What is the Golden Legend?
This group of golden-yellow big fish right here!
Because these fish are called "fortune fish" by fishermen — the yellow croaker.
The yellow croaker, also known as the kingfish, yellow flower fish, or cucumber fish, is one of China's traditional "Four Major Seafood" and a key nearshore economic fish species.
It has very high economic value; its flesh is tender and rich in protein, delicious to eat, and its swim bladder can be dried into a precious health product called "fish maw," which has certain medicinal benefits.
Yang Fan found about forty to fifty yellow croaker, each weighing at least three to four pounds.
Among them, the largest ones definitely exceeded ten pounds.
"Haha! I'm so lucky to discover such a big school of yellow croaker! Now I'm really going to get rich!"
Staring at the school of yellow croaker, Yang Fan couldn't help but smile, his eyes full of excitement.
This was the yellow croaker!
The so-called "fortune fish" of all fishermen!
How precious are they?
You can say they are worth their weight in gold!
At current market prices, each yellow croaker in this school could be worth tens of thousands of yuan.
Those few fish estimated to be over ten pounds might even fetch sky-high prices of over a hundred thousand yuan each!
In other words, the total value of this school was at least several million yuan!
No exaggeration — this was a school of moving gold bars!
"Damn! I'm so jealous. I really want to borrow a big trawler and catch all these yellow croaker at once!"
Looking at the joyful swimming yellow croaker not far away, Yang Fan felt excited but also a bit regretful.
Today he only brought fishing gear, so it was impossible to catch the entire school in one go.
He could only remember the location of this yellow croaker school and come back later with fishing nets to catch them all.
But if he just relied on rod fishing, how many could he catch?
"No worries. This school should stay in this sea area for a while. Let's spare their lives for now, and I'll come back with some nets next time for a big haul!"
Yang Fan quickly made up his mind.
After deciding, he immediately surfaced and returned to the boat, then steered it to the exact spot where the yellow croaker gathered.
Though his view from the boat wasn't as clear as when diving underwater, he could still see clearly underwater for about a hundred meters without obstruction from the seawater.
So, at this spot, Yang Fan could perfectly observe the yellow croaker school at about 50 to 60 meters deep.
Knowing where the fish were greatly increased his chances of catching them.
After all, this school was feeding, and when they suddenly saw a delicious ragworm bait right in front of them, how could they not bite?
Even if some clever yellow croaker refused the bait, among dozens of fish, a few "dumb" ones would surely take the bait!
Thinking this, Yang Fan quickly took out a sea fishing rod and skillfully hooked a fresh ragworm as bait.
Growing up by the sea and loving fishing since childhood, Yang Fan's fishing skills were naturally very proficient.
Soon, he had the bait ready, then cast the rod gracefully, landing the hook right above the yellow croaker school.
As the sinker dropped, the hooked ragworm bait quickly sank right in front of the school!
Seeing a lively, plump ragworm suddenly appear, several yellow croaker quickly approached and sniffed the bait, then immediately lunged to snatch it!
The scene was just like fancy koi fish competing for food thrown by visitors in a pond!
Just like that, a yellow croaker weighing about five to six pounds took the lead and swallowed the ragworm whole!
Then, it was hooked…
At the same time, Yang Fan on the boat saw this and quickly pulled the rod!
He caught a fish!
The hooked yellow croaker immediately struggled fiercely, but obviously, it was too late!
Its fate was sealed the moment it bit the hook!
After struggling for several minutes, the yellow croaker finally exhausted itself and gave up, slowly being reeled to the surface by Yang Fan.
Seeing the fish finally near the surface, Yang Fan took out a landing net and scooped it up!
"Awesome!"
After many years, this sea fishing once again brought back the joy Yang Fan had been obsessed with since youth!
Not to mention, this time he caught a yellow croaker weighing five to six pounds!
Worth at least tens of thousands of yuan!
Since yellow croaker are delicate and spoil quickly after being caught, Yang Fan immediately put it in the small cooler with ice to keep it fresh.
After finishing this, Yang Fan continued fishing in the same way.
Two hours passed quickly.
After a battle of skill and patience, Yang Fan successfully caught eight yellow croaker!
Six were about the same size as the first catch, and two were estimated to be super big, over ten pounds!
After Yang Fan caught these eight fish in succession, the yellow croaker school was clearly frightened and started swimming wildly everywhere.
This made it much harder for Yang Fan to catch more fish.
So, he reluctantly stopped fishing, otherwise he would have caught them all!
But catching eight yellow croaker in one trip already made Yang Fan very satisfied.
As long as this school wasn't unfortunately caught by other fishing boats in the next couple of days, Yang Fan would be ready with nets when he came back. He believed that the school would still be his catch then.
Yang Fan also believed this group of yellow croaker was smart enough not to be easily caught by other fishermen.
After all, they had grown so large for a reason.
Not everyone had Yang Fan's superhuman underwater ability to search fish schools like advanced radar.
So, in Yang Fan's eyes, this school of yellow croaker was bound to be his sooner or later!
Today, he decided to spare them.
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