Chapter 480: Chapter 319: Your Man Is Still Your Man_4 Chapter 480: Chapter 319: Your Man Is Still Your Man_4 If it’s a fish, it’ll be very troublesome, not knowing how long it will take to cut the meat.

First, he arrived at the coral reef area, found a spot where the water was fifty meters deep, then adjusted the boat to an angle against the waves.

He threw the float on one side of the protraction line into the water, and the float drifted away slowly with the waves.

Once the distance was about right, Chu Mingcheng stopped letting out the line and started to bait the hooks on the sublines with shrimp.

A one hundred-hook protraction line wasn’t long, and he quickly sent one line down.

There was a large float on both sides of the protraction line’s mainline, with small floats at every point a subline connected to ensure the protraction lines wouldn’t sink if they caught fish.

After setting down one protraction line, Chu Mingcheng drove the boat to the other side and deployed another line using the same method.

He checked the time, it was already noon, and he could reel them in after dinner.

Not having eaten lunch yet, Chu Mingcheng immediately drove the boat to the east side of Crescent Island, about six hundred meters away, where the water was deep, reaching a depth of one hundred twenty meters.

The sublines on his other three protraction lines were eighty meters long, perfectly suited for this area.

After setting the three protraction lines, Chu Mingcheng returned to the cabin to prepare lunch.

After lunch, since he felt no desire to sleep, he changed into his diving suit and went to wander around the coral reef area, also bringing a speargun, two live fish clips, a safety rope, and a mandatory dive knife.

He hadn’t explored all of the coral reef previously, so today was a good opportunity to continue exploring to see if there were other treasures like the White Jade Shell.

However, he wasn’t so lucky this time around; after spending over two hours carefully searching the coral reef, he found no special treasures.

Chu Mingcheng simply started fishing to complete the order earlier, so he could have more time to explore a shipwreck.

A parrotfish weighing about three pounds?

He’d take it!

Green spots under five pounds, small but worth taking.

Without being picky, he soon filled the three lines he had brought with fish.

Returning to the boat at four in the afternoon, he removed each fish one by one and weighed them, resulting in just over three hundred pounds.

Indeed, not being picky about the size quickened the process, but there was no guarantee on the weight.

He went back to the cabin to change clothes and shower, cleaning his diving suit and hanging it out to dry.

After a brief rest, Chu Mingcheng resolved his own dinner in the kitchen, then immediately set out to retrieve the protraction lines.

Having reeled in the protraction lines, it was now approaching the fish’s peak feeding time. At that point, he could haul in the protraction lines every three hours, keeping him busy.

Chu Mingcheng first returned to the coral reef area, hooked one side of the protraction line with a grappling hook and pulled it back.

This kind of small protraction line could just be pulled in by hand; there was absolutely no need for machine assistance.

Slowly pulling the protraction line in, the first subline soon surfaced.

As he expected, the first subline caught nothing, so he took the opportunity to neatly organize and stow the fishing line.

Next was the second line, and after a short wait, a small dark shadow gradually appeared in the water; Chu Mingcheng’s eyes lit up, surprised to get a catch on the second line.

When the subline was pulled up, a Yellowfin Snapper appeared on the surface, weighing about two pounds – not bad.

A little later, a second fish came up, a Black Sea Bream weighing over three pounds.

Although these fishes were common, they were indeed very popular in restaurants.

Steamed or braised at the Seafood Restaurant, usable for sashimi at Japanese establishments.

However, in the afternoon, the fish weren’t very active, and by the time the first protraction line was fully retrieved, only thirty-one fish were caught.

Due to the hooks, the fish weren’t very large, the largest weighing just over ten pounds.

Compared to his usual hauls, this was markedly less.

But for customers, it was more friendly; fish weighing two or three pounds were enough for a dish, and customers would take a long time to eat ordinary fish weighing ten or several dozen pounds.

Next was the second protraction line. The haul was similar, with thirty-seven fish, totaling two hundred twenty-three pounds with the two protraction lines combined.

The catch was average on this side, so Chu Mingcheng moved to the other three protraction lines.

He found that the deep sea fish had a higher hookup rate this time; out of a hundred hooks, over fifty caught something.

However, there were particularly many stone fish, and the combined catch from the three protraction lines only totaled two hundred seventy-two pounds.

If it weren’t for the appearance of Long-tailed Shore Bream, he definitely would have moved position later.