The Top Fishing
Chapter 274 - 164: Counterattack to Win the Championship_2

Chapter 274: Chapter 164: Counterattack to Win the Championship_2

You can take a rod and bait, find any spot you like to fish, and you’re free to change fishing spots.

Of course, there are two prerequisites for the roving angling rules in the competition. First, you’re not allowed to occupy a fishing spot under the pretense of baiting it if you’re not actually fishing there.

That is, even if you’ve baited the area, as long as you’re not fishing there, anyone else can come and fish there without any claims of reserving the spot with baited area.

Second, you’re not allowed to fish within three meters of someone else’s spot.

If someone is fishing at a location and you like the spot too, you can fish close by, but you can’t be closer than three meters.

This rule is to prevent people from causing trouble and affecting other anglers.

With the rules set, the competition officially started!

The anglers from various teams were not just sitting quietly at their spots this time; instead, most of them were walking back and forth along the lakeside, searching for the right fishing points.

And most of these anglers searching for spots were aiming to find where the Lugu Lake Split Belly Fish were.

As a fish worth 10 points and, according to the show’s organizers, not so uncommon in Lugu Lake, no team aiming for a high score would give up on it.

Seeing the anglers walking up and down the lakeside, the audience couldn’t help but be amused.

"Hahaha, roving fishing is quite interesting. A group of people go back and forth along the lake with eyes shining, looking for spots. It’s like they’re cavorting in the wild."

"They are indeed cavorting, just with fishing rods as their tools. It’s quite an interesting competition, being able to see firsthand how these masters use their experience and knowledge to locate their target fish."

"Most of them are probably aiming for Split Belly Fish, right?"

"Of course, who would go through the trouble if not for the highest scoring fish? Why not just bait a spot and keep fishing continuously, isn’t it better?"

"Although there are quite a few Split Belly Fish in Lugu Lake, they’re not so easy to catch. This competition will surely bring joy to some and sorrow to others."

"Look, there’s Master Lin in the camera view; he seems to have found a place to cast his line!"

The audience all looked, and indeed, Lin Yang, facing the camera, had started casting.

However, when everyone took a clear look at his method, they were surprised to find that he didn’t have a float on his line!

"What’s this, jigging the rod tip?"

"Doesn’t look like it, look how he keeps pulling his rod, jigging involves keeping the rod still and suspended in flowing water to watch for the rod tip movements easily. Who ever does jigging by continuously pulling the rod?"

"So what technique is he using? It looks so strange. There’s no float, and apart from jigging and using a sea rod, I’ve never heard of such a fishing method."

Amidst the audience’s discussions, Lin Yang held his fishing rod, cast it out, and then slowly pulled it back in.

During this process, he controlled the force to keep the hook always off the bottom, yet not too far from the seabed, moving close to the bottom.

The bait on the hook was a special kind of small insect, somewhat like a red worm but not actually one – it was another type of small insect commonly found by the water.

Lin Yang couldn’t name this insect; he just noticed that there were a lot of them in the grass by the lake, so he made a guess.

These insects, being near the water and seemingly clumsy, probably fell into the water often, becoming food for fish.

Therefore, the carnivorous fish in Lugu Lake must be accustomed to eating these insects!

And Lin Yang’s target, the Lugu Lake Split Belly Fish, was a species that fed on small insects – so these insects were definitely on the Split Belly Fish’s menu.

Moreover, he knew that the Lugu Lake Split Belly Fish were a timid species by nature.

To catch these fish, unfamiliar baits in the water, no matter how good they smelled, might be avoided by the cautious Split Belly Fish, leading to no bites.

But using these familiar small insects for bait could lower their guard and make them confidently strike.

Additionally, Lin Yang’s reason for removing the float and continually dragging the rod and bait was because he had figured out the Split Belly Fish’s habits.

They liked to swim near the bottom of the lake, close to stones in fast-flowing water – a behavior similar to some Sea Bass and Gu fish, so the best method to catch these kinds of fish was using a lure rod; but the competition explicitly prohibited the use of lures.

So the method Lin Yang was now adopting was akin to using a hand rod as a lure rod for fishing.

Including the fly fishing he had just been introduced to yesterday, these techniques involved treating the bait like insects or flies, simulating their movement when they hit the water, thereby tempting the fish below to bite.

Lin Yang’s approach for the day was entirely based on targeting the habits of the Split Belly Fish, using the best possible fishing method.

The bait for angling was a common, inconspicuous insect found on the spot, and the fishing method was dragging the bait along the bottom – a technique similar to lure fishing which could be called dragging or Beach Brushing Fishing!

Because this method looked like using the bait to brush back and forth over a river beach, although Lin Yang’s chosen spot was not a river beach but a shallow beach at the lake’s entrance.

Adopting such a comprehensive fishing method was inspired by his experience with fly fishing from the previous two days, after which he had conducted in-depth research and thoughtful consideration. Most other anglers didn’t have such a deep understanding or know about this special fishing method.

Therefore, they were all somewhat puzzled by Lin Yang’s actions, wondering what he was up to.

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