The Top Fishing
Chapter 263 - 162: Large Scale Whitefish

Chapter 263: Chapter 162: Large Scale Whitefish

But it wasn’t over yet. Not long after Li Xiaopeng pulled up a Golden Line Barb, Yue’er lifted her rod, and a small fish with a hint of a golden sheen was pulled out from the water by her.

At this time, the main camera of the program group was still on Lin Yang’s team. Seeing this scene, the audience was a bit dumbfounded.

"Another Golden Line Barb?"

"Master Lin’s two teammates, what kind of luck is this? Currently, both Golden Line Barbs caught in the entire competition belong to their team."

But it wasn’t over yet. In less than ten minutes, Li Xiaopeng actually caught another Golden Line Barb, which really made him ecstatic.

"Hahaha, I must say I’m lucky. Seems like my luck has truly turned around, catching two of the highest scoring fish in a row! By the way, dear audience, I also caught a baby fish, an ancient living fossil, in a cave just the other day. If you want to see it, you can follow my video account, Xiao Peng Fishing!"

Although he and Lin Yang hadn’t done many live broadcasts during this period, they were updating videos on their accounts almost daily.

Because of fishing with Lin Yang, his account’s followers had grown quite rapidly, and now it was close to one hundred thousand.

When he left Jiangdong City, his account had less than thirty thousand followers, and now it had increased several times over.

And Lin Yang’s following had grown even faster, especially during those days of fishing at Dongting Lake, where he could gain tens of thousands of new followers in just one day. Now, his followers had already reached seven to eight hundred thousand. Although it still couldn’t compare to those famous anglers with five to six million or even ten to twenty million followers, this rate of growth was quite terrifying.

The competition continued.

Whether it was because they had found a nest or for some other reason, Li Xiaopeng and Yue’er’s fishing spot yielded two more Golden Line Barbs in quick succession.

Which meant that by the time the competition was nearing its end, the two of them had caught a total of five Golden Line Barbs.

Although the total number of fish they caught wasn’t that high, these five Golden Line Barbs alone added 50 points to their team’s score. Coupled with Lin Yang’s near-continuous catching of Catfish over the three hours, he had also accumulated 60 to 70 points by himself.

By the end of the competition, their team’s score was high enough to place them in the top thirty of this round. However, since they ranked fairly low in the previous competition and only advanced by clinging to the cutoff line, their total score still placed them around the fiftieth to sixtieth place after this round.

With a total of 120 teams in the competition and only 60 able to advance, once the cutoff score was revealed on the big screen, Lin Yang’s team was only three places above the cutoff line.

Which meant that even though Li Xiaopeng had caught the Golden Line Barbs, they had only narrowly managed to advance due to their overall ability.

Nevertheless, this had already met Lin Yang’s expectations.

He had never hoped to vault into the top ranks with this one competition; advancing again was already a great achievement for them all.

Although they had advanced this time, Wang Bo’s team had been eliminated because of their insufficient strength, failing to qualify for the next competition.

They had only managed to advance the last time due to good luck, but this time, they weren’t so fortunate.

That’s how the competition is; not every team can rely solely on luck. With so many teams eliminated in every round, those who lack the necessary strength are bound to be ousted.

In this competition, among the teams that successfully advanced to the next round, whether it was the Tianyuan Team or Xiao Ai and the other girls, they were basically well-known online celebrities or professional anglers. The teams that were not well-known hardly made it through.

The same afternoon the competition ended, Lin Yang and his team joined Wang Bo and his team for a meal, a temporary gathering of sorts.

Since Wang Bo’s team hadn’t advanced to the next round, they planned to continue their angling journey the next day. It seemed they were heading to the Jianghuai Region to fish.

After the meal, Lin Yang and his team didn’t go fishing in the surrounding areas for the next two days, opting instead to rest well in the hotel, waiting for the next competition to arrive.

The third competition was to be held at Fuxian Lake.

Fuxian Lake was very close to Dianchi Lake, a half-hour drive away, so Lin Yang and his team didn’t even need to change hotels.

Fuxian Lake, known as a deep-water secret realm and landing place of immortals, is the deepest lake in Yunnan Province and the third-largest.

Although it is the third-largest, the absurd depth of Fuxian Lake, at its deepest point reaching 155 meters, means it actually has the largest water volume among the four famous lakes. In fact, Dianchi Lake and Erhai combined only make up a quarter of Fuxian Lake’s volume.

Legend has it that due to its extreme beauty, Fuxian Lake attracted two immortals who paused by its edge, so enchanted by the scenery that they forgot to return to Heaven and instead chose to stay, turning into two mountain peaks.

The shape of the peaks is said to resemble giant hands, as if reaching out to caress the emerald lake waters, hence the name Fuxian Lake.

Despite its abundant water and considerable depth, the fish species variety and population in Fuxian Lake are not particularly rich due to the relatively hard water and abundance of surrounding limestone, which many fish species find unsuitable for thriving.

The most famous fish in Fuxian Lake is unique to the lake—the Anti-wave White Fish.

The Anti-wave White Fish is a small species, with a slender, spindle-shaped body, a straight back, and a shallowly curved belly. Its body is silvery-white, darker on the back, with grey-white fins. Overall, it resembles the common White Fish, but this species is countless times rarer in value.