Quote Originally Posted by Burrmanchu View Post
Excuse the ignorance here but how is this so much faster? Letting the fish get away is that much of a speed boost from just reeling it in? Am I missing something?

Great guide, thanks for taking the time!
It generally takes around from 5-10 seconds to hook a fish, and another 8-12 seconds to reel it in. Legendaries have a unique sound/animation on the tug so once you can ID that, you can cut out the 8-12 seconds reeling time by simply cancelling, then immediately recasting. You tend to lose a good amount of lures doing this - I went through about 24 yumizuno over 5 hours fishing sovereigns cast-cancelling.