Benji
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13 hours ago, perswonal-eclipse said:
Totally not true. Emerald is a grind, but St Croix is a losing endeavor unless you fish it daily or quite often.
Travel to St Croix is $9800 plus the license. Get a one day license $8000. You've paid $17800 for one day fishing at St. Croix.
Target Blue Catfish and pay bait costs. Use cheap medium cut at $370 for 10. 20 is $740.
Here's how I did with a premium account and a 485lb keepnet.
29 Fish.
Money earned $26830
Experience earned 4730Total weight 483.927 of 485.017
Average weight 16.68 lbsAverage pay $925
Average Experience 163
Per fish it looks great, but you were <$18540> in the red when you started between travel, license and bait.
You brought in $26830.$26830 - $18540 = $8290 that actually went into your pocket.
Compare that to Emerald.....
Travel $3000. License $900. No bait cost.Today I pulled in 111 Fish. $31791. 9930 experience.
That's $31791 - $3900 = $27,891 in the pocket dollars.
San Joaquin is no different.
28 fish. $32002. 7366 experience.
Don't forget you started out $17800 plus any bait in the red.
So $32002 - $17800 = $14202 (if you didn't use bait).
What it comes down to is....
You can't put enough of the larger fish in a moderate size keepnet to make those lakes pay off like Emerald does. I've done this several times with different nets and I'm here to tell the newer members.....
Don't rush yourself to the higher level lakes until you have a decent sized net (551 or 660). Sure make trips to all the lakes available, but grind out Emerald if you need money. And if you need money Emerald is the place to find it (that doesn't cost an arm and leg).
I'm well past level 30 and still fish Emerald (occasionally at least) due to the money factor. And the money you put in your pocket is as real as it gets when it comes down to affording the rods, reels, boat and equipment you want.
Mate I am level 62 almost 63 haha, it's not the Catfish you target at St. Croix, its pike and muski, you will make a lot more money in real time so long as you know what you are doing, I find Emerald too bland and a lot of a grind, the bass lakes and trout lakes are much more fun and you still make good money, remember you want to stay at a lake for as long as possible to simply offset the travel costs, I have over 2 million cash in game now so I am not too worried about it now but once you hit level 40 from memory you will find it hard to beat San Joaquin for money and xp when you are going after sturgeon with bottom rods
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Emerald is good when lower level but not a patch on St Croix, you will make far more money for the real time spent there, which is more important especially the higher you get, the grind would be too much at Emerald past level 30
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My PS4 ID is Benjimc22 feel free to add me
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You can add me mate, not sure on my ID but I will add it here once I get home
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Oh don't get me wrong I would love a group of lakes in Africa and Asia, it would be amazing, I just mean I am sure I have read that they where doing 3 rivers in south America that is all
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I am sure there will be at least one more south American one, Brazil I would think, after that, who knows but I would think so but it will depend on other developments they have planned I am sure
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It sounds like the weight of the bate and sinker is too high, I have used a sinker that is too heavy and it does not do much damage that I could see so I would not worry about it too much
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12 minutes ago, kdog013 said:
Get in a kayak and use one rod with the anchor up. When you catch one at 5 am, skip to the next hour and catch the next one then skip again. Keep doing this until your net is full and start over at 5 am again. You can reel them in fast being in a kayak and if there's a cooldown it should only be for a couple of minutes, I was switching to a lure and taking a couple of casts instead of using a baitcoin to skip. With 100 candy canes you'll make about $1M total, $1.5M if you have premium.
Nice call thanks mate
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Yeah or there about, I use the rod stand to speed it up so you can lose 1/2 due to swapping them over when 2 or 3 bite the same time
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On 12/20/2020 at 3:40 AM, satch said:
try it and let us know
Yeah you can and it's very lucrative
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This may be Noah but you can catch them more than once, when you have decorated the tree that is, I am farming them and getting very good results in Peru
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No I don't see where you can buy them as well and I have premium
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It's one of my favourite lakes, we all like different things, if you change your mind and need help with the mission and making good cash give me a shout, the silver and big head carp are where the money is at to be fair, on that lake anyway
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Yeah that's the way that one is, still good fun to catch though
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It's a hard balance but they do need to make money at the same time, I just think the Christmas DLC needed to be better rods etc but other then that I like the event
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Is this all waterways and how do you know it is the bite rate they have lowered?
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Nice catch, what was it and what weight?
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Use snow in a feeder and spawn sacks and you will get it mate, bite rate is low but it works
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Can you catch the Krampus fish more then once, I only ask as it says you can still fish for them when I finished the missions
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Yeah I have the same issue, restarting the game seems to fix it when it happens though
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Nice work as always, your posts and updates are always useful and interesting, thank you, the mobys do keep the grind fun, I am going to try and use some of chum tactics for the cat fish in Peru as I am sure there is some potential there
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What are the missions and prizes normally?
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Not sure about that one, Europe is very big to be general like that, a lot are and when I go fishing it is normally off the bottom IRL, but you need to float fish close to the top for big head when in Germany though
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I just got the level 1 corn one so it looks like it is back
Emerald lake Needs updated?
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At this point it's not worth going over and over about it, so long as it's still fun for you that's all that matters, its just not what I would recommend doing if you are trying to progress in the fastest way that is all