Financial freedom begins with fishing

Chapter 81 Diving into the Cave, Catching Fish Again.

Led by Ma Hongjun, Xiao Kai and his group quickly arrived at their destination.

This is a deep pool above a tributary of a river, covering an area of ​​about four or five hundred square meters. It is located at the foot of a cliff and is surrounded by cliffs. There is only one area that can be reached below, and it is all covered by various shrubs and grasses.

Fortunately, people seem to come here often, and a small path has been carved out of it.

Following the path, Xiao Kai and his group quickly arrived at the bottom.

"We're here! This is it!"

Ma Hongjun pointed to the deep pool and said.

"Um!"

Xiao Kai nodded and began to observe.

Judging from the traces left on the shore, it is not hard to tell that people often come here to fish, but most of them mainly use lures, because he did not see any trash left by platform fishing, but instead saw a few damaged lures.

Combined with the reefs that appear and disappear underwater, it's not hard to guess that the underwater environment here is very complex, so it's not surprising that there's little platform fishing.

After all, in this kind of environment, it's too easy for platform fishing to get snagged.

On the contrary, lure fishing, since it mostly searches in the upper water layer, avoids many underwater environments.

Even when searching the bottom, using obstacle-crossing lures can avoid many snagging situations.

Therefore, it's not surprising that there are many lure anglers here.

With this in mind, Xiao Kai had a sudden thought and had already made a concrete plan.

"Brother Xiao, look!"

Just as Xiao Kai was about to start fishing according to his own ideas, Ma Hongjun's voice came from the side again.

Xiao Kai turned his head and saw Ma Hongjun pointing bitterly to a spot on the shore not far away, saying, "Brother Xiao, it looks like we can't go fishing here. There are people diving here!"

"diving?"

Xiao Kai looked puzzled and quickly looked in the direction the man was pointing.

Sure enough, he soon found a pile of bottles and jars on the ground near the bottom of the cliff.

Although he had never been underwater, he had basic knowledge and could tell that the pile of things was diving equipment, mainly oxygen tanks.

Still puzzled, Xiao Kai continued, "Do people come here to dive?"

Ma Hongjun nodded: "Yes, but not much!"

"Oh? This is interesting!"

Xiao Kai's interest was piqued, and he asked, "Isn't diving usually done in the sea? Why would anyone come to this deep mountain forest to dive?"

Ma Hongjun shook his head: "I'm not really sure either. I only heard my cousin mention it when we went fishing before. Apparently, it's called cave diving, which seems to be a type of diving sport specifically for exploring underwater caves. I think it's a kind of extreme sport!"

"Cave diving?"

Xiao Kai was filled with questions.

What's there to explore in this underwater cave? It's just rocks, isn't it?

Puzzled, Xiao Kai looked up at the water and wondered.

"This is a bit tricky. If there are really people diving down there, he might snag a few fish with a single cast of his lure rod, and that would be troublesome."

"What should we do, Brother Xiao?"

Seeing that Xiao Kai remained silent, Ma Hongjun became somewhat anxious.

"Let me think about it!"

Xiao Kai raised his hand to stop him from saying anything more, his gaze still fixed on the water.

In this situation, a normal person would think to just leave, but he didn't think that way.

Two minutes passed just like that.

Just as Ma Hongjun was about to ask another question, Xiao Kai finally spoke.

"Brother Ma, you just said that this kind of cave diving is specifically for exploring underwater caves, right?"

Although Ma Hongjun didn't know why Xiao Kai asked that question, he still nodded.

"right!"

"That's it!" Xiao Kai nodded and continued his analysis, "In that case, these people must have a purpose. Do you know how deep this pool is?"

"About 10 or 20 meters, what's wrong?" Ma Hongjun asked, puzzled.

"Are there caves underwater?" Xiao Kai didn't answer, but asked again.

"Of course there is, it's near the cliff. My cousin mentioned it last time. It seems that the inside of this mountain is hollow. Someone once explored it and went several hundred meters down the cave at the bottom of the pool!" Ma Hongjun said without hesitation.

"That makes things easier. Since these people came here to cave dive, their goal is definitely to get into the cave. We can just stop fishing on the cliff side and go out the way we come. This place is so big!"

Seemingly because he had come up with a good idea, Xiao Kai immediately smiled.

He was completely unaware of the meaning of the word "cave diving," let alone how dangerous it was; all he wanted was to complete his fishing plan without affecting others.

"Will this work?"

Upon hearing this, Ma Hongjun was initially delighted, but then seemed to think of something and became somewhat hesitant.

"What's wrong with that? We can fish, they can dive, as long as we don't interfere with each other!"

Having figured things out, Xiao Kai no longer cared and immediately started fishing.

Seeing that Xiao Kai had said so, Ma Hongjun didn't say anything more and started preparing as well.

Due to the complex terrain and numerous underwater reefs, Xiao Kai chose a bob hook with a T-tail to avoid snagging, allowing him to search from the bottom as before.

Sizzle~~

Soon, a familiar and pleasant sound of a water droplet wheel rang out.

Under Ma Hongjun's watchful eye, Xiao Kai cast his lure rod, and the jig head flew in a parabola towards the outer edge of the pool.

puff~

The lead-head hook successfully reached the designated position and began to sink.

The water here was shallow, probably only a few meters deep. After a few seconds, Xiao Kai felt the rod tip tremble slightly and knew that it had reached the bottom. He quickly turned off the spool to stop the line from coming out.

Then he began to reel in the line at a steady speed, occasionally twitching it a couple of times.

They searched all the way to the shore, but found nothing.

Xiao Kai was not surprised at all. If it were that easy to find the fish layer, he wouldn't have to worry about it so much.

Although he had already covered most of the deep pool with the aperture the moment the jig head hit the water, he had also deliberately set the small aperture used to attract fish within the area where he was reeling in the line.

However, the opening time is too short to achieve the effect of immediately attracting fish.

Soon, Xiao Kai threw the lead hook out again and then retrieved it.

I searched several times, but there was no response.

Ma Hongjun, who was standing next to him, did the same.

Seeing this, Xiao Kai immediately changed his strategy and slightly increased the search depth for the water layer.

This time, he started reeling in the line before the jig head hit the bottom, and he did so very quickly.

Just as he returned to the small aperture area with the lead head hook once again, a familiar sound traveled from the rod tip along the rod shaft into Xiao Kai's hand.

Instantly, Xiao Kai's adrenaline surged, and he subconsciously raised the lure rod in his hand.

huh~

With a whooshing sound from the line, Xiao Kai's lure rod was instantly bent into a large arc.

"Damn, Brother Xiao, you're that fast?"

Seeing this, Ma Hongjun was immediately envious and quickly sped up his reeling speed.

Before Xiao Kai could retrieve the fish from the water, Ma Hongjun threw the lure onto the path that Xiao Kai had set up with the small aperture.

He's experienced now; he knows that Xiao Kai's positioning for catching fish is efficient, so he subconsciously imitates him.

Sure enough, just as Xiao Kai finished collecting a bass and putting it into the fish basket, Ma Hongjun also caught a fish.