As a Fisherman, My Fish Can Level Up

Chapter 67: Chapter 67: Diving to Catch Fish

Diving in the deep sea was indeed a new sensation.

Chu Mingcheng had swum at the seaside before, but plunging into the water for at least an hour, clearly observing the underwater scenery, and keeping company with the fish, felt truly wonderful.

Gradually, he reached the spot where he had previously been rock fishing.

The depth here wasn’t the seven or eight meters he experienced while fishing before—now it was morning, during the ebbing tide.

Chu Mingcheng swam to the bottom and found a few Little Blacks hiding between the rocks.

Once he saw the terrain clearly, he realized his previous snagged lines weren’t snagged in vain.

He simply searched the crevices and found his fishing hooks from before, deformed, but the lead weights were still there.

For a moment, he couldn’t help but laugh and cry. With the ability to swim freely, would he no longer have to fear snagging his line?

But he didn’t bother with these snagged hooks. It wouldn’t be too late to collect the weights when he had caught enough fish and was ready to return.

Since he was catching fish by diving himself, Chu Mingcheng wasn’t interested in the few Little Blacks here; fishing was about catching the big ones.

Twenty minutes had passed since he entered the water, but he hadn’t felt any discomfort, so he didn’t swim up to catch his breath and instead continued diving deeper.

The coastal resources were scarce. As Chu Mingcheng swam along, he didn’t even encounter a school of fish, let alone a single small one.

As for encountering sharks while diving?

First, let them break through the fishing nets laid by the fishermen.

Even if he did encounter one, he had his diving stick, so there was no need to be afraid.

Surely, it wasn’t possible to encounter a Great White Shark or a tiger shark over five meters long in the coastal waters!

If he did encounter such an almost impossible situation, he could simply feed them a meal.

After swimming slowly for another two or three minutes, he found a reef area about twenty meters deep and surfaced to catch his breath.

He still hadn’t felt any discomfort, but it was necessary to breathe since he was about to spend a long time underwater looking for prey.

However, after surfacing to breathe, Chu Mingcheng turned to look back and was shocked to find that he was almost a hundred meters away from his starting point.

Although the world swimming record was less than a minute for a hundred meters, he had been moving slowly and was in the sea; he covered a distance of a hundred meters without much effort in two or three minutes. This ability to swim freely was indeed impressive.

Turning around, he now planned to try diving into the water twenty meters deep.

He had been swimming in three to four meters deep water before and hadn’t felt any discomfort.

If he could dive to over twenty meters now without feeling dizzy or discomfort in his ears, then it would mean he was indeed cut out for the fisher’s life.

Chu Mingcheng began to slowly dive towards the bottom, quickly reaching a depth of ten meters.

Then he continued to decelerate, carefully tuning into his body’s condition.

So far, he felt no discomfort whatsoever.

Continuing to dive deeper, 11 meters, 15 meters, 20 meters, 24 meters…

He only stopped once his hand touched the reef at the very bottom.

He took about a minute to cover the distance from ten meters to twenty-four meters.

He could now feel the slight pressure of the surrounding water current on himself, but this bit of pressure didn’t affect him at all and could be ignored.

Chu Mingcheng felt he could now qualify for a four-star freediving certificate, diving seventy meters without any problem.

He took off the lasso he’d been wearing and started searching the sea floor formed by reefs and sand for prey.

Here, Chu Mingcheng occasionally saw some big fish swimming slowly not far away, but without a fishing spear, he couldn’t catch these fish.

Direct visibility at the bottom of the water wasn’t great, so he raised himself a few feet, about two meters from the bottom.

Then, kicking his legs, he searched for fish hiding in holes and crevices.

After swimming about five meters, he finally spotted his prey on the side of a large reef—a Black Sea Bream weighing at least three pounds.

Chu Mingcheng slowly sank to the bottom and then approached from behind.

Then, holding the lasso pole, he slowly extended it, inch by inch, past the Black Sea Bream’s tail and at that moment, he instantly pulled the trigger.

“Whoosh~”

The lasso tightened abruptly, and only then did the Black Sea Bream realize the danger, frantically wagging its tail trying to escape.

Chu Mingcheng, fearing that the lasso around the tail wouldn’t hold tight enough and it would break free, quickly used his left hand to press down on its body from the side.

The Black Sea Bream’s dorsal fins flared out in threat, but it was in vain as it could only be pinned down on the reef, unable to break free.

Chu Mingcheng released his right hand from the lasso pole, then took out the fish lock, opened it, threaded it through the fish’s gill, and relocked it.

In this way, even if he let go, no matter how much the Black Sea Bream struggled, it couldn’t escape unless it left its head behind.

Generally, a fish that’s been locked won’t move around much because it’s fine if it doesn’t move, but moving caused it pain!

Having successfully secured a Black Sea Bream weighing about three pounds, Chu Mingcheng continued to look for his next prey.

He had twelve clasps in total and aimed to fill them all before returning.

Perhaps because the fish were active during the day, it took him another seven or eight minutes to locate his second target,

a Yellowfin Snapper weighing about two pounds, which was also a species he had not yet captured.

However, this Yellowfin Snapper was not resting; as he approached and stretched out the lasso, it flicked its tail and swiftly darted away.

emmm…

Indeed, without a speargun, diving for fish wasn’t so easy. Even though he was quite fast in the water, he couldn’t possibly catch up with it.

Chu Mingcheng suddenly remembered what he had previously felt he was missing, a harpoon!

In the situation just now, perhaps he could have speared it.

After all, whether the fish were alive or dead, as long as they were freshly caught wild fish, the price was the same.

Besides, there are no wild live fish on the market, and if there are, one should beware. @@novelbin@@

Just then, a small group of sea bass averaging sixty to seventy centimeters in length arrogantly swam over his head, their languid speed making Chu Mingcheng extremely envious.

It was like an armored cash transport vehicle passing by in front of you, but you didn’t have an AK to make them stop.

As he watched the sea bass leave, Chu Mingcheng turned his head and to his surprise, delight came knocking at his door.

A cute Green Lobster slowly crawled past him and into a crevice below. He couldn’t catch the fish, but lobsters were much easier to catch.

Chu Mingcheng immediately swam down and looked into the situation.

He saw the Green Lobster curled up in the crevice, its antennae protruding outside, seemingly observing something.

Chu Mingcheng reached out to touch it…

He missed, and the lobster shot out from another exit and rapidly swam away into the distance.

Chu Mingcheng immediately chased after it, rapidly kicking his legs and surprisingly managing to keep up.

The lobster’s backward dash was swift, but it had pauses, and it wouldn’t keep running in the water indefinitely, only quickly hiding in other crevices.

Chu Mingcheng, swimming at full speed, was no joke, and he never let the lobster out of his sight.

When the panicked lobster hid in a new crevice, this time with no other exit, he successfully caught it.

A Green Lobster weighing seven or eight taels wasn’t bad, and he placed it in the small net bag he carried with him.

This small net bag was originally intended for scallops, sea snails, and large oysters he encountered, but placing the lobster in it for the time being worked as well.