Big Fish and you: What bait is needed when to land the big one

[lvicious]

nvm it's april fools day

[LlenCoram]

Yoshi here. It's april fools day. Please look forward to it.

[Desidious]

Sorry still figuring out fishing here. To anyone's knowledge has a lvl 50+ fish ever been straight caught by any bait/lure lower than the Topwater Frog?

[KingZeus]

Well I've been trying for many hours on fishing holes that hav no moochable fish so I can see if I can straight catch some two-stars in their respective city states... and have nothing to show for it. Talk about a challenge. I wonder how specific the bait, time of day, and weather is going to be for these.

i went to the nym river in middle la noscea and fished there for like 5 hours. none of the fish were moochable. i caught all the fish over and over including tons of hq's of them. tried various lures. didn't get the High Perch yet. must be a certain weather and time or something

[Desidious]

I tried doing that with the chub and carp like fish to no avail. Been trying to get the coral butterfly one in upper limsa but I just mooch a blue octopus. Saltwater has few lures but that still leaves krill and glow worms in question.

[KingZeus]

jeeze, just got the Rivet Oyster from Vesper Bay in western thanalan. i tried yumizuno for 30 minutes, then switch to heavy iron jig cause i was thinking oysters are on the bottom. got a miss so i knew it was there. then another 8 misses on it for the next 45min. and i'm at 356 gathering 292 perception.
finally got it 7:31am, fair weather
only 12.0 ilms

[LlenCoram]

jeeze, just got the Rivet Oyster from Vesper Bay in western thanalan. i tried yumizuno for 30 minutes, then switch to heavy iron jig cause i was thinking oysters are on the bottom. got a miss so i knew it was there. then another 8 misses on it for the next 45min. and i'm at 356 gathering 292 perception.
finally got it 7:31am, fair weather
only 12.0 ilms

Wow. Glad to know the rod is only barely what we need.

[KingZeus]

Wow. Glad to know the rod is only barely what we need.

yeah, i was a little shocked i was missing it so many times before landing
will have to test higher level baits cause the heavy iron jig is only lvl 37. not sure if it affected it or not

edit your first post, i didn't catch it with yumizuno

[Desidious]

So baits at low levels work just as well huh? That makes things a little hairy.

[LlenCoram]

My bad, this whole Yoshi thing is throwing me off pretty badly xD. But yeah, that you can catch these with lower level bait/lures makes things interesting. I was trying for Jacques the Snipper today. Went two ingame days using both yumis and n. krill, all weathers, and nothing. Not even a bite. Guess I'll have to expand to try other lures now.