The Top Fishing
Chapter 232 - 153: The Giant Creature in the Reservoir_2

Chapter 232: Chapter 153: The Giant Creature in the Reservoir_2

Additionally, like the mountain lake where I am currently fishing, the water temperature is relatively lower, and the environment within the water mass is also different, all of which affect the habits of the fish.

To put it simply, there is less food available in this type of reservoir, the fish grow more slowly, demand more from their food, and thus they bite more fiercely!"

Feng Bing, listening nearby, nodded in agreement after hearing Lin Yang’s analysis, "That’s absolutely true! There is indeed much less food available here. Initially, I even thought about using a pellet machine to feed pellets into it, but I quickly dismissed that idea.

If my field turned into a fish farm, and all the fish caught were fat and bloated, then fishing in the reservoir wouldn’t mean much. If that were the case, it would be better to just go to a private fishpond. Here, not only do the Crucian Carp eat corn, but even the Catfish, I have caught them with corn bait too!"

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As Lin Yang chatted, he glanced at the float again, which had just settled and then began to move again.

Even without looking at the shadows under the water, he knew for sure that some fish must have gathered at the baited spot, likely due to pre-baiting.

"Brother Feng, what did you use to pre-bait the spot? How much did you feed each day and how long has it been? Looking at the float’s movement, there should be quite a few Crucian Carp there now. If we switch to a normal fishing rig with a small hook and thin line, I guess it would be non-stop action."

"Not much, about 20 kg of snails per day, plus 20-30 kg of old corn each day for about seven or eight days. My friend came over for three or four days, then there was a break of four or five days. Knowing that you agreed to come, I replenished the bait since yesterday morning, right after we finished messaging on WeChat, and today is the second day."

"No wonder, alright, with all these minor movements, the Big Plate Crucian Carp should be full by now, I’m switching to a slightly smaller line, starting with the Big Plate Crucian Carp."

Having understood the situation with the bait spot, Lin Yang decisively changed to a smaller line setup, a number two main line, 1.2 leader line, and a 0.5# new Kanto hook, which is generally good for these aggressive mountain reservoir fish, providing a decent balance and a high rate of success.

The trial fishing that followed went exactly as Lin Yang had predicted, using commercial bait to fish near the bottom, the very first cast yielded a fish.

He effortlessly brought the fish to the surface, and two Big Plate Crucian Carp were pulled to the edge of the water and picked up again.

After unhooking the two fish and placing them in the fish protector, Lin Yang was visibly happy: "Wow, there are more fish here than I expected, each Big Plate Crucian Carp double-fly is almost a kilogram. It’s no use, I’m directly switching to the shorter rod to increase the rate, it’s fine if the big fish don’t give a bite, catching Crucian Carps works too."

"The host is learning bad tricks, trying to make us envious, right?"

"Draw a circle to curse Master Lin, hoping he catches a 100 kilogram fish that then shakes off the hook and escapes in one go...."

Brother Feng, chuckling nearby, said, "Short rod fishing for Crucian Carp is also possible, ranging from 4.5 to 5.4 meters works well, any shorter and the slope underneath is too steep, which doesn’t work well."

No sooner had he finished speaking than his phone rang. Brother Feng looked at the caller ID: "The person delivering snails is here, you guys keep playing here, I’ll go collect them, I’ll be right back."

After greeting everyone, Brother Feng turned and left, while Lin Yang, patiently, continued casting. Meanwhile, Li Xiaopeng, next to him, was using a 7.2-meter rod specifically to catch big fish.

The Crucian Carps at Lin Yang’s bait spot indeed gathered quite a crowd, and for the next half hour or so, it was almost constant action, quickly reeling in twenty or so fish.

However, as fishing progressed, the bites in the bait spot inevitably slowed down, likely due to most of the surrounding Crucian Carp having been caught.

Seeing this, Lin Yang set his long rod aside, slightly shifted his position, and then switched to a short rod, patiently ramping up his frequency.

Feng Bing was right, after switching to a 5.4-meter rod, it didn’t take long for the Crucian Carps to start biting, which offered a much better experience and feel compared to the 8.1-meter reservoir long rod.

Big Crucian Carps gave bites every few minutes, and unknowingly, more than an hour passed, and he had a plentiful catch.

"How’s the fishing going, I’ve got the snails, when should we replenish the bait spot?" At that moment, Feng Bing came over pushing a cart with the bait ingredients.

Luckily, an entire bag of plastic-sealed cooked old corn, plus several tens of kilos of snails, and just the cost of baiting alone was at least a few hundred yuan.

Lin Yang responded, "The fishing situation with the 5.4 meter Crucian Carp is pretty good. Since the bait ingredients are here, let’s add some more. After fishing for so long, the bait in the spot must have been mostly consumed by the Crucian Carp."

Since they were going to replenish the bait spot, he also planned to explain to the viewers in the livestream how to do it.

"Let me show you the bait ingredients Brother Feng has prepared. Now onto the meat of the matter, I’m going to explain how to set up a bait spot in this kind of mountain lake where no feeding is done!

When it comes to setting up bait in a mountain lake, the first thing is choosing a fishing spot, a good spot is a prerequisite for subsequent baiting and fishing.

I’ll skip the repetitive stuff that everyone knows, like finding ’Hua Jian’ or fish paths, and just talk about things to notice when choosing fishing spots in mountain lakes.

In mountain lakes such as the one we are currently in, the underwater terrain is generally quite steep. When choosing a fishing spot, it’s best to avoid such underwater terrain as much as possible.

Because the position you feel is right for the bait might have already slipped to a deeper position underwater, which means the bait has moved too far. This is also why many people see big fish jumping ahead of the bait spot but can’t seem to get any bites."