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Charibenet -
Blizzards weather from Midnight to 3am. Catch five Ice Faeries to trigger a buff that lasts a couple minutes, so that the big fish becomes available. Mooch an Ice Faerie to get it. Problems? Abalathian Smelt likes to show up instead with roughly the same cast timer as the faerie, and the same (!) tug. Then if you do get to the point of mooching an Ice Faerie, a few other fish also like to bite the line, so you have lost lots of time on the buff that you might get once or twice in a window.

Sea Butterfly -
Clear skies from 5am to 7am. Catch three Sky Faeries (with red balloon bait) and three Scorpionflies (giant crane fly bait) to trigger the fisher's intuition buff. In either case, other fish may show up instead, making me wish for infinite GP with which to surface slap the unwanted fish or identical cast the desired ones. You might get the buff one time in the five minutes or so of real time, even if you start early (which is recommended) on the smaller fish. No guarantee Sea Butterfly will even bite.

Armor Fish -
Clear Skies from 1am to 4am, but you can pre-cast for the desired smaller fish like the previous two cases. You need six Hedgemole Crickets to trigger the buff, and starting early may allow for two buffs in one window. That said, you have to mooch off a cricket to get the armor fish, but other fish may also bite instead.

Opabinia -
This is the one that killed me the first time I tried it three years ago, back when Fish Eye's was needed. It's any time, but it and the smaller buff fish require thunder weather. You have to catch three Functional Proto-hropken for the buff. However, one other (!!) tug fish has similar timing (17-26 seconds), whether you mooch from the Platinum Fish or straight-catch it, Oil Eels love to bite the line after Platinumm Fish, and Azysfish love to bite instead of the plats; also Jeweled Jellyfish, because why not? Then when you finally get the buff, which may happen once in the entire eight hours in-game, you have to mooch off the plats again and hope the big fish bites instead of literally anything else. If you get a double window, you'll want to move to the other side of the small fishing hole so you don't get interrupted by fish detecting your presence, otherwise you've wasted 40+ minutes of your time.

Stethacanthus -
Technically any weather, from 4pm to 6pm. But! You need two Sculptors to trigger the buff, and those need thunder weather. Sculptors require not just the weather but also mooching the only starter fish there seems to be in the whole of the Lochs - Rock Saltfish. As you can probably guess from that, every other fish likes to bite more frequently than Sculptor by an incredibly stupid margin, as in I haven't seen even one of them in three windows. If you do get the buff, mooch a saltfish again and hope Steth bites.

Warden of the Seven Hues -
Thinking about how to explain this gives me a headache. OK. So. For the buff you need enough of three different colors of fish. Indigo (3) requires mooching a Violet, and appears between Midnight and 4am. Firelight (3) mooches off of Red, and appears between 4am and 8am. Either of those can fail because of Yellow or Blue biting instead of the mooch starter, or White biting instead of the target fish. Green (5) takes no mooch, but can happen any time between Midnight and 4pm as long as it is a clear or fair sky weather chained after a clear specifically. Manage this buff, which I have not as of yet, and you might, maybe get to see this fish bite your line.

And that is just what I have left in the Source. From the First, I have Ambling Caltrop (Clear, Noon to 4pm, mooch an uncommon gecko, hope it's not the other !!!), Henodus Grandis (Clouds, 10pm to Midnight, mooch uncommon squid, hope it's not the plain Henodus), and Pearl Pipira (Fog, 4pm to 8pm, mooch Diamond Pipira, uncommon to start, hope you don't get a normal quality diamond, because it mooches off itself for days, or a smaller fish).

This is my pain right now.

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