The Top Fishing
Chapter 225 - 151: Device Trigger_4

Chapter 225: Chapter 151: Device Trigger_4

The fishing line grew tauter, and the stimulus on the fish increased. As expected, after reeling in less than 20 meters, the large fish underwater started moving again.

Lin Yang saw this, held his ground for a moment, then switched back to the line-out gear, allowing the fish to continue swimming.

A few minutes later, the large fish paused again, and he repeated his tactics.

After a few back-and-forth struggles, he began to understand the actual strength of the large fish and grew bolder.

Reflected in his reeling operation, Lin Yang increasingly disregarded the fish’s feelings, confronting it head-on by keeping the line tight. Even when the reel felt very tight, and each exertion progressed only from one gear tooth to the next, he still did not give an inch.

Following this stalemate, Lin Yang successfully reeled the thick line back to about twenty meters. By simple calculation, the large fish was now less than ten meters from the surface.

At this stage, it was no longer a contest of technique, but a battle of strength and will.

Lin Yang’s arm muscles were distinctly visible as he reeled in, looking very powerful.

"Wow, look at the muscles on Master Lin’s arms; that must take a lot of strength."

"Reeling and releasing the line for so long, it feels like there’s no progress, not even a glimpse of the fish underwater."

"Yeah, it’s been over two hours now; who knows how much longer it will take."

As if knowing what the audience was discussing, a few minutes later, Lin Yang looked up at the drone and said, "The large fish has a significant reserve of energy, and given its huge size, it demands considerable basic strength. In other words, if I were using normal fishing gear and reel, even if the large fish didn’t move in the water, I probably couldn’t pull it. Now the resistance feels much smaller, and with some luck, I should be able to handle it before it gets dark around six."

As it turned out, he was still too optimistic.

From shortly after three in the afternoon until dusk at six, the sky gradually darkened, and the large fish underwater still showed no signs of surfacing, and by then, three hours had passed since the fish was hooked.

After a long exposure and accumulating viewers, although many viewers had left during the period, the number of people in Lin Yang’s livestream room still remained at an exaggerated forty to fifty thousand, and as the traffic peak arrived, this figure was steadily increasing.

Yue’er, in charge of logistics, handed him a drink to replenish his stamina and electrolytes. After drinking it, he rested briefly and continued the fight.

Finally, just as it was nearly completely dark, Lin Yang exhausted all his strength to reel up almost all of the thirty meters of line stored in the winder.

At that moment, under the drone’s overhead aerial camera, a huge streamlined shadow slowly floated up from underwater.

"Wow, what in the world is that? It’s enormous; it looks three meters long."

"Why is the fish’s head so pointed? It kind of looks like the sword-like snout of a sturgeon, and its size isn’t much different either."

"I don’t think Dongting Lake should have any wild sturgeons, right?"

"There are sturgeons in the Yangtze River basin, but sturgeons aren’t predatory fish, are they? Would they eat black fish bait?"

The large fish was less than a meter from the surface, but its outline could already be vaguely seen. Judging by eye, this fish was at least over three meters long, slightly longer than the sturgeon Lin Yang had fished for at the Big Fish Pond in Suzhou last time.

With the sky completely darkened, under the faint moonlight, the large fish underwater appeared eerily pale, giving ordinary people a naturally fearful impression.

Splash!

The large fish slapped the water’s surface with its tail, instantly raising a large spray of water, splashing across several meters around.