Chapter 407: Chapter 245: Making Amends After Losing Sheep and the Wandering Rod Fish Escape Technique_2
Upon hearing Zhang Yang mention the consequences of failure, Han Qiang instinctively licked his lips, hesitating even more.
"Why don’t you do it? I’m not confident!" After hesitating for three seconds, Han Qiang couldn’t help but suggest.
This was the more cautious side of Han Qiang’s character. The rod had already broken during the live stream, which counted as a live broadcast accident, but Zhang Yang managed to stabilize the broadcast rhythm with his personal control ability.
At this time, if there were any significant mistakes again, it would be difficult to explain. It would be better to let Zhang Yang handle it more steadily.
"Alright, then give it to me! You’ve been at it for hours, come over here and guest as a commentator for a bit! I’ll see if I can bring up this big guy!"
Zhang Yang decisively accepted Han Qiang’s suggestion and stood up from his seat.
"Brothers, let Qiang talk with everyone for a bit. I’ll see if I can bring up this greedy guy!"
Zhang Yang greeted them and walked towards Han Qiang, then sat down on the fishing box.
The next second, Zhang Yang lifted the rod with one hand and brought the fishing set out of the water. After thinking briefly, he took out a bit of lead from the toolbox and wrapped it directly at the hook handle position of the sub-line.
Once the modification was completed, Zhang Yang stood up from the fishing spot, held the rod with both hands, and swung it in the air. The double hooks flew directly towards the other distant bobber as if they had eyes.
When the double hooks touched the water surface, Zhang Yang did not hurry to lift the rod immediately but patiently waited a few seconds, then tentatively lifted the rod to one side.
The first attempt failed, as the advance was not well grasped, and the hook did not catch the main line.
Failing once did not deter Zhang Yang. After lifting the rod again, he changed positions and cast it out once more with the same technique.
When he lifted the rod for the second time, the originally straight rod tip suddenly bent into a smooth arc due to underwater resistance.
"Got it!" Zhang Yang murmured, instinctively placing his left hand above the rod handle.
When he lifted the rod, he exerted force very gently, unlike the strong force used when lifting the rod to hook fish.
So, after the rod tip bent, the fish underwater did not get too stimulated and crazily ran away.
Zhang Yang didn’t know where the hook was caught on the other main line and dared not roughly and forcefully drag the fish, only carefully arching the rod to find an opportunity slowly.
Up to this point, the ideal situation was that Zhang Yang’s leaded hook was caught near the rod head or bobber seat of the other main line.
This way, without excessively alarming the big fish, there would be a chance to retrieve the entire fishing set and main line.
If everything went smoothly, they could replace the broken main line with a new rod and then perfectly guide the fish.
Based on this consideration, Zhang Yang cautiously bent the rod and didn’t dare to breathe heavily, patiently observing the situation.
The big fish underwater paused for more than ten seconds and then slowly began to swim again, continuing to wander around the nest.
As the big fish got closer to the nest, the position of the hook gradually emerged from the water.
Han Qiang, controlling the live camera, sharply saw the position where the hook was caught and reminded, "Leader, the hook is caught at the connection between the rod head and the main line! There’s hope!"
Zhang Yang nodded and said in a low voice, "Steady, there should be a chance. Damn it, the fish better not run around at this time!"
After seeing the position where the hook was caught, Zhang Yang slowly started to back up with the rod.
No way around it; now it was approximately two sets of main lines with limited strength connected together, so he dared not use excessive force. If the hook slipped off, all would be for naught!
Fortunately, Zhang Yang knew where the risks lay within, and after calmly retreating for a while, he miraculously led the big fish to a shallower area.
"Brother Qiang, come help. Untangle the broken rod tip where I’m hooked and tie the main line to the new rod! Oh, and put on cotton gloves to avoid cutting your hand with the main line!"
Seeing the timing was ripe, Zhang Yang began directing Han Qiang to assist him.
"Alright, I’ll give it a try!" Han Qiang got up to find a pair of cotton gloves in the cabin and quickly made his way to the shore.
Zhang Yang carefully pulled the fish towards the shore and, when Han Qiang was ready, lowered the rod head as much as possible.
With sharp eyes and quick hands, Han Qiang grabbed the disconnected rod tip lifted from the water.
The rod tip was broken from the third section, so strictly speaking, Han Qiang was only holding two and a half sections of rod tip in his hand.
This guy didn’t rashly grab the fishing line but tried to control the fish using the soft adjustment of the rod tip.
A grown man holding over two meters of rod tip to maneuver a fish; the scene was awkward, but this time Han Qiang was steady, quietly feeling the force of the big fish underwater.
After about thirty seconds, Han Qiang whispered, "The fish isn’t startled; you take off the new main line and assist me!"
"Ok!"
Zhang Yang, now free, quickly retrieved the main line from the current rod, then took the rod and walked over to Qiang.
"I’ll grab the fishing line, you untangle the old rod tip and tie it to the new rod!" Han Qiang continued.
"Alright, be careful, drop it if necessary!" Zhang Yang reminded.
"Don’t worry!"
The two brothers exchanged a few brief words and quickly began their actions.
Han Qiang wrapped his gloved right hand with a towel and then wound the main line around it several times.
With the main line wrapped around his hand, the rod tip naturally didn’t bear any force. Zhang Yang seized the opportunity to deftly detach the line end of the fishing set and quickly tied it to the new rod.
The entire process of changing the fishing set and re-tying the rod took no more than five seconds.
After securing the rod tip knot, Zhang Yang called out, "Let go; leave it to me!"
Only then did Han Qiang release the fishing line wrapped around his hand, watching Zhang Yang slowly extend the rod again.
Through the perfect coordination of the two brothers, the old fishing line was successfully transferred to the new rod. As the last section of the fishing rod was fully extended, Zhang Yang attempted to raise the rod again.
Throughout the process of removing the old rod tip and re-tying the new rod tip, the big fish underwater behaved very compliantly, staying put.
When the rod was raised again, and the waist strength began to play a role, the big fish finally felt a slightly different pressure and calmly swam toward the deep water area.
Seeing this, Zhang Yang couldn’t allow the big fish to escape. He hurriedly took a few quick steps forward and then tilted the rod to one side, trying to make the big fish in the water turn around by controlling the exerted force direction.
This was a classic right-angle control fish technique of the figure-eight fish maneuvering method, which was very effective against small and medium-sized fish.
However, this time, when facing what was underwater, the method hadn’t achieved the anticipated result of making the fish turn back.
The big fish underwater, upon feeling the resistance, didn’t turn back. Instead, it accelerated its movement.
This wasn’t a good sign, meaning the fish became agitated from its previously stable state.
At the critical moment, Zhang Yang spread his legs into a horse stance, firmly grabbed the fishing rod with both hands, and dramatically wobbled the rod.
Woo woo woo
The wobbling rod caused the fishing line to emit a whistling sound. The wobbly rod operation strongly contrasted with the previous stable control fish maneuvering.
This was another fishing method separate from the 90-degree right-angle control. Zhang Yang called it the rod-wobbling technique!
Since the stable fish control had failed and the big fish was on the verge of losing control, lingering more would be pointless. This rod-wobbling technique was another trick to make the fish turn back.
With the fishhook in its mouth, the fish was sensitive to the motion. The back-and-forth wobbling of the fishing rod would intensify the stimulation to the fish.
The fish, feeling the pain, would naturally react with reflexive adjustments.
At this time, how to lessen the pain would mostly determine the fish’s response, and there was a high probability it would choose to turn back.
After all, only by turning back could it receive the positive feedback from the angler to reduce the wobbling frequency!
Based on this intrinsic logical principle, after Zhang Yang wobbled the rod more than ten times, the frantically fleeing big fish surprisingly turned back obediently.
Such a dramatic scene was captured entirely by the live camera, and the live chat exploded again!