Big Fish and you: What bait is needed when to land the big one

[Lyn]

Wait so you're using accessories that don't have any base gathering stats at all just for higher meld caps?

What are the gathering stat caps for those accessories?

i55 accessories cap is 4 gathering and 4 perception.
i70 accessories cap is 5 gathering and 5 perception, only worth it if you have the money/mats though.

[Torquere]

Not sure if this has already been mentioned, but the Gigantshark can be double mooched using Ogre Barracuda (HQ), mooched from Harboring Herring (HQ) or Merlthor Goby (HQ).

[FurmanTheGerman]

I caught old softie @ 8:10 PM so I think the window might be 5-9pm

[Torquere]

Matron Carp needs to be adjusted to read -- 3 pm to 9 pm, Fair (or) Cloudy conditions, Bloodworm

[Torquere]

Chirurgeon needs to be adjusted to read -- Cloudy, Fair, or Clear conditions. Not willing to dispute the time requirements yet, but the Japanese website says it can be caught at any time, and also indicates it can be caught in the rain.

[Torquere]

Judgeray needs to be adjusted to read -- 5 pm to 9 pm. I would almost like to say 10 pm. I got a bite at 9:17 pm which broke my line and took my Wildfowl Fly, and that was with Gathering at 366. Until I do catch it after 9 pm though, I'll have to stick with my above times.

[KingZeus]

Wait so you're using accessories that don't have any base gathering stats at all just for higher meld caps?

because the only accessories with "base gathering stats" is anything with +CP or +GP, which fisher doesn't use. so therefore, there are no accessories with stats that fishers use.
so use the highest ilvl accessories to get 5/5 +g+p melds

[Geno]

Junkmonger is higher than 301, i just hooked him at 308 and got "Your gathering rating is insufficcient for landing this catch.

[LlenCoram]

Thank you everyone!

[Alice_89th]

Don't know whether this is mentioned somewhere earlier in the thread, but the game states that You need 290 gathering to catch an "old one" (Big Fish). So at least some of them should be catchable with just that.



Like the first post mentions it is probably still better to have higher gathering, to prevent the fish from slipping through your fingers.