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Chapter 223 - 223 223 Strange Drifting Appearance

223: Chapter 223: Strange Drifting Appearance 223: Chapter 223: Strange Drifting Appearance Near Yu Dapao’s baiting area, bubbles would occasionally surface, the size of these fish signs were noticeably smaller than the typical Carp or Grass Carp, but there were significantly more of them.

Fearing that big fish had arrived at his baiting spot, Yue Feng slightly adjusted the drop point of his bait, shifting it a bit toward the edge of the adjacent spot.

However, after casting bait more than ten times, the float remained still.

Just then, another set of fish signs surfaced, this time right at the edge of Yue Feng’s baiting spot.

The fish had arrived at the exact spot where he had just scattered the additional pellets!

Yue Feng recast his line, shifting the bait’s drop point slightly to the side, as close as possible to where the fish signs had just appeared.

It wasn’t long before the float began to tremble slightly up and down.

Suddenly, without any warning, the float dipped below the surface!

Seeing this, many people unfamiliar with fishing might ask, what does it mean for it to dip down like that!

A “negative float,” strictly speaking, is also a type of float behavior!

It specifically refers to the float moving downward slowly, without clear hesitation, and without any evident forceful acceleration!

The negative float behavior just now was exactly this situation, unexpectedly sliding downward slowly.

As Yue Feng mentally counted to three and prepared to lift his rod to hook the fish, the float unexpectedly rose back to the surface!

Seeing this, Yue Feng released his grip, the bait definitely hadn’t been taken into the mouth!

He was just a bit too hasty in trying to lift the rod.

A few seconds later, the float exhibited the exact same behavior as before.

Yue Feng, holding back his urge to lift the rod, continued to watch for further movements.

Sure enough, the float quickly surfaced again!

This left Yue Feng somewhat confused!

What kind of fish is this!

Could it be a Silver Carp?

He was bottom fishing and hadn’t used any atomized bait, which shouldn’t attract Silver Carp or Bighead Carp, especially since if a Bighead Carp really had taken the bait, its movements wouldn’t be this gentle, negative float motion.

What assured Yue Feng it wasn’t Bighead Carp were the fish signs, as the bubbles from Bighead Carp are small and fragmented, while the fish signs in his baiting spot, although not large, were still significantly larger than those of Bighead Carp.

Twice the float exhibited a negative float followed by surfacing, which left Yue Feng quite perplexed.

He scratched his head and pulled up his line again.

The bait on the hook was still there, freshly changed not long ago, so there was no need to replace it!

At that moment, as Yue Feng casually stroked his line, he suddenly felt a slight roughness under his fingertips, and looking closer, he noticed some fuzz near the upper part of the hook!

In fishing, especially when targeting big fish, a frayed line can significantly weaken the line’s strength.

Having noticed it, Yue Feng immediately cut the frayed line and replaced it with a new set, recasting into the baiting spot.

It wasn’t long before the same negative float movement occurred several times!

This really started to annoy Yue Feng, wondering what kind of fish was down there!!

“Hey guys, are there any small fish in this pond?” Yue Feng asked the person on his right.

“No, they only started stocking Carp in this pit this year, before it was just Bighead Carp, Black Carp, and Grass Carp.

These species are very hard to breed in the pond, so it’s always been clean!”

With that answer, Yue Feng continued to ponder.

Since there were no small fish, and the float behaved with a negative drift followed by a rebound, could it be that he was fishing a bit too delicately, encountering a slippery old fish in the pond.

Anglers with competitive fishing experience know that often a negative drift can still result in a solid bite, but only because the fish are slippery, cautious eaters with low levels of activity, hence exhibiting this type of float behavior.

In the Big Fish Pit, this situation seemed a bit off, surely there was some factor he hadn’t considered.

Thinking of this, Yue Feng gritted his teeth and began to fumble with adjustments.

It’s about bottom fishing, so let’s start with sensitivity.

The double-hooked line is barely touching the bottom, which is suitable for fishing for big fish, but the sensitivity has slightly decreased.

Well, then simply push the float down to straighten the line a bit more.

Let’s try fishing with sensitivity!

After making a quick adjustment, it wasn’t long before the float still showed nibbles without catching fish, only now the sinking motion was just a tad crisper.

If fishing sensitively didn’t work, then try fishing sharply.

Yue Feng pushed the float back up, moving the fishing target close to the float’s belly.

With this adjustment, the entire Lead Skin, leader line, and part of the main line, were laying on the bottom, which could be considered an extremely sharp state.

Yue Feng was determined to see what would happen!

He cast the rod again and waited for just over a minute when the long-absent slight dip came again!

Watching the float submerge, Yue Feng silently calculated in his mind.

1, 2, 3!

But this time, after counting to three, the float did not re-emerge as usual.

Yue Feng patiently waited another two seconds, counting to five in total during the submersion, and yet it still did not resurface!

Yue Feng couldn’t stand it anymore and jerked the rod upward to set the hook!

Heavy!

Extremely heavy!

The sensation was exactly like being snagged on the bottom.

Having fished here for almost a whole day and casting many times without a snag, the bottom was evidently clear; it was impossible to have snagged the bottom after such a movement.

The only explanation was that he had hooked a big fish!

Before Yue Feng could tap the rod to excite the big fish, it slowly started to move underwater.

“Holy shit!

Got a big one!

Guys nearby, help move your rods!” Yue Feng held tightly to his bending rod and shouted to an angler five or six positions away.

One position being more than three meters apart, five or six positions away meant at least a twenty to thirty meters distance.

The person, upon hearing Yue Feng’s call, just glanced over slightly and didn’t budge; with such a distance, moving to help was easily manageable.

However, the next second, Yue Feng walked along the pit edge with his bowed rod.

The fish underwater, with a power nearly unmatched, was like a hook caught on an old ox plowing the field, completely unhindered and unaffected by Yue Feng’s efforts, steadily moving toward the west shore along the pit edge.

“What the hell?

What’s Feng caught?”

“Can’t tell what fish it is, but the repeated slight dips without a catch already felt odd!”

“Could it be a giant turtle or something?

Heard from old fishing folks once about a wild fishing rod catching a huge turtle, and it was just this kind of scenario!

Calm and slow, but incredibly strong!”

“Actually, that might be possible!”

With the streamer having hooked an unknown big fish, all the viewers were drawn in, creating a lively discussion on the public channel with all sorts of guesses.

Overall, the theory of catching a big turtle seemed plausible, but with no one seeing the fish, they could only stay in the guessing phase.

After several minutes of playing the fish, Yue Feng had moved from a spot in the middle of the south shore to nearly the southwest corner.

The big fish was still forging ahead steadily, the rod bent to an alarming curve, threatened to break at any moment.

With such a grand display of playing the fish, all the anglers at the fishing ground were alerted!

The guy continuously casting from the south shore had caught something, trailing along the shore for ten minutes, and still showing no sign of surfacing!