Seeing the barrage of explosive comments in the livestream chat, even though Zhang Yang had mentally prepared himself beforehand, he still felt a bit dazed.

It took him several seconds to calm down a bit: "Uh, guys, there's really no need to get this excited, is there?

Fly-casting for a carp might look fancy, but it's actually not that difficult!"

If he hadn't said anything, it might have been fine, but once he did, the public chat exploded again!

[You call such a cool fly-casting move not difficult? If I hadn't seen your early video clips of fly-casting, I would've totally called you out!]

[The fly-casting technique for carp is amazing, I swear, I have to learn it! When that moment comes and I snatch a fish with a swift cast at the pond, I'll be the coolest kid in the yard!]

[Is there really anything cooler than fly-casting in the black pond fishing circle? How about a live demonstration for us, Brother Yang?]

[I think we should all be a bit more practical. It's not every day we get this chance. Since we're on a livestream right now, let's have Brother Yang talk about the key points and precautions of fly-casting! The knowledgeable ones can grasp the essentials, while the others can enjoy the hype, let's stir it up!]

[Stir it up +1, Master above, accept a bow from your apprentice! Please teach me the art of fly-casting, if I succeed, I promise to remember it for life!]

[Stir it up +2, Master above, accept a bow from your apprentice! Please teach me the art of fly-casting, if I succeed, I promise to remember it for life!]

[Stir it up +3, Master above, accept a bow from your apprentice! Please teach me the art of fly-casting, if I succeed, I promise to remember it for life!]

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Goodness, who knows which little smart aleck started it first, the public chat was instantly flooded, all with "stir it up + number", followed by requests to become an apprentice and learn the fly-casting technique.

With the new livestream software just launched, there were some debugging details in question, and with this flood, Zhang Yang felt the livestream frame rate starting to lag.

"Stop! Hold it! Don't spam any more, or we'll crash offline!"

Zhang Yang felt a livestream mishap was about to occur, shouted loudly, and redirected the camera, making a hand gesture of pressing down with both hands.

Water friends love to stir things up, but they genuinely want to learn the technique too,

Trying to learn some real skills in regular fishing can be awfully difficult. In reality, unless you're on very good terms with fellow anglers, most people are not eager to share their fishing skills.

After Zhang Yang's call, the spam in the chat was reduced by more than half, and the pace of the livestream finally cooled down a bit.

Zhang Yang glanced at the top right corner of the public chat; the number of viewers had successfully broken through 3500. Clearly, the software's algorithm had provided a certain amount of exposure boost.

The current livestream account was still in its debut new account status, and Zhang Yang knew very well what was most important at this stage, so he said to the camera: "I understand everyone wants to learn the fly-casting technique for carp, and I can teach you all, that's no problem.

But before getting into the substantial content, I'd like to ask a favor from everyone!

All the brothers who like fishing in this livestream room, if you haven't already followed our Black Pond Jianghu account, please use your magic finger to click follow on the account.

This way, for future livestreams or posted content, you can all see it first thing!

Follow us, click away!"

With the livestream software just launched, there were plenty of netizens unfamiliar with its functions, and with Zhang Yang's reminder, the water friends who hadn't followed began to frantically hit the follow button.

Are you kidding me, this is a fishing master teaching the godly technique of fly-casting for big carp. If the stream crashes or goes offline and you can't find it again, it'd be a huge loss!

Watching his current livestream account, Zhang Yang saw the followers count rise from just over ten thousand to more than twelve thousand quickly, a shout out for two thousand followers, an opportunity only available in the early days of livestream software.

Seeing the followers count rise sufficiently, Zhang Yang finally returned to the main topic: "Alright, brothers, thank you all for your attention.

With such favor, it leaves me with little to repay, so let's start by talking about the fly-casting method for carp!

All the brothers in the public chat atmosphere team can take a break, the Black Pond small lecture, commence!

First, before discussing the fly-casting method for carp, let's talk about the prerequisites and conditions for using this method!

The fly-casting method is generally suitable for fast fish environments in black ponds with fresh fish rewards. It's not just for showing off, but for effectively improving fish retrieval efficiency and increasing catches!

If you only catch two or three fish in one session, there's no chance of snatching fish, and fly-casting isn't suitable.

To smoothly implement the fly-casting method, you need a relatively stiff rod, a thick line, and bigger hooks. These line sets, tuning, and other conditions will all affect the actual fish catch, making it not worthwhile!

So, what exactly needs to be adjusted and modified in terms of equipment? I'll roughly explain the situation.

First point, the rod used for fly-casting must be stiff enough. The usual 37-tune or 28-tune rods can't meet the stiffness requirements of the fly-casting method!

If the rod is too soft, when you try to retrieve the fish, the backbone will sag downwards, and the fish won't fly properly!

According to our experimental stiffness, you need at least a hardness of 9h+ to easily fly-cast two to three-pound carp with rigging and tied hook lines!

If ordinary rods don't have enough stiffness, you can consider looking for Combat Rods used for fishing giant Chinese perch in the south, those rated eight or nine or even harder!

After discussing the rod, let's talk about the line set. The line set used for fly-casting should be a bit thicker than that used for normal fishing!