Chapter 142: The Head of the Fish King
It turned out that what he caught was a corrugated lobster that is only available in the Baodao Strait in China and needs to be imported under normal circumstances.
The production of this lobster is also very small, so it needs to be imported.
The one Chu Mingcheng caught was only more than two catties, which was a relatively large individual.
In terms of price, it is a little higher than that of green lobster, not much higher.
Chu Mingcheng put it in the net pocket, and if he couldn't find another lobster at night, he would dish it.
There are still fewer fish in the shallow waters, so he simply looked at the time of the dive watch and planned to go to the deep water area.
Sure enough, as soon as they came to the deep water area, groups of fish swam on the coral reef, including sea wolves, snappers and other fish that Chu Mingcheng had seen.
There are more small ornamental fish, but he only eats them, and is not interested in raising them.
Today, Chu Mingcheng's main target is to like some groupers hiding in the coral reef, as for these fish swimming in the pelagic layer, let them go for the time being.
The main thing is that they're not big enough and not fat enough, and they don't have any economic value.
He climbed over a coral reef and was surprised to find a very large manta ray swimming slowly not far in front of him.
I can't see what kind of breed it is for the time being, but its size is estimated to be a hundred pounds.
Chu Mingcheng hesitated, but he still didn't want to go back and get the speargun.
No matter how big the manta ray is, it can't be sold for money, don't look at it as if it is more than 100 catties.
Even if he had to get on the boat and transport it back to the docks, no one would want to.
Maybe you have to cut it up and sell it, and in the end it's good to have a few hundred dollars.
But Chu Mingcheng still followed, adjusted the camera on his head, and filmed all its swimming postures.
After following for a few minutes, Chu Mingcheng found a rather large hole underneath, even he could barely get into it.
He came to the entrance of the cave and found a parrotfish with a green and yellow body.
This fish is called the Silverfish, also known as the Silverfish.
It is usually used to pretend to be a genuine Tsing Yi such as Shu's Toothfish, but in fact it is just a fake Tsing Yi, but fortunately, the price is not cheap, and it can be sold for about 130.
The blue-spotted parrotfish inside is not small at all, originally hiding in this fully enclosed cave, but was frightened by his sudden intruder and ran around, but he just didn't dare to run out of the hole.
Chu Mingcheng directly stepped forward to block the entrance of the cave, and then picked up the fish spear.
Because of his presence, the cave suddenly became very crowded, and the blue-spotted parrotfish hid in the corner and shivered.
This was just right for him to hunt fish, and the spear was aligned, and the arrow entered the flesh with a "bang".
The blue-spotted parrotfish struggled desperately, but Chu Mingcheng pressed the fish spear and nailed it inside, so that it couldn't resist at all.
After a while, the fish was lifeless, and he took it out with both hands.
This fish is a bit big, at least more than ten catties, but the mouth is not big, and the live fish buckle doesn't seem to be very easy to use.
Therefore, Chu Mingcheng had no choice but to go back to the boat and store it on the crushed ice in the foam box.
The fish is fat and beautiful, and it makes people like it when they look at it.
After looking at the time, more than ten minutes had passed, and Chu Mingcheng went to the trap to take a look when he went into the water again.
The results are also very encouraging, and the first traps have already paid off.
He lifted the bamboo stick, only to find that it was a turquoise mantis shrimp with a reddish-black belly.
This is also a kind of shrimp family, that is, the body size is not so big, and the largest is 18 centimeters.
Chu Mingcheng looked at the mantis shrimp that was entangled in the trap, and finally decided to bring it back first.
Putting the mantis shrimp in the bottle, he moved on to the second trap.
Eight of the ten caves were hooked, except for one mantis shrimp, the rest were shrimp shrimps.
The smallest one is as big as the mantis shrimp, Chu Mingcheng has put it away, and the smaller ones are too big to eat by themselves.
After swimming in a circle, the ten traps were placed again, and he continued to swim towards the deep water.
Then, a fish that slowly swam on the coral made his heart pound and beat rapidly.
The body is brownish-white, the brown is relatively light, and the whole body is covered with black dots, the back is arched high, and the head is very small, a bit like a mouse.
This is an extremely precious wild mouse spot, but unfortunately it is a little smaller, and it is likely to be only a little more than a catty.
Chu Mingcheng slowly approached with a fish spear, but he knew that the mouse spot was unusually cautious, he was seven or eight meters away, and ran away.
He immediately chased after him, and the rat spots swam in a hurry, but they only had high explosiveness, and they would slow down when they swam a certain distance, and they couldn't continue to explode away.
This also made Chu Mingcheng completely keep up, but unfortunately he couldn't catch up.
As if he found that he couldn't escape, the rats suddenly ran into the crevices of the coral reef below.
Chu Mingcheng's eyes lit up, now it really couldn't escape.
Slowly approaching, he condescendingly searched for where the mouse spot was hiding.
Soon, he discovered that the rat spots were just hidden in one place, a bit like under a stone block at the bottom of an arched bridge.
It's not a lot of space, just enough for it to hide.
It's beautiful!
Chu Mingcheng put away the fish spear and approached it diagonally from the back side, so that the other party couldn't find him by sight.
After getting very close, he suddenly reached out and blocked the front and back of its hiding place.
This is why he can almost ignore the resistance in the water, so he can move so quickly.
If you change people, you can't catch this mouse spot according to this method of blocking the door, and the resistance of the water will cause normal people to move slowly.
In addition, the water flow will also make the rat spots detect it, and they will flee directly.
The front and back were blocked, and the rat spots wanted to escape from the gap, but they were squeezed on the stones by Chu Mingcheng's hands.
Then, it was controlled by his hands and grabbed it.
Successfully caught a live mouse spot, Chu Mingcheng was even happier than when he hit the blue-spotted parrotfish just now.
Don't look at the appearance of this rat spot is only in his early enough pounds, the price may be sold for 500.
The price of rat spots is so expensive, four or five hundred for a pound of fresh life, and the bigger the more expensive.
But if it's dead, it's estimated to be about eighty to one hundred.
There is not much difference between the price of some fish alive and dead, and even many marine fish do not survive on shore, and there is no live fish price at all.
But this kind of live fish with rat spots is too different from dead fish, so Chu Mingcheng is so happy when he catches it alive.
He went straight back to the boat with the rat spots and filled the fish box with oxygen.
The first of the four fish kings on Hong Kong Island deserves to be treated as such.
Then he looked at his fish spear and felt that it was a bit of a ruin to kill such a precious fish directly.
So he stopped going into the water, took out the line, hook and lead sinker from the fishing box and tied them up, and then cut some squid meat.
Sure enough, it is more reliable to lure them with bait at the door of the grouper, and now the time is about to come to night, and before half past nine in the evening, it will be the time when the grouper is active, and the effect should be good when you rely on fishing.
After the squid meat was cut, Chu Mingcheng put everything aside and entered the water again empty-handed.
He had to catch the shrimp before dark, and after dinner, he would go grouper fishing.
Busy until half past five, Banqin Shrimp Gu caught a total of twenty-seven, Chu Mingcheng took back the bottles, and then put them all into the live fish cabin.
This thing takes up a bit of space, and if you put it outside, the shrimp girl is easy to die, and now he knows why others don't do this thing at sea.
Not to mention, the space is not easy to preserve, and they should be willing to catch some cheap fish than get this.
Take a towel to wipe the sea water off his body, it's okay in the water, he doesn't feel the cold.
But as soon as he came up and was blown by the sea breeze, Chu Mingcheng suddenly couldn't stand the cold.
Wiped off the water and hurriedly walked into the cockpit, turned on the air conditioner, and he was comfortable first.
I had to go into the water at night, so I didn't go to the shower.
Take out the six immortals and process them and steam them directly, pour them with steamed fish soy sauce, sprinkle them with chopped green onions and millet spicy, and pour them with hot oil, and they will be fragrant immediately.
This fish is not sold in the market, but the fish is very delicate and tastes very good, and Chu Mingcheng is very satisfied.
I just don't know why no one buys it on the market, and although the quantity is scarce, it is not as rare as wild rat spots.
After eating dinner and resting in the cab, Chu Mingcheng took the squid meat cut in half a net pocket and the hook of the line set he had made, and went into the water again.
This time he didn't wear a camera because he had to wear a diving headlamp.
Now is the peak of fish activities, as soon as he entered the water, Chu Mingcheng saw many precious reef fish and groupers swimming at the bottom, and occasionally saw the picture of big fish hunting small fish.
Chu Mingcheng swam at a height of about ten meters above the bottom, this height generally does not make the fish vigilant, and secondly, he can pull it after the hook bait hits.
It is a strong horse wire and steel wire leading, but it is not afraid of breaking.
Soon, Chu Mingcheng locked on to the target.
A grouper that can't see the color clearly even if it has lights, looks a bit like an eastern star grouper.
Chu Mingcheng slowly put down the bait and stopped about twenty or thirty centimeters above the fish.
He could clearly see the fish being attracted, swimming back and forth under the bait.
Because of its existence, the small fish gathered around are hungry for bait, but they do not dare to get too close.
Then Chu Mingcheng watched the grouper come to the hook bait and swallowed the hook bait in one bite.
A strong force suddenly came from his hand, and he happily pulled the line back, first pulling it to the middle waters, and then letting it circle around him.
When it got tired, Chu Mingcheng pulled all the fishing lines back and reached out to grab the grouper.
I didn't expect it to be a western star spot, which should weigh three or four pounds.
He first caught it with a live snap through its gills before taking the hook out of its mouth.
Let the fish float two meters behind him, Chu Mingcheng took out a piece of squid meat from his net pocket and hung it again, looking for the next suitable target.
There are a lot of fish, which dazzles him to watch.
After swimming more than 20 meters, he found a suitable target fish again, which was a Zhengqingyi, that is, Shu's pigtoothfish.
The fish was huge, bigger than today's blue-spotted parrotfish.
The coral reef resources are really good at night, but if you fish from a boat, the effect may be mediocre.
There are more trash fish here than precious fish, and they are also easier to hit.
Although he is a little troublesome, he is very accurate.
And Chu Mingcheng is much more comfortable in the water, after all, he can swim freely, even in the cold water, he will still feel comfortable, but fishing with the sea breeze on the boat is not so comfortable.
The Toothfish is a little dumbfounded, and it just wants to find something to eat to fill its stomach when it comes out at night.
Its main diet is hard-shelled shellfish, sea urchins, and slow-moving mollusks.
Who knew that a piece of meat suddenly appeared on its head, and under the two options of eating or not eating, it only hesitated for three seconds before taking a bite of the food.
Who knows, after eating a piece of squid meat, he lost all his worth.
The fish was very big, and it was much more difficult to pull it up than the previous Eastern Star Group, so Chu Mingcheng simply adjusted its position and let it run by itself in the empty middle waters.
There's no water power, but the weight is there.
Shu's toothfish just ran for a while before surrendering, and was pulled in front of Chu Mingcheng.
The teeth of this fish are ugly, but the bite force is no joke, and the fish is big enough, maybe twenty pounds.
So he took it back to the boat and kept the fish in a living water tank, and the eastern star grouper was put together with the mouse grouper.
(End of chapter)