Hello there, fellow fishers.

After leveling my miner and botanist to 60 a little more than a week ago, I was overjoyed to see how aetherial reduction remedied my need for gathering crystals and clusters. For the most part. I still needed a way to gather more water crystals, and so I set out to level my fisher to 60.

Now that I'm here, I've done a little looking around for which collectible fish are required, but I can't help but feel fishers are at a disadvantage. As a botanist or miner, it's fairly simple to swiftly move between nodes and collect a sizable amount of crystals in a short amount of time. With fisher, however, the window where collectible fish can be caught is very small, and I'm lucky to catch even three in that time.

I can only assume my gear is insufficient (although it seems more than enough for botanist and miner) ,or I'm not using my skills as I should.

So to my fellow fishers: how do you go about fishing up collectibles for aetherial reduction?

Also, if it helps here are my stats.

Gathering - 488
Perception - 388
GP - 599

Using HQ 60 gear on my left side, and HQ 50 gear with materia on my right.

Any tips would be greatly appreciate.