Bio Engineer Archive

Since you craft a fishing pole, I'm wondering if using certain resources yield better a better catch percentage.

Yeah please let me know if you do. I'm planning on trying this out soon too.

Holo in one of his notes about the patch yesterday said that quality level of fishing poles could now be seen. I have a good feeling a great pole will yield fewer fish getting away once you hook them. Don't know if it will actually help draw fish in.

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GizmoZan wrote:

- Nibble - tug left or right (I tugged in one direction for a couple of nibbles before switching)

- Bite - tug up

- Caught something - small reel in

And yes, this can get as aggravating as real fishing....you may lose your catch or it may snap your line.

Hope this helps a little....:-)

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I am a GD Ranger and I have NEVER caught a fish. I never get "Caught somthing" ... it is ALWAYS "you lost your bait". I will try this AGAIN, but I have gone through all the "fishing" threads I could find for info and nothing works for me, tho all claim "this or that"works for them. Does anyone know of commands that can replace the click-fest menu you have to use? Something like /fish tugLeft or /fish reelIn that I can macro?

mounting fish on the wall would be a great idea, especially if you caught one of those crazy sea creature from the gungan starwars, pull him on to shore and blast his ass. That would make for a great fishing story. I t would also be cool if i could mount the trophies of all the imps kill on the was, lol.

You're going to hate me, but I'm going to debunk the speculation on what the tugs do.

Over today, on Corellia in Chilastra, I had the opportunity to fish some 50 times on several of the rivers between Kor Vella and Coronet. As a side note, I've also had a lot of fishing experience RL in my childhood.

What I've decided is that tugging the line in any of the three directions will primarily help in preserving the bait's condition. This makes sense: Fish go for bait that looks live (Fresh) more than one that's limp and lifeless (Soggy) or decomposed (Mush). I also found it interesting that the tugs would every so often cause the line to drift closer to you.

Tugging up when I got a bite only resulted in a 'caught something' a fraction of the time, and less than half in my unrecorded estimation. Sometimes it does, though, so this discrepancy might be from the fishing pole. In RL, this would be 'setting the hook', so I would hope on a high-end fishing pole this works more often.

Likewise, it would make sense to have a 'small reel-in' when you see 'caught something', but the game pretty much has decided if the hook is set well or not. IOW: It's not necessary. What the reel0ins /can/ do is shorten your line right after you've cast it. Why? Because a fish caught at 9 m has a lot more chances to fight and get away, than a fish caught at 4 m. The red glowing circle on the water is your bobber; during the reel-in you can watch it close and drift away with the fish.

Now, I've also taken another page from RL in trying to fish, and I believe it works. That advice is: Leave the fishing menu alone! If you choose an action every time you have a chance, you'll succeed in getting a lot of nibbles and no bites. Even while writing this post I've caught two fish, usually with only an initial tug after I cast to 'put some life' in my bait.

I've been impressed by the variety I've caught: So far, I've caught five species of fish (Bluefish, Blackfish, Faa, Laa, and Blowfish), So far, among three instances of bluefish, I have two that are the same length. Surprisingly, I cannot combine the two, even though they each are 2/5. (The amount of fish caught I'm hoping is a fishing pole function.) Also, I was pleased to find that fishing does not 'break' foraging like nearly every other activity does.

What I'd like to see as an improvement later on, is a schematic or two of fly fish. These could be offered among the scout and ranger survival lines and use hide and bone, or meat and hide and bone, or even metal and hideto create artificial lures that act in every other way like the types of bait already available.

Tug left or right at a nibble.

Tug up at a bite.

Small reel in at "caught something".

From there, you have no choice if you get the fish or not.

Thanks...I have never gotten a fish, Now I think I have a chance...LoL

Hey, can some one help me out with the finer details on how to actually catch a fish? I've got a pole, I've got some bait, and I've actually managed to get a couple of nibbles and bites but have no clue how to proceed from there. Any help would definately ummm... help.

thank ye maties

Nibbles mean nothing. If you get a Bite then tug.

sorry not sure where to put this but, i was wondering how you catch fish. I have a rod baited i would cast out, and every nibble i would tug and then i would lose the bait, and also i wouldn't tug on the nibbles to see if i got a bite and i never would. So can anyone out there explain what i'm doing wrong?

thanks

How do you fish? I can't find a thread on this.

OMG.
There is a guide on THE FRONT PAGE HERE!!!
Endars guide to fishing...

You have to find some bait, and a fishing rod, stand near a body of water, put the bait in the rod, and start fishing.

Oops. My bad. There it is. Thanks.