The Top Fishing
Chapter 361 - 185: Fishing for Yangtze Alligator_2

Chapter 361: Chapter 185: Fishing for Yangtze Alligator_2

Wang Feng beside him had already caught several catfish by now, and each catfish was particularly large, especially Fat Head; two of them weighed over twenty pounds each. Although the number of his catches didn’t match Lin Yang’s, their weight certainly didn’t lose to his.

Once again baiting the hook with a tender corn kernel and casting the line into the water, this time he waited three minutes and found that he still hadn’t gotten a bite, which couldn’t help but strike Lin Yang as odd, considering he had been catching them one after another just a moment ago.

When he took a closer look into the fishing spot, he noticed that the dense swarm of fish he had seen before had almost completely vanished without a trace, not even a shadow of a fish to be seen.

"What’s going on?"

Seeing this scenario, Lin Yang naturally felt it strange; he had been replenishing the fishing spot continuously, and the fish shouldn’t have disappeared without reason.

He lifted the rod with his hand, intending to switch to a fresh tender corn kernel and try again.

But when he attempted to lift the fishing rod upward, he realized that he couldn’t pull it up all of a sudden.

Could it be snagged on the bottom?

This time he used both hands, forcefully pulling upwards, just as he thought it might be snagged, the rod suddenly dipped down sharply.

Seeing this, Lin Yang knew that it definitely couldn’t have been snagged; if it were, he would have been unable to pull it upwards, but there wouldn’t be anything tugging it downward.

Upon realizing he might have hooked something strange, he was no longer in a hurry and instead gently pulled whatever was below the water towards the shore.

As he exerted force, the rod in his hands gradually bent into a large arc. He was using a seven-meter-two rod, and his line setup was 5+3 because he knew the fish here were large, so he used a correspondingly heavy setup.

It was precisely because he used a heavier line setup, along with his line protection buff and rod protection buff, that the line hadn’t snapped at this moment.

Seeing such commotion on his end, the few people nearby gathered around.

"Wow, Brother Yang, what have you hooked into?"

"It looks big; must be several dozen pounds."

"I think it’s more than that..."

The onlookers watched with curiosity as Lin Yang struggled with whatever was underwater. This sensation was completely unfamiliar to him; he had caught many fish before, but he was certain he had never caught anything like this.

It didn’t behave like some large fish that would dart all over after being hooked, nor would it desperately plunge into the depths. It just moved occasionally, but when it did, it was with considerable force.

"What on earth is this thing?" The more Lin Yang fished, the more curious he became.

As he steadily pulled it towards the shore, after more than ten minutes, the creature below gradually began to emerge from the water’s surface.

The first thing everyone saw was a long-shaped creature, seemingly with four legs, and appearing black on the surface of the water. Because the water here was quite clear, they could make out the true face of the creature from over a meter away from the surface.

"A crocodile??"

When they clearly made out what Lin Yang had pulled up, they were completely taken aback.

"Brother Yang, you’ve actually caught a crocodile!" Yue’er opened her mouth wide and exclaimed in shock.

Upon seeing the true identity of the creature, Lin Yang could only smile helplessly and said, "It wasn’t caught; it was snagged."

Looking closer, the onlookers realized the hook was indeed attached to one of the crocodile’s front legs; in other words, the crocodile was indeed snagged. This left everyone even more speechless, having only heard of snagging fish before, but snagging a crocodile was a first for them.

Since it was already snagged, Lin Yang had nothing much to say. He decided to bring it up first and then consider what to do with it.

After the crocodile surfaced, it was quickly pulled to the bank. Observing its majestic form, tough armor, and those sharp teeth, everyone could be one hundred percent certain it was undoubtedly a crocodile.

However, what puzzled them was that the crocodile wasn’t very large; it was just over a meter long with a large part of that being its tail, and it wasn’t very thickset. Rather, it looked somewhat refined, probably weighing only about thirty to forty pounds.

Lin Yang handed the fishing rod to Li Xiaopeng while he himself grabbed a net and walked toward the water’s edge.

Seizing the opportunity, he firmly pressed down the crocodile’s head with the net, squatted down to remove the snagged hook, and then held its mouth shut with one hand and grabbed its tail with the other.

After being caught by Lin Yang, the not-so-large crocodile tried to struggle momentarily, but to little avail.

As is well known, cold-blooded animals have poor stamina, except when mating, as it is common knowledge that snakes need at least an hour to mate, and two to three hours are quite common as well.

From this, it’s apparent that Xu Xian was not as incompetent as people may think. It’s just that television couldn’t show where his abilities lay, cough, but let’s not stray too far off-topic....

After the underwater struggle earlier, this crocodile had already lost much of its strength. Now in Lin Yang’s grasp, it found it hard to move.

Of course, he could only take advantage of a small crocodile like this one. If he had encountered a saltwater crocodile this time, he would have had no choice but to drop the rod and run for it.

"Brother Yang, what kind of crocodile is this? Why is it so small? Is it not fully grown yet?" Yue’er bravely stepped forward and asked.

"This is a Yangtze Alligator; it’s about this size when fully grown." Lin Yang said with a smile.

The Yangtze Alligator is a crocodile species unique to China and one of the smallest crocodile species in the world. In ancient times, it was called a "Tuo." Its numbers are very scarce nowadays, and it is one of the reptiles that are on the brink of extinction. Because it lives in the Yangtze River basin, it is known as the "Yangtze Alligator."