Taking a glance around, Zhang Yang grinned and said, "Oh wow, the village chief uncle said all the original fish from the reservoir have been caught? This is an unexpected find; it's a wild old fish from the original pond!"

"Huh? I can't really see any difference! Could it be a mistake? The color is lighter, it's been in there a week, maybe the fish changed color on its own!"

Meng Fan wasn't very good at distinguishing this, so hearing Zhang Yang say that left him a bit bewildered.

Zhang Yang shook his head and pointed at the whiskers on the sides of the fish's mouth, "The carp we put in are from Hebei and have only two whiskers. Look closely at this one! This carp has four whiskers! That's the most obvious distinguishing feature!

Another point is that the fish's physique is different; wild fish have very small bellies, they look lean and elongated, their mouths are noticeably curved downward, and their lips constantly dig around for food, making them very robust!

Even if farm-raised fish change color in a new environment, other features wouldn't change so quickly!"

"Uh, so what? It's just one slip through the net wild fish, no need to get that excited, right?" Meng Fan scratched his head.

Zhang Yang smiled and said, "Think about it, if such a big carp slipped through, could there be even bigger original pond fish in the reservoir?

The big fish you lost earlier weighed at least ten pounds, what if that was a wild carp! From the bobber's bite performance, I feel it wasn't the grass carp we guessed before!"

As the conversation reached this point, Meng Fan's eyes lit up, and he instantly perked up.

"You mean there might be large wild fish still in the reservoir?"

Zhang Yang nodded, "Exactly!"

"The 2.0 leader is not enough! Should I switch straight to line group three?

I mean the fish that got away just now, it was so vigorous after making a move – newly introduced farm-raised fish shouldn't have such good stamina!"

Zhang Yang nodded, "Yeah, increase the line group size a bit! No more fluffing bait, switch it directly to lead skin hitting the bottom for small running lead, I'll get the old altar corn from the car!"

"Sure, let's get on it!" Meng Fan immediately started working, and began changing the fishing setup again, rearranging bobber to find the bottom busily.

Throughout, the two of them were speaking live in front of the viewers, everyone heard clearly but understood the meaning of the dialogue yet couldn't grasp their series of adjustments.

Obviously, they caught a big fish using commodity bait and fruit acid, why did they suddenly overturn their original plan?

For the moment, no one was paying attention to interact with the streaming viewers, everyone started discussing it in the chat room.

[In such a big reservoir, unless you pump the water out, it's really hard to catch all the fish right?]

[Brother up there, your view is too small, actually even if you pump out all the water, fish won't be caught completely, there's sludge at the bottom, fish will burrow into the sludge! Our family pond was pumped before, big fish over ten pounds were hiding in stinky mud, and when it rained and filled up again, they started moving!]

[Where did Brother Yang go? Old altar corn? Why did he suddenly stop using perfectly good bait and feeding material, also mentioned some small running lead technique, what is that technique?]

[Hold on, relax to watch! Let's ask when he returns!]

Within less than a minute, Zhang Yang returned with a box of old altar corn.

"Let's simply add a bit to the fishing spot, but don't overdo it, four pounds from two packets is enough for the base layer! Then open one extra packet, use a feeding paddle to occasionally toss some into the spot to keep attracting fish!

Remember to use the bottom fishing method I taught you last time, aim to catch another wild large fish from the original pond!"

"Alright!" Meng Fan took the old altar corn, quickly entering battle mode.

In the morning when the broadcast just started, using a bathtub for bait wasn't a big deal, this is less than half a day's work, and a new round of baiting began!

The old altar corn couldn't be used as bomb bait, Zhang Yang continuously shovelled it into the spot using a small shovel, and soon four pounds of old corn kernels were in.

Then, he set a foam ball on the hook, tidied up the hooked corn, swung his arm, and easily tossed it into the fishing spot.

During the fishing session, Meng Fan finally had it a bit easier; with a seven-meter-two fishing rod, he didn't need to cast frequently, just scatter about ten corn seeds into the spot with a bait paddle every now and then worked fine. Squatting on a fishing box, hiding under a fishing umbrella, living the good life.

"Brother Yang, earlier you mentioned the small running lead fishing method, what's that about? Why abandon a proven fish-catching method to switch to small running lead?"

[Watching Brother Yang's stream indeed teaches you some real stuff, watching one live stream teaches you more than following a master for a year, genuine streamer!]

[I'm more curious about the effect of this old altar corn, seems like we don't sell it around here! Is it ordinary commercial bait? Where can you buy it?]

[Upstream's fish sent lollipops ×13 and said: All my assets are on this, attending class attending class! I don't like catching small fish, gotta go for the big ones! Please host, talk about small running lead!]

[Hua Fudie sent lollipops ×66 and said: Another class! My notebook is out again, start the lecture start the lecture!]

[Romance of snow lotus sent beer ×10 and said: Are we wringing Brother Yang dry with this operation? There're only so many secrets about fishing techniques, during one stream classes have been held several times!]

[Brother up there used the term wring dry well, come on, the lollipops start raining, let's wring the host dry together!]

[Wring dry +1! Must wring dry!]

[Wring dry +2! Wring them all dry!]

Well, the efficiency of the viewers creating new memes is impressive, in no time the second iconic moment in the live room appeared!

Zhang Yang took a sip of mineral water to moisten his throat, "Uh, about this, isn't wring dry a bit inappropriate, as a ruggedly handsome man as I am, you want to wring me dry, it sounds kinda odd!"

[Hahaha, caught the big carp live, wring the host dry!]

[Wring is one word, dry spoken once! Start start!]

[Wow, this live room is so cheerful, my belly hurts from laughing!]

At that moment, during a company lunch break, a young guy who'd just eaten the company lunch and should've been taking a brief nap at his workstation suddenly laughed silently holding his belly.

Wanting to laugh loudly, afraid of waking colleagues at other desks, he suppressed laughter while his body trembled making the work desk seem like an earthquake, continuously shaking.

"Xu Qiang, did you eat rat's poison and have a seizure?" His neighboring affected male colleague and fishing buddy rolled his eyes and teased.

Xu Qiang didn't say anything, simply handed his livestream-watching phone over.

Within ten seconds, the one suppressing laughter became two people, and in thirty seconds, laughter seemed to resonate through the entire office as if they couldn't survive it, drawing a stern shout from the office supervisor.

...

With banter aside, the necessary teaching must continue, Zhang Yang organized his thoughts and continued, "Small running lead is a fishing method particularly suitable for catching big fish. The general method is not to tune the settings by normal reduction of lead but rather to adjust to flat water without hooks, hanging hooks to fish three to four indicators! There's a detail here, during fishing, you need to open the space beans above the lead seat! This can roughly be considered as using the small running lead technique!

With small running lead fishing, due to the buoyancy relationship of the setting, the double hook leader, and lead are confirmed to be lying flat, so there's no dangling lead in the fishing spot, making wild fish more daring when eating bait!

At the same time, when the space beans above the lead seat are open, when fish eat the bait, they just need to tug the fishline through the bobber seat, directly creating a bobber signal, keeping certain bobber sensitivity while fishing dull!

In plains where everyone fishes for big wild fish, you can try this method, it sometimes works wonders!"

[Uh, is that all? Seems like he hasn't been wrung dry? What about the corn used for baiting and hanging hook just now? Also, what's up with hanging a foam ball on the hook?]

[Left wanting more +1, focus on the goods, don't skip over it! Hard!]

[Talk about old altar corn! I saw the name when you unboxed it earlier, is this bait from our company too? Does it work well?]

[There's still a key question unmentioned, why abandon commercial bait for old altar corn?]