69: Chapter 69: Yu Qinlong’s Desire to Challenge 69: Chapter 69: Yu Qinlong’s Desire to Challenge After examining the appearance of the rod, Yue Feng tested it in action using store-bought mineral water.
He hung a bottle of roughly 600ml of mineral water, lifted the rod from the ground, and the rod bent to about twenty centimeters at the tip, showing a certain degree of arc due to the pressure applied and also demonstrated exceptional strength.
Its performance was extraordinary.
“Tsk, tsk, with this rod, catching common carp weighing about a pound and a half will be more convenient!
If I used this rod today, snatching up a few dozen more pounds of fish wouldn’t be a problem at all!” Yue Feng swung the rod again, feeling very refreshed in his heart.
While Yue Feng felt refreshed, Wang Jian was feeling quite frustrated.
Having been bested by Yue Feng twice in a row, even before he got home, his lips and tongue started feeling uncomfortable.
Once home and his gear unloaded, canker sores emerged.
Talking was a bit awkward and even drinking water was excruciatingly painful.
“Hubby, what’s wrong with you?
Should we go to the hospital?” Wang Jian’s wife saw her husband struggling to speak and felt slightly worried.
She didn’t even ask how his fishing results went but instead wanted to take him to the hospital.
“Probably just from the heat, got some canker sores!
I’m not that delicate, I’ll drink more water and it will be better in a few days!” Wang Jian managed to reply despite the pain in his mouth, then dropped his fishing gear and went inside.
Just as the tea had been prepared, Wang Jian’s phone rang—it was his senior brother Yu Qulong calling.
Normally, if it was someone else and nothing urgent, Wang Jian might not have picked up, but his senior wasn’t just anybody, so Wang Jian endured the discomfort and answered the call.
“Have you packed up your rod?
How was today’s battle?” The concern in his senior brother’s voice was apparent, knowing that Wang Jian had gone fishing at Black Pit today to redeem himself, he was calling to check on the results.
“Got home a while ago!” Wang Jian responded truthfully.
How was the catch in the morning?”
“Passable, barely made it to shore!” Wang Jian said unenthusiastically.
Was the formula I gave you effective?
That was the recipe tried out by Master Wang and others during a competition last autumn…”
Yu Qulong, thinking Wang Jian had come home early because he had a successful fishing haul, started talking non-stop about the formula.
I only fished for less than an hour, and in the second half, Yue Feng shut me out!
I tried adjusting and adapting again but to no avail, so I admitted defeat and packed up!”
Yu Qulong was puzzled by the news, knowing that Wang Jian had made it ashore meant the bait direction was definitely correct, but hearing that his junior brother was shut out by someone else, he was a bit baffled, wondering how that happened!
“Talking about it, I’m also a bit confused.
In the first half of the fishing session, the fish action on my side was quite fast.
I made and replenished my fishing spot regularly, and there were no obvious mistakes.
But after competing for a while, the fish abruptly stopped biting.
Meanwhile, Yue Feng started catching one fish after another!”
Yu Qulong, still in the dark about what Wang Jian was saying, continued to probe: “What was happening on his side?
Tell me more details, I’ll help you analyze it!”
“Yue Feng used some type of bait I’m not sure about.
Not long after starting, I saw many fish churning around his fishing spot, but the fish wouldn’t bite!
Meanwhile, I was already catching them rapidly!
I continued pulling the rod and replenishing the fishing hole as usual while fishing.
But after a while, it felt like my fishing spot was dissipating, and the fish were thinning out!
Oh, another detail that puzzles me is when Yue Feng started catching fish, the layer where fish were positioned was very high, looking at the water level I concluded it was only about 70-80 centimeters deep.
From then until I packed up, the fish layer hardly moved!
The double-tail ratio was extremely high!
Seeing he was catching fish swiftly, halfway through I used Lead Skin to replenish a few balls of bait in my fishing spot, and soon after that, his area paused momentarily.
Then he rapidly pulled the rod more than ten times with Loose Powder, and the fish started biting again!
No chance of winning, I just admitted defeat, sold my fish, and left!”
Hearing Wang Jian’s description, Yu Qulong became even more confused.
Normally, in Black Pit where large carps are bred for fishing, most of the fishing is done purely at the bottom, or using lead skin to fly just above the bottom unless the density is too high.
According to Wang Jian, the fish layer had moved up to mid-water, which was highly unusual behavior.
What density would be needed for the fish to feed mid-water?
Even in highly dense Competition Ponds, this was hard to achieve.
“What about Yue Feng?
How many fish did he catch this morning?
“Just got back and saw on the WeChat group, Dong Xuelin already posted a video in the fishing WeChat group, 287 pounds, easily two huge baskets!
Damn, he’s stolen all the limelight!”
Despite being somewhat prepared mentally, Yu Qulong was still stunned by the figure 287.
Catching nearly three hundred pounds of fish in one morning was not something that could be done casually; it required a very high density at the feeding spot.
Also, this figure corroborated Wang Jian’s earlier description, which must not have been bluffed.
“How could Yue Feng turn the tables?
When is the next regular fishing day?
I’ll bring a friend and challenge him!” With Wang Jian not clarifying the specifics, Yu Qulong’s curiosity was piqued, and a desire to challenge arose.
In most cases, anglers used to competitive fishing merely scoff at this type of Black Pit stocked fish.
In their view, stocked fish have less variable moods, and since the pond allows the use of bloodworms, catching these fish is basically a breeze as long as you have the basic skills and the right bait flavor; it’s merely a small dish.
“It’s the usual two hundred bucks fishing fee for the Saturday daytime session, with two thousand pounds of fish!”
“Alright then, I got it, I’ll take revenge for you!” Yu Qulong nodded and then hung up the phone.
Sitting in the store eating lunch, Yue Feng suddenly felt a tickle in his nose and couldn’t help but sneeze.
After lunch, Yue Feng uploaded the polished best clips of today’s live broadcast to the streaming platform, along with the final catch, and then listlessly started checking backstage.
With his consistent streaming lately, Yue Feng’s followers had broken through 8000, but the growth rate had slowed down recently.
The fans from You Ying had gradually settled, and non-fishing fans popping up in his live room had decreased, showing that the hype had passed.
However, today, less than an hour after uploading the clips, Yue Feng casually opened the backstage and his eyes widened.
An hour ago, Yue Feng had 8125 followers, but an hour later, it had reached 14830, almost doubling!
As he kept refreshing the backend data, the number was still growing.
Having experienced the previous 999+ followers, Yue Feng was much steadier now.
Seeing the surge in followers, he thought his clips had gone viral.
He opened the clip and saw, views 60k+, likes 4000+, over two hundred comments.