Useful Tips
Hook sizes
As most of you have discovered by now, big fish can bite on small hooks and vice-versa. Smaller hooks attracts more small fish and increase biterate. Bigger hooks increase fish size and decrease biterate. So what we need to do is to find the sweet-spot for bigger fish versus biterate. And hook size also affects how effective the bait is. And a big hook with a small bait will make the hook more visible to the fish and by that decrease the biterate, and sometimes even scare the fish away. The most used hook size for baitfishing is #1 for “panfish”, #6/O for most medium-sized to big fish and #10/O and up for really big fish and uniques.
Cap’n Hook
The Cap’n Hook ingame is modelled from the reallife Circle hooks, and this is what I found about those…: “The main difference between a “regular” hook and a circle hook is displayed when a strike happens. Instead of requiring a hard set, like normal hooks, a circle hook slides out of the fish’s throat and the barb penetrates once the hook has reached the corner of the fish’s mouth. At this moment, the hook point rotates and the hook sets itself. If you try to set the hook in a manner consistent with “normal” hooks, it will almost always result in the fish being lost. Instead, crank down and apply steady pressure.”
Bait vs. Lures
Most any fish that eats smaller fish bites on small minnows, shiners and so on up to the largest livebait fish. These fish can also be caught on lures most of the time using casting spoons, narrow spoons, medium spoons, different kind of spinners, spinnerbaits, buzzbaits and shads. Baitfishing is relaxing and covers a small area, while spinfishing is more active and covers a greater area and are in general more effective way of fishing. Some fish requires you to do baitfishing, while other species are much easier caught by spinfishing.
Nickname change
First nickname change is free. The second time, you have to pay 160 baitcoins.
Locations – Early unlock w/baitcoins
I play this game without premium time so the grind is much longer for me. When I reached level 70 I really had an itch for Congo (unlocks at level 75) So I checked to early unlock the location. At 70, the cost was 2.000 baitcoins. At 71 the cost was also 2.000 baitcoins. I had over 2.000 baitcoins saved and went for it, bought the unlock and hoped for the best. – Early unlocking the location unlocks it ( of course) and also removes the level requirement for licenses. And since that is not mentioned anywhere in the game or elsewhere that I have found, I thought I’d mention it here. So if you have enough baitcoins saved you can unlock a location early and do not need to buy a DLC for that location.
Time
One hour ingame is 15 minutes real time. Any license and pond pass is in real time (1 day = 24 hours RL).
License
Advanced license. Always! Basic license is a waste to buy. A license is valid for 24 hours real time, or more if you buy a 3 day license etc. Keep a close treack of your license and do not “risk it for a bisquit” by casting out a minute or seconds before a license runs out. Because, you will get fined for CATCHING a fish without a license.
Shops
Only use Global shop. Lake shop prices are 50% higher, but if you run out of bait, it might be worth it.
Line colour
The rumour is that carp is sensitive to red braided line. But in the lake shop, the only coloured braid line is red. Hm…. Interesting. Carp leader is weed green, mono line is light green…. So mono line might be the right line to use when fishing for carp (Maybe).
Leader length
When fishing with a bottom rod and livebait, leader-length matters.
Bottom rods
I have not seen a difference between 1m, 1,5m or 2m leader length, but when using a 0,5m leader length, the biterate went straight down. 40″, 60″ or 80″ ( or whatever the exact measurements is) 0,5m = 20″.
Float rods
Titanium leader recieves 2 penalties when used on a bottom setup – One from being very visible, and one from being short. So in my opinion, to get the best biterate when using livebait and titanium leader, use a float rod (bobber rod).
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