Double fishing query.. againFollow

I have a tendency to ask like two questions in the threads I put up sorry... First is soon I'm going to have a fishing skill of 30 and I would like to know what is the next cash cow for me.. moat carps are ok for now.. but.. well you know.. I need better. Second is the whole 10,000 moat carps thing for the LuShang rod. what I like to know is the best and fastest way for me to obtain this great example of a great fisherman... and is it in the long run better to sell it for 4 million gil?? I would like to fish in SSG but.. with no Lu rod its kinda hard..

Thanks for your input and I'll consider it. I have alot of time to fish fortunately. Thanks again.

i recently just finished my Lus quest (see sig) and i never plan to sell it. this rod is a god damn gold mine! i skilled from 39-49 in 2.5 days on shall shells, and caught about 40 stacks of Shall Shells in the process. selling for about 16-20k a stack, only problem is they dont sell nearly as fast as moats do, but i can usually sell 7 stacks per day, which isnt bad at all. considering they cap at lvl 53 and i catch a minimum of a stack per hour. also with Lus + Robber Rig, line will never snap, and i also pull in other types of fish, Yellow Globes and Bluetails. even though bluetails dont sell very much anymore. thanks SE for the mithkabob nerf. duuuh were squeenix and were going to kill the 2 most widely and affordable foods. thanks SE^^ now i get to pay 28k a stack of sole sushi or 16k a stack of squid sushi. not to mention shihei are 8-10k a stack now compared to the 5-6k a stack they used to sell for. sorry a bit of an angry /rant towards the end there ^^; hope my info has helpful though. not to mention one more piece of information. 10,000/12 = 833 so thats 833 stacks of moats. 833x5,000 = 4.16million. (5k/stack is the average price of moats in sandy, and they sell fast because thats where the quest is based) so fishing up 10,000 moats to sell the rod for 4million is dumb, you'll actually lose 160k (assuming you dont use the money obtained from trading the moats to buy more moats). in the long run, saving the rod for yourself is a much better investment IMO. seeing as i caught about 600k worth (assuming i sell the shells for 15k a stack, less the the average price) of stuff in 2 days^^ the rod really has a great return to it, and its an excellent investment to keep if you intend to persue fishing anymore.

On most servers the cost of the road is not 4.16 million. It ends up being 2.3 million. Most servers have moat carps for 4K/stack.

834 stacks at 4K each...3,336,000 gil.
Turn in 10,000 carp for 100 gil each...-1,000,000 gil.
Sell the remaining 8 carp at AH for 400 each...-3,200 gil.
Net cost of rod...2,332,800 gil.

Selling it for 4 million earns you a profit of 1,667,200 gil if moats sell for 4K/stack on your server. All the same, as fishing is as viable a source of income as any, keep it to perpetuate the gil-raking.