How to Catch Cloudsail in FFXIV (Patch 7.1 crafting fish)

This is a short guide for catching Cloudsail, a fish used crafting Ceviche and Cloudsail Meuniere in FFXIV. A relatively straightforward fish that can utilize the new Lv.100 Lure skills.

Chapters
0:00 Intro & What to know ahead of time
0:05 “Prep”
0:47 Catching Cloudsail
1:15 Other Notes
1:29 Outro

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Fish: Cloudsail
Location: Shaaloani
Hole: Eastbound Zorgor (30.8x, 35.2y
Bait: Cactuar Jig
Conditions: Any Time, Any Weather
Folklore Book: Xak Tural
Min Gathering: Lv.100 Gear is good enough, no hard number.

Catching Cloudsail
Arrive to Eastbound Zorgor and cast out with Cactuar Jig. Use Ambitious Lure 3x or until you see the “You have a feeling your next cast will be a large sized fish.” If the bite is a !! bite, use Hook to reel it in. If it’s not, use Rest, cast out and repeat.

If the !! bite you get is a Hellsnow Shark, use Surface Slap on it, cast back out, then use Ambitious Lure 3x again (or until you get the proc). On the next !! bite you get, you can use Hook, Double Hook, or Triple Hook depending on the amount of GP you have. Make sure you have enough left over to use Surface Slap and Ambitious Lure more if you plan to farm Cloudsail for a while.

Basically, because Hellsnow Shark and Cloudsail are the only powerful hookset fish (as of patch 7.1) in the fishing hole, we can just slap Hellsnow Shark and use Ambitious Lure over and over until we get Cloudsail bite. Then just repeat that over and over until you have all the fish you need.

Good luck and happy fishing!

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