However, perhaps because the rod broke, the escaped fish alerted other fish underwater.
After Bai Yu changed his rod, his fish stopped biting much. Five minutes passed and his float didn't move at all.
Ten minutes passed, and there was still no movement. Bai Yu threw some more corn kernels into the fishing spot.
Fifteen minutes passed, and the situation remained unchanged; the water surface was perfectly calm.
Half an hour passed, and still no fish took the bait, so Bai Yu threw some more corn kernels into the fishpond.
Even though half an hour had passed, Bai Yu was still full of anticipation for the fishing to come.
Bai Yu has a very good characteristic: he has a great mindset. No matter what happens to him, he can just smile and put it behind him.
As for the fact that no fish have bitten the hook for the past half hour, it's not a big problem for him. After all, he's had a very good day. He caught a lot of fish in the morning, and even if his results are a little worse in the afternoon, his ranking won't be too low.
Moreover, it's still quite early. Even if half an hour has passed, it's not yet two o'clock, and there are still four hours of competition time in the afternoon.
As time ticked by, Bai Yu's waiting time also increased.
He didn't know how much time had passed, but just as Bai Yu was getting a little sleepy, his fishing rod suddenly moved.
At this moment, Bai Yu's attention was no longer on the float, so he didn't notice when the float moved. He only noticed it when the fishing rod started to move.
Then, instinctively, he lifted the fishing rod and felt the weight coming from it.
'Tsk, I've been waiting for so long, finally a fish is biting! I thought I was going to come back empty-handed this afternoon.'
Bai Yu felt the weight transmitted through the fishing rod; the fish that had taken the bait this time wasn't very big.
Bai Yu wasn't about to let this guy get away with it. He grabbed his fishing rod and went into berserk mode, lifting the rod high and dragging the guy toward the shore.
A carp weighing only six or seven pounds was not able to hold out for long against the 7.1-meter rod and Bai Yu's strength. It was soon forced to come to the shore and was then caught by Bai Yu.
It was also because of this carp that, although the carp wasn't big, Bai Yu's afternoon business finally opened. In any case, he wouldn't be going home empty-handed this afternoon.
After putting the carp back into the fish basket, he baited the hook with corn kernels again and cast it out.
Fishing in a fishpond, especially in a fishing competition with fixed fishing spots, can actually be a bit boring during the competition.
Even if fish keep biting the hook and you catch fish one after another, it's still very boring.
After all, all they can do is keep casting and reeling in the line, repeating the same actions over and over.
It's not as fun as wild fishing. At least with wild fishing, you can change locations. If you've been fishing in one place for too long, you can go to another place and cast a couple of times.
For a very patient person like Bai Yu, this kind of competition is indeed a bit boring, especially after he caught a carp and his fishing started to recover, which made the problem even more serious.
Basically, every few minutes, Bai Yu could catch a fish, and then he would spend five to fifteen minutes reeling it in.
Then re-bait the hook, cast the line again, and repeat the previous steps.
An hour passed, and Bai Yu caught eight fish, four of which weighed less than ten pounds, while the other four weighed around fifteen pounds.
This is already a very good harvest, considering that the number of fish in this pond is not very high. The fact that he can still catch fish at such a high frequency shows that he is really very lucky.
This also shows that the majority of netizens' judgment of him was very accurate, that is, he is a reckless man with very good luck.
This intense training has turned Bai Yu into a rigid, inflexible person. He's become as emotionless as someone who's been killing fish at RT-Mart for ten years; even his fishing now lacks any feeling.
Like a machine, it kept repeating the same actions, catching one fish after another.
Basically, fish weighing less than 30 pounds can't pose much of a problem for whitebait, but fish weighing more than 30 pounds won't bite.
As time passed, the sun began to set, gradually disappearing below the horizon.
By 6 p.m., the sun was practically invisible, and the stadium lights were turned on.
Even without sunlight, the entire area was as bright as day, which did not affect Bai Yu and the others fishing.
However, once it reached six o'clock, they couldn't continue fishing anymore, since six o'clock was the time to pack up their lines.
Bai Yu is a very proactive competitor. When the whistle blew to signal the end of the competition, Bai Yu was the first to put down his line and called over a staff member to weigh his line.
After they've finished calculating today's results, they can go eat, right?
Another point worth mentioning is that the fish they caught today, after the results were calculated, were not released back into the pond, but were taken away and processed directly.
In other words, as the competition progresses, the number of fish in the pond where they are fishing will decrease, and fishing will become increasingly difficult.
Perhaps after this competition ends, there won't be much fish left in this pond.
The reason for this is said to be that the fishpond owner plans to dredge the pond this year and deepen it, so that he can raise bigger fish next year.
Just then, the fishing association was looking for a fishpond to use as a competition venue, and the two sides hit it off immediately. The fishpond owner provided the fishpond venue, and the organizers brought people to fish and also helped them clean up the fish in the fishpond.
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About ten minutes later, Bai Yu's results for the first day were released. He only glanced at them to confirm his score before leaving with his belongings.
He then went to fishing spot number 37 and waited for Lu Sheng to count his catch.
"Brother Yu, are you done with everything over there? Have the results come out for today? How was it? How many kilograms did you get?"
When Lu Sheng saw Bai Yu coming over, he was the first to ask a question.
"I just finished working. My results today were alright, a total of 556.5 jin. My luck was pretty good this morning, but not this afternoon. I lost a fishing rod and didn't catch a single fish for a while."
Bai Yu said with a hint of regret.
Especially when the topic of breaking the rod came up again, Bai Yu's regret was palpable, and Lu Sheng could clearly sense this emotion.
"Five hundred jin is not bad? Brother Fisherman, do you want to listen to what you're saying? Today, let alone five hundred jin, I would be very happy if I caught four hundred jin. And you're still not satisfied?"
Although Lu Sheng sensed the regret in Bai Yu's words, he made no attempt to comfort him.
Lu Sheng felt that Bai Yu had a Versailles-like quality. When did a result of 500-plus jin be considered acceptable? If this is considered acceptable, then what about those of them who weigh less than 500 jin?
Although Lu Sheng's results haven't come out yet, he is very clear about his catch and can roughly estimate how much fish he caught.
Lu Sheng estimated that his score today would be at most 400 jin, which was more than 100 jin less than Bai Yu's score.
Lu Sheng's results came out quickly, and as he expected, his score on the first day was 398.9 jin, just a little short of 400 jin.
The two brothers then went to find Wang Hai and Li Shuang, and learned their results from them: Wang Hai weighed 368.7 jin and Li Shuang weighed 423.6 jin.
The three of them are not too far apart in terms of their scores, with the largest difference being only about 50 kilograms. If they perform well later on, they can catch up.
However, compared to Bai Yu's results, there's a difference of over 100 jin, which isn't easy to catch up with.
In particular, the fish caught today will not be put back into the fishpond. When the competition continues tomorrow, the number of fish in the fishpond will not be as many as today. If they want to catch up with Bai Yu then, it will be even more difficult.
Of course, this doesn't refer to Wang Hai and his two companions, but rather to all the contestants who performed worse than Bai Yu in this competition.
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