Gear recommendation

[Coelacanth]

Currently 35, fishing for white sturgeon in cali. I'm getting the "too strong" message about 1/10th of the time so wanted to see if anyone had a suggestion for what to grab to help me get every fish without losing too much bonus exp.
Currently using:
Big Alli 14 10
Hornet Swarm 4000
19lb braid
14 lb mono leader

Thanks

[bplus410]

Asked a similar question recently for different species and didn't get a response. Hoping someone helps you so I can use the set up weight ratio as a guideline for other types of fish.

Taking a 33% xp hit for using rods that hundreds of hours were spent grinding to unlock or purchased with dlc seems a bit heavy handed. Appears it's a pick your poison situation... Either spend a couple mins reeling in a single fish to receive full xp or reel them in fairly easily and take a significant xp hit. Don't recall any game ever penalizing players to this degree for utilizing gear they unlocked or paid money for!?

[Coelacanth]

Yeah it's definitely not...a good mechanic in my eyes either. I'd think doing it via your character level somehow would be better

[zombygunner]

They are nerfing all fish on every map and making it harder to reel anything in stopping us from gaining levels and using up all our currency is what i heard.

[Sup_DiM0N]

Originally posted by Booth:

Currently 35, fishing for white sturgeon in cali. I'm getting the "too strong" message about 1/10th of the time so wanted to see if anyone had a suggestion for what to grab to help me get every fish without losing too much bonus exp.
Currently using:
Big Alli 14 10
Hornet Swarm 4000
19lb braid
14 lb mono leader

Thanks

At level 35 you should be using Bottom Sniper, it's bottom rod rated for 30 lbs and Mega Tank reel or use match rods like Brutus rated for 33 lbs.
Use 6/0 hook and duck mussel meat, this will attract sturgeon and carp, also for carp use green peas and corn, trophy carp at SJD gives better XP compare to sturgeon.

The feeder rod you have is suited for catching crappie and sunfish in SJD, so use hook #4 and bloodworms or maggot bait and don't try to use it on Chinooks or Steelheads

[cyrano004]

Originally posted by Booth:

Currently 35, fishing for white sturgeon in cali. I'm getting the "too strong" message about 1/10th of the time so wanted to see if anyone had a suggestion for what to grab to help me get every fish without losing too much bonus exp.
Currently using:
Big Alli 14 10
Hornet Swarm 4000
19lb braid
14 lb mono leader

Thanks

I wonder that you are able to catch white sturgeons with your equipment at all! Your described equipment is MUCH too weak for catching sturgeons properly! The sturgeons at Cali weigh up to 25 kg = 55 pounds whereas your equipment is designed just for fish up to a maximum weight of 20 pounds only! And even that does not work as your mono leader is even much weaker than that!

If you saw this equipment working for sturgeons in older vids forget it! Just cast out the line for 3 meters and lift the fish directly out of the water after bite without need to drill the fish - the devs closed this unwanted method by updates last year! Was the same sh... with catching 400 pound sharks with 8 pound capacity telescopic rods in former times...

What you have to do is go to the shop and watch out for ground rods, reels, line and leaders that fit to the expected maximum weight of the fish you want to catch - in your case round about 50 pounds!

[cyrano004]

Originally posted by zombygunner:

They are nerfing all fish on every map and making it harder to reel anything in stopping us from gaining levels and using up all our currency is what i heard.

You ´d better stop this conspiracy myths! Sure there are many bugs and unsolved problems in this game but the described problems of the questioner have nothing to do with nerfing fish at the maps! His equipment is simply totally unsuitable for the fish he wants to catch!

You would not use his equipment for catching sturgeons in real life either! But never look for faults in what you do yourself - it is much simpler to insult the devs of nerfing the game isn´t it? JESUS!!!

[Coelacanth]

No it's been working fine, the kayak bringing me around like a sled helps out lol. As I said it's just that like 10% of them I'll get the "too strong" message which granted I can't keep them due to net size limit but that exp would still be nice. Will look into the sniper and stuff.
Has it been figured out yet what the breaking point is for that to happen? I imagine it's some XYZ% over your gears average strength.

Thanks though folks, and yeah obviously wouldn't use this IRL haha

EDIT: Seems it was my leader. I was only using that one due to the combo of it being the originally recommended one + i forgot to replace it alongside the reel/rod/line. Thankfully the shop here had fluro leaders rated 24lbs. No more lost sutrgeon!

[Bargearse]

To buy gear now you have to be a mathematician because of the ridiculous "no max drag".
The shop at each map sells the recommended line BUT in order to use it you have to go the Home Store and check the bigger reels with a calculator until you find one that will give a drag setting close to the breaking strain of your line.

An example of this stupidity is that when you unlock the Ocean map you have to buy BC gear otherwise fish with 110lb line, a 99lb leader, AND A 141lb REEL WITH THE DRAG SET AT 2/3 or 94lb.

People used way oversized line to avoid the fight and they either found it too hard, or were too greedy, to limit us to using balanced gear so they introduced this unrealistic garbage instead as another nerf. People, including DEV, clain that if you use max drag in real life your line will break. In real life you set your drag at about 1/3 of your line size so for 60lb line you buy a 20lb reel and even on full drag fish can take line. To break your line your drag has to be SET higher than your line breaking strain regardless of the size of your reel except in FP.