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Got a confirmed spot for the Albinos. Go to the Lily Pad Channel peg in Florida. Go to the end of the dock and turn left facing the boat. There is a grass patch right next to the dock. At the end of the grass patch there is a little gap. That is the money hole. I caught 5 within 4 hours in game. 3 within 10 minutes real time. I missed the hookset on 2 of them, so it could've been 7. Throw just past the gap into the red area from the photo 23-26 ft(7-8m). Leader length 35in(90cm). #8/0 hook. Dead minnows. I'm using 35lb fluoro but not sure that matters. They started biting immediately at 7pm and continued to bite until 11pm. They moved on after that, however I found them just past the boat on the left side at 60-80ft(18-24m) in the green area from the photo. You can even see the gar swimming around in the 2nd spot. It was on a partly cloudy day. I also don't know if this matters either. Edit: Thank you to Magisthiq for providing all of this information. It was his discovery not mine. Edit Edit: Just had bites at 100ft on the 2nd spot(green area). So 60-100ft(18-30m)

I just caught a 59.862 albino and set the hook at 4 am and its 7:25 right now in game. I thought so many times i was gonna lose him. The bones tackle set up I bought just is not enought to make this guy come in, i had to up the drag with the line in the red for a few when he got real close, i just knew i was gonna get the line too lose thing or he would pop it. Man i was so nervous. I wish i could post the video it was excruciating, at the lillty pad channel at the place between the past the boat thicket and the lilly grass to the right with pig eye, 6 hook

Just saw one caught in LA. I've got a new spot to try. At least I saw this one caught and have confirmation of the details. #10/0 hook, rotten minnows, 24 in lead. Upside down peg. Straight down the middle of the grass mats' channel. 100ft out. Edit: 98 ft out. Edit Edit: Caught at almost 12:00am.

Don't get me wrong, I wasn't implying at all that the Devs set it up to be a "money grab" on purpose, tho w/ the current "code/whatever" for the event it's basically impossible to complete the challenges & obviously for me to even catch 1 of each type (which is really all I set out to do). Some have had success but since we've all seen proof that regardless if you use same gear/bait/time/weather/spot, it's still a roll of the dice (not in our favor, heck not even 50/50) to if you even get a bobber bump, much less a strike. The Devs/Mods should be more vocal in my opinion, instead of watching their customer base struggle so badly, but I know code error issues can't be easy, plus what do you say if you don't even know the reasons for the issues. And it's not anything to do w/ skill, because this event has baffled & made even our best anglers (members) struggle. I notice pc didn't have near the issues ps4 has had, so beginning to wonder if the 2 different codes for ps4 (the reg code not including night fishing; the event code saying there is night fishing) are at odds w/ each other & messing up the event. Again, not saying Devs have done anything underhanded, but there is definitely an issue w/ this event, no way could 0-1 fish a night or multiple nights for most, be the intended parameters for the event. Congrats ViolentV on snagging the Vampire, and to Magi for the Ghost. VN fellas!

This is a real problem for PS4. Night fishing is not an option apart from Halloween gar. People are spending money to go and sit for a full night of no bites. At least PC has night fishing activated when presumably fish feed as normal. On PS4, it's a mega grind. I spent 9pm to 5am on NC for 1 bite. 1 bite in 8 game hours? This event is a joke. And I don't say that lightly.

I can't imagine them doing it on purpose given how people are getting frustrated. The last thing they want is to push players away from a free game because the only income comes from ingame purchases. They had problems when the event first launched which caused it to be disabled again briefly, and of course, there was the hooking bug. It's still a new game for PS4 and I imagine doing a port isn't an easy job...actually, I'd say it's evident it isn't easy. They did compensate players for the whole hooking bug thing and gave double XP. I'm not slating the game or devs when I say that an event should be fun, you shouldn't have to sit for 8 game hours for one bite. As someone stated elsewhere in this thread, is there an issue because PS4 has no night fishing while this event allows us to? There's a plethora of possible reasons why it's messed up, not being a programmer, all are beyond me. Yes, it's frustrating as hell, but I highly doubt that it's a purposeful move from the devs, as when people get frustrated they go elsewhere. Now, the Halloween baits are baitcoin only purchases, that is a deliberate move because of course, they want us to buy baitcoins. That's fair enough and expected, but making the game frustrating to the point of quitting for good isn't in their interests - they want us spending, not leaving. Some dev input would be nice admittedly, because there is obviously something not right for the vast majority. The other concern is that people are saying the regular fish aren't biting so well since the Halloween went active. I can't comment as all I've done is chase gar since they went live. But, that would be an underhand tactic if deliberate. However, again I think it's an accidental thing because as I said, they need us playing and happy and spending...not getting pissed off. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, even if I'm going to need the hat to cover my bald head after pulling my hair out in frustration.

51.3lb albino :-) Floating thickets, pigs eye, 8/0, 20 inch leader, straight across to the bush opposite on the edge of the pads :-) Took ages. At least I've finally had one of each now.. Quote this

Just finished a full night on Quanchkin. I started with 51 rotten minnows and I'm tucking tail and leaving with 50. 8 game hours for 1 gar and a few nibbles.

I'm admittedly one the most optimistic & giving a game Dev the benefit of a doubt in all situations (call me a fanboy/whatever, lol) people there is, but it's time to call this event what it is, nothing but a money grab. An attempt to deplete any travel funds or baitcoins people have saved up, so they'll have to buy more premium packs to continue the event or even go anywhere. How many spent money on Halloween gear pack & 2-3+ packs of special bait lol just to catch at most a few fish. On top of that the day fishing has went down tubes too, try to fish during day to recoup travel costs & night fish, yet pull in maybe a quarter of normal haul. I've spent 5+ days/nights at each event location, haven't filled my net once during the day (which could do in a matter of hrs before event) & only got 3 event fish (all from same spot in Fla.). Used every tip from people ingame & this forum, w/out as much as nibble 99.9% of the time, can't even get the supposedly easy Green Ogre to bite, lmao. Anyhow I wish anyone still attempting event best of luck & many Tight Lines!, but think I'll tap out before I become one of those whose bank has already been depleted to the point of banishment to Tx. lol. Thanks for all the help & tips, hopefully those w/ enough will to continue the fruitless endeavor have the best of luck.

Seen this asked a lot, if memory serves I even requested it once. Turns out, if you use R1/2 to go to the friends page, you can view their stats, challenges and top 3 fish by highlighting their name and clicking R3. I never bothered before because the legend says R3 brings up profile, I assumed it meant PSN profile, and they are always boring. But, you can see your friends captures, unis, time ingame, trophies etc and scroll through them all. Just figured it was worth a mention because I didn't know amd have seen it asked many times.

ThePedroKid PS4 Since start of Halloween event Black Vampire Gar nibble all night but exceedingly rarely bite. I have located five locations Vamps nibble at throughout the night. I have experienced 3+ nibble sessions on every size hook using every type of event bait (and some large cut). In well over eight in-game nights I have only received ONE actual bite (I currently have top Vamp on leaderboard). Based on review of catch rates from Videos of the past two years of the event on PC, it is EXTREMELY clear it is not currently working as intended. There simply is no possible way to accumulate enough catches to complete event challenges. Frankly, it’s BS and players are due some serious compensation. Please refer to the thread concerning the event under General in the PS4 forum for more details. Thank you.

Hook size is off one way or the other when this happens. It is my belief that for the Halloween gars this can be BAIT dependent as well as fish dependent. Some people have caught them with rotten minnows on size 4/0 hooks, yet you cant catch a thing on a 4/0 hook with pigs eyes they just tap it repeatedly. (you can see the monster fish if its close) Also, the same spot doesn't always seem to work more than once for these. I have 5 gar spots in NC and if I catch one in one spot i wont get another one there that night. Yet a new spot ill get one next cast. 1 spot I caught 2 repeatedly though so it can happen. Was hoping to gather more evidence before posting, but I cant see ya suffer getting nibbles. Every Halloween gar I caught, they hammered it. Once I went to 5/0 hook for the pigs eyes at least. Seems like minnows work at 4/0, eyes at 5/0 and mice at 6/0.

^^^. Not a good fun event at all. I’m trying to hold out hope that they will fix catch rates very soon but the lack of dev response is, frankly, shocking for such a low volume forum.

Nah it's called the weekend and out of the office just like the majority of the world hehehe. When they come back they go strong hehehe.

My thought in the new patch, and what I would like see implemented in the future. Kayaks: Overall, I love them, however I would love to see you implement dual anchorpoints, or the option to pick if you want the anchor in the front or the back. Something that helps us to stay in one spot without having to readjust the kayak and try to find the same spots over and over when a fish drags your kayak to the side, or when the current in the water is strong. Also, it would be nice it the kayak had some kind of automatic anchoring system for whenever you go out of the kayak and leave it on a bank. It is possible to set the anchor before you leave it, but I had a blooper in New York one of the first days of testing it when I went the the "beach" out on the left and got out of my kayak, and when I had been fishing for a while and went back towards where I left it I noticed that it had drifted away long enough for me not being able to get in back without switching to another map peg. Pricing of the Kayaks: I think the prices atm are way to high for the players that rent them,. And not only that, the fact that it only lets you rent it for one fishing day, instead of 24hours IRL time like it is for the Licenses. My suggestion would be to make it 24h IRL time, or even giving us a new 3rd option for an Advanced Licence including the Rent of kayaks. Edit: In my opinion when using the Kayaks the stamina should ONLY go down if/when you're pressing shift, and it should start to recharge as soon as you let go. It would make way more sense that way. IRL I could paddle at a slow pace for hours without any stops, and so in my mind the stamina should realistically only go down when you're "really going for it" (top speed). Float Alarm: I just wanna add that I love that you implemented this feature, BUT(!), there was no mention of this is the patch notes or the news. I would like it if you include alot more in your patch notes, not only the "major changes", but even minor, once like this new Float Alarm (that now is possible to activate in Audio setting for everyone that didnt know about it yet). ___ Stuff I would love to see implemented in the future ___ Sunglasses: Me and many others have brought this up before, and I got some more suggestions on how it should me implemented. Give us a pair of sunglasses in a DLC or in the ingame shop that we can adjust ourselves in our options. Maybe with a few different filter options, like a blueish color, a brownish color, a yellowish color and so on. HUD color settings: Please make it optional what color we cant to use for the HUD, and even make us slidebar 0-100% transparency for the HUD. In my experience some weathers make it near impossible to see your HUD (even the Bobber/Lures icon that are 2 colored are impossible to see at times) , if you implement a way for us to adjust it ourselves with a color chart and a transparency bar I think that would make our fishing experience alot easier. Chatwindow & Event scoreboard: Same thing here really, I would love it if I could turn the border around the chatwindow down to 0% transparency, because at times you wanna "lock" you rod in a certain position to hold a bobber fixed in a spot slightly downsteam (behind the chatwindow in this example) and at the same time being able to follow the chat without minimizing it. Customized gear: I would love to see some kind of "workshop" or whatever where we could customize our gear. I'm thinking there could be ways for us to make small changes to our rods, reels. Switching colors, adding reflextape or glow in the dark tips for all our gear. And once you introduce a proper Club System in the game, even Club logos for your vest or pants. "Friends only rooms" (The way they work): Ever since PH_Trulight started his forum fishing comp I've noticed how this is a really annoying problem. When you start a friends only room everything works fine up until the creator of that room leave. When that happens there's no way for him/her to get back in. Something we got painfully aware of this last patch when we had alot of problems with the "Spagetti reel bug". If (WHEN) the player starting the room got that bug, we ALL had to leave the room and rejoin once the person was back in creating a new room. Hoarder gear: I want Bigger bait boxes basically, the way I got my gear atm I think I can bring 151 baits/lures/hooks/bobbers etc And that's with the highest lvl vest, the "Sport pack" cap. I think if you have all the best things you can get it go to 153 if I'm not mistaken. I would love to see a baitbox that made it possible to bring 200-250 lures, and that way I would use the different tournament jackets etc more frequent, since I dont have to sacrifice tackeslots my "downsizing" to a jacket/vest that dont hold as many tackles. I wouldnt mind an even bigger rodcase either if I'm honest, atleast one that holds 8 rods. That way I could bring Float rods and spinning/castingrods in 4 different weightclasses to cover all fish in all lakes. (I know some ppl are gonna explode by me asking for this, but I'm the same way IRL. I always bring a ton of gear to cover whatever I might encounter at the lake).

Just caught an Albino at 88ft on the green area from my picture near the boat. 60lber new pb. This one was at 24in leader instead of 35. 3:30am.

Terrifyingly boring ;-)

I was there, you had your first then showed the rest of us up and made us look like noobs lol. Edit: still gonna work on the vamps to get you one. You've spent more time there than anyone. Whatever I know, you'll know. Still can't get over how willing this community is to help each other. Everyone shares ( and the only reason I witheld my catfish thing was because I didn't want to spoil the game for lower level players ). Even random people who aren't members here send me screenshots and I reciprocate of course. Such a change from CoD etc where all people do is get narky at each other.

Just had my first Albino. 52.3lb. Same bait and spot as earlier but dropped to a #5/0 hook. 3am

My error. should of been lake, have edited now. would of made sense why I couldn't catch any tho. Only if it was that easy. Thank you

Triple X has just found the albinos :-)

Thank you sir, can't believe how difficult they are to find. This is a grind, not a fun event. 90 of each? Best leave it live until next Halloween..

Just had a vampire swim past my bobber in the spot I just posted! That's promising at least. 9:03pm.

Thanks for sharing, I'm trying this spot right now. Will go back to the green ogres if it gets too depressing. At least I've had half a dozen of those and the float is always moving so you have something to do.. Edit: Fishing off the opposite end of the dock following a hunch and straight away had the ubiquitous ' bait pulled too far away, fish is gone '. Meh.

Only thing that makes me feel like a money grab is the lack of response from dev team. If it was a bug I feel like something would have been said by now but they go radio silent and to the evil laugh while robbing us blind. I’m so frustrated I am about to delete this game forever!

I was so upset yesterday had spend so many hours and no albinos what's so ever. Then a guy say cast" there" and on the first cast like 20 sec after I got my first wanna kiss him. Haha. Then I got one more but on a hole different location. My experience seems like they are pretty much everywhere. Have got kisses on my bait several times in Florida but then nothing it's like oh that's a nice bait ehh wait a minute no that sucks and fish gone. This night I will spend time Quanchkin my favorite place so far nothing from it but with whiskey and a good vibe I will f.... Get them. Happy fishing! Or not..

Regarding Jeffs advice about hooks, just went to Louisiana and equipped a 6/0. First cast, 74lb vampire gar. You have my thanks my friend!

As we all are aware of the recent problem with the Halloween fishing event on PS4 it might be helpful with posting you techniques and where you landed the fish . location: time of day: hook size: bait used: please use this to gather information if a particular area is used more than others e.g. kind regards Brazly "in game as well"

i know what you mean..ignored all comps and try to catch it. good thing i dont have the means to buy baitcoins and decided that i reserved all that i have for night lures and walkers. but i see this event someone will finished and claim their rewards in 75 holloweens if the counter wont resets lol. (smells business event) anyways we cant really argue with the devs because porting a game from pc to console is hard i guess else we wont be seeing this complaints, and experienced in some games like world of tanks..it also started on ps4 as basic like it first comes to pc then eventually patching as months go by. (note that i really am pissed bec the event fish are harder to catch than a uni lol)

29 minutes ago, Jeff1210 said: Hook size is off one way or the other when this happens. It is my belief that for the Halloween gars this can be BAIT dependent as well as fish dependent. Some people have caught them with rotten minnows on size 4/0 hooks, yet you cant catch a thing on a 4/0 hook with pigs eyes they just tap it repeatedly. (you can see the monster fish if its close) Also, the same spot doesn't always seem to work more than once for these. I have 5 gar spots in NC and if I catch one in one spot i wont get another one there that night. Yet a new spot ill get one next cast. 1 spot I caught 2 repeatedly though so it can happen. Was hoping to gather more evidence before posting, but I cant see ya suffer getting nibbles. Every Halloween gar I caught, they hammered it. Once I went to 5/0 hook for the pigs eyes at least. Seems like minnows work at 4/0, eyes at 5/0 and mice at 6/0. I know #3 Vampire was caught w/ mouse on #10/0, but your testing & info seems logical. I've really been just switching hooks regardless of bait, since we all know to jump or drop a hook size if you're at a regular daytime hotspot & not getting any bites. But haven't had time to really sit & logically work/test this out since it feels like such a mad dash to get fish in net before event wraps lol. Thanks for sharing, I will start trying to further test your theory, especially since I've lost hope of completing any of the Challenges (unless N.C. turns out to be easier catches) I'll definitely have time to test while trying to get atleast one of each "species". Thanks again Jeff, much appreciated!

I caught the current #1 event fish using 6/0 with rotten minnows. That said, i totally agree with you. I’ve been changing hooks regularly to test 5/0 thru 9/0 so far. Only 6/0 has produced on vamps. In the post they said ‘big’ hooks. I feel this implies 6/0 or larger as 4-6 would be medium and 1-3 small using rational logic. But, i never trust devs to have that, lol. May go 4/0 next and test your suggestion further.

looks like they don't care for console players. pc has way more things. can't see why they can't have the contents on all fishing planet games.

I may have to jump on steam n see if i have better luck on PC maybe the night fishing update PC will at lest allow us to "make" money catching other shit during the night....

20 minutes ago, Violentvole said: Far right of Swampy open space. We teamed up and both saw them. But catching them? Nope. That's where I was w/ some buddies earlier. I struck out both nights but my buddy Lumpi caught #3 on the Event fish board (well was #3, possibly dropped in last few hrs). Ironically we used same setup & spots both nights. Oh well I just want atleast 1 of each event fish before this thing wraps up.

Where is it?

So I'm going to say what everyone's thinking but won't say. This ' event ' is bullshit. It's costing everyone baitcoins and ingame cash for very little return. I assumed the whole point of adding fish would be so people could catch them, but this thread shows that despite the huge knowledge pool they are still very thin on the ground and very hard to catch. Some people catch them, others doing exactly the same thing can't. I am missing comps and prize money trying to catch these gar, along with others. Nice event guys.

Valium sandwiches all round

So you didnt get the patch that went out 10 minutes before you posted apparently?

Hey, Monster Night Pack is live in all stores. Please make sure to check the Bundles section in the European Store. The American Store has the Pack in a regular Add-ons section. You can use the links below to access the pack though the web store. PlayStation4 Europe PlayStation4 America

Alright, well let's break this down.... "This Gar O Ween event is joke! Pay DLC for skins that dont do anything? Yea, claim to make game realistic and going to add garbage. " It's a free event, which is meant to be fun. It's free, you don't have to buy the DLC. You can even get free rewards for catching enough of the event fish, that you don't even have to have their event baits to catch. Who cares if they're realistic or not? They're temporary and fun, and it's a halloween theme. "I would rather see an ice fishing dlc with new maps without a price tag." Oh so you complain about the game, yet you want them to make new maps for a game that you don't even like, FOR FREE. No compensation for the Devs? Nice logic there slappy. They do plan on releasing new maps and even european waters soon. As per the Devs " Right now, we are actively working on bottom fishing, feeders, as well as British and European waterways. We already finished a new aquatic complex in Great Britain called the Weeping Willow Lakes and are currently working on Dutch and German waterways. We’ll soon show you a sneak peak of the new location and + 40 European fish species. However, we plan to release all of these features (European ponds and Bottom fishing) together, as one complex update. " "How long in beta? .......Two years and game has bugs that probably wont ever get fixed and people going to give them money for putting in fake fish. (yea the wack fish is free but not the tackle)" The game has very few bugs, and the ones it does have aren't game-breaking. They even recently fixed some bugs that people were having and compensated the community for their errors. More than generous. Regarding the fake fish, they're all fake fish. If you don't like the game, go grab a REAL rod and reel and fish for your REAL fish. "This is why the gaming industry is going down under without the abandoned ship warning." No, people like you who go onto forums and troll/slate developers of a free game that you don't have to pay for and absolutely do not have to play are what is ruining the gaming industry. If you want better content more towards what you desire for the game, show some respect for the developers, maybe even buy a DLC to support them. They need to get paid too. Possibly try cordially speaking with them and making suggestions that are constructive. I've seen you on post after post bashing this game. If you don't like it, don't play and it and just go away.