Chapter 975: Using a File to Adjust the Float
Four people competing at the same venue, the other three all ended up as Air Force, while Yue Feng caught two fish in a row, instantly drawing all eyes from those on stage and below.
Yue Feng ignored these scrutinizing gazes with various purposes, calmly pulling the fish out of the water, then gently using the net. After removing the hook, he maintains his original action and begins baiting again, casting it out once more.
Seeing Yue Feng's careful movements in handling the fish, the others make adjustments to their fishing setups again.
Yue Feng's ability to catch two fish consecutively was definitely not just a matter of pure luck. The competition used public bait, so the taste and aroma shouldn't differ much, which means the biggest impact might come from the line set, trolling setup, and the state of the bait.
At this stage, any angler who can take the stage is a seasoned expert. If the 0.3 wire doesn't work, then change to 0.15.
Fishing with absolutely no bite feedback made the other three anglers somewhat frantic. If there's even a slight possibility, it's definitely worth adjusting to try!
Having caught two fish in a small bottom recess, Yue Feng was inspired and began searching for fish everywhere from the next cast.
Where the bottom is flat, where there are slight structures, where it's slightly deeper there's a small pit, where it's shallower there's a high platform.
Through cast by cast fishing and the float showing the depths, Yue Feng gained a very clear understanding of the underwater conditions in front of him.
Familiar with the intricate conditions of the fishing spot underwater, Yue Feng quickly judged this extremely difficult fishing scenario.
Experienced old fishlike to stay where there are small structures at the bottom, most are slightly deeper shallow pits for one purpose. The first two fish were caught in such places.
Following this line of thought, Yue Feng switched to a similar location on the other side, and combined with skillful technique of teasing fish with the rod tip, quickly caught the third fish.
Unknowingly, the first 15 minutes of the competition ended like this, Yue Feng's team leading with three fish, while Zhongsheng angler Liu Wen was almost pulling his hair out.
Soon, Wang Zhen stepped onto the stage in large strides for the second round.
Yue Feng handed over the rod, leaning close to Wang Zhen's ear, whispering: "The fish recognize the finest line and the smallest bait, the rig is extremely fine, pay attention to your technique.
Also, the fish density in the recess is very low, the remaining fish are old fish lying in the shallow pit terrain at the bottom!
When fishing, look for the two small shallow pits at the left front and the nearby right side, the fish from the first round were caught in these two places! Good luck!"
Yue Feng shared his judgment and insights very thoroughly with Wang Zhen.
Wang Zhen nodded: "Don't worry, I got it!"
Wang Zhen took the stage and quickly started fishing according to Yue Feng's instructions.
In the left front, right near points, Wang Zhen accurately pinpointed them with just a dozen casts.
At this moment, the results of the usual training for precise casting were reflected, exactly pinpointing these two spots, Wang Zhen alternated precise cast fishing, quickly getting into the competition status.
In the third minute of fishing, he caught another fish.
Looking at the next neighboring Zhongsheng Club, Zhao Lin, the first disciple of Master Lü, came in after replacing Liu Wen, and tried fishing based on his discussions and exchanges just now.
The details of Yue Feng catching fish in the first round were all observed by them, watching from the stage also gave some observation insights.
The conclusion from Yue Feng using a net even for small carps showed the line was very fine. After adjusting the bait state, Zhao Lin also adjusted to a nearly identical status.
Next was a silent attempt; all of Yue Feng's fish were caught in bottom fishing, as for how to fish, and where the fish were located, Zhao Lin could only experiment little by little with his fishing experience.
Zhao Lin's skills were slightly better than Liu Wen. After about five minutes of exploration, he finally saw a nibble.
The float lightly brushed, a subtle move around a small black grid was captured by Zhao Lin, gently lifting the rod, finally catching the first proper bite.
Seeing this bite, many doubts in Zhao Lin's mind were half solved!
No wonder Liu Wen wasn't catching fish in the first round; Liu Wen's vision was the worst among all the team anglers, missing such small actions was truly plausible.
Recalling Yue Feng's details in the previous round, Zhao Lin gritted his teeth and swapped his already 0.3 changed to 0.15 line set to 0.2 and then to 0.08.
0.08# fishing line is almost the thinnest commercially available monofilament nylon line in the world, rarely used, generally only in winter hothouses for extreme light bite rod fishing. Unexpectedly, it was used in the club league's four-team points match.
Having swapped to the most extreme rig, Zhao Lin gritted his teeth, took a 20 cm long float from the Float Box which hadn't even a chopstick head thick.
Speaking of Zhao, his psychological stability is truly impressive; in such a high-pressure fast-paced competition, he discarded the adjusted float and rig, choosing a small float that he wouldn't use for lifetimes, starting the float adjustment anew.
While adjusting the float, the technique details were also exaggerated to a daunting level; normal anglers trim lead skin with scissors, while Zhao Lin felt the depth of the Fishing Box to pull out a small file.
After rolling the lead skin, for simple fine-tuning, instead of using scissors to trim the lead skin, he started filing slowly bit by bit.
Yue Feng noticed this detail from below, nudged Zhao Lin who was adjusting the float with his chin, turning to Wang Xiaomin and Xue Kai watching.
"Look at Zhongsheng now on stage, Teacher Zhao Lin! This is the quality old school anglers should possess! Have you ever seen someone adjust float with a file? The short float he's using was previously for winter fishing tent needle floats, it's rare now!"
Xue Kai shook his head: "Isn't this ridiculous? Is there really such a sensitive float? Just thinner lead skin, cutting slowly should suffice!"
At this moment, Wang Xiaomin spoke: "There really is, I have one in my Float Box!"
"The last time at Tianyuan with Leng Xiaojun fighting fish, it was the Peacock Feather float that won against him. If you want to adjust well, scissors for trimming lead skin are basically unnecessary, I tried several times, only the small file on a nail clipper could precisely adjust the indicator marks!"
Listening to Wang Xiaomin say this, Yue Feng, originally planning to give the two new soldiers some insight, felt rather surprised, Wang Xiaomin actually had one.
"Where is it? Did you bring it? Show it to us!"
Wang Xiaomin: "After I got injured, Wang Zhen packed my gear, the Float Box should be with Wang Zhen! It's either at the base or in the car!?"
Xue Kai shook his head: "The gear's in the car, give me the keys, I'll go get it!"
Quickly, Xue Kai took the keys, turned around and went to the car to get the Float Box.
Soon, the Float Box was really brought back, Wang Xiaomin opened it, and took out the winning float.