The Top Fishing
Chapter 110: Nibbling and Making Nests

Chapter 110: Chapter 110: Nibbling and Making Nests

The first cast didn’t work out, so let’s change direction and continue casting.

Lin Yang quickly reeled in his line and cast his rod in a different direction; the water depth he was searching this time was shallower than before.

Turn the reel three times and slow down, maintain this rhythm throughout the retrieve.

However, this attempt also continued without a bite...

The next few casts all ended the same way.

After a while, the viewers in the live stream noticed he hadn’t caught anything in a long time and started to sympathize with Lin Yang.

"What a pity, such perfect casting and yet no bites. Maybe change spots again, you’re going to wear out that spot with your casting."

"I bet a pack of spicy strips that the host is going to come up empty-handed today."

"Come up empty-handed? Impossible, I think this cast is going to get a bite."

"Right, just saw some ripples on the water through the camera, it’s likely this cast will hit..."

Just as expected.

Following several fruitless casts, this next one had barely landed when a ripple broke out on the water surface.

"Fish on?"

Lin Yang was pleased to see a bite at first, but after reeling in several meters of line, he returned to calm as the tip of the rod didn’t bend much; it was a small fish, not big.

He shook his head.

Indeed, as he pulled the catch closer to the shore, a thirty-centimeter small-mouthed fish came into view.

Damn it, a small mouth.

The problem with small mouths is that they have really big jaws, which can stretch wider than their bodies, so they can swallow baits of any size.

After so many casts, catching a small mouth was still better than a complete bust, and it even gained him 5 points of experience and points.

"First catch is on shore, a small mouth."

Lin Yang showed a close-up of his catch to the camera.

"It wasn’t easy, but the host finally caught a fish."

"Haha, congratulations, congratulations, a good dish even with just a few eggs when you get back."

"Where’s the guy who bet the spicy strips just now, SF Express or Three Links, I’ll cover the shipping costs!"

Seeing all the teasing from the viewers in the live stream, Lin Yang gave an embarrassed smile.

He had titled his live stream ’Hunting for Behemoths in the Reservoir’, but after all that casting, he had only landed a small mouth. However, since it was his first catch of the day, he would put it in the fish protector, at least he wouldn’t come up empty-handed today.

Next, he would persevere and continue casting without stopping.

As time slowly passed, after that first small mouth, there seemed to be an unstoppable string of catches, one after the other.

Especially close to noon, the small mouths were biting like they were responding to a charge, snapping wildly with almost every two or three casts resulting in a fish on shore, and the size of the fish was getting bigger and bigger.

Around eleven o’clock in the morning, the weight of the small mouths that Lin Yang was catching had broken his record, reaching around eight or nine jin each!

Typically, wild small mouths can grow up to about thirty jin and reach a length of one and a half meters.

Those weighing over ten jin and measuring over a meter are called mile-level Qiao, or Mile Qiao.

Lin Yang’s catch was just short of that, let’s call it a sub-mile Qiao.

At this point, he was beginning to wonder if he had hit a small mouth nest, since they were all he was catching.

For anglers, small mouths are not bad, but his aim this time was to hunt for big catches in the reservoir, and these slim long-bodied small mouths were clearly not his target.

He continued casting and retrieving his line.

Another bite.

Lin Yang casually lifted the rod and paused, reeling in to secure a firm bite.

Hmm?

This time Lin Yang sensed something was off; the force coming through the rod was substantial.

"Could it be the target fish? The reservoir’s big catch, could I have really stumbled upon it?"

The taut line squealed as it was pulled by the mighty fish in the water, the rod tip bending severely, causing a huge splash to erupt on the surface.

This scene was quickly captured by the drone overhead and transmitted into the live stream.

"Wow, the host has got a big one."

"Could it be the giant from yesterday?"

While many viewers were wondering if it was the giant from yesterday, Lin Yang reeled in a few steps of line and shook his head; obviously, it wasn’t.

The fish was powerful, but nowhere near the level of the behemoth.

And judging by the struggles of the big fish in the water after being hooked, Lin Yang could guess it was another small mouth, just a bigger one!

Lin Yang estimated it must be a Mile Qiao because the force of its struggle was clearly much greater than the last one.

Being able to catch a mile-level Qiao would be enough to excite an ordinary angler for the entire day, but Lin Yang was somewhat unenthused.

His target was that huge creature from the reservoir yesterday, not another small mouth.

By now, Lin Yang didn’t care whether the big Qiao needed the line anymore, and he started pulling it in with brute force. After all, his line was strong enough, and these predatory fish, once they bit, were sure to hold it to the death, the kind that gets lodged in their throats, so there was no fear of them coming off the hook.

After a bout of violent pulling, within just a few minutes, Lin Yang had dragged the giant Qiao to the shore.

Seeing the size of this Qiao, his eyes lit up—indeed it was a mile-level Qiao, definitely over a meter long.

Li Xiaopeng, who was controlling the drone nearby, also exclaimed in surprise, then hurriedly took the large landing net to scoop up the fish.

The viewers in the live broadcast room were green with envy after seeing Lin Yang land such a large Qiao.

"Damn, such a big silver strip."

"Holy moly, this is a freakin’ mile-level Qiao!"

"Now I finally understand why the host is using such a large casting rod, just freakin’ regular lure fishing would’ve snapped the rod."

....

Lin Yang took the fish pliers to remove the hook from the lure, positioned the mile-level Qiao towards the camera, and without saying anything else, just the size of the fish’s mouth was impressive enough; one could easily fit an entire fist inside.

"Guys, another Qiao, sigh, if only a big one would come...."

His tone was full of helplessness, and this very punchable tone and expression naturally triggered a wave of scorn from the viewers.

But you couldn’t blame him; it was a sentiment from the bottom of his heart.

After catching the mile-level Qiao weighing around twelve or thirteen pounds, Lin Yang didn’t rush to cast again. After several hours of continuous bait pulling, anyone would be tired.

Besides, he was considering whether he should switch his approach since it was clear that he wouldn’t be able to catch a giant with his current method.

He packed up the rod and rested on a nearby large rock. Fishing for giants was already a game of low probability, and haste wouldn’t help the situation.

It was now noon, and there were even more anglers near the reservoir outlet than when he had arrived in the morning. Moreover, many curious tourists had also come to spectate, attracted by the giant that was uploaded online yesterday—even if they didn’t fish themselves.

After resting for a while and regaining some strength, Lin Yang picked up the casting rod, just about to call over Xiao Peng to switch locations.

Seeing the Qiao in the fish sanctuary on the ground thrashing about, he paused for a moment, struck by a new idea.

The Minnow Lure was designed to mimic the movement of a real fish in order to attract fish, so why should he continue to use the lure when he had real bait right in front of him?

Shit, after all that, he had just confused himself.

No matter how realistic the lure was made, it was still a lure, and considering the video footage from yesterday morning, it wasn’t impossible to use a real fish as bait, which was enough to drag even twenty or thirty-pound fish underwater. It was only too normal that his lure wasn’t getting bites.

Thinking this, Lin Yang found a pair of scissors, cut off the Minnow Lure, then reattached a string hook over a meter long, but he only hooked a Qiao onto the topmost hook, leaving the rest unoccupied on purpose.

This string hook was somewhat similar to an explosive hook rig but not as severe. If a fish bit and struggled, the empty hooks below would hook into the fish’s body, which could also reduce the chance of the fish getting away.

Under normal circumstances, Lin Yang definitely wouldn’t use such a string hook, but today, in pursuit of a giant, he wasn’t concerned with the usual rules.

After hooking a live Qiao onto the top hook, Lin Yang cast the rod out directly.

Whoosh—

With his immense strength, the Qiao on the hook, weighing around three pounds, was flung out thirty to forty meters.

After casting the bait, Lin Yang didn’t immediately reel in. Instead, he just shook the reel twice to tighten the line when it slackened after the cast.

The advantage of using live fish as bait was precisely this; you don’t have to control the bait by moving it back and forth yourself—it moves on its own.

After letting the Qiao swim around for a few minutes and seeing no bites, Lin Yang pulled it back in and switched to another one.

Still no bites, so he continued....

Time slipped away, and it was past twelve in the afternoon.

With more people around today, there were also a few vendors selling stir-fried noodles from their tricycles. Xiao Peng took a moment to buy two servings, which they ate right there for lunch.

After the noodles and some rest, time moved into the afternoon, around one o’clock.

Lin Yang continued to use live Qiao for bait and cast his line. Nearly all the Qiao in the fish sanctuary in front of him had been used up. Just as he was thinking about pulling the fish back in and switching to a livelier one,

suddenly, many small prey fish started jumping out of the water in the distance.

Lin Yang caught this spectacle out of the corner of his eye.

The instant he saw this, he knew that a big catch was approaching—on that was unquestionably huge!

Predatory fish of significant size, when they get close to other schools of fish, cause them to scatter in panic like mice fleeing a cat, resulting in the phenomenon he was witnessing.

The next moment.

Lin Yang immediately went on high alert, gripping the casting rod firmly in his hands.

Whether or not it was the same giant spotted yesterday, he couldn’t afford to miss this one.

Meanwhile, the giant fish that was attracted seemed to be heading straight for the bait on Lin Yang’s hook.

The Qiao on his hook had been carefully selected—apart from the mile-level Qiao, this one was the largest, weighing eight to nine pounds.

Lin Yang reeled in a few meters to stimulate the bait fish’s vitality on the hook.

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