Topic: The Hylian Loach

[Ninja X]

Well, I'm on my way to clearing OoT.  I have all upgrades, skulltula tokens, heart pieces, and items collected.  I did some of the "specials" such as setting a record on the horse track or buying out the whole bombchu shop, but the one special that I need to truly beat OoT 100% is to catch the Hylian Loach.

The Hylian Loach is the biggest fish in the Fisherman's Pond located in Lake Hylia.  It's a black, eel-like fish that almost never takes the bait.  Before you go after it, you need the sinking lure as well as some luck that the Loach will appear in the pond.  After that, good luck trying to get the loach to take the bait.

I spent two long hours chasing it around the pond trying to force it to take the sinking lure, but it never fell for it.  I have read a guide on how to catch it, but it still does not work.  I tried to get him to take the bait when he surfaces for air, but he still does not take it.

Any advice?  

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

I know the "secret" (if you can call it that, i prefer "assault plan") to catching the bugger.  I can capture footage of my Link reeling him in on video and encode it in DivX to share with everyone, if I find the time.  But I will NOT reveal my procedure.

[Marcus Arillius]

i caught it by mistake once, well not mistake, its just that, i really wasn't trying to catch it.   Anyway, it wasn't even in a deep end or anything.  I think it was in the shallow part by the big tree trunk laying on it's side.
But when i started a new file and tried to catch it again, i couldn't even find the sinking lure.  I looked where i had found it before, and searched the whole pond, but still couldn't find the goddam sinking lure. phooey.

[Ninja X]

I caught the loach a couple days back.  Turns out if you leave it alone in the pond, it will eventually go to its home near one of the shallow ends of the pool.  Get the sinking lure and get it hooked.  Prepare to reel in and call yourself a damn good fisherman afterwards.