With the arrival of this red octopus, Bai Yu's score increased from zero to seventy-nine jin, meaning the weight of a single fish was approaching one hundred jin.
This was undoubtedly very good news for Bai Yu, as he had taken the lead in one step.
After all, it's not even seven o'clock yet, and the competition has only been going on for less than an hour, yet his score is already close to eighty pounds.
For another group of players, this was before they even went fishing, and Bai Yu had already pulled away by such a large gap.
However, for those who have already started fishing, Bai Yu catching a large red octopus weighing several tens of kilograms is actually good news.
This indicates that the waters they are currently in have very good resources, with fish weighing several tens of kilograms.
The anglers participating in the competition were all unruly and rebellious; none of them believed they were inferior to others.
Since Bai Yu could catch a fish weighing tens of kilograms, there was no reason why they couldn't catch one. In fact, they believed they could catch an even bigger catch than Bai Yu.
As for how the athletes on the other boats learned of this news, it must have been through the notification from the event organizers.
This year's fan fishing competition also features a "King of Fish" prize, with the prize alone amounting to two million.
To motivate the participants and make the competition more intense and exciting, the organizers have come up with many ways to do so.
The simplest way is to announce the results, so that the contestants know how far they are from winning the prize money. With a little more effort, the prize money is within their grasp.
Compiling the daily scores of all the contestants is an extremely demanding task, and Bai Yu and his team do not intend to do it.
Then Li Shuang and others suggested using the reward of the "King of Fish" as bait. During the competition, as long as the largest fish caught is updated in real time, it can motivate the players.
After all, the reward for the Fish King is also two million, which is not a small amount and is enough to motivate many players.
Then, Bai Yu caught a meter-long red snapper right away, and then temporarily won the title of Fish King with a weight of 79 jin. Other contestants can aim for 79 jin and try to catch the prize money of Fish King.
Bai Yu is now the target, a target to motivate the other players.
Seeing that Bai Yu had caught a fish weighing over 70 kilograms, many players changed their equipment at that moment.
Prior to this, some participants were unfamiliar with the resources of this sea area and decided to start by catching some fish from the upper layers of the water to ensure they wouldn't come back empty-handed.
Therefore, when casting the line, they are always cautious and don't start with big hooks and bait. Instead, they start with sea shrimp and gradually work their way up to other fish.
This fishing strategy is sound, and it does indeed ensure that you won't come back empty-handed.
After all, the resources in the middle and upper layers of the sea are still very abundant. As long as you wait patiently, you will eventually reap the rewards.
But Bai Yu was different. He knew this area of the sea and what resources it had, so he skipped the shrimp and used mackerel as bait, aiming directly for fish weighing over ten pounds.
Now that Baiyu has caught a big fish, other players who want to steal the title of Fish King will definitely need to use big hooks and big bait.
Otherwise, some big fish really won't even look at shrimp as bait. 20-30 size shrimp are fine, but 40-50 or even 70-80 size shrimp, those big fish will really disdain them.
Fishing is like that. Although Bai Yu always says that fishing depends on luck, the angler's operation and choices are equally important before luck strikes.
The equipment and fishing gear used by anglers also greatly influence the final result.
In addition, whether you're fishing for freshwater or saltwater fish, there's a common thread to achieving a larger catch.
That means you have to be willing to spend money and have enough bait to attract the fish.
Fish may not be very intelligent, but they're not completely stupid either. If you only put one bait in when you're fishing, you'll only be able to catch fish near your bottom.
Fish that are a little further away won't come over; they have their own feeding areas.
However, the situation was a bit different in this competition. Although no one was fishing for the sea, there were more than 500 participants in the competition.
Once all the players have started fishing, there will be over five hundred baits cast in this round.
And if there are a few more people baiting the area, it will be unimaginable how many fish this area will eventually attract.
However, there probably won't be many anglers using bait, since sea fishing is different from freshwater fishing. The ocean is too vast, the water is constantly flowing, and the depths are incredibly large.
Even if you've baited the sea, once the bait sinks to the bottom, no one can say for sure where it ended up.
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Bai Yu re-hooked a mackerel and threw it back into the sea.
Although the bait he used was quite large, he didn't choose bottom fishing. Instead, he adjusted the depth to 659 meters, which was still a few meters away from the seabed.
It's unclear whether it was the bait from before that sparked the fishing today, but as soon as Bai Yu cast his line, before he'd even finished a chicken foot, his fishing rod started catching fish again.
Moreover, the fish that took the bait this time were particularly clever, not following any conventional rules.
Normally, fish that bite the hook will run towards deeper areas, but this one is different. After biting the hook, its first escape direction was actually a shallower area; it burrowed under the boat.
I don't know if this guy was really that smart, knowing that crawling under the boat might cause the fishing line to cut, or if it was just a coincidence.
Anyway, as soon as Bai Yu felt the fish bite the hook, he immediately stuffed the chicken claw in his hand into his mouth and then suddenly lifted the fishing rod upwards.
Regardless, let's first set the hook and keep this guy here before thinking about anything else.
The only downside is that with a chicken foot stuffed in his mouth, it doesn't look very presentable.
Fortunately, he successfully hooked the fish and caught it. He even reeled in the line twice to get a feel for the size of the fish.
It's alright. The fish that took the bait wasn't too big, at most a fish weighing ten or twenty pounds, far less than the previous red snapper.
Immediately afterward, Bai Yu activated the load shears, ignoring the fish.
"Old Li, are you filming me now? Don't film my face. Did you just film me eating chicken feet? This is really damaging my image."
Bai Yu ignored the fish that had taken the bait and instead started chatting with the cameraman next to him.
As the organizer of this competition, Bai Yu has always had a dedicated cameraman, and he has the most screen time in their company's live broadcast room.
Yes, he had the most screen time, and his complaints to the cameraman were also broadcast live.
At this moment, a series of question marks appeared on the screens of Douyin and Kuaishou live streams. This was a questioning of Bai Yu's image.
Although Bai Yu is a public figure and has the most fans across the entire internet, she currently has 150 million fans on Douyin alone.
However, he gained followers not because of his looks or image, or rather, he never paid attention to that at all. His daily life is very casual.
He won't change for any reason; he'll just do what he always does, and he's made a fool of himself quite a few times.
Therefore, in the eyes of most netizens, Bai Yu was never a person who cared about his image, and now he's starting to care about it?
Instead of worrying about his image, he should be more concerned about fishing right now. This is a competition, so please concentrate!
Of course, Bai Yu didn't chat with Lao Li for too long. He just said a few words and then started fishing.
Bai Yu wasn't going to give the fish that had taken the bait much face. It was just a fish weighing ten or twenty pounds, which was a piece of cake for him.
This time, Bai Yu stopped worrying about the water pressure. He stopped saying anything and just kept pulling the line back in.
In no time at all, he had caught a black fish!
"Hmm? Croaker? Did we encounter a school of fish?"
Bai Yu looked at the fish on the water's surface and muttered something to himself.
If he remembered correctly, croakers were a type of gregarious sea fish, and each time they appeared, it was in a very large group.
Now that he has caught a croaker, does this mean there is a school of croakers on the seabed?
If there were a school of croakers, that would be great news for the contestants present—good news that could help them widen the gap in performance with other contestants.
Even though the competition has been going on for almost an hour now, not all the players have come out to fish yet. There are less than half of them. It's unclear whether the rest are still asleep or haven't come out yet.
After all, for many people, 7 o'clock is still a bit too early. For example, this is a sea fishing trip, and some of the participants don't even go to work this early on weekdays.
Bai Yu quickly scooped the croaker onto the deck. The process went very smoothly. However, because Bai Yu reeled in the line too quickly, the fish died the moment it was out of the water due to water pressure.
Therefore, Bai Yu encountered no obstacles when he was catching the fish.
For this croaker, Bai Yu simply cut two slits in its gills and then put it in the fish tank to bleed it and keep it fresh.
After finishing all that, Bai Yu glanced at the other anglers fishing with him at the bow of the boat to see how their catch was.
Because when he caught his croaker, he remembered that others had also caught fish, and he now needed to confirm whether the other contestants had caught croakers.
Bai Yu then walked around the bow of the boat, and the result was obvious: there were four contestants at the bow, and three of them had caught croaker in their catch.
The result is obvious: they really do have a school of fish here, and it's a school of croakers!
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