The Top Fishing
Chapter 210 - 148: Giant Fish Tail

Chapter 210: Chapter 148: Giant Fish Tail

Lin Yang lifted the rod and firmly controlled the fish. After a brief stalemate of a few rounds, he began to apply force to reel in the line.

About two or three minutes later, the fish breached the water, thrashing about and creating circles of ripples on the surface.

"Wow, a dogfish! It looks decent in size, at least over four or five pounds."

"So envious of the resources, in our place, catching a black fish can sometimes take all day without a single bite."

"Don’t forget, Master Lin is now in Dongting Lake, good resources are a must."

After dragging the fish out of the water through a tug-of-war, Lin Yang soon reeled the hooked dogfish in close, took the fish controller from his waist, bent down, controlled the fish, and got it out of the water all in one go.

The dogfish, which didn’t look very large in the water, appeared much larger once its mouth was secured with the fish controller and lifted out of the water, roughly 50 centimeters long and chubby, looking very plump.

"It seems the wild fish resources here are indeed very good. You see, the belly of this dogfish is all round and plump."

Lin Yang supported the fish near its lower belly and tail with his left hand and held the fish controller with his right hand, showcasing the catch in front of the camera.

It must be said, lure fishing is indeed far more visually engaging and more thrilling than pole fishing, especially after the consecutive actions of hooking and retrieving the fish.

"Wow, this dogfish looks really beautiful — its shape, its pattern, and though it seemed small in the water, it’s actually not small at all when lifted out."

"Seeing it makes me jealous. We have dogfish here too, but they are rare, and ones this big are even scarcer."

"I’ve never fished for dogfish, but black fish are plenty on our side. I’ve caught one up to about ten pounds once."

Lin Yang’s fish controller had a scale, so while holding it, he showed the scale on the camera as well.

"Look at the scale, about six pounds, not bad. We have tonight’s ingredients for sour fish soup."

After speaking, he casually put the fish in a live fish bucket.

While everyone was observing the dogfish, Lin Yang sneaked a look at the field guide reward, which showed 1500 RMB, 15 points of experience and points, and also 0.1% of aquatic encyclopedia knowledge, which was a decent special reward.

It’s worth mentioning that Lin Yang’s home workshop was still continuously producing rice for alcohol, then how did the fish attractant medicine come about?

Of course, it was by express delivery.

Before leaving Tan Sha, he had exchanged hundreds of bottles of the medicine, then packed and shipped them back to Qingyang Town, so there was no need to worry about these supplies.

The one responsible for steering the boat, Xiao Li, was a bit dumbfounded seeing Lin Yang catch a fish with just a casual cast upon reaching this targeted spot.

This seemed too easy, right?

You see, his fellow fishermen, though they managed to catch dogfish every now and then using ground hook fishing methods, would check their multiple traps only once a day and at most they’d catch two or three fish, sometimes none at all with bad luck.

But now, barely three minutes upon arrival, Master Lin had already made a successful catch, and the first fish was a dogfish weighing over six pounds.

"Master Lin, your efficiency is really high!" Xiao Li couldn’t help but exclaim.

"That’s how lure fishing is, any problem?" Lin Yang nodded, speaking very calmly.

"Uh...."

Xiao Li was left speechless. Although they studied marine biology, their fish capturing techniques were either netting or ground hooks, and they barely engaged in fishing as they were too busy writing papers for their research and had no time to learn fishing skills.

"This area of Dongting Lake has rich fish resources, so after finding a good spot, it’s very easy to fish successfully...."

While talking, Lin Yang cast the lure again, the pencil bait tracing a bright silver arc in the air and accurately hitting the pre-selected spot.

The fake bait entered the water and after a few seconds reached the desired depth, then he started reeling in, deliberately repeating the previous lure controlling movements, making the pencil simulate a small fish’s swimming and pausing actions in the mid-water zone.

He had just thrown out the lure for less than a minute when Lin Yang felt a huge pull at the tip of the rod, his hand gripping the rod suddenly weighed down.

"Wow, what a fierce attack on the bait, hooked again." He exclaimed excitedly, and once again jerked the rod to set the hook.

This time the feel was different from the previous dogfish; after setting the hook, he couldn’t control the fish immediately.

The fish attacked the bait about one and a half meters below the surface in the mid-water zone, but after hooking, it started to dive desperately and with great force.

Feeling the significant impact force, Lin Yang casually adjusted the drag slightly, unsure of the size of the fish, it was better to be a bit conservative, using the reel’s drag to better cope with the fish.

The next second, the rhythmic sound of the gear drag clicked, and the fish darted out underwater, stretching the line at least several tens of meters before slowing down a bit.

Feeling that the sprint force of the fish underwater had decreased, Lin Yang slightly tightened the drag again, trying to reel in while carefully feeling the subtle sensations during the line retrieval process.

"From the force transmitted through the line, I feel that the size of this fish is slightly bigger than the last one, as you all might have also seen during its line-out sprint just now. It dashed out twenty to thirty meters, and now that the speed has slowed down, I’m starting to reel in, let’s see if I can pull it back in one go."

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