76: Chapter 76: Epic Protection Blowing nb 76: Chapter 76: Epic Protection Blowing nb “Xiaoming, set off some more Loose Powder!
Make the water level a bit smaller!” Yu Qulong called out to his apprentice.
Yue Feng glanced over with the corner of his eye, didn’t hesitate, and continued to attach the Lure with Loose Powder.
Yue Feng didn’t care about these small details, but the fans in the live stream began to discuss it.
“This method of catching fish doesn’t seem very regular.
Just now, I think I heard the angler next door asking someone to set off Loose Powder for him!
Is catching fish supposed to involve getting help?”
“This is him realizing that the situation is under control and if he delays any longer, he probably won’t have a chance once the feeding stops!”
“Host, cast another line, let’s see a double flying big crucian!”
With the fish activity stable, Yue Feng took a moment to check the public channel and saw that the audience in the live stream had reached over 800 people, with a good discussion atmosphere.
“Welcome to the new brothers in the live stream!
The fishing condition is gradually stabilizing.
If you guys like our live stream, double click to share and let’s go for a round!
Old rules, if the number of people in the live stream exceeds a thousand, we’ll have two giveaways!
Giving away two bags of my own mixed Crucian Carp Scattering Bomb bait!”
Yu Qulong was already a bit anxious to begin with.
Hearing Yue Feng quietly interacting with the live stream viewers, his irritation spiked by another threefold.
Damn it, did he think he had him beaten?
In just a few minutes, the apprentice had prepared the Loose Powder and placed it next to Yu Qulong.
Yu Qulong grabbed a huge handful and put it into the feed box, then began double hooking to set large Loose Bait, madly casting rods to make nests.
As a Competitive Angler, Yu Qulong’s basic skills were indeed strong; his speed at pinching Loose Bait and casting rods was a notch faster than Yue Feng’s, but having missed the best gold period for luring fish, it was extremely difficult to take over a well-formed nesting spot from someone else.
Whether they are farmed crucian carp or wild, they all have a habit of schooling.
Once a school of fish gathers to a certain extent, even if a large part of the fish fail to get food, they won’t leave the school to go elsewhere.
It’s common in the Black Pit fishing scene to see angling spots next to each other where one is continuously catching, while another angler close by can only watch helplessly, sometimes even using the exact same bait.
This situation speaks volumes.
Unless there are events like fish unhooking, running away, or nest explosions, luring fish away is almost impossible unless the bait is extremely effective.
But was the Loose Bait Yue Feng used so easy to outperform?
Even though Yue Feng was currently using only the retail version of the Crucian Carp Scattering Bomb, it was impossible for Yu Qulong to take over the fish in the nesting spot.
After another ten or so minutes, Yu Qulong’s spot had completely gone quiet,
whereas on Yue Feng’s side, the activity was getting faster and faster.
Initially, the fish were biting about four to five layers from the bottom, now it was at least ten centimeters from the bottom that they would show activity, without missing a bite, just lowering the line a bit and then lifting the rod would bring a double catch.
With such fish activity, the Fly Kicking method was now completely suitable.
For the next half hour, Yu Qulong put a full basin of Loose Powder into his nest, but no matter how hard he tried, there was completely no activity, while on Yue Feng’s side, it was a complete fish catching spree!
After over an hour of snatching fish, the fish activity of the entire fishing field slowly subsided.
Wang Jian saw his senior brother getting outperformed, put down his rod, and sauntered over.
“How’s it going, senior brother?”
Yu Qulong shook his head: “I was a bit careless!
Pretty much the same situation as the last round with you!”
“Is there still a chance?”
“I’ll try again, but it’s quite difficult!” Yu Qulong got up from the Fishing Box, opened it, and took out several unlabeled small bottles of medicine.
With no real hope left in his heart, Yu Qulong made the new Loose Bait with a particularly heavy concentration, creating a pungent, offensive smell that could be detected from far away.
“Such a strong smell, he’s really going all out this time huh!”
“Hard measures can’t be helped, it’s all gone quiet next door!”
“I think this round is doomed!
Turning it around will be very difficult!”
The onlookers were chattering, Yu Qulong heard and felt very aggravated inside, but it wouldn’t do any good to snap at them, so he pretended not to hear, silently adjusted his Loose Bait, and continued to mend the nest and fish.
In the face of absolute fish activity suppression, all the little secret fishing formulas were just paper tigers.
Until the end of the designated fishing time, Yu Qulong had hardly caught a few fish.
Yue Feng’s phone alarm went off in his pocket, marking the end of the agreed two-hour fishing bout.
“Time’s up, should we weigh the fish now?” Yue Feng put down his rod and called out.
Yu Qulong, feeling gloomy from his loss at the fish-off, casually took out his wallet and pulled out ten hundred-yuan bills.
“No need to weigh, I concede defeat!”
Yue Feng wasn’t vague either; he took the bills, “I appreciate the gesture!”
After the loss, Yu Qulong wished he could crawl into a hole.
He stopped fishing for the rest of the time, packed up his gear, and left the fishing site with his tail between his legs.
“Tsk tsk, that young guy’s bait is impressive!”
“Nonsense, he owns a fishing gear shop.
He’s already won three fish-offs at the Dong Family’s Black Pit!”
“The guy who just left, I think he was the expert Wang Jian brought in, and he took a fall here too!”
There were people in the crowd who knew what was up, and with just a few murmurs, everyone understood the ins and outs of the situation.
Having won the fish-off, how could Yue Feng pass up such a great opportunity to promote his own shop?
He put down the rod, sauntered over to the shanty, bought two packs of fifteen-yuan cigarettes, and began handing them out all around.
“I’m Yue Feng, I run a fishing gear shop in town.
If anyone needs anything, feel free to visit my shop.
I won the fish-off, so let’s all have a smoke and share some good luck!”
People already had a good impression of Yue Feng, and now that he’d won the fish-off and was handing out cigarettes, the atmosphere grew even more buoyant.
In just a little while, Yue Feng had gained more than four hundred Promotion Points and got five new angler friends on WeChat.
After finishing all that, he finally sat back down on his Fishing Box and turned his attention back to the live stream.
Having won the fish-off, the fans in his live stream went wild, and various small gifts flooded the screen for a long time without dissipating.
As time went by, the number of online viewers also reached over 1100.
“Dude, this round was so showy, I don’t even feel like going to class!”
“Damn, I’m also grinding it out in class right now!”
“Where’s the host from?
Do you take disciples?
Can I learn fishing from you?”
“Hehe, sorry folks, the host is from W City.
I’ve got limited skills, but we can surely learn from each other.
As for taking disciples, let’s skip that.
If you want to learn fishing, you can follow my live stream, and we can interact there!”
“Talk about today’s fish-off; how come you won out of the blue?
At the beginning, the other guy was clearly faster!”
“Good question, let me tell you about it!”
Seeing someone in the live stream ask this question, Yue Feng felt a surge of bravado, and figured it was a perfect time for some boasting since he had won and reason stood on his side.
“Since you all are quite interested in this, let me give a brief explanation, just to throw the ball out there.
If there’s anything I get wrong, I hope you’ll forgive me!”
“My understanding of the Black Pit’s Crucian Carp is actually quite simple.
These fish with very typical breeding habits mainly depend on the ‘nest’.
That’s why, as you all saw, I kept a considerable amount of bait in my ‘nest’ throughout the fish-off!
Some brothers might ask, even though others used a lot in their ‘nests’ too, why is it that only you caught the fish and they didn’t?