Adding the two fish caught by Wang Yan, Zhang Yang has seen a total of four grass carp brought ashore. After sizing up the latest fish, Zhang Yang's heart sank with a new guess.
The four fish caught are all individuals around five pounds; none of those big ones, eight or ten pounds, released the day before yesterday were hooked.
This seemingly trivial information is actually quite important for analyzing fish behavior.
Some of the smaller grass carp have started biting, indicating there's a high possibility that an anesthetic affects smaller grass carp less, while the big eight to ten-pounders haven't bounced back yet.
If this guess is correct, today's catch will definitely not be great, considering that during fish release, the small grass carp don't even make up half, and the average weight per fish exceeds six and a half pounds.
