List of Usefull Fish

While working my way through leveling fisher, I've been keeping track of important fish to keep that can be used to gain exp or currency. I thought i'd share the list for others to use too. Its handy to know which fish have a use, even if you aren't up to that level yet, so you can save them for when they are needed, or you can sell them on the MB to people who want to buy their exp.

Fishing Class Quests
lvl 53 - 3x Icepick HQ (Unfrozen Pond, South Banepool)
lvl 55 - 3x Shadowhisker HQ (Hundred Throes)
lvl 58 - 1x Letter Puffer HQ (Landlord Colony)
lvl 60 - 1x Catkiller HQ (Eddies)


Used for Leves;
lvl 50 - Coerthan Crab (Riversmeet, Clearpool)
lvl 50 - Lake Urchin (South & West Banepool Ashpool)
lvl 50 - Blueclaw Shrimp (Hundred Throes, Iron Feast, Whilom River, Smoldering Wastes, Quickspil Delta)
lvl 52 - Three-lip Carp (Whilom River, Smoldering Wastes)
lvl 52 - Grass Carp (Hundred Throes)
lvl 52 - Cloudfish (Vor Sian Siran, Eddies, Eil Tohm, Weston Waters)
lvl 54 - Mahu Wai (Cloudtop)
lvl 54 - Blue Cloud Coral (Cloudtop)
lvl 54 - Bouyant Oviforms (Cloudtop, Blue Window)
lvl 56 - Pipira Pira (Hundred Throes, Iron Feast, Whilom River)
lvl 56 - Hundred Fin (Waston Waters)
lvl 56 - Brown Bolo (Tharl Oom Khash)
lvl 58 - Fountfish (Delta Quadrant, Pappus Tree)
lvl 58 - Yalm Lobster (Eddies, Quickspill Delta, Upper Thaliak River)
lvl 58 - Bullwhips (Alpha Quadrant, Aetherochemical Spill)


Collectibles:
lvl 51 - Glacier Core 310+ (Greytail Falls)
lvl 51 - Ice Pick 106+ (Unfrozen Pond, South Banepool)
lvl 52 - Whilom Catfish 459+ (Hundred Throes, Whilom River, Smouldering Wastes)
lvl 53 - Sorcerer Fish 646+ (Unfrozen Pond)
lvl 54 - Bubble Eye 162+ (Voor Sian Siran)
lvl 55 - Dravanian Squeaker 158+ (Weston Waters)
lvl 56 - Warmwater Bichir 683+ (Smouldering Wastes)
lvl 57 - Noontide Oscar 258+ (Eil Tohm)
lvl 58 - Weston Bowfin 376+ (Weston Waters)
lvl 59 - Illuminati Perch 826+ (Thaliak River)
lvl ?? - Manasail ???+ (Tharl Oom Khash)
lvl ?? - Pteranodon ???+ (Sohm Al Summit)
lvl ?? - Caiman ???+ (Voor Sian Siran, Iron Feast)
lvl ?? - Tupaxuara ???+ (Habisphere)


GC Provisioning Missions
Cloud Coral (Greytail Falls)
Seema Patrician (South Banepool)
Ammonite (South Banepool)
Mercy Staff (West Banepool)
Bubble Eye (Voor Sian Siran)
Marble Oscar (Smouldering Wastes)
Gobbie Mask (Sohm Al Summit)
Rudderfish (Churning Mists)
Black Magefish (West Mourn)
Cobrafish (Tharl Oom Khash)
Vampiric Tapestry (Mok Oogl Island)


Used in Crafting
Blueclaw Shrimp (Hundred Throes, Iron Feast, Whilom River, Smoldering Wastes, Quickspil Delta)
Coerthan Crab (Riversmeet, Clearpool)
Rock Mussel (Whilom River, Smoldering Wastes)
Spring Urchin (Dragonspit)
Lake Urchin (South & West Banepool Ashpool)
Unidentified Flying Biomass (Habisphere)
Fanged Clam (West Banepool, Ashpool)
Pipira Pira (Hundred Throes, Iron Feast, Whilom River)
Sweetfish (Upper, Middle and Thaliak River, Greensward)
Seema Patrician (South Banepool)
Mogpom (Greensward)

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I'm sure there might be more fish that are collectible that haven't been found or might need the Folklore books to access. The highest level ones (Pteranodon, Tupaxuara, Caiman etc) can be broken down into Dawnborne, Duskborne and Seaborne Aethersand using Aetherial Reduction. However, they may also be potential turn ins for Red Gathering scrips, so i've been keeping mine for now.

There are also probably more fish that can be turned in at your GC, but since I'm lvl 60 now I don't know what the other fish on the roster for lower levels might be. If you have any fish you can add to the list, please do so.

Crafting materials: Blueclaw Shrimp, Coerthan Crab, Rock Mussel, Spring Urchin, Lake Urchin, Unidentified Flying Biomass, Fanged Clam, Pipira Pira
Side mentions (used in recipes but not particularly useful): Sweetfish, Seema Patrician

You can also get Seaborne Aethersand from Aetherial Reduction

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Originally Posted by Lyrinn

Crafting materials: Blueclaw Shrimp, Coerthan Crab, Rock Mussel, Spring Urchin, Lake Urchin, Unidentified Flying Biomass, Fanged Clam, Pipira Pira
Side mentions (used in recipes but not particularly useful): Sweetfish, Seema Patrician

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How is sweetfish not particularly useful? It's the main ingredient of easily the best accuracy food in the game lol (other than the master one which is an absolute ripoff).

I forgot about crafting. Added those fish to the list as well as the other aethersand, thanks ^_^.

Mogpom is crafting-useful; used for Grade 1 Intelligence Dissolvent which is both a class quest item for ALC 53 and used for some other synths.

Added Mogpom as well as another Collectibles fish (Manasail, no turn it, but can be Aethered) and 2 more lvl 60 Provisioning fish

Clearpool cant be used really for caught Coerthan Crab for leves unless you planning sell those crabs in market because is needed level 60 to can fish there.

Manasail is good for reduction, i used to get often good quality and reduce into Aethersands.

I've had Bubble Eye (Voor Sian Siran) pop up twice as a GC turn-in, so you can add that to the list.

Rudderfish is also a GC turn in item, can be fished at The Churning Mists at 20x40y with a red balloon straight catch. i think at 58 the turn in was worth 830k exp and 500 company seals

This seems like a good thread to ask rather than make a new one: what's the equivalent of ephemeral nodes for fishing? Ephemeral nodes make getting Fire, Earth, Lightning and Wind crystals hilariously easy and I assume fishing has something for Ice and Water, but I haven't started to level it for HW yet.

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Originally Posted by XLauncher

This seems like a good thread to ask rather than make a new one: what's the equivalent of ephemeral nodes for fishing? Ephemeral nodes make getting Fire, Earth, Lightning and Wind crystals hilariously easy and I assume fishing has something for Ice and Water, but I haven't started to level it for HW yet.

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Pretty much all fish desynths provide Water crystals, and many provide a secondary crystal as well. Most Western Coerthan fish provide Ice crystals for their secondary. While I haven't done much Hellfishing yet, I'm guessing most of those fish will provide Fire crystals as their secondary (or maybe even primary?).

Thank you for this list x10.

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Originally Posted by LineageRazor

Pretty much all fish desynths provide Water crystals, and many provide a secondary crystal as well. Most Western Coerthan fish provide Ice crystals for their secondary. While I haven't done much Hellfishing yet, I'm guessing most of those fish will provide Fire crystals as their secondary (or maybe even primary?).

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These are not equivalent to Aetherial Reduction, though.

Answering XLauncher, the only one I found so far was the Manasail, Churning Mists, 10am-2pm, yields Water.

Thanks so much! Now I do not need to keep all the fish!

Edit:
Also a GC turn ins:
Cometoise (Anyx Old)
Winged Gurnard (The Blue Window)

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Originally Posted by XLauncher

This seems like a good thread to ask rather than make a new one: what's the equivalent of ephemeral nodes for fishing? Ephemeral nodes make getting Fire, Earth, Lightning and Wind crystals hilariously easy and I assume fishing has something for Ice and Water, but I haven't started to level it for HW yet.

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I've only caught 8/8 HQ Pteranodon for Reduction but they yield usually ~40-50 Ice Crystals and ~40-50 Ice Clusters unless you get aethersand from it instead

I'm super confused how one even begins to know where to start fishing at Lv.50. I grab the first two leves in Ishgard but they don't even tell you were the fishing spots are unlike the BTN and MIN leves. Does SE expect this to just be some sort of crowd sourced community effort like threads such as these?

I just grabbed the highest food I could use for freshwater and cloudfishing and went to Coerthas Western Highlands. For fisher you do not really need leves, it levels very fast as it is.

Some useful fishing websites:
http://en.ff14angler.com/
http://www.garlandtools.org/db/#

Landlord Colony Snagging. Red Baloon straight catch Gleaming COral. Heavily Used from 58-60 GSM making earings for Collectables.

Great list thx! Can you please add the zones to the list as well? Also perhaps note which fish belong to which Folklore Log?

Eg.

Used in Crafting
Blueclaw Shrimp (Hundred Throes, Iron Feast, Whilom River, Smoldering Wastes, Quickspil Delta) - xxx
Coerthan Crab (Riversmeet, Clearpool) - xxx
Spring Urchin (Dragonspit) - xxx (Folklore log x)

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Originally Posted by Karasumori

I'm super confused how one even begins to know where to start fishing at Lv.50. I grab the first two leves in Ishgard but they don't even tell you were the fishing spots are unlike the BTN and MIN leves. Does SE expect this to just be some sort of crowd sourced community effort like threads such as these?

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MIN and BTN 50 start in Coerthas Western Highlands, that's more or less the hint. The general rule of thumb: visit an aether and check tools. If you can equip their bait, go looking for fish.

Middle Thailak River
Thailak Caiman Collectible 1876 rating (8/8) Reduced into Seaborne Aethersand

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Originally Posted by XLauncher

This seems like a good thread to ask rather than make a new one: what's the equivalent of ephemeral nodes for fishing? Ephemeral nodes make getting Fire, Earth, Lightning and Wind crystals hilariously easy and I assume fishing has something for Ice and Water, but I haven't started to level it for HW yet.

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Bit late, but:

Pteranodon - 9am-5pm - Sohm Al Summit, Churning Mist - Ice
Manasail - 10am-2pm - Tharl Oom Khash, Churning Mist - Ice
Tupuxuara - 3pm-6pm - The Habisphere, Azys Lla - Ice
Caiman - 6pm-8:30PMpm - Voor Sian Siran, Sea of Clouds & The Iron Feast, Dravanian Forelands - Water
Thaliak Caiman - 3pm-6pm - Middle Thaliak River, Dravanian HInterlands - Water

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Originally Posted by Antonn

Bit late, but:

Pteranodon - 9am-5pm - Sohm Al Summit, Churning Mist - Ice
Manasail - 10am-2pm - Tharl Oom Khash, Churning Mist - Ice
Tupuxuara - 3pm-6pm - The Habisphere, Azys Lla - Ice
Caiman - 6pm-8:30PMpm - Voor Sian Siran, Sea of Clouds & The Iron Feast, Dravanian Forelands - Water
Thaliak Caiman - 3pm-6pm - Middle Thaliak River, Dravanian HInterlands - Water

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To add to that, there's one more fish called:
Dravanian Bass - 12am-5am - Whilom River, The Dravanian Forelands - Water