The Top Fishing
Chapter 446 - 211: Someone Provoking_3

Chapter 446: Chapter 211: Someone Provoking_3

The next second, he didn’t rush to reel in the fish but stealthily let out half a drag of line, letting the fish take out the line underwater.

"big one, a whopper."

Lin Yang’s rod slumped down, the spool clicking as the line played out, accompanied by his somewhat exaggerated voice, convincing the other unsuspecting anglers of its truth.

Before coming here, he had already caught two fish; now, in front of everyone, he had hooked another big one, indicating that this spot was abundant with resources.

Stimulated by this, the anglers from several boats across started casting their lures near the spot.

The newly changed leader line and lure hardly hit the bottom on the first cast when he started reeling back in, the lure snagged again.

"Damn it, what the hell is underwater, snagging my lure again?" The man with the tattooed arms tried to reel in slightly with a bent rod, but it didn’t budge.

Not far off, a Black brute of a man, more volatile, didn’t bother leveling his rod to pull in the line by hand but instead, relying on the rod’s strength, yanked it upwards only to hear a snap; his perfectly good lure rod broke under his brute force.

Seeing this, Lin Yang couldn’t help but snicker to himself, then, judging the time was about right, he ceased his performance.

The next second, he pulled up the fish from the water with one swift motion.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t the target species Big Mouth Bass, but a Berry Bass no bigger than a palm, barely twenty to thirty centimeters in length.

Lin Yang: "Ah, I don’t know what went wrong, such a small fish, but it put up such a big fight just now."

Upon seeing his catch, the faces of the anglers across turned sour.

They quickly realized that Lin Yang was just teasing them, exaggerating the motions of a small Berry Bass as if he had caught a large fish, causing them to lose their composure, not only snagging their lures but also breaking their rods.

Lin Yang casually picked up the Berry Bass, unhooked it, and threw it back into the water: "Captain, this spot doesn’t seem to have any fish left, let’s move on, try another place."

"ok!"

The live-stream viewers had witnessed the whole scene and were thrilled.

"Hahaha, I can’t stop laughing, the host is too mischievous."

"That small a fish, with that much power? Somethings not right."

"Somebody catch the naivety upstairs, don’t let him get away!"

"Too funny, especially that foreigner seeing the host catch a fish, got so anxious he broke his rod."

"This is the difference between a fishing master and an average person, taking every opportunity to influence the opponent, well done, host."

Lin Yang responded with a smile, "Just a little trick; since we can’t shake off these annoying fellows, might as well give them some trouble. We currently have five Big Mouth Bass, including two significantly larger ones, so leading the others shouldn’t be a problem. Our goal today is simple, catch one or two more fish by 2 pm, and we should be able to maintain the lead."

What he said was indeed true; aside from him, the most anyone else on the temporary leaderboard had was three fish, and they were just barely meeting the size requirement.

The fishing boat sailed across the water, discovering a few underwater structures suitable for fishing along the way, but they were all small in scope, and they didn’t linger.

About twenty minutes later, they arrived at an old spot marked by the captain.

The few boats from earlier quickly caught up, the young anglers who knew they had been tricked looked at Lin Yang with unfriendly eyes.

However, with the judge’s boat present, they didn’t dare do anything against the rules, not even daring to utter a single provocative swear word.

This isn’t a game, openly provoking other anglers in front of the judges and having it recorded could affect the score, and if remarked upon in the evaluation, it could potentially impact registration for other competitions, it’s so dumb they wouldn’t do it.

By the time they got to the fishing spot, another fishing boat had followed over from another side, making the harassing fishing boats increase from three to four.

On the referees’ boat, the bald white man observed the situation through binoculars and said to his companion, "This Chinese angler seems to be in trouble, a group of people are now using pack tactics to affect his catch, this spot is an old marker, with so many people gathered, the Chinese angler has no advantages, he is very likely to come away empty-handed, should we remind these guys?"

Johnson observed for a few seconds through binoculars, thought for a moment, and shook his head, "According to the rules, this is not a violation, even if we get closer and remind them, it wouldn’t help, similar situations have happened in past international competitions, it’s up to them."

"I’m actually more interested in this Chinese angler now, just now it was obvious that he deliberately misled his opponent with a small berry bass, causing their rod to break."

"We just need to do our job well, the rest is just a good show to watch."

....

After reaching the new marker, the captain said to Lin Yang, "This marker has been discovered for many years, during the rainy season an uprooted big tree was washed here, and after the water receded, it was left here, do you see the tree branches barely poking out of the water? Approximately a twenty-square-meter area around them is the marker, but you need to be extra careful, the branches underwater are very dense, it’s very easy to snag on them."

Lin Yang looked over, what he said was right, it was indeed easy to snag.

At a glance, near the water’s surface where the tree tops were, a large-sized leech bright blade was hanging, and in the shallow water nearby, a few lures were faintly reflecting light.

"Getting snagged isn’t much of a problem for us, it’s the guys tailing us who should be worried."

While speaking, Lin Yang casually took the lure pliers from behind his waist and, in front of the captain, removed the treble hooks from both ends of the lure.

During the fishing process at the front, he had performed the operation of switching treble hooks many times, but this time was somewhat different.

After removing the hooks, he did not attach new treble hooks, instead, he kept the lure sleek and bare, and cast it out brazenly.

Without hooks, relying only on the lure, could he catch fish?

Maybe in some special situations in offshore fishing when dealing with fierce deep-sea fish, there was a teeny-tiny minuscule possibility, but for bass fishing, it was almost impossible.

But Lin Yang just did that.

"You forgot to replace the treble hooks," Wang Feng also reminded from the side.

Lin Yang smiled and shook his head, "This is intentional."

The swimming action of the lure without treble hooks was slightly affected in the water, it slowly fell after entering the water, soon hit a branch, feeling the slight change in the line, he flicked the rod tip up, pulling the lure out of the position, allowing it to continue falling.

If there were treble hooks, in this kind of underwater terrain, no matter how carefully you controlled it, there would be a 99% chance of getting snagged, but without the hooks, the chances of getting caught were greatly reduced.

In view of the other fishing boats, Lin Yang calmly cast out the lure, then leisurely controlled and reeled it in, appearing no different.

The other anglers, afraid of Lin Yang beating them to the catch, hurriedly cast towards the same spot.

To influence Lin Yang as much as possible, their lures landed very close to each other, precisely where the underwater branches were most dense.

In lure fishing, getting snagged is normal, even the best angler could get snagged with a cast, only an experienced pro might have just a tiny bit less probability.

In unfamiliar waters, on an unfamiliar spot, whether you will get snagged on the first cast is pure luck.

But at one spot, if someone doesn’t get snagged after consecutively casting several times, it is very likely that the nearby area underwater is safe.