The Top Fishing
Chapter 178 - 138: Terrifying Shadow

Chapter 178: Chapter 138: Terrifying Shadow

After fishing for more than half an hour again, he had already caught over ten fish, each weighing more than a pound.

After baiting the area, it seemed like fish were constantly popping up from every direction.

Lin Yang checked and saw that it was about enough, and since he already had live bait, he was going to switch his fishing method now.

In his fish keeper, there were about twenty to thirty pounds of fish, enough for him to fish comfortably for a while.

Lin Yang put away his hand rod, picked up the casting rod, and hung the biggest yellowtail he caught earlier on the hook.

In the live streaming room, the viewers had been bored watching him catch small fish during Lin Yang’s over an hour-long fishing session.

Now seeing him finally switching to the casting rod, some viewers couldn’t stay calm knowing Lin Yang’s habits, the switch meant he was going for a big catch now.

"The host has finally switched to a big casting rod."

"Such a wide water area, it’s bound to have big fish."

He baited the hook, using two rods simultaneously.

One was a lure rod given as a system reward, the other a reward as a versatile casting rod, one for searching spots and one for specific spot casting, employing both techniques simultaneously.

Lin Yang lifted his arm, forcibly casting the bait with the yellowtail, which flew about thirty to forty meters away in a perfect parabola.

After casting, he set the casting rod on the rod holder on the ground, then he just needed to wait for big fish to strike.

Moreover, it’s worth mentioning that Lin Yang secretly smeared some strong fish-attracting scent on the bait he just cast, this enhancer was obtained last time after unlocking sturgeon, and it mainly targets predatory fish in freshwater.

Live bait with the scent added, simply a double temptation.

After setting up the casting rod, next was the lure rod.

This time, he was also using live bait for the lure rod, but he needed to hold the rod all the time, achieving the goal of catching fish through constant casting and line retraction.

A casting rod and a lure rod, one in motion and one still, combining the techniques to their utmost.

Next, it was endless casting and line retraction, line retraction and casting, immediately replacing the bait with a fresh one whenever it lost its vitality.

In this way, the bait in his fish keeper was continuously being used by Lin Yang for casting, gradually adding over ten pounds of fish in return.

Lin Yang’s actions also made the viewers feel pity.

"Master Lin, leave some face for other fishing hosts."

"That’s right, if other fishing hosts caught these fish, they would want to edit them into dozens of videos, and here you are, hardly warming them up in the fish keeper before you send them back again."

"Seeing the host fish like this, I feel like I don’t deserve to fish, damn it’s too extravagant."

While the viewers were discussing heatedly, Lin Yang continued to handle the lure rod intensely, also intently watching the water surface, just waiting for that explosive moment.

However, most of the fish in the keeper had been used up, and still, no fish were taking the bait.

He even began to doubt whether his fishing method was no longer effective.

But just then, the big casting rod that had been quiet suddenly bent from a pull.

"Brother Yang, it seems like there’s a fish on this rod!" Yue’er also immediately said from beside him.

Lin Yang turned his head to see, and quickly put down his lure rod.

It seems, the fish underwater prefer stillness over movement.

His continuous lure casting had been unfruitful, but it turned out the set up casting rod snagged a catch first.

He moved over there quickly, lifting the casting rod and began reeling in.

From the tension transmitted through the line, Lin Yang could feel that the caught fish was not very large.

Thinking this, he didn’t want to struggle with the underwater fish, so he began reeling in directly, not giving any big fish in the pond a chance to strike back.

The hook and line setup he used this time was also strong enough to support such force.

"After waiting so long, finally got a catch, but I feel this fish isn’t very big...." Lin Yang said while reeling in, speaking to the camera in Yue’er’s hand.

After reeling in for a minute or two, a large fish nearly half a meter long, with a grey-white body and a mouth filled with small sharp teeth hanging from the bait’s hook, emerged from the water.

This fish had a broad body, blue-grey skin dotted with black spots, clearly a big sea bass.

"Oh man, it’s a big sea bass."

"Where is this place to actually have such big sea bass?"

"The host is too Versailles, still calling it a small fish...."

When Lin Yang saw this sea bass, he was also surprised, but it was within logical expectations, as sea bass is also quite an aggressive predatory fish, evidently it had been attracted by the bait just now.

Just when this big sea bass was five or six meters away from the shore, suddenly, a huge dark silhouette also rapidly followed the sea bass towards the shore.

"What the heck is that?"

At that moment, Lin Yang also noticed the dark silhouette, but before he could start lifting the rod,

Whoosh!

The surface of the water in front erupted, and a mouth full of fine, sharp teeth suddenly burst out of the water, snapping at the sea bass ahead.

Swoosh!!!

Immediately, the sound of the line being rapidly pulled back followed.

"Holy crap, the host’s fish was snatched!"

"The mantis catches the cicada, the oriole behind?"

"No, should it be called snatching from the jaws of death?"