How does chain fishing work?

Question

How exactly do I chain fish in Pokemon X and Y? Do i have to talk to the super rod fisherman, or what. I fish every time after the last, but I have no way to know if it is working or not. I run at the end of every battle instead of KO'ing due to limited PP.

Answer 1

Simply pick a spot and use any rod.

These actions will cause the chain to break*:

• Reeling it in too late/early

• No fish biting (use a pokemon with Suction Cups / Sticky Hold ability in the first party slot to reduce the chance of this)

• Loading/reloading a map

  • Entering a building

  • Using Fly

• Ending the game / switching the 3DS off

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These actions will not cause the chain to break*:

• Running from battle

• Catching/Fainting the pokemon

• Fishing up a different pokemon

• Using Potions / Repels / PP restore from menu

• Using a different fishing rod

• Equipping the Bicycle / Dowsing Machine / Skates

• Moving to another spot on land (within the same map)

  • Encountering other Pokemon in grass.

    　

• Crossing a map boundary as long as it does not involve doors and/or loading a map. (e.g. it is okay to move along the coast of Cyllage City, Lower Route 8, Ambrette Town)

• Using Surf and Waterfall

  • Moving from land to water using Surf

  • Moving on water

  • Encountering Water pokemon by moving on water

• Using Rock Smash

  • Encountering pokemon from the Rock Smash

    　

• Saving the game (but this doesn't matter because the chain breaks if you switch off the game, so you can't load a save file that maintains the chain).

• Closing the 3DS lid (sleep mode)

• Pressing the home button (suspended game)

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*A Summary on how this information was verified:

1. Started with a fishing record of 5 consecutive.

2. Fish 6 consecutive times

3. Perform the alleged action that will break the chain

4. Fish another 2 consecutive times

5. Check against the fisherman in the fishing shack on Route 16

If he reports 6 as the longest chain, then the action that was investigated breaks the consecutive chain. If he reports 8 as the longest chain, then that action does not break the chain.