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actual video today's video is a complete
guide to fishing and more specifically
legendary fishing there are a lot of
unique little details that are not very
well explained in the tutorial and
there's also a lot of benefits to
fishing so we'll try and cover all of
those different things as well as
possible
first things first fishing itself
unlocks automatically you get the
fishing rod and you can go fish in
various places around the world
however the legendary fish do not unlock
automatically and you actually have to
go and pick them up from a stranger
quest which is located right down here a
little bit north of this very large lake
in the middle there is a specific little
cabin right here this one if you go
there you will encounter a historic
fisherman who will talk to you there'll
be some dialog and you'll get a map of a
bunch of different legendary fish spread
throughout the world
the second thing that you will need to
do though is then head over to log R s
and I've been probably not pronouncing
that correctly but there is a bait and
tackle store in the swamp right here the
bait shop this is the location to buy
the different legendary lures or the
special lures and that's the only way
that you're going to be able to catch
the legendary fish so you do need to
immediately come to the bait shop after
getting your map from the legendary
fisherman the map can be seen right here
and there's a bunch of different fish
located throughout the world one small
tidbit that a lot of people will
probably already know but it actually
took me a while to figure out and once I
did it was really helpful is that if you
zoom in the fish itself does not mark
the location if you go to exactly where
the fish graphic is you may not find the
fish there's a little white dot right
next to all of them and that is the
exact location so if you go to that
white dot you'll unlock that fish and
then you'll be able to fish for it now I
didn't know this so I was running around
in the wrong area sometimes and it may
be a really dumb tip but hopefully it
helps some people now it's time for the
actual physical fishing mechanics and
some of this is explained well by the
in-game tutorial and some of it isn't
and there's a couple tips and tricks
that will help a tremendous amount when
you're fishing for especially legendary
fish first it is very important where
you cast your lure there's an easy way
to select your lure or your bait you
simply hold the left bumper and then
while you have your fishing rod out and
you'll be able to select
either one or the other bait or a lure
the lures the legendary special ones are
what you're gonna be using for legendary
fish but then other than that you can
select various types of bait anyways
when you're casting this once you have
all of your baits set up it is very
important to cast it close to you it may
be tempting to wind all the way back and
do the big fluid motion like what the
game suggests but this will hurt you and
drastically increase the amount of time
it takes to catch even a single fish you
don't want to cast it too close so it's
right by the shore but you definitely do
not want to fling it as far as possible
you want it somewhere in the middle but
edge toward it being closer to you
rather than further away this will cut
down on the amount of time it takes to
reel in which means there's less of a
chance that the line snaps there's less
chance for it to get tangled on other
objects there's less give while the fish
is pulling so it just results in a
vastly easier experience if you keep the
lure and your rod and your cast much
closer to you rather than further away
when you're happy with your cast you're
just waiting for a bite and you can
slowly reel in the line and I believe
that that increases the chance that the
fish will bite it increases their
interest in the lure but also you can
flick the rod with the right trigger the
game tells you about this but what it
does not tell you is that if you flick
too frequently you will prevent any fish
from being interested in your your rod
or your hook so you don't want to be
doing that I'm not sure exactly what the
timing is it may be five seconds it may
be ten seconds but somewhere in that
vicinity you do not want to be flicking
the rod more frequently than that
because you will turn away all the fish
and increase the amount of time it takes
to get the bite especially from the
legendary and it just it makes it a lot
more difficult after you get the nibble
and then the bite is time to reel in the
fish and you're already off to a great
start because you kept the line very
close to you so you don't have very far
to go now when you do start reeling it
in you know you fight against the fish
and this is all covered by the in-game
tutorial you lead it in the opposite way
in which is struggling to tire it out
but what the game does not tell you it
does actually tell you that you can hold
the right stick in any direction to
prevent the fish from gaining line when
it's struggling against you don't do
that all the time if you hold that
constantly if you never let go of the
right stick and never give the fish any
line it will almost always snap
especially with large fish and legendary
fish the best method I've been able to
see is that you
let go of the right stick completely for
about half a second once every three
seconds so periodically you're letting
go of the right stick you're giving it
just a tiny bit of line and this will
always almost always there was like one
occasion where it didn't when I was
testing this will almost always prevent
the line from snapping and allow you to
just reel it in first try every time as
for really quickly once the fish has
stopped struggling you actually want to
pull back on the left stick pull the rod
up into the air and then quickly wind
the right stick to reel it in while
pushing forward on the left stick so
what you're doing is you're creating
some play in the line and then you're
reeling it all in at once and you can
get the fish very quickly if you do this
effectively and just take giant chunks
off of the line with it sometimes you
can even get the fish after it struggled
one single time it takes a little bit to
master but once you do it's really easy
to fish for things and there's a lot of
benefits to fishing as well
the number one benefit is that you can
gain honor pretty quickly from just
fishing and then throwing the fish back
that's a really positive thing I've seen
a lot of people mention it and on
previous videos especially my one about
honor doesn't cost you any money it's
fairly fast I still think that walking
around a city and greeting people is a
lot quicker but this will give you
definite amounts of Honor and it's
pretty fun to do you can play a mini
game for free catch fish if you get a
really good fish you keep it there's
other benefits and then throw back the
ones you don't want and gain honor
another benefit is the unique reward
that you get from catching all of the
legendary fish but this is kind of hard
to do there's some that are hard to get
to and I won't spoil what the reward is
in fact I'm not even there myself I'm
pretty close but I already know what it
is it is something cool for going around
and hunting down all those legendaries
now also when you're catching a
legendary fish you will put it on the
back of your horse or put it in your bag
when you are successful you need to
deliver those to the post office I've
seen a lot of people talking about
taking them to the trapper that's
actually incorrect you take them to the
post office and then you mail them back
to the legendary fisherman that tasked
you with finding them all and gave you
the map there's a couple other ways to
fish as well that are pretty cool but
very damaging to your honor the first is
just regular dynamite if you toss a
stick of dynamite after you light it
into any area where there are a bunch of
fish it will detonate it will kill all
the fish in the area and they will just
float to the surface and then you can
collect them it's a lot faster but it
will
severely damaged your honor and it will
tank very fast if you're using this
method another method very similar is to
use dynamite arrows I've heard people
talk about this but it's the same effect
it will damage your honor it will
detonate it's a really easy thing to do
just shoot them
it blows up boom the fish come to the
surface it's just another tactic of
fishing I prefer the fishing rod itself
I think that that's vastly superior I
think the benefits far outweigh the
drawbacks of it taking a little bit of
increased time however you get so many
other rewards as you increase your honor
if you're doing a lot of fishing you
will get discounts in shops you'll get
more loot from you know corpses and
other activities there's so many
benefits to having positive honor and
fishing can help you get there and there
are not very many benefits if any at all
to having low honor or being a true
outlaw keep in mind that you always need
to cycle through the correct lure
especially for legendaries based on the
location that you're at it's a river or
a lake or a swamp they all have unique
lures sometimes I was fishing with the
wrong one it's probably a redundant
thing to say but make sure that you're
always scrolling through your wheel so
you don't waste the time that you would
have spent otherwise catching things
with the wrong thing equipped there
really isn't that much else to say
fishing is honestly pretty fun and I
hated it at first because I didn't
understand the mechanics but once I
figured out that you do not constantly
hold the line you have to give large
fish slack otherwise it will always snap
and it's really frustrating when that
happens and also when I you know dialed
in where to cast my line don't cast it
far if you cast it far it's just that
much extra time to make a mistake and
sometimes it can feel like you're not
even making any progress
you'll be reeling that thing in for
minutes and just constantly spinning the
right stick and you'll get nowhere
and it's really frustrating so cast the
line pretty close to you and then give
it a little bit of slack about four a
half a second every three or so seconds
while it's struggling this will make
sure it doesn't snap while you lead it
in the opposite direction it'll get
tired and then yank up on the rod and
then reel it all in at once as you push
the left stick forward again that'll
help you reel it in quickly no reason to
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