Prerequisites

There are some prerequisites you will want to fullfill before fishing.

Ensure you have:

• ✅ Fishing level 5
• ✅ Maximum Auto-Fishing Reduction

If you are fishing with Rods that cannot be repaired like the Triple-Float/Grandpa Cron’s/Cool Wind Fishing Rod, try to get the maximum Durability reduction resistance (DRR) which currently is 91%.

There is a special guide for optimizing your DRR.

Fishing level 5

Your Fishing level stat will reduce your bite time by up to 50%.

You will ALWAYS want fishing level 5. Fortunately this is very easy to achieve nowadays. (Often without even having to pay attention to it.)

Max Auto-fishing reduction (67%)

See the Fishing Calculator or my Fishing Time Calculator Sheet Different combinations are possible, but the easy mode TL;DR is

• Balenos Fishing Rod (25%)
• T3 or T4/T5 Pet with Special: Auto-Fishing Time Reduction (Otter, Penguin, …) (25% or 30%)
• Manos Fishing Chair (10%)
• Balacs Lunchbox (7%)

This should bring you to 67% (or 72% with T4/5 pet) Auto-Fishing Time Reduction (AFR) which meets the cap of 67%.

More Equipment

• Shim Cheong’s Miraculous Fish Tank
• Archaeologist’s Map (saves you 5mil each time you use Magnus to sell)

Mastery

As Mastery increases, your chance to catch prize fish will increase. The more mastery you have, the better your income will be.

At 2000 Mastery you have a 5% chance to catch something from the prize fish table.

You should aim for decent mastery (>1500-2000).

The current softcap is considered 2000 Mastery, and your chance at prize fish does not increase as much anymore after this cap.

Quick Recommendations:

• High fishing lifeskill level
• 3x “free” Floramos accessories
• Manos/Preonne accessories
• Manos Fishing Chair & Clothes

There is a special guide to cost-effectively obtain mastery

Additional Tips

• Professional Trader’s Clothes (or costume version) lets you haggle more times, saving some energy and your patience

How to find a good Location

Since the new prize fish update there are finally some more alternatives to the tried and tested Velia Event Zone.

I will still recommend Velia but if you want to try something fresh, here are some guidelines to look out for in a new spot:

“30/10 Spots”

This refers to spots that have a ratio of 30:10 of Yellow Corvina to Blue Bat Stars.

Effectively this means that roughly ~30/41 (~73%) of your prize catches will be Yellow Corvina and ~10/41 (~24%) Blue Bat Stars.

Compared to other spots - with often >90% Ancient Relic Shards - these have an incredibly high ratio of actual prize fish in their prize table, which makes fishing here so valuable.

There are only very few other viable spots that are not a “30/10” spot.

Trade Distance

Wherever you are fishing should have traders that are far enough for reaching the Trade Distance Bonus cap of 150%.

For most spots this will mean trading either in the Land of the Morning Light (LoML) or Valencia/Arehaza.

Velia/Coastal Cliff does not meet this criterium, but is otherwise making up for this loss in profit with Silver Beltfish and Plump Coelacanth.

How to stand around AFK (Velia Example)

1. Fish in Velia/Coastal Cliff

   

   Make sure your fish origin is Coastal Cliff!

2. Archmap to Velia

3. Go to Magnus at Bartali Farm and teleport to Seoul (Yukjo Street)

   Optionally: Bukpo for extra distance

4. Channel hop until you get decent prices on prizefish (120-130%) or you get bored

5. Sell fish

6. Teleport back using Archmap