Back to the Past to Become a Fishing King

Chapter 840 - 566: Ma the Big Spender with Unmatched Wealth

"Wow... you really caught a fish! Are you sure it’s because of the bobber adjustment and the green algae at the bottom?" Old Zhao watched as Zhang Yang caught another fish, completely intrigued.

Among the team, Old Zhao has been fishing for a long time, but early on didn’t study deeply. His understanding of competitive fishing improved after he got familiar with Zhang Yang and played around the fishing pits together.

If we don’t count the two female anglers in the team, Old Zhao’s personal fishing skills are at the bottom level, his understanding affects his ideology. While other anglers immediately try imitating Zhang Yang’s shared fishing techniques, Old Zhao’s reaction is somewhat cautious and hesitant.

Zhang Yang gleefully brought the big crucian carp to the water’s surface and easily scooped it up with his net, removing the hook while laughing, "Anyway, what’s the harm in trying it out? Just treat it as a new experiment?"

If you find it hard to achieve that delicate state of the double hooks being just barely on the bottom, you can choose a slightly larger bobber, adjust it to two marks, and fish near the two marks and a line, testing back and forth a few times. As long as you don’t snag the bottom, having the bobber drift a bit isn’t a problem!

"Alright, I’ll follow your advice and give it a try too!"

Since Old Zhao agreed, others followed suit and started busying themselves.

Adjusting the line state, intermittently supplementing the spot with a small amount of rice for making wine, and then quietly waiting for miracles to happen.

In the first half hour, the effect wasn’t too obvious. After all, the number of fish in the surrounding waters wasn’t very dense, plus there’s the possibility of mature fish schools swimming around, missing the time node, the spot activation wasn’t as fast as imagined.

Time unknowingly reached ten-thirty in the morning and surprisingly, after the team switched to Zhang Yang’s fishing method, Old Zhao was the first to see results.

Another slight upward movement followed by a strong downward pull, over at Old Zhao’s side, he decisively raised the rod and hooked the fish successfully.

"Hahaha, got a bite! Nice, nice, Zhang Yang, I think your fishing method is working!" Old Zhao was so delighted after catching the fish that wrinkles in the corners of his eyes smoothed out.

Zhang Yang’s lips curled up, "Obviously, whose strategy do you think this is! Let me analyze, the waters around the headland should have a school of fish active, besides, there are some scattered individuals foraging around!

Our overnight spot works great, when bites stop later, then replenishing the spot doesn’t entice fish in quickly, the issue lies with these green algae! Everyone keep your posture steady and continue fishing, keep replenishing the spot, and when the school comes, we might be able to fight for some fast fish effortlessly!"

Now that the leader had spoken and considering Old Zhao caught fish following Zhang Yang’s method too, everyone’s enthusiasm visibly rose.

In contrast, Xiao Wei and YOYO, the two female anglers, were less enthusiastic. Girls aren’t naturally as hooked on fishing, and when the sun rises higher and becomes somewhat blinding, they, unfortunately, forgot their sunglasses. After replenishing the fishing spot, they just hung their rods with lose ropes and crawled under the tent, playing around with mobile phones, live streaming.

In the livestream room where beauty is king, even if there are no bites, the sisters’ streaming room still held over two thousand viewers, laughing and awkwardly chatting, surprisingly having good results.

Old Zhao’s fish catch seemed to signal the start of the spot activation, and other anglers gradually saw feeding action one after another.

Who knows if it’s because the fish school migrated around the headland area, but nearing noon, around eleven-thirty, the dozen or so anglers at the headland started catching faster, hooking continuously.

This rapid-bite opportunity is indeed hard to come by, a group of well-trained folks might react slightly slower when fishing alone, but they execute Zhang Yang’s tactic perfectly.

Spoonful by spoonful, rice for making wine was continually replenished into the fishing spot, ensuring there’s always food to keep the fish at the spot.

Unconditionally, whether in competitive fishing or wild fishing, managing the spot to keep the fish is always the core fishing strategy to increase harvest.

In the morning, not catching the overnight spot properly was a mistake, but whatever, mistakes are mistakes, nothing much to say.

Now, following Zhang Yang’s understood routine, fishing is clear, with a chance for consecutive catches, how can the same problem happen again?

Just like that, a group of people, facing the bright midday sun, didn’t even use a fishing umbrella, and completely enjoyed themselves fishing.

What? You ask what level of enjoyment?

Let me put it this way, focusing on fishing, this group of people didn’t even feel hunger, the meat pastries eaten in the morning have long been digested, but everyone’s attention was entirely on the bobber continually feeding, the stomach growling in protest wasn’t even felt.

From just past eleven-thirty until after four in the afternoon, over at the headland, everyone had continuous bites almost nonstop, especially Old Zhao’s position, probably due to the underwater terrain structure, bites got faster and eventually led to explosive consecutive catches.

Even later when Lao Ma, who got moved, had an inconveniently positioned spot close to the edges, his bites never stopped, catching about a dozen fish an hour, continuously though sparsely jumping out.

Unknowingly, the sun shifted from directly overhead to the southwest corner of the sky.

Xiao Wei and YOYO, when live streaming, had their phones shut down completely when the batteries died, and everyone’s bites gradually slowed down, eventually stopping.

"Zhang Yang, I’m hungry!" Xiao Wei couldn’t hold it in anymore and lazily shouted softly.

This little shout got everyone back to their senses, stomachs growling loudly like a drum, even hearing from companions nearby.