Zhang Yang's live demonstration completely stunned Old Xu.

"Brother Zhang Yang, what kind of technique is this? Are you doing magic? How can this water-adjusted loose cannon be so different once it hits the water? This is quite the trick. How do you do it?" Old Xu couldn't hold back his curiosity any longer and asked.

Zhang Yang glanced around and took in everyone's reactions and expressions.

People like Wang Yan and Han Qiang showed no noticeable emotional fluctuation, but the group of young fishing enthusiasts standing around wore expressions of wide-eyed incredulity. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

Zhang Yang chuckled: "Haha, it's not magic, just a small baiting technique! Once you know the trick and details, you can do it too! Look, the dispersal speed is all controlled by my five fingers!"

As Zhang Yang explained, he continued to repeat the baiting action he had just demonstrated.

Using a trace line with two hooks, Zhang Yang appeared to make almost no changes as he baited both with two balls of Triangle Cannon, pinched the knotted end of the trace line, and tossed the double hook into the float tuning bucket.

This time, the contrast was even more apparent. The upper hook's bait quickly dissolved and dispersed, vanishing in no time, while the lower hook's Triangle Cannon remained attached for more than double the time. The upper hook's bait dissolved faster, while the lower took a long time to completely disperse.

"The baiting technique for Triangle Cannon is mostly fixed. The amount of bait you grab with your fingers determines the final size of the bait formed.

Why does bait of the same size dissolve at different speeds? The trick is all in the fingers, more precisely, the force applied by the fingertips!

Like now, when I'm gently pinching the bait, it dissolves quickly once it hits the water. If you want it to dissolve more slowly, just pinch tighter with more force at the fingertips!

The subtlety in this can only be felt by oneself. To an outside observer, it's hard to notice such minute differences! There are quite a few trace lines in the box. You can try it on the spot and feel the difference I'm talking about!

I can explain the theory to you, but proficiency definitely comes with continuous practice. There's no shortcut to this. The more you practice, the more intuitive it becomes. When needed for different fish conditions, you can adjust it as you please!

Don't think this is something miraculous; it's just a thin veil of understanding. Did you notice how calm Brother Yan and Brother Qiang are? When I shared these techniques with them, they were even more surprised than you!"

As soon as Zhang Yang said this, everyone instinctively reached for the trace line box, and upon realizing everyone wanted one, they reflexively withdrew their hands.

In the end, Old Xu took the trace line box, handed each person a trace line, and everyone, like schoolchildren, gathered around the open bait basin on the table to practice the loose cannon baiting.

In terms of basics, these guys likely had some knowledge of beginner baiting techniques from their usual black pit fishing. With Zhang Yang's pointers, their improvement was immediate.

They practiced for less than five minutes, and their baiting of the Triangle Cannon was already showing form.

"My goodness, the progress is so noticeable! This in-person gathering was totally worth it—we really learned some skills!"

"Me too. I used to just muddle through with loose cannon baiting without knowing the standard method. Now, learning from Teacher Zhang Yang, the baiting position feels much more comfortable!"

"It's hard to come by such an opportunity for offline learning. Can you share a bit more with us, something similar to loose cannon baiting that can also show significant improvement with a little practice?"

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Seeing the eager expressions of these fishing enthusiasts, Zhang Yang couldn't bear to refuse. With a slight smile, he wiped his hands with a towel and continued: "The bait story's not over yet! After discussing Triangle Cannon, let's talk about wet loose bait and molding bait! Let's try making the water ratio a bit wetter and see!"

With that, Zhang Yang grabbed a small cup of water with a measuring cup and decisively added it to the loose cannon in front of him.

His five fingers quickly mixed it evenly, and within seconds, Zhang Yang adjusted the regular aggressive loose cannon to a wetter state.

The base material of the Yellow Storm bait is quite fluffy by itself; after adding some light bran, the wet loose bait's state was still very good. At first glance, aside from being slightly darker in color, there was no noticeable difference from before.

But just because it seemed the same didn't mean there was no difference.

Zhang Yang casually scooped some up again and quickly baited a Triangle Cannon of about the same size as before, then threw it into the water.

This time, the wet loose Triangle Cannon took longer to dissolve and fall off, taking a full thirty seconds before the last bit of bait at the hook's shank finally fell completely.

"For extremely fast fishing conditions, dry loose bait might be preferable, but in most regular black pit fishing conditions, fish are not that fast. I believe wet loose bait has more practical applications!

For instance, when the fishing situation is unclear, the error tolerance of wet loose bait is much greater than that of dry loose bait.

There's a little saying, 'When the fish situation is unclear, small cannons come first!' The 'small cannons' here refer to wet loose bait!

When baiting, we don't always have to use a large Triangle Cannon; often, pinching a small Triangle Cannon might yield better results!"

As he explained, Zhang Yang demonstrated again with his hands. In the blink of an eye, a slightly smaller Triangle Cannon was baited onto the hook.