The official competition time is December 16, but Paul thinks he should test the actual effect of Hong Tao's lure in sea fishing in advance, and it just so happens that Hong Tao and Erin are going to travel to Australia, so he simply went a few days early. As for the people in his fishing team, they have to wait for the sponsor's arrangement before they can go to Australia, because not only their people and fishing tackle have to go to Australia, but also their fishing boats.

Paul's fishing team is called "Hatres", a name that, according to Paul, is still very famous in the fishing world. However, this fame is not earned by Paul's race results, which is the name of an internationally renowned top yacht builder and the main sponsor of Paul's fishing team.

In fact, Paul's team is not the main team of Hatres, it should be said that it is Hatres's second team or relationship team. This thing is not only in China, but also in the United States, but it is not as pure and in-depth as China's development. Paul's fishing team is full of big names in the eastern United States, and it is said that there is also a congressman, these people are all owners who like sea fishing, and they originally drove their own yachts to play in the Gulf of Mexico. But after getting together, I was a little dissatisfied with mixing in the amateur circle, and I always felt that my fishing skills were outstanding, and I wanted to make do with the professional anglers.

As a result, these mallets hit it off, found the sponsor through their relationship, and didn't know what means they used to persuade them, and as a result, Hartres paid for them to form such a professional fishing team. Since the formation of the fishing team, they have participated in several competitions every year, including in the United States, in Hawaii or Canada, and it is said that they have gone as far as France.

It's a pity that the enthusiasm is very high, and the fishing skills are too poor. Luck is not good enough, not to mention the trophy in a few years, often in the bottom position. Originally, the Hartres company had a professional fishing team, and it had a long history, and it was formed longer than Hong Tao's age, and the results were also very good, which is a world-renowned sea fishing team. But as soon as Paul and the others came, they wore Hatres's name and spent Hatres's money, and the results got worse and worse every year. It's almost embarrassing the face of other companies.

This year, Hatteres has put down his words, this is the last time he will sponsor Paul and them to the competition, and if the results are not improving, then he will not work with them again next year. Paul was also in a hurry to go to the doctor, and saw Hong Tao pass the FLW competition, so he wanted to pull Hong Tao in and rush to the façade, no matter what the results of sea fishing were, at least there was a champion of the American FLW competition in the team, and the other party had to give some face. In case the flood can be magical again. They might be able to survive for a few more years.

Since Paul is planning to save his fishing team, Hong Tao thinks that it is more appropriate for Casey to enjoy a free trip to Australia, this is not a gift from whom, nor is it a cheap person who stands. This is a deal, and Hong Tao is now slowly learning to think about problems in an American way of thinking, and follow the local customs!

Since it's a deal, you can't just let the other party pay. According to the spirit of the contract, you must also do your best to fulfill this responsibility. Hong Tao's responsibility is to transform the bait correctly to be able to fish more, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is to add fish scales to the bait to cheat. But now Hong Tao has a problem that needs to be solved. It's that he ran out of fish scale water, and he only brought a small bottle of concentrated water from China, and when he participated in FLW, he had already consumed it all.

If you let Rachel express it from her home to New York Airlines, the time is a little too late, and it will take 5 working days from Beijing to New York at the earliest, and the time will be too late. In fact, time is still secondary, you can not mail to New York, but directly to the hotel in Australia, so that the time can be in time. The most critical problem is that this kind of liquid airline is not allowed to get on the plane, so it is probably hopeless to send it from Beijing.

But Hong Tao has one last resort, he doesn't have to go back to Beijing to get it himself, his baby fish scales are hanging around his neck, in the current situation, the on-site production is the most reliable.

Hong Tao went to find a bottle of mineral water, soaked the fish scales in it, and put it in his toiletry bag. Then he continued to buy the very fine texture of the artificial sea surface last time, there was still a lot left from last time, but Hong Tao didn't expect it to be useful in the future, so he threw it away.

From the next day, Hong Tao squatted at home to cut the sea into squares the size of tennis balls, put them in a jar filled with fish scale water to invade, and then took them all out of the window at night to dry.

The Irene sisters are not at all interested in Hong Tao's so-called toss, and they now search the Internet every night for information about Australia, and then compare the strategies and pictures on the Internet to find out their lack of preparation. When they got up in the morning, the sisters walked out of the house hand in hand and walked around Manhattan until they had made up for their shortcomings. I bought a big bag of swimsuits of various styles and colors alone, and even put labels on them myself, what beach is dedicated to sunbathing, swimming and surfing, night and so on.

The use of these small sponge balls is very simple, according to Hong Tao's idea, since the sponge can be plugged into the bait, then there must be no problem with hanging the sponge outside the bait. Because the water area facing sea fishing is larger, wider and deeper, Hong Tao feels that the sponge is stuffed in the bait, the effect of attracting fish is definitely not obvious, and the volume of the sponge can be increased as much as possible to diffuse the fish attraction elements and improve the effect of attracting fish.

As for whether these sponge balls hanging on the lure will cause visual confusion to the fish, Hong Tao is not worried about this problem. The fish in the sea are not as timid and suspicious as the freshwater fish, this is mainly because the living environment in the sea is more harsh, and you can't tolerate any hesitation.

The valid fish for this competition are marlin over 300 pounds and tuna over 150 pounds, and other marine fish are not counted in the competition results.

The marlin (Makairamitsukurii) is what we often call a sailfish, with a spear-like snout more than a meter long in its mouth, which is the big fish as long as a fishing boat caught by the old fisherman Santiago in Hemingway's novel "The Old Man and the Sea". Marlin is mainly divided into two categories, one is the black marlin, its body size is the largest in the marlin, the female is much larger than the male, the length can reach more than 4 meters, the weight is close to one ton, mainly live in the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian Ocean tropical deep sea area, will migrate with the sea temperature and season in a wide range, mainly tuna, large squid for food.

There is also a species called white marlin, which is slightly smaller and lives mainly on the Atlantic coast and in the Caribbean, and does not migrate widely according to the seasons.

Tuna (wei) fish, which is what we call tuna, is also called tuna. Resembling a cannonball, the streamlined size and bifurcated tail fin make them the world's champion in long-distance high-speed swimming, and it can swim up to 200 kilometers a day, day after day, and it can't stop until it dies. The reason why the tuna swims so wildly is that it can't use its gills to breathe on its own, and it must let the water flow through the gills at high speed so that it won't be suffocated to death, even when sleeping, which is probably why tuna meat is considered the most delicious and nutritious fish by most people in the world.

The main food of tuna is sardines, and sardines are oceanic migratory fish, so tuna also runs with the food. There are many types of tuna on the earth, which are roughly divided into bluefin tuna (northern tuna, southern tuna), bigeye tuna, masu tuna, yellowfin tuna, and skipjack tuna. Among them, bluefin tuna and masu tuna are the least abundant and the most valuable, and bigeye tuna, yellowfin tuna and bonito are relatively abundant, and most of the canned tuna and sashimi we usually eat are made of these two kinds of tuna.

In terms of size, there is a huge difference between the different species of tuna, with the largest bluefin tuna growing up to 700 kilograms, while the average skipjack tuna weighs only a few kilograms.

As for whether he can accurately catch the target fish specified in the competition, Hong Tao has no spectrum in his heart, and now he doesn't even know whether this fish scale water works in the seawater, let alone ask for what he wants to catch. However, Hong Tao thinks that if this fish scale water also works in the seawater, then as long as there are marlins in the sea area where the bait is laid, it must be marlins that are hooked.

Because this thing is the overlord of the sea, they come in groups of more than a dozen, and the sharks and the like have to run when they see them, otherwise they will be pierced by the one-meter-long spear in front of its head. Therefore, as long as the traces of the marlin are found, Hong Tao feels that the directivity of the fishing bait can still be partially grasped. As for the tuna, there is nothing you can do, if there are no marlins in the waters where you are hooked, it is not your control whether to lure the tuna or other fish such as sharks and sea wolves, so it is still the old saying: do your best to obey the destiny of heaven.

On November 30th, Hong Tao took Sister Erin and Paul and his unlucky nephew on a flight from New York to Sydney, to say that Paul hates Carl, but he takes him everywhere, to say that he doesn't hate Carl, the two of them have never said good things about each other, they are eager for each other to have a car accident and die immediately, it can only be said that they are a pair of freaks. (To be continued......)