Chapter 238 - 160: Secret Fishing Spot on the Wen River - Back to the Past to Become a Fishing King - NovelsTime

Back to the Past to Become a Fishing King

Chapter 238 - 160: Secret Fishing Spot on the Wen River

Author: Ruler
updatedAt: 2025-08-26

Zhang Yang, having untangled his emotions, seemed like a completely different person.

Feeling relaxed, he invited Lin Nianwei out for a meal, and after they ate, they finally went to see the movie they missed last time, wandering around until past ten at night before he took the girl back to her place.

In the following days, Zhang Yang's life was carefree and happy.

The two-part video series of the private reservoir fishing adventure had been fully updated, drawing a lot of attention and quickly skyrocketing in views, followed by a new surge in fan followers.

The surge in viewership levels also indirectly proved that Zhang Yang's directional adjustment was correct.

If all goes well, the next step is to find more similar reservoirs with notable fishing conditions and continue to produce in the established direction.

However, despite several days of asking around everywhere, no suitable reservoirs with iconic fishing conditions were found.

Either it was privately contracted farming reservoirs primarily cultivating economically valuable fish like Silver Carp, where due to deliberate water enrichment by pond contractors, the densities of other lower and middle-level fish were sparse, making it hard to have good fishing conditions.

Or the water surface was too large, making exploratory fishing too difficult, and developing a fish route in a short time to make the fishing exciting was unlikely.

Zhang Yang contemplated all possible fishing scenarios around, yet still couldn't find anything suitable despite being picky.

In this background scenario, Zhang Yang did not manage to go out successfully for the next week.

If it weren't for the last fishing adventure video being split into two parts, with an update interval to ensure, the newly launched section of Wild Fishing River and Lake would have to 'drag updates'.

While Zhang Yang was anxiously inquiring everywhere for suitable fishing spots and reservoirs with no success, unexpectedly, good news arrived from Wen River, the least hopeful place, brought in by an angler who came to the shop to replenish supplies!

Qinyun Lake Reservoir upstream released water, and the downstream Wen River went crazy with fish!

Zhang Yang got the news, called on Xiao Yi and the informant Meng Fan, and immediately headed to the Wangjiazhuang section of Wen River that had exploded with fish catches two days before.

When Zhang Yang and his companions drove to the riverside, the production road along the river in Wangjiazhuang was already completely clogged by anglers who had come from the surrounding area to fish.

Goodness, near the signal tower and the big iron ship, the two iconic fishing spots in Wangjiazhuang, at least over thirty anglers had gathered.

Especially in the pointed end area, the fishing platforms were lined up, with the long and short rods already in battle mode.

Zhang Yang glanced around and noticed anglers had already put fish into keepnets, grabbed a cigarette, and strode over.

"Hey, brother, hello, may I boldly ask, what time did you arrive? How many fish in the keepnet? How's the bite?"

Zhang Yang politely greeted a stranger angler and offered a cigarette while inquiring about the fishing conditions.

Here's a small detail Zhang Yang handled well; even though the wet keepnet was right beside the fishing spot, Zhang Yang didn't reach out to pull it when asking about the fish conditions.

The other angler, seeing Zhang Yang's politeness, accepted the cigarette, lit it, and simply answered, "I arrived at four thirty in the morning! My home is in Xinzai East of the river.

At dawn, I caught seven or eight big breams, but since people arrived, everyone has been baiting, so the bite temporarily stopped!

I heard a friend say the upstream reservoir released water, and many fish from the reservoir rushed downstream!

The fishing conditions today shouldn't be bad. If you want to cast, take a brother's advice, hurry up with setting up your gear and bait, any later, and there really won't be any good spots left!"

Seemingly to confirm his statement, the angler voluntarily lifted his keepnet.

A 35-centimeter diameter keepnet with seven or eight big breams struggling ceaselessly as they came out of the water, their scales and bodies looking quite nice and estimated to weigh at least six or seven ounces.

"Are all of them bream? Didn't encounter any other bites?" Meng Fan nearby casually asked after seeing the catch.

"I heard yesterday someone caught Grass Carp and Silver Carp here at the pointed end too! I haven't encountered them yet! The water's cold in spring, focusing on bream is still more reliable, the rest is just luck, if you encounter them, you catch, if not, you don't force it!"

"Thank you! Thank you very much!" Zhang Yang repeatedly nodded in gratitude, signaling for Meng Fan and the others to head back.

When they got back to where they had parked temporarily, Meng Fan asked, "Yang, should we cast our rods too?

If we want to set up fishing platforms, there are still quite a few good spots! If we hesitate, there really won't be any place to cast!

Look behind us, more people are arriving, and the guys in the city fishing group are also enquiring everywhere about this!"

Meng Fan wasn't wrong in his thinking, but Zhang Yang's understanding of Wen River was deeper than most anglers.

Zhang Yang just shook his head, "It's fine if Wangjiazhuang is full, I know a few other good fishing spots that have been great in previous years!

Forgot what I did before I opened a shop? The little prince of Wen River is not just an empty reputation!

Hop in the car and keep up, if we're going to play, we need to find the spots well; such good fishing conditions caused by upstream reservoir water release won't last too long.

If you want to enjoy, you must pick the spots well! Just going along with it won't catch many fish and won't be satisfying!"

Seeing Zhang Yang shaking his head, Meng Fan was puzzled, but when hearing the words "little prince of Wen River" from Zhang Yang, he suddenly slapped his forehead—how could he have forgotten this detail?

"Then what are we waiting for, let's go! Yang, lead the way!"

After a brief discussion, Zhang Yang quickly got in the car, restarted it, and headed to Nansu Village section further upstream.

Why go there? The reason is quite simple; on the way to Wangjiazhuang, we passed several notable fishing spots by car.

Zhang Yang noticed that the areas where anglers chose to fish were concentrated in prominent pointed ends, while there weren't many fishing in the bends and relatively even sections of the river, nor did anyone make standout catches.

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