

Some are stupidly, uselessly slow, while some are screaming fast. Don't forget to check a reel's retrieval rate in the shop either. It's not much, but it will add a little extra tension and keep some of those runners on the line long enough for them to stop charging. If you're fishing from the shore you can try turning your body and walking backwards while reeling when this starts to happen. Maybe the % chance of it happening should reduce like 1%- 10% for every minute spent battling the fish? Or a better "hooking" mechanism/measurement could ensure that if your fish is really hooked, you won't lose it to a somewhat BS concept. It's kinda crap to lose a fish to "low line tension" after that long. Hooks don't magically come un-swallowed or un-done if it's REALLY in there (which I'm sure it would be after many minutes of fighting). You always have time to catch up the slack as they dart around. In fact every time they hit the end of said leash, that hook digs in more. When a fish is hooked IRL, they can charge toward you and away and they're still on a leash. It's beyond disappointing (honestly, no matter how "realistic" just not fun gameplay) to lose a fish after 10+ minutes of "fighting" - which is mostly just mindless spamming of LMB/RMB and trying to move L to R a bit to counter charges - then for just like 1-3 seconds you can't turn 180 degrees fast enough and the fish is gone? THAT, actually, is not very realistic. This has been happening to me a lot lately, as I'm just starting to catch larger fish. How the hell am I supposed to reel these larger fish in when the fight can go from 5 minutes, to 50 minutes and all it takes is 3 seconds to lose the thing? And in most of these fights they charge at some point.

Once its set Ive lost a couple due to broken lines as the line cant withstand their sudden turnaround at the speed they are moving, but never through low line tension. You feel it sometimes and think "Oh that one got off somehow" then the line tightnes and fighting resumes. After 10 minutes of fighting a fish I shouldnt lose it to low line tension in 3 seconds because I simply cannot keep up with his charging speed with my reel.

Now there is no way that hook isnt sunk into him good and proper. I then get a bit of a win and start reeling him in, get him in to 40m.įor all of 3 seconds tops the guages flash blue. He charges round like an idiot for a good 5-10 minutes, spooling me out from 30m to 56m.
