Chapter 404: Chapter 244: Rod Explosion
Such high-cost live broadcast investment, any host other than Zhang Yang would find it hard to have such courage.
But Zhang Yang is different from the others.
Spending ten thousand yuan can gain thousands of fans; calculating the acquisition cost per fan, it’s just over one yuan. At the startup stage of a new account, the cost for gaining fans is almost like getting them for free.
In the past life, after the rapid explosion period, authoritative personnel on mobile live streaming platforms made similar calculations of fan acquisition costs. For precise fans in the outdoor fishing vertical category, the acquisition cost per fan exceeded seven yuan.
Now on the Kuaishou live streaming platform, the first batch of live streaming permissions has just started testing. Simply put, at a time when there are few hosts and countless viewers hungry for entertainment.
Even if Zhang Yang doesn’t spend money, fan growth will be very fast.
But Zhang Yang is not satisfied with this natural fan growth. He deeply understands the immense commercial value of these precise fans. It’s the prime time for staking claims, and penny-pinching over this is very unwise.
Quickly increasing the scale and strength to occupy the top position on the track is the first priority.
Zhang Yang already has a clear plan for his commercial territory.
Whether it was the operation of the public account earlier or the initial broadcast on Yingke Live, strictly speaking, both are transitional stages for Zhang Yang.
Around the years 2017 to 2020, live-streaming e-commerce will usher in enormous industry dividends.
In his past life, Zhang Yang was not able to seize these opportunities, but this life is different, and he will absolutely not let these chances pass by.
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The fishing base’s live stream continues. After Zhang Yang drew a wave of prizes, Han Qiang, who was on camera fishing, replenished the bait several times. The wasteful scoop would throw some screws into the water every now and then, quietly waiting for new biting actions.
Logically speaking, with continuous baiting like this, the fish should bite quickly. Yet in the half hour after catching a fish of less than thirty pounds, there was no movement at all in the baited area.
Han Qiang resisted inner doubts and maintained his focus on the bobber, holding on for another half hour, starting to get a bit restless.
"Boss, what’s going on? Why is there no movement in the baited area?" Han Qiang couldn’t help but ask.
With a prolonged absence of big fish bites, the increase in live stream viewers gradually slowed, but Zhang Yang’s strong control still managed to keep it steady.
Upon hearing Han Qiang’s question, Zhang Yang frowned and observed the situation around the bait point for a while, equally unable to make sense of it.
Just as he was secretly pondering the situation, he saw ahead of the baited area, with a sudden splash, a huge blue carp weighing at least over thirty pounds jumped out of the water and fell back, splashing a large amount of spray.
[Whoa, what’s going on? Provoking us?]
[Big! So big! This fish looks even bigger than the one caught earlier, it’s at least over thirty pounds!]
[Didn’t know that besides silver carp, blue carp also like jumping!]
[Is the baited area activated? Why is it only jumping and not biting?]
In the live stream footage, viewers saw the big fish jump out of the water in front of the bait area, and the public chat soon became noisy.
The fish’s jump was a reminder to Zhang Yang.
Zhang Yang slapped his forehead, realizing where the problem was.
"Brother Qiang, the baited area is too far forward! The fish are in front of the bobber!" Zhang Yang stated confidently.
"What? Not right, is it? I was careful when baiting; even knowing the common sense of baiting close and fishing far!"
Upon hearing Zhang Yang’s assessment, Han Qiang was a bit skeptical since he was involved throughout the baiting process.
Zhang Yang smiled and said, "Anyway, since there are no bites now, let’s adjust and try! Don’t move the pole, change to a ten-meter main line and try swinging the rod!"
In practical fishing, Zhang Yang has absolute authority among his team brothers.
Even though Han Qiang felt the problem might not be there, since Zhang Yang provided a suggestion, he chose to comply.
Soon the original main line of less than nine meters was replaced on-site with a new one of ten meters!
An eight-meter fishing rod, ten-meter main line, with a subsidiary line of close to one meter, made the whole fishing setup nearly eleven meters long.
This type of situation where the main line is several meters longer than the rod is difficult for standard rod casting and generally involves organizing the main line behind and swinging the rod.
Han Qiang operated the same way; after switching to the new setup, he held the rod with both hands and swung it straight forward, effortlessly casting the double hooks into the area ahead of the baited point.
Compared to the bobber position before changing, the new bobber position is at least a meter and a half to two meters farther.
Once the line setup was in place, Han Qiang retained his habit of dragging the rod back, and after adjusting everything, he patiently waited again.
This time, changes occurred quickly after adjustment.
In less than five minutes, the four-and-a-half view bobber exposed on the water suddenly showed a jerky drop action.
This jerky bobber drop wasn’t as straightforward as the previous bites, instead, it appeared somewhat abrupt. Meanwhile, when the bobber pulled down, there was also a slight and subtle torque.
Han Qiang just wanted to lift the rod when Zhang Yang hurriedly spoke up to remind him.
"Don’t, don’t lift the rod! It’s grazing the line, hasn’t got it in the mouth!"
"Oh!" Han Qiang forcibly restrained his impulse to lift the rod.
As expected, after the jerky bobber line drop, the bobber quickly rebounded back to the normal fishing level, without showing the continuous sinking or directly diving actions typically following a firm bite.