Zhang Yang added a wet scattering bait made from traditional Chinese medicine rice and base bait, and the fish activity in the fishing spot continued for about another hour.

Slowly, the shoal of big crucian carp seemed to have been fished out, and the biting slowed down.

"Yang, no bites here, is there any action at your spot?"

Meng Fan asked his neighbor Zhang Yang, sounding a little unsatisfied.

Zhang Yang shook his head, "No fish in the spot! The last one was ten minutes ago!"

"Damn! I thought it would last until dark. Do we need to add more bait to the spot?"

Just as Zhang Yang was about to speak, he saw a big fish jump up about one and a half meters in front of the spot!

Splash!

The big fish leapt out of the water and quickly fell back, splashing water all around. With a sharp glance, Zhang Yang keenly noticed a red tail!

Carp!

To be precise, it was a five or six-pound wild carp!

When the biting stopped, Zhang Yang felt something was off.

The fishing spot had consistently been provided with bait, so it shouldn't have stopped. Now the mystery on the spot was solved! It turned out a big fish had come to the spot!

At this time of year, the water temperature and air temperature are still rising, and it's not really the season for catching big fish!

But this kind of thing can only be analyzed in terms of probability, there are always exceptions, and it has a lot to do with the density of fish in the water.

For example, last spring, when the reservoir thawed, while fishing for crucian carp, they ran into a shoal of grass carp and caught a lot with constant casting.

Now, the time is more than a month later than last spring, and it's just the right time when lots of fish escape as the reservoir water is released. Big fish entering the spot for biting is also possible.

"Wow! There's a big one in front of the spot!" Meng Fan caught on a bit late, exclaiming.

Zhang Yang gestured for silence and said, "Keep it down, don't scare the fish away!"

Meng Fan, who was excited just a moment ago, immediately covered his mouth, fearing the noise would scare the fish away.

Zhang Yang glanced at the box of bait for making wine rice mixtures. After more than an hour of frequent casting, quite a bit had been used. Looking at the time, there were still about two hours until dark.

This evening period is exactly the feeding window for big fish, there should be a chance!

"Let's not use the rice for making wine mixture! Xiao Yi, go to the car and fetch the wasteful spoon, and bring two packs of aged corn too!"

"Okay, okay!"

Xiao Yi responded a few times and turned to walk towards the van.

Soon, the baiting spoon and the aged corn were brought back, thrown to Zhang Yang who stood on the shore.

"Big fish aren't very interested in making wine rice bait. To catch big fish, you still need bait like corn!

Change your line setup, best to use a 5.4-meter rod! I'll add some bait to the spot, if luck is good, we have a shot!"

Before getting started, Zhang Yang reminded Meng Fan again.

"Alright, I'll listen to you, whatever you say goes!"

Meng Fan's best trait is fully respecting authority. Zhang Yang's fishing skills were high, so whatever he said, Meng Fan did, without any unnecessary words.

After finalizing their strategy, Zhang Yang got busy, scooping aged corn with the wasteful spoon, scattering it half-scoop by half-scoop in front of the 4.5-meter fishing rod's spot by about a meter.

Each scoop of old corn wasn't much, forming a fan-shaped area in the water, and the two of them, Zhang Yang and Meng Fan, took turns setting up in front of their spots, and in a short while, half a bag of old corn was used up.

During this process, Meng Fan switched to a 5.4-meter rod, and Xiao Yi helped Zhang Yang change to the line setup for catching big fish.

After about half an hour, Zhang Yang noticed that there were sporadic fish bubbles appearing around the new spot baited with old corn.

"Let's test the bite! Don't cast the full rod, choose a landing point about a meter outside the 4.5-meter spot! If you're not confident about playing the fish, directly use the slip knot!" Zhang Yang reminded.

"Got it!"

Meng Fan nodded, using commercial bait from before to make two peanut-sized bait balls and tossed them to the edge of the spot.

Zhang Yang didn't make any special adjustments with the fishing bait, using the same bait as Meng Fan.

The duo cast their rods into the water, eyes fixed on the bobber, patiently waiting.

Expected bites would come soon, but they waited for a long time with no reaction, leaving Zhang Yang a bit puzzled.

Could it be the big fish is just cruising around the spot and not eating the bait?

Looking at the dense fish stars in the spot, it shouldn't be!

Zhang Yang scratched his head, pondering where the problem might be.

Could it be worth trying a few cast with aged corn?

Thinking this, Zhang Yang slowly lifted the rod and hung two kernels of corn on the double hook. Casting it into the spot again, and soon there was still no movement.

Knowing that there's a big fish in the spot, but stubbornly not biting, this is an unbearable torment for a fishing enthusiast.

Put it this way, even if someone told Meng Fan that handing over a hundred bucks would make the fish bite immediately, he wouldn't hesitate to pay.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, still nothing happened, just as Zhang Yang was about to give up and experiment with a new fishing method, the bobber suddenly dipped down.

The dipping bobber phenomenon was briefly mentioned earlier, it's a gentle downward bobber movement, when fishing for big fish this often means line grazing which is hard to catch a solid bite.

Suddenly there was a dipping bobber, Zhang Yang's first reaction was to wait and see, and sure enough, the dipped bobber returned to the normal fishing position and again went quiet.

"Damn! Switched to old corn on the hook, it grazes the line without biting!" Zhang Yang muttered under his breath.

Meng Fan scratched his head, "Yang, do you think it's possible that there's so much old corn and the fish didn't notice the bait on the hook? After all, it's spring and the water is cold, fish's appetite isn't huge!"