At 6:10 in the morning, Zhang Yang's team drove their cars with navigation to the competition venue.

They originally thought that arriving at this time, there would hardly be anyone here. But as the car entered the gate, Zhang Yang and his team were awestruck by the situation at the fishing ground.

Wow, a parking lot that could hold at least dozens of cars was already almost full, with all sorts of small cars filling the spaces, and on the side of the parking lot closest to the fishing spots, there were already over twenty anglers fully equipped practicing their techniques.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Yang was a bit surprised.

"This competition won't be easy, the anglers here are so enthusiastic!"

"Local folks, just coming a bit earlier! No fear, dare to show teeth and we'll handle them anyway!"

Wang Yan curled his lips and casually took out a pack of White General cigarettes from his pocket, sharing them around before lighting one for himself.

Zhang Yang said, "You can't say it like that. Look beyond the surface to the essence; we don't know their skill level, but we can see their attitude is very serious! Reflect on our W City's category four competition; weren't people generally more lazy?"

"After such analysis, that's true! Fortunately, we came early; if we were late, we might have had to park our car outside!" Han Qiang nodded, agreeing with Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang glanced around and said, "Don't just stand there, let's get to work and unload the equipment!"

With a shout, everyone got out of the car, unloaded their equipment, and parked the cars properly.

"We guys are just here to assist; the main work relies on you and Xiao Fan and the others. Boss, just tell us how we should handle the practice session? It'd be best to give everyone specific tasks!" Wang Yan continued to ask.

Zhang Yang nodded, "Simple, in the object fish and mixed breeding ponds, everyone spread out to find a spot, sit down and test the fish behavior thoroughly!

According to the rules, practice sessions end at 3:30 in the afternoon. Everyone works individually in the morning, then we'll gather and summarize our judgments during lunch, and verify them in the afternoon. By then, the fish behavior should be well understood!"

"Alright, understood!"

"The bait selection follows the same reasoning, trying different flavors, states, and others?"

"Yes! The more prepared, the better!"

...

Before starting practice, Zhang Yang briefly explained the main goal of the practice session to his teammates, and soon everyone got busy along the shore.

To talk about the pre-competition practice session to gauge fish behavior, it truly tests an angler's real prowess.

A skilled angler can gain a lot of valuable information from some subtle clues, and once the formal competition begins, they can leverage this intelligence to lay the foundation for the final score.

However, the fish behavior during practice doesn't fully represent the real competition scenario; the fish usually gets harder and slicker the more you fish, a mature competition angler must have some judgment on the fish behavior.

The six anglers each found a spot, starting with bobber adjustment, mixing bait, and gradually getting busy.

Zhang Yang also found a spot in pit number one where there were no people on either side, squatted down, and took out the basic bait from the fishing box, quickly and skillfully preparing several different flavors and states of bait.

In the small carp object fish competition, the direction of the flavor is relatively fixed, primarily based on fishy, complemented by appropriate flavors such as grain, eggs, and milk. Through real battle tests to observe how the fish reacts to bites, after some trying, surely, there's an option with the most notable effect, which would be the most suitable flavor.

For these things that are considered competition's basic skills, Zhang Yang performed them very smoothly, but after trying several rounds, Zhang Yang couldn't help frowning.

The feeling given by the trial was just one.

Slick, the fish bites are super slick!

From the first trial cast, the bobber movement was very frequent, but trying to select a bite and set the hook was very low in accuracy.

Even with very clear and forceful downward movements, setting the hook and catching fish were mostly futile; Zhang Yang adjusted the fishing aim up and down to continue trying, yet the results were still unsatisfactory.

Frustrated, Zhang Yang directly switched the sub-line to 0.15# and also changed the bait to fishy flavor jelly bait mixed with expansion powder, which slightly improved the hookup rate.

After roughly understanding the fish behavior, Zhang Yang silently counted in his mind. Taking ten casts as an example, using regular bait for selection and hooking, every time there was a valid biting action, the hooking accuracy was around 30%.

After switching to jelly bait, the accuracy was significantly improved, reaching at least above 50%, which Zhang Yang could barely accept.

Finding the preliminary optimal solution, Zhang Yang then switched fishing spots to repeat the previous process swiftly, soon reaching an initial conclusion about pit number one.

In Zhang Yang's view, the density of small carp in pit number one was very high, but the fish were very slick, even after frequently casting for a while, the fast bite was still near the bottom area, showing no intention to surface and bite at all.

This indicates a high probability that the fish here are hard to bait on the float, a step-by-step approach to bottom fishing or fixed-layer fishing should be the mainstream method in pit number one.

This approach requires the angler to be extremely precise in grasping bite timing, and also has to be supremely precise about the bait state.

Having roughly understood the fish behavior in the object fish pit number one, Zhang Yang quickly carried the fishing box to the mixed breeding pit number two.

Considering object fish behavior is slick, the mixed breeding fish behavior likely won't be much easier. So when preparing mixed breeding bait, Zhang Yang had an initial judgment.

The actual combat following did indeed confirm Zhang Yang's preliminary prediction.

The carp here, although not large, had extremely picky mouths.

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