Chapter 807: Chapter 549: High-Float "Gang Du" Technique (2)

During yesterday’s live broadcast, I also mentioned this little detail to everyone. It was first used by Zhang Yang in the competition, gaining a significant advantage in the fish attraction stage, catching at least three fish! Today, Huang Zheng also immediately applied the same technique in the competition!

When it comes to the detail of flicking the rod tip, I want to add this extra note: this is the learning ability of professional competitive anglers!

Many anglers watching the TV may feel that professional competitive anglers are very mysterious. I want to say, they don’t have three heads and six arms; they just take fishing seriously, constantly reviewing and actively adopting more advanced techniques encountered in competitions!

Just like the rod tip flicking operation during the fish attraction stage, I estimate that after this FTT competition is over, it will quickly become popular among the competitive angler community.

The development of Taiwanese-style fishing techniques has gradually improved in level through constant innovation by one angler after another in one competition after another!"

"Oh, talking about this topic, it seems Teacher Yu has many sentiments!"

"Indeed! Now that the internet is developed, information spreads faster, creating very good conditions for learning fishing techniques.

Recalling the early years, when our group was fishing, information was scarce, competition scale and influence were relatively small, it was very difficult to learn and exchange some advanced fishing techniques. Most were passed on in small circles, either between mentors and disciples, or fishing groups!"

As the two reminisced about the glorious days of the past, on camera, Huang Zheng’s bobber suddenly showed more than half a point movement.

Huang Zheng didn’t let the opportunity slip, and almost instantly reacted with a flick of the wrist to complete the fish striking action.

However, this time he wasn’t lucky, he missed the fish entirely!

"Oh dear! Just now, Huang Zheng’s bobber had a good bite movement but it missed!" Sun Yi quickly explained.

As soon as these words were spoken, Zhang Yang also flicked his wrist to complete the fish strike.

Zhang Yang was slightly luckier. With a similar bobber movement, when Zhang Yang lifted the rod to strike, the hook caught the first fish.

"Zhang Yang’s bobber also showed about half a point of small bite, lifted the rod, struck, and caught the fish!! Zhang Yang opened the account first, currently the count is 1:0!!" Sun Yi continued.

"Teacher Yu, just now this fish, I guess it was mostly a matter of luck, right? From the bobber movement, the actions of the two bobbers were basically similar! But Huang Zheng missed, while Zhang Yang was the first to strike!"

Yu Wensheng nodded: "The competition has just started, under unstable fish conditions, occasional misses are quite normal! Competitive Taiwanese-style fishing can actually be seen as a probability game in mathematics; with a relatively small sample size, randomness is quite frequent!

However, this is just the view of a single rod. If there are frequent misses afterwards, the angler will need to find the reason!"

As he was speaking, Huang Zheng again cast the rod into the water. The bobber flipped over and was still at a very high position of more than ten points in the water layer, giving another high-level bite action.

The fish in the water chased to a relatively high position; although the bobber flipped, the fishing point did not go down but was raised up. Describing it professionally, this bobber movement is called ’barrel belly’.

This high-level bite and ’barrel belly’ bobber movement was a must-catch for Huang Zheng, who decisively lifted the rod. As a result, the rod tip sank slightly, but before the fish popped out of the water, it bounced directly up.

"Oh dear, just a bit unlucky! Just now Huang Zheng caught the fish but it slipped off the hook again! It hit a slingshot!" Sun Yi exclaimed, with a tone clearly mixed with a bit of surprise.

"Not quite right! It’s been two fish in a row now, one missed, one slipped off the hook, and the second fish had a high-level barrel belly bobber movement but slipped off the hook and ran away!" Yu Wensheng shook his head.

"Is there anything to be said about this high-level barrel belly bite bobber movement, Teacher Yu?"

Yu Wensheng nodded: "Of course! When the bobber flips over and gives a barrel belly bite, it indicates that the fish taking the bait is at a relatively high water layer height. Generally, in such cases, the fish’s feeding activity is quite strong, theoretically it shouldn’t easily slip off the hook and escape! There seems to be a little problem with Huang Zheng’s setup somewhere!" 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

"Was it snagged? Or was the hook positioned too shallow? Fortunately, the fish layer position was quite high; if it were at the bottom, losing the fish would be very tough!"

"I’m more inclined to think it was snagged, the hook wasn’t in the mouth! Let’s keep watching, maybe this ’barrel belly’ fish could be the turning point of this competition segment! With large fish activity, I wonder if Zhang Yang and Huang Zheng will decisively adjust their fishing tactics!"

On the commentary stand, Teacher Yu talked animatedly, while below the stage, Huang Zheng felt a bit frustrated.

Damn, two bites in a row, one escaped, one slipped off the hook, luck is a bit low.

After tidying up the line set, Huang Zheng glanced down at the double hook line, hesitated slightly but still didn’t change the hooks.

On the other side, Zhang Yang also noticed Huang Zheng’s mistake here. Seeing bites at such a high position, Zhang Yang immediately calculated mentally.

The density is high, and occasionally a high water layer bite exists by chance; a reckless tactical adjustment carries too much risk.

So Zhang Yang just noticed this detail mentally without immediately showing any targeted response.

However, this decision did not last long. After making another nest, Zhang Yang again cast the rod into the water, and the bobber similarly encountered a high-level interface bobber movement of flipping over and immediately biting.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Yang’s heart skipped a beat. After consciously slowing down the rod lifting timing by half a beat, he flicked his wrist to strike the fish, missing the fish!

He didn’t hit, but Zhang Yang wasn’t discouraged and instead made a very bold move.

He resolutely lowered the bobber by thirty centimeters and, after pulling bait with the double hook, accurately cast again to the point where the previous double hook line fell into the water.

It was an adventurous step of adjustment by Zhang Yang. If Huang Zheng were fishing normally at this moment, he would at least have gained two casts, possibly widening the fish count gap by two fish.

But in Zhang Yang’s view, this was a completely worthy attempt.

If the high-level bite condition could be established, it would have a great impact on being able to catch fish. It was repeatedly emphasized before that there is a world of difference in efficiency between fishing the bottom and fishing near the surface.

By lowering the bobber by thirty centimeters, while not directly fishing near the surface, it noticeably reduced the time for the bobber to flip over upon entering the water. Zhang Yang decided that if another high-level interface arises, he would immediately overturn his tactical arrangement from before going on stage and make on-the-spot adjustments.

Fish conditions in Pond number one did not disappoint Zhang Yang. After the adjustment, the next cast had the double hook line fall precisely at the same spot as before, and as soon as the bobber flipped over, it showed movement again.

Zhang Yang lifted the rod again, resulting in another miss!

"Oh, crap!"

The consecutive misses caused Zhang Yang to swear instinctively, something doesn’t seem quite right.

Could the fish bite be too slippery? Seems not!

Then is it the bait condition problem? The condition seemed alright?

Zhang Yang quickly ran through a flash analysis in his mind, filtering through the suspicious factors.

After briefly considering and ruling out several factors, Zhang Yang swiftly opted to pull two smaller bait balls for another try, with the point still precisely placed.

The bobber flipped, quickly gave a bite again, and when I lifted the rod, Zhang Yang also had a situation identical to Huang Zheng’s of losing the fish from the hook.

At this point, Zhang Yang had a clearer understanding. After tidying the line, he decisively picked up a small pair of scissors, snipped off the well-intact new sub-line, and casually reached behind to find the previously placed sub-line box. He opened another layer to get a pair of 0.2 sub-line second-sized thin-ground sleeve hooks.

The previous hooks were 0.4 sub-line paired with fifth-sized thin-ground sleeves; with consecutive misses and occasional snagging, Zhang Yang judged it was likely that the fish opening at the top were fairly small and couldn’t eat them in, so he changed to smaller fishing setup to try again.

During yesterday’s competition at Pond number one, most of the fish Zhang Yang caught were crucian carp sizes ranging from over 50 grams to 100 grams, but he did catch several fish around the size of small tiles. Considering this high-level bite, Zhang Yang comprehensively analyzed and judged it was likely those small fish giving the bite.

In a fish pit that hasn’t been cleared, fish can freely reproduce, and if this information is judged correctly, Zhang Yang feels he’s set to win against Huang Zheng.

After switching to smaller sub-lines, Zhang Yang pulled two bait portions as small as soybeans and cast them into the nest with high expectations.

It’s time to find out whether it’s steak or soup on this cast!