"What's going on? Tell us! Just watching Liu Zi catch fish is making us anxious!"
"Yeah, what's happening? Why aren't we catching fish, but Liu Zi and Meng Fan can?"
The group of buddies gathered quickly when they heard Zhang Yang calling.
Zhang Yang didn't hesitate, stood up, and pointed at the light spot in front of Meng Fan and Liu Zi: "Everyone, look at the light in front of Liu Zi. What's different from ours? This thing is making the difference!"
"What's that? The brightness doesn't seem different!"
"Why are you beating around the bush? Just tell us the answer!"
The group still didn't understand what Zhang Yang meant and scratched their heads in confusion.
Zhang Yang directly revealed the secret: "The fishing setup is precise, and the bait is all red worm; I don't think the problem is with that, but the position of the lights!
Our six lights are lined up in a row, and only Meng Fan and Liu Zi are catching fish. Their lights are in the middle!
In other words, the area in the middle of the beam might have the most fish gathered! I guess that's why they're catching fish!"
"Wow, really? Such a small detail can affect catching fish?"
"Hmm, that kind of makes sense. We only have so many lights, how should we adjust it? It doesn't matter who catches the fish, the key is to enjoy the bites. At night, it's uncomfortable not getting any bites!"
Zhang Yang laughed, "Testing this hypothesis shouldn't be difficult; let's divide into two groups of three, focusing the light spots into two nests, it should work!
Use 4.5 meters on both sides and 3.6 meters normally in the middle, let's try setting up a fishing nest!"
With no bites, Zhang Yang's suggestion was eagerly accepted.
The group got busy, and after adjusting, the light spots in front quickly changed.
The three beams concentrated together, fully illuminating the middle area. The trio adjusted and switched their setups and continued fishing bent over.
Remarkably, after adjusting the laser beam range, fish started biting within just three minutes.
The brightness of the three laser beams combined created a large spotlight in the middle without any dead spots. As long as bait was thrown into the center of the light spot, the bobber showed noticeable activity.
Six people focused on two nests, the efficiency of catching fish was several times better than each working individually; now everyone could catch fish.
"Wow, it really was as you said, boss! Finally, we're fishing; heck, I'm freezing!"
Han Qiang released a big crucian carp into the net, shivering but delighted.
"Should we set up some nests? Since the brightness of the light matters, I guess setting up nests would have an effect too!" Meng Fan couldn't help suggesting. Get full chapters from NoveIＦire.net
"We're idle anyway, so let's try. I have half a bag of pure shrimp powder in my tackle box, shall we mix some scatter bait?" Han Qiang said while getting up to fetch items from his tackle box.
"I have rice for making wine!"
"I have base material!"
The group hadn't planned on setting up nests, but each had some supplies in their tackle boxes. They quickly gathered enough materials to make nest bait.
With materials ready, it was now a question of mixing them; the issue naturally fell to Zhang Yang.
Zhang Yang studied the base materials everyone brought and quickly made up his mind.
With cold water, fish don't eat much, so heavier wheat germ shouldn't be added too much. Rice for making wine works well in cold water, serving as the main bait.
The fresh shrimp powder has the fish's favorite scent this season, is light, fine, and scatters quickly in water attracting fish without feeding them, speeding up gathering and keeping them.
With that analysis, a plan formed.
Using lightweight bran mixed with pure shrimp powder as the main part, adding a small amount of wheat germ as the structure, and blending in a suitable ratio of rice for making wine to attract fish to the nest, a special scatter bait for early spring cold water fish was made.
Having prepared the bait, Zhang Yang tested it himself first, grabbing a small lump and pressing it onto the hook. Once in water, it quickly spread smoke, with a few rice grains falling, the scatter bait being very fine, feeling and performing perfectly.
With the nest opened, each buddy received a box of bait and got busy quickly.
With a few worms on the hook and a small scatter bait pinched onto the hook handle, they casually cast the rods, both creating nests to attract fish and grabbing bites, waiting for a positive fish response.
As the saying goes, finding the right approach doubles the catch; over half an hour, everyone worked in groups of three using small scatter bait, and fish biting noticeably increased again.
Fishing at night with the light and small scatter bait couldn't match the rapid action of daytime, but everyone was quite content.
On average, they could catch a dozen or so fish per hour, which was already pretty good given the season and weather.
So, they fished from after 9 PM until midnight, when the battery alarm sounded and the brightness decreased, before packing up and heading home.
Subtracting the time spent exploring the fish situation and preparing, they fished for about two and a half hours, each angler ending up with twenty-something big crucian carp. That fish catching was quite satisfying.
Frozen and shivering, the group packed up their gear and got in the car, leaving the fish net still on site without lifting it.