"I'm dumplings, Chinese dumplings, remember me?" Hong Tao reported his nickname, he was afraid that he would not be able to remember his real name.

"Hahahaha, I remember, I remember, I saw you on TV, I told my colleagues that you were my friend, they didn't believe it, they were all fools!" As soon as Mota III heard Hong Tao's nickname, he hugged the phone and laughed, and without giving Hong Tao a chance to speak, he began to tell interesting stories about them.

"Motta, Motta, I didn't come to the U.S. to compete, I came to see my wife, who is American and works in New York. Participating in this fishing tournament was an impromptu idea from a colleague of hers, so I forgot to inform you, I'm sorry, if I have time after the tournament, I will definitely go to Texas to see you. Hong Tao decided to tell the truth, it's not good to deceive people, especially to deceive people who have no heart, it's even more immoral.

"It's okay, I'm glad you called me, my dad and my grandpa are here, and they asked me to say hello. By the way, can you give me a photo of your autograph? So that I can show it to my colleagues and let them see, I'm not bragging. While talking to Hong Tao, Motta III was still shouting to his grandfather and father, it seems that his grandfather's ears should not be very good, and Motta III almost burst the phone.

"No problem, no problem, or you come to Florida to find me, I have one more day of competition tomorrow, and I can take you to the final awards ceremony." Hong Tao had a whim, since he didn't inform Mota in advance, it was better to use this to compensate, mainly because he didn't plan to go to Texas again.

"Really! Can I bring my father with me? Motta was so honest that he didn't mean to refuse at all, and immediately agreed.

"No problem, you can bring your grandfather with you, today with me is an old angler from Texas, estimated to be about the same age as your grandfather, do you know the address of the competition?" Hong Tao heard that Mota was willing to come. I feel much more comfortable, anyway, the family is not like a master who is short of money, otherwise he would not have traveled all the way to Europe to participate in fishing competitions.

"I know, we're going to the airport and catch the earliest flight, but are there any rooms in the hotel?" Motta III was quite careful, and immediately thought of the problem of the hotel room.

"Oh, wait a minute, I'll call you later, I'll ask the manager of the hotel. See if there are any rooms. "Hong Tao is really not sure about this matter, he went to ask the restaurant manager first.

The restaurant manager was very helpful, saying that it was no problem to squeeze out 2 rooms, so Hong Tao gave the name of the hotel where he stayed and the phone number of the restaurant manager to Mota III, and made an appointment to meet at the pier in the evening.

"Do you have any friends in Texas?" When Hong Tao called, Dan sat next to him and drove the boat, he should have heard what Hong Tao said, for his age, his health is really good. Deaf and blind, drive the speedboat fast.

"Well, met while fishing in Europe, they live in Laredo. Do you know there? Hong Tao told Dan the name of the city where Mota's family lived.

"Oh, I've been, it's nice, it's Mexico across the river." Dan has obviously been somewhere. It is estimated that this old man has run all over Texas where there are water and fish.

"Was our first punctuation at the shipwreck?" Dan asked Hong Tao by pointing to the GPS navigator.

"yes, how do you know there's a shipwreck there?" Hong Tao's fishing spot today is exactly the same as yesterday's, and he plans to repeat yesterday's route again. If the harvest is not good, he will search north from the stone pile, anyway, he will not have much pressure to compete, as long as he has 5 effective fish, it will not affect the final result.

"I come here almost every year to fish, and it's an important venue for the FLW tournaments, and it's compulsory for professional anglers to spend more than half a year in the waters where the tournaments are held." Dan proudly began to tell Hong Tao about the important waters he had visited, some of which Hong Tao had heard of, and most of whom Hong Tao did not know was there.

"Then why don't you do this, I'm not familiar with here, but you're familiar, how about we follow your route today? You say you fish there, you fish there, I don't care. Hong Tao suddenly remembered an idea, he wanted to see how the old man's eyesight was.

"It's not in line with the rules, it's all professional anglers who choose fishing spots and arrange their schedules." The old man was quite well-behaved.

"As long as you don't violate the rules of the game, and you don't have to help me pick the fish, help me pick the hook, the two of us go to the place to catch our own fish, whose fish will be handled by themselves, how about it?" Hong Tao knew that he couldn't help the old man openly, but he could help him within the limits of the rules.

According to the custom of FLW competitions, the amateur on the fishing boat is an assistant to the professional player, who is not only responsible for driving the boat, but also has to help the professional angler pick and weigh the fish, and the fishing point must also be decided by the professional player. If you can catch up with a milder pro angler, he can tell you a little bit about the experience of a pro angler while fishing. But if you want to catch up with a bad-tempered professional player, then you will be unlucky, and you will have to complain about working for half a day, and you will be depressed and depressed.

But this is just a habit, not a rule of the game, as long as the professional players are willing, these things can be re-agreed, just like Hong Tao said to this Dan now.

"Really? I know of a few very secluded fishing spots where very few people go fishing, because there was no good underwater environment in those places before, and it only changed after the typhoon a few years ago. The old man was also moved by Hong Tao's proposal, he wanted to strive for good results, if he could fish according to his own wishes, then he felt that he would have a better chance of success, after all, people will always believe in themselves more.

"No problem, okay, that's it, let's go to your secret fishing spot, I'd love to see you move up to the pros." Hong Tao actually just thinks that this old angler is too pitiful, anyway, he also plays tickets, and helping others is also a matter of accumulating virtue, and the most unfortunate thing is to respect the old and love the young.

"Thank you so much, the bass you caught yesterday was the biggest one I've ever seen, may you have the best of luck too." The old angler finally stopped hesitating, slightly enlarged the steering wheel to the left, and then pushed the throttle directly to the bottom.

"! This is an old madman, who knew I shouldn't have been so kind. Hong Tao was almost thrown out of his seat, at this time the bow of the boat has been raised high, if you don't stand up, you can't see the water in front of you at all, the waves pressed by the bow keep slapping Hong Tao's face, hitting the face like a pebble, it hurts!

Dan drove the boat for nearly an hour, and the distance he had traveled in that hour was farther than the two hours that Hong Tao had sailed, and then Hong Tao finally realized why Paul's fishing boat had a huge 120-horsepower engine. Only if the boat is fast enough, you can run more fishing spots to try fishing, and more will hit big fish, no wonder those professional anglers don't want the free fishing boats provided by the tournament sponsors, they think these fishing boats are too horsepower.

"There will be fish here!?" Even though Hong Tao is still a beginner in Lua, he knows that it is difficult to keep fish in these waters.

It's already deep in Lake Okeechobee, close to the boundaries of the tournament's playing area, and a little further to the left is out of bounds. And here is an endless large water surface, there are no shipwrecks, no aquatic grasses or anything, it is not suitable for small fish to live at all, and without small fish, those black bass that rely on eating small fish will definitely not stay here.

"You see, although there is nothing on the water, there are a lot of ruins of houses under the water, and the black bass not only eat small fish, but also eat freshwater shrimp and shrimp, and the most important thing is that there are very few people who visit here, and I found out that this is a good fishing spot after checking the historical data, and even the people who live here do not know what is underneath." Dan seemed to be waiting for Hong Tao to ask a question, and he pointed to the icon on the fish finder as he moved the speedboat to his familiar coordinates against the GPS.

The fish finder was exactly as Dan said, showing that there was a large foreign object under the water, only more than 2 meters away from the water surface, like a reef.

"What's down here? Reef? Hong Tao asked curiously.

"It's not a reef, it's an abandoned lighthouse, it's been around for hundreds of years, but it's sunk underwater, it's been blown down by a typhoon, people built this lighthouse to not get lost, hundreds of years ago the water here was bigger." Dan confidently introduced the history of Lake Okeechobee to Hong Tao, all the way back to the early part of the last century, it seems that if you want to catch a good fish, you must not only have professional knowledge, but also read history books!

Although Hong Tao said that he didn't need Dan to do those assistants' things, the old man was very conscious, and he gave up the stern to Hong Tao, because the bow needed to operate the electric drive, and he also had to be distracted, and Hong Tao was not familiar with this water, so he contracted this job.

No matter how familiar the old man is with this place, the first to fish is Hong Tao, and the history books can't compare to Hong Chuan's cheating weapon, and after connecting two North American pike, Hong Tao finally caught a black perch, which is not small, 4 pounds.

The old man is really an old angler, the psychological quality is excellent, Hong Tao connected 3 fish in the back, he just politely congratulated, still in the step-by-step casting rod, reeling line, then throwing rod, and then reeling line, from left to right 180 degrees, the water area in the direction of the bow of the boat to conduct an all-round search.

Hong Tao paid special attention to Dan's fishing techniques behind the fishing boat, and he wanted to see what this old angler who had been fishing for all his life had in his best hands. But what he saw could only make Hong Tao ashamed, the old man almost didn't throw it out with a rod, it was the same distance, the same amplitude, just like a machine. (To be continued......)

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