Back to the Past to Become a Fishing King-Chapter 651 - 377: Scoring the First Victory (2)

After Zhang Yang's results came out, the scores of the others behind him became essentially meaningless.

After a simple sorting, Zhang Yang took first place without any dispute, Ma Yuhua caught sixty fish, second place, Dage third place, Han Mocheng fourth place, and another angler named Xiaotao on fifth.

It's worth mentioning that after adding Musk Herbal Wine, the fish catch results of Zhang Yang's team saw a significant improvement compared to the previous round, leaping from the middle rank to the forefront.

The worst was still Xiaobao, but he also caught 53 fish, securing seventh place as a baseline.

Merely after one round of fishing, considering the stake of fifty per person, fifteen people equals 750, Zhang Yang with one point takes 350 alone, second place takes 120, third place gets 80, the remaining from fourth to seventh as a baseline. The other eight people end up at the bottom.

According to the pre-allocated rules, Zhang Yang's side made 550 in one round, whereas Dage's team along with Teacher Ma's team, except for the leaders, everyone else ended up filling the holes.

This has to bring up Zhang Yang's foresight, as he pledged to Dage as an ally promising that he would return a proportion to the other companions after the fishing, not letting them suffer too much.

Under such circumstances, even if these individuals consistently lose money, they won't have too many thoughts about quitting.

Even Dage's brothers managed to persist until dark, making it obviously impossible for the ones led by Ma Yuhua to take the lead in leaving, thus maintaining enough stability in the fishing squad without dispersing.

Liu Xiaodong appeared quite affluent before fishing, but felt somewhat embarrassed after one round was done.

Though last round their team members had excellent capture rate, occupying over sixty percent of the prize with absolute dominance.

But once it rose to fifty per round, Zhang Yang's young anglers acted like they've taken a blue pill, each very aggressive, among them all five went ashore, causing Liu Xiaodong and his brothers to all fall behind, filling holes collectively.

"Xiaotao, go and get my medicine box from the car! Without some strong medicine, this just won't do!" Teacher Ma felt the atmosphere among the crowd slightly shifted, giving a shout and sent his disciple to the car for his medicine box.

"Okay, Master!" The little disciple immediately dashed off happily.

"Oh dear, Teacher Ma, are you serious now!!" Zhang Yang cheerfully chimed in.

Ma Yuhua looked up at Zhang Yang, saying, "The fish in this greenhouse do indeed need some medicine, let's study and do something about it! We'll delay the next round by five minutes, let me prepare properly!!"

"Alright, after several rounds of fishing, everyone make adjustments and summarize! Once prepared, we'll start the next round!"

Soon, Ma Yuhua's disciple quickly returned from the car with a small insulated box for holding live bait used in ocean fishing.

This box wasn't filled with live bait; upon opening, it resembled the medicine box of a countryside doctor with various bottles inside.

For Zhang Yang, fishing medicines were already well researched by him; what effect each medicine has might hold some mystery for ordinary anglers, but for Zhang Yang, there was no magic involved at all.

Watching others add medicine, Zhang Yang wouldn't shamelessly approach to see, merely by judging through the smell reaching from several fishing spots, he already had a basic assessment.

The smell of Thousand Mile Fragrance mixed with herbal wine, this Thousand Mile Fragrance was a rather high concentration powdery form, smelling quite sharp.

With the water being cold and fish activity lowered, using Thousand Mile Fragrance for carp fishing was an excellent choice; had it not been for the potent effect of Musk Herbal Wine, Zhang Yang might have added a bit when preparing bait.

However, currently the attraction and promotion effect of herbal wine was already adequate, confident beneath the bait flavor dominated by Thousand Mile Fragrance.

"Master, what kind of medicine is that? The smell is strong!" Teacher Ma's little disciple seemed eager to flatter.

But this flattery didn't turn out well, hitting a sore spot.

"Don't ask nonsense! Talk about it when we get back!" Teacher Ma didn't show a smile to the disciple, glancing at him and saying nothing about the used ingredients.

The disciple realized his mistake, and shrunk his neck without speaking further, his expression akin to a cowed daughter-in-law.

After a few more minutes, Teacher Ma distributed the prepared bait to the team members, then called out to Dage, "Xiaoyan! We're ready, let's get preparing for the next round's drawing!"

"Alright, no problem! Next round, let's get it going!" Dage nodded, quickly gathering the cards to start the next round's draw. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

With fifteen people total, the drawing was quite straightforward, Zhang Yang casually picked one from the pile, feeling instantly delighted.

Number 10, still a mid-west position, a great spot!

Drawing a spot near the colder East Bank, Zhang Yang now had enough confidence to at least ensure breaking even, drawing from the middle or western end had him poised with plenty of confidence, casually vying for one point was no problem.

Teacher Ma didn't rush for his draw, falling to relatively later position, Zhang Yang managed to catch his slightly delayed draw result just at the moment.

Number 11!

Goodness, there's no dodging fate, only a few rounds of fishing yet Teacher Ma ended up adjacent to Zhang Yang.

"Oh dear, Teacher Ma, what a coincidence! I'm number 10 this round!" Zhang Yang clapped his forehead, appearing slightly nervous, like facing a formidable opponent, somewhat tense.

"You're number ten, I'm eleven! This round is inevitable for some comparison!" Teacher Ma said calmly.

"Please go easy on me; I'm small in age, show some mercy, don't let me lose too badly!"

"Hehe, you clever rascal, I won't fall for your tricks!" Ma Yuhua knew Zhang Yang wasn't easy to deal with, thus maintained consistent attitude from the start.

When first playing in black pit knowing Zhang Yang, he was beaten by Zhang Yang more than once, counting meticulously, probably at least four or five times.

"Then let's each show what we are capable of!"

"Great! Winning or losing by skill! We've said fishing until dark; my disciples and I will definitely not break our promise!"

"Alright, then I'll humbly learn from you!"

After some small talk, everyone began adjusting their seats based on draws, Zhang Yang moved two places, sat down at number ten, making simple adjustments for pre-game preparation.

Looking back at Ma Yuhua, knowing he's adjacent to Zhang Yang, based on the already prepared bait, he even added extra material for his own dough bait.

This guy truly seasoned, dough bait smashed into the basin turned thin, then added some water, using pure shrimp powder from Japan's Marukyu to conclude the water control.

This series of bait adjustments were witnessed by Zhang Yang nearby, unable to help but comment on this old fox's skill.

Previously casually mentioned, for small to medium sized carp, shrimp powder was incredibly effective for baiting, the smaller the size, the more sensitive to shrimp powder bait.

Especially under current cold water conditions, shrimp powder could occasionally yield miraculous effects. This doesn't resemble Thousand Mile Fragrance; even if added too much, it won't kill the fishing zone, might at most stir the fish mood making bites hard to grasp.

Not revealing in front of disciples, adjusting bait only at position; just from this detail, one glimpses at Teacher Ma's act-doing stature.

His pocketed skills, unless absolutely necessary, would never be exposed.

Now daring to adjust the bait right by Zhang Yang's occasional observation, it seems he's equal to a last resort!