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Chapter 274 - 274 273 Four Categories of Race Part 3

274: Chapter 273: Four Categories of Race (Part 3) 274: Chapter 273: Four Categories of Race (Part 3) It really was as the mysterious person had said: while the fish activity was lacking, there was a certain regularity to it.

After Yue Feng accurately located the fish layer, in a short while, he managed to catch five or six fish.

Yue Feng’s frequent catches made the angler beside him, Wang Xiaoli, a bit restless.

While casting his line, he frequently glanced over at Yue Feng out of the corner of his eye, hoping to catch any small details.

For those anglers who chase competitions year-round, being observant and attentive to their surroundings is standard practice.

They quickly get a sense of what fishing methods are being used in the neighboring positions, whether the bait is more fishy or fragrant, and they can generally gauge the overall situation with just a brief observation.

Soon, Wang Xiaoli noticed the subtle detail of Yue Feng’s lead skin action just before the float was about to hit the bottom, so he decisively adjusted his float and started using the “rocket” technique as well.

Compared to Yue Feng, who added medicinal wine to his bait to make it more appealing, Wang Xiaoli’s techniques were much more complicated—pausing, speeding up, poking, sending the float.

He executed all sorts of float movements, yet very few indicated a fish was biting.

After a lot of busyness, he only managed to catch one fish.

Yue Feng’s catching continued, with each of his twin hooks baited with fuzzy lures the size of yellow bean grains.

When entering the water, the bait dispersed to some extent yet retained enough to linger near the hooks.

Such bait, after being tested, proved to be more comfortably consumed by the fish, producing a relatively stable float indication.

By this point, Yue Feng had accurately gauged the base fish activity for the competition.

Yue Feng’s catches became more and more stable, while Wang Xiaoli’s fishing grew increasingly confused.

Something wasn’t right.

Why was yesterday’s effective bait not getting bites today?

Could it be that the flavor was too strong?

With this thought in mind, Wang Xiaoli picked up his bait and gave it a light sniff.

The more he doubted it, the more he felt that the flavor was indeed a bit strong.

He set aside the “lure” from the food box and, rummaging through the box, retrieved the bait he had prepared before entering the competition to give it another try.

This bait was essentially the original version used for catching fish yesterday.

The bait mixture he had started with today was specially prepared due to being next to Yue Feng, with the same flavor, but a little stronger.

After switching baits, the indications on the float finally stabilized somewhat.

The exaggerated rocket bites and line collisions diminished, the bites remained tricky, but the rate of catching fish had improved significantly from before.

The ninety-minute competition had already been underway for over ten minutes, and Wang Xiaoli finally managed to decipher the fish activity.

Yue Feng was a step ahead of Wang Xiaoli, not only having figured out the fish activity but already considering how to improve his catching efficiency.

Through frequent casting, Yue Feng observed that although the proportion of biting small carp wasn’t high, the subset that did bite had fairly good activity levels.

Why say this?

After about ten minutes of casting, Yue Feng noticed that the fish layer feeding on the bait was rising—it had gone up by nearly ten centimeters compared to the beginning.

When the fish layer rises, it indicates that the casting bait has had an effect.

Seeing this, Yue Feng quickly adjusted his float aligning it with the bottom, switching from pure bottom fishing with lead skin to fishing at a fixed layer above the bottom.

As mentioned before, this method of fishing at a fixed layer is very effective once the correct fish layer has been identified.

The fishing target on the float didn’t change, only the depth of water where the bait settled did.

At that moment, Yue Feng employed a rather straightforward approach, without altering the fishing target on the float, he would lift the rod whenever the float reached the preset fishing level without a bite, keeping the bait’s dispersal controlled within the desired fixed layer he aimed to fish.

With the effect of his master-level casting skills, forcing himself to cast more frequently produced noticeable results.

If he had been bottom fishing, he might have hesitated a few seconds without a bite.

Now, by only lowering the float without reducing the lead skin, if the float continued to sink past the fishing target, it would quickly disappear, compelling the angler to lift the rod.

Just like that, the frequency of Yue Feng’s muscle memory in casting fishing rods had its last weak spot specifically addressed by a targeted fishing technique.

Yue Feng was clear on his own fishing method, but this state of the float flipping and quickly submerging with no buoy left had the regular viewers in the live-streaming room all confused.

“Bro Feng, what kind of fishing technique is this?

Is the float not adjusted properly?

Why is there no buoy?”

“Could it be that the buoy soaked up water and changed the fishing target, and the competition pace is too fast for Bro Feng to adjust?”

“Doesn’t seem like it, I feel like Bro Feng is doing this on purpose, but I don’t know the reason.

The catch rate isn’t high, but it doesn’t seem to have slowed down compared to before!”

“I also have this doubt, but I was afraid of being laughed at by the guys, so I didn’t dare to ask.

Is the mysterious guy around, if you are, please tell us!”

The Mysterious Guy: “This fishing technique is indeed intentional!

Bro Feng previously set the target to three fishing targets, with this competitive fishing the sensitivity of the buoy is quite high, three targets actually reflects very slight changes in the weight of the lead, the weight of two bait clusters plus the hook exceeds the three fishing targets, now he’s also fishing mid-water, so it’s directly pressed down!”

“That’s still incorrect though, he just pushed the float down earlier, and it’s not bottom fishing, it’s mid-water fishing, right?

Why not trim off some Lead Skin then?

Constantly having no buoy like this is making my OCD act up!”

“OCD +1, and with this kind of fishing technique, the float gets in place a bit too quickly, right?

If you trim off a part of the Lead Skin, the timing will slow down a bit, wouldn’t that be better for the fish to bite?”

The Mysterious Guy sent a smiley face emoji and then said, “It’s about leveraging that OCD mentality!

Without a buoy, you have to lift the rod, and if you’re fishing at a set depth, naturally the frequency speeds up!

Those who can’t control the fishing frequency when they first get into fishing should try Bro Feng’s method, it’s very effective!

The weight of the Lead Skin now is roughly the same as trimming a few more targets, the impact on the travel time is negligible!”

“Holy crap, if you put it that way, it makes a lot of sense!!”

“Right?

Why didn’t I think of this trick!?”

“I remember now, Bro Feng mentioned before during his live stream that he had never played competitive fishing before, which means stuff like frequency pulling isn’t his strong suit, so he came up with this crude method for himself!”

“If I spread out my thoughts a bit, this technique seems like it could be used in the Black Pit too, during the beginning of a fishing session when setting up the nest, I always end up half a beat slow unconsciously, just pull the float down a little, and lift the rod when there’s no buoy!

Wow, wow, wow, I feel like I have mastered a new Skill!”

“The guy above is quite the clever one, huh?

I also got it!!”

“Stop the random discussion, quick look at Bro Feng, he’s got a double-tail on!!”

After increasing the casting frequency, the fish in Yue Feng’s spot clearly started to increase, initially just barely maintaining the volume compared to the previous Rocket.

After the bait casting volume increased, even more fish were lured into the spot.

As the float flipped and moved downward, after it reached the predesignated fish layer and slightly accelerated, there was a pause, followed by another very clear little nibble.

Facing such a float action, Yue Feng lifted the rod to set the hook, and this time, he actually caught a double-tailed fish.