Chapter 474 - 221: Kite Fishing Method
As he spoke, he turned on the drag system, and under the weight of the sinker, the hooks began to descend into the water. Seeing how adroitly he handled it, the captain knew he surely had experience.
The shallow reef area was only around twenty or thirty meters deep. Feeling the line’s speed slow down slightly, Lin Yang knew that the sinker had reached the bottom.
Instantly, he lifted his arm upward, trying his best to prevent the sinker from snagging on debris on the seabed.
After a slight adjustment, he began reeling in the line, searching for the bottom fish layer’s location. At about one and a half meters above the bottom, he suddenly felt the tip of the rod dip—there was a fish on the hook.
Lin Yang wasn’t greedy; he swiftly lifted the rod to set the hook and then rapidly reeled the line back in.
Sure enough, on the third hook of the string, there hung a small fish weighing about two ounces.
"Brother Yang’s got skill, catching a fish on the first try. That’s our target bait, herring. Golden spearfish love this stuff." Zhang Lin couldn’t help but exclaim after a glance.
Lin Yang just smiled, not saying much. Used to catching big fish, fishing for such small ones felt like play to him, very simple.
No sooner had he thrown the fish into the live well than Captain Harry also caught a fish.
As an experienced captain, his fishing expertise was quite profound. He hoisted the string of hooks out of the water, and three small fish hung from the five hooks, significantly more efficient.
However, Captain Harry seemed rather choosy about the bait fish. After a brief glance, he picked off the two ugly and ragged-looking fish and threw them back into the sea, keeping only one herring for the live well.