At the present time this the fish I am aiming for. Seeing arguments on both side, and one person quoting a gm that neither makes a difference.
So this topic is to look at and examine the points of both sides, and try to establish what is the conditions to catch the fish.
So far what are your opinions?
I am at present on 740 fangtooth, this is a combination of open water and pool fishing. One day I just fish pools, the other just open water.
Unfortunately I didn't keep any detailed statistics of pool vs non-pool catches. I can post some totals (fish totals to be precise). I did do 3300 catches total and about 1000 of those must be pool catches. After I didn't succeed with pool catches I decided to just to open water and opportunistic pools to speed up the fishing speed considerably, and make the time commitment more TV/distractor friendly.
I didn't keep count of crates and crystalized water. But here is my fish count:
1359 Fangtooth Herring
1107 Bonescale Snappers
347 Glacial Salmon
180 Pygmy Suckerfish
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2993 fish catches mixed from open and pools. The rest of roughly 300 was crates and crystalized water. As said elsewhere, I have never gotten snappers, salmon or pygmy's from pools, but the chance for crates and crystalized water seems fairly good in pools (subjectively).
I have no clue if pools are any better than open water, because I wasn't successful with either. I think if the pool chances were significantly higher, i.e. in the 1% range I really should have seen one if not a few. If the percentage is 0.1% or lower, who knows... and if there is a 1:2 chance difference it will take a lot of catches to tease that out. Even so people have to decide then if doing two open water catches without traveling isn't faster than traveling for pools and recasting to actually hit them. Then again I may just have gotten unlucky with pools (or both). But I'm speculating.
Caught it at Valgarde, hardly used any pools, only when it spawned right in front of me.
caught 5770 objects now in HF and not a dark herring in sight -.-
6053 caught objects and its mine.
Sooooo i am starting to wonder if its a 1/2000 chance?
I wonder about this, too. I'm fishing for Steelscale Crushfish now and get all the pools at Southshore.
After reading all the posts, I think I just got lucky with this one.
I just got this fishing for Dark Herring in Howling Fjord in Daggercap Bay fishing in Fangletooth Herring Schools when they spawned. The Dark Herring came out of the school .
Total 128 fish in Howling Fjord
Daggercap Bay:
Fangletooth Herring 47 40%
Bonescale Snapper 42 36%
Glacial Salmon 14 12%
Pygmy Suckerfish 6 5%
Reinforced Crate 4 3%
Crystalized Water 1 0%
Dark Herring 1 0%
Got my Dark Herring in about 1500 casts, fishing in Schools only.
My husband also try to catch this beast by only fishing in open water. 5000 casts in Howling Fjord, and still nothing.
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