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Lightbulb - Breakwater
MINE! - Waves of Doom & others
Old Guy - Private Beach
Painting (number unknown) River, Waves of Doom
Collectibles... answers here!
Graeme Challis
asked this on December 06, 2011 23:47
These are all the tips for getting the collectibles I've gathered from experience and the many tidbits scattered through multiple threads in this forum. I've listed the rarer collectibles below and noted where you can get them. If not listed - they'll be in Nobeards Cave, which you'll need to purchase in app.
If you have better and more specific answers than I have below, please post! Especially... where are the tires!?
Aaron said elsewhere... for collectibles in v1.6, use the 'wrong' bait and cast to around 70 - 75% distance. I've noticed that in some places, you'll get no collectibles with say Spinner, but they start coming in with Baitfish. At Waves of Doom for instance, max cast is 210, so 70% would be 7 x 21 = 147 feet.
If you're not getting many collectibles, fish at Nobeards cave. Cast to 40 - 48 feet and catch rate should be about 1 in 4 on average, in my experience. Elsewhere, collectible catch rate is, at best, 1 in 20, an unscientific guess.
If you don't get that catch rate, exit back to the main screen, tap "Help & Options", then tap "Game Options" and there reset the Tutorial. Go Fishing and you should see the map and where you can re-do the Tutorial - make sure you finish it completely. Catch rate should improve if it was bad before, most evident in Nobeards cave.
Many items are available in multiple locations, driftwood, flintlocks, boots, chests, anchors, lifebelts and others can come up anywhere. Some few are available in just one spot or perhaps only a few - lightbulb & titanic are like this.
Nobeards Cave... has many things including all the Shiny Shiny & One Man Band collections. Spend most of your time there, reeling quickly in to deliberately snap the line if a fish strikes. If you have a collectible on the line, it has no weight and you can quickly reel it straight in. 70% of max cast is 42 feet. I've had luck anywhere in the 40 - 52 ft range. Use bait fish to get big Cobia on the line so you can snap the line quickly if it's not a collectible. Use Lure if you want to build up your Roosterfish catch. I thought I noticed that some items appear most often when you cast to 40-48, but others come up more often when you cast from 48-52. Party Hat I'm thinking there. I could have imagined this, but when I was looking for it, up she came.
If you can, unlock the Red Rod, which is supposed to improve collectible catch rate. Same for the Treasure Finder gizmo, though you'll need to catch a lot of collectibles before you can unlock that.
Where to find stuff... gleaned from what I remember and what others have posted:
Cannon & Cannonball - in salt water, Waves of Doom, Blue Deeps, Nobeards etcLightbulb - Breakwater
MINE! - Waves of Doom & others
Old Guy - Private Beach
Painting (number unknown) River, Waves of Doom
Painting 1 Blue Deeps
Painting 2
Painting 3
Peg leg - Waves of Doom
Sarge - said to be at The River
Tires - absolutely no idea. Suspect a bug is stopping them appearing.
Titanic - Waves of Doom
Titanic - Waves of Doom
If your item of interest is not here - it will be in Nobeards Cave. Fish there a lot!
Comments
lightbulb help please!!! been fishing at breakwater for what seems forever and still no lightbulb, just lots of mullets.
Try interchanging rods, gizmos, baits, extreme mode, etc. It may be my imagination, but I seem to be getting more collectibles using the blue rod.
thank you. caught it not to long after. yay!!! any advise on painting #3, the old guy and peg legs???
PAINTING 1!! HELP PLEASE!!!
Painting 2 at Riverside
Any advice for those banjos? Other than Nobeard's Cave?
I'm pretty sure I caught some Banjos at the Private Beach.
Please let me know if you know the type of bait and cast distance. Thanks.
The bait shouldn't matter, but I think I was using Bait Fish. The distance I remember was about 170 ft.
I think the soda bottles love me. Get them a lot.
As Graeme says above, Old Guy - Private Beach, Peg leg - Waves of Doom. Tires are definitely found at the Old Pond.
I have a routine that works for me when I'm trying to get collectibles. If you don't have these items yet, try to get them first before any others. I use the solid Blue rod with the Superline gizmo. If you're using Flick Fishing Paid, fish in extreme mode (that's not in Flick Fishing Free). At the Old Pond use Maggots, Private Beach and Waves of Doom use Baitfish. Try and cast just over the midline on the cast meter. At the Old Pond that's 23 to 25 ft. At the Private Beach and Waves of Doom that's 165 to 175 ft (I like 172 ft.). As soon as your bobber/float settles, reel in 3 or 4 clicks then stop. This seems to make the bite happen sooner than just waiting for it. When the bite happens, reel in like mad. If it's a fish, your line will probably break. That doesn't matter - you're fishing for collectibles only now. Cast again using the same technique. Collectibles hardly weigh anything, so your line will never break if you hook one. At the Old Pond, none of the fish seem to break the line no matter how hard you reel in or how big they are (even Old Mog), so you're liable to be catching a ton of Roach too. Just keep doing this technique over and over and over. Don't give the game time to catch a breath! I've used this routine and have managed to catch all collectibles, including many of the elusive Tires, Peg Legs, Sarges and Old Guys. I hope this technique works for you too. I'm running the latest Flick Fishing Paid on a iPod Touch 4G with the latest iOS. Have Fun! :D
Hi everyone,
I collect allllll,,,,,, so what can i do next !!!!
I thought buying collectibles and/or gizmos with doubloons would be a nice feature too. I have over 1000 doubloons and that's from just catching fish - I didn't buy any. Now that I have all the collectibles and gizmos, I'm trying to move up on the Plus+ leaderboards with big fish. Or I fish with a new gizmo for a while to see how it behaves. Or I go for the fish of the day and get more doubloons. Or I go on a personal quest to catch all named fish in one session. I got nine of them one night! Or if I don't mind losing a few doubloons, I'll continue with the Old Guy's Challenge. Or I try and win a tournament that I haven't won yet. There's lots to do once you get all the collectibles and gizmos! :D
Denise, are you catching more collectibles at least? As you keep doing that routine, you'll eventually start catching the ones you need. Patience and persistence are key. I didn't get all my collectibles overnight. It took me 2 - 3 weeks to finally get everything.
An excerpt from a recent comment from Andrew:
Collectibles hardly weigh anything, so your line will never break if you hook one. At the Old Pond, none of the fish seem to break the line no matter how hard you reel in or how big they are (even Old Mog), so you're liable to be catching a ton of Roach too.
As you progress up the leader board you will find that Old Mog will snap your line in a split second.
Lyndy54
Denise, I added you to my Plus+ friends. My nickname is SharkNose. You've caught tires?
Lynwood, that's good to know about Old Mog (and I guess all the named fish). Thanks. I've got a ways to go before she starts giving me a fight. She's only a little over 100 lbs. for me. At over 600 lbs. for you, I'll bet you use Auto-Slip when fishing for her.
Post Denice Spencer:
Plus+ is OK for me. Sometimes if you go immediately into Plus+ after starting Flick Fishing, it will not load or take a real long time. Hit the Go Fish! button and then come back to the main screen. If you look real carefully at the Plus+ button in the upper right, it will go gray for a split second. And then back to light blue. I think this means that your iPod (or whatever device) is communicating with the Plus+ server. You should be able to get into Plus+ with no delay now. Of course you have to be connected to your local wi-fi too. :)
Great news on Peg Leg! And with the Light Bulbs! Some people have been having problems catching them too.
Lynwood, I caught a record breaker barracuda last night and the new weight was posted to Plus+ within 10 minutes for me.
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Lynwood, I caught a record breaker barracuda last night and the new weight was posted to Plus+ within 10 minutes for me.
Any help for the necklace and rings? I don't even know what they look like.
And please post a photo of those two collectibles along with your post. Thanks.
@Fisherchamp - re-read the first post in this thread & Andrew Jones first post from July 7 above for all the info you need, plus more. You'll find that No Beards Cave is where you need to be.
Hmmm. I forgot about the Line Oil and Golden Lure that you get during the quest. It's interesting that it took them away from you. Of course, as you said, you get them back once you complete the Quest again. I remember my first Titanic, the Old Guy offered it to me for sale at 20 doubloons, I think. I caught a few on my own since. :)
Denise, I did an experiment with what you said at the Private Beach. Blue/White Striped Rod, Super Line Gizmo and Ragworm. I caught more treasures than fish! Including 2 Necklaces! And that was casting over 200 ft each time. I switched to the Treasure Finder Gizmo and caught nothing but fish. I wonder if Aaron has those two Gizmos switched somehow in the program?
I tried Waves of Doom and caught mainly Tridents, Lifebelts and Anchors. Although I did catch a record breaker Smiling Inigo too - Blue/White Striped Rod, Squid, SuperLine Gizmo - cast only about 180 ft. - Extreme Mode.
Peg Legs- Waves Of Doom, Ragworm, less than 150 feet. Very common.