CHAPTER 947: CHAPTER 928: THE MIGHTY WANG XIAOMIN

After many challenges, it’s hard to say how much his skills have improved, but in terms of mindset, the growth is evident. In actual combat, Wang Xiaomin doesn’t feel nervous at all right now, instead, he feels a faint excitement and keeps a close eye on the fish conditions and the anglers on both sides.

At the beginning of the match, he didn’t do anything, just bombarded a big triangle cannon a dozen times to make a spot, and then officially started fishing with ragworm.

Yes, you read it right; Wang Xiaomin started with ragworm. This also comes from experience gained from competing everywhere; ragworm has a much higher fault tolerance rate for repeatedly caught and released practice rod fish.

While Wang Xiaomin was methodically fishing, Little Gang on his left couldn’t stay calm. The culprit in Zhu Lin’s hand was right beside him, and Little Gang wished he could stand up and kick him into the water.

With emotions in his heart, combined with the tension during the competition, it mixed into a small agitation, causing Little Gang’s hand holding the rod to tremble slightly.

Wang Xiaomin habitually glanced over, saw Little Gang’s hand trembling, and intentionally provoked, "What do you go by, buddy? First time fishing? Feeling a bit nervous or slightly excited? What’s with the shaking hand?"

Little Gang glanced at Wang Xiaomin and stubbornly resisted responding.

This is a common reminder from the training captain: when chatting with opponents you don’t know, if you’re not sure you can control the situation, just ignore them. In this, Little Gang still did a decent job.

Seeing Little Gang not responding, Wang Xiaomin smacked his mouth, "What a drag; why be so tense while fishing? It’s not like we’re betting the farm, just a hundred bucks, even I can afford that being this poor!

The spot’s all set, but you guys aren’t getting any bites; the fish density in this pit is a bit low. If it were our club’s target fish, we’d already be reeling them in nonstop!"

As he spoke, Wang Xiaomin had actually already noticed the float moving.

This indicated that there were already some fish in the spot, but the density was low and the fish were cautious, not yet starting to bite the bait.

Wang Xiaomin didn’t mind; he continued to roll two small baits. When the float resurfaced before the double hook bait was in place, he deliberately swung the rod tip a bit.

Strangely enough, just a very detailed small movement made the float accelerate slightly. Wang Xiaomin lifted the rod and struck a fish, and he hit it!

"Tsk-tsk-tsk! This fish isn’t hard to catch after all; first catch of the day, here we go!"

Wang Xiaomin skillfully reeled in the fish, unhooked it, and glanced sharply at the position on the fish’s mouth where the hook was lodged.

The fish was hooked right at 12 o’clock, nothing wrong with the trolling or the strike!

Someone who doesn’t understand might ask, fishing with ragworm, what’s the use of flipping the rod tip before reaching the bottom?

It does have some effect; the main purpose is to reduce the accumulated acceleration after the lead skin enters the water to some extent, slightly extending the second oscillation time of the line.

So with just a small movement, you can achieve an effect similar to pushing a certain distance up the lead skin position, which is a very useful small technique. Ever since Wang Xiaomin realized this trick, he particularly likes doing this when fishing for small crucian carp, and sometimes it works well.

With this catch, Wang Xiaomin already had a preliminary judgment about the fish conditions.

The fish recognized teasing and chased the bait, indicating that their feeding desire was still up to standard. From the position of the bait’s responsiveness from the last strike, it can be preliminarily judged that the water layer was in an area about 15 centimeters off the bottom.

Just an inconspicuous small movement made Wang Xiaomin instinctively have a vague understanding of the fish conditions in his spot.

After unhooking, Wang Xiaomin straightforwardly pushed the float down roughly ten centimeters, putting a small bait on the bottom hook and a tiny Loose Powder on the top hook, and continued to fish.

Soon, everyone on the field gradually began catching fish, especially the folks from Tianyuan, who were well aware of the fish situation in the pit. They all used the ragworm to fish with the Flying Lead Fishing Method, mainly targeting the bite distance during the secondary oscillation from bottom fishing.

Han Luofeng glanced around and began fishing in the same way, as Zhao Zheng’s original strategy was also like this. On the vast fishing battlefield, only Wang Xiaomin was the outlier.

When the float is pulled down ten centimeters and after reaching the bottom, it will soon sink completely; this is inevitable. The water line is shorter, so naturally, this situation will arise.

However, Wang Xiaomin did this on purpose; without adjusting the lead setup, using ragworm with a small Loose Powder, thus adjusting the bait-to-bottom time was the fastest.

Even though he mainly targeted the distance off the bottom for the fish layer position, he couldn’t rush, but Wang Xiaomin maintained an aggressive mindset, teasing the rod tip every few catches to grasp subtle opportunities. However, there was no significant fish condition performance, seemingly as if the technique was hindering him.

But Wang Xiaomin was relaxed now; his task was to gamble on the quick fish. If lost, his teammates could cover for him, and if won, it would be greatly profitable, no matter how he calculated it, it was appropriate.

Initially, the bites were quite few; only after teasing for a few tries could one catch a fish. But as Wang Xiaomin’s wet scattered small cannon settled and shook the fish into gathering, it indeed proved effective.

The fish responded to scattered conditions. However, the traditional Flying Lead Fishing Method with Loose Powder reduced the success rate of the fish chasing the bait. Therefore, the Tianyuan folks habitually relied on the frequency of Flying Lead to lure fish, and there were very few anglers who insisted on fishing with small Loose Powder on each cast and even Hu Changsheng added one only every few casts.

Old Hu didn’t notice Wang Xiaomin at first until Wang Xiaomin started to fish faster and Little Gang next door was directly extinguished; only then did he realize Wang Xiaomin had started a catching streak.

In this common training competition pond, having a streak and still normally bottom fishing without Flying Lead seems very bizarre to Little Gang,

The difference is that Wang Xiaomin pulled the float down ten centimeters and used small Loose Powder with each cast; reaching the preset fish layer, he teased the rod to shake off the bait and slow down to give the fish more chances to bite.

In such a densely packed competing fishing mode, once someone starts a streak and the neighbor goes blank, it basically means that the surrounding fish have been snatched away. Starting from the seventeenth minute, Wang Xiaomin entered a very efficient bottom fishing streak status.

The fish layer implicitly showed a tendency to chase upward, but when Wang Xiaomin tried to catch a few bites and found too many empty strikes, he shrewdly realized the density of fish in the higher water layer was inadequate, so he continued to target the ten-centimeter off-bottom secondary oscillation of the sub-line.

Unknowingly, forty minutes passed, and the fish responses on Wang Xiaomin’s side were very quick, already far surpassing others on the field.

However, this guy is quite sneaky; not wanting others to figure out his technique, he cheekily took off the float midway and replaced it with a short-footed, short-tail and long-bodied single-foot paddle. Without adjusting even the lead, he quickly found the position of the fish layer and continued to fish.

The single-foot paddle’s repositioning was very fast; after the double hook hit the bottom, it hovered, precisely at the previous fish-gathering layer, without needing to rely on the secondary oscillation of the sub-line.

Now, the efficiency was even faster than before—more bites, a faster frequency, naturally more gatherings in the spot, a virtuous cycle, the fish were being caught faster. As the final ten minutes approached with the hour-long fishing session ending, he boldly began catching double tails every cast.

"Little sister, you’re on the boat, brother’s walking on the shore..." At this time, the ear-piercing alarm bell rang; the fishing session was over!