Is anyone else annoyed by the Lincod?

[Frisky Bacon]

This is a bizzarely specific pet Peeve, but the Lincod is way harder to catch then its actually worth.

Like winter Lake fishing up in the mountains, you could be catching Largemouth bass, that is so easy to perfect catch and is worth more at Iridium quality, or Sturgeons, one of the better fish in the game due to high value and caviar, that is still somehow easier to catch, its just kinda annoying when you get one on your line, because they fight you so hard and the end result is hardly worth it.

[Suzaku]

Agreed. Its difficulty doesn't match its reward. Most legendary fish are easier to catch than it is.

[SapienChavez]

Agreed. The juice isnt worth the squeeze.

Octopus are also more of a pain than legendaries. but the octopus is at least cool.

[Epic Ma]

it makes me feel happy if i catch it so i like it

[Frisky Bacon]

Originally posted by Epic Ma:

it makes me feel happy if i catch it so i like it

I mean thats fair, I do a lot of fishing in this game by choice, so its not as if I don't hate the challenge, I just wish the reward reflected the effort.

[ArqaneGames]

Originally posted by Frisky Bacon:

Originally posted by Epic Ma:

it makes me feel happy if i catch it so i like it

I mean thats fair, I do a lot of fishing in this game by choice, so its not as if I don't hate the challenge, I just wish the reward reflected the effort.

It's kind of realistic in real life, anyway. The challenge and value to the economy don't really go together. Game-wise, yeah, I get you. Though the flip-side is true with early fishing being worth way too much compared to other stuff you can do for the reward, especially with catfish, and *especially* now with the bait-maker. I mean, I pulled in about 15,000g in a day on Spring 9 this run-through (almost gets close to before the old menu exploit he patched out where you could freeze time while waiting for a bite, and you could get multiple Legends, so I'd get about 10 Legends around that day).

Fishing is a money-maker the first Spring, then really just about completing the set in my opinion. Since I use it so much in the early Spring when the fish are pretty easy other than the Catfish, most stuff later isn't too challenging as I'm already at 9/10 fishing. But I feel for the poor people who didn't use it much early, have little practice, and are trying to catch a Lingcod with 0 fishing skill

[Maya-Neko]

It's actually rather the other way around. Most of the 75+ difficulty fishes range from 100-250g with the Lava Eel and Ice Pip completely braking the balance. Sure, it sits rather at the lower end of 120, but as far as i can tell, the high difficulty fishes are not really meant to make money, especially given how hard (or often even impossible) it is to get perfect catches.

Personally i would say it's not worth dealing with anything above 75 difficulty when it's about making money.

[red255]

what you do is make a bait maker, sacrifice some largemouth bass to it, and fish largemouth bass with largemouth bass bait.

though the question, I assume a bait maker chops up a fish why does chopped up largemouth bass attract largemouth bass?