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So far i've got to 13 by doing leves at bearded rock til 7 and skull valley at 8-13 just fishing in the same spots as the leve's mostly, with a little time spent in aleport. 

Now i'm at 13 mostly still been fishing south of skull valley getting, sea cucs, tiger cod, coral butterfly, etc. With fairly decent success to me.  been leveling cul, and giving sea cucs to LS for leveling alch, so it's going well, just wondering when i should plan to move to new location or what/where i should be fishing

I upgraded to ash rod at 8 and plan to upgrade to willow as soon as market update comes out, or i find one otherwise.  But what kind of bait should i be using? is there an advantage of using other than lugworm, and moth  yet?  when can i start fishing for dark bass? 18sh?

what should be my path to 20?

Thanks for any tips, and i'm trying to log all my fishing, nice having dual monitor for that ^^.

Horizon's Edge is good for grade 3 as Kida mentions, but you definitely also want to go to Gridania and do some level 10 leves in Emerald Moss which is Grade 2 (watchout for those anglers). You can then pick up some level 20 leves for Tranquil Paths for Grade 3 (2 areas south of Gridania), where you can pick up some guild marks, if you're lucky, along with some random gathering gear from rewards or chests...not always guaranteed, but its always worth a try.

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Regarding Anglers & Roselets... RUN! You can soon easily kite them until they lose interest and waiting will also normally eventually get them out of your way. Also your pebble stun ability works. Be brave and use it! We have it relatively easy compared to the Botanists and their "go cut this tree in this tiny dead end with four Wolves in it." rank 10 leve there. 

Use guild marks and purchase the ability Wavekin Eluder maybe? I show it is listed as Optimal Rank 30, but do not have it yet myself so not sure if it can be used before then or not.

Well my path was just doing leve's as I'm trying to get to 20 and almost 17 now. I tried my first two rank 20 leves tonight from Gridania:

Only the Monke Onke and Fishing Tranquil Paths. (about 13k gil earned) 1 chest with gil in it showed.  Both start at Camp Tranquil which is basically a straight path south from Gridania with no mob issues.

Was a lot easier than I thought. 1 Morbol or whatever they call it in this game but he was out of the way in a huge open area and then some Roselets but I outran 'em using dowse and they turned around. That was only going to 1 spot though. The rest of the spots for both leves I didn't have any mob issues.

I used Moth Pupa's for both and it worked fine. Just figure out your route there to the lake beforehand. I'll have to hit up that lake for regular fishing in grade 3.

Edited by user Wednesday, October 13, 2010 6:26:58 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

are you talking about the two "Creek, crick" whatever you call em that run through the large rectangular areas on the path south of tranquil? it's grade 3.  i just started there this morning only for about 15 minutes though. a lot better xp, not as many catches, but still good xp getting bites

I wasn't able to start pulling up fish in Grade 4 consistently until about Rank 21.  This is with gear decked out towards gathering and a Willow Fishing Rod.  I didn't actually get a Bamboo Fishing Rod until 21 because I didn't know if the stat decrease for being under the optimal rank would actually make it worse than the Willow or not.

I think I was able to catch bone crayfish in my low 20s, probably 21 or 22 without too much problems.  I only got nibbles on crimson crayfish until about Rank 27 when I started getting bites on them with the occasional catch.  At Rank 28 now they're biting a lot more and way easier to pull in.  I also upgraded to the Rank 27 gathering gear.  :)