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Chapter 669 - 669 656 The Mysterious Pause

669: Chapter 656: The Mysterious Pause 669: Chapter 656: The Mysterious Pause Yue Feng’s left hand rested on the handle of the rod, his right arm steadily exerting force, lifting the fish smoothly out of the water before he finally relaxed.

“Damn, it’s indeed a double tail; not bad, there’s a good stock of fish underwater!”

“Go for it, Feng!

Give it a fly, turn the rod sideways, no big deal!”

“Get out of here, folks upstairs are nothing but troublemakers!”

Yue Feng: “When fishing for carp, try as much as possible not to hook by the tail, as it’s easy for the fish to get away or snap the line.

But if you accidentally hook a double tail, don’t panic!

With proper technique, your success rate can still be improved!

Just like I did just now, the moment I hooked the fish, I felt a much stronger force from underwater.

At that point, don’t just pull hard; the water resistance from two fish is too great, easily tearing their mouths.

The right move is to lift smoothly, using the rod’s flex to steadily bring the fish out of the water!

There’s one detail to keep in mind here.

Once the fish is out of the water, don’t let it go back down.

If the rod is a bit too flexible, the angler is better off standing up, even raising their arms!

With a difference in the length of the two lines, if the fish goes down again and starts darting around, the chances of losing it drastically increase!”

As he spoke, Yue Feng had already pulled the two fish up to the surface and scooped them up with a net, two big carps effortlessly brought in!

After catching a double tail in the left-hand area on the first cast, Yue Feng adjusted his fishing strategy again.

Instead of continuing with worm bait on the hook, he switched to a small Loose Powder.

The force on his fingertip was very light, controlling the state of the Loose Powder, so that it began dispersing into a scattered mist once it hit the water.

In the Winter Fishing Hall, where the water is about 1.6 meters deep, this technique of baiting up to the middle layer meant the Loose Powder would have dispersed completely, leaving just one worm on the lure to bite, greatly reducing the chances of hooking a double tail while also acting as a fish attractant and retainer.

After such a deliberate adjustment, indeed, the bites became much more steady, always hitting on worm bait, and not a single cast went without a catch.

The Fly Copy technique flowed smoothly, steadily increasing his catch.

Unwittingly, an hour had already passed since the start of fishing.

Thr activity at the pond was still quite fierce, especially on the four edge positions, which were nearly always busy.

However, the pond boss, Zhang Wenliang, was starting to lose his patience.

Given the rate of fish bites today, in just one hour, he conservatively estimated at least fifteen hundred pounds of fish had been pulled out.

This had already met his expectations for fish output.

If it continued a little longer, there wouldn’t be enough stocked fish to support the ongoing surreptitious fishing from others.

With this in mind, boss Zhang turned his head, walked out of the Winter Fishing Hall, and stepped into his own cabin.

There wasn’t enough time to administer medicine to kill the bite; boss Zhang clenched his teeth and pressed the switch of the deep well submersible pump in the yard.

Now, some might wonder, why pump water while fishing is going on?

What does pumping water have to do with whether the fish bite or not?

It does matter, and the effect is very noticeable; immediate, one might say.

This sneaky trick was taught to boss Zhang by Old Li, the fish supplier, after the last attempt to kill the bite had failed.

The water in the pond at the Winter Fishing Hall is all pumped up from a well, then moderately nurtured with nutrients to allow beneficial algal microorganisms to proliferate in the water to an appropriate level.

After being transported back, the fish are released into the pond where they detect the water’s pH, dissolved oxygen, ammonia, and other parameters are in a comfortable range, making them more likely to bite.

The water drawn from the deep well is much cooler than that in the hall, having been tested by boss Zhang himself at just two to three degrees, while the hall water remains at least in the mid-teen degrees.

Besides the impact on temperature, the various data of the water body could also be ruined by cold and meager well water, which would fatally affect the fish’s feeding.

After learning this tactic, Boss Zhang immediately arranged to place a section of rigid, opaque PVC pipe at the position opposite the southwest corner entrance.

The pipe was connected to a deep well in the yard, and the other end was buried underwater.

Besides a slight rise in the water level, the anglers fishing normally wouldn’t feel anything unusual.

Boss Zhang and his wife had already tested it before starting to fish.

After fishing for over ten more minutes, Yue Feng suddenly felt that there were noticeably fewer bites at his fishing spot.

Feeling something was off, he slightly furrowed his brow and discreetly activated his skill to scan the entire fishing area again.

He hadn’t expected much, but what he saw next shocked Yue Feng.

The fishing spot, green just a while ago, had once again turned a murky gray, including the large edge spot right beneath his feet.

Within his field of view, only the large edge spot at the southeast corner opposite him still had a hint of green glow.

After a glance, Yue Feng frowned and said, “Huh, how strange, it seems like the fish have been completely caught from my spot!”

“It should be time to stop, right?

Feng, you’ve caught 71 fish in just over an hour, nearly 200 kilograms!”

“It looks like the whole pond has stopped.

Five thousand kilograms of fish, by all reasoning, it shouldn’t be just this much!”

“Feng, you’ve caught a lot, maybe around 170 to 180 kilograms.

The guys at the normal spots, at most, have caught about 70 to 80 kilograms of fish.

On average, that’s only about 1,500 to 2,000 kilograms total.

For a 5,000-kilogram pond to stop now?”

“Has everyone noticed how quickly it stopped?

Just a moment ago, Feng, your float was still diving after a bite, and then suddenly there were no more bites.

Today’s fishing feels really odd!”

Although most in the live stream chat were regular anglers with limited experience, given their numbers, there were still some discerning viewers.

This sudden halt in bites was puzzling, and they couldn’t quite pinpoint what was wrong!

Yue Feng scratched his head, also at a loss; Boss Zhang hadn’t added any drugs to the water today, and there were many eyes watching.

At a loss, Yue Feng said, “It’s stopped.

I’ll take everyone around to check the other spots!”

Setting down his fishing rod, Yue Feng picked up his smartphone for live streaming and began to wander around the pond, looking around for anything suspicious.

Something abnormal was surely at play; even ordinary anglers could sense something was off.

Yue Feng was extremely puzzled.

Not catching fish wasn’t the most important thing.

If the mystery remained unsolved, he’d go home to sleep with questions in his mind.

Soon, Yue Feng walked up beside Qiangzi, who had also stopped catching fish.

Seeing Yue Feng approaching, Qiangzi muttered with a cigarette in his mouth, “Damn, the bites were so strange, just got a double-tailed fish on the last cast, and now it’s stopped!

How’s it on your big edge, Feng?”

Yue Feng shook his head: “Pretty much what you said, it felt like there were plenty of fish at the big edge, but then it suddenly stopped!

I came over to have a look and see what’s going on!”

“What could it be, did they not stock enough fish?

The biting fish got fished out, and the remaining are either recycled or just not biting!”

Yue Feng shook his head: “Doesn’t seem like it, I’ll keep looking!”

Yue Feng walked around most of the pond but still couldn’t find the reason,

As he was utterly confused, Yue Feng walked to the big edge in the southeast corner and overheard an angler mumbling to himself, “Really weird, they didn’t even turn on the oxygen machine, so why is the float moving!”

Hearing the words “float moving,” Yue Feng’s gaze landed on the section of the hard water pipe jutting into the water…