During this time on the water, Hong Tao saw many abandoned houses, docks, and many broken trees on the shore, and they were probably traces left by hurricanes. Hong Tao has never encountered a hurricane, he has only seen it on TV, looking at the appearance of those ruins, the hurricane here should be very powerful, some of the roofs of the houses can not be found directly, only the walls on all sides are left, those broken trees are some thicker than the waist, but they were scraped off by the strong wind, and the crown of the tree fell to the water's edge.

The first punctuation point Hong Tao found today may have been due to a hurricane, when he found a wreck in the water not far from shore. Judging from the state of the wreck, the water depth here is very shallow, about 4 meters, because the cargo ship of several hundred tons is overturned on its side in the water, and most of its body is exposed on the water. It seems that it has been abandoned here for a long time, the hull is full of large holes, and the planks on the deck are no longer visible, all of which are rusted steel frames.

This kind of large object in the water is an ideal refuge for small fish and shrimp, if there are many small fish and small shrimp, then there must be more predatory fish that feed on them, this is the result of Hong Tao's logical analysis, as for whether this is the case, it has to be proved by personal experience.

Today Erin doesn't go to the sun anymore, because there is no sun, and the sky is all drizzling. In order to find something to do for herself, Erin also asked Hong Tao for a fishing rod, and asked Hong Tao to help her tie the bait and prepare to fish with Hong Tao. In fact, Erin is also one of the contestants, according to the rules of the FLW competition, each fishing boat should have two players, a professional main angler and an amateur deputy angler.

The two anglers generally fish separately, and the fishing spot is arranged by the main angler, of course, if the main angler does not mind, the secondary angler can also choose his own fishing spot. The catch of the main and secondary anglers should not be mixed and should be packed separately in two live fish tanks. That's why professional BASS boats have two live fish cabins.

The amateur angler's competition lasts only three days, which means that on the final day of the finals, there is only one professional angler left on the fishing boat in the professional category, and he must find his own fishing spots, pick up the fish by himself, and control the boat by himself.

At the beginning, Hong Tao chose Erin as his deputy angler, which was equivalent to pulling Erin into the ranks of amateur anglers, so Paul also made up a set of registration procedures for amateur anglers for Erin. However, Irene, an amateur angler, was a pure bastard, she didn't even have a fishing rod with her except for a fishing suit, and her results on the first day of the competition were a big zero. And she didn't plan to have any competition results, she was here to accompany Hong Tao.

Here, Hong Tao has to criticize the rules of the competition formulated by the FLW Association for being very lax, and at the same time praise the moral standards of the Americans are still relatively high.

The lack of rigor and high moral standards actually refers to one thing, and that is the performance of amateur anglers. According to the rules of the FLW competition, professional anglers are raced in the same boat as an amateur angler in the race. If this situation happens in China, Hong Tao can be very responsible to say that there will be 100% cheating, either professional anglers give or sell their own fish to amateur anglers, or amateur anglers give or sell their own fish to professional anglers.

But here. But this has never happened, Hong Tao asked Paul about this question, but Paul was surprised by Hong Tao's idea, and his answer was very simple: don't worry about this possibility. If a person cheats even when they play a game, no one will make friends with such a person, including his family.

Judging from Paul's words, the atmosphere in American society is obviously different from that in China. His words will definitely not work in our country, who cares if you make friends or not. Who cares how your success comes from, literary works can be blatantly plagiarized and plagiarized without anyone asking, and what else cannot be stolen or sold.

In fact, Hong Tao's worries were really unnecessary, not only Paul didn't understand his worries, but even Erin didn't quite understand them. Originally, Hong Tao also planned to catch a few fish for Erin, so that she could also get good results, and maybe she could mix up some bonuses or something. Who knew that Erin didn't accept his affection, and resolutely didn't want Hong Tao's help, she said that if she wanted to get good results, she would go fishing by herself, and she didn't need the help of others, even her husband's help.

Now that Erin has also joined the ranks of fishing, the space on the speedboat is a little narrow, which is not enough to the place on the speedboat, this kind of BASS boat is designed to meet the fishing requirements of two people, the main reason is that Erin's control over the bait is not enough, and the bait is often thrown crookedly when throwing the rod, Hong Tao can only hide in the bow of the boat, with the feeling of his fingers to control the bait, and then staring at Erin to prevent the bait with a sharp hook from suddenly flying to himself.

Erin doesn't know how to catch fish at all, she has fished with Hong Tao in Canada and China, and she is no stranger to lure fishing.

Although Erin's fishing skills are not as skilled as Hong Tao, and her experience is not as rich as Hong Tao, she does catch fish faster than Hong Tao, which also shows from one side that in the sport of fishing, luck accounts for a large proportion. Erin's first shot was a catfish, although it was not an effective species, but it gave Erin a lot of confidence, and she had already put down her words to surpass other amateur anglers in one day to challenge for the amateur championship.

For Erin's ambition, Hong Tao didn't dare to say impossible, because she also used Hong Tao's processed bait, if the luck is really bursting, catch 5 giant bass, maybe you can really enter the top 10 of the amateur group, so as to participate in the third day of the amateur group finals. However, this possibility is not very large, due to the regulations of the FLW competition, each angler can only submit 5 fish per day as their own results, so it fundamentally eliminates the chance that you can kill others for several days in a day with special luck, making the competition closer to fairness and more need for your own strength.

Erin's Hong Tao doesn't care, as long as she doesn't throw the fishhook at her and herself, as for what kind of results she can get, she doesn't really care.

At first, Hong Tao deliberately threw the bait very close to the wreck, and on several occasions even threw the bait into the cabin through those big holes, but it did not attract the attack of the fish, and there was no movement at all. He was still unwilling, and operated the speedboat to slowly circle around the wreck, changing several angles, but the result was the same, and there was still no fish bite.

Contrary to Hong Tao's situation, Erin was frequently caught in the fish, in addition to several fish that could not be counted as competition results, she really caught a fat and large largemouth bass, weighing 5 pounds and 2 ounces, if it were not for fear of arousing Erin's contempt, Hong Tao would have snatched this fish and threw it into his live fish tank.

Also fishing at a fishing spot, her control of the bait must be much better than Erin's, Erin basically throws the bait out, and then goes to the recovery line at a uniform speed, there is no technique at all, but she actually fishes frequently, and she finds nothing. This made Hong Tao very confused, so he stopped throwing the rod, but settled down to carefully observe the process of this Erin's throwing process.

After watching for a while, Erin caught another pike, and just as Erin dragged the fish to the side of the boat, Hong Tao seemed to be a little enlightened, and he threw the lure out again. This time, instead of throwing the bait into the water very close to the wreck, he threw it more than 2 or 3 meters away from the wreck, and then began to slowly reel in the line, and at the same time used the pressure plate of the bait to let the bait move up and down in the water.

Suddenly, Hong Tao felt that the fishing line on his finger was pulled by something, but he immediately let go again, and a fish was chasing the bait, but it didn't bite to death! Hong Tao felt a burst of ecstasy in his heart, and finally there was a movement, not to mention that he could not catch the fish, at least let Hong Tao understand a rule, sometimes it is not that the closer the bait is thrown to the obstacle, the better. As for why this phenomenon occurs, Hong Tao thinks that there may be too much debris near the wreck, which will affect the activities of the slightly larger fish, so these fish would rather hide around the wreck to find an opportunity than enter the wreck to actively catch small fish.

Since the fish didn't catch up with its bait, it doesn't matter, the fish is here again! Hong Tao withdrew the lure and threw it into the water again. This time he slowed down the reeling speed and made the lure sink deeper, and by shaking the rod and driving the line, the lure made some very irregular movements, as if it were a small fish that had been injured.

The underwater enemy was finally fooled, and the bait had just walked more than 2 meters before the fish chased after it again. Because the water of the lake was very clear, although the surface was splashed by raindrops and many small ripples, Hong Tao still saw a black shadow, which was rushing up from the deep water, just near the surface of the water, and suddenly turned around and rushed into the deep water.

At the same time, Hong Tao's index finger also felt that the fishing line was being tightened violently, and he almost instinctively swung the fishing rod to the left rear of his body. The rod was instantly pulled into a bow, and the rod was still shaking back and forth, which was the fish in the water struggling. It wanted to bite the fish and then return to the safety zone of deep water, but as soon as the fish entered its mouth, it could not swim. A lot of force was pulling it towards the water, and at the same time, there was a tingling pain in the mouth, which was a very dangerous signal. Although it didn't know what was going on, its instinct told it to swim into deep water. (To be continued......)

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