
Use this bait to catch Bluetail, which cap at 55. Here is your basic strategy for this part: take some wind crystals out with you and use your Hamsi (or Bastore Sardine) and your new cooking skill to make some Sliced Sardine. This way, as you make bait, you can continue to skill up (Slice of Bluetail caps at 11, Sliced Cod at 13).įishing skill from 29-48/55: Cone Calamary and Bluetail Trade this to the cooking guild (and join them if you haven't already) to break the cooking skill 10 cap on your cooking. It caps at 10.įinally, buy from the Auction House (or craft, using materials from the cooking guild or Auction House) a Salmon Sub. Buy some Saruta Oranges from her and make Orange Juice. Then, go to Yoskolo at I-8 in Lower Jeuno with some more water crystals. Buy San d'Orian carrots from her, and use 4 carrots with one water crystal for each Carrot Juice, which caps at 3 skill. The downside is that any time you spend here will be less Sliced Cod later for catching Black Sole, and you will only reach level 27 on Blindfish.Īt some point before you move on from Tiger Cod, you'll want to get your Cooking to level 10.įirst, go to Aveline at F-7 in South San d'Oria with a bunch of water crystals. The best thing about this method is that you can totally isolate Blindfish, as only they will come up here with Insect Balls (except for a rare Lamp Marimo). A Shrimp Lure will pull up Tiger Cod (29 cap), Nosteau Herring (39 cap), and Black Sole (96 cap).īeaucedine Glacier: The same three fish will come up with a Shrimp Lure, but this is much less convenient than Qufim.Īydeewa Subterrane: If you have enough Tiger Cod or just want a change of scenery, you can use Insect Balls to catch Blindfish (27 cap) here. Unfortunately you cannot isolate Tiger Cod completely. Location: Qufim Island (south or north shores both yield same fish types) Although you can skill up on Quus (they cap at 19 skill), you won't be able to use them to make bait for later on.Ĭape Terrigan: Just like Vunkerl Islet, you will catch Bastore Sardines here with a Sabiki Rig, but you'll also pull up Quus. Vunkerl Islet fails to isolate the Sardines, as the Sabiki Rig will also pull up Quus. Vunkerl Islet (accessed by using Retrace or going to the past, then using the campaign arbiter): here, you'll want to fish from one of the bridges, again with a Sabiki rig, and you'll get Bastore Sardines, not Hamsi. I have had significantly better bite rates and skillups here than in the alternative zones. Using the Sabiki Rig, you can get up to 3 Hamsi per cast of your line. Hamsi are the Aht Urghan equivalent of Bastore Sardines, so you should save them for use later in catching Bluetail (see below, skill levels 27-55). This also allows easy access to advanced synthesis support at the fishing guild in the same zone (for one Imperial Bronze Piece). You can skill up on Hamsi without pulling up monsters here in Whitegate. Location: Aht Urghan Whitegate, Port Ephramad (north port at H-6) 7 Fishing skill from 96-110: Legendary Fish and Beyond.5 Fishing skill from 48-69: Crescent Fish.




You can then go back to fishing, using your Hamsi-created bait ( Sliced Sardine) to catch Bluetail in Qufim Island, where you can also use the Bluetail itself to make even more bait, Slice of Bluetail, in the exact same place to get Cone Calamary.Īfter this, you'll catch Crescent Fish in Dragon's Aery and move back to Qufim Island to use your Tiger Cod-created bait ( Sliced Cod) to catch Black Sole. You'll skill up cooking to around 10-13 so that you can make the bait yourself. I have more luck with bait as opposed to rigs, and with this guide you can use each stretch of fishing to prepare bait ingredients for later.īriefly, you'll catch Hamsi (equivalent to Bastore Sardine) to make bait for Bluetail then, you'll catch Tiger Cod to make bait for Black Sole. Since you won't need the cooking skill until well into your fishing career, I have left that part of the guide until right before you need to start making bait. To best use the bait fish you skill up on, you will need level 10 cooking (preferably at least level 13). Its most important goal is isolating fish so that catches below your current skill level don't happen. This guide seeks maximum skill ups while using the fish caught to create bait for subsequent fish.
