FFXIV Ocean Fishing guide

Ocean Fishing is a group trip aboard The Endeavor, out of Limsa Lominsa. Unlike everything else a fisher does, it runs on real-world time: a boat departs every two hours, boarding opens on the even hour, and it sails 15 minutes later. It's matchmade for up to 24 players but completely solo-friendly, and a voyage takes about 25–30 minutes across three stops. Miss the window and it's a two-hour wait, which is why a schedule is the whole game here. Fieldcraft's Ocean Fishing tracker counts down the next boat and shows which route is up.

You pick one of two route families when you queue. The Indigo Route is the original run and has the higher score ceiling; the Ruby Route came later (and grew to include Thavnair) and pays more steadily. Each voyage visits three fishing spots, and each stop is locked to a time of day (day, sunset, or night), which decides what bites there. Which route sails at a given hour follows a fixed rotation, so the entire schedule is predictable days ahead.

The heart of a good run is the Spectral Current. Catching a designated “spectral” fish has a chance to flip the weather and open a 2–3 minute window where rare, high-value fish appear and everything bites faster and scores more. The prized catches, the blue fish, only show up during a Spectral Current, often behind a Fisher's Intuition chain, and they're where the big points live.

Every fish is worth points; blue fish are worth the most and hand out score multipliers. Clear 10,000 points on Indigo for the Indigonautachievement (a shark mount), or 16,000 on Ruby for Rubynaut. Even ignoring the trophies, Ocean Fishing is one of the calmest ways to level Fisher: a single voyage is a fat lump of experience with zero bait pressure, since the boat hands you what you need.

You're given Krill, Ragworm, and Plump Worm, restocked free at the dock, and which one triggers a Spectral Current depends on the zone and time of day. Mooching a caught fish, Fisher's Intuition, and the Double/Triple Hook actions are how you chase the rare fish and stack points once a current is running. Beyond that it's the same fisher toolkit: precision and powerful hooksets matched to the tug strength.