Quote Originally Posted by Cheezeman3000 View Post
It's so bad that I may just ignore this fish until they fix it, and this is coming from someone who's caught some of the most elusive fish in the game.
I wouldn't expect them to 'fix' any older fish. AFAIK, they have never nerfed a fish via code adjustments.

If you want to wait for something, just wait and see what new tools are added from 91-100. While not guaranteed to help on this fish, there's usually always some form of alleviation for past fishing design when Fisher gets new levels.

Quote Originally Posted by Cheezeman3000 View Post
And then on the rare occasion you do catch a Gecko, around 80% of my mooch attempts result in the !! fish, a problem that wouldn't exist if the !! fish wasn't at the hole.
I have not fished at this hole in a long time so I very well could just be misinformed, but the data for mooching at this spot indicates that you cannot catch the quest fish via mooch and that the !! fish off of San Gecko is the Nabaath Manta, so the quest fish really isn't getting in your way once you have a mooch. At the most, you are experiencing more potential !! bites when trying to catch your Gecko, but that's just delaying targeting down your !s. That could be seen as a boon for GP regeneration depending on your method.

Any mooch target that cannot be isolated via surface slap or bite time is going to be rough, which is unfortunately the case for the Gecko and you'd still have that problem whether having done the quest or not.