Please read this in conjunction with the activity guide on this site.

 

In order to get 6 perfect tackles and the maximum weight fish you need to understand how the ratings are calculated.

 

Each piece of bait, hook and distance add 0, 16 or 33% to the rating. Get all 3 @33% and its rounded up to 100%.

 

To start, choose 1 bait, 1 hook and 1 distance (I usually go for worms, standard, 010). This can be speeded up if the fisherman's hint is bait or hook.

 

Check the rating, (assuming its not 100%) change the bait to something completely different (e.g. red worms to grey moth). The rating will change by -33, -16, 0, + 16 or +33.

 

See the following table for reasons

 

Change Reason

+33% Current bait is now correct

+16% Current bait is similar to correct one

0% Current and original bait are completely wrong

-16% Original bait was similar to correct one

-33% Original Bait was correct

 

If change is +/- 16% then change bait to a matching colour or shape until rating increases by another 16%.

If change is 0 then its possible to work out exactly what bait is needed. (I love 0's :thumbsup:).

 

When you are happy with bait do the same with hooks, same rules apply.

Then move on to weights. At this point the rating will be either 66%, 83% or 100%. If it's 83% then the correct range is +/- 1 from current, if 66% increase/decrease range by 3 and go from there.

 

Move to next location and repeat (remembering that no hooks, bait or ranges are used twice in any game).

 

Remember that 2 of the locations both contain 2 fish. A quick check is once you have the 100%, completely change the bait, hook and range. If you get the same fish at 0% then there aren't any others there.

 

When you have all 6 fish at 100% there will be 2 whose weights end in 9. Go to one of these, catch a 100% fish and change the range by 2 . The weight will now be either 29 or 49. If it's 49 you've got the heaviest fish, if not move to the other location and fish there.

 

All of the above should take between 3 and 5 minutes depending on luck and the randomness of the game; this leaves up to 12 minutes fishing the heaviest fish and therefore increasing your maximum catch.

I usually get from 10-12 fish per minute at an average weight of 100-120 per fish giving a score of 50k+ and (at level 89 fishing) 17K fishing XP.

 

Tight lines everyone.

Im a little confused here, Isn't this already listed in the guide though? :-k

A lot of it is but I just tried to provide a logical step by step approach.

 

In particular the guide says that there is no short cut to finding the best weight when trying to work out the casting range.

 

I've also included a section on making sure of getting the 199 fish.