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Hi all,

To the fishers that have gotten to the higher ranks, do you guys know if red coral can be caught in non-school waters, similarly to how you can catch white coral in Cedarwood? I have a friend leveling the last stretch of goldsmithing and red coral provides him with some good skillups. It just seems hard to come by.

We have data for it being in Skull Valley (probably very rare) and Cedarwood from schools, but I was just curious if there was an area where you can sit in one spot and fish it up or not. My alternatives at this point are to run from school to school in Cedarwood hoping to catch some or grind mobs with a painfully low droprate.

If you have any additional info to what I listed above, please let me know!

PRE-patch you could get it in grade 4 off of Cedarwood if you used the 'wrong' bait for the water (IE: flys instead of lures for saltwater) as it limited the 'type' of fish that would bite. Only inorganic would bite on the wrong ones.

However since the patch its hard to come by as you don't get bites using the wrong lures and I've only see it in leve's :(

I might go test this out a bit more though and see if I can get anything to come up.

Widow Cliffs is Grade 7, and the Tower to the NW of there is Grade 6. Mor is surrounded by mountains with freshwater pools scattered about.

By testing i meant different combo's of bait in known locations Red has been fished inside pools.

So far, In Grade 4 around Cederwood all I can get is White Coral at -3 depth. I'm going to head back over to Widow and see what I can find there.

Mor Dhona is freshwater. I marked many of the fishing grades on the DoL map.

Corals grow in saltwater

to my knowledge all those fish are freshwater....as well as the lures

Coral, i have only found in saltwater. as rescuer pointed out also.

i have a private database with my personal results and thus far, have all pointed to the consensus of the fishing community regarding coral.

Coral bites on both live bait and lures rather frequently for me even outside of its sweet spot. the paste balls idk, not many cooks selling them on my server.

This is a total noob question. What is the fastest way to reset the red coral fishing spot at Cedarwood? I've found it is really easy to visually target the red coral. At rank 50 it consistently eats 25% of my bar, and is always caught at the far far right. I just cancel the jig if I don't see my bar at 75%, allowing me to fish up 10/10 coral (although not always red).

horn fishing rod+1 and sinking minnow

Edited by user Monday, April 04, 2011 7:26:32 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Thanks, I was afraid of that. I was hoping I could just hit two spots without depleting them. At R50 it takes a bit to deplete a grade 4 spot, since they have 8-10 attempts each. Good idea about using a low ranked botanist or miner.

Thanks!

This, I have fished hundreds of red coral doing this, but there is a trick.

Start with the node/school. Fish all attempts (8 if you are high enough level is cap).

Now for the trick part to save time, and fishing fatigue.
Go to the near spear node just to the n/w of the school.
Hit it once
Now, go to the far spear node to the south.
Hit it once
Now you can use your quick ability to get back to the school, because it has not reset yet, and the other schools down the cliffs are far enough away. Pop it right at the spear node, as you don't have a lot of space till you are within 200 yalms.

Lastly, the trick part,
Cast at the school area, but don't jig, and just cancel that cast (it will for you anyways even if you try and catch a fish).
This action has now reset the school, because it was your fourth node. The node being open water.

Cast again now, and you have a fresh school.

The benefits:
- Saved time, not hitting the spear nodes for 8 harvests per
- Saved fishing fatigue by not wasting fishing success harvests on 14 additional harvests, per reset.

As well, as stated above, once you can recognize the coral remainder bar, use the jig lag system in your favor. Let your swing bar go back and forth for 15-20 seconds, then jig. It will auto fail, and not consume fatigue or an attempt. You will get 100% red/blue coral.

Even @ 49 GSM they can still benefit from the blue, making arrowheads, while obviously red is better for breastpins.

Edited by user Monday, April 11, 2011 6:39:11 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Thx for the neat trick. I don't seem to understand this bit thou.
This is for force failing the catch if its not a coral? or a trick
to guarantee a coral