Fish Encyclopedia seems pretty useless; Any reason to not reel in a fish?

[sly~<3]

It appears that if you get a fish nibble and decide not to reel it in, it still costs time.

I tested this on catfish, reeling in a catfish consumes 5 minutes of game time. NOT reeling in a catfish ALSO costs 5 minutes of game time. A catfish can be sold for $30 (which buys 10 caterpillars to replace the bait), and gets me 150 exp (no exp for not reeling in a fish).

The ONLY use for it seems to be when it's 2:55am and you've got a catfish nibble, you can ignore it, AND the next fish AND the next fish and try for a king. This lets you stretch the day until about 3:30am, but that seems like a pretty minimal bonus and most of the time it just means that instead of having caught a fish at 2:55am i end up catching nothing and run out of chances.

[Kargor]

Based on the wiki, every fish takes more than 5 minutes.

So yeah, I used this a lot when I was trying to build up my Emperor/King collection.

[sly~<3]

Originally posted by Kargor:

Based on the wiki, every fish takes more than 5 minutes.

Based on my observations, the fish takes roughly the same amount of time off the clock whether or not you reel it in. If you sit and skip 3 fish that can consume 30 minutes (depending on the fish), and you could reel all 3 in with that amount of time.

[JVC]

The time on the clock may be the same, not sure about that, but it feels a lot slower if you actually have to reel in all the standard quality fish. I used the skill for building up a king fish collection, and got at least two king fish a day by ignoring all fish that were below emperor quality. I wouldn't have had the patience to complete it without that skill.

The king fish are only around 0.7% of all fish, so it takes a while to find them. Also, it is quite useful on the fishing day event, for focussing your effort on those fish that can acutally benefit your score, ignoring metal rods, seaweed, shell necklaces etc.

[@ndy]

i would say reel them all in, only if you have basic rod and grab goliath it may be better to skip, but even then i see it faster to just break the rod

[JVC]

If your amount of bait is an issue, definitely skip the standard quality fish. Each bait is only lost after skipping five fish in a row.

[Kargor]

Originally posted by JVC:

If your amount of bait is an issue, definitely skip the standard quality fish. Each bait is only lost after skipping five fish in a row.

Where does that "5" come from? Bait rarely lasted 5 attempts for me...

[JVC]

Originally posted by Kargor:

Originally posted by JVC:

If your amount of bait is an issue, definitely skip the standard quality fish. Each bait is only lost after skipping five fish in a row.

Where does that "5" come from? Bait rarely lasted 5 attempts for me...

Personal experience. I recently did some days of fishing to build up a king fish collection, so I abandoned all the poor quality fish. When I ignored fish no. 5 in a row, the line broke so the bait was lost. I'm playing on an old savefile and I have the second tier fishing rod.

[Bobucles]

Fishing doesn't actually pause the clock, time still flows normally. You are simply immune to passing out is all.

Testing this is easy. Just try catching a fish fast, and try being slow. The slow reel costs more minutes, isn't that shocking.

[XTS (Away)]

Woah, We can buy caterpillars? I've spent so much time seeking them in the plants. LOL The fishing tournament snuck up on me just after I fished a few days and used up my nearly 100 caterpillars. I had only about 6 to work with both days.. haha. I did notice some things will respawn if you step just outside of it's "zone".. But I'd prefer buying them when needing them quickly.. That'd be so nice!

[sly~<3]

Originally posted by OriginalXTS:

Woah, We can buy caterpillars? I've spent so much time seeking them in the plants. LOL The fishing tournament snuck up on me just after I fished a few days and used up my nearly 100 caterpillars. I had only about 6 to work with both days.. haha. I did notice some things will respawn if you step just outside of it's "zone".. But I'd prefer buying them when needing them quickly.. That'd be so nice!

Sophie sells them on page 2 in the farm shop (there's a right arrow on the page, they are ALWAYS in stock up to 999 and they're cheap). I too spent tons of time gathering them not realizing they were buyable.

[XTS (Away)]

I forgot to check with her. I typically rush around for pumpkin pie, sugar, salt and sometimes fertilizer. I must've rushed and overlooked. TYSM!! <3