Fishing Livestream

At Yue Feng's current level, adjusting the floating trolling and capturing the timing of the fish's normal baiting have already become instinctual.

In the second after the fish took the bait, Yue Feng's wrist gently shook, accurately hooking the fish.

The power of the underwater fish transmitted through the fishing line to the tip of the rod, then to the angler's hand. From the feel alone, Yue Feng could make an initial judgment of the fish's strength.

It has some weight, definitely much bigger than a one or two-ounce small fish!

Sure enough, after a brief standoff of about one round, Yue Feng successfully brought the fish to the surface.

A roughly eight-ounce engineering carp, neatly scooped up, unhooked, and added to the catch, kickstarting the fishing day!

The first bottom-fished engineering carp is indeed a big carp, bigger than what Zhao Ran mentioned earlier. It's almost a pound!

One engineering carp equals catching seven or eight small carps, which convinced Yue Feng even more to continue bottom fishing.

After practical verification of his earlier judgment, Yue Feng became unstoppable and continued with targeted ragworm fishing techniques.

Most anglers at the same pond focused on frequent fishing for small carps, and some even were surface fishing. Very few actually targeted engineering carp specifically.

As mentioned before, this type of fish prefers a large amount of bait and eats aggressively, perfectly suitable to be fished like carp.

Ragworm with wet loose powder, along with bottom fishing techniques, perfectly matched the actual pond conditions; soon after the bait gathered the fish, the fishing efficiency became increasingly stable,

The bite rate wasn't fast, averaging one fish every forty seconds to a minute. Not impressive at first glance, but compared to those busy all day catching small carps, this efficiency was way ahead.

Having accurately assessed the fish situation and found the optimal strategy for the competition, it was now Yue Feng's time to perform. With each rod carrying wet loose powder, setting the bait didn't interfere with catching fish, and the catch steadily increased as the competition progressed.

Unknowingly, the ninety minutes of competition quickly passed.

This fishing competition left Yue Feng feeling refreshed, with a moderate pace and fishing speed. When he put down his fishing rod and looked up at the sound of the whistle, he was in an exceptionally comfortable state.

"Phew... guys, another competition is over!" Yue Feng put down the fishing rod, stretched lazily, and took out his phone to glance at the public chat.

"Watching brother Feng compete is truly a pleasure, time flies by!"

"One big golden crucian carp weighs over half a pound, and just checked—it seems he caught 112 fish! That's much heavier than small carps, amazing!"

"Now that the competition is over, Brother Feng can explain his fish situation assessment and strategy, right? He barely caught any small carps, mostly big engineering carps. So impressive!"

"+1 to the above! Brother Feng's performance was amazing—I mean, catching only big carps! The anglers on both sides did catch some engineering carp, but mostly small ones. This small-to-large strategy might just work!"

Seeing the fellow anglers still curious about the unanswered question before fishing began, Yue Feng grinned widely: "Alright, since everyone wants to know, let me share it simply!

When the first round ended, Zhao Ran had already shared with me his preliminary assessment of the fish situation, indicating that the pond had a decently dense population of large engineering carp!

At this point, we have to think about the organizer's purpose for this arrangement. My judgment is they wanted to test anglers' ability to catch large fish among small ones, as it is a weight-based competition!

Okay, up till now, we have understood the basic question: it's a weight-oriented competition, catching large among the small!

Based on this preliminary judgment, how should we respond?

It's simple. Small carps are small and very active, so they likely swim at higher water layers, while engineering carps are large, swim slowly, and being a hybrid species, have part of the carp's bottom-feeding habits, often preferring to stay at the bottom or near-bottom water layers!

Based on this consideration, we developed a fishing strategy:

If you don't want to attract small fish, it's best not to use conventional loose powder, as too much atomization in the mid-upper layers attracts small carps and creates too much chaos,

So, my strategy was to use bait with a larger specific gravity and coarser particles, with a bait opening to a water ratio of about 0.4-0.5. The wet powder, relying on baiting techniques after entering the water, starts dispersing around the mid-lower layers, creating a baiting area! Using larger particles, ragworm effectively targets the bottom directly!

The last thing is to match this fishing strategy with the floating trolling adjustment! Setting the float level to four eyes, a typical low-troll-high-hook approach, using short sub-lines, so that the whole fishing setup quickly passes through the water layer and targets the big carp underwater!

This fishing strategy is indeed practical and can be used in wild fishing too, especially when surrounded by small fish which creates disturbances until you catch the target fish!

"Oh my, learned another trick, totally got it this time!"

"The small-to-large strategy, really? Brother Feng is Brother Feng—the way he breaks down fishing strategies is just like solving math problems, step by step logically, so organized! No wonder he's successful at fishing!"

"Guessing the neighboring anglers are regretting not hearing Brother Feng's strategy earlier? Let's have a close-up of their expression!"

The intelligent live broadcast system accepted the suggestion for better broadcast effects and indeed gave a close-up of the neighboring angler's expression.

Actually, the neighboring angler noticed Yue Feng's outstanding small-to-large performance about an hour into the competition. However, his fish bait was already filled with small fish, making it hard to adapt, so he could only try his luck at the edges of his bait area.

Now that the competition is over, listening to Yue Feng discussing his fishing strategy with the live audience, he gained a deeper understanding of Yue Feng's skills.

Deserving of the title as the youngest Fishing King, his fishing indeed has substance! After this thorough analysis, his mind was buzzing, almost deafening. Right as he slapped his forehead with sudden realization, the action was captured by the drone camera!

"Uh, they really got the shot. Look at the cute little expression of the guy next door slapping his forehead!"

"Hahaha, his brain is buzzing again! This guy at the back also wanted to bottom-fish the big carp but got driven crazy by the small fish. Now, listening to Brother Feng's analysis, he realizes the gap in understanding the fish situation!"

"The bewildered yet enlightened look totally resembles a student having a sudden epiphany!"

"Teacher Yue Feng, learned a new trick from you, thank you! Your understanding of the fish situation is indeed profound! After your explanation, I've learned a lot!" At this moment, the guy in the video turned towards Yue Feng and sincerely thanked him.

Yue Feng: "Uh, no thanks needed! It's not something profound; you'll get used to it after a few tries! Hey, you did pretty well in this round too!"

Seeing Yue Feng enter "mutual compliment" mode, fellow anglers flooded the public chat with smiley face emojis. In manners and social interaction, Yue Feng never falls short, especially towards polite strangers. He always maintains a bit of goodwill.

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About seven or eight minutes later, the staff collecting results approached the position of the neighboring angler.