Fishing Livestream
Chapter 90 - 90 90 The Fish Slips Through the Slip Knot

90: Chapter 90: The Fish Slips Through the Slip Knot 90: Chapter 90: The Fish Slips Through the Slip Knot “It’s moving, it’s a fish!” Yue Feng hurriedly called out.

The fish underwater was completely different from the one caught yesterday; its movements were exceptionally steady, even giving the impression of being slow.

The large fish didn’t swim too fast, but its strength was enormous, and the rod that Yue Feng held at an 80-degree angle was pulled down flat before his eyes.

“Damn, that’s a big one!

Let go, don’t resist!” Liu Fengnian quickly reminded.

Facing a force that simply couldn’t be directly contested, Yue Feng had no intention of struggling against it.

As the rod bent to an angle of twenty to thirty degrees with the water’s surface, he stylishly released his hold, grabbing the slip knot hanging from the back of the rod.

“How long is the rope?”

“Fifty meters, is that enough?”

“Definitely not enough!

Wait, I’ll get you a longer one!” Liu Fengnian turned and ran towards his fishing spot.

The fish underwater hardly changed direction, heading straight toward the deeper parts of the reservoir in front of it.

The fifty-meter slip knot by Yue Feng’s side hardly had a chance to play out before being completely pulled into the water.

Yue Feng had only less than two meters of rope end left in his hand, the part in the water had stretched and deformed due to the force.

“Don’t panic, I’ll connect it for you!” Liu Fengnian came running over with a huge box-style slip knot, quickly tying two slip knots together with a firm knot.

“Liu Bro, how long is this rope of yours?

I only found out it’s a slip knot now!

When we were unloading the car, I took a glance and thought it was some kind of power tool!” Wei Liang asked curiously.

“Just pull it, it’s one hundred and fifty meters!” Liu Fengnian replied.

With the help of the slip knot, the awkward situation of not having enough rope to play tug-of-war with the fish was temporarily resolved.

After the large fish in the water pulled the line assembly and the fishing rod into the deep parts of the reservoir, it finally began to slow down.

While Yue Feng was frantically busy, the live stream room was in complete uproar.

“What’s happening?

Can someone explain what the host is doing?”

“Did he just catch a big fish?

Why did he let go of the rod!”

“Damn, the rod’s been dragged into the water for over a hundred meters now, right?

It’s definitely a big catch!”

“It started with a pegging, and now he can’t pull up the rod, so he’s on the slip knot!

It’s absolutely a big catch!”

“I heard the reservoir hasn’t been dried for many years, who knows how big the fish are!”

“The host was using a 3.5 or 4 strength line yesterday, seems a bit mystical!”

Now with limited options, Yue Feng’s heart was truly hanging by a thread.

A number 4 strength line, a size 10 Ishiyama hook—under normal circumstances, catching fish up to ten or twenty pounds this season shouldn’t be a problem.

But judging by the state of the fish in the water, it seemed to weigh more than that.

The one thing that still gave Yue Feng some confidence was the sufficiently long slip knot.

Once the fish in the water stopped surging forward, Yue Feng began to slowly reel in the rope, carefully sensing the state of the fish.

A nearly one hundred meters long slip knot, even without anything attached, was somewhat strenuous to pull in, let alone when there was a fish of unknown size at the other end.

After busying himself for quite a while, Yue Feng had only managed to reel in twenty or thirty meters of the rope,

The fish under the water sensed the difference in water level and made another forceful dash out.

It sped up for several dozen meters and then slowed down, stopping again before the slip knot ran out.

After going back and forth over ten times like this, each subsequent charge of the fish into deeper waters weakened.

Yue Feng took advantage of the opportunity and finally reeled in most of the slip knot, leaving only the last twenty-odd meters out.

These twenty meters of line, plus the fifteen meters on the rod, totaling about thirty-five meters, were intentionally left by Yue Feng to give the fish a final sense of security.

Until the fish’s energy was sufficiently depleted, he dared not forcibly reel it in and risk a life-or-death struggle.

“What’s the host thinking?

The fish isn’t even moving, why isn’t he reeling in the line?!”

“I think the host is just looking for a spectacle!

He could clearly reel it in but is dilly-dallying just to draw everyone’s attention!”

“The one above is a bit daft, you think you can just reel it in?

What if the fish runs because the line is too fine?”

“How much longer is this to-and-fro going to last?

It’s been so many times!”

“The fish is full of energy, so patience is definitely needed for a chance, the host seems to have a method to it, and the companion by his side is an old hand, they might actually be able to land the big fish!”

“You can tell that’s someone who knows their stuff.

This segment of line is the safety buffer zone the host left for the fish.

If the fish becomes alarmed, it’ll be hard to control!

Now he’s steadily wearing down the fish’s energy, sooner or later it’ll come up!”

“It’s all well and good to understand, but there’s only so much time for the live stream!

Only two or three hours a day and it’s been an hour since hooking the fish.

If he dawdles any longer, the stream will end and we’ll be anxious not to see the end!!”

“Anxious +1”

“Damn, that’s a problem!”

Yue Feng, of course, considered the issue that the fans were thinking about.

After about an hour and a half of stalemate, Yue Feng tentatively shortened the length of the slip knot to five meters.

The fish underwater seemed to have spent much of its strength as it still didn’t struggle violently even after the line was shortened.

Seeing this, Yue Feng gritted his teeth and continued to reel in the line until he could grasp the large handle of the fishing rod.

Holding the fishing rod in hand and holding the slip knot are two different sensations, and the angle at which the line is taut under the water is also different.

When Yue Feng raised the rod to about sixty degrees, the fish sensed danger and made another dash for deep water.

Compared to the bull-like brute force at the beginning, the fish’s current charge was much weaker.

Yue Feng attempted to stick the Reversed Rod into the water and, surprisingly, it successfully led the fish to turn back!

“Damn, the host has some guts, he’s taking on the fish head-on!”

“What do you mean by ‘taking on the fish head-on’?

Can you explain?

What does sticking the rod in the water do?

A newbie here, curious but clueless, what to do?”

“Equally curious, even though I don’t understand, it seems really impressive!

Is there a pro in the live stream room who can explain?”

“Curious +1, I can only tell that the Reversed Rod is for controlling the fish, nothing else!”

There were indeed some savvy people in the live stream, but most were novices who either didn’t understand fishing well or only knew the basics.

Seeing that some were genuinely asking, someone in the live stream room began to explain.

“A Hand Rod is different from a sea rod with reels or a Jiao Fishing Rod; the fishing line on this kind of rod is relatively short, usually about the same length as the rod, so the fish’s range of movement after being hooked is quite limited!”

“If it’s a small or medium-sized fish, there’s no problem, you can usually control it steadily, but if you encounter a fish far bigger than expected, the strength of the fishing rod and line is not enough to take on the big fish head-on!”

“Being unable to take it on head-on doesn’t mean you’re completely out of luck, you can still use the slip knot to let the fish run and exhaust its strength!

What the host did after confirming he had hooked a big one by lifting the rod is exactly using the slip knot to let the fish run!

Presumably, he was being conservative because the strength of the rod or the confidence in his line setup was lacking!”

“Then what?

What does that have to do with sticking the rod into the water just now??”