Chapter 24: Catching the Big Fish

Soon arrived at a fishing tackle shop in Revere, Qin Xu went in and picked out a set of fishing rods that looked very high-end!

Well, the price is also very high-end!

When I was about to pay, I saw that the fishing rod next to me was about the same thickness at both ends, which looked weird!

Qin Xu asked a fat boss in his fifties who was a little bald behind the counter, "Hey, man, what kind of fishing rod is this?"

The fat boss looked at Qin Xu with a smile and said, "Hey, this is a rod for sea fishing, man, haven't you tried sea fishing?"

Qin Xu is a little curious, is this used for sea fishing?

The fat boss explained: "This is a rod for bottom fishing, as well as boat fishing and play fishing, all of which are different!"

Qin Xu scratched his head a little when he saw it, and simply asked the boss to match one set of each!

After paying, Qin Xu looked at the boss's smiling, chrysanthemum-like face, and pouted, this is really not cheap!

Several sets of fishing rods, plus a large backpack of fishing line, hooks, and lead sinkers, cost Qin Xu more than 30,000 US dollars in total!

Together with Little John, he lifted the things to the back seat of the pickup truck, and Qin Xu took the car back to the ranch.

After arriving home, Qin Xu took his things to the storage room and picked out a set of six-meter-five fishing rods, a brand he had never heard of, and the ones sold were expensive.

After preparing the fishing gear, especially after taking a small bench, Qin Xu rode a quad bike to the side of the big lake!

found a place with fewer aquatic plants, Qin Xu loaded the hook with earthworms and threw them out directly!

Putting the small bench down and watching the rippling blue waves in the distance, as well as the ups and downs of water birds on the surface of the lake, Qin Xu felt that this day was very beautiful!

The only thing that didn't hit the gap was that there were no fish to eat......

Qin Xu suddenly remembered that he seemed to have a fisherman profession, opened the system career panel, and sure enough, there was a fisherman's classification.

After Qin Xu opened it, he saw that there were several skills inside, one of which was fishing!

Fishing Lv1: 1 in 10 chance of catching a rare fish within a radius of 1 kilometer!

Learning conditions: fisherman profession, 2,000 ranch points!

Qin Xu hesitated for a moment, do you want to learn, but after thinking about his big plan to change the swimming pool into a fish pond, he decisively clicked to learn!

And then...... And then nothing happened!

It's just that there is an extra fishing lv1 in his skill bar.

Qin Xu has a feeling of being fooled, he sat in his head for a while last time he learned cooking and English?

Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly felt the fishing rod in his hand sink violently, and Qin Xu was almost dragged into the water by this force.

Hurry up and hold the rod steady, and start to slowly put the line down!

At this time, Qin Xu had time to look at the surface of the water, and saw a grass carp longer than his arm, struggling violently in the water!

Qin Xu controlled the fishing rod, slowly putting the line, putting it for a while and collecting it for a while, just going back and forth.

It took more than five minutes to finally get this big guy of more than 80 centimeters ashore!

Looking at this wild grass carp, Qin Xu sighed a little, Yankee is really a waste, he doesn't eat such a good fish!

Qin Xu has heard about the flood of carp in the United States, and there are many theories about why Americans don't eat Asian carp!

Some people say that Europeans and Americans don't eat river fish, and the smell of earth is too strong, so why do they eat catfish and tilapia? The meat quality of tilapia is very different from that of crucian carp!

As for some people, in the twenties and forties of the last century, it was the United States that relied on electricity to develop heavy industry.

This became a critical period for the world's superpowers, during which American industry caused unprecedented pollution.

Not only is the air filled with the pungent smell of gasoline, but heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, and mercury are also precipitated in rivers and lakes. After many years.

Freshwater aquatic organisms are so polluted that the U.S. Congress has even legislated to prohibit the predation of freshwater fish.

Even now, with effective governance, the United States has returned to green mountains and clear waters, but the habit of not eating freshwater fish has also been formed.

This is even more nonsense, in that country that is in the name of democratic liberalism, will there be such a law?

Isn't that a violation of the spirit of freedom and equality that they advocate?

In Qin Xu's opinion, the reason why Europeans and Americans don't eat these Asian carp is because of the way river fish are eaten and the "gentlemanly" demeanor they advocate!

What do you think, what are the characteristics of river fish? That is, there are many spines, especially silver carp and crucian carp!

Even our fish connoisseurs have been stuck in the hospital by fish bones, do you think about how Europeans and Americans eat with knives and forks?

Another point is that we eat fish at the table, it is normal to spit thorns, and it is rude not to let spitting thorns!

But Europeans and Americans are different, the "gentleman" demeanor makes them not spit out what they eat at the table!

So now that Asian carp are overflowing, Qin Xu is about to salivate when he sees such a big wild fish!

I don't know if it's because of learning cooking skills, now Qin Xu has more and more potential as a foodie, doesn't that mean that every good chef is a foodie!

Now Qin Xu is thinking about it, whether to continue, or to have a boiled fish, or braised fish!

After thinking about it for a while, I walked around and looked at the time. Qin Xu still decided to continue fishing and see what other fish he caught!

One in ten, that is, one in ten, can catch the most cherished fish within a kilometer!

Loaded the bait, just threw it down, and before Qin Xu could sit down, the fishing rod sank again!

Qin Xu was shocked, this is too fast!

This time the time to walk the fish is shorter, it is a carp with chopsticks long for a day, such a big wild crucian carp, it is rare in China!

Suddenly, Qin Xu felt that there was a flower in front of him, and there seemed to be something very big swimming under the water!

I looked at it carefully, no, I just lowered my head to load the bait, and I felt a flower in front of me.

This time, Qin Xu saw a creature that was nearly two meters long, flashing under the water!

Qin Xu couldn't help but be stunned on the spot, what the hell is that, there won't be water monsters in this lake!

Thinking about it, Qin Xu suddenly felt a little cold and thin on his body!

Hurriedly took a few steps back, as if he would suddenly be pulled into the water by a monster coming out of the water!

After hesitating for a moment to fish or not, I thought about it for a while. Qin Xu thinks this should be a fish, well, it should be a fish!

Thinking like this, Qin Xu slowly threw the fishing hook down, and as soon as he threw it down, Qin Xu felt that the fishing rod was out of control.

Hurry up and start to put the line, this time the line was pulled very urgently, almost didn't keep up with the line, in the middle Qin Xu tried to close the line, sad to find that he couldn't pull at all!

Until now, Qin Xu didn't see what was under the water, and saw that it was not swimming to the middle of the lake, but to this side.

Qin Xu hurriedly ran after it on the shore. Run and release at the same time. Fortunately, this time I brought a 100-meter reel!

When it was almost sixty meters, Qin Xu found that the strength was a little smaller, and tried to close the line.

As a result, the thing suddenly struggled violently again, and Qin Xu couldn't, so he had to continue to release the line.

It was not until he was eighty meters away that Qin Xu felt that the strength was not so great, and he began to slowly close the line.

In this way, when it reaches thirty meters, the underwater life finally surfaces!