When Boss Chen saw this, he hurriedly had someone bring out the fish from the boat for him to use. Lu Ao did not stand on ceremony either, directly contributing ten pounds of fish as bait.
These fish had all been caught a few days ago. They had long since died and been flash-frozen; now that they had been thawed again, they quickly became less than fresh.
Stale fish gave off waves of unpleasant fishy stench, and this kind of fish worked best for attracting fish.
Tuna had an acute sense of smell. If they caught the scent of fish, they would definitely be unable to resist coming up to eat.
Zhong Honghai directly led the others in cutting the fish into chunks five or six centimeters long.
As they cut the fish chunks, they tossed them into the sea.
As their boat slowly advanced, the fish chunks behind it soon drifted into a long trail of bait.
The anglers hid hooks inside some of the bait chunks and cast them into the water. After that, it was all up to luck. If a tuna swallowed one of their hooks, it would be caught; if not, the bait could only serve as fish food.
The bait trail was far too conspicuous. No matter how clever the tuna were, they could not resist the temptation of food.
Very soon, they saw schools of tuna rising to the surface on the fish finder, gathering together to eat the bait.
"Throw more! Throw more!" someone shouted. "I can see the tuna! It's working really well!"
"I see them too. It's a school of Bluefin Tuna. Everyone, get ready to fish!"
"The boat! We can stop the boat now. No need to keep moving forward."
"Right, stop the boat! We'll fish here!"
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