Chapter 136 - 124: Fishing in the Cave_3
After a while, a large fish about 20 centimeters long with a white and translucent body was flipped onto the water’s surface.
Once the fish was pulled ashore, Yue’er approached and exclaimed, "Wow, Brother Yang, the fish you caught is so big, and it’s beautiful too. Do you know what this is?"
Lin Yang removed the fish from the hook and said with a smile, "This fish is known as the Golden Line Barb, a unique species native to our country. Their numbers are very scarce now, so we’ll release it later."
The Golden Line Barb has a long body, laterally compressed, with a distinctive hump forming an arc on the back behind its head, and some are almost entirely transparent.
They usually live in the open waters of quiet lakes, often dispersed around the lake outlets or in deeper waters, congregating near the shoreline or lake outlets in shallow waters during the breeding season, or in spring-fed caverns to lay and hatch their eggs.
There are two color morphs of the Golden Line Barb: those that live year-round in still water lakes, which exhibit a yellowish-brown appearance, and those that live in the darkness of caves, which appear white and translucent - a common trait for most cave-dwelling fish.
Typically, Golden Line Barbs are only ten to fifteen centimeters in length, so this one over twenty centimeters is considered a giant among its kind.
After putting the fish into a fish protector, Lin Yang checked the guidebook rewards again. The rewards were still about the same as before, nothing special, just an additional two hundred yuan, some more experience, and points.
He continued to cast his line for more fishing.