The Top Fishing
Chapter 351 - 183: On the Eve of the Competition

Chapter 351: Chapter 183: On the Eve of the Competition

After resting for a night in Longjing Village, everyone set off for Qiandao Lake early in the morning.

It took just over half an hour to drive from their location to Qiandao Lake, so by eight in the morning, they had arrived.

Upon reaching Qiandao Lake, the group didn’t need to look for a hotel because one of them was a guest host, and another was a contestant. The organizers had made arrangements for them; they simply had to state their roles. As for Yue’er and Li Xiaopeng, it was sufficient to say they were accompanying personnel. After all, whether hosts or contestants, who didn’t bring a few assistants to a competition like this?

After settling their belongings in a hotel room, Lin Yang realized the hotel was indeed excellent. Not only was the decoration extremely luxurious, but the hotel was also right next to Qiandao Lake. One could see many beautiful scenes of the lake from upstairs, and it was only a few dozen meters down to the lakeshore—a truly enviable location.

Qiandao Lake, though called a lake, is actually a reservoir named Xin’an River Reservoir.

It is only a little over an hour’s drive from the center of Hang City in Zhe Province. The reservoir was built for a hydroelectric station downstream, starting construction in 1955 and completed in 1960.

The dam is 105 meters high and 462 meters long; the reservoir is about 150 kilometers long and more than 10 kilometers at its widest point; its deepest part exceeds 100 meters, with an average depth of 30.44 meters. At normal water levels, the area is about 580 square kilometers with a water storage capacity of 17.8 billion cubic meters. At its highest water level, it has 1078 islands larger than 0.25 square kilometers, mostly small islands under 2 square kilometers. The total area of the islands is 409 square kilometers, hence the name Qiandao Lake.

The water of Qiandao Lake ranks as the top-quality water among China’s great rivers and lakes. It is a national first-level water body, meeting the drinking water standards without any treatment and is acclaimed as "the finest water under the heavens."

Because Qiandao Lake has been around for a long time and has never dried up, combined with Long River’s fishing ban in recent years and the ban here, it has resulted in quite large fish in this area, which is why it was chosen as the venue for the fishing competition.

Lin Yang had just rested a while in his hotel room when Xia Xiaoxue called him.

"Hello, Master Lin, how are your preparations?" she asked as soon as she began speaking.

"Uh, what preparations?"

"Your preparations... eh, don’t tell me you haven’t prepared anything." Xia Xiaoxue hesitated as she heard the confusion in Lin Yang’s voice over the phone.

"Isn’t it just commentating on the competition? What’s there to prepare?" Seeing her concern, Lin Yang felt a twinge of guilt for a moment.

"Of course, there’s something to prepare. For example, you should know who the contestants are. This year’s Battle of Champions has 36 top players competing. You can’t just call them ’this player’ or ’that player’ all the time. At the very least, you need to know their names, what achievements they’ve had in the country, and which club they’re from. Although Old Chen and I will mainly handle the workflow, you should know this too..." Xia Xiaoxue couldn’t help expressing some helplessness as it seemed Lin Yang really didn’t know anything.

"Oh, that’s it? Do you have any electronic files? Just send them to me. After all, there’s still a day left." Lin Yang said nonchalantly. Actually, he had some knowledge of the contestants, as they were all top anglers in the fishing world.

"No need for electronic files. I have just printed out the materials. You should be at the hotel by now, right? I’ll send you a location, come and get them."

"Sure."

Soon, Xia Xiaoxue sent him a location. It appeared that she was at a lakeside spot not far from the hotel, probably just a few hundred meters away after leaving the hotel.

And so, only taking his phone with him, Lin Yang went downstairs.

When he reached the hotel’s lakeside location, there were already many people busily at work.

The Battle of Champions would be held over two days, with daytime fishing on the first day and night fishing on the second. The differences between day and night fishing posed a considerable challenge to both the contestants and the organizers.

As Lin Yang arrived at the lakeside, he saw quite a few people fishing, and Wang Feng, who had come along with him in the morning, was also there with his assistant Xiao Zhang, getting their equipment ready, seemingly about to do some trial fishing.

He approached to greet them, "Brother Feng, so we can fish here too?"

Looking up at Lin Yang, Wang Feng smiled and said, "We can fish here, but it’s restricted to us competitors and our staff only. You’re okay too, now that you’re tagged. But the fish we catch can’t be taken away, they must be released on the spot. What do you think, want to give it a try?"

Seeing the eager gleam in his eyes, Wang Feng laughed, well familiar with that kind of look—it was the expression of someone itching to fish.

Lin Yang, naturally delighted at the opportunity, nonetheless had other matters to attend to, "Fishing in Qiandao Lake, such a rare opportunity, I can’t miss it. I’ll come find you later; I have something else to do right now."

After exchanging greetings with Wang Feng, he headed directly towards Xia Xiaoxue’s location. He quickly found her fishing at a lakeside spot not far away, confirming her persona as a female angler.