In Fantasy Life one of your lives (read as Jobs) can be that of an angler or fisherperson. In the other mini games for gathering resources or creating items you can get bonuses from doing it quickly, like cooking can yield a better dish or multiple dishes per attempt. In fishing there is the chance of catching larger fish, fish that you can use as trophies (might be the same thing?) and just rare fish in an area.
The introduction of the fishing quests you have to find one of the rare ones and the cat known as Trout shows you a location near an Apple tree to catch an Applefish. I went back on my own and the fish was not there. Later on after some random fishing I finally caught another but there was no apple tree in sight. Was this just a misleading storyline that the environment has an impact more than 'These fish are found in those zones'? (Which you can look up in the library for what its worth).
Also, does the time it takes to catch the fish have any bearing on what kind of fish? If I catch it fast will it be bigger or by their nature is it the longer ones to catch will be bigger?
I guess the end all question is what can I do as a player to be the best I can be at fishing?
Best Answer
The time used to catch the fish is not relevant because the fish is chosen by the game when you first pull your rod, hence the HP bar becomes easy or difficult to pull.
Each area has like 3-4 types of fish, and maybe two of then can be caught in giant size.
And to be better at fishing you just have to fish a lot and in tougher places, so you can level up faster.