Although Chen Xueqiang got punished by being next to Wang Yan last time and didn't achieve a good result, to be fair, compared to ordinary anglers, his skills and fishing experience are indeed much stronger than ordinary anglers.
Last time, Chen Xueqiang didn't get a result. In his retrospective, he thought Zhang Yang and the others mainly benefited from having the right bait formula. In truth, it was just that Zhang Yang's technical guidance was at a dimensionally reduced level.
Now encountering Zhang Yang again and witnessing his fishing firsthand, Chen Xueqiang realized he was wrong, and absurdly so.
In Chen Xueqiang's eyes, even if you set aside the showy actions like the Flying Copy into the net, just looking at Zhang Yang's series of technical actions of casting and baiting, they are definitely professional level and no less than the masters he has seen before.
A big question mark appeared in Chen Xueqiang's mind. What did this young man do before opening the store? He's so impressive!
Chen Xueqiang was not the only angler with this thought. In fact, today there were also two apprentices of Ma Yuhua at the venue who noticed Zhang Yang's situation.
After some observation, they reached a difficult-to-accept conclusion: Zhang Yang's basic skills are not inferior to their master's at all.
This suddenly emerging young angler has incredibly high business standards.
In this state of being watched by everyone, Zhang Yang still maintained a very calm mindset.
Today's sensation was within Zhang Yang's expectations. In fact, when Zhang Yang first saw someone using the high-level technique of Flying Copy back then, his reaction was not much stronger than these people, completely awed by the state.
After witnessing advanced fishing methods, Zhang Yang then began to ponder, search online, train with a mineral water bottle, and a series of efforts. It was precisely these efforts that led to today's impressive result.
Time unknowingly passed to after 10 a.m. After several hours of fast fishing, the large fishing arena's fish-grabbing stage had basically passed. Except for a few special fishing spots, most areas had sparse fish bites.
Everyone gradually switched to longer rods and began entering the scarce fish state, waiting a long time without any bites. Many impatient anglers have already started selling fish and packing up their gear.
Zhang Yang glanced back at his bait basin. In a matter of hours, the four pounds of scattered bait had been used up, leaving only a small half box in the food container.
The fishing spot was still slowly booming, but it was clear that the fish stock was decreasing.
This situation is a normal phenomenon where a large number of fish have been caught, leaving mostly the fish that escaped hooks previously or those that are naturally weak.
Dealing with such fish, Zhang Yang decisively changed the rig to a 0.8# main line and 0.4# leader line.
At the same time, the scattered bait was adjusted from the standard Triangle Cannon, appropriately adding water to turn it into a wet scatter, pinching a small triangular bottom bait on the hook shank to continue fishing.
After such an adjustment, the new rig that encountered no bites for eight rods immediately showed action after hitting the water. It was a quick result.
Zhang Yang was already accustomed to this situation. Once he saw the fish taking the bait steadily, he gently lifted the rod to pull it in, leisurely retrieving the fish, skipping the Flying Copy action entirely.
At this point, it was already at the stage where every fish was a bonus. Efficiency was no longer important, as per the fish refund price of four yuan per pound, each fish was about three yuan.
After adjusting the new rig, another twenty or so fish were gradually caught. Shortly after eleven o'clock, Zhang Yang's side basically stopped getting bites!
Having fully enjoyed an entire session of smooth fishing, Zhang Yang set down his rod, habitually stretched lazily, and stood up from his fishing spot.
"Hey! Dude, you haven't gone back to your fishing spot yet?"
Zhang Yang glanced back inadvertently and discovered that Chen Xueqiang, who had previously chatted with him, hadn't left at all.
This guy had at some point fetched a small stool from the boardroom and had been watching from behind Zhang Yang the whole time.
"Yeah, my spot is not so good over there, no bites, so I've been watching here with you! You changed to what line rig later on? Caught at least sixteen to twenty more fish!"
Chen Xueqiang nodded while responding, once again taking out his pack of cigarettes to offer a smoke to Zhang Yang.
However, there was a small detail here. When Chen Xueqiang took out his cigarettes, he mistakenly took out his five-yuan Red General instead of the twenty-plus-yuan Blue Happiness from another pocket.
Since it was already out, he couldn't put it back, so he gritted his teeth and offered one to Zhang Yang.
Although Zhang Yang smoked, he wasn't very addicted and didn't mind what kind of cigarette it was, so he nodded his thanks and accepted it, naturally helping to light it for the other.
Zhang Yang replied, "I started with a 1.2 mainline and 0.8 leader line. When the bites clearly decreased, I switched to a 0.8 mainline and 0.4 leader line!
The fish caught later were all old, weak, and sick, with very slow bites, so switching to a thinner rig made a significant difference."
"0.4 leader line! Wow, using such a thin line to catch seven to eight-ounce big bream is impressive. You hardly ever broke any!" praised Chen Xueqiang.
"I did break one set, though. It's normal for the hook to break with a thin line," Zhang Yang said.
Chen Xueqiang continued to ask, "I heard from others that you also run a fishing gear store? Where did you play before opening the store? With your skills, if you'd been around W City's local scene, it would've been hard not to have heard about you!
Do you have any plans for lunch? I love making new friends, can we have a meal together? I'd love to learn how you catch these big breams today!"