Quote Originally Posted by Plastics View Post
Nope, you just pick the bait attached to your rod before you cast. The current tackle box thing, but it has all the baits, and you don't ever actually carry anything.
Something overlooked with this is swapping baits. What you choose to carry on your person (therefore, what shows up in the Bait & Tackle window) is also a strategic choice. Having all baits available at all times with the current Bait & Tackle menu would be a nightmare in many scenarios, and on some notably difficult fish too.

There are multiple Fisher's Intuition fish that require one bait for the fish to trigger it and then another for the Intuition fish. Some Intuitions are extremely short and making sure you can swap easily between the baits you need in order to not waste time is a conscious choice, by choosing what bait you carry on you. Currently, you can deliberately choose to make sure you have at most one page of bait in your inventory and have the two baits near each other by adjusting what you carry. Having all baits available would result in many scenarios where the baits you need to quickly switch between would not be on the same page and would make the act of swapping baits slower, burning time on some Intuitions that are as short as 15 seconds long so there's no time to waste.

As Fisher has continued to get more complex, there are more and more incentives to being well-prepared before a fish window. ShB skills encourage this now more than ever. Being prepared with the proper bait in adequate quantities is just a part of being prepared as well.