Shark Mount

[ElazulHP]

This is the big issue I'm having. Is there any actual trick to triggering the currents? Is it pure RNG?

You trigger the currents by catching Spectral fish. I don't know how many are actually needed to get a Spectral Current to pop, but I did get an extra 10% bonus for being the person to trigger one of them. Pretty much everyone needs to actually be fishing to contribute towards the goal to get all three Spectral Currents. And you absolutely need the three currents to get enough points to qualify for the mount. It looks like this is having a side effect of some people joining a voyage and if a Spectral Current doesn't pop in the first four minutes of the voyage they'll quit the voyage and launch another voyage.

Why double hook in spectral? It seems better to use GP on patience II with powerful hookset etc. as you get more HQ fish out of that. Do two-four fishes give way more points than one HQ?

I've seen somebody get over 11k with just two rainbows, it is possible, so don't give up after first area.

With a sitting animation it seems to take longer to fish, during a spectral current? But maybe Im wrong

I think party finder groups may be a better option to coordinate. You can make 3 teams and say enter the duty after 5min when everybody solo already entered. You can assign 2 people for one bait so you get the most out of every zone, which is important for the 10% bonuses at the end. Spectral fishes seem to be fishable with more than one bait anyway, they overlap.

I was using Patience I to conserve GP and using Precision for ! and Powerful for !! & !!!

I would recommend not sitting as the animation is longer losing out on cast time. Same with tossing fish back. That is a couple extra casts you could be making.

The XP is absolutely insane too. Went from 70 to 80 in 5 voyages.