Back to the Past to Become a Fishing King-Chapter 53: Offering Tips

Zhang Yang casually explained the principles of closing a fish’s mouth, which sounded ordinary, but actually touched on some core practical principles and fish behaviors in freshwater platform fishing.

For ordinary anglers, it might take five or even ten years of long-term fishing summaries, practical experiences, and even a bit of luck to discover this.

But now, the three brothers, including the pit owner and competitors, explain it in three or two words while eating skewers.

The continuous success onshore seemed magical to Zhao Bingguang, as if Zhang Yang’s little brain contained countless fishing skills and techniques that could easily turn the tide at a critical moment. fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm

Zhao Bingguang: "No matter how much you say, we perfectly achieved our tactical goals today! Zhang Yang, you’re the number-one technical guide! Cheers!"

"Haha, cheers!"

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During a barbecue, the excited old Zhao pulled Zhang Yang and drank a case of Qingdao beer with him as usual, while the car was left at Zhang Yang’s shop, and Wang Jun took him home.

The terrifying effect of the new bait formula exploded in the first match, having a strong influence on the same day, combined with the skillful ’closing mouth’ battle, further corroborating this.

Qian Wenbo and Zou Liang are not ordinary contestants in the eyes of familiar anglers.

The same day, being shut down by the same bait, the demand for Zhang Yang’s new bait among attentive people immediately rose a lot.

This was no longer about which bait formula had better cost performance; in the eyes of many blind people, buying the new bait could shut down competitors next door.

Everyone is spending money to enjoy the thrill while playing pit fishing, so who would refuse such temptation?

A series of influences fermenting overnight resulted in Zhang Yang, who was still half-asleep, being disturbed again by door knocking and phone bombardment early the next morning before dawn!

Zhang Yang rubbed his dry eyes, got up, and opened the door, and Tang Xuebing and Lou Jianye, who always played with Qian Wenbo, entered the shop.

These two had to work a night shift last night and didn’t catch the main fishing time, but they kept following the fishing ground situation on their phones.

After learning about their two old friends’ experiences with closed mouths, they came to knock on Zhang Yang’s door after off work at midnight and struggling to stay awake until after 5 am.

"Yo, it’s you guys! So early, where are you off to so urgently?" Zhang Yang grinned and greeted them.

"Saw the reports in the group, you and old Zhao exploded the fish at Oil House yesterday? Caught over three hundred pounds?" Tang Xuebing was still a little excited at the mention of that number.

"Ah, the three of us caught it! Not just me! I couldn’t catch three hundred pounds by myself even if you killed me!" Zhang Yang nodded and added.

"Which bait did you use? Heard from Zou Liang that the bait formula here got upgraded? Super impressive, shut down Qian Wenbo and Xiaoliang?"

"Get us a few packs each, we missed last night’s main fishing because of work, we’re going to sneak and take over the spots!"

"Oh, you mean that. Yes, it’s on the shelf! But ’closing mouth’ is exaggerated! There’s no bait that magical, last night was just luck!" Zhang Yang replied with a relaxed smile.

The more relaxed Zhang Yang was, the more trustworthy he seemed in their eyes, because they understood Zhang Yang to be relatively low-key in usual conversations and interactions.

Even with the previous basic bait formula they found moderately effective, in practice, it was much more useful than the primitive single food from Marufuji, which they had silently concluded.

"How much? Give each of us three packs first! If it’s effective, we’ll come back for more!"

"Still the same old price, twenty-one per 500 grams pack! The usage method hasn’t changed either!

But when using this bait during the day, be a little careful, as the feeding effect is too strong, and it may attract small fish when the density of big fish is low!

Oil House has miscellaneous fish in the pond, night fishing is fine, but during the day it can be a problem!

If you’re going to take over spots in the morning, I can give you a tip!"

"What tip?" Tang Xuebing and Lou Jianye were intrigued hearing Zhang Yang’s tip.

Zhang Yang pretended to whisper a few words in Tang Xuebing’s ear, which Lou Jianye couldn’t hear, making him anxious. Yet, Tang Xuebing kept nodding repeatedly.

"Alright, I’ll give it a try! Let’s pay, we’re off!"

Tang Xuebing finished listening with a happy expression, pulled out money to pay, each taking three packs, and together bought a total of six packs of fish bait and left quickly after paying.

After leaving the store, Lou Jianye couldn’t help but ask: "What did Zhang Yang tell you? What’s the technique, doing it behind my back!"

Tang Xuebing grinned: "Just follow me, good trick!"

Within half an hour, their car arrived at the fishing ground.

The Oil House Fishing Ground was about an hour away from the end of main fishing at 6:30, but among the twenty-plus anglers, only three to five hadn’t packed up and headed back, whereas seven to eight people arrived to unload and prepare for sneaky fishing.

Seeing this, some may wonder what trick Zhang Yang gave, half-hidden and half-unspoken, leaving Tang Xuebing excited.

Actually, there wasn’t anything profound; it was just using the new bait to ’needle’ the fishing spots!

More accurately, it’s not really ’needling’, since ’to needle’ usually refers to fishing in someone else’s established spot.

Zhang Yang suggested using the new bait to fish empty spots in a guerrilla style.

From past 6 pm until now, twelve hours have passed; Zhang Yang and the group used rod-and-bait fishing methods, but there were still many technically incompetent people using conventional hand-cast bait nests and put in a fair amount of effort and expense.

Once those bait nests are thrown in, regardless of whether the nest forms or not, when the owner packs up and leaves, the bait nest becomes vacant.

Most bait will dilute and dissipate over time, but compared to unbaited locations, there’s still more edible bait.

In this way, fish that escaped capture last night or were reluctant to open their mouths could still gather in small groups for feeding when the bait nest empties.

This feeding behavior may not be as concentrated as the first few hours of main fishing, but it still exists to some degree.

At this time, fishing one after another in empty nests can sometimes yield better results than sticking to a single nest!

Additionally, Zhang Yang’s suggestion also gave Tang Xuebing a psychological hint; the bait is effective, fish like it, so ’needling’ others’ nests should be successful!

In a few words and a skillful maneuver, Zhang Yang set up the strategy for Tang Xuebing, providing a legitimate approach to bagging fish.

In the ensuing single hour, Tang Xuebing seriously implemented Zhang Yang’s guerrilla fishing "needle nest" method.

And surprisingly, Tang Xuebing indeed reeled in a tremendous catch!