Chapter 810 - 335: Chaohu Lake Fish Sentiments_2
"In this competition, the three of us will adopt three different strategies. I’ll continue targeting catfish, since they’re the easiest to catch for achieving results and can secure a baseline for our total score.
I’ll try to catch a big catfish; that would essentially ensure our score for this round.
Xiao Zhang, you’re responsible for boosting our score’s upper limit, so you’ll use a long rod and bait with snails to focus on big carp. If you can catch a big carp over a hundred jin, we’ll basically secure a top ranking this round.
Xiao Liu, you’re responsible for using bait to catch other miscellaneous fish. The more and bigger the fish you catch, the more you can enhance our score’s lower end. Use a versatile rod; you may catch all kinds of fish. If the weather is favorable, you might even catch big carp or grass carp."
As Deng Guang spoke, the cameras zoomed in on the Tianyuan Team’s three anglers and their bait equipment.
Deng Guang used an 8.1-meter rod, with a 5+3 line setup, and bait from his own brand, targeting catfish with a semi-water technique and frequent casting, a typical catfish fishing method.
As for Xiao Zhang, he was heavily chumming a spot, using a nine-meter long rod with snail bait, focusing on bream.
Of course, using snail bait also has a slight chance of catching other fish species, as carnivorous and omnivorous fish like carp also eat snails, but the probability is quite low.
Given the competition time is only 4 hours, the chance of catching a bream is also limited.
The reason for this rod setup, as Deng Guang mentioned, is to gamble on achieving a high score for their team.
The third angler, Xiao Liu, used a 6.3-meter rod with generic commercial bait.
Generally, many amateur anglers also prefer this type of bait, which is versatile for various fish species, but the downside is it often attracts small fish.