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Chapter 192 - 192 192 Catching the Two-Tailed Beast

192: Chapter 192: Catching the Two-Tailed Beast 192: Chapter 192: Catching the Two-Tailed Beast Despite a clearly light and continuous bite signaling an accurate fish mouth, Bai Xu purposefully raised the rod half a beat late, allowing the second fish a chance to take the bait, sharply increasing the double-hooking rate.

Noticing this, Liu Fengnian’s brows furrowed slightly.

Mastering the high-end technique of double-hooking could greatly improve fishing efficiency and increase the catch.

However, there weren’t many who could excel at it.

Being able to steadily hook fish was already challenging, let alone intentionally going for double-hooking, a technique reserved for the advanced secrets of Taiwan Fishing in competitive ponds.

At this moment, Bai Xu seemed to have a good grasp of double-hooking, with a relatively high success rate.

If one didn’t consider the slight delay caused by missed bites, every time Yue Feng and Bai Xu hooked a fish, there was a more than 40% to 50% chance that the gap of one fish would widen between them, accumulating over time and quickly resulting in a significant difference in the total number of fish caught.

In the beginning, Yue Feng hadn’t paid much attention to this, only feeling that as he replenished the bait spot, the fish bites became smoother, and he was getting the hang of hooking them.

But these changes were not enough for him to win in the fish-off.

In the live stream, there were those who understood the situation.

After watching for a while, several viewers expressed their concerns in the public chat!

“Feng has the wrong idea here, the other guy is obviously going for double-hooking, but Feng raises the rod as soon as he gets a steady bite and mostly ends up with just one fish.

At this rate, he’s going to lose!”

“Is that guy next to him the same one who was at Black Pit’s last big match?

How come his fishing of the small carp seems so much more skilled and savvy!

His double-hooking rate is so high; Feng is in a bad spot!”

“How can you guys from upstairs tell Feng is going to lose?

I think his fishing speed is pretty high!

I’m a newbie who just started fishing, is there any experienced brother who can explain?”

Mysterious person: “In Competition Pond Taiwan Fishing, it’s about how many fish you can catch in a certain period of time.

Reasonably delayed hooking to double-hook can greatly improve fishing efficiency.

Currently, Feng doesn’t seem to realize this, and his opponent is very efficient at double-hooking, so he’s in trouble!”

“Oh, I see!

Thanks a lot, big brother Mysterious Person!

Can’t the host see the public chat?

Let’s also delay hooking and go for double-hooking!”

Indeed, Yue Feng could not see the public chat!

It had been agreed beforehand that once fishing started, they would not pay attention to the live stream.

For the first fifteen minutes, Yue Feng believed he was fishing quite well, but when he inadvertently glanced at Bai Xu next to him just as Bai Xu caught a fish, Yue Feng suddenly felt that something was off.

Yue Feng had always trusted his instincts; if something felt off, it certainly was.

Thus, he became somewhat distracted, paying close attention.

After casting another line, Bai Xu hooked another double, and that’s when Yue Feng suddenly realized.

Double-hooking!

Right, why was the other guy always double-hooking?

Yue Feng hadn’t double-hooked even once since the start of the competition!

With slippery bites being selective, the success rate was already low to hook one fish; but the other guy was double-hooking every so often.

That was definitely not normal!

In the following casts, Yue Feng paid particular attention to Bai Xu’s situation, noting single-hooking twice in three casts, and the third time, another double-hook.

Since he noticed the issue, in just a short amount of time, Bai Xu had already caught several more fish than Yue Feng!

This way, he was sure to lose; there was no chance at all!

Once Yue Feng realized the situation, a cold sweat instantly broke out on his back.

To catch up, Yue Feng had to start double-hooking as well and do so with a higher success rate than his opponent.

With this in mind, Yue Feng began to deliberately pay attention to his own hooking technique!

Realizing there was a problem and being able to do it skillfully are two different things.

Even when Yue Feng tried to delay his hooking intentionally, the result was still far from ideal.

After several consecutive casts, Yue Feng managed to hook a double-tailed fish only once.

Because he wasted time by letting the fish nibble, it actually turned out to be less efficient than the previous stable-lift method.

However, Yue Feng was not discouraged.

His fishing spot was next to another’s; their frequencies were basically the same, and the fish were behaving similarly.

If the other angler could do it, there certainly had to be some knack to it.

The only reason he wasn’t doing well was that he hadn’t found the key point yet.

Realizing this, Yue Feng gradually calmed down and began to focus intently on his float.

He was using a double-hook lure, separating the sub-lines when casting.

After the bait entered the water, the float slowly capsized and then steadily descended, showing various small stops and sinking movements during its descent.

These movements were quite subtle, clearly not a signal that the bait was taken in by a fish, but more likely false bites caused by fish swimming by or tentatively touching the bait.

Just then, a notably firm, yet light tap came through.

Yue Feng felt a surge of anticipation—there was potential in this bite.

If, following a light nibble, a forceful dip followed, the chances of catching a fish were at least 70 percent!

The next instant, just as Yue Feng anticipated, the float made a pause about the size of one ‘eye’.

Normally, Yue Feng would have lifted the rod to set the hook at this point, but this time, he didn’t rush.

Instead, he tried to follow Bai Xu’s approach by waiting for a while to try for a double-tailed catch.

After passing up on lifting the rod twice, the float continued to tremble slightly up and down.

This trembling was quite minor, about a third of an ‘eye’, a signal produced by a fish that had taken one hook and was still lingering in the nest, disturbing the float.

At that moment, the float gave another short but forceful tap.

Yue Feng felt it was the right moment and lifted the rod to set the hook!

The flex of the rod conveyed the force of a fish having been hooked—it was a hit!

However, after lifting the rod out of the water, there was only one fish on the hook!

The recent light tap had been promising, so why hadn’t he hooked the second fish?

Yue Feng pondered.

With deft hands, he used the needle stopper to unhook the fish and brought it in.

Yue Feng couldn’t wait to bait up with two new bait balls and cast out again.

The actions of the float were similar to the previous cast, but this time, when the second light tap came, Yue Feng held back and continued observing instead of immediately lifting the rod.

After the light tap, the float pushed up, rising from the normal four ‘eyes’ to six ‘eyes’.

Both pulling down hard and a significant rise of the float indicated that the fish had taken a firm bite.

Yue Feng could no longer hold back—he lifted the rod to set the hook!

This time, the force transmitted to the rod tip was stronger, and upon lifting the rod, he caught a double-tail!

Having caught the double-tail, Yue Feng felt like he had grasped a bit of understanding.

Then he quickly re-baited and cast out again, eager to keep trying.

Through several more casts and trials, Yue Feng discovered that if a fish was caught firmly on one hook, followed by a forceful dip and then a rise of the float, the likelihood of catching a double-tail was very high.

Upon observing patiently, he found the success rate was over 60 percent.

But with this new method of waiting for the double-tail bite, he encountered new problems.

Although the success rate for double-tails had increased, the efficiency hadn’t improved much.

Often, even after a fish nibbled on the first hook, the float showed no subsequent action for some time, which could disrupt the overall rhythm of the fishing.

Moreover, some follow-up actions did occur, but there was no definitive rise of the float to indicate a firm bite.

Even when there was a somewhat similar movement, most of the time it didn’t result in catching a fish!