Fishing Traps

[Scilly_guy]

I have found that wood choppings, as they are so freely available are the best bait, if you aren't catching much try somewhere else. Overnight from 15 wood choppings I caught: 3 red herrings, 2 shiny spinners, 1 silt-dwelling mud snapper, 2 trunk nosed lake perch and a ghostly white fish.

[Jalpha]

Location, location, location.

I'm interested to know if not catching anything with woodchips, and then catching just one fish with a different bait, is a result of the woodchips not being effective, or a result of poor location.

[Shill]

Location, location, location.

I'm interested to know if not catching anything with woodchips, and then catching just one fish with a different bait, is a result of the woodchips not being effective, or a result of poor location.

Nodes are a bad term. Loftar prefers Varying fields that can shift. When you understand that as the correct term, you'll quickly realize why you don't catch anything,

Your spot is a bad spot, to put it. Low fish activity. Walk around and listen for fish jumping in the water, the drop in the water sound plays. Park a fish trap there. Also the Tribe wiki used above by Chief is very lacking. It is best to have a fishing rod on hand and earthworms/lures, to test the area for what fish are in the hole. If all you ever catch is 4 species, 60% one type, 30% one type, 10% one type, you'll notice the same results in your trap.

Fish 20 fish, if 16 are Mudnsappers, and you fill an entire trap with Earthworms and palce it there, you'll notice you will yield much quicker and more Mudsnappers in the trap. To gauge how likely you get something, as stated previously by jorb somewhere, this depends on fish activity. If you get a bite every 3 seconds, thats a good spot to toss down a trap. If you get a bite every 15 seconds or no bite and your lure breaks or you lose your worm, thats a bad investment, move on. Et cetera.

[alloin]

blablabla

Is that why i catch seafish in a lake ?

You are a *******, not that we didn't know that yet though !

[Procne]

It looks like some fish are seasonal. In the last few days none of my fish traps yielded eels or bluegills. And today, suddenly, almost every trap gives 1-2 of those fish.

I didn't even know we have so many different fish :O

[Jalpha]

It may also have been included in todays update.

[Procne]

Dat loftar shuffling fishies in my fishtraps

[Vigilance]

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00:11   Vigilance   oh, speaking of fish
00:11   Vigilance   Are those nodes generated and always there?
00:11   Vigilance   Or temporary, and shift around randomly?
00:12   loftar   Both.
00:12   Vigilance   Good. <3
00:12   Vigilance   Assuming rare fish shift around, and staple-fish (mudsnappers, lake perch, angel bass or whatever, etc) stay?
00:13   loftar   Nah, there are some permanent "nodes" and some shifting ones.
00:13   loftar   Of all types of fish.
00:13   Vigilance   I see!
00:13   loftar   They aren't so much "nodes" as the are smoothly varing fields, though.

This was around February 23rd.

Dances-With-Dudes
Born Again Tribal

[RonPaulFTW]

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00:11   Vigilance   oh, speaking of fish
00:11   Vigilance   Are those nodes generated and always there?
00:11   Vigilance   Or temporary, and shift around randomly?
00:12   loftar   Both.
00:12   Vigilance   Good. <3
00:12   Vigilance   Assuming rare fish shift around, and staple-fish (mudsnappers, lake perch, angel bass or whatever, etc) stay?
00:13   loftar   Nah, there are some permanent "nodes" and some shifting ones.
00:13   loftar   Of all types of fish.
00:13   Vigilance   I see!
00:13   loftar   They aren't so much "nodes" as the are smoothly varing fields, though.

This was around February 23rd.

Dances-With-Dudes
Born Again Tribal

Hmm - I suspect the same happened for purity lime, granite etc....

[Snowpig]

no - at least not with the nodes i am visiting for more than seven days now.