[Competition Pond? Has Yang ever participated in competitive matches? Did he achieve any good results?]

[I heard those who play competitions have incredible skills, ordinary anglers are no match for them! There's someone here who nearly achieved a Third-level Master, certified by the country!]

[I occasionally participate in local fishing contests, I have my own take on it. Not to brag, but the host's understanding of freshwater fishing is very profound, I personally think it rivals those competitive players!]

[Yang, do you plan to get into competition someday? That's the highest honor in the country!]

Goodness, just from mentioning the competition pond, the topic shifted to professional competitive matches, prompting many viewers to start discussing.

For the average fishing enthusiast, competitive fishing seems like a very distant and mysterious existence, appearing strong and powerful.

But for Zhang Yang, this stuff holds no mystery at all. The notion of a max-level expert returning to the newbie village perfectly embodies Zhang Yang's current thoughts.

Zhang Yang took a sip of mineral water and continued, "As for myself, I have no plans to pursue national contests at the moment, but I know some general information! Since the viewers are interested, I'll share a few things!

What you're calling competitive fishing is actually a colloquial term.

The official approach is to register with the China Fishing Association (CAA) and obtain a member points card to become a registered member,

then check the various national fishing events organized by the Chinese Fishing Association or its affiliated authorities on the Fishing World website. Achieving different results in these competitions will earn corresponding points!

These various events organized by the Chinese Fishing Association are collectively known as national contests.

They are divided into categories from one to four based on level, the most common being the fourth category supervised by the Chinese Fishing Association, hosted by city-level fishing sports associations aimed at the general anglers!

The first to third category tournaments occur relatively less frequently each year, but there are quite a lot of fourth-category contests.

What the viewers refer to as participating in competitions is usually entering fourth-category contests to earn points and elevate their technical evaluation rank!"

[Wow, sounds so high and mighty! I love fishing, but I've never participated in a national contest, I wonder if it's difficult!]

[The host knows so much, speaks so eloquently!]

[Hasn't answered the previous question yet, Yang, are you considering competition in the future, and have you done it before?]

Zhang Yang smiled, shook his head, "Currently, my company and the startup team are still developing, there isn't enough energy to chase competitions nationwide!

In the future, when the timing is right, I might consider chasing a master rating or something, we'll see, not sure yet!

Getting a bit off-topic, today is our first HD live stream for watching floats! We've been streaming for so long and haven't asked for follows myself!

Brothers and sisters in the live room, if you haven't followed my account yet, get those follows going! After all followers are done, in three minutes, I'll give away ten sets of custom herbal bait rice for free! Get excited!"

Upon hearing that a simple finger movement could join the free draw, many viewers seeing the stream for the first time quickly took action.

[Watching the stream can earn perks, so nice!]

[The brother upstairs may not know, last time the Heikeng Jianghu account's stream also gave away many items, delivered free to home for thirty minutes worth of bait! Regarding pampering fans, Yang is definitely the leader!]

[Follow is done, eagerly awaiting the grand prize!]

Under Zhang Yang's deliberate guidance, the number of account follows quickly soared from over four thousand, rising to five thousand five with just one call.

Keep in mind, there are less than two thousand people online in the chat room now. This shows that at least 1500 accounts are active participants!

Zhang Yang watched the continually climbing follower number and repeatedly expressed gratitude, "Thank you, thank you for your strong support! If anyone hasn't clicked follow yet, the raffle on the follow page is getting started!"

Having already done it once, Zhang Yang smoothly executed the raffle draw, taking another phone and showing the viewers a random scroll and screenshot of the follow page, quickly picking out the first ten free giveaways!

...

Elsewhere, a young man with side-parted hair and a hairy mole on his dark complexion is gleefully watching the fishing live stream on Yingke.

Seeing Zhang Yang holding the raffle, he sneakily canceled the account follow and then re-followed.

This person is Chen Xueqiang, known in the forums as Chen Xiaodao, who used to play under teammate Old Lang of Junfeng Fishing Tackle but never managed to score an edge against Zhang Yang.

"Hey, Ding Wen, did you capture the screenshot, did you win anything?" Chen Xiaodao eagerly asked.

Sitting across, Ding Wen shook his head, "This trick you mentioned doesn't work, scrolling right through the follow page shows dozens or hundreds of names, canceling and re-following doesn't guarantee a win!"

"There are one or two thousand people in the chat room, chances are small, only ten sets after all, but canceling and re-following should put you on the first few pages, chances are certainly higher than being in the back, no doubt about this! If we don't win, so be it, that's normal!"

Chen Xueqiang shrugged, unceremoniously taking a cigarette from Ding Wen's pack and lighting it himself, slipping the lighter into his pocket.

Ding Wen ignored Chen Xueqiang's little maneuver, fully focused on the live stream page on his phone.