Ambling Caltrop...

[Fluffster]

Why does completing the Crystarium delivery quests make catching this fish noticeably worse? Purely because if you do, it adds Amber Monkfish to the pool, an extremely annoying fish when trying to fish up the Ambling Caltrop since it can bite on your desert frog. It's also much more common.

Completing a quest or activity should not actively handicap you in something else, this is extremely poor design and I don't know why it hasn't been addressed yet. I wish knew about it beforehand because now I'm going to have to be exceptionally lucky in catching it while dealing with unwanted !! bites.

Or just make the fish always available and we wouldn't have this problem. Sure, Amber Monkfish would still be annoying but at least it's not spawned as a direct result of you doing a quest.

Is anyone else aware of this? Is there a way to eliminate this fish from the pool after completing Crystarium delivery quests without having to resort to surface slap?

EDIT: I have finally caught the Caltrop! Also someone stated that Teamcraft shows the monkfish as not being moochable, I just assumed it was due to the !! popping up during mooches but I’ve never actually hooked it to see what it was, so removed this just to avoid misleading in case it was incorrect.