The Top Fishing
Chapter 91 - 091: Three Encounters with Zhang Qiang

Chapter 91: Chapter 091: Three Encounters with Zhang Qiang

When the fish was pulled close, Lin Yang skillfully scooped the fish into his net, but as he was about to remove the hook with the fish in hand.

At his own fishing spot, his giant fishing rod suddenly signaled a bite, but at this moment he wasn’t paying attention to it.

After the bite, the long rod was quickly dragged away from the shore, and the live stream viewers started stomping their feet in anxiety.

"???"

"The host got a bite! There’s a big fish, hurry up!!"

"Stop yelling, the host can’t hear you."

"Good thing there’s a losing hand rope, otherwise the host would have lost the rod...."

While the live stream viewers were frantically typing and flooding the chat, Lin Yang also noticed what was happening on his side.

"Damn! My rod!"

He quickly ran over and grabbed the losing hand rope, which was about half left.

Hearing Lin Yang’s shout, Wang Bo and Tai also looked over to him, and when they saw his rod being dragged away by a big fish, they immediately gathered around.

"Holy crap, what’s happening!"

"A big fish that quickly?"

Lin Yang slowly pulled his fishing rod back using the losing hand rope, and the next moment he grabbed the handle. As he exerted force, the rod slowly stood up again, bending into a large arc.

This nine-meter giant rod, which he had received as a reward, had excellent torsion. With his effort, the fish was immediately held in check.

Seeing Lin Yang stabilizing the situation, Wang Bo was even more excited than Lin Yang himself.

"Hahaha, Brother Yang really lives up to his reputation as a Master, firmly holding the big fish in an instant."

"Master Lin, how big is the fish underwater? Is it bigger than the one Master just caught?"

Listening to the two of them chatting back and forth, Lin Yang laughed as well, "Tai, you haven’t caught a fish yet, and I feel like this fish isn’t that big. It’s not that interesting to fight with it. Do you want to have a go for some thrills?"

At these words, Tai’s eyes lit up, "Ah? Really? Let me do it?"

Lin Yang nodded affirmatively. It seemed that during their last trip to the Heavenly Pit for water storage, he had promised them to let them fight a big fish for some excitement in the future.

After Lin Yang handed over the rod to Tai, the latter had just taken it when he felt an enormous pull that nearly sent the rod flying out of his hands.

Tai, a nearly two-meter tall guy, had to use all his strength to secure the rod, which almost went tip down into the water.

Tai broke out in cold sweat and gave Lin Yang a somewhat aggrieved look with a roll of his eyes, "Master Lin, didn’t you say the fish wasn’t big? Why is it so strong? I nearly lost the rod just now; it was almost like tug-of-war."

The so-called tug-of-war happens when the fish is so strong that the angler fails to control it, and the fish pulls the line and rod straight.

If this occurs, the rod loses the function of its elasticity, and there is a direct ’tug-of-war’ between the fish and the angler, which easily leads to the line being cut. Once this situation arises, the fish is not far from getting away.

Seeing his slightly aggrieved expression, Lin Yang couldn’t help but laugh, "The fish really isn’t very big, probably just over ten pounds. You just weren’t careful at the start."

"Over ten pounds? And you call that not big? It nearly took the rod with it!" Tai complained while exerting all his strength to play the fish.

A fish of over ten pounds nearly got away with a sudden pull, and it was still not considered big; Master Lin was too much...

Tai, gripping the rod, had veins popping out of his arms, a testament to the great strength he was employing. Even so, he was still being dragged around by the fish.

The fish went left, and he followed left; the fish went right, and he followed right.

Because he didn’t really understand the technique of playing big fish and didn’t dare to apply brute force, he was afraid that the fish might get away with a sudden burst of power.

Thus, a comical scene unfolded on the spot:

Tai, a tall guy, held the nine-meter long fishing rod and pulled with all his might while running back and forth along the reservoir bank, soon sweating profusely and out of breath.

"Tai, you can’t handle it either? Others are playing the fish, but are you being played by the fish?" Wang Bo jokingly remarked as he watched Tai running back and forth.

Lin Yang watched this scene and also felt a bit amused; it seemed that Tai’s fishing technique really wasn’t that great.

The fish played him for more than ten minutes, leaving Tai gasping for air and drenched in sweat.

However, the fish underwater was finally getting tired.

Then, Tai dared to slowly back away, attempting to pull the fish towards the shore. After a while, the fish finally surfaced and came close to the water’s edge.

The dark blue back of the fish was visible on the surface, giving off a pleasing shine.

"This is a bream."

"Look at this length, it’s not small at all, really must be over ten pounds, right?"

A fish weighing over ten pounds is considered big or even massive for most fish.

But for a bream, over ten pounds really isn’t big, it could be said it’s still juvenile.

It wasn’t long before.

Tai finally managed to flip the fish over and dragged it to the shore, where Wang Bo had been eagerly waiting. Together, they scooped the fish out of the water.

The fifteen-pound bream was over half a meter long, with a bluish-grey scale pattern on its body, but the tail and other fins were jet black, shining and extremely beautiful.

Unable to help himself, Tai whipped out his phone and feverishly snapped photos of the fish, muttering, "Look at that, the first big carp of my life that I’ve caught! Not bad, not bad, just over ten pounds, still a youngster hahaha!"

Upon hearing Tai’s words, Wang Bo couldn’t help but curse out loud, "Damn it, Tai, have you no shame? It was Lin Yang who hooked the fish, yet you claim you caught it yourself, even recording a video. You’re not planning to post it on social media, are you?"

Unfazed by Wang Bo’s words, Tai laughed heartily, "Hahaha, Master, although it was Master Lin who hooked the fish, it was me who reeled it in. I’m not lying. None of you are allowed to go on my social media and talk nonsense."

As he spoke, Tai was already carefully composing a message to accompany the video he had just taken, and posted it on his social media.

In that instant, he felt that fishing today was incredibly exhilarating, and the spring of his fishing career had finally arrived.

"That kid is really going to enjoy this one, hoisting a fifteen-pound bream onto the shore, he won’t stop talking about it for half a year."

Wang Bo kept grumbling about Tai’s behavior, but deep down, he was a bit envious. Catching a fifteen-pound bream was something he might only achieve once a year.

"No way, I need to switch to a longer rod now; I’m going to fish for a monster today!"

After saying this, Wang Bo immediately went back to change his tackle, ready to wrestle with a monster fish.

If Lin Yang could hook a fifteen-pound bream so quickly, it meant that there were plenty of monster fish in the reservoir. And with their good fishing spots and a bit of luck, landing a monster fish was highly likely.

After placing the fish in Lin Yang’s keep net, Tai also prepared to go back and battle for a monster fish. Such a great opportunity could not be missed.

Inside the livestream, many local anglers from Jiangdong City saw how quickly Lin Yang had landed a big one and expressed their desire to come here and fish for monsters.

"Forget it, I’m not going to work today, I’m off to Qinglong Lake to fish for a monster!"

"Damn it, I was still in bed just now, and now I don’t even feel like eating, I’m driving straight to Qinglong Lake."

"So envious of the streamer, having access to such great resources...."

After Wang Bo and Tai returned to their fishing spots, Lin Yang also sat at his spot, ready to cast his line and continue fishing.

He was still using one long rod and one short pole.

Not long after he cast his bait with the short pole, he caught another Big Plate Crucian Carp.

"Haha, the resources at Qinglong Lake are indeed good. Fans who want to fish should hurry up, otherwise, there won’t be any spots left soon. This Big Plate Crucian Carp is even bigger than the first one, I reckon it’s about seven taels. I have a feeling that I might have a good haul today!"

Lin Yang grabbed the fish with his hands through the landing net, feeling absolutely delighted with the back-to-back catches early in the morning.

After refreshing the bait, he cast his line into the water once more.

The long pole, apart from that bream earlier, hadn’t had much action, but the bites on the short pole with the Crucian Carps were becoming more frequent.

About half-pound Crucian Carps were being caught every two to three minutes, all with that exaggerated, burbling bite.

From around six in the morning until after eight, he consistently hooked big Crucian Carps without a break in the bites. Lin Yang roughly estimated that in two hours, he had caught at least twenty to thirty pounds of big Crucian Carps.

This meant that in such a short time, Lin Yang had already made the day’s fishing outing worthwhile in terms of catch.

Around nine o’clock, the traffic that had been clogging the road along the reservoir finally cleared up, and more and more anglers drove deep into the reservoir, setting up camp in suitable fishing areas.

While the three of them, Lin Yang, Wang Bo, and Tai, were leisurely fishing, a Jeep Grand Cherokee and a van turned into the entrance of the nursery on their side.

Seeing someone approaching, all three of them set aside their rods and turned to look.

The waterfront area suitable for setting up camp was quite long, stretching at least seventy to eighty meters from east to west, extending toward the northeast. It wasn’t just the three of them; even if ten more people came, there would be enough room.

While there were plenty of spots conducive to fishing, the areas suitable for pitching tents were few.

With this in mind, Wang Bo had wisely parked his box truck next to where their tents were currently pitched when they first came to set up camp.

With such parking, it was convenient for them to unload their gear, but it made it difficult for others to drive in afterward.

The only way to secure a fishing spot here was to park outside the box truck and manually carry in the gear, which was quite a task.

However, this was nobody’s fault but the reality—prime fishing and camping spots are scarce resources, first come, first served. Everyone else had to make do.

They hadn’t expected that outsiders would set their sights on their prime spot so quickly.

Lin Yang glanced at the two vehicles and recognized the driver of one as familiar. Although wearing a sun hat and sunglasses made it difficult to see clearly, he thought it looked like Zhang Qiang.

He was amused by the coincidence; it seemed as if Zhang Qiang was always bumping into him wherever he went.

However, Zhang Qiang in the car didn’t seem to have noticed Lin Yang yet.

He had also set off early like before when they went to Black Pond Fishing in Dongyang but had been delayed due to traffic. It was only now that they were getting to the location.

On the advice of Wu Tian, who he came with, Zhang Qiang decided to come to this spot because it seemed good. So he followed here to fish.

But as soon as he drove up, he found the entrance blocked by a four-meter-two box truck.

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