Back to the Past to Become a Fishing King-Chapter 611 - 355: Lost Arts of the Jianghu—Rubbing Bait and Dipping in Medicine

Despite the upcoming unfavorable situation, Zhang Yang had no thoughts of giving up.

All he could do was try to get further away from the opponent's sinker drop point, to minimize the impact of thrown 'pebbles'.

Thankfully, there was already a fish in the net, giving Zhang Yang some confidence.

Currently, he had a total score of seven points, ranking second below Zhan Wenju who had already accumulated eleven points after six rounds.

Calculating the most extreme possibility, as long as Zhang Yang could secure within six points for this small group, he could firmly claim the top spot in the station competition.

A group of twenty-five people, getting within the top six, posed relatively minor pressure for Zhang Yang, especially as he had already caught one fish.

Zhang Yang maintained a good mindset, but the actual fish situation didn't change based on the angler's subjective will.

Perhaps influenced by the disruptive angler next door, Zhang Yang tried all possible frog-stabbing positions near the spot over the next ten minutes but failed to catch a second fish. He wasted precious competition time for nothing.

Needless to say, this lead-skin roll throwing pebbles affected Zhang Yang's rhythm somewhat.

Upon realizing he hadn't caught any fish for a while, fifteen minutes of the competition had already passed.

Zhang Yang habitually glanced at his wristwatch, nearly letting out a colorful remark.

"Damn!"

While complaining, he quickly got busy.

The adjustment was fine, the fishing method was fine, so the only way to solve the problem was to focus on the bait.

From the previous round, the concentration of four drops of Chinese herbal wine performed well, but currently, the fishing spot situation was very bleak. To seek life from death, extreme measures were necessary.

With this thought, Zhang Yang directly took the Chinese herbal wine bottle from the tackle box.

Spraying, dripping, these regular methods were no longer intense enough, Zhang Yang opted for something tougher.

He opened the dropper of the medicine bottle, then unscrewed a cap with a scale dosage from another small medicine bottle.

He directly poured the Chinese herbal wine into the cap.

Then, with his fingertips, he pinched a small bait ball and meticulously applied the bait to the hook. After finishing these actions, he tossed one of the hooks from the double-hook line into the cap filled with Chinese herbal wine.

The freshwater platform fishing's secret technique.

Rolling bait and dipping in medicine! Return to the scene!

Why use the word secret technique? It's not just a casual claim.

Any professional angler with a basic understanding of bait medicine knows that fishing medicine is best in moderation; more concentrated isn't always better.

Hearing this, some may complain, first claiming rolling bait and dipping in medicine is a secret technique, then saying it's not better with more concentration— isn't this contradictory?

It sounds contradictory, but there's a unified aspect within the contradiction!

How to understand this seemingly contradictory yet unified statement? It starts with the diffusion of the medicine in water!

Let's take this opportunity to educate everyone about the mechanism of bait medicine attracting fish.

First a question, how do fish perceive the presence of edible substances in water?

Leaving aside conventional vision, hearing, line perception, etc., we focus on the perception of edible substances in water by fish sensory receptors.

Edible substances dissolve and diffuse in water to some extent. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

For example, conventional amino acids, vitamins, organic acids, cellulose, and polysaccharides obtained from bacterial decomposition of plant proteins, all have some solubility in water.

These substances dissolve in water and release charges.

Fish sensory organs can capture the details of these substances dissolving and releasing charges, thereby analyzing through multidimensional aspects such as charge concentration and different substance types whether the item is edible, prompting subsequent feeding behavior.

After discussing the basic logic, let's return to the application of bait medicine in fishing sports.

So-called bait medicine can be seen as concentrated liquid products obtained through artificial purification or blending.

Certain flavor functional groups or other substances exist in the liquid, similar or identical to natural substances, and adding them to bait can further enhance ordinary bait dissolution and diffusion processes upon entering water.

When fish sense the substances diffused from bait medicine, they locate the food source more quickly, which manifests in faster bait attraction and feeding behavior.

Based on the aforementioned principle, let's discuss bait wine attracting fish, a more detailed category.

The main component of bait wine is alcohol, specifically ethanol, a small molecule organic substance that can dissolve with water in any proportion.

Its small molecule properties allow molecules to have a strong diffusion effect in water.

Related experimental data suggest that dropping a single drop of wine over an area up to a thousand square meters allows fish within that range to sense the presence of alcohol in a fraction of a second.

In nature, during the microbial decomposition of protein, cellulose, and other long-chain substances, ethanol often appears.

Through long-term evolution, fish genes engrave the relationship between alcohol and food, even fish that have never encountered alcohol will react upon first encountering water molecules.