Digit's Fishing Guide

This guide seeks maximum skill ups while using the fish caught to create bait for subsequent fish. Its most important goal is isolating fish so that catches below your current skill level don't happen. To best use the bait fish you skill up on, you will need level 10 cooking (preferably at least level 13). Since you won't need the cooking skill until well into your fishing career, I have left that part of the guide until right before you need to start making bait. I have more luck with bait as opposed to rigs, and with this guide you can use each stretch of fishing to prepare bait ingredients for later.

Briefly, you'll catch Hamsi (equivalent to Bastore Sardine) to make bait for Bluetail; then, you'll catch Tiger Cod to make bait for Black Sole. You'll skill up cooking to around 10-13 so that you can make the bait yourself.

You can then go back to fishing, using your Hamsi-created bait (Sliced Sardine) to catch Bluetail in Qufim Island, where you can also use the Bluetail itself to make even more bait, Slice of Bluetail, in the exact same place to get Cone Calamary.

After this, you'll catch Crescent Fish in Dragon's Aery and move back to Qufim Island to use your Tiger Cod-created bait (Sliced Cod) to catch Black Sole. At this point, you can use Meatballs to catch Cave Cherax; from them, you'll get Dwarf Pugils for catching Lik, Gugrusaurus, or Matsya.

Fishing skill from 1-10: Hamsi
Target fish: Hamsi Location: Aht Urghan Whitegate, Port Ephramad (north port at H-6) Bait: Sabiki Rig

You can skill up on Hamsi without pulling up monsters here in Whitegate. This also allows easy access to advanced synthesis support at the fishing guild in the same zone (for one Imperial Bronze Piece). Hamsi are the Aht Urghan equivalent of Bastore Sardines, so you should save them for use later in catching Bluetail (see below, skill levels 27-55).

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