If you lose, accept it; if you win, enjoy it! At the end of the day, these on-the-spot performances require strong fishing skills as a foundation! Without a catch, even the best attitude can crumble!

Does anyone else have any other questions?"

"No more!"

"Me neither!"

...

"Alright, since no one has any other questions for now, let's digest the materials sent to you! For the rest of the time, continue to strengthen the practice of basic skills!"

After arranging the team's training for the day, Zhang Yang casually grabbed a small folding chair, went behind the group, pulled out his phone, and while fiddling with it, idly sipped bottled water to pass the time.

Around ten in the morning, Zhang Yang was scrolling through short videos, watching long legs, when his phone suddenly rang.

He glanced at the caller ID. It was Old Zhao calling, and Zhang Yang answered immediately.

"Hello, Brother Zhao, any instructions?" Zhang Yang's tone was as respectful as ever.

"Where are you, Xiao Zhang? Come by the company for a bit, there's a small issue I want to discuss with you!"

"A small issue? What's wrong? I'm at the club's base practicing with them!"

"Recently, I've received feedback from several loyal agents. There are quite a few new yellow-faced products on the market now!

Our business sales have been hit pretty hard! I had someone investigate, and it seems our yellow face formula has been spread through some channel!" Zhao Bingguang replied.

"Alright, got it. I'll head to the company now, should be there in about half an hour!"

"Okay, drive safely!"

After hanging up, Zhang Yang stood up.

"Old Han, you take them to continue practicing casting, there's something at the company, I'll head out first!"

"Alright, you go on, I'll take care of everyone here!" Han Mocheng waved his hand.

After saying his goodbyes, Zhang Yang left the club base and drove towards the company.

Half an hour later, Zhang Yang arrived at Zhao Bingguang's office.

He knocked twice on the door, then pushed it open.

"What's going on?" Zhang Yang asked.

Zhao Bingguang beckoned Zhang Yang over: "Close the door!"

While Zhang Yang was turning to close the door, Old Zhao, like a magician, took out several differently packaged bait bags from the cabinet.

"Here, these are what I had someone buy from different places, take a look!"

In front of Old Zhao, Zhang Yang opened the bags and began inspecting them one by one.

After checking them, Zhang Yang found that they were all remarkably similar to the yellow face bait sold by his own company.

Almost the same color, similar scent profile, similar texture, Zhang Yang pinched a bit with his fingers and tasted it with his tongue—it even had over eighty to ninety percent taste similarity.

The yellow-faced bait primarily emphasized texture and fishing method, and given the level of imitation, the differences during actual use are now minimal.

In other words, putting aside the company's brand influence on users, purely from the perspective of product quality and effectiveness, these counterfeit products essentially have no significant difference from what Zhang Yang Company is selling now.

"Our yellow face formula must have been leaked! These counterfeits are highly accurate!" Zhang Yang stated confidently.

"What should we do? Should we send cease and desist letters or file lawsuits against the fakes?" asked Zhao Bingguang.

Zhang Yang had long anticipated this day, so he wasn't particularly shaken.

He shook his head: "It's useless! Besides trademark infringement, only packaging with borderline similar names to yellow face can be legally challenged; otherwise, it's pretty much pointless!"

Hearing this, Zhao Bingguang frowned: "So are we just going to let this go? These bastards are selling it for just ten bucks a pack, making it impossible for us to sell at all!

I've asked the sales team to look into it. Our yellow face shipping volume in the past month has significantly declined from previous months!

If we let this continue, our flagship product—which our company was founded on—might be finished!"

Hearing this, Zhang Yang grinned: "Don't worry, it's okay! I've been preparing for this. If they want to follow the trend, let them! We'll release a new version!"

"A new version? Do you have a new bait formula?"

"Of course! You think I wouldn't have formula reserves? Don't worry about it. Later, I'll head to the factory to discuss it with Old Wang, and within a week, the new product will be launched!"

"What about me? Should I prepare anything in advance?" Old Zhao continued to ask.

Zhang Yang thought for a moment, then smiled after three seconds: "First, contact the packaging printers to make a new bait package! Oh, and register the new bait name!"

"What's it called?"

"Yellow Storm!" Zhang Yang replied confidently.

"Alright, I'll arrange it right away!"

"Then I'm off to the factory to prepare!"

After a brief meeting and discussion, Zhang Yang said his goodbyes and left the company, then drove leisurely straight to the factory base.

In the following days, Zhang Yang stayed at the factory, working with Old Wang on the production line.

The factory's expanding, crushing, and sieving bait production lines are all intact, so producing other bait merely involves adjusting the base formula.

Yellow Storm and the previous yellow face, in essence, are basically an original and upgraded version—

They're both composed of expanded material crushed and blended, with the key difference being the particle size of the crushing.

Moreover, the yellow face is original flavor, with additional bait flavors needing later addition via small additives.

With the upgraded Yellow Storm, the post-crushed expanded particles have finer granularity with some larger crushed particles included. Furthermore, the bait consists of an original base, fruit flavor, brown sugar, sweet potato, and several different flavor formulas.

Different flavors inherently have distinct states, making it convenient to mix and achieve the desired flavor and bait status through a reasonable combination.

In his past life, Zhang Yang was already very familiar with these concepts and had well-developed ideas in his mind.

By simply communicating his ideas to the production line workshop, they conducted some test products and trials. It only took four days to produce bait with a formula almost identical to the Yellow Storm from Zhang Yang's memory.

Driving with the newly made test bait, Zhang Yang headed straight to the company.

Coincidentally, Wang Yan and his colleagues weren't out fishing today; they were in the office chatting.

Zhang Yang arrived with four large bags of fish bait.

"Hey, everyone's here!" Zhang Yang grinned, showing his white teeth.

"Boss, what's going on, what's in these bags?" Wang Yan was the first to stand up and take the bait from Zhang Yang's hands.

"Not streaming today? Any other plans? If not, could you help test the new bait?" Zhang Yang suggested.

"New bait? Let me see!" Wang Yan immediately placed the bait on the table and began inspecting it.

Different baits with different labels caught Wang Yan's curiosity as he checked them over and smelled them one by one.

"Wow, they're flavored, huh? How do you use these? I'm used to adding small doses!" Wang Yan couldn't help but frown and complain.

Zhang Yang continued: "2211, two parts base, two parts brown sugar, one part each of fruit and sweet potato! This formula ratio should work! It needs to be tested in real practice!"

"Then what're we waiting for, let's go fishing somewhere! Let's hit Old Meng's place. They stocked fish yesterday, so let's try our luck today!" Wang Yan said as he got up.

"Instead of hitting the commercial ponds, let's try our own reservoir first. This is still experimental bait, so keep it confidential!"

"Alright, to the reservoir! Let's go, don't just sit around, to the reservoir to catch fish with the new bait. Whoever loses buys barbecue tonight!"

At Wang Yan's rallying, the fishing live stream team was mobilized, splitting into several cars heading towards Yaokeng Reservoir.