Chapter 505: Chapter 327: Target: The East Side of Liuqiu Island in the Public Sea_2

The sun was scorching today, and Chu Mingcheng opened the sunshade to block it.

On Crescent Island, the variety of seafood was quite comprehensive. She planned to go all out catching them before hunting for Golden Spearfish afterward.

Zhang Wei had already rented a refrigerated warehouse. He could store any amount of catch here.

The two electric fishing rods in the boat were taken out and installed on the left side of the hull, that is, the east side.

The sun was almost in the center of the sky now, and the sun protection was just enough to shield both sides.

But as time passed, the sun would slowly move towards the west, so he simply chose the east side beforehand, so that later he wouldn’t need to change positions.

However, even with these precautions, Chu Mingcheng, who had only been standing outside for a short time, was still sweating profusely and feeling extremely hot.

But for a better catch, he could only endure.

Still, he couldn’t help but wish he had a row of large ice blocks by his side to cool himself down…

“Oh? Cooling down!”

Chu Mingcheng was initially stunned, and then an idea suddenly flashed through his mind.

He quickly took out the blue plastic boxes from the boat, which could be used for storing fish or carrying water, but unfortunately, there were only five of them.

Mainly because he usually stored his catches in foam boxes, which were convenient to carry directly when sold, so these plastic boxes were rarely used, and he didn’t buy many.

Since the foam boxes on the boat had to be used for the catch over the next few days, Chu Mingcheng had to make do with these five plastic boxes first.

He filled each one with water, then moved them into the bait-only chill room.

Once frozen into ice blocks, they could be taken out and placed nearby to cool the air.

After all the preparations, Chu Mingcheng returned to his fishing spot to continue fishing.

Under normal circumstances, fishing for deep-sea fish in such hot weather in the afternoon probably wouldn’t result in an ideal catch.

Luckily, the level of the High-quality Aquatic Products Atlas had reached level nineteen, which increased the hooking chance by nineteen percent, so the catch was decent, with a fish being caught every five or six minutes.

The electric reel whirred continuously in operation, Chu Mingcheng held a hose in his hand, each time the reel pulled in a fish it quickly became scorching hot, and he had to cool it down with water.

Soon, an orange stone fish was pulled up.

It was his first time fishing a stone fish of this color.

He checked the aquatics atlas and found that this fish belonged to the high-quality category, and its value was at least one hundred yuan per pound.

Moreover, this orange stone fish wasn’t small, it was roughly thirty centimeters long and weighed more than a pound and a half, even reaching two pounds.

Chu Mingcheng quickly recalled this fish’s origin.

The fishermen usually called this type of stone fish deep-sea stone fish, but whether it was a Blotched Batfish or another type he couldn’t really tell.

Mainly because these batfish look so similar, many of the same family marine life require DNA identification to confirm their identity.

But Chu Mingcheng didn’t need to know so much detail, knowing it was a batfish was enough.

Such deep-sea fish weren’t common on the market, and there wasn’t a fixed price, he could set a suitable price based on the market.

In business, it’s normal for the seller to set prices and the customer to haggle as long as you don’t feel at a loss.

Most of these batfish fished from three hundred meters underwater were basically dead by the time they reached the surface.

Chu Mingcheng carefully unhooked it, taking care not to get pricked by its dorsal fin, then placed it into a foam box padded with crushed ice.

The fish felt somewhat soft to the touch, and he had heard that the flesh was very delicate and tasty, even better than that of a typical Grouper, comparable to Golden Bream.

Of course, the fat content of batfish can’t compare to that of Golden Bream, so the price is also somewhat lower.

All afternoon, the only sounds Chu Mingcheng heard were the constant scribbling of the dog and the hissing of the reel when pulling in the line. It was quite pleasant, with the only drawback being the intense heat.

The sweat soaked all his clothes.

Around five o’clock, he finally stopped fishing, though the rods continued to be mounted on the hull.

If the longline fishing yield was good, he would not go out fishing at night.

With electric rods and longlines, the catch might not be much less than his active fishing. Compared to fishing, fishing with nets was much more troublesome.

Chu Mingcheng first checked the afternoon’s catch, there were quite a few batfish, weighing a total of over forty-three pounds.

Besides, Red Friend Fish, Red Snapper, Bin Diao, General Armor, and Long-tailed Shore Bream were also caught.

The numbers weren’t large, but combined, they weighed over a hundred and thirty-two pounds. That was quite a good haul for a hot afternoon.

Chu Mingcheng’s current mindset was top-notch; whenever he felt the catch was small, he just thought of those air force guys.

Thinking about this, he felt quite reassured.

He drove the boat back to Crescent Island first, then retrieved five shrimp traps.

In the hot afternoon, the shrimp weren’t very active either. The five shrimp traps only yielded a little over a hundred pounds in total.

After picking out the small ones and throwing them back, only eighty-seven pounds of Spot Shrimp and twenty-two pounds of Rich Shrimp remained.

Chu Mingcheng was still not disappointed; the key to a larger catch would depend on the results around midnight and tomorrow morning when he collected back the shrimp traps and longlines.

So, he put the shrimp traps back in the water and then sailed towards the coral reef.

The yield from the five longlines was about what he had expected. Each longline had a hundred hooks, with an average catch of over twenty and none exceeding thirty fish.

However, because of the hook size, the caught fish ranged from one pound to about seven or eight pounds.