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Chapter 516 - 516 503 Playing with Full Flying Lead As Soon As It Floats

516: Chapter 503: Playing with Full Flying Lead As Soon As It Floats 516: Chapter 503: Playing with Full Flying Lead As Soon As It Floats “Today’s luck isn’t so great, it turns out that the person chatting me up is none other than a ‘familiar face’ I’ve had a brief encounter with before.”

The captain of Wuhan Tianyuan, Leng Xiaojun.

Originally, Yue Feng didn’t have much interaction with Tianyuan, but at the dinner party, the child was harassed by Ming Xiaodong and Mu Lin.

He almost got into a fight, and it was Leng Xiaojun who came over to apologize and take the people away.

Unexpectedly, in the third round, Yue Feng ended up right next to him.

Yue Feng: “I thought it was someone else, turns out it’s Master Leng!

Sorry, I didn’t pay attention just now!”

Leng Xiaojun’s mouth curved into a smirk, a hint of a fake smile appearing: “Heh, I forgive you!

Did you see the results of this morning’s competition?

You’re at the top of the leaderboard!”

Yue Feng didn’t have the same strong connections as Teacher Hua or Tianyuan.

He only knew through the referee that he had scored one point in two matches and didn’t know his specific ranking.

“Oh, I really didn’t know that!

Lucky me for catching up!”

“Luck is the excuse of the weak, and fate the modesty of the strong!

We’re both smart people, no need to pretend with me, right?” Leng Xiaojun uttered a rather philosophical statement.

“Not at all!

You’re too kind, Master Leng!”

Leng Xiaojun narrowed his eyes slightly: “This morning’s two matches, you’re first, and I’m second.

To tell the truth, we both have one point, and I’m not quite convinced being ranked below you!

Now, quite coincidentally, I’m right next to you.

Today, we both have to rely on our own skill!”

Yue Feng could sense the aggression in Leng Xiaojun’s words.

However, his own mindset was surprisingly calm.

Competitions were about performance, not about boasting; tough talk was useless.

“Yes, we rely on our own skill!

I welcome any tips you might have, Master Leng!”

Leng Xiaojun: “Then don’t blame me if I don’t go easy on you!”

“Heh.”

Yue Feng wasn’t a trash talker.

He usually preferred action over words and didn’t like to talk things out, but Leng Xiaojun came across as someone who talked big and thought highly of himself.

The conversation couldn’t continue.

Yue Feng gave his fishing bait, water basin, line box, and other preparations one last look to ensure everything was in place, then calmed down and stopped talking to his opponent.

Suddenly, the referee’s whistle for the start of fishing sounded, and Yue Feng, along with Leng Xiaojun and all the other contestants, cast their rods into the water, officially starting the competition.

Different from the strategy used for aggressive fish, when fishing for crafty old fish, the amount of bait isn’t the primary factor.

The most important thing is to quickly and accurately judge the fish’s behavior and their preferred flavors.

Having Musk Herbal Wine as a trump card, Yue Feng didn’t need to worry much about the flavor of the bait; his top priority was to decipher the fish’s behavior.

As expected, when the first rod went down, there were no actions on the float.

After the second and third rods went down, there was still no movement, and Yue Feng’s expression grew serious.

Damn, could it be that the fish aren’t biting because of the heat?

Could what the staff said be true, that the fish are coming to the surface at this time?

Thinking this, Yue Feng didn’t hesitate to push the lead skin seat up by fifty centimeters, attempting to use a half Flying Lead method to search for bites in the middle and lower layers.

As soon as the Lead Skin was lifted on the first cast, there was action on the float.

The activity appeared on the float at a very high count, right at the flipping point.

Yue Feng, seeing that the bite force wasn’t decisive, didn’t rush to lift the rod.

Instead, after the double hooks hit the bottom, he cast another rod.

This rod still moved at a very high position, but didn’t take the bait again.

Now Yue Feng understood.

He pushed the lead skin up another half meter, turning from half flying lead to almost full flying lead, with only about thirty to forty centimeters left between the lead skin seat and the float seat.

Under the full flying lead condition, the float would almost instantly flip upon entering the water, making the portion of lead skin hanging downward move in an extremely slow pendulum motion.

Full flying lead is certainly not something you’d use for casual fishing or in ordinary Black Pit environments, but in a Competition Pond, the effect is very good,

The slow descent of the bait gives the fish more opportunities to pursue and take the bait, allowing for a wider search for fish at different water layers.

Indeed, after this cast, the fish were more apt to take the bait, and the float made a significant half-sinking movement, hooking a fish on the lift!

After catching the first fish, Yue Feng knew that what the staff member had said before fishing was true!

The fish were indeed floating!

Initially, it was estimated that the fish were up to eighty centimeters to a meter off the bottom, or even higher.

Having had the guess validated by a catch, the next action Yue Feng took left the online viewers in the live broadcast aghast.

Incited, he decisively pushed the lead skin seat right below the float, directly connecting it with the float seat, and both the main line and the sub-line became a lead-free freely pendulum state.

Earlier in the competition, Yue Feng had used a lead-free method to reach a predetermined point at a distance, and now, employing full flying lead technique, the difficulty of casting was just a tad more challenging.

The entire rig with the float adjuster’s weight, all acted upon the position of the float, shifting the center of gravity significantly upward, which had a much larger impact than when the lead skin was removed and there was no adjuster’s weight.

Yet despite this, Yue Feng’s casting was not affected in the slightest.

His continuous casting was very focused.

After switching to the full flying lead method, there were more catches in the middle layer, three consecutive casts resulted in fish hooked almost in the same spot, creating a small streak.

Seeing Yue Feng catching fish one after another, Leng Xiaojun squinted his eyes and observed stealthily.

Fishing next to each other, if the adjacent angler watched closely, they could definitely see the tactics employed; it wasn’t something one could disguise.

Soon, Leng Xiaojun noticed Yue Feng’s full flying lead method for connecting with the fish and, imitating the method, started to experiment with it as well.

In terms of fishing technique, Leng Xiaojun’s theoretical knowledge wasn’t much less than Yue Feng’s, but when it came to practical skill and operation, even Leng Xiaojun was like a beginner in front of Yue Feng’s master-level casting.

Without comparison, there is no harm; Yue Feng’s casting was precise and flawless, while Leng Xiaojun’s bait scatter and the tightness of the line group was significantly affected, with bait landing scattered across at least a 50-centimeter radius.

Wide scatter was just the first problem; another issue was that the fish bites were slippery.

Although he found the active fish layer, it didn’t mean the floating fish were any less cautious and careful in taking the bait.

After several casts with momentary resistance and then setting the hook, he only managed to catch one fish, with a poor success rate of only 30%.

This statistic was far behind when compared to Yue Feng, who so far maintained a staggering 100% capture rate on proper bait strikes without a single miss.

At this point, some might ask, why do other anglers frequently miss fish while Yue Feng never fails to hook one when he sees a bite?

The main reason lies in the bait, or to be more precise, in the Musk Herbal Wine Yue Feng added during the Bait Opening.

The Musk Herbal Wine gave the bait an additional flavor penetration and an enhanced effect of steadying and enticing the fish to the baiting spot, making these elusive fish eat with the same confidence as they would the original pond pellets; naturally, they wouldn’t desperately swipe at the bait.