Amid the banter from the water friends, the lottery continues.
Soon, the relatively good fishing spots on this side of the Huangpu River, such as those closer to the estuary, were also taken by others.
After a long while, when Lin Yang felt bored to death, his name was finally called.
"The last one to choose a fishing spot, Lin Yang!"
However, it seemed Lin Yang had no choice left, as there was only one fishing spot remaining.
That was the fishing spot farthest from the estuary on the Huangpu River.
But for Lin Yang, there was an unexpected good news that this spot happened to be under a large dam, providing shade and coolness.
When host Xia Xiaoxue introduced this, she mentioned this advantage with a hint of teasing.
After all, the two were quite familiar with each other, so during the program competition, she was happy to tease Lin Yang.
And when the water friends heard Xia Xiaoxue’s words, they couldn’t help but be speechless.
"Cooler? Is that even considered an advantage? Come on, host, be a human."
"I’m really laughing, the only benefit of Lin Yang’s fishing spot is that it’s shady and cooler."
"Does a fishing master want coolness? A fishing master wants fish. If I wanted to be cool, wouldn’t staying at home with the air conditioning be better?"
"The host is so funny, but it’s kind of mean. Lin Yang, I really empathize with you."
Amid the cheerful comments of the fishing friends, Lin Yang naturally chose that spot.
After he got ready for the competition.
The referee gave the command, and the competition began!
The fishing spot where Lin Yang was, as Xia Xiaoxue had said, was the farthest from the estuary on the Huangpu River.
Moreover, just upstream from here was a huge dam, which was dozens of meters high.
The main purpose was to control the flow of water from the Huangpu River into the sea, to maintain the desired water level for upstream Huangpu River, so it’s not too low to affect navigation.
After all, the main use of the Huangpu River is for water transport, with a large number of vessels passing through daily.
On the other hand, it could block rising tides when the tide was too strong.
Otherwise, a rapid influx of tides into the Huangpu River would also affect navigation.
Some tourist ships within the Huangpu suburbs could even have a risk of capsizing due to rough waves, so having such a dam makes the entire Huangpu River much safer.
And Lin Yang’s fishing spot was right below this dam.
But there was one awkward point for Lin Yang, which was that when the competition began, it was just at low tide.
The sea had just receded, marking the lowest water level point. For other fishing spots, which were either directly in the sea or nearer to the estuary, this wouldn’t matter much.
But not for Lin Yang’s spot.
With the dam above blocking the Huangpu River’s water, and the tide receding below, the sea water had receded.
As a result, the water level at this fishing spot was exceedingly low, just a small puddle, hardly qualifying as a major river.
Although Lin Yang could clearly sense the water depth, to avoid acting too oddly on the show and to let the audience see clearly, he used a float to measure the water depth.
The water depth was 0.6 meters.
Seeing this, all the viewers were baffled.
"Are you kidding me? The water’s less than a meter deep, how can you fish here? There’s barely enough for fish to swim."
"In such shallow water, if there are fish, it would be strange. If it stays like this, Master Lin might not catch a single fish today."
"No catch, absolutely no catch! The program team got the effect they wanted."
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The water depth at Lin Yang’s fishing spot was less than a meter, instantly drawing numerous comments from online viewers.
How could you fish here?
Remember, their target fish was the Blackhead.
This isn’t a small fish, and the competition rules were that the bigger the fish, the better.
In such shallow water, how could there be big fish?
But while the audience was anxious, Lin Yang didn’t seem to mind much.
He glanced at the shallow bay beneath the sluice, and saw some small ripples appear on the water surface from time to time.
"There really are fish."
At this moment, he wasn’t using any fish detection skill.
Instead, with his natural eyesight, he saw the same scene as any ordinary person would.
Meanwhile, the staff responsible for filming and live broadcasting, standing behind him, followed Lin Yang’s gaze with their camera.
Suddenly, the audience in the live broadcast room also saw some ripples on the water’s surface.
"There are really fish in such shallow water, but in this little water, what big fish could there be? Even if there are fish, they’d all be fish fry, useless for the competition."
"Why does Master Lin seem so happy?"
Lin Yang showed a mysterious smile at the corner of his mouth, then calmly started preparing a fishing rig.
It was a 3.6-meter small fishing rig, with a small hook, only a number two sleeve hook, looking like equipment for catching small white fish in freshwater.
After preparing it, Lin Yang directly started fishing.
This scene left all the viewers dumbfounded.
"He really started fishing, and with a small hook and light line, fishing mid-water too."
"Yes, he didn’t use a float, but tied a small piece of foam directly on the main line, what kind of technique is this?"
Amid everyone’s confusion, Lin Yang started fishing.
As soon as his bait was cast into the water, the small foam tied to the fishing line began to tremble violently.
Lifting the rod to hook the fish.
A silver-colored small fish was pulled out, lively and beautiful.
"What kind of fish is this? It looks a bit like small white fish from freshwater, could it really be a small white fish?"