The Top Fishing
Chapter 360 - 185: Fishing for Yangtze Alligator

Chapter 360: Chapter 185: Fishing for Yangtze Alligator

After the competition ended, Wang Feng came back and Lin Yang had also finished his commentary work for the day. As they returned to the hotel together, he said with a smile, "Brother Feng, you did pretty well today."

"Haha, I didn’t expect to get such a result today," Wang Feng said, feeling a bit embarrassed by Lin Yang’s praise.

He had simply followed Lin Yang’s advice throughout the competition, which led to him constantly reeling in fish. If only his fish playing technique had been top-notch, his results would have definitely been even better.

However, securing fourth place on the first day of the competition and outperforming many well-known domestic masters, he felt very satisfied already.

"Push a little harder tomorrow night, try for first place," Lin Yang encouraged.

This "King of Kings" battle offered a very generous prize pool, rumored to be a split of one million in prize money among the top five, with the first-place champion getting at least 55% of it. Additionally, the top five competitors would earn a spot to participate in an international "King of Kings" tournament.

Of course, this international event is not mandatory. You can choose to participate or not. Many domestic competitors who have earned a spot in the past chose not to participate. As for why, Lin Yang wasn’t sure—he only overheard this gossip while chatting with Xia Xiaoxue and the others today.

Regardless, Lin Yang really wanted to participate because the prize money for the international event was said to be extremely generous, amounting to at least several million US dollars at the very least.

If he wanted to join, he needed someone with the qualifications to take him, which is why he worked so hard to help Wang Feng.

Even without this reason, Lin Yang would have chosen to help him, as Wang Feng was the only competitor he was acquainted with in this match, and they were friends. He wasn’t familiar with the other competitors, regardless of how renowned they were, so he didn’t pay much attention to their rankings.

The two had dinner together at the hotel and then retired early to their rooms to rest, agreeing to go fishing at Qiandao Lake together the next morning.

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The next morning at seven o’clock, Lin Yang got up on time.

After washing up, he called Xiao Peng and Yue’er, and the three of them had breakfast before leaving the hotel together with their fishing gear.

By the time they got downstairs, Wang Feng and his assistant, Xiao Zhang, were already waiting for them.

Today’s fishing spot was a small island on Qiandao Lake. Although Li Xiaopeng and Yue’er couldn’t fish, joining in the trip to the island for fun was not a problem.

Wang Feng had rented a speedboat, and the five of them set off directly toward a deserted islet in the distance.

About ten minutes later, they arrived at a small circular island that looked to be only thirty meters in radius. One area of the island was very flat and seemed quite suitable for fishing.

After unloading their gear on the island, Lin Yang and Wang Feng started preparing for fishing. As for Li Xiaopeng and the other two, they could only watch or walk around, possibly helping to net the fish later.

Lin Yang decided to fish for smallmouth today, so he prepared some corn. In addition to two bags of fermented corn, he also cut up three fresh corn cobs and added a can of tender corn for hooking, making up a large basin of corn in total.

Wang Feng chose to fish for catfish again, considering he had a competition tonight.

After they had prepared their bait, the real fishing began.

When fishing for smallmouth, the most important thing is to attract them. So initially, Lin Yang threw in ten scoops of corn and then settled down to fish.

But fishing for smallmouth meant fishing the waters and not staying put—whenever he lifted the rod, he would add a scoop of corn, essentially trading grain for fish.

Now, when Lin Yang fished, he had several buffs automatically, such as the magical fishing float, nesting buff, bait enhancement buff, and so on. Fishing for freshwater fish had become really simple for him.

Indeed, just after baiting for a bit over ten minutes, fish activity started appearing at the center of the baited area.

Seizing the right moment, Lin Yang jerked the rod sharply and successfully landed his first big smallmouth.

Lin Yang was pleasantly surprised by the first smallmouth because it was one he hadn’t caught before.

"Smallmouth" isn’t a term for just one fish. Commonly, there are two types of smallmouth: one is called the Redside Sculpin, and the other is the Redfin Pickerel. In addition to these, there are Green Tail Sculpin, Sharpnose Sculpin, Mud Sculpin, and so on.

Of the two common types, the Redside Sculpin is large and can grow to several tens of pounds, over a meter long.

The other, the Redfin Pickerel, constitutes the smaller smallmouth, usually weighing between one to three pounds. Many small rivers also contain these small smallmouth fish. The one Lin Yang caught was of the smaller variety, a Redfin Pickerel, weighing about two pounds.

Although this smallmouth looked quite modest in size, it still brought him $300, as well as 3 points in experience and points.

After the first, the second smallmouth quickly followed suit. Thankfully, this second one was a Redside Sculpin, which is the larger type, weighing roughly seven or eight pounds.

A smallmouth of seven or eight pounds would be considered large elsewhere, but in Qiandao Lake, it could only be seen as average. Usually, nobody came here to fish, so the fish grew big and fat.

With Lin Yang’s skills and his willingness to trade grain and bait the area generously, he quickly hit a streak.

In less than half an hour, he almost caught ten big smallmouths, making Li Xiaopeng envious though he wasn’t allowed to fish. However, since there were no outsiders around, even if he did fish, nobody would know. Lin Yang planned to give up his spot to him after half an hour more of fishing.

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