The Most Basic Fishing Guide Ever

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Introduction

This Guide is made to be simple. There is a lot that goes into fishing, but you don't care about any of that, you just want to know the path. If you want the extras look up one of the other guides or check out the 700 sections in the fishing section page.

What You Need to Fish

• You must be level 15 in at least one job.
• Have a fishing rod equipped.
• Have bait equipped: Live bait is lost as you use it. lures can be reused unless your line snaps.
• Water (Fresh / Salt is a thing)

Tools

• Horizogenes: Horizon wiki has built its own timers. This page Has all the boats even the ones missing from pyogenes like: Bibiki Bay and Carpenters' Landing
• [GreatBlue] :Tells you location / skill / bait. have this bookmarked. If its in Japanese hit the big button up top that says English.
• HorizonXI Fishing Discord

Rank Ups

Like any craft you need to rank up every 10 levels. You can take your "exam" 2 levels early like everything else. see below for the rank up fish by rank.

Level	Item Requested	Rank Acquired
8-10	Moat Carp	Recruit
18-20	Cheval Salmon	Initiate
28-30	Giant Catfish	Novice
38-40	Gugru Tuna	Apprentice
48-50	Monke-Onke	Journeyman
58-60	Bhefhel Marlin	Craftsman
68-70	Bladefish	Artisan
78-80	Three-eyed Fish	Adept
88-90	Gigant Squid	Veteran

How Fishing works

• once you figure out how to equip a rod and bait, and learn what water is its time to fish.
• The mini game is simple, you can get items, get nothing, get a fish, or a monster. Below are the messages. I think you can tell what ones not to real up: Items are generally bad. However some gil locations such as Silver Ring fishing and Mythril Sword's are worth getting. Although that would be at close to the 100 cap anyways.

           Small fish: "Something caught the hook!"
           Large fish: "Something caught the hook!!!"
           Non-fish targets: "You feel something pulling at your line."
           Monsters: "Something clamps onto your line ferociously!"

• When you hook a fish or item arrows point to the direction you need to click. The Fish/item will fight back and move from side to side. Gold Arrows = more HP drain from the fish. Click the right direction HP drains click the wrong and the HP goes up.
  • Oh and if you are far below the skill cap the fish slowly recovers HP, and the reverse is true, if you are far above the fish's skill cap it drains HP.
• (Fishing Pool Refresh Times): 0:00, 4:00, 6:00, 7:00, 17:00, 18:00 and 20:00.
  • There is a max number of each fish in a pool they slowly restock at the above times.

Gear And Rod's

• Angler's Tunica Set: HQ set, get it. almost the same price, seconds as a level 15 set of gear and gives a slight increase rate of gold arrows.
• Halcyon Rod: Your First rod really can be anything. However get the Halcyon asap.
• Composite Fishing Rod: second rod you should get.
• Lu Shang's Fishing Rod: final fishing rod you need. Hidden +15 to your fishing skill. Opens up a lot of spots. and nothing will break for the most part until skill 100
  • Get the Lu Shang as fast as you can if you plan to make Fishing your money maker. its worth the 2mil+ You wont be using it until 50 as there appears to be some type of nerf to it prior to skill 50.
• the 4th Rod is pointless, its a Ponzi scheme. Get it if you want, but I would only do it when you are overflowing with gil. My deep hate for it might also have something to do with me holding the record for most turn- ins on BG for over a year...
  • that is all you need to know about gear and rods. the GP items and The Big One have uses but by that time you are not reading this.

Fish

pick a fish and try and be around 10-14(14 is max with gear) levels under it prior to 50 post 50 more opens up if you get a lu shang with it's extra +15 skill to fishing. check greatblue for more locations

* = recommended

Fish	Cap	Location	Rod	Bait	Notes
Moat Carp	11	West Ronfaure* So many other locations. check the moat carp page.	Halcyon Rod* use of cheaper rods is OK until you save gil for the Halcyon Rod	Insect Paste* Little worms are fine until you make a little gil to move to paste	Effective for making gil. Insect Paste is the preferred bait for better results.
Forest Carp	20	Yhoator Jungle Yuhtunga Jungle	Halcyon Rod	Insect Ball	Profitable for continuous gil making. Use same setup as Moat Carp.
Nebimonite's	27	Ship bound for Mhaura* Ship bound for Selbina*	Halcyon Rod	Crayfish Ball are the best* Shrimp Lure is a lure tho...	They sell decently on the Auction House (AH).
Elshimo Frog	30	Yhoator Jungle(J-11)* Yuhtunga Jungle	Halcyon Rod	Fly Lure	Check the AH frequently for price fluctuations. Can be highly profitable at times.
Giant Catfish	31	Port San d'Oria Many other locations but port sandy is in town, soooooo.... ya	Composite Fishing Rod	Minnow Sinking Minnow	Non-stackable, but sell to NPC if nearby, especially if nation outpost is close.
Nosteau Herring	39	Qufim Island	Halcyon Rod	Sardine Ball Shrimp Lure	Good for AH sales or if you have Cooking skilled up you can average around 400-500 per fish craft-NPCing Pickled Herring..
Gugru Tuna	41	Ship bound for Mhaura Ship bound for Selbina	Composite Fishing Rod	Sinking Minnow	High AH value, continue up to cap if profitable, otherwise consider an earlier switch.
Cone Calamary	48	Bibiki Bay	Halcyon Rod	Sabiki Rig	Viable for NPC sales if AH is not profitable, found in Bibiki Bay.
Bluetail	55	Buburimu Peninsula* Multiple other Locations	Halcyon Rod	Minnow	Check both NPC and AH for best selling option, available in many locations.

Lu Shang's Fishing Rod Time

You have your lu, Right? Do you have to have the rod? a fast look at the discord shows many 80+ fishers without a Lu Shang's, there are paths to follow if you really want too. I will try my best to give you that path here as well, but fishing prints gil, you should have saved the gil by now(or soon, start savings more). Also on retail and all private servers I have always aimed to get the Lu asap so I have very little personal experience without it at this point.

• Remember you can access a fish up to 15 levels before using the Lu Shang's you have not only more options but can accesss the options normal rods have a lot sooner
• Noble Lady: They cap at 66 found on the ships between Mhaura and Selbina. They NPC well. They might also sell on the AH. do not try and real in the large fish that fight like hell. . It's likely a Titan that can snap your rod, and unless you are also a woodworker is a waste of time.

• Crescent Fish: They cap at 69 use a Fly Lure at East Sarutabaruta. This is sorta the first dip into a "Lu Shang's fish". You can fish them with a Composite Fishing Rod but you will get "to small for this rod" at times.

• Bladefish Caps at 71 While they do not stack, they NPC well and are right outside Windy so its not that bad. If you do not have a Lu Shang's the Halcyon Rod works just fine.

• Tavnazian Goby caps at 75 they are not a bad option in Misareaux Coast use a Minnow if they dry up you can swap to a Shrimp Lure to make some gil off Gold Carp until the next restock timer.Halcyon Rod If you have no Lu Shang's

• Silver Sharks cap at 77 again a nice NPC fish, they have been a nerfed a little on this server but still not bad.

• Three-eyed Fish This happens to be one of the last fish that are easy without a Lu Shang's. If you are not using a Lu Shang's use your Composite Fishing Rod with a Minnow you will get some "to smalls" but it wont break the rod or line.

You really should get a Lu Shang's Fishing Rod

Anything past this point falls into Lu Shang's or E-Rod territory. You "can" keep going if you do not mind dealing with silly amounts of line snaps, rod breaks and a very limited pool of fish.

• Bastore Bream: Cap is 86 there are a lot of locations. I would consider hitting up Sea Serpent Grotto using a Shrimp Lure you get Bream and Grimmonite's. You can fish them in Port Windurst right by the fishing guild as well.

• Grimmonite: cap is 90 you can fish them at the same time as Bastore Bream in Sea Serpent Grotto using a Shrimp Lure as said above. Both NPC and AH well.

• Gigant Squid: Cap at 91 Qufim Island and Beaucedine Glacier if you still do not have a Lu Shang's This is a fish you can skill up on. They appear to have an OK AH price too. Get your Composite Fishing Rod with a Minnow you will get "to small" with this set up. If you have a Lu Shang's I would skip this one but if you want go for it.
• Black Sole: Cap is 96 I fished in Batallia Downs but there are a lot of locations. Another fish that in theory you can skill up on using a Composite Fishing Rod and a Sinking Minnow. "To small" will show up if you do not have a Lu Shang's

Lu Shang's Fishing Rod or Ebisu Fishing Rod only

if somehow you made it with all that "to small" fishing without one I just do not know what to say at this point there is nothing but line breaks and Rod snaps for anything 96+ that I know of.

Final Push

All fish below will take you to the cap of 100

• Armored Pisces: cap 108 They appear to have a small pool but some people like them. Frog Lure is your bait.
  • If you hate making money use Meatball's with a Composite Fishing Rod you will get line snaps, but your rod should not break. Honestly I do not know if that's true... Great Blue says so anyways.
• Giant Chirai: Cap is 103. I hit 100 off them, Boyahda Tree with a Fly Lure by the Cloister of Storms.
• Titanictus: Cap is 101 worst of the options I would say, boats have down time and they are not any better than the others above, But they are an option in a small group of options. Bait is Meatball's.

More Pending

• Final Push to 100, more options
• 100 cap fishing ideas? Not sure if I want to put that into "the most basic guide"