Opabinia is a legendary big fish in The Flagship in Ayzy Lla. Once one of the more annoying fish to catch, the removal of Fish Eye’s to catch the Intuition triggering fish, along with the addition of the Signature Skyball bait has made this a rather casual Legendary to fish up. Long windows and easy Intuition trigger makes this a good starter Legendary Fish for newcomers.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro & What to know ahead of time
0:15 Surface Slap target
0:36 Target fish for Intuition
1:10 Function Proto-hropken catch
1:35 Fisher’s Intuition activation, recommended bait, mooch target
2:13 Opabinia catch
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Opabinia
Location: Azyz Lla
Fishing Hole: The Flagship
Bait: Fiend Worm/Signature Skyball (mooch)
Conditions: Any time of day during Thunder
Functional Proto-Hropken
Location: Azyz Lla
Fishing Hole: The Flagship
Bait: Fiend Worm
Conditions: Any time of day during Thunder
Start off by casting out with Fiend Worm in The Flagship and Surface Slapping a non !! bite. If it’s a !! bite, double hook it. Once you have slapped a fish, cast out and let any non !! bites go. Again, if you get a !! bite, Double Hook it. This is Functional Proto-hropken, the intuition trigger fish. 3 are needed to trigger intuition, and Double Hook will give you 3-4, based on your gathering.
Once you have intuition, you can switch to Signature Skyball, or stay on Fiend Worm. Signature Skyball is ideal as it will always catch Platinum Fish, but requires you to have started the first step of the Skysteel Relic Rod. I’m unsure if this available to Free-Trial players, so I completed the guide wth Fiend Worm. Either way, with whatever bait you chose, cast out into The Flagship. You want a short ! bite, or the Platinum Fish. Once you caught one, use whichever mooch is available. You can let anything that isn’t a !!! bite go. Opabinia is a !!! bite, mooched off Platinum Fish, and requires Precision Hookset (green one) to catch, if under the effects of Patience I or II’s inefficient hooking debuff.
If Mooch II is on Cooldown (or you don’t have it unlocked) then use Patience I or II to get a high-quality Platinum Fish which you can mooch with Mooch I.
That’s it! It’s rather simple now that Fish Eyes is NOT required to catch Functional Proto-Hropken. Oddly enough, the new Fish Eyes doesn’t even effect Hropken.
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Another awesome video. Thank you for these. They are inspiring to amateur fishers like me. 😀
I was going for this fish, but funnily enough I caught the other big fish, the Allagan bladeshark lol
When I first began big fishing in 5.3, I didn’t really know that there were legendaries like this that were supposed to be the hardest to catch for that expansion. I waltzed into problematicus, charibenet, and opabinia windows and got them on my first try thinking that was perfectly normal. It wasn’t until 1 month of sea butterfly windows that I really started to grasp what I was getting into.
I've been using Powerful Hookset on it for days… How did you figure that out? Had no idea !!! fish could require Precision instead.
i hate this fish so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How do i catch the Rare fish on the Pappus Tree? i use Gamerescape and Cat is hungry for Fishing. but he didn´t bite at any time….