Quote Originally Posted by Yonko View Post
I believe you can use any bait to get the fish for the quest so if you use a bait that doesn't work at the fishing holes you should only catch the quest fish.

I typically just use whatever I have handy but I do know that I was getting near constant catches when I first started using Ocean bait IIRC.
Wait, what? You can use mismatching baits to guaranteed quest catches?