gu Nan replied, ”I don’t know. Maybe he found something?”

Yi Chen was still chatting with the viewers in her stream. The viewer count had already reached three thousand, which was pretty good.

She already had a base of over eighty thousand followers, she was showing her face on stream, and Gu Nan’s haul for the night was genuinely impressive. It wasn’t surprising that her first stream was this popular.

The fishing boat only moved sideways for about a hundred feet before stopping. Wang Junhe had already run inside to see what was going on, and he came back out with Guo Xiao after the boat stopped.

”Ah Nan, there’s a school of fish near the surface! Quick, switch to a bobber rig for float fishing. If they’re valuable, you’re going to make a killing tonight.”

”Alright!”

Gu Nan had already suspected as much. Hearing this, he immediately tossed out some bait to chum the waters, then switched out the rig he had put away. He mainly just added a bobber and swapped to a smaller sinker.

Considering it was a school of fish near the surface, they probably wouldn’t be too big, so he also switched to a smaller hook.

He was the fastest to switch his gear. After setting up the rig, he baited it with a small shrimp and cast it into the water.

WHOOSH~

He got a bite almost instantly. Gu Nan quickly lifted his rod to set the hook. Feeling the weight, he was glad he’d switched to a smaller hook. The fish wasn’t big, probably around one or two pounds.

The fish was right at the surface, so he lifted his rod to swing it straight out of the water.

Faced with such overwhelming Power, the fish in the water had no chance to resist and was pulled straight out, breaking the surface.

”Hey, not bad, it’s a pomfret!” Gu Nan’s eyes lit up.

’Pomfret are great,’ he thought. ’Especially ones that are one or two pounds. Other than golden pomfret, most other types are worth a pretty penny.’

Wang Junhe hurried over for a glance. ”Whoa, it’s a silver pomfret! Now that’s a great catch.”

”Silver pomfret?” Guo Xiao also rushed over. ”Haha, I feel like my luck is always amazing whenever Ah Nan is around. I need to catch a bunch of these. They’ll make great gifts.”

The two of them had already switched their rigs and hooks and had chummed the water earlier. Now, as soon as they baited their hooks with shrimp and dropped them in, they got bites too. They reeled them in, and they were also silver pomfrets.

Groupers are territorial and like to guard their homes, so it’s hard to catch them one after another. Even Gu Nan had only caught two at the beginning before other fish started biting more.

But silver pomfrets were different; they sometimes appeared in small schools.

Yi Chen filmed the scene of all three men catching silver pomfrets, making many viewers in the stream green with envy.

The comments were practically flooding the screen, a rare sight for a stream with only just over three thousand viewers.

Clearly, most of the people who joined were hardcore anglers. Seeing someone else get bites left and right is more painful than losing a hundred-pound fish yourself!

”Haha, this is the best fishing I’ve had in ages!” Wang Junhe was all smiles. The thrill wasn’t just from the constant bites, but also from the value of the fish.

If they were just worthless mackerel, he definitely wouldn’t be this happy.

”Ah Nan, a viewer is asking how much we’re selling the silver pomfrets for!” Yi Chen quietly muted her lapel mic, pointed the camera at the sea, and came over to ask Gu Nan.

How could Gu Nan not know about the reputation of the ”king of pomfrets”? He even knew the general prices in various regions of Eastern and Southern China, and that prices were cheapest over in his cousin’s area. He gave his girlfriend a quick explanation.

”We should be able to catch a lot tonight. This stuff is expensive! Even silver pomfrets shipped from my cousin’s place down south, which aren’t fresh anymore, can sell for sixty to eighty per pound at Yangjiang Port. The bigger ones, around four or five pounds, can go for 180 or even over 200.”

”But fresh ones are much more expensive. These two I caught are about two pounds each, so they’re medium-sized. The price for line-caught ones is about 150 a pound. Net-caught ones are a bit cheaper.”

Yi Chen understood. She unmuted her mic and gave the viewers a quick rundown.

She also stated that they would only ship within the province and to neighboring provinces, but no further.

For seafood, freshness has a huge impact on the price.

For distant regions, even air freight couldn’t guarantee fast enough delivery. Besides, with the high shipping costs, the value proposition for a single silver pomfret just wasn’t there.

Yi Chen knew the importance of a good reputation. She didn’t want customers to feel ripped off because the fish lost its freshness during a long shipment.

Even when some viewers said they didn’t mind, she ignored them, simply saying that friends from inland or far away were welcome to visit in the future and taste the freshest seafood then.

Gu Nan, who was listening nearby, nodded slightly in satisfaction.

’My girlfriend cares a lot about money, but she’s clear-headed enough to know which money isn’t worth earning.’

By now, he had caught four silver pomfrets in a row. They varied in size; the smallest was about a pound and a half, while the largest was three pounds. This suggested there might be some real monsters in the school.

A moment later, he got a massive strike. Because the fish hadn’t pulled that hard initially, he hadn’t locked the drag, and the line started spooling out as the fish ran.

Gu Nan’s heart skipped a beat. ’Could this be a huge silver pomfret?’

He quickly yanked the rod, driving the hook deep into the fish’s mouth.

The next moment, an immense resistance traveled up the rod, no less powerful than the marbled rock cod from earlier.

The burst of strength from an eleven-pound fish is several times its own weight, if not ten. Gu Nan locked the drag completely, lifting his rod to pull on the line. Even if he couldn’t retrieve any line, he wasn’t going to let the fish run.

The commotion was big enough to immediately draw the attention of the viewers.

[Holy shit, if that’s a silver pomfret, how big is it?]

[Bro, this is killing me. I finally managed to catch a three-pound grass carp today and I hadn’t even finished bragging about it to the whole neighborhood, and then I see this!]

[First it was several groupers, one of them over ten pounds, and now he’s possibly hooked a giant silver pomfret. Is there any justice in this world?]

[With luck like that, he must be the sea god’s illegitimate son, right?]

Yi Chen covered her mouth to hide a giggle as she read the comments. ’These guys have seen nothing yet. If they knew about the even crazier things Gu Nan has caught before, their eyes would probably pop out of their sockets.’

The eleven-pound fish only put up a struggle for a short while.

Against the cheating fishing rod, its stamina drained rapidly. In just three minutes, the fish was pulled to the surface.

It was too big to fit in a small washbasin. It was indeed a massive silver pomfret. And being line-caught, its freshness was guaranteed. It could probably sell for three hundred a pound.

[Tsk tsk tsk, my useless tears are streaming from the corners of my mouth...]

[I’ve never seen a silver pomfret this big in my entire life. You might not see one like this for years.]

[Boss Lady, I’ll take that one!]Super Rocket x10

Suddenly, a volley of rockets shot up in the stream, shocking Yi Chen so much that she couldn’t help but cover her mouth with her hands.

A single Super Rocket cost ten thousand, which meant ten of them were a hundred thousand. She never imagined that just by casually starting a stream for fun, she’d attract such a massive whale.

But when she saw the three large words ”Brother Sea King,” she instantly understood. It was him.