I Can Fish Up Everything!

Chapter 373: Chapter 242: Finally Obtaining a Bluefin

The fish was currently about 450 meters away from him. At this rate, he would have to repeat the motion hundreds of times.

With a core workout like this, how could his back not be in top form?

The live stream chat was even more amusing. A wave of "What a strong core!" comments flooded the screen, interspersed with remarks like, "His wife must be a very happy woman."

Yi Chen paid no attention to this; she was busy giving Gu Nan water and wiping away his sweat. That was her job.

Gu Nan completed a full pump of the rod almost every two seconds. Including the time to reel in the slack, the entire cycle took five seconds at most.

But the massive fish wasn’t about to go down without a fight. It would occasionally make a powerful run, extending the battle much longer.

Even with the golden fishing rod, there was no winning a quick fight against a 330-pound behemoth.

As a result, it took Gu Nan over an hour and forty minutes from the moment he hooked the fish until the tuna was finally alongside the boat.

But that speed made all the anglers in the live stream lose their minds. ’Does he have to be that fast?’

Even a 330-pound pig would take the better part of a day to drag in from 500 meters out, right?

So the viewers in the chat came to a conclusion: the boss must have eaten his spinach.

The massive fish’s true form was finally revealed: a bluefin tuna over two meters long.

"Hahaha, a bluefin! It’s really a bluefin!" With half his goal accomplished, Gu Nan laughed, grabbed a harpoon, and struck the tuna.

’I can’t believe tonight is going so well. The very first fish is a bluefin tuna!’

The tuna’s belly was round and plump; it looked very fat.

But the exact meat quality, fat content, and its freshness once back on shore would all affect the final price. For now, no one knew just how valuable this bluefin truly was.

Never mind the jealous viewers in the chat; hearing the excitement in Gu Nan’s voice, Ye Jing and An Jun, who had been feeling anxious, were suddenly filled with motivation, as were their girlfriends.

It couldn’t be helped. Like the large yellow croaker, the bluefin tuna had been hyped so successfully that everyone knew its name was synonymous with big money.

The fish Gu Nan caught had completely exhausted its stamina. It barely moved after being pulled alongside the boat, a stark contrast to fish from other anglers that would still be thrashing about.

So, even if he hadn’t used the harpoon, the fish would have slowly suffocated and died on its own.

But Gu Nan decided to hasten the process. Since the fish was still, he accurately pierced its brain with the harpoon.

Relatively speaking, a bluefin tuna’s head isn’t worth much compared to its body, so it was the right spot to target.

Blood stained the surface of the sea. The bluefin tuna convulsed for a moment, then went still.

Gu Nan didn’t need to handle the rest. Yi Chen looped a rope around the fish’s tail, then used the crane to hoist it onto the boat, handling everything with practiced ease.

She steadied the fish to stop it from swaying in mid-air, and then they both looked at the digital scale on the side of the crane.

334.2 pounds. After being gutted and bled, it would probably weigh around 300 pounds.

It wasn’t a huge specimen for a bluefin, but it was a solid catch and about the size Gu Nan had anticipated.

Even at the lowest market price for bluefin, this fish was worth over fifty thousand.

In reality, he always sold his catch at the going market rate, so even if the meat quality and fat content were merely average, the price would be well over fifty thousand.

The large grouper plus this bluefin would be just enough to split between Wang Junhe and Guo Xiao.

As for the group of customers who’d bought shares, he could only apologize. They most likely wouldn’t be getting any of this one. Fortunately, the two bigeye tuna he’d caught earlier could be sold to them instead.

Gu Nan didn’t need to process the fish himself. He quickly ate a piece of chocolate and drank some water to recover his energy.

He then threw out some more chum to replenish the trail before baiting his hook and casting out again. While he was at it, he also sent the lines from the two adjacent rods back into the water.

’The goal for tonight is at least two. I won’t get greedy and hope for a third.’

Gu Nan took a moment to check on An Jun and Ye Jing. Thanks to their electric reels, they didn’t need Xu Zhina and Jin Enfei to sub in for them.

But their progress was slow. They had hooked their fish not long after he did, yet their lines were still out over two hundred meters.

They had to shut off the electric reels whenever they started to overheat. From the looks of it, they still had at least another hour to go.