Fishing tips?

[Cerise]

I have read the article on the wiki about the differerent choices to make depending on the fish, however today I lost a full inventory of earthworms without the dialog appearing even once. Is that just random bad luck? Does it mean that is not a good spot to fish? Also I have only ever caught 3 types of fish even with trying several different types of water. Any suggestions?

[Dallane]

Fairly sure its all random. They really need to rework the fishing system

[Wournos]

Sounds like extreme bad luck to me.
I have stopped fishing completely because it takes too much effort for little gain. You'd be better off using the worms for compost.

[Sarge]

They really need to rework the fishing system

Could hardly agree more, as far as minigames go, this is piss poor.

[Droj]

ignore it for now

[Hans_Lemurson]

My guess is that the current "fish-node" you're fishing from is a species which won't accept worms as bait. Fishing in a different area should work better.

As for it's productive output, I think it's ok for early-game as a yellow-bile source without access to Blewits, but is vastly overshadowed by the productive output from Crops, especially when the purity modifiers start kicking in.

[callanrocks]

just check around, i found a place that accepted the fishing bobbers that you can craft and ended up with more fish than i could actually use, managed to get more than a few levels of phlem and bile out of it, just experiment with what you use and where

also do not think of england, it will not help you fish

[Hans_Lemurson]

Pull West instead! (For freshwater fish)

[Randall]

Think of England is one of the safest options, actually.
Look at the matrix of possible choices, narrow it down to the area you are fishing in. (River shallows: TNLP, SDMS, TT, GWhitefish)
Then look for some of the options that divide the set of fish in two subsets by reaction on some certain movement. (Resist: if - then it's TT; Pull High: if - then it's SDMS), keep the note on top of your window while fishing and you should be able to catch fish with more precise outcome.

[Wournos]

Last time I fished I tried to counter the effects with less aggressive manouvers. Like, if I started leaning forward too much I selected I less aggressive approach and then pulled/reeled in/whatever.
But I still feel it's a waste of (my) time. I bake cookies and make cabbage rolls to improve my Yellow bile. Much easier.