Baiting the Hook

Today is a red letter day! I made my first stack of Insect Paste Balls! All of my cooking effort has finally paid off culminating in my ability to create my own fishing bait.

One earth crystal, one little worm, one distilled water, and one ear of million corn. It's a simple and cheap recipe that yields a stack of 12 insect paste balls. Done right, you'll pay only 55 gil for the ingredients if you farm your own earth crystals. The price could be even cheaper if you grow your own millioncorn. Not a bad investment considering a stack of the insect paste balls can go for as much as 600 gil at the auction house in San d'Oria!

The money that insect paste can make might be very attractive for some, but for me there is an even better attraction; the paste balls are proven bait for moat carp. That's just what I need to catch enough moat carp for my Lu Shang's fishing rod.

Hooray, hooray! Fish on!