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Chapter 391 - 391 380 Adjust Four Fish for Two

391: Chapter 380 Adjust Four, Fish for Two 391: Chapter 380 Adjust Four, Fish for Two “To summarize the relationship between fishing target and buoyancy adjustment in one sentence, it’s the interplay between the remaining buoyancy and the weight of the bait that affects the different states of the double-hooked line underwater!”

If the remaining buoyancy is greater than the weight of the bait, and it’s not bottom fishing, then the float can lift the double hooks off the bottom, and the entire main line is stretched tight!

At this time, the whole line setup is in its most sensitive state!”

If the remaining buoyancy is less than the weight of the bait, but greater than the weight of the bait on a single hook, then in bottom fishing condition, the top hook might be lifted by the float, presenting a state of one bait suspended and one bait on the bottom underwater!”

“This is a simple problem of force analysis and state judgment.

With just a slight concept in mind, one can figure it out clearly!”

Having explained the principle, let’s move on to the practical demonstration for everyone!”

First, let me explain the standard operations for handling a new main line in normal Taiwan Fishing!”

The first step, use a heavy sinker to find the bottom, push up the float to reveal the target depth.

After finding the bottom, leave a bean marker, pull down the float the length of a child-line, gently drag the fishing rod, and see if the float is submerged!

If it is not, proceed to the next step, snipping the lead skin!”

There’s not much to talk about when snipping the lead skin.

As the lead skin is trimmed down, the float will gradually emerge from the water, and that’s the corresponding adjustment!”

Once you’ve determined the adjustment you want, the next step is to push up the float to find the fishing target.

With that, the rough float adjustment is basically done!”

Why say it’s roughly done?

Because it still needs fine-tuning!

I will explain this in detail during the upcoming demonstration!”

“OK!

Now let’s start the practical float adjustment!

If you have any questions, just raise your hand and I’ll demonstrate immediately in the pond!”

For the instructor, adjusting a float was as simple as eating or drinking water.

He quickly found the water depth with a newly rigged main line then trimmed the lead skin according to the process, and soon found the fishing target, four-eyed!”

“Report, instructor, can you demonstrate for us what the state of adjusted four, fishing two look like underwater?” At this point, Qian Jin raised his hand to speak.

“Good!

I was going to discuss adjusted four, fishing two anyway.

Now, let’s show you!”

Yang Wenjian responded and quickly made two baits with the double hooks, then pushed up the float and found the two-eyed fishing target.

With that, the adjustment for four, fishing two was complete.

“Eh, that’s not quite right.

Didn’t the seniors who fished before say that when you adjust for four, you fish for two, one hook reaches the bottom, the other one hangs?

Instructor, why are both of our hooks lying down today?” Before Qian Jin could ask, Zhao Wenyong, sitting beside him, was the first to voice the question.

“That’s a good question, a very typical one!

Why is it that with the same adjusted four, fishing two, the state of the double hooks underwater is different?

The reason is simple: the weight of the double baits is different!

If one bait can push down two targets worth of float, with careful adjustment, it’s possible to find a state where one hook reaches the bottom and the other one hangs!

But the demonstration bait we made today is quite dense, and the weight of one bait exceeds the buoyancy of two targets, naturally submerging the float!

If it goes down, what do you do?

To achieve the predetermined two-eyed fishing target, you can only push up the float to extend the main line!

This results in the state of the upper hook touching the bottom, and the lower hook lying on the bottom!”

“Ah, it seems to make sense, but I’m not sure where it doesn’t quite fit!” Zhao Wenyong scratched his head and frowned slightly as he stared at the double-hooks in the water.

“This involves the issue of the weight of a single bait!

Assuming that the bottom has been found, the weight of the bait on the lower hook can be disregarded, as it is counteracted by the bottom and does not affect the remaining buoyancy on the float.

But it’s different for the upper hook.

The existence of hook distance makes a difference in the length of double-hooked lines and results in variations and changes in their state underwater.”

“Next, I’ll switch to another type of bait for everyone to try, setting four and fishing two!”

After greeting everyone, the instructor took out another pre-prepared white bait ball from the Bait Opening Bowl, deftly grasped the bait with both hands, rolled it into a strip, cut the bait with the tip of his thumb, and baited the hook with it.

This bait was significantly lighter and would slowly flutter down upon entering the water, finally sinking to the bottom.

“Now, let’s shorten the fishing line a bit and look at the status of the double hooks underwater!” the instructor said, lowering the float and recasting into the water.

This time the status of the double hooks had changed, with the upper hook indeed suspended and the lower hook touching the bottom, causing the float’s target to show two targets.

“This was the setting four and fishing two approach that emerged when Taiwan Fishing was just starting to gain popularity!

At that time, there was no method like Lure, and Taiwan fishing competitions exclusively used Ragworm.

To practice Ragworm, one would keep bait at hand day and night, practicing countless thousands of times!

The bait balls had to be round and uniform in size and weight, which is very difficult.

The old Competitive Anglers from that time almost all had a knack for quickly baiting hooks with Ragworm!”

Just now, Yang Wenjian has unconsciously shown off his skill, and now speaking of it, he was quite confident.

At this moment, Qian Jin raised his hand again, “Instructor, what if the weight of the bait isn’t enough to push down the target?

What would happen then?”

Yang Wenjian did not answer but instead smiled, “This question is something you all can think about.

After one minute, those who have thought of an answer can raise their hand and speak!”

Seeing the instructor’s gaze, Yue Feng felt a bit helpless; such a question was child’s play for him.

If the bait’s weight is too light, wouldn’t it be just like hanging red worms or earthworms?

What would happen then?

If the bait isn’t heavy enough to push down the target, for example, setting four targets, if the double-bait is so light that it only weighs as much as one target, then even if the hooks are off the bottom, the float will have three targets worth of buoyancy left, and it won’t show two targets!

This is just one scenario; there’s also another, where if a single bait weighs between one and two targets, and the double-bait is off the bottom with the weight pushing the target over two, then by pushing the float up to extend the fishing line, you could also find a two-target scenario.

However, the lower hook would only be lightly touching the bottom and would appear to be standing rather than lying down underwater, offering higher sensitivity.

After a minute passed quickly, Yang Wenjian’s eyes scanned over everyone, “Does anyone want to share?”

At that moment, Qin Hu raised his hand.

“Alright, Qin Hu, you go ahead!”

“If the bait is extremely light and the combined weight of the double-hooked bait isn’t enough to push down for two targets, then the float might never find that two-target setting!

On the target indicator, this means the indicator will be higher than two targets.

The starting point would be the remaining targets after subtracting the weight of the double-hooked bait from the target indicator.”

Yang Wenjian nodded, “Um, not bad; that’s one answer.

Does anyone else have something to add?”

After Qin Hu finished speaking, everyone else just looked at each other, and there was silence.

This was the easiest scenario to consider but didn’t cover all possibilities.

Seeing no one else answering, Yue Feng scratched his chin, about to raise his hand again.

For the sake of the system task score, he had to keep up the act.

However, before Yue Feng could raise his hand, Zhao Zheng, who was sitting next to Ma Tingting, stood up first.