biggest fish at falcon lake?

[skullius.max]

greetings!
im at falcon and some minutes ago i got a bite so heavy that cut my line in just a second.. i use the drag on 2/6 (4kg reel) and the line is for 3.6 kg. any one knows what is the biggest fish here that can cut that line so easy?

i checked the fish species list on the map screen and i think that suspects "by text" can be brown (5 kg max) or rainbow (6kg max); the leaderborad shows a 3.8 kg trophy brown on top for falcon..

i have landed some uniques here (3.4 kg my best rainbow) and a lot of trophies too (3.7kg my best brown) and never got that kind of bite before..

im using featherlight 215 (4kg) / callisto mg3000 (4kg) / fluoro 0.23 (3.6kg); drag on 2/6, but i can even raise it to 5/6 on uniques and trophies if i dont want a "long fight" and the line can handle that perfectly. (till now)

any idea from experienced players? does any one have ever landed a "5kg brown" or a "6kg rainbow" (like the ones in the fish species list) ?

tnks 4 ur time.

[JeppeH]

Your line cant "snap" like that if using those settings. Doesnt matter how big of a fish you have on. The only way you can snap your line is to apply more pressure on your equipment than it can take, or getting "spooled".

What most likely happend here is that you have had to high drag set on your reel, and not the 2/6 that you say. Maybe you put it higher by mistake and not knowing it.

[skullius.max]

like you, my first thought was "is the drag too high"?.. but it was 2/6, thats why im curious

[JeppeH]

Originally posted by skullius.max:

like you, my first thought was "is the drag too high"?.. but it was 2/6, thats why im curious

Either you had drag to high, wrong line/reel so the pressure was to high, got "spooled" or the line had worn out.

Anything else would be a bug and you should submit it to the devs. If the settings and equipment is correct, there is no fish that will instant snap your line.

[dsullivan60]

Had this happen twice. It was not equipment.I actually pay attention to such things.
In RL there is something called Lock Down. A very hard strike can create enough heat in the friction disks of the drag to make them sieze.The higher your drag setting the easier this can happen. I have seen this in RL a few times. It is rare but is real. My brother and I run a Walleye boat. Out of mabey 100k fish this happened 3 or 4 times. We set our drags with a scale,caution
custormers not to touch them. It will still happen once in awhile.
If this has been coded in,Bravo. If it is a bug, make it code.

[OldAces-noneya]

Originally posted by skullius.max:

like you, my first thought was "is the drag too high"?.. but it was 2/6, thats why im curious

This 2/6 drag setting would have spooled you most likely and line would have snapped when it spooled out completely. You were only applying about 1.33kg against the 3.6kg line you had on the reel.

[FraggleRock]

Originally posted by skullius.max:

biggest fish at falcon lake?/quote]

There's something called a leaderboard on the game.

[skullius.max]

i know there's a leaderboard, but idk how often its updated or if after some time or after big updates the board is restarted... maybe some older players can remeber a bigger fish here :)

ofc i can say "thats a bug" and just move on, but what if it wasn't?

thanks for your time and answers guys.

[Sniffle]

i think each fish lasts a week so the LB is always evolving but the top scores are pretty close to what i would say was the max weight in the coding of the game for each lake, also if the top few are the exact same weight then assume that is max weight

This is just my speculations and im highly likely wrong haha

[gwheels65]

The leader board does not show the all time records, it only shows the current records.Take for example alligator gar the current lb shows top position as 106+ lbs / 48.08 kg and ive personally seen a 108+ lb/48.98kg caught there a month or so ago

[[40-1] SturmTurm]

I recently lost some fish - and lures - on Falcon Lake - when i hooked the fish. Line just went in red like the brake didn´t worked at all - and snap. Checked the connection also (F9) - no lag spikes or anything suspicious. My drag settings are always set to allow for the occasional big fish and the lines i was using was a bit overkill too. Something dreadfull is lurking in the shallow waters of Falcon Lake.

[skullius.max]

"something" big waiting for us in any lake.. i like that idea. That can be a very, very nice addition! (if its not coded yet). i think it can even be a part of some type of questing system (if the dev team have someday the time and resources to think about that)

im too far to be an experienced player, and with only about 400hr in FP i dont know if there was anything like that before.. (events maybe?) but i hope to see that kind of things someday..

gl,hf and tight lines!