Emerlad Lake vs New Player

[Sparky862]

So Emersld Lake and Walley is the cash banker for new players.

My questions is...

Is 6k Cash enough for a Advance License and make a retun in profit?

What should my Max Keep Net size be in order to bank in from a trip and actually make a profit? 12Kg?

What should my Max Reel and Line Capacity be for the Lake?

[Julian]

It can be, travel cost to Emerald is $3000 and an Advanced License is $900 for one day. You will need the advanced license because Walleye at Emerald are the most active during the night (especially when the fish activity graph is in the high to medium areas). You don't state your actual level, at lower levels it might be better to get a Stringer, they are cheaper and can hold slightly more fish (than the equivalent level Keepnet). The drawback with Stringers is you can't let fish go (i.e. upgrade your catch for better fish).

A Featherlight 200 (lvl 9) or 215 (lvl 11) spinning rod, a 3.5 - 4 kg spinning reel (CrucianHunter 4000 for starters, Prima 3000 might be better later on) and some 3.6 kg line (might want to include some 3.6 kg Fluoro leaders if using braid). Some different coloured Narrowspoon 1/0's (maybe get some Medium Spoon 7g 1/0's when you can), a couple of (lvl 9) Jighead's 7g 2/0 and some level 9 Shads 5 cm (glow in the dark). (Only try using the 9g jigheads if you're using the Featherlight 215 rod setup)

(Just a suggestion, the Walleye should put up a good tussle and provide good $ and XP for low level anglers, and a little bit more XP if barbless hooks are used instead (requires baitcoins to purchase the barbless versions) others anglers may have better ideas).

GL.

[Sparky862]

Hayo.

I am at lvl 9 currently. Still doing Lonestar. I already have a 12kg Keepnet.

I also have 1/0 green and silver narrow spoon I think from a Challenge I completed and I also have access to purple, black, silver and gold Narrow Spoons I think at lvl 9.

My current reel is a 3.0kg test reel (somewhere around there, not infront of PC to check). I belive it is the Spincast 2500 Spinning Reel, dont quote me on that.

I also use Mono Line 2.7kg Test I believe.

But basically I am lvl 9, I am sure you would be able to see the gear I have access to at that level and I am sitting at about 6K cash.

[Julian]

A Valuespin 260 spinning rod would work with the reel and line you have for starters, as suggested using a Stringer (lvl 10 - 16) might be a better option until you can get access to a better keeper (around lvl 23).
The idea is to fish the night time peaks until filling your keeper/stringer then forwarding to the start of the next nights peak time (you will have to wait out the cool down timer from when you first forwarded time during the day to the night time), just make sure you forward time to the next night before 5 am as there is no cool down timer penalty between 9 pm - 5 am. Also suggest regularly checking when your license is due to expire and that buying a 1 day Advanced license at a time is fine.

[SouthernMan1972]

Stringer is always best in my opinion. You don't need to swap out fish if you only keep the best price per pound ones. At Emerald Lake, walleyes are best price per pound, with saugers and pike not too far behind. If you only keep walleyes, it doesn't matter if it's 2 pounds or 5 pounds, the price per pound is the same. Just keep them all.