The Top Fishing
Chapter 396 - 198: GT in the Sea

Chapter 396: Chapter 198: GT in the Sea

Lin Yang greeted the live stream audience and then made a very handsome cast.

With a swoosh, the Wave Crawler lure was thrown out, flying through the air for several seconds before it plopped down in the distance.

He had casting skills, so the details of Lin Yang’s rod movements were almost flawless. By his estimate, he cast at least thirty to forty meters, even with a slight breeze over the sea.

After completing the cast, he patiently began to wind back the reel, the high-end drum reel turning very smoothly without a hint of any grinding sensation.

As the fishing line was reeled in by the line spooler, the Wave Crawler lure on the surface behaved just as he had described earlier, continuously slapping against the water as it pulled back towards the yacht.

The first cast went without any strikes from fish, smoothly reeled back in by Lin Yang.

At this point, Wang Feng, who had been watching from the side, gently patted his shoulder, "Lin Yang, little brother, I think you reeled in a bit too hastily. I’ve heard from many saltwater fishing experts that even when using surface lures like Wave Crawlers, there needs to be a certain swimming posture and rhythm; you can’t just reel it in stiffly without any variation."

Reminded by Wang Feng, Lin Yang quickly realized his mistake. That’s right, when he previously used sinking pencils and Minnow lures, he had incorporated teasing rod tip movements, acceleration, and sudden stops for deceptive actions. It should be the same principle when using surface lures.

Having realized this, he nodded and said to the live stream camera, "Brother Feng just reminded me, we were reeling in the Wave Crawler lure too stiffly, so don’t follow my bad example, everyone. I’ll try a different strategy starting with the next cast."

The next second, his classic casting motion was repeated, but this time he made a very clear adjustment to the lure retrieval.

Unlike the previous cast, where the Wave Crawler lure was forcefully pulled in a straight line, sparks flying, the second time its rhythm and underwater posture varied significantly.

This time, the Wave Crawler lure moved like a small animal skimming the surface of the water, darting forward in bursts, pausing momentarily to decelerate after a few accelerations before repeating the previous actions.

After this adjustment, even to the layman, the difference was very clear.

When the lure was still more than twenty meters from the boat, the Wave Crawler performed another simple deceleration and pause, and just then, a large mouth suddenly leapt out of the water and gulped down the lure with a splash!

The drone camera had been focused on the swimming lure all along, and this bite was captured very clearly and looked particularly graceful.

Seeing this, Lin Yang sharply lifted the rod to set the hook and heard a swoosh as his rod tensed rapidly, with a force far greater than he had expected transmitting through the line and rod into his hands.

Then he heard the drag clicking madly as the line was pulled out at a frenzied pace, the unexpected force nearly flattening the rod.

"Fish on!" he yelled, forcefully taking control of the situation with both hands.

"Wow, lucky you, looks like it’s a Bull Port Mackerel!" Wang Feng exclaimed, eyeing the surface of the water and making his assessment.

By that point, Lin Yang’s rod was raised, but the force on the line was still very strong. In a mere three seconds, several meters of fishing line had been pulled from the reel, and the frenzied pull on the line continued.

"This power is terrifying, definitely a GT."

Through his time saltwater fishing, Lin Yang had caught quite a few big fish, and while this Bull Port Mackerel could only be described as above average in size, the feel of fighting the fish after hooking it was absolutely among the top, simply outrageous.

To prevent the big fish from getting off the hook, he quickly made adjustments, first by continuing to increase the drag, using both hands to maintain the state of the rod. There was no need to worry about the rod itself as its quality and performance were definitely sufficient.

After increasing the drag, the speed of the fish taking the line underwater slowed down a bit soon.

This "slowed down a bit" was relative, of course. How to describe it? The impact force and swimming speed of this fish were comparable to the two-meter, hundred-pound Stingray he had caught earlier that morning.

Within ten or so seconds, Lin Yang glanced at the line spool and saw that less than half of the line was left.

Seeing this, Lin Yang knew it was time to try reeling in the line; he couldn’t let it continue to run, or the spool would soon be empty.

Lin Yang slightly raised the rod and then naturally pressed down while simultaneously exerting force with his right hand to turn the drum reel’s handle, and the first loop of line was reeled in.

Although his drum reel was equipped with a motor, he definitely couldn’t use it now, unless the fish was completely exhausted or it was a smaller fish that could be forcefully retrieved with the motor. With big fish, you can only reel in the line after it has expended its energy.

In the following time, Lin Yang repeatedly performed the previous actions: lifting the rod, pressing down, reeling the line, in an endless loop.

During the process of reeling in, the big fish underwater went through at least dozens of crazy escape and collision attempts. Every movement of this Bull Port Mackerel was extremely violent; Lin Yang had never seen a fish with such fast strike speed and such tenacious stamina.

After a full twenty minutes, he finally succeeded in exhausting the fish’s energy and pulled it up.

The next second, when the fish surfaced, Lin Yang was dumbfounded.

Because this Bull Port Mackerel was much smaller than he had anticipated, probably around thirty pounds by his estimate.

The live stream’s comments were also baffled at this sight.