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Darnell Rempe

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Aug 2, 2024, 11:40:13 PM8/2/24

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I would suggest buying yourself an unlimited advanced licence for Texas as the travel is free and you can then fish there anytime should you run into money troubles, which can be a problem when your first starting. A good place to start earning money and XP is Emerald Lake, New York. Narrow spoons 1/0 7g (1/4 oz), 7g jighead 2/0 with glow worms (7cm) and glow shads (5cm), other lures will also work. Buy a one-day advanced licence and fish during the night from the dock of peace, using speed 2 stop and go or lift and drop action. Your first objective (I think) should be getting the best keepnet or stringer you can for your current level. Good luck!

As some users have already said, white sturgeon in California is an easy and brainless way to make money. They become very easy to catch at night on heavy gear, and yield a lot of money and experience per catch. Pike in Michigan might make you more money per day (because pike are very valuable for their weight), but it takes much longer if you don't know what you're doing. They are much smaller fish and will fill your keepnet at a slower rate.

I got a honey hole at st Croix I get 1600 to 3000 per fish on blue catfish. you gotta catch 2 or 3 walleye to make that much . I fill up basket fast within 30 to 45 minutes and make 30,000 and start over again fast money if you can catch the cats bak to bak and I can I only fish peak hours

I can't believe no-one is mentioning Neherrin River. If you stand where the sunken car is, you can fill a 100 Kg Net in no time with Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass. The occasional Pike can be kept as well. Only throw away Crappies, Gars and Catfish. Neherrin is the first place (after Lone Star) where I purchased a permanent license. This place is still my go-to when I need to make money fast. At the moment I need 100K to buy the 200 Kg Net. So yesterday I went there again and from 5:00 to 7:00 game time (maybe 45 minutes real time) I caught just over 50 Kg of Common, Trophy and Unique Bass as well as a few Pike. This with 2 match rods, one with Shrimp and one Small Minnows with 3/0 Hook, and one spinning rod with a 3/0 Casting Spoon (3/0 Jig Head with 10cm Yellow Slug works well also). Basically you get a fish every cast and at times all 3 rods have action at once. Filling a 100Kg Net, which you can easily do on any given day, will give you 16-17K without Premium Account. 25K with Premium. You do that for 4-5 game days and you have 100K +. I am so confident of filling the net that I don't even keep the occasional Young Largemouth. On average the Bass are 1 - 1,8 Kg. Up to 2,5 or sometimes even 3 Kg.

You also don't need big equipment to catch here (5Kg - 6Kg Rods are fine). Nero match rod and Jigwinner spinning rod is more than sufficient. The only problem is that IF you happen to get a large Catfish on the Nero Rod, it can take a bit of time to get him out. But with a short (70cm) Leader, this very rarely happens. I filled up 100Kg in under 2 hours and only got one 9Kg Catfish, one Crappie and one Sunfish, which I threw away.

So as I am sure that there are other better ways to make money faster (at higher levels - White Moose or St Croix for instance), this one is very good at lower levels. Emerald Lake catching Walleye is also good, but I prefer this method. Bass bite all day and night. At night I use either the Blue/White/Red Night Casting Spoon or a 2/0 Jighead with a 7cm Night Shad or the 12cm Glow Worm. Nice Unique Smallmouth Bass bite especially at Night during high times.

And again, Day 2. Filled up 100 Kg well before Lunchtime. With the Afternoon and Night still available, you can see that even a 200 Kg net can be filled quite comfortably with Bass in one day. Also screenshots of smallest fish to heaviest fish.

First, thank you gunnies799 for mentioning Neherrin River. I spent 3 days there fishing for bass using only match rods, shrimp, a #3/0 hook, and my 198lb (approximately 90kg) keep net. The first couple of days I made around 14900 cash. The last day I made the mistake of fast forwarding to night fishing (thinking I might catch some uniques). Bait fishing for bass doesn't seem to work at night, at least not with shrimp. I chose shrimp since in my experiments I found they're significantly less expensive than buying the same amount of minnows and they appear to catch as many in as short a time.

I also decided to spend a few days fishing for bass at the Florida Everglades using the same setup. At the Everglades I caught only Largemouth and Butterfly Peacock bass. On average I caught about $400 less, $14500. Considering that it costs more to go to the Everglades and stay there, Neherrin might be a better choice.

It's worth mentioning that after 3 days (6 days total) of fishing at both places I caught lots of trophy Bass, but no unique Bass. Shrimps just don't seem to be the bait to catch Unique Bass, or I just had lousy luck.

Emerald Lake is worth a mention here because I think it might be even more profitable than either place, but with the caveat that it takes longer to fill the net. I was at Emerald (to catch the Pikeslasher) and had $8354 with only 96lbs (approx 43.5kg) of Walleye. Walleye bite all day and night. And in my experience they go for Leeches (level 31) as much as they go for Minnows. Leeches are vastly less expensive than minnows in large quantities. Walleyes also bite narrow spoons. Those things said it just doesn't feel as fun grinding Walleye (maybe it's because you can grind for a couple of different kinds of bass at Neherrin or the Everglades).

1. At night in Neherrin you must swap to a spinning or casting setup with a night casting spoon and you'll still catch a Bass almost every cast. Match rods only work well during the day. I must have forgot to mention that, but usually one can fill the net during the day anyway.

2. I have caught many Unique Largemouth Bass at the Everglades, so he must have had rotten luck. Also you catch a lot of Gars (in my opinion) in between the Bass, especially when using Minnows. So Neherrin is a bit more focused on Bass. As well that Everglades are more expensive to travel to like he mentioned.

3. Emerald Lake was always my 'go-to' before Neherrin as well. I also feel that catching Bass is a bit more exciting than Walleyes though, like he mentioned. And it does take longer to fill the net. So I would recommend that you grind Emerald for money when you're still at lower levels and only have a 40Kg net. By the time you can afford a biggish net (90-100 Kg), Neherrin becomes the better option.

5. Then when I can get the heavy gear and have some money, start thinking about St.Croix. Basically that's where I am at the moment. Level 45, going to St.Croix soon for the first time. But for this you need rods like the Brutus match, Cat Boxer bottom, Zeus spinning etc. Heavy stuff.

Not sure which would be the the easiest to catch, have you tried setting up a rod holder, casting out your lure setups and then setting off a firework ? Or maybe suggest taking turns with other anglers to launch the fireworks if they're trying to achieve the same goal as you. Firing cannons and setting off fireworks should increase the bite rate of the Historics. Yes, you can catch them with non-event lures, but using the event lures for the specific fish at the waterway would be the way to go about it (I believe).

2) Using bait doesn't seem to work. I caught zero historicals using bottom rods out of like 100 fish. All of the historicals came from spinning -- all using the event lure. I tried using other lures only a few times, but didn't catch any. If anyone caught them using normal lures, do share.

3) The historical fish can pop up at other places besides the normal spots. For example, I caught the Bull Trout up the river a few times where there shouldn't be any and also down the river where only Chinook and Coho swims.

5) Fireworks doesn't seem to work, although it's hard to set them off in Alaska where it moves you back to land when you use them. I suggest saving the fireworks for the Christmas. You need like 250 fireworks to get the Santa's Helper achievement then. If anyone can confirm this works, please share.

6) The last historical was the toughest to catch. On average, 1 out of 8 fishes, I caught was historicals. The last one took about 30 casts to get. I am not sure if this is intentional or if it's me just having bad luck.

The law requires that a catch record card must be in your possession when you are fishing for these species. After you catch a fish or crab, you are required to enter that catch on your catch record card before continuing to fish. All anglers are required to return their cards by the appropriate deadline, even if you did not catch anything (WAC 220-310-020 and WAC 220-310-010).