Chapter 351 - 183: On the Eve of the Competition
After resting for a night in Longjing Village, everyone set off for Qiandao Lake early in the morning.
It took just over half an hour to drive from their location to Qiandao Lake, so by eight in the morning, they had arrived.
Upon reaching Qiandao Lake, the group didn’t need to look for a hotel because one of them was a guest host, and another was a contestant. The organizers had made arrangements for them; they simply had to state their roles. As for Yue’er and Li Xiaopeng, it was sufficient to say they were accompanying personnel. After all, whether hosts or contestants, who didn’t bring a few assistants to a competition like this?
After settling their belongings in a hotel room, Lin Yang realized the hotel was indeed excellent. Not only was the decoration extremely luxurious, but the hotel was also right next to Qiandao Lake. One could see many beautiful scenes of the lake from upstairs, and it was only a few dozen meters down to the lakeshore—a truly enviable location.
Qiandao Lake, though called a lake, is actually a reservoir named Xin’an River Reservoir.
It is only a little over an hour’s drive from the center of Hang City in Zhe Province. The reservoir was built for a hydroelectric station downstream, starting construction in 1955 and completed in 1960.
The dam is 105 meters high and 462 meters long; the reservoir is about 150 kilometers long and more than 10 kilometers at its widest point; its deepest part exceeds 100 meters, with an average depth of 30.44 meters. At normal water levels, the area is about 580 square kilometers with a water storage capacity of 17.8 billion cubic meters. At its highest water level, it has 1078 islands larger than 0.25 square kilometers, mostly small islands under 2 square kilometers. The total area of the islands is 409 square kilometers, hence the name Qiandao Lake.
The water of Qiandao Lake ranks as the top-quality water among China’s great rivers and lakes. It is a national first-level water body, meeting the drinking water standards without any treatment and is acclaimed as "the finest water under the heavens."
Because Qiandao Lake has been around for a long time and has never dried up, combined with Long River’s fishing ban in recent years and the ban here, it has resulted in quite large fish in this area, which is why it was chosen as the venue for the fishing competition.