Chapter 233 - 153: The Giant Creature in the Reservoir_3
At this point, some people may be asking, how do you exactly carry out these operations in practice?
It’s complicated if you say it is, but also very simple if you say so; just hang the normal hook bait and find the bottom.
Pay attention to casting a full rod and a seven or eight part rod, and observe the depth changes reflected by the float. If the slope is too steep, it will be very easy to lose sight of the float. If the bottom is flat, then the water depth doesn’t vary too much in all directions.
If you can’t find a flat underwater structure, then you’ll want to make your nest on these steep slopes at a closer range, which is what the older generation means when they say ’make the nest close, fish at a distance.’ How close exactly should you make the nest depends on the slope’s steepness, the water depth at which you’re fishing, and the actual situation when you’re making the nest.
Having explained the general situation, let me now talk about my current fishing position, which Brother Feng and his friend selected. This spot is theoretically the perfect fishing location.
It’s located near the middle of the reservoir area, near Hua Jian, almost a mandatory passage for fish, and most valuable of all, the nearby terrain under the nest point is relatively flat. It’s right at the intersection of deep and shallow waters. As mentioned before, this type of terrain is very suitable for making nests for fishing.
Having done a simple analysis, let’s now get down to the nitty-gritty. If your target is large grass carp or bream, and you’re planning to fish for a longer period, how should you make a nest?
First of all, the quantity of the nest. My personal habit is to have as much as possible, make a nest at a fixed point and time. I put down twenty to thirty pounds at once every day.
Then, every two or three hours, you add to the nest again—three to five pounds each time, making sure that whether the fish come or not, there’s always something to eat in the nest.