He had dumped everything from the Fishing Pots into one bucket without sorting it. Now he needed to pick out the small shrimp for bait.
Live shrimp had worked so well as bait yesterday!
He moved all the fish and crabs into another bucket, leaving only some shrimp at the bottom. He poured those onto the boat, freeing up the bucket to fill with seawater for the fish he would catch.
Once everything was ready, he copied what A-Zheng and Xiao Xiao had done yesterday and picked a slightly larger White Shrimp for bait, hoping for a good start to make up for the string of Fishing Pots that had been stolen.
Full of confidence, Ye Yaodong baited his hook, cast it into the sea, and waited quietly.
He waited and waited... but something seemed wrong. Yesterday, the fish had bitten quickly, one after another. Why wasn't it working today? Were there no big fish left?
He lifted the hook to check. The bait was still there! Was the shrimp too big, with no large fish nearby to bite and the small ones unable to take it? Was that why nothing had happened for so long?
He tried taking the shrimp off the hook and replacing it with a smaller one. Sure enough, there was movement in less than a minute.
He lifted the rod and brightened. It was an enormous Red Octopus that looked to weigh two jin. As he hauled it up, its tentacles kept writhing in midair.
"That's what you get for being greedy. You're done for now, aren't you?"
As soon as he took it off the hook, the big creature wrapped its tentacles around his arm.
Ye Yaodong had to put down his rod and use his other hand to pull it off. But it