Chapter 166 - 134: Cannon Barrel Nesting
The fishing rod, as thick as an adult’s arm and extending dozens of meters in length, made him exclaim as an insider.
He had only heard about it before, but to actually see it today in person, it seemed that the local anglers had truly mastered fishing, a principle of ’longer is stronger’.
He looked at the 7.2-meter platform fishing rod he had chosen for this occasion and suddenly felt it was less appealing.
When it came to this cannon-style fishing, Lin Yang had some understanding, in fact, it wasn’t much different from traditional fishing.
Both used through-line single hook with live bait, and if you wanted to pull and jerk the bait frequently, no one would object, though it was a bit exhausting for the old....
Although supported by the Dragon Gate frame, handling a thirty-meter-long rod just for the pulling action would take no less than half an hour.
So, the local anglers also adopted the method of heavy sinker and large float fishing, automatically ignoring any light nibbles from small or miscellaneous fish.
If luck was poor and small trash fish swarmed the spot, preventing bigger fish from entering, then one would have quite the day ahead.
Of course, the most important aspect was also associated with the terrain around Taihu and most of the surrounding waters.
Most of the lakes and rivers here were flat-bottomed, too shallow around the edges and devoid of aquatic plants, and stretching out more than ten meters might not reach the depth of a person’s height, so fishermen naturally favored longer rods to get a good spot.
Lin Yang didn’t care much about the length of the local anglers’ rods, cannons had their advantages, and short rods their own clever uses.