Chapter 900: Technique? Dao!!!
Wang Xiaomin was the third to go on, taking over from Xue Kai, and his performance was still outstanding.
After he started fishing, he launched into a frenzy of casts, and his casting fundamentals were very solid.
The entry position of the two doughballs bait of the Doughballs Fishing Method nearly completely overlapped with the position where the float flipped, making precise point casting even slightly more accurate than Zhao Ran, the starter.
With the small doughball granules concentrated in one area, the fish group naturally gathered more closely. Just with this detail, Wang Xiaomin's fish hooking efficiency again crushed the third angler next to him, Liu Wenhua.
However, after snatching fish for three rounds, as the third round was nearing its end, the fish bites were already relatively slow.
Seeing this situation, Wang Zhen had some jitters down on the platform.
Wang Zhen: "Yue Feng, the fish-snatching phase seems to be over. How should I fish when I go on? Continue with the previous approach or make some adjustments?"
"How do you plan to adjust? Tell me, let me give you some advice!"
"Uh, I think, make the line set a bit finer? It's 0.8 now on the field, seems a little sticky earlier, should I change it to 0.6 when I go up?"
"Anything else??" Yue Feng didn't comment on the quality of this adjustment and kept asking.
"Can't think of any at the moment, the rod's temperament is enough, no need to change. There's no emphasis on medicines or anything with Doughballs Fishing Method, when bites are slow, just focus on success rate, land a fish for every bite you get, try not to make mistakes!"
Yue Feng was quite satisfied with this answer, nodded: "Go find a bait opening bowl and open another pack of doughball granules! I'll teach you another trick!"
"Alright!"
Soon, Wang Zhen happily brought the doughball granules and an empty bowl over, curious about what trick Yue Feng was playing.
Yue Feng poured the granules inside and then, like performing magic, pulled out a bottle of medicinal wine from his pocket.
"Who told you that doughball granules can't have added medicines! Watch!"
The small dropper squeezed several droppers of medicinal wine into the pile of granules, then rapidly dispersed them, allowing the medicinal wine to evenly contact the granules!
"Wow, can you actually play it like this?" Seeing this operation, Wang Zhen's eyes lit up, feeling like he had discovered a new world!
"Here, take this bowl of bait for your turn, wipe your drool off, look at you!"
"Alright!" Done.
A few minutes later, Wang Zhen went on, and Wang Xiaomin strolled down.
"Yue Feng, did Wang Zhen add medicine to his doughballs? I was just wondering about this during the competition!"
"Yes, he added a bit of medicinal wine! Most people hear the words doughball granules and their first impression is no variation, seems simple, but if the fish situation is right, the granules can have flavor added as well! But it's best not to add strong flavors or ones that the fish might not recognize, something with a strong universal appeal like medicinal wine is excellent!"
"Got it, noted!" Wang Xiaomin nodded, secretly remembered it.
After the third round of battle, Fish Hunter was pressured by Wang Xiaomin, only hooking one fish in the last ten minutes.
The fourth to go on was their vice-captain, Zhou Qigang. Old Zhou could be considered one of the top technical members in the team, besides Yu Wensheng, his skills were the best.
But facing the later stage fish situation, Zhou Qigang also felt somewhat powerless. After he went on, he switched to the backup rod to adjust with small hooks and fine lines to patiently fish.
However, after fishing for a while, Old Zhou found something wasn't right!
The Wang Zhen next to them, something wasn't right!
Both using Doughballs Fishing Method, Wang Zhen's casting frequency was noticeably faster. After he picked up the pace for a while, the fish situation, which was nearing a stop-bite in the latter half, seemed to show signs of revival.
This time, the experienced Zhou Qigang was also puzzled.
Could it be that increasing casting frequency still works for gathering fish now?
Old anglers generally have a basic understanding of fish situations. At this stage, after the fish-snatching period, slower bites are normal because the active fish in the pond have been caught, and as the remaining fish decrease, bites naturally slow down.
Logically, it's not suitable to continue increasing the baiting volume now, because the nest is obviously in excess, the previously accumulated bait won't be exhausted.
Moreover, they were only using doughball granules, the 3mm opening bait level small granules, the flavor and state almost have no difference, so is it workable?
With a skeptical attitude, Zhou Qigang also increased his casting frequency, following Wang Zhen's rhythm to speed up one cast after another.
Yue Feng below the stage couldn't help but grin widely seeing this scene.
"Hahaha, Xiaomin, see any clues?"
"Ah? What? Are you asking about the neighboring opponent chasing the frequency matter?" Wang Xiaomin asked.
"Yeah! This is also a method of setting a trap for opponents using thinking inertia! The principle is simple, asymmetrical information reception! Think about it!"
"Uh, seeing Wang Zhen starting to slow down again, the opponent thought increasing bait leads to faster fish attraction, right? They followed our way!"
"That's right, a trap of thinking inertia! They thought doughball granules are all similar, but we added medicine in the granules, what works isn't the opening bait itself, but the effect of the medicinal wine.
I guess some fish without much feeding desire were stimulated to open their mouths, bringing the fish back to action!
If used well, this trick has a strong misleading effect. Like now on the stage, if they patiently guard fishing, maybe Zhou Qigang could catch a few more, but switching to fast frequency, lots of bait put down, the fish will be harder to catch when they've eaten their fill!"
"This trick is brilliant! The misleading effect is too strong! And once they follow the wrong trend, it's a killer move!" Wang Xiaomin was excited, slapping his thigh after hearing the analysis!
"Remember the right fish situation, if you encounter a similar scenario later, you can creatively use this to lead your opponents by the nose!"
"Yes, I remembered it, very impressively!"
Just like Yue Feng said before, the difference in basic skills is at the technical level, even with differences, they aren't large, because human ability has limits!
But the difference in tactics is at the strategic level, differing by a dimension. When the direction is wrong, the consequence is going completely opposite.
Now this vivid example is the best proof.
On the stage, having followed the high frequency casting for five minutes, Zhou Qigang vaguely felt something was off.
Previously, the rhythm was slow, fish bites weren't many, but the float would still show a bite or two occasionally. But now, after matching the frequency, the float nibbling action ceased!
Angling more, there's some intuition, now Old Zhou felt uneasy, the nest was too quiet, the neighboring fish bites were faster than his, after following up, his bites completely disappeared.
Not right, very not right!
At this moment, just as a gentle breeze blew over from the neighboring side.
The air seemed to carry a light scent of medicinal wine, Old Zhou frowned, thought for a moment, glanced at the opening bait granules, and instantly realized.
Wow! Their opening bait small granules were medicated!