Chapter 361: Chapter 239: Thousand-Year-Old Demon, Thousand-Year-Old Fish

The moment he cast his line, he got a reaction. It only twitched a few times, so he knew the fish was probably on the smaller side.

He watched the slack line pull taut, then set the hook!

He was pulling them in one after another, and the viewers on the livestream were growing more and more envious.

Some new viewers couldn’t help but ask if Gu Nan rented out fishing spots on his boat, wanting to go out to sea with him.

Some of the regular viewers knew he didn’t, but they chimed in to tease him anyway.

Seeing this, Yi Chen explained with a helpless tone, "For those asking, we don’t rent out spots. It’s not that we won’t; we really can’t."

"Our boat only has three rooms with three large beds. It can sleep six people at most."

"It’s a fishing boat, but it’s designed more like a yacht, so we can’t rent out individual spots."

Many of the viewers already knew this. Yi Chen had posted photos of the boat’s interior online, so they were aware it couldn’t accommodate many people.

A group of viewers thought it was a shame, and the topic was quickly dropped.

After all, there were plenty of fishing charters available. It wasn’t like they had to go with Gu Nan; it was more a question of whether they were willing to spend the money.

It was normal to spend over ten thousand yuan for a few days at sea. It was fine if you could make your money back on the catch, but if you couldn’t, you’d take a massive loss.

"Holy shit, holy shit! This one’s huge! Haha! Ah Nan, look! How about this one?"

Just then, An Jun yelled excitedly, holding up a large Black Perch that was easily over fifty centimeters long.

Perhaps dizzy with excitement, he carried the fish over to Gu Nan to show it off.

Gu Nan glanced back, his face expressionless. "It’s decent. I just caught one about that size."

"..." An Jun felt a lump in his throat, momentarily at a loss for a comeback.

He glanced at Gu Nan’s fish box and saw that there was, in fact, one of a similar size inside.

"Mine is definitely bigger!"

Having been rebuffed, he tried to salvage some pride before dejectedly putting his Black Perch away.

That was about the maximum size for a Black Perch; they didn’t get much bigger. An Jun’s luck was actually pretty good.

Things quieted down after that, and everyone fell into a silent, mutual understanding as they focused on fishing.

Half an hour later, Gu Nan had already caught over a dozen Black Perch, as well as a seven-pound seven-band grouper that had decided to join the party.

Catching the grouper was a surprise. Everyone else was catching Black Perch, but he’d managed to land something different.

’This is the deep sea, all right. The resources are on another level.’ The haul was impressive, especially since the fish were quite valuable.

But after that brief frenzy, the bites stopped. All the rods on the boat suddenly went still. Did the fish just disappear?

"What’s going on? Where’d all the fish go?" An Jun was getting impatient. After such a great run, he’d been waiting for a while without a single bite. The sudden change was frustrating.

"I’m going to check the cabin," Gu Nan said. He suspected the school might have moved, so he went inside to check the fish finder.

You had to constantly monitor the fish activity. Sometimes a school would move just ten or twenty meters, or change its depth, and that could be the difference between a great haul and going home empty-handed.

When he got to the cabin and looked at the fish finder, understanding dawned on him.

The school had gone back down to the seabed. There were no fish in the mid-layer anymore, which was why they weren’t catching anything.

’Not a big deal. We’ll just have to fish the bottom.’

An Jun and the others were using electric reels, so all they had to do was let out more line.

Gu Nan, however, decided to switch rods. He had a spare one already set up with an electric reel; he just needed to change the rig.

He went back outside, explained the situation to the others, and once they started fishing the bottom, things clearly improved.

But while the fish had been actively feeding before, allowing for one catch after another, the bite rate was much slower now.

And it wasn’t just Black Perch anymore; other species of deep-sea fish were mixed in.

Gu Nan finished setting up his new rod and started fishing.

The viewers on the stream didn’t have any complaints about him using an electric reel for deep-sea fishing.

This time, however, his line had only sunk about twenty meters when he felt a tug—a fish had hit the bait on the drop.

Gu Nan immediately stopped letting out the line and waited for the fish to take the hook.

But this fish seemed particularly cautious. The line would go slack, then pull taut again. It felt like the fish was just mouthing the bait, swallowing it and then spitting it back out.

Gu Nan was exasperated. ’What kind of fish is this? So mischievous.’

Just when you thought the fish had taken the bait and was starting to run, it would suddenly spit it out, causing the line to go slack again.

Several times, Gu Nan thought he had a hookup and was about to set the hook, but thankfully he held back. If he hadn’t, he would have certainly scared the fish away.

This only piqued his curiosity. He patiently waited for his chance, determined to land this fish.

At that very moment, a very large fish was indeed circling the bait down below.

From its shape, it looked like a Gidai, and he estimated its length at just over a meter.

The way this fish was toying with the bait made Gu Nan suspect two possibilities: a Red Sea Bream or a Yellowfin Gidai.

Of all the fish he was familiar with, those two species were known to be particularly cautious.

Of course, it could be something else, but he couldn’t think of any other fish that enjoyed toying with anglers quite like this.

Gu Nan kept his eyes glued to the line. He wasn’t sure what happened, but the line that had been constantly twitching suddenly went dead. He felt a pang of disappointment. ’Did it give up and swim away?’

But just as he thought that, after about ten seconds, the line started twitching again.

Gu Nan felt a vein throb in his forehead. ’This isn’t a fish, it’s a vexing little imp, even more of a tease than my own girl.’

Just then, the line suddenly went taut. A massive force struck, bending the rod nearly in half.

Gu Nan was ecstatic. ’The damned little imp finally took the bait!’ He quickly grabbed the rod and jerked it upwards with all his might, sinking the hook deep into the fish’s mouth.

Hook set!

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