"Trending search? What trending search?" Curious, he asked upon hearing the words "trending search."
"The Douyin trending search, the hottest one. It’s currently ranked nineteenth, and everywhere you look, you can see your pike catch from noon today, as well as the video of you reeling in the large black fish."
After hearing this, Lin Yang also took out his phone from his pocket with one hand and opened his Douyin account directly.
Once logged in, good lord, various private ssages 99 , friend requests 99 , comnts 99 , @ntions 99 , all the account information was highlighted in red, giving the impression of a backend bug.
Looking at the real-ti increase in followers, good lord, in just a few hours since noon, his followers had increased by thirty to forty thousand. His follower count was now over three hundred thousand.
The incident of Lin Yang’s previous capture of the giant catfish wasn’t long ago, and now the news of the hundred-pound black fish, when fused with the previous event, successfully caught the attention of so outsiders.
To use a trendy phrase, he had beco sowhat popular beyond his usual circle.
While Lin Yang was gaining significant attention and exposure for catching a large black fish,
anwhile.
Chen Lin, the lead research supervisor of the Dongting Lake aquatic research project in Xiang Province, was in the middle of a eting with his interns at the institute.
Dongting Lake is the second-largest freshwater lake in our country. It’s a bit different from Poyang Lake in Jiangxi Province, which is a more complete large lake with almost all surrounding waters being interconnected.
Dongting Lake mainly consists of "East Lake, West Lake, Datong Lake, Guangfu Lake," four large lakes, and in addition, there are many smaller lakes.
Their task this ti was regarding one of these smaller lakes.
During the eting, one of the students said, "Teacher, we’ve already conducted an initial study here, but it seems we haven’t seen the legendary large fish, only so relatively common fish species. Could it be that the news was incorrect and the local fishern were mistaken?"
Chen Lin shook his head, "Last month, not only did a fisherman encounter the shadow of a large fish, but the lake’s staff also spotted traces of the fish. I think the news could be real. You switch to a different observation spot with Xiao Han and also adjust the fishing devices we’ve deployed."
"Oh, okay!"
At this mont, a short-haired girl with delicate features raised her hand, "Teacher, I have an idea."
"Hmm? Xiao Han, what’s your idea? Collective wisdom is better than individual judgnt, just speak your mind!" Chen Lin said.
"I think, although we are strong in the academic study of fish, we don’t have much practical experience in actual fishing or trapping techniques.
During the ti I’ve been busy with other seniors, we’ve completely relied on our subjective ideas to deploy trapping devices, without knowing if there are fish underwater, how large they are, or where they are active.
So, I suggest we try to find a professional angler to act as a technical adviser of sorts. Just bumping around blindly on our own is too inefficient."
After listening to Xiao Han, Supervisor Chen Lin slightly frowned and pondered for a bit.
The student’s point was quite valid. He had spent his entire career studying freshwater fish, could identify almost every species of fish, but when it ca to their real habits and trapping strategies, he was not an expert,
The fishing thods used by their team were all based on various existing freshwater or sea fishing thods, and were not very targeted.
Their first round of research took a week, and their only catch, so to speak, was a triggered trap device where a two or three-milliter sized fishhook was bent straight. What sort of monster they had caught, they didn’t even get a glimpse of its shadow.
Seeing that the research project on Dongting Lake’s mysterious large fish was making no progress, Chen Lin was getting anxious.
"Xiao Han, your suggestion makes a lot of sense. But at the mont, it seems we don’t have professional anglers like those in Europe and Arica, do we? We can’t possibly invite soone from abroad, can we?"
"Who says there aren’t any? Look at this news; it’s trending!" Seeing the teacher was interested, Xiao Han imdiately opened the tablet, found the trending news, and handed it over to the teacher.
[A young angler catches a hundred-pound black fish in a mountain reservoir!!!]
At this title, Chen Lin’s heart skipped a beat.
He was very familiar with freshwater predatory fish. Common black fish typically only weigh about four or five pounds, with those over ten pounds being quite rare.
As their size increases, black fish also have more energy consumption; at a certain point, their growth slows down significantly, and they need a vast amount of food.
Bred black fish might fare a bit better, but if wild, it might need to eat all the fish in a pond to grow so large.
Having watched the video in the trending news, Chen Lin estimated based on body proportions that the large black fish was at least over 1.8 ters long. In terms of black fish discovered in China, it absolutely belonged to the top tier of giants, and just like the news headline said, this fish might as well have beco a spirit.
Seeing the angler who caught this spirited black fish, he had also recently caught a pike weighing over a hundred pounds, and an even larger catfish before that.
Isn’t he the professional they were just talking about?
"This Lin Yang, can we find a way to contact him?" Chen Lin beca completely interested after reading the trending news.
This ti, the Dongting Lake aquatic research expedition was sothing Chen Lin felt confident about; all project expenses were subsidized by national special funds.
Besides, places like Dongting Lake, well-protected by strict environntal laws, are off-limits for ordinary people to fish. If they could reach out to a professional angler from society, he believed the other party would most likely be very interested.
"I just checked. This angler nad Lin Yang seems to be a fishing strear on Douyin. We should be able to contact him," Xiao Han responded.
"Make it a priority to contact him. Our second round of the expedition starts in a week. We have to get in touch with him as soon as possible. Let know the mont you have results. If he agrees to help us, we can send him an invitation to the project. Travel expenses, food and lodging, and other reasonable equipnt costs can all be fully reimbursed!"
"Okay, I’m on it!"
Having received the approval from her supervisor, Xiao Han imdiately set out to find a way to contact him.
anwhile, after finishing his al and waiting roughly half an hour, Brother Aquatic hurried over as well.
He didn’t just arrive by himself; he also drove over in a watercraft, having seen the size of the black fish in the video.
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