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I fished my way to skill level 28, cancelling all hits followed by the three exclamation points !!!, as I'd been told they were always monsters or arrowwood logs that could snap my line or break my rod. So it was some frustrating hours of fishing and quizzing my linkshell, before I turned up a fishing guide that specifically noted that Giant Catfish, as "Large" fish, also have the !!!.

I knew something was wrong when the guy next to me kept fishing up catfish after catfish at the little pond in West Sarutabaruta, just north of the gate to Port Windurst, using the same type rod (Mithran/Composite) and lure (Minnow), but all I kept hooking was Dark Bass. ;p So yeah, when you're fishing these, don't cancel on bites with the !!!, or you'll never catch a Catfish. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Vaprak (talk • contribs).

For Catfishes

Go to the bridge in Zeruhn mines and use minnow as a lure. I was using lushang and caught 10/10 catfishes there.

--happy fishing! ~~

Best place to catch these?

The article recommends a Frog Lure in La Theine Plateau for catching these. I tried that setup and went 0/37 on even getting a nibble. I then moved to Davoi (Pond) and got 8 catfish in 17 casts. Was I just unlucky? Can anyone share their experiences fishing for catfish in La Theine?

--Bawb 02:49, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

The "best" places for various fish varies depending on who you're asking. Some go by whether the lure catches other types of fish, some go by which places they feel have the best bite rates, and some just go by what other people say. I just use Kida's FFXI Fishing Database [1] to see what may work best for me. I had no trouble fishing up Giant Catfish in Port San d'Oria, so I didn't try anywhere else.

As for La Theine Plateau in particular, I think I tried fishing there a long time ago for Dark Bass. But I got nothing from fishing around The Ephemere. I assumed it was because I had already hit my fishing fatigue limit for the day, because at that time, I was fishing up as much moat carp as I could every day, and I didn't know about fishing fatigue yet. --Ivrai 04:08, 10 October 2007 (UTC)