by
Willbonney
» 03 Jan 2015, 23:27
Fishing's passive is combined a bit with Hunting for:
"Max Q of resulting animal ingredients."
This is mostly seen from skinning the corpses of larger animals for the wild meat, bones, and potential alchemy components from wild animals (slaughtering Tamed Animals uses Procuration).
As for the actual fish, their quality is purely dependent upon the water you catch them in. Find some good quality type of Terrain, I personally prefer high quality Fertile Soil or Forest Soil, so that the area I spread the soil in will stand out against the sand areas better. Others will use sand to keep the terrain colors/patterns the same. You want 90+quality if you can.
Fishing in the water above these tiles will result in 80-100q fish. Fishing in "low quality" water reduces success rate of catching fish by quite a lot.
A high quality Fishing Pole also determines fish quality, as well as success rates of fishing.