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I like to fish along the west side of the Nile nearby my home compound in Seven Lakes. Luckily, this has turned out to be a pretty good spot for me. I start to see ripples around sundown each day, but don't really start catching anything until about 10 pm game time; Best yields tend to be between 4 am - 6:30 am game time.
Good yield times generally seem to move in a wave from south to north over the course of the night; in other words, the "high yield" time in the catfish/tilapia spot is much earlier than it is in the perch spot. Also the water to the north does not become live until later in the evening. However, high yield times at any particular spot appear to fluctuate somewhat over the course of an evening. (This could just be due to the inherent streakiness of random number sequences.)
"High yield" is also relative. A 5 db perch is good for the perch spot but so-so in the catfish spot.
If I follow the Nile too far south or north during good fishing time near my cp, I hit dead water fairly quickly. Co-ords 1498, 2321 appear to be a hard boundary to the north for me, beyond which I only hit dead water regardless of time of night.
I'd appreciate it if anyone could confirm that they are able to catch fish in these places in the quantities I've described here, or if the max yield is personal (as ripple/dead water times seem to be).
6/13/06: I've added a bunch of data points traveling north-to-south along the East side of the Nile. I realize this is getting pretty messy for the size of this map. I'll clean it up eventually, probably after graphing out the fish types.
6/20/06: After quite a bit of time spent fishing now, perch are giving me trouble. The overall yield in the perch area seems to have collapsed; catch rate in any spot is low for me, and when I do catch perch, they are only 1 db. What's going on?
7/15/06: Experimented tonight (Year 1 Peret I-11) by traveling north along the Nile. Started at 1465, 2320 -- the first dead water spot on my fishing band (as of 12:50 am game time). Traveled to 1455, 2870 in Upper Egypt, checking the water every 10 coords or so, and hit nothing but dead water the whole way.
Please note: yields noted here are all at speed 0 unless otherwise noted. With more speed points, yields increase dramatically. (My current personal best is 26 db)
| Location | Fish Types | Yield | Notes |
| 1411, 2139 | N/A | N/A | My compound; for reference |
| 1446, 2159 | Catfish, Tilapia | 1-14db | Very good catch rate |
| 1479, 2243 | Abdju, Perch | 1-2 db | |
| 1476, 2266 | Perch | 1-5 db | Very good catch rate? |
| 1475, 2284 | Perch, Oxyrhynchus | 1-5 db | |
| 1498, 2321 | Dead Water | N/A | Checked @ 1:25-3:35 AM. Hard boundary...? |
| 1500, 2311 | Perch, Oxyrhynchus | 1 db | |
| 1504, 2301 | Perch | 1-2 db | |
| 1505, 2291 | Perch | 1-3 db | 70% catch rate in ~20 casts, 11:00 PM |
| 1506, 2281 | Perch, Abdju | 1-4 db | |
| 1507, 2271 | Perch, Abdju | 1-4 db | |
| 1508, 2261 | Abdju, Catfish | 1-5 db | |
| 1504, 2221 | Catfish | 1-4 db | |
| 1483, 2159 | Chromis, Tilapia | 1-7 db | |
| 1476, 2149 | Chromis, Tilapia | 1-8 db | |
| 1459, 2129 | Chromis, Phagrus, Tilapia | 1-7 db | |
| 1441, 2090 | Chromis, Phagrus | 1-24 db | yields are with +7/9 speed |