As a Fisherman, My Fish Can Level Up-Chapter 159 - 148: There’s a Big Fish, Find Grandpa_2

Chapter 159: Chapter 148: There’s a Big Fish, Find Grandpa_2

“Ah Cheng, this is a cod, right?”

“Yes, it’s cod. I didn’t expect that there would be cod in these waters.”

Chu Mingcheng nodded repeatedly. He had been ready to fish in the mid-water layers, as sea bass generally don’t appear on the surface at night, but he hadn’t expected a school of cod to arrive.

Cod are also migratory fish, but unlike golden pomfret and sea bass, they sink during the day and float at night.

Moreover, they don’t gather in large groups but usually in small clusters.

He quickly scattered some Antarctic shrimp to chum the area, attracting the nearby cod.

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Indeed, there was a school of cod lingering near their boat, and as soon as the Antarctic shrimp drifted down, they swiftly turned and swam over as if they were sharks smelling blood.

Upon finding the food, the group of cod started to enjoy the free feast in front of them.

With their limited brain capacity, they did not care or wonder why their companions seemed to be getting fewer each time they enjoyed these free feasts.

One half-meter long cod, after swallowing a tiny Antarctic shrimp, turned and discovered something waving in front of it.

This thing smelled somewhat familiar, like the scent of food.

If it was food, it was meant to be eaten by it.

But the next moment, the sharp pain that suddenly shot through its mouth stimulated its nerves, causing it to instinctively struggle to throw the foreign object out.

Little did it know, a great force suddenly struck.

Its body, originally swimming toward the deep sea, was suddenly pulled to a stop, and then the foreign object in its mouth stabbed deeper, causing even more pain.

Chu Mingcheng, on the boat, felt the weight transmitted from the fishing rod and a smile appeared on his lips.

This fish seemed alright, about the same as the five or six-catty sea bass he had caught in the afternoon.

The cod’s body shape was similar to that of the sea bass, with a tendency for a bloated belly in a slender profile, but cods are generally bulkier.

Hence, at the same length, cod tend to weigh more than sea bass.

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Soon, this cod was pulled to the surface by Chu Mingcheng and netted aboard.

Jiang Luoluo laughed upon seeing this, “It seems we made the right choice to fish at night, otherwise we would have missed this school of cod.”

“Yeah, looks like we can make a little profit tonight.” Chu Mingcheng threw the cod into the live well to keep it alive a bit longer.

The cod caught from shallow waters could survive a while longer and wouldn’t die immediately.

Even though cod are quite cheap on the market, with the flesh only costing about ten yuan a catty, and that’s for cod without innards.

This fish, like the roe-containing chi fish, is expensive because of its innards.

The cod’s swim bladder is very valuable, and high-quality swim bladders processed into fish maw can fetch a price of over one thousand yuan per catty.

Therefore, a cod with a fat belly is actually priced similarly to sea bass, maybe just slightly cheaper.

“Wow wow wow… what a big fish!”

After both of them had caught a few cod, Chu Mingcheng heard Jiang Luoluo’s panicked shouting.

She was struggling to hold her fishing rod, her body pulled up against the side of the boat.

Chu Mingcheng quickly ran over, “Do you need help?”

“No, I can do it!” Jiang Luoluo, with her feet propped against the side of the boat, had steadied herself.

Having finally hooked something big, how could she willingly hand it over to someone else?

The big fish at the bottom was caught but still desperately swam towards the deeper water.

Neither the person nor the fish would concede, straining the fishing rod to a creaking point.

Chu Mingcheng guessed that the fish at the bottom had to be at least twenty-five catties for Jiang Luoluo to muster her strength and hold it in a deadlock.

The fishing line “whizzed” at an ultra-high frequency, vibrating, and the water surface at the point of contact rippled.

Over here, Chu Mingcheng noticed some activity on the fishing rod he had placed over the fishing hole, so he had to go and reel in his own fish first.

The fish wasn’t very big, just over two pounds, but there was something on the fish’s body that surprised him.

He didn’t put this fish in the live well; instead, he threw it directly into the cooler.

Since Jiang Luoluo was still struggling with her fish and had started to breathe heavily, he didn’t focus his attention on this fish.

“Luoluo, if you can’t hold on, call me!”

Jiang Luoluo didn’t respond but just nodded to show she understood.

Seeing this, Chu Mingcheng didn’t sit idle either. He hung the bait and continued to fish.

Now that there was finally a small school of fish, he couldn’t waste any time.

However, he saw that Jiang Luoluo’s fishing line kept moving back and forth, so he kept his distance to avoid cutting the line.

After waiting for a few minutes, her fish was still swimming vigorously in the water, prompting Chu Mingcheng to ask again.

But having held on for so long, Jiang Luoluo was unwilling to give up.

“It’s fine, I can handle it. You’ve got a bite.”

“Uh…”

Chu Mingcheng quickly picked up the rod to reel in the fish, which also seemed pretty big – by his estimation, around ten pounds.

When he reeled the fish in, he found that its weight was indeed close to his estimate.

After he had put the fish into the live well, Jiang Luoluo finally brought her fish to the side of the boat, “Ah Cheng, come and help me net the fish.”

“I’m coming, I’m coming!”

Chu Mingcheng picked up the net and hurried over.

It was a cod, and it was big, almost of a meter-long size. It must weigh more than twenty-five pounds, no wonder Jiang Luoluo was so exhausted.

He netted the fish’s head and then steadily lifted it onto the boat.

If the fish had gotten away, he estimated he would fail again the next time he tried to confess his feelings.

“Ugh~ I’m exhausted. Quick, see how long and heavy this cod is.”

Jiang Luoluo was so tired that she plopped down on the wet deck. If it weren’t for the raincoat, one might think Chu Mingcheng had done something terrible.

He took out the scale and tape measure, first measuring the fish’s length at one meter three centimeters.

Then he moved the fish onto the scale and discovered its weight was just over thirty pounds, at thirty pounds and eight taels.

“Not bad, Luoluo. This is a meter-long cod, weighing thirty pounds and eight taels!”

“Heh heh, no wonder it had more strength than the last jun cao fish I caught; it’s so heavy,” Jiang Luoluo chuckled, getting up from the deck.

“How much can we sell this fish for?”

Chu Mingcheng thought for a moment and said, “Probably eighty to one hundred per pound. Or we could ask Grandpa; he tends to be more generous with money, and he also told me to come to him first if I caught a big fish.”

“This… doesn’t that seem a bit off?” Jiang Luoluo hesitated a bit. Upon hearing what Chu Mingcheng said, she always had the feeling that it sounded a bit like ripping someone off.

“No, it’s fine. If you don’t tell him and he finds out later, he’d actually be upset. If he doesn’t want it, then we can sell it to the Seafood Restaurant. The price won’t be much different anyway.”

Most of the fish they caught today would be sold to fishmongers, because if the fish were common, even the Seafood Restaurant might not want them all.

But there was no problem selling fish over five pounds to the Seafood Restaurant as others would be willing to pay the price.

Reassured by his words, Jiang Luoluo had no more objections.

Afterward, Chu Mingcheng brought out a foam box, laid some crushed ice, then placed the nearly cold cod inside, and covered it with another layer of crushed ice for preservation.

Larger fish require more oxygen, so after being left on deck for a while, they naturally cool down.

Once in the foam box, there’s no need to move it around, and if sold, the foam box could be given to the buyer, which was not expensive anyway.