Quote Originally Posted by tdb View Post
What would be the benefit of not reeling it in? I mean, won't you lose your bait anyway and have to cast again if you don't respond to the tug? I guess you might save a few seconds of catching animation.
The benefit is not wasting GP on hookset abilities on the wrong catch. If you're just doing cast/hook/cast/hook/cast/hook then yeah, it doesn't matter.. go nuts. But if you're going for something specific, you're using patience and you're using hooksets and that costs GP.