Silver Shark Questions

[KingZeus]

With 246 Perception I'm still not getting many HQ goby bites is it capped?

i have 190 perception and get a ton of HQ goby bites

just gotta use the right bait for them...

[Vermilion]

i have 190 perception and get a ton of HQ goby bites

just gotta use the right bait for them...

What would the right bait be? I have tried all baits and seems HQ rates are still the same. Lugworms, Rat tails, Goby balls, and Pill bugs.
Do baits have hidden HQ multipliers that I don't know about?

[Moochan]

I think HQ chance caps like other gathering jobs. Which really sucks.

[WhiteWindHD]

You best bet is to find a high level spot with low level bait that has gobys and silver sharks. For example, I use goby balls at my spot which singles out gobys and ocean clouds whichs are level 3 and 6 respectfully and takes the other five fish out of the loop. Allowing me to target the shark.

A little research of fishing resources can net you a spot like this

[cloverkitty]

If you are high enough, Cape Westwind (level 45 area) in Western Thanalan is the best spot for Silver Shark. (North of Vesper Bay by the imperials... you'll need Stealth III). Use a low level bait/lure for ocean fishing to catch the Merlthor Goby and you can mooch Silver shark or Wahoo. And even double mooch the Wahoo back to Silver Shark.

Thank you very much for this tip, it helped a lot, I now have a reliable way to make the oil so I can make the militia crafting tools for me and the LS crafters so we can better support the LS with 1 star items. I can confirm this worked well. Using low level bait (15 and lower) I caught nothing but Gobys which when HQed gave me a shot at the Silver Shark, occasionally I got a Wahoo to which seemed to HQ at least half the time mooching into a Silver Shark.

Again much appreciated.

[Ziar]

Just tried out the western thanalan spot...way better than waiting around blood shore

I pulled 10 sharks in a very short period
so 10 sharks + 25gp hammer head sharks = 1 shark oil
10 shark oils sell for 45,000 (before tax)

and i thought fishing was useless now :P

[Lanceton]

Best place to attempt Silver Shark is probably South Bloodshore. You can use low level bait like lugworms and only catch Merlthor Gobies and possibly the Coral Butterfly on occasion. Singling out the Gobies will give more chances at catching an HQ version, allowing you to Mooch. The downside is Blue Octopus shares bites on Mooched catches, so it'll be a crapshoot on what you catch.

yep this is THE spot, use lugworm and you'll ONLY catch Gobies. and if you get HQ Gobies you get silver shark or blue octopus.

[KingZeus]

What would the right bait be?

goby balls

[w1nddancer]

Hello! Ive been currently testing this spot for about 10hours now using all level 50 green fishing gear just for our class with some + perception and + gathering Materia installed.

When i first arrived at this location i caught a few silver sharks right away. However now i cannot catch any. When i try to mooch i get a normal goby again. I think the weather has alot to do with this. Only under certain weather can you mooch a silver shark.

i used about 500 goby balls , and i tried a floating lure for a while. Both catch HQ gobys but when using mooch they wont land a silver shark.

257 gathering
220 perception

[gtasthehunter]

Try here for another Silver Shark location I haven't fished lately so could be wrong

Middle La Noscea ~ Summerford
Use Pill Bug to and get HQ Harbor Herring then get Lv25 Ogre Barracuda or Lv41 Silver Shark