Fisher vs Yellow scips

[Ken88]

Yeah I'm finding that getting scrip on FSH is extremely painful. I've fished for almost every yellow scrip fish and the ones that require yellow scrip bait take more scrip to catch then you get as a reward, 100% of the time. (just spent 15 minutes fishing for Deemster, caught a total of 1) and that's pretty common for me, and obviously didn't even cover the cost of the bait to catch it.

As far as spear fishing for yellow scrip, I have to spawn 3-4 shadow nodes just to catch one fish that is high enough collectability to turn in. That's a huge time investment for barely any return.

I have 843 gath and 677 perc.

Square broke FSH with stormblood... it's a worthless class unless you're raiding omega savage and you need a food that requires fish or you need the FSH aethersand... so still basically worthless at the moment.

[KageTokage]

All of the weather-specific yellow scrip fish that require Fish Eyes but no mooching have been an extremely good source of scrips for me (Especially Swordfish, as they're the only huge tug in their fishing hole, meaning you'll never waste GP on the wrong fish). It's extremely unlikely you'll come out scrip negative after a fishing session (Assuming your gathering/perception ratings are up to snuff), as you'd have to go 20+ casts without a single eligible fish due to them all being worth 100+ scrips and aside from the Deemster, they're fairly reasonable to catch especially in comparison to things like the Barreleye and Stupendimus from HW.

I actually stopped using any other source of scrips because of how much less tedious going fishing in one spot for 10 minutes every once in a while is vs. having to constantly cycle through several different locations for timed nodes.

Just catch fish in advance when their window is open, then cash in once they're available for turn-in.

[Ksenia]

As far as spear fishing for yellow scrip, I have to spawn 3-4 shadow nodes just to catch one fish that is high enough collectability to turn in. That's a huge time investment for barely any return.

Same here. I have 815 GP with food and can spam Natures bounty on every tick of a shadow node. I still get NQ eels most of the time. So far Spear fishing is one of the things I do the most in SB and for Aetherial reduction, desynth and just doing it, it's fun enough but it is not the way to yellow script or even red script for that matter. I can get either one mining or chopping 10X faster.