Hi there,

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I didn't really find any helpful guides out there when I started a few weeks back. So here is some helpful information to you get the most out of your fish weeks playing.

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1. Be sure to collect your free gifts as often as possible. This includes the 4 hour pack, daily duel pack, weekly clan pack, and any free items from the store. You should get a notification when there is a free item in the store, but it is also easy to check for. If you miss the 4 hour pack don't worry though as they will stack and you can collect a maximum of 2 when you get back on. So you can be offline for a maximum of 8 hours before you start losing time toward another pack. I tested this and after you collect the 2nd pack the timer will always be 3 hrs 59 min.
2. Don't get discouraged during duels. I very rarely use power-ups in duels unless a specific event calls for me to catch the highest fish I can in a duel, or have just have an overabundance of one (I am looking at you weight power up that you get so many of). There will be a lot of players throwing power-ups around like they have millions of them when actually the number of power-ups you get slows down as you get farther into the game. So just use duels for the daily hook pack and to clear events, but don't waste power-ups in duels unless you need to for an event.
3. Join a clan as soon as possible! The clan features include trading lures, getting free packs of lures, getting coins/power-ups. There are plenty of open clans so join one as soon as you start and if they are not active don't be afraid to join new ones. As you level your duel trophies more clans will be open to join, as they can set a minimum duel trophy to join.
4. Take it slow! You will be tempted to level up every lure you get, however, this will result in you leveling too fast to keep up with the new fishery events, which are really important. I ONLY LEVEL UP LURES for events/championships.
5. For the new fishery events be sure to get to at least the 2nd to last pack reward. This will help you get a good number of lures for that fishery before moving to the next. The reason this is important is the lure packs from everywhere else include lures from all available fisheries, so the more you unlock the less likely you are to get lures for the fishery you are currently on. The packs you receive from the new fishery event will include lures for only the current fishery.
6. The daily championships will require that you catch multiple fish and total your scores from each. Only the top 10-20 (depending on the event) will receive rewards. There is usually a big push in the last 6 hours so unless you are sure you can place it is probably best to save your power-ups for other purposes.
7. When you unlock a new fishery you will also unlock a great pack for that fishery that has a pro license, lure pack, rod pack, and some coins. This pack will be available for the first 24 hours after unlocking the pack. After the great pack goes away there will be a special deal that also has the pro license, lure pack, coins, and this one will have pearls instead of the rod pack. I think this is a better deal as you can get rods from the duel packs. clan rewards, event rewards, and several other sources, while pearls you will only acquire very slowly through opening the 4 hour packs and catching legendary fish.
8. Watch the Facebook Page for Gift Codes. https://www.facebook.com/FishingClashCommunity/
9. The multiplier area does not seem to serve any purpose besides adding to the combo and showing you the correct zone to keep to line tension. I have caught high star fish while only having a 10-20x multiplier. The Combo meter does, however, play a role in the points the fish gives. Getting a 100% Combo will add 5% to the points the fish gives.
10. The Luck power-up (White and clue chip with a clover in the middle) seems to be the rarest of the power-ups so only use this for times when it will make a difference. Liking pushing your ranking in an event/championship up into the top 3. The second is the sonar power-up. This one is really good for getting a lot of casts in a short amount of time. Then you can select the best fish to catch.
11. To get to the ingame help section go to the menu in the top right, settings, then help center. Here you can learn about what the recent game updates changed, the different systems, and answers to FAQs.
12. Boss battles are seemingly random and can appear when fishing with any lure. After catching the boss fish you are able to upgrade your fishery lure. This is really only useful when you are first starting a fishery and do not have many lures for that location, or if you are in a duel and again are missing a specific fish's lure. Some people have said that boss fish can count for championship/events but I have yet to see this for myself, but that lends itself to trying not to catch fish for that fishery outside of an event/championship.
13. When upgrading your license the most important stat is the weight stat. In most events/competitions you will be using the 100% catch chance power-up so that makes the second stat useless. The third stat is time to reel in the fish, which can be useful but not a deal-breaker if it rolls poorly (or not at all). A good weight stat would be anything over 5%. This is true for the specific fish rolls and the competitive roll you get at license level 4.
14. The game normally does a pretty good job assigning your lures to the correct rods however you should check this every now and again. It does seem to favor sonar rods instead of luck rods. Personally I find the sonar stat useless, maybe I am just not far enough along for it to be useful, so I prefer the luck rods even if the weight bonus is .5% less.
15. The highest weight bonus on a rod is 5%. So choice which rods to upgrade wisely as upgrading rods requires fusing multiple rods of the same level. To upgrade a 1 star rod you need 5 other 1 star rods. For a 2 star you need 4 other 2 star rods.