The Top Fishing
Chapter 786 - 326: Zhoushan Competition_3

Chapter 786: Chapter 326: Zhoushan Competition_3

Each target fish caught had to be represented by its largest specimen, assembling three different types of big fish, and then calculating their total weight.

Moreover, there was one inflexible rule in the competition: only teams that caught all three species would have valid scores.

That meant that teams had to catch at least one Sea Bass, one Yellow croaker, and one Sea Red Spot for the score to count, and only the largest fish of each species would contribute to the score.

Once the competition format was announced, many netizens quickly analyzed the difficulties of such a format, the effects it would produce, and the strategies the teams ought to adopt.

"Selecting the largest one of each of the three target fish species for the score is really tough; you have to catch at least one of each."

"I feel that just this condition alone will eliminate a good number of teams. Sea Bass are somewhat manageable, but Yellow croaker and Sea Red Spot are both very precious and rare species. There’s no guarantee you can catch them, especially since the competition only lasts for four hours. To catch all three species in that time frame is quite difficult."

"In view of this, it would be best if the three members of every team split up to increase the likelihood of completing the task."

"Exactly, they must divide the labor and cooperate; otherwise, it’s nearly impossible for one person to catch all three species."

"It really tests the overall strength of the three individuals selected by a club."

"Suddenly, I’m not feeling so optimistic about Lin Yang...."

Many people were not hopeful about Lin Yang and his team’s prospects in this leg of the competition.

The reason was simple: this round required the overall ability of the whole team as well as the evenness of each player’s skills.

With three target fishes to catch, and the need to catch them all, the best method would be for the three anglers to each take responsibility for one type of target fish.

Only by combining their efforts could they stand a chance to complete the task, as Sea Bass, Yellow croaker, and Sea Red Spot have quite different habits, making it virtually impossible to catch them with the same method simultaneously.

The logic for choosing fishing spots was also completely different.

The best approach would be to split up and fish separately; given the competition’s short four-hour duration, it basically did not allow for an angler to switch fishing spots and techniques to catch another type of fish after catching one.

So the only and best strategy was for the three to work together, with each responsible for a different species.

Lin Yang’s club had sent only three people to participate in the National Fishing Competition, which were himself, Li Xiaopeng, and Yue’er; there were no spare members available.

Li Xiaopeng and Yue’er were only amateur fishing enthusiasts at this point in time, their skills not yet sufficient to be called masters.

Even though they had several sea fishing experiences, the difficulty of catching the target fish in this competition was still very high.

Thus, it seemed that in this competition, Lin Yang would have to carry the team on his shoulders.

Netizens were abuzz with discussion about this issue, with many questioning the fairness of the competition format for Lin Yang’s team, as his club had only him as a professional fishing master while the other two were merely amateurs.

Others were simply onlookers, even suggesting that Lin Yang was overconfident for not bringing more contestants to the national tournament.

In fact, it wasn’t that Lin Yang didn’t want to bring more people; it was that his club simply didn’t have anyone else.

Their club’s business mainly involved tourist fishing guides at the moment, and as for training professional anglers to participate in various domestic pole fishing competitions, they had not even started.

The reason they came to this competition was to advertise their club, to build their reputation first, so that more people would know about them. They weren’t aiming for the championship from the get-go.

After all, even Lin Yang himself hadn’t done pole fishing for a long while.

While the internet discussions heated up, the competition also began.

Lin Yang boarded his boat and arrived on the open sea, his expression as calm and confident as ever, although his fans had already come to terms with the prospect of defeat, Lin Yang himself thought differently.