Fish!!!!!!!

[Pescador]

how i can catch (M) and (L) Fish

[auzumel]

Keep fishing. You have to catch and ship a lot of small fish and caught junk to get to your fishing degree up high enough to catch medium fish...and then a lot more to get to large fish.

[songwolf]

I didn't start catching M fish until around 300-400 small fish caught, and around 500-600 things if you count in junk, and even then I've only managed to catch around 4 or 5 M fish so far.

So yes, you have to do a LOT of fishing.

[Anonymous Duck]

Adding a question, if you don't mind;

For the people who are fishing regularly, do the fishing sprites help towards the goal of obtaining large fish? Or am I getting their function confused? I haven't used the sprites yet.

[Leon]

I have only used the sprites once, so this is by no means an accurate description of what it does.. but on the day he was active, it seemed I got less of the "It got away.." messages, and more fish. No medium or large fish, though. At the moment I am able to catch medium fish.

[Belldandy]

I am close to hitting that number so thank goddess I can start getting fish that are worth something.

Adding a question, if you don't mind;

For the people who are fishing regularly, do the fishing sprites help towards the goal of obtaining large fish? Or am I getting their function confused? I haven't used the sprites yet.

I am pretty sure they just increase your luck of actually catching stuff and I do seem to get less junk when I am fishing than normal.

[shdwfox]

I believe the fishing sprites reduce the time between bites and might reduce the amount of junk that you do catch. I also hear that the weather and time you fish has an effect. Sunny or clear weather will result in fish getting away 30% of the time while drizzly weather ups this to 40% and snowy or rainy weather is at 50%. Fishing in the mornings gives the least time before bites while fishing in the afternoon is when the fish are least active.

[KEL5EY]

so much fishing! but if you need helping raising it try fishing during festivals because the time has stopped. just pay attention to your players actions on cues to how their stamina is. thats how i got majority of my fishing done.

[Slan]

I FINALLY caught a large fish. Here are my fishing stats. You can use them to get a ballpark estimate of how much you have to fish to actually catch large ones.

Fish types caught: 53/143
Empty cans shipped: 161
Boot Shipped: 159
Fish Bone Shipped: 43
Seaweed Shipped: 11
Sea Urchin Shipped: 3
Fish (S) Shipped: 717
Fish (M) Shipped: 4

I had all 7 fishing sprites enchanting Lana's house, not sure if that matters. Also of note, I've been giving a lot of fish to Lana and the fishing sprites, so my actual number of fishes caught is probably a bit higher than the 717 shown (more realistically 750-760). Remember to always ship junk you catch since each of them is worth 2 fishing points.