Is it possible to catch the Legend with a Barbed Hook?

[slystick]

Anyone done this? I have adapted to the fishing game, mostly by using the keyboard post-strike, but the stress generated by trying to manually adapt to this fish made me think whether the auto-follow provided by the barbed hook could luck out at least as well as I can.

So far, one and a half rainy days in. Nothing better than my manual efforts -- which means I got to 75%, in both.

So.. is it possible?

[The_Pastmaster]

Pooossible, but personally I think the barbed hook is going to help jack with Legend. It's mainly used for slow low level fish.

[Saint Landwalker]

The usual recommendation for Legend Fishing is using Trap Bobbers (or maybe Cork Bobbers), rather than Barbed Hooks.

Edit: Trap Bobbers slow down a fish's "escape," so it's more forgiving when you're trying to catch back up to the fish. Cork Bobbers, I think, increase the size of the "reeling bar", so it's easier to stay on-target.

[Jester]

Legendary moves too fast and eratically for barbed hook. You be better off using trap lure.

[The Mighty Mulletman]

Trap or cork is the way to go. A larger reeling bar means even when he's jumping about you can still keep him in the green, Slower fish escape means you have more time to catch him, best of luck good sir

[slystick]

Ok, thanks. Will try cork next, although the wiki makes the bonus sound underwhelming..

[MG ♪]

Barbed Hook is a very specialized tackle. If you have a slow fish on the end of it, you barely have to play the minigame, maybe click less than ten times if at all. Some times, I've caught fish on the barbed hook without a single click during the game.

However, if you catch a fast fish, you will have to play and the barbed hook will make your input extremely inaccurate, thus proper feedback is lost entirely. I'd be ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ amazed if someone could catch a legendary with a barbed hook.

[jArmAhead]

Eat some food that gives you +3, get cork bobber or whatever, and just do it. It's really not that hard, but it likely won't be first try.

[jArmAhead]

And yeah, the barbed hook would make it MORE difficult. The barbed hook is useless with a decent fishing level because the only time you need to move anything is when the fish is too fast to stay with the hook and then it just makes things finicky and usually harder.