Quote Originally Posted by Puremallace View Post
Unless I am missing something the entire point of this button is to search your inventory to pick a bait right? Why is this not treated as a separate storage system akin to how armor is stored?

Why can I not just store the bait with my retainer then have the bait box search that?
The answer is in your first sentence.

Bait is used from your inventory. It can't reach across to your retainer storage and use bait from there.

The Bait button is essentially an inventory filter with a neat little interface. It's not a separate space, it's not moving your bait "into" the bait box while also still occupying inventory space, it's just finding the baits that are currently in your inventory and displaying them for you to pick.



Quote Originally Posted by Puremallace View Post
Clearly they can add separate space for these items
The devs have said before that to create a dedicated space outside of the inventory for fishing tackle would take up inventory slots that could otherwise act as general storage for any kind of item.

They could have given us a tackle box but instead gave us the saddlebag, which is far more useful as far as I'm concerned.