The Top Fishing
Chapter 183 - 139: Black Fish Becomes a Spirit_3

Chapter 183: Chapter 139: Black Fish Becomes a Spirit_3

"Trending search? What trending search?" Curious, he asked upon hearing the words "trending search."

"The Douyin trending search, the hottest one. It’s currently ranked nineteenth, and everywhere you look, you can see your pike catch from noon today, as well as the video of you reeling in the large black fish."

After hearing this, Lin Yang also took out his phone from his pocket with one hand and opened his Douyin account directly.

Once logged in, good lord, various private messages 99+, friend requests 99+, comments 99+, @mentions 99+, all the account information was highlighted in red, giving the impression of a backend bug.

Looking at the real-time increase in followers, good lord, in just a few hours since noon, his followers had increased by thirty to forty thousand. His follower count was now over three hundred thousand.

The incident of Lin Yang’s previous capture of the giant catfish wasn’t long ago, and now the news of the hundred-pound black fish, when fused with the previous event, successfully caught the attention of some outsiders.

To use a trendy phrase, he had become somewhat popular beyond his usual circle.

While Lin Yang was gaining significant attention and exposure for catching a large black fish,

Meanwhile.

Chen Lin, the lead research supervisor of the Dongting Lake aquatic research project in Xiang Province, was in the middle of a meeting with his interns at the institute.

Dongting Lake is the second-largest freshwater lake in our country. It’s a bit different from Poyang Lake in Jiangxi Province, which is a more complete large lake with almost all surrounding waters being interconnected.

Dongting Lake mainly consists of "East Lake, West Lake, Datong Lake, Guangfu Lake," four large lakes, and in addition, there are many smaller lakes.

Their task this time was regarding one of these smaller lakes.

During the meeting, one of the students said, "Teacher, we’ve already conducted an initial study here, but it seems we haven’t seen the legendary large fish, only some relatively common fish species. Could it be that the news was incorrect and the local fishermen were mistaken?"

Chen Lin shook his head, "Last month, not only did a fisherman encounter the shadow of a large fish, but the lake’s staff also spotted traces of the fish. I think the news could be real. You switch to a different observation spot with Xiao Han and also adjust the fishing devices we’ve deployed."

"Oh, okay!"

At this moment, a short-haired girl with delicate features raised her hand, "Teacher, I have an idea."

"Hmm? Xiao Han, what’s your idea? Collective wisdom is better than individual judgment, just speak your mind!" Chen Lin said.

"I think, although we are strong in the academic study of fish, we don’t have much practical experience in actual fishing or trapping techniques.

During the time I’ve been busy with other seniors, we’ve completely relied on our subjective ideas to deploy trapping devices, without knowing if there are fish underwater, how large they are, or where they are active.

So, I suggest we try to find a professional angler to act as a technical adviser of sorts. Just bumping around blindly on our own is too inefficient."

After listening to Xiao Han, Supervisor Chen Lin slightly frowned and pondered for a bit.

The student’s point was quite valid. He had spent his entire career studying freshwater fish, could identify almost every species of fish, but when it came to their real habits and trapping strategies, he was not an expert,

The fishing methods used by their team were all based on various existing freshwater or sea fishing methods, and were not very targeted.

Their first round of research took a week, and their only catch, so to speak, was a triggered trap device where a two or three-millimeter sized fishhook was bent straight. What sort of monster they had caught, they didn’t even get a glimpse of its shadow.

Seeing that the research project on Dongting Lake’s mysterious large fish was making no progress, Chen Lin was getting anxious.

"Xiao Han, your suggestion makes a lot of sense. But at the moment, it seems we don’t have professional anglers like those in Europe and America, do we? We can’t possibly invite someone from abroad, can we?"

"Who says there aren’t any? Look at this news; it’s trending!" Seeing the teacher was interested, Xiao Han immediately opened the tablet, found the trending news, and handed it over to the teacher.

[A young angler catches a hundred-pound black fish in a mountain reservoir!!!]

At this title, Chen Lin’s heart skipped a beat.

He was very familiar with freshwater predatory fish. Common black fish typically only weigh about four or five pounds, with those over ten pounds being quite rare.

As their size increases, black fish also have more energy consumption; at a certain point, their growth slows down significantly, and they need a vast amount of food.

Bred black fish might fare a bit better, but if wild, it might need to eat all the fish in a pond to grow so large.

Having watched the video in the trending news, Chen Lin estimated based on body proportions that the large black fish was at least over 1.8 meters long. In terms of black fish discovered in China, it absolutely belonged to the top tier of giants, and just like the news headline said, this fish might as well have become a spirit.

Seeing the angler who caught this spirited black fish, he had also recently caught a pike weighing over a hundred pounds, and an even larger catfish before that.

Isn’t he the professional they were just talking about?

"This Lin Yang, can we find a way to contact him?" Chen Lin became completely interested after reading the trending news.

This time, the Dongting Lake aquatic research expedition was something Chen Lin felt confident about; all project expenses were subsidized by national special funds.

Besides, places like Dongting Lake, well-protected by strict environmental laws, are off-limits for ordinary people to fish. If they could reach out to a professional angler from society, he believed the other party would most likely be very interested.

"I just checked. This angler named Lin Yang seems to be a fishing streamer on Douyin. We should be able to contact him," Xiao Han responded.

"Make it a priority to contact him. Our second round of the expedition starts in a week. We have to get in touch with him as soon as possible. Let me know the moment you have results. If he agrees to help us, we can send him an invitation to the project. Travel expenses, food and lodging, and other reasonable equipment costs can all be fully reimbursed!"

"Okay, I’m on it!"

Having received the approval from her supervisor, Xiao Han immediately set out to find a way to contact him.

Meanwhile, after finishing his meal and waiting roughly half an hour, Brother Aquatic hurried over as well.

He didn’t just arrive by himself; he also drove over in a watercraft, having seen the size of the black fish in the video.

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