First of all thank you for this information! This is great and will help a lot! However, I have a few questions about the behavior of the favored bait phases which you may be able to answer since you've put in a lot of time observing this system.

1) Fishing with Goby Balls in Grade 3/4 waters near Limsa I'd periodically get the 'favored bait' message and (if I'm remembering correctly) I was getting that message for a variety of different fish that I'd pull in every during a 'Goby Ball favored bait phase.' This appears to be consistent with the data on your chart as well. However, my question is do the 'favored bait' phases always work like this? At a particular time, in a given zone/location/grade of water, if Goby Balls are the favored bait of the hour (or however long it is) do all the fish on your table that love Goby Balls start biting on them at the same time? Or is that something that triggers independently for each fish? Meaning it was just luck that multiple fish were biting on Goby Balls at the same time in the instance above.

2) Is there always a 'favored bait' that is active at any given time? Or is that something that appears to be occurring in random windows? Ex: White Coral only have two favored baits; Goby Balls and Rat Tails. So, if I fish up some White Coral while using Goby Balls and I don't get a favored bait message does that mean they will be jonesing for Rat Tails?

Hopefully those questions make sense and thanks ^^;