The Top Fishing
Chapter 614 - 266: Outdoing Mi Qiao’s Mouth_3

Chapter 614: Chapter 266: Outdoing Mi Qiao’s Mouth_3

The effect was now apparent: the lure, which was already nearing the bottom, was pulled up and then carried down about a meter by the current.

Lin Yang continued to repeat the process several times, with the spinning reel still smoothly releasing line.

Now the observant ones among the viewers figured it out quickly, understanding what he was trying to convey.

"Damn, can you really play with a lure like that? Isn’t that just like flying a kite underwater?"

"To have thought of that, the host is amazing! The pressure plate structure of the minnow comes into play now, stabilizing it as much as possible in the current to slow its descent."

"Uh, I still don’t get it, Lure Fishing Little White, could the host explain it a bit?"

"I didn’t get it either, isn’t it just about letting the current assist with automatically releasing the line? What’s the benefit, can the experienced angler explain a bit?"

Lin Yang shook his head with a smile and explained, "Assisted line release is just the surface phenomenon, we need to look beyond the appearance to the essence. You know the essence of attracting fish with lures is to imitate small fish or the fry of larger fish darting away, to entice the larger predatory fish to hunt them.

In this behavior, what’s the most crucial? Setting aside resources, the most crucial is the swimming action of the lure in the water."

Many new lure anglers have only a superficial understanding of the different lure swimming actions and lack technique when controlling them. This significantly reduces the lure’s appeal to predators.

There are several common types of fish-shaped lures available on the market, like minnows, VIB, pencil lures...

The Minnow lure is derived from MINNOW, which broadly refers to small fish species or the juveniles of larger fish, characterized by their slim bodies and small scales. The Minnow lures mimic these types of small fish.

Meanwhile, the VIB lure comes from the English word ’vibration’, meaning to shake or tremble. It’s a type of lure that usually makes noise and vibrates when moving, attracting the predator’s attention."

Pencil baits got their name because their smaller head and slim, long shape resemble a pencil.

To achieve the perfect swimming action designed for these lures, it requires quite a bit of skill from the angler. The same lure can produce different effects underwater depending on who’s controlling it.

But, if the fishing waters have an undercurrent like we have here now, you can save yourself the trouble of controlling them.

Just now, many of you noticed I was using the current to let out line, but didn’t realize that during this process, the lure was naturally swinging due to the water flow’s impact.

I think this swinging can sometimes be more coherent and even more enticing for predatory big fish. If you encounter similar conditions while fishing later on, you might want to try this method."

"Got it, as long as the current is right underwater, we can just be lazy and use nature’s power, right? Nice, learned a new trick!"

"Understood, it makes sense. I’ll try this technique out next time I’m fishing at a water station or somewhere similar."

"So it turns out there’s quite a lot to learn in lure fishing. It’s not just about randomly casting a lure out, there’s so much intricacy to it."

Lin Yang: "Alright, enough chitchat, I’ll continue fishing. The few fish in this live well aren’t enough for preparing the bait nest, it’s hardly sufficient. I’ll try to catch more. Mi Qiao said we have to bring back a couple to the camp to try."

While talking, he repeated his previous technique, manipulating the rod again.

But after searching through with more than a dozen casts, covering the entire transitional area of this unique terrain, he didn’t catch a single fish.

"Something isn’t quite right, such a large area and it all belongs to that old fish?" Lin Yang muttered to himself.

Then it dawned on him that it was, indeed, a possibility.

"Guys, I think I made a presumptuous mistake. With a bighead carp of this size, I suspect all this special terrain around it might be its territory, and there’s not a single fish in the adjoining areas. I plan to go back to the shallow water to fish, won’t stay here."

Once he realized this, Lin Yang gave Uncle Victor a heads-up, and Victor restarted the speedboat, adjusting their position to head back to the shallow waters.

Once they returned to the area of slowed underwater current, Lin Yang cast out his lure again, rhythmically starting to fish.

And sure enough, the density of bighead carps in the shallow water was much higher. On the first cast, he quickly hooked another fish!

In the following hour or so, he spent most of his time either catching or playing with fish. This area was teeming with bighead carps, ranging from 60-70 centimeters to just under a meter in length, averaging a catch every two or three casts.

Originally, Lin Yang had been concerned that there wouldn’t be enough baitfish for making a bait nest, but in a little over an hour, the live well on the boat was stuffed full, with over a dozen bighead carps ranging from half a meter to just under a meter in length.

After busying himself for over an hour, Lin Yang gradually felt his energy waning and his arms growing sore and heavy. Glancing at the sports watch on his wrist, it was already past two in the afternoon, and they hadn’t even had lunch yet.

Just then, his stomach grumbled aloud.