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  • Intragalactic Planetary's Guide to Fishing
    By: Wego Beje, Posted at: Mon, Feb 9th 9:29 PM 2004
    Rated 4.42 by 7 people

    Intragalactic Planetary's Guide to Fishing

    Okay, I've spent a little time fishing recently, to collect what I needed
    for Pet Stim D's, and this is what I think I've figured out.

    First, your fishing pole needs to be baited. You can find bait by Foraging
    (a skill you get at Wilderness Survival I in the Scout profession). You
    also end up with Chum Bait after filleting a caught fish, and you can use
    that too. Just drag the bait onto your fishing pole to bait your hook.

    When you cast your line, a 2-tug combo is set that will hook the fish.
    Whenever you have to recast for any reason, that combo seems to reset. So
    you sit there and wait, like real fishing, and when you get a Nibble, you
    try a direction, like Tug Up. Either it will go back to Waiting status or
    it will lead to a Bite (or you may lose your bait or something, I think that
    may just happen randomly sometimes). If it goes back to Waiting, you know
    that the direction you just chose is not the right one to get a Bite, so
    after the next Nibble, try Left or Right until you get a Bite. Same goes
    for after you get a Bite. You try a direction (it can be the same direction
    you just did) and it will either go back to Waiting or change to Caught
    Something. If it goes back to Waiting though, at this point, you already
    know which direction will get a Bite, so once you get a Nibble, do that
    again, you'll get a Bite, and then you can try one of the other two
    directions til you get the Caught Something message. Once you get that,
    choose Small Reel-In and your character will start to do so.

    For example - you cast you line in the water, and at first the status says
    Waiting. So you wait... After a few seconds you get a Nibble, and click on
    Tug Up. The status goes back to waiting... You get another Nibble and try
    Tug Left, and it still goes back to Waiting. Now, since you haven't had to
    re-cast at this point, after the next Nibble, you choose Tug Right (by the
    process of elimination) and the status changes to Bite. You then click on
    Tug Up, and the status goes back to Waiting. When you get a Nibble again,
    you choose Tug Right, because you have already determined that's the first
    part of the two-part combo. That takes you back to Bite status again. Now
    you already tried Tug Up after a Bite and it didn't work, so this time you
    try Tug Left, and it works, so you get a Caught Something message.

    Now at this point, what I think I've found is that your character won't reel
    in the catch until it's about directly under the tip of your pole. So if
    your cork is farther away than that, try and move towards it (but don't go
    too far in the water, or you'll start swimming and have to start over). If
    the fish charges up so close on you that it's CLOSER than the end of your
    pole, try and move back a few steps or your line will go slack after a few
    seconds and you'll lose it. The whole system seems to work in 'ticks', and
    every tick (being about 5 or 6 seconds), the fish takes an action, and then
    a few seconds later you execute an action. So if the fish charges too close
    in on you, you seem to have a couple of seconds to get some distance before
    you try reeling in again. Basically, it's just a dance to try and keep the
    cork right under the tip of your pole without getting too deep in the water.
    One of the best ways I've found is to barely wade into the water, and cast
    your line almost parallel to the shore. Then you can kind of run back and
    forth along the shore to try and get into the right position, without ever
    having to go too deep in the water.

    Once you've caught something, you can bring up the radial menu on it in your
    inventory and choose Filet Fish. You will then get a few Chum bait (usually
    between 2-5) and some "Fish". The amount of fish I've gotten off of one
    catch has ranged from between 1-17 (though usually it's on the lower end of
    that scale). Supposedly, they are about to increase the volume you get from
    one catch, and that amount will be higher for fish caught on the tougher,
    non-starting planets (which is a MUCH needed change). The fish you fillet
    from any given planet will all be of the same type - i.e. Dantooine Fish
    Meat (though the specific KIND of Dantooine Fish Meat will vary with name
    and quality over time, just like any Herbivore Meat or Carnivore Meat or
    whatever). So even if you filet a blackfish, a striped fish, and a laa,
    they will all yield the same Dantooine Fish Meat (assuming you caught them
    all on Dantooine within the same period of time - before the type of
    resource migrated).

    The final step - take all the Fish Meat you've collected and give it to
    Intragalactic Planetary. He would very much appreciate it.

    -Intragalactic Planetary

    Rodian Master Bio-Engineer

    Wego Beje, Dantooine

    Wanderhome

    SWG: General: Intragalactic Planetary's Guide to Fishing, by Wego Beje
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       Disagree with comments Reply...
      Posted @ Fri, Apr 9th 7:21 AM 2004
      By: Xenigma
      7 posts
      Score: Decent [3.00]

      I think his method works.  I have tried his method, and have found that the directions I click do seem to only work if pressed in a specific order. I have been quite successful though, so I opened up my own little free fish museum housing some of me and my best SWG friend's catch from the lake right nearby on Dantooine. My favorite, though not the longest, was the ray. Funny thing is that the body was longer then the others even though the stats disagree.

       
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       great guide Reply...
      Posted @ Fri, Feb 13th 12:21 AM 2004
      By: zaybertamer
      68 posts
      Score: Decent [2.58]

      ima 4-0-4-0 scout and i catch fish about 90% of the time, i caught 42 in about 3 hours to give a friend Bio-eng some fish meat, and in return i got a chef suit! yay! I like fishing also.

      Caught a 1.18m blackfish...what is your record???                                      

       
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       Master Ranger Fishing Success Reply...
      Posted @ Tue, Feb 10th 7:45 PM 2004
      By: CheezeBurger
      Scholar
      16 posts
      Score: Decent [3.00]

      As a Master Ranger I get BITE 99% of the time, COUGHT 90%, and actually real in the fish 80% of the time no matter what directions I click. I think the success at Fishing has to do with your + Creature Harvest skill, not the directions or sequence you click them in.                         

       
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       Does fishing work? Reply...
      Posted @ Tue, Feb 10th 4:55 PM 2004
      By: redlight
      45 posts
      Score: Decent [2.92]

      I have been haveing trouble fishing. I cast my line and I dont get a screen to come up no mater how long I wait. Am I just in a bad spot or what?                                                   

       
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