April 9,2010

Jax's Guide to Flinging Fish

Read this first. I'm going to assume you've had a look at that before you read the rest of this as I'm not really going to recap for you how to play the game, this is more of a strategy guide on how to get 100% easilywww.runescape.wikia.com/wiki/fish_flingers

When to play: Games start every 90 minutes. If you are trying to get all 6 kinds of fish to 100% you want to play when it's busy so you can see if 2 kinds of fish are being caught in one place.

Each location has 1 type of fish and 2 locations have 2. If you get 3 fish at 100% you get the Junior Angler medal, all 6 at 100% is the Master Angler. That may seem like a lot of work but I can show you how to do it faster (best time so far: 8 mins, 19 sec)

Talk to the fisherman and ask for his advice. He'll give you a hint like:The cod at the beach likes brown wiggly creatures.

This tells you that there's cod at the beach and they like worms. You always get a fish, a location and then 1 hint for bait/hook or range.

As you hit each location watch what people are catching. If they are catching something different from you then you know it's a 2 fish location. So make yourself a table that looks like this (I color coded the hooks to help you see what's associated with what)Table for Fishing

Using that clue hint I gave you'd go to the COD column and put in BEACH for location and WORMS for food.When you start run to the beach and use WORMS, pick a hook and add 1 medium weight.

If you get 33%-WORMS you know is right. So switch to a hook that is NOT associate with the hook you just used. For example, if you used a standard hook you know that STANDARD and SLIM are both out. If you get 50%-You know WORMS is right and you got 1 other things at half right. So if you tried a STANDARD hook switch to a SLIM. If you go to 66% you now know the hook and bait. If you don't change then you know it's associated to the weight and you are on the wrong hook grouping and switch hooks.If you get 66%-You know WORMS is right and I'd assume that hook is too. So add 3 Large to your 1 Medium. This takes you from 1 to range 5. If it's still 66% you know that you do have the right hook and bait. If it falls to 33% then you know it's WORMS and 1 MED and then you can start searching for the hook.If that doesn't get you to 100 clear your line and put on WORMS, the right hook and 1 large. Keep adding 1 large til you scroll through all the ranges. Once you get 100% put that in your chart. So for example you'd write, COD, BEACH, WORMS, STANDARD, 1.Cross off Worms, Standard and 1 (of course you can keep fishing once you get 100% since it'll boost your scores).

Once you do that look around. Is anyone catching a fish that looks different then yours? If so stay there using a different hook, bait and weight (I like start at 1 MED until I find the fish with 1 range).Now you know no other fish can use worms, standard, and range 6.

Which means by the time you find 5 fish the 6th one you will know the hook, be 50/50 on the range and be 1/3 for the bait. Which means it should take you 15 seconds to figure it out.If you start out knowing what the hook is you can quickly find the bait. Each bait is associated to 2 other baits by color and shape. For example, shrimp are associated with crayfish (shape) and worms (color). So if you use shrimp and get a 0% boost you know it's not crayfish or worms (eliminating 3 possible options). At most it should take you 4 guesses to get the food.

Range is a pain. I like to use a known range to start with it doesn't mess with my percentages. (I don't clear my line between spots, I just switch out hook and bait, that way I know that the range is wrong to start with and I can focus on the other 2). Getting a 16% boost when changing range tells you nothing that I know of. So fastest is to quickly try each one that is still eligible.

You have 15 minutes. Which is 2 min 30 sec a fish. And your last two will go really fast. So take your time, when you have 100% always keep fishing until you are ready to move.This method will result in you getting 2 medals per game minimum.