Fishing

So you want to try your hand at fishing? First thing to do is go and talk to a Fishing Guild Member in any town (they are usually in the grocery store). Train your Fishing Skill, Fishing Expertise, Pumping, and Reeling skills. You will need to pay adena for this.

These skills need to stay within 3 levels of each other, so train them up evenly. The higher your skills, the higher the level fish you can catch. Don't train it up too high at first because the degree of difficulty goes up as well.

Activate the Fishing Shots quest from him while you are there as well. You will need these. The shots (Fss) come in grades, so make sure you get the grade that matches your grade fishing pole.

	1 sweet fluid =
	66	No Grade Fish Shot
	40	D Grade Fish Shot
	28	C Grade Fish Shot
	8	B Grade Fish Shot
	5	A Grade Fish Shot
	4	S Grade Fish Shot

Do the Red Eye Invader Quest for a fishing pole or buy a Fishing Pole. They come in grades just like the weapons. Don't buy one that is too high for your level. The better the pole, the better the fish you can catch. They are a little expensive but get the best one you can afford.

	Grade	Type	Price
	NG	Baby Duck rod	37,500a
	D	Albatross rod	135,000a
	C	Pelican rod	500,000a
	B	Kingfisher rod	1,500,000a
	A	Cygnus pole	5,000,000a
	S	Triton pole	12,500,000a
Prices are approximate and depend on the towns tax value

Buy Lures - They come in 3 colors: yellow, green and purple and 4 flavors: beginner, regular (for day fishing), luminious (for night fishing) and prize winning lures. The colors catch different types of fish. The prize winning lures supposedly raise your chances to catch fish that qualify for the Fishing King Tournament.

The beginner lures will tell you when to pump and reel but I find them too distracting and recommend you learn to fish without them as the fish they catch are not regular fish. Typically I just buy like 100 regular and/or luminous of each color.

	Flavor	Price	Type of fish
	Beginner Green	67a	Beginner
	Beginner Purple	94a	Beginner
	Beginner Yellow	81a	Beginner
	Prize Winning Beginner	128a	Beginner Lucky
	Green	162a	Ugly,Nimble
	Purple	243a	Nimble, Fat
	Yellow	202a	Ugly, Fat
	Prize Winning	307a	Lucky
	Green Luminous	162a	Upper Grade Ugly, Nimble
	Purple Luminous	243a	Upper Grade Nimble, Fat
	Yellow Luminous	202a	Upprt Grade Ugly, Fat
	Prize Winning Luminous	307a	Upper Grade Lucky
Prices are approximate and depend on the towns tax value

OK time to start fishing! Find a spot where the water is deep enough that you would normally swim if you went in. Stand next to it and equip your pole and your lures.

I recommend setting up a hotbar just for fishing. Have your Fish Shots, Fishing skill, Pumping skill, Reeling Skill, and your lures on it. I also recommend putting your fishing pole and weapon on your hotbar too because you will get attacked by water monsters and fighting with a fishing pole doesn't work real well. Here is an example of how my hotbar is set up

Click Fishing on your hotbar and your toon will cast. When the fish bites, you will see that it has a blue health bar.

The health bar can be doing 2 things.. it can either stay the same or it can be going up. This corresponds to the 2 actions - Pumping and Reeling.

If the health bar is staying the same you need to click Pumping and if the health bar is going up, you need to click Reeling. If you use the right skill, the fish will lose a chunk of health. If you click the wrong skill, the fish will gain some health. Now fish are on a timer, so if you don't catch it before the timer hits 0, it will get away.

When night fishing and using luminious bait sometimes the health bar will change from blue to red.

When the health bar shows as red the pumping and reeling actions must be reversed! You will reel when the health bar is the same and pump if it is going up.

You use the fishing shots before you hit the pumping or reeling skill. The shots make you do double damage to the fishes life bar. If you click the wrong skill and have used a fish shot, it will gain double life back so take a second before you click your pumping or reeling skill to watch the health bar so you can make sure if it is staying the same or going up.

Tip: If the fish arent biting try moving and fishing in a different spot.

OK so now you got some fish and maybe some treasure chests..now what? You can double click on them in your inventory, and they will open up and give you items. It's a pretty wide range of stuff, like common craft recipes, fish oil, fish scales, fish gems, hair accessory parts etc.

Things you can do with the items.
1. Sell them to other players for adena

3. Trade them in for fishing proofs. Fishing proofs allow you to get expansions like more inventory slots, more buy/sell slots, more warehouse space, or more craft slots (if you are a warsmith)

Trade	Recieve
1 fish oil	1 proof
1 gr fish oil	5 proofs
1 premium fish oil	25 proofs
1 fish scale	4 proofs
1 shiny fish scale	6 proofs
1 fish gem	10 proofs
1 shiny fish gem	20 proofs
1 thin fish bone	6 proofs
1 thick fish bone	9 proofs

Expansions		Cost
	Expand common craft Increases the common craft recipe book	2,000 proofs
	Expand trade Increases buy/sell slots	10,000 proofs
	Expand storage Increase private warehouse storage	4,000 proofs
	Expand inventory Increases inventory slots	4,000 proofs
	Expand Crafting (Warsmith) Increase the crafting recipe book. (See Blacksmith for this skill)	2000 proofs
	The costs listed are for level 1 expansions. More proofs are needed for higher levels. Consult the Fishing Guild Member or Blacksmith for additional prices

You can find a Fishing Database here. It tells you what level fishing skill you need to get certain items and if it can be gotten during day or night fishing.

Flamers please note, this guide is a compilation of information from a variety of sources. I'm not jacking crap and then trying to take credit - just sharing helpful info. Special kudos to Plechan.