Best way to make money?

[Zaggi]

What is the easiest way to make cash in the game atm?
The thing that works best for me is definatly walleyes in new york, as long as it's raining atleast. What is your tips?

Little Video of where I catch my fish! :)
https://youtu.be/qNP9qgK3fHU

[khaoste]

Never fished in New York, I can tell you that basses in Florida are my money makers. A catching ratio near to 1:1, one cast one catch, if you know how to do, and very good value per kg.

The best for me could be pikes in Alberta. For what I've seen the best payout for weight in the game, but few catches unfortunately.

I forgot to mention Alaska. If you don't go there only to catch unique Chinooks, like the mass do, but every kind of salmons in the river, there are spots where you can fill a 200 kgs net easily in a decent time. The problem remains the costs of travel and license, but if you manage to do multiple days and have the time to fish for more days with a 24h license, well, the money income is really good.

[GropingForElmo]

The single best tip I can give is to stay at a lake multiple days.

Say it costs 2000 to travel to a lake, and 500 for each additional day. Your first day, you can only catch 1000 worth of fish. You're currently -1000 for the trip. Some people may look at it and say "I better cut my losses; I can't be profitable at this lake." However, if you got to the next day (bringing your trip total to -1500) and still catch 1000 worth, you're now at -500. One more day of the same, and you've broken even.

A place like New York, where Walleye are averaging 244 per fish, you only need ~5 caught to make that 1000. If you can't catch more than 5 Walleye in New York, then you seriously need to reevaluate your strategy.

tldr; It's not uncommon for me (at level 34) to be negative for a trip at the end of the first day, but it's very rare for me to leave a lake without making a profit.

[Hunter451]

Fla bass are a good catch and pay well, there are also red fish and snook.

[khaoste]

Originally posted by PhoenixAshen:

The single best tip I can give is to stay at a lake multiple days.

Say it costs 2000 to travel to a lake, and 500 for each additional day. Your first day, you can only catch 1000 worth of fish. You're currently -1000 for the trip. Some people may look at it and say "I better cut my losses; I can't be profitable at this lake." However, if you got to the next day (bringing your trip total to -1500) and still catch 1000 worth, you're now at -500. One more day of the same, and you've broken even.

A place like New York, where Walleye are averaging 244 per fish, you only need ~5 caught to make that 1000. If you can't catch more than 5 Walleye in New York, then you seriously need to reevaluate your strategy.

tldr; It's not uncommon for me (at level 34) to be negative for a trip at the end of the first day, but it's very rare for me to leave a lake without making a profit.

Good advice.
Personally I've never done a trip shorter than 5 days (IIrc my record is 14 days of salmons in Alaska in one single trip :) ).
Probably that's why I don't think about it when I give advices. :D

[GropingForElmo]

Originally posted by khaoste:

Originally posted by PhoenixAshen:

The single best tip I can give is to stay at a lake multiple days.

Say it costs 2000 to travel to a lake, and 500 for each additional day. Your first day, you can only catch 1000 worth of fish. You're currently -1000 for the trip. Some people may look at it and say "I better cut my losses; I can't be profitable at this lake." However, if you got to the next day (bringing your trip total to -1500) and still catch 1000 worth, you're now at -500. One more day of the same, and you've broken even.

A place like New York, where Walleye are averaging 244 per fish, you only need ~5 caught to make that 1000. If you can't catch more than 5 Walleye in New York, then you seriously need to reevaluate your strategy.

tldr; It's not uncommon for me (at level 34) to be negative for a trip at the end of the first day, but it's very rare for me to leave a lake without making a profit.

Good advice.
Personally I've never done a trip shorter than 5 days (IIrc my record is 14 days of salmons in Alaska in one single trip :) ).
Probably that's why I don't think about it when I give advices. :D

The one caveat to multi-day trips is the way licenses currently work. I may get 2 ingame days worth of fishing in a single real time day, so that cost has to be factored in as well.

[khaoste]

That's sure ;)
But some people log and fish for an hour for day maybe, and I can understand that for them travel and license costs are really heavy.

First thing to do, for me, is to always afford the cost of the biggest net unlocked, when you're leveling to 40, more fishes, more credits.

[GropingForElmo]

I've been keeping data on my catches, and keeping it in a google document. Most of it is very much a work in progress, but here's a snapshot of value per lb for some of the fish in the game.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18g5Ruzop5zGFr4K_A17NN78lTSRGDdFKp5AOhi7Fdxg/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true

I would ignore XP, as that's dependent on gear. Also, the number is the total entries contributing to the calculated values, and many only have a few data points.

[Wookiemush]

I Farm Cash in Florida with Basses. There is also a good variety of Fish.

[Zaggi]

Thanks so much for all your inputs! Will definatly try those out aswell! :D

[adik231]

I heard that floryda is good to make money, but i couldnt catch a lot, I had only lures 7-14g and some 21g and I noticed this 21g was working well. Am I right? Can u give us some tips more?:D now im alomst bankrupt and im farming in Emerald:D

[Trulight911]

Originally posted by khaoste:

That's sure ;)
But some people log and fish for an hour for day maybe, and I can understand that for them travel and license costs are really heavy.

First thing to do, for me, is to always afford the cost of the biggest net unlocked, when you're leveling to 40, more fishes, more credits.

Actually the casual gamer can use the same strategy and fish for 5 in game days an hour or two at a time. If people don't know you can click the gear at the top right and quit from there and you stay at the lake without having to pay travel costs again, and you start again where you left off :)

[khaoste]

Originally posted by adik231:

I heard that floryda is good to make money, but i couldnt catch a lot, I had only lures 7-14g and some 21g and I noticed this 21g was working well. Am I right? Can u give us some tips more?:D now im alomst bankrupt and im farming in Emerald:D

Next time try with a crank or shads. Use a 4/0 hook.

For the crank, use a 3,5 meters one.

For the shads, 10 cm or at least 7.

Go in the infinite tunnels peg and fish on the 3 channels you'll see on your left.

EDIT:
Waiting for a cooldown in Alaska, I can expand what I said before... :D

For basses in Florida, #4/0 hooks are the right way.

Cranks... the best (probably related to the game physics).
You have to find what color works better in a certain weather, but in the end all of them catch good. 3,5 meters or also 5 meters is good. Reel normally on speed 1, don't do nothing else.
Good colors are rainbow, smoky, blue...I don't think that extravagant colors works good with basses.

Shads, same as cranks, different colors are better for different weathers.
But I've seen that the white/redhead one works decently evetytime.
Lift and drop, speed 1 is good, 2 a little bit fast, some fishes will be missed.

The 3 channels: cast on 1 of them, reel, if nothing happens, change. If you catch, cast another time on the same channel. Repeat to infinite.
Without moving from that peg, you could also look at your back and cast on the plants that are in front of the other near peg, some catches are also there.

[khaoste]

Originally posted by trulight:

Originally posted by khaoste:

That's sure ;)
But some people log and fish for an hour for day maybe, and I can understand that for them travel and license costs are really heavy.

First thing to do, for me, is to always afford the cost of the biggest net unlocked, when you're leveling to 40, more fishes, more credits.

Actually the casual gamer can use the same strategy and fish for 5 in game days an hour or two at a time. If people don't know you can click the gear at the top right and quit from there and you stay at the lake without having to pay travel costs again, and you start again where you left off :)

If they don't know that, they necessarily must learn it. :)

[adik231]

Originally posted by khaoste:

very nice tips, i will try when i finish in emerald, ty ;)
uptade:
Not bad, I filled the 70 kg net far before the best hours. The best one was 1m wobbler.

[✵vErsacE✵]

why for the same fish per kilo i get much less money