Fishing basics

First cast

Finish the errand that sends you to the beach. Willy gives you a bamboo pole in the scene afterward. His shop sells another for 500g. That pole cannot take bait or tackle.

Cast into a river, the mountain lake, or the ocean. The green bar has to stay on the fish. If a treasure chest appears, you lose the chest when you lose the fish. The base chance of a chest is 15%.

Fish under difficulty 50 are the practice set: carp and chub in the mountain lake all year, herring in the ocean in spring and winter, sunfish in the town river on sunny spring and summer days.

If the bar is too small

The training rod is 25g. Below fishing level 5 it draws the green bar at the level 5 size, 136 pixels, and the catch meter falls 33% slower. Everything it catches is normal quality. It still gives normal XP and still counts for the collection.

It only hooks fish below difficulty 50, plus trash, algae, seaweed, and river or sea jelly. It will not hook a legendary fish.

• Fishing rods
• Spring fish
• Legendary fish

What to buy next

Fishing level 2 opens the fiberglass rod for 1,800g and the bait recipe. One bug meat makes one bait, and the shop price is 5g. Bait cuts the wait for a bite in half.

Level 3 opens crab pots. Level 6 opens the iridium rod for 7,500g, and with it the first tackle. The cork bobber at level 7 makes the green bar taller. The trap bobber at level 6 slows the meter when you slip off the fish.

At fishing level 5, Fisher raises fish prices by 25%. The level 10 Angler profession raises them by 50%. That Angler profession is not the Angler fish.

The five crowned legendary fish are a separate trip. The Legend wants fishing level 10, spring rain, and the mountain lake. The extended family is a Qi order, not a sixth crowned fish in the same season.

• Bait and tackle
• Crab pots
• Fish ponds
• Fishing