Fish Level

[Vane]

How does this fish level work? What does it affect? What is the level limit for rainbow trout?

[HARSH TRUTHS]

50 fish needs to be caught as far as i know after 50 fish the big fish will then be able to be caught

[Vane]

Originally posted by Blaze:

50 fish needs to be caught as far as i know after 50 fish the big fish will then be able to be caught

Vague, but thank you.

[KILLER]

Originally posted by Blaze:

after 50 fish the big fish will then be able to be caught

This is true ?

[LordDarkHelmet]

Originally posted by KILLER:

Originally posted by Blaze:

after 50 fish the big fish will then be able to be caught

This is true ?

Yes

[Vane]

They said your luck skills to catch bigger fish increases with your character level, so I presume a fish you catch at level 5 is smaller than a fish you catch at lvl 10, and your character lvl is 20 max, so I presume you catch the biggest fishes at lvl 20 (which is the max character level). The fish level, is entirely another story. Character level and fish level are the biggest features in this game I am confused about. I hope someone can clarify this for me. Thank you.

[OndeTv]

I dont think that you have to both be lvl 20 and have the fish youre catching at max to get the big ones. But i'm not sure. I know my 69.something kg amberjack was before i hit lvl 20 at least. I think i was 15ish or so? Perhaps less.

Maybe i can make a test with a new profile tomorrow and see if you can get big fish at betty as a low level (aka i'll try to catch f ex 50 cutthroats or 50 brown trout - whichever comes first).

We'll see ;)

[Vane]

Originally posted by OndeTv:

I dont think that you have to both be lvl 20 and have the fish youre catching at max to get the big ones. But i'm not sure. I know my 69.something kg amberjack was before i hit lvl 20 at least. I think i was 15ish or so? Perhaps less.

Maybe i can make a test with a new profile tomorrow and see if you can get big fish at betty as a low level (aka i'll try to catch f ex 50 cutthroats or 50 brown trout - whichever comes first).

We'll see ;)

Thank you.

[Marshall_maz]

Originally posted by AlwaysSunnyLLC:

They said your luck skills to catch bigger fish increases with your character level, so I presume a fish you catch at level 5 is smaller than a fish you catch at lvl 10, and your character lvl is 20 max, so I presume you catch the biggest fishes at lvl 20 (which is the max character level). The fish level, is entirely another story. Character level and fish level are the biggest features in this game I am confused about. I hope someone can clarify this for me. Thank you.

From what I've seen so far only fish level matters. I've caught an almost max size 19kg brown trout when I was still lvl 12. But my brown trout count was way past 50 already so that specific species fish level was max. And I caught it on a single maggot. So I am not convinced bait size matters at all either. Only hook size and fish level

[OndeTv]

@AlwaysSunnyLLC
Currently doing the test for you. I'll post it here with screenshots etc when it is done ;)

[Vane]

Originally posted by OndeTv:

@AlwaysSunnyLLC
Currently doing the test for you. I'll post it here with screenshots etc when it is done ;)

Thank you.

[Vane]

Originally posted by Marshall_maz:

Originally posted by AlwaysSunnyLLC:

They said your luck skills to catch bigger fish increases with your character level, so I presume a fish you catch at level 5 is smaller than a fish you catch at lvl 10, and your character lvl is 20 max, so I presume you catch the biggest fishes at lvl 20 (which is the max character level). The fish level, is entirely another story. Character level and fish level are the biggest features in this game I am confused about. I hope someone can clarify this for me. Thank you.

From what I've seen so far only fish level matters. I've caught an almost max size 19kg brown trout when I was still lvl 12. But my brown trout count was way past 50 already so that specific species fish level was max. And I caught it on a single maggot. So I am not convinced bait size matters at all either. Only hook size and fish level

Thank you.

[OndeTv]

@AlwaysSunnyLLC

Allright, test is done. I made a new fresh lvl 1 profile called LowLevelBigFishTest.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1230368081
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1230368161

Hitting level 3 i had caught:

cutthroat: 3, 0.51 kg
bull: 1, 2.01 kg
brook: 8, max 1.17 kg
rainbow: 0
brown: 3, max 2.49 kg

Total: 15 fish

still using lvl 1 gear except for the hook which was upgraded to size 2.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1230368243
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1230368418

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I then upgraded to size 3 hook and lvl 3 line. After fishing for a while with that, i bought some leeches and used 2 at a time on the hook. Not sure if this benefits the size and catch chances at all, but why not.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1230369718
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1230369791

Hitting lvl 5 i had caught:

cutthroat: 3, 0.51 kg
bull: 1, 2.01 kg
brook: 8, 1.17kg
rainbow: 0
brown: 12, 4.25 kg

Total: 24 fish

I then upgraded to the lvl 5 line.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1230369859

At this point build 147 was ready for testing, so i downloaded this and started the game again to quickly go test a few dorados at pinas bay, to see if the reel bug from build 146 was fixed or not. Sadly it wasn't but im sure the team is working hard to track down the bug.

Back to the LowLevelBigFishTest profile. I broke the 5 kg barrier on the 16th brown trout, at 5.69 kg, still only being a lvl 5 player with about an 1-1.5 hour of play.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1230369977

Hitting level 6 i swithed out the leeches for big cutbait.


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Hitting level 7 i had caught:

cutthroat: 3, 0.51 kg
bull: 1, 2.01 kg
brook: 8, 1.17kg
rainbow: 0
brown: 27, 5.96 kg

Total: 39 fish

I then bought the lvl 6 line, and started using lvl 7 wax worms instead.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1230370051

Regarding skills, i took lower prices I, More exp I, Hunter Vision I, Lower Prices II in that order. 2 skill points unspent.

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Catching the 36th brown trout i broke the 6 kg barrier with a 6.23 kg fish. Still using the lvl 1 rod and lvl 1 reel, but with a lvl 3 hook, lvl 6 line and lvl 7 bait.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1230372030

[OndeTv]

Hitting lvl 8 i upgraded to the lvl 8 line. At this point i had caught:


cutthroat: 3, 0.51 kg
bull: 1, 2.01 kg
brook: 8, 1.17kg
rainbow: 2, 2.75 kg
brown: 41, 6.23 kg

Total: 55 fish

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It seems the brown trout bite rate went up the more of them i got as well, but i can't prove this. After having caught 50 brown trout, i reloaded the map to make sure the big fish were there. I'm not sure that you have to do this, but to be safe i did.

First fish after reload reminded me of something i forgot with the message "Fish too big. Buy fishing net". After having bought the fishing net, i landed a 13.67 kg brown trout. Still using the lvl 1 rod and lvl 1 reel.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1230372119

Only upgrades were (still) the lvl 3 hook and the now lvl 8 line.

To reach this point i had been playing the character for about 3 hours, and the character was lvl 8 with 2036$ unspent.

I did a few more fish and got a 13.33 kg, 13.67 kg and finally a 16.27 kg brown trout at which point i ended the test.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1230372264
(if you look at the chat, i actually forgot to screenshot the first 16 kg fish. So i had to catch another for this screenshot which didn't take long ;) )


Short version:
3 hours of play got a new profile from lvl 1-8. Using lvl 1 rod, lvl 1 reel, starter float, lvl 3 hook, lvl 8 line and lvl 7 bait and 50+ brown trout catches got me into the 10-20kg category of brown trout.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1230372379

[Vane]

Conclusion?

[Slim Pickens]

Originally posted by AlwaysSunnyLLC:

Conclusion?

That 50 fish need to be caught is BS, you know that right OP?