The Top Fishing
Chapter 161 - 132: Hundred Pounds of Sturgeon_2

Chapter 161: Chapter 132: Hundred Pounds of Sturgeon_2

During that one and a half hours, he had hauled up at least ten catfish.

Catching small fish one after another is quite common, but it’s unusual to have a streak of big catfish, each weighing over a dozen or twenty jin, engaging in intense head-to-head battle, a spectacle not often seen, so the viewers in the live stream were thoroughly entertained.

Around twelve o’clock, when the fishing site staff delivered the lunch boxes, the group of catfish at Lin Yang’s spot finally scattered.

He took advantage of the mealtime to rest well.

After continuously reeling in catfish with high intensity, even as he sat at his fishing spot eating from the lunch box, he could feel his hand trembling.

After eating and resting for a good while, he started to feel a bit better.

With his stomach full, Lin Yang checked the time; it was almost half-past twelve, with about an hour and a half left until the end of the competition.

At that time, the record for the biggest fish was still at 24.7kg, and no one had broken it for quite some time.

If things continued this way, winning the total weight prize wouldn’t be a problem for Lin Yang, but it was still a considerable distance from his expected prize, the BMW X5.

He eyed his fishing spot for a few moments, feeling there was still a chance, and he couldn’t give up just yet.

Determined, he opened his tackle box, took out a normal-sized big line to replace the current one, because for catching big fish longer is stronger, shorter by half a meter, you retrieve fish faster indeed, but you cannot cast as far.

The fishing strategy remained the same as in the morning, one rod with balled bait and the other with rubber band pellets; after ladling out some groundbait pellets, he continued fishing.

During the lunchtime, his fishing spot had been quiet for about 20 minutes. After changing the bait and line, there was no action for the first ten minutes. Just the lull was enough to pass half an hour.

Fishing for big fish is like that; the bites won’t come as frequently as they do with small fish, especially around noon, when the temperature gradually rises, and other than catfish, the bites from different species will slow down.

"The host hasn’t had a bite for half an hour, and there’s about an hour left until the competition ends. I wonder if he will be able to catch a big fish."

"The BMW is probably a long shot, but securing the total weight prize seems pretty stable, taking home ten thousand yuan in prize money isn’t bad."

Just when the viewers in the live stream thought Lin Yang would continue to have no bites, the float at his fishing spot suddenly moved, his four-eyed float on the surface leisurely began to sink into a negative drift.

With the lead-heavy method of fishing, the float movements tend to be delayed; this type of action, with no obvious preliminary movement and no visible sluggish bite, makes it hard to decide when to strike. Whether you hit or miss is left to chance.

Seeing the float go under, Lin Yang naturally reached for the rod. He grabbed the upper part of the handle with one hand and used his forearm strength to lift the rod.

However, there was no feeling of the line hooking anything underwater. He had missed.

"Damn, I missed?" Lin Yang was taken aback, uttered a complaint under his breath, then changed the bait and cast it out again.

About a minute later, that strange float action returned, performing the exact same movement; without any preliminary action, the float went straight into a negative drift and soon the four eyes had sunk completely.

Having just missed on the previous cast, Lin Yang didn’t rush to lift the rod this time but instead counted to three after the float disappeared before striking again.

Unfortunately, he missed again.

Now, not only were the live stream viewers puzzled, but Lin Yang was also confused. What was going on?

After fishing all morning, he had not seen any disturbance from small fish in his spot. Could it be small fish causing the trouble now?

It didn’t seem likely; the movements of small fish taking the bait wouldn’t result in this regular pattern of negative drift.

Lin Yang wondered if there was something wrong with the line adjustment he had just made.

Considering this, he readjusted the float by sliding it down two eyes to lessen the curve of the submerged line a bit to see if that would make a difference.

But after casting the line back into the water and waiting for a bit, with only two eyes of the float visible and the float still performing the negative drift, he pulled an empty hook once more.

This situation completely baffled Lin Yang; he had been fishing all over the place recently, and this was the first time he had encountered this.

He analyzed the situation again.

The float was moving, which meant there definitely was a fish nibbling at the bait; this negative drift and dark float didn’t resemble the typical biting action of carp, bream, or grass carp, so what on earth could it be?

Lin Yang frowned and pondered for a full half minute when he suddenly recalled what the manager had mentioned the previous day when he came to register, that there were over a dozen sturgeon weighing around a hundred jin each in this fishing site.

So, could it be sturgeon feeding in his spot and causing these movements?

The sturgeon reared and sold in China are hybrids obtained from breeding Siberian sturgeon with Chinese sturgeon, and their body structure is different from ordinary freshwater fish.

Sturgeon have a body shape somewhat similar to sharks, with a protruding snout and their mouth located underneath, not at the front.

This unique body structure affects their feeding, especially when angling, as the fish’s snout may hit the leader line, causing the fish to bite but not be hooked. In extreme cases, if you’re lucky, the hook may snag around the gill area of the sturgeon.

Considering this possibility, Lin Yang slowly lifted the fishing rod and, under the quizzical gaze of his live stream viewers, snipped off the number 8 leader line and replaced it with the largest he had, a number 10, then pushed the float up by half a meter.

Setting the rig for a four-eye float fishing just skimming the bottom, the double hooks were already resting on the bottom. What would happen if he continued to push the float up on this basis?

Anyone with a bit of fishing knowledge would know that the leader line would continue to bend, causing everything from the lead sinker seat down to the entire hook setup to possibly lie completely under water.

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