The whole the fish gets away thing...

[Shadygrove]

Some fish have bizarre high rate of escape for no reason other than to make you frustrated.... they provide significantly unfair advantages to people that get lucky and get them on their first few bites. Why unfair? Because the best fishing rod is locked behind catching 106 different big fish out of 112 available and if you get lucky with these dumb fish that seem to have over 80% escape rate, you get free pass to a rod others get stuck trying to get specific fish and fail 40 times....

That said, the most well known high rate of escape fishes that I know of are: Green Jester in Central Shroud, Cornelia in North Shroud. The Matriarch in Coerthas, The Terpsichorean in Eastern La Noscea and Iron Noose in Southern Thanalan.

There are far more than just three evasive fish. So no one gets a free pass.

Gathering 369 Perception 300 and I see a LOT of the fish gets away messages. Even with food on fish that can be caught with gathering in the 330s.

[desufin]

There are far more than just three evasive fish. So no one gets a free pass.

Gathering 369 Perception 300 and I see a LOT of the fish gets away messages. Even with food on fish that can be caught with gathering in the 330s.

Nowhere in my post did I say there's only 3. But the ones I listed are the ones that are most notorious for being evasive. Many fish only have 10~20% evasive rate but you can run into a bad spell with them regardless, it doesn't make them highly evasive however. Also without FC buffs or Ironworks you can catch all but 1 fish, Nepto Dragon as it require 403 gathering which you cannot get without one or the other.