After negotiating with the boss of the fish raft, Lin Yang and Wang Feng both picked up their fishing rods.
It’s worth ntioning that the sea rod Wang Feng is now using was sothing he had exchanged from the Atlas.
Although he had many fishing rods for competition, he didn’t have a lure or casting rod, so Lin Yang directly exchanged two sets of sea and lure rods for him, saying that they worked very well for him, and then recomnded them to Wang Feng.
The bait they used here was the small miscellaneous fish from this area.
After hooking the bait, they cast it directly into the biggest net cage here.
Less than ten seconds after the bait hit the water, Lin Yang got a bite, and the fish in the net cage latched onto his hook, tugging at his line, trying to get away.
Naturally, Lin Yang wasn’t going to give it that chance. He imdiately raised his rod and struggled with the fish in the water while managing the drag.
It must be said, fish cultivated in the sea are indeed much more fierce than those raised on land because sea-fard fish are typically fed small miscellaneous fish rather than feed like freshwater fish raised on land.
So although this fish was only about ten pounds, its pulling power was really stronger than that of Carp, grass carp, or Catfish weighing around 15 pounds.
However, when it ca to stamina, these fard fish were not that great. Under Lin Yang’s forceful pulling and tugging, the fish soon ran out of energy and was pulled to the shore by him.
At this ti, Li Xiaopeng scooped out a Red Drum Fish, also known as an Arican Redfish, with his landing net.
Because these fish were ant to be released, Lin Yang unhooked the fish and then threw the roughly ten-pound Red Drum Fish back into the net cage.
After catching this fish, he checked the atlas, but he discovered no new rewards unlocked; only 5 experience points and points floated by on his screen.
It seed that the fish cultured in the sea, just like the ones from land-based dark pits, only provided experience points and points rewards, with no money or special rewards.
While he was checking the rewards, Wang Feng also got a bite. Since his experience with casting rods was limited, he seed a bit awkward, and Lin Yang went over to guide him on how to play the fish and control the reel and rod...
After all, as a professional player, he was very familiar with rods and playing the fish. Although sea fishing greatly differed from pond fishing, the general approach was still the sa, so he quickly got the hang of it and soon mastered the techniques of playing fish and lining. Now, it was just a matter of practice.
Lin Yang returned to his spot and was about to bait his hook and cast again when he noticed those fishern who had earlier been eating squid and cuttlefish now fishing with small poles in so corner spots.
These fishern were locals who usually depended on fishing as a way of life, but because today’s waves were too strong, they hadn’t gone out to sea and had anchored their fishing boats here instead.
As is well known, not every place has a dock because not all areas are suitable for dock construction.
Tides are terrifying: when they recede, they can go back hundreds or even thousands of ters. If one casually anchors a boat at the seaside, it might be unknown just when it would be possible to set out to sea again.
Locals rely on the "mountains for sustenance when near mountains, and the sea when near the sea", so although so live by the sea, there may be no docks nearby to anchor boats, or the anchoring spots are too far away and too expensive.
Thus, they would find ways to anchor their boats on the sea surface, and during these tis, fish rafts beco very important and their first choice.
So, in a sense, this place is very suitable for the fishern’s boats to dock.
Also, when a large number of fishern choose to dock their boats here, they need to return to shore from ti to ti, which has given rise to the ferrying business along the coast.
These ferryn usually go out to sea to fish or catch fish, and occasionally they ferry people as an extra inco source.
Of course, all these are digressions. What Lin Yang was curious about now was what these people were fishing for in that spot.
"Brother, what are you doing here?" Lin Yang walked over and asked the dark-skinned middle-aged man he had seen before.
"Fishing for golden drums!" He kept his eyes on the water outside the net cage and responded without turning around.
"Golden drum? You an Money Fish, right?"
Upon hearing the explanation, an image of a fish naturally ca to mind for Lin Yang.
Money Fish, also called Golden Drum Fish, was a type of fish from the Sciaenidae family, found throughout Southeast Asia and preferring brackish water at the junction of fresh and saltwater.
Of course, they are also found in the sea, and there are quite a few cultivated species here.
The price for wild ones wasn’t particularly high; typically, if they weighed over one pound, they sold for 50 yuan per pound, if under one pound, 40 yuan per pound.
The reason these people had co here to fish for Golden Drum Fish was twofold: the sea was too rough to go fishing, and they couldn’t stay idle at ho, so they preferred to co out to make so extra money fishing.
By catching four or five Golden Drum Fish, without boasting, they could earn 200 yuan.
The reason they fished here was mainly due to what was previously ntioned about feeding in the net cages.
As ntioned before, net cage cultivation involves feeding fish with small miscellaneous fish that fishern catch with trawl nets, and the remnants of these small fish fall to the sea floor through the openings in the net cages, similar to creating a natural baited spot. Thus, a variety of wild fish species would gather on the seabed to feed.
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