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Hey Kida/Mods I am starting this thread a new in this section in hopes that it will be more visible and others will help contribute to the project.


This is a simple to understand color coded set of bait charts.

Green: Favored Bait Confirmed by Me/Vesper or Confirmed by Community with Screenshots.
Purple: Favored Bait Confirmed by word of mouth via community
Blue: Normal non favored Bite rate


I put in a large amount of time on each fish with each bait before I mark it with a color and move on. But with the way the system is you are not guaranteed to always get a "SOMETHING BIG HITS YOUR LINE/THE FISH SEEM TO BE BITING ON" message. I have gotten a message one night against a certain fish over and over. Then the same fish with the same bait I will not get that message for weeks. So as you can see there is room for error here.

I plan to overtime fish every fish with every bait myself, but even so there will be some doubt on the blue marked fish. I could really use other fishers help on this.



How You Can Help

If you find this chart useful please give me a hand and pay attention when fishing more.

1. Look for fish that I have marked blue and if you notice you in fact get a favored bite ("SOMETHING BIG HITS YOUR LINE/THE FISH SEEM TO BE BITING ON") Screenshot it.

2. Make sure that the Message saying which lure they are biting on is in the screenshot as well as the dialogue that shows you successfully caught it. This way I can update the chart with information I may have not been able to get myself.

3. Upload this image to this thread (I will be checking in every few days).



Current Goal

Also note that my current goal is to finish the Saltwater bait chart off first. The Freshwater one is coming in the future.

Feel free to upload screenshots to help me fill in information that is missing from either chart. I just ask that you provide a screenshot as outlined above and then I shall add it to the chart and give you a credit as one of the contributing fishers for the project.



Final Note: The Reason this is linked to lodestone and not embedded is that I have a similiar thread going on several websites. It takes too much time to add the new image to each site every time I update the charts. Also, everyone has a lodestone account that plays.

Saltwater Chart has been updated!

Note: I Mistakenly called it 1.9 in the comment update and on the actual chart. I am not going to change it atm, too lazy. Be assured the current chart is the most up-to-date.

I apologize for the link hiatus. I ended up moving to a new state and everything has been really hectic. Things are calming down so we will hopefully see updates flowing more often, but no guarantees. The link below will bring you to the most up to date charts!


The Following baits BLOODWORM, CRAB BALL, FLOATING MINNOW, HERRING BALL, LUGWORM, PILL BUG & RAT TAIL have been tested against the fish below. My research next takes me to the waters of Bloodshore...

Ash Tuna
Bianaq Bream
Blowfish
Blue Coral
Hammerhead Shark
Indigo Herring
Red Coral
Silver Shark

http://lodestone.finalfa.../rc/diary/entry?e=160499

Thank you so much for this ; ;! Fishing just got 100x better! Keep up the good work and much <3!

Your welcome, I am closing in on finishing the Saltwater chart sometime soon, so should be able to get you guys for freshwater information.

The Gigant Octopus is not yet in the game. There are some recipes that are given as rewards for leves but no items above rank 50 are implemented.

We just have to wait until they implement the grade 6 to 10 waters before we will know anything about the higher ranking fish.

whoa.. awesome job Kida! Big thanks again to Vesper and Truvy. Definitely a plus under each fish for the Bait and Lures tabs. much appreciated everyone.

Here are some fish/baits that are not listed on this site or in Vesper's chart yet for freshwater. Was not able to catch a Black Eel outside of the gathering attempts I was given for the school of fish. Tried forever.. no luck.

Black Eel = the Lungfish (ffxi) of ffxiv.

Sandfish - crow fly



Black Eel - crow fly



Black Eel - Bass Ball



Ala Mhigan - crow fly - difference here is I kept getting the "big hit, seem to be biting" line for these a lot on Crow Flies and it's not listed as favorable bait.



Also, I didn't get pics sorry but also fished up:

Striped Goby on Crow Fly - regular message - alot of these
Dark Bass - Crow Fly - regular message - only one

Edited by user Saturday, August 13, 2011 9:38:01 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

well thanks for the update.

Edited by user Tuesday, August 16, 2011 9:25:23 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Also, I can save you some time and effort. No need to post if a fish bites at all on a certain bait. Just post anytime you get favored bites is all. This image I did awhile back shows you what works with what.



Also note, even if you use the wrong bait for a watertype you will occasionally get a bite, normally it will be Crayfish when using salt bait in freshwater and malm kelp when using fresh lures in saltwater. The bites are very inconstant, sometimes as often as 1/10 and some times it will take double to triple the casts to get a bite with the wrong bait.

Also, same goes for fishing without ANY bait, you can get bites, rarely.

The Following baits BASS BALL, BLOODWORM, CHOCOBO FLY, CRAYFISH BALL,CROW FLY, MIDGE BASKET, MOTH PUPA, RAT TAIL, SNURBLE FLY, SYRPHID BASKET, TOPWATER FROG, VULTURE FLY and WILDFOWL FLY have been tested against the fish below.

Black Ghost
Box Turtle
Crayfish
Dark Bass
River Crab