Fishing

Fishing "Fishing allows you to fish, and to craft a primitive fishing pole." Requirements: Skill(s) required: Survival Skills Proficiencies required: 300 Flora & Fauna 400 Hunting & Hideworking 200 Thread & Needle Skills Unlocked: Waterways Crafts Unlocked: A Fish in the Reeds Birchbark Butterfly Buddies on a Branch Cricket Moth Filet on the Rocks Makeshift Fishing Rod Seaweed Masque Razzle-Tazzle Lure Tasty Sink-knot Builds Unlocked: Fish Trap Others Unlocked: Any Fish Fish Filet of Angel-Winged Seabass Filet of Blueback Tuna Filet of Cape Codfish Filet of Darkwater Bluegill Filet of Ghostly Whitefish Filet of Gold Pickerel Filet of Hellish Halibut Filet of Long-Whiskered Catfish Filet of Raging Bullhead Filet of Red-Finned Mullet Filet of Red Herring Filet of Sargasso Eel Filet of Silt-Dwelling Mudsnapper Filet of Tiger Trout Filet of Trunk-Nosed Lake Perch

A fisherman and his catch

In-Game Text

"These shall you eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, an in the rivers, them shall ye eat."

-Leviticus 11:9, King James' Bible

The far flung oceans across which you came hold, parallel to the rivers and lakes of this strange and wondrous land, a teeming multitude of life. Fishing allows you to fish, and to craft a primitive fishing pole.

Instructions

1. Construct a fishing rod and lure.
2. Equip the fishing rod (requires both hands free) and lure (left-click to pick it up then right-click the fishing rod).
3. Click the Fish action under the Adventure menu, the cursor will change to a crucifix.
4. Click on a body of water.

After a short while a fish may bite. After this, a window will pop up every few seconds presenting you with three random options. One option will cause the fish to be reeled in, one will do nothing, and one will let the fish pull away. The options themselves can be quite random, but their effect will be consistent for each type of fish.

Your character's stance indicates your advantage over the fish. The further back you are leaning the closer you are to successfully catching the fish. If you are in danger of losing your fish - when you're leaning forward - walk away, so you save your worm.

If you understand card-counting it is similar; you will get a list of options in which any of the options can be +1, +0, -1.

The +1 choices are persistent so for example "Resist", "Reel in", and "Pull high" are +1 when the fish is a Angel-Winged Seabass.

Also:

• Lures can be removed from rods by right-clicking the rod.
• As of the latest update, baits have a 99% chance of hooking a fish.

Fishing Chart

Fish	Found in	Bait Required	Want it Badly	Think of England	Make it Happen	Reel in	Reel Back	Reel Out	Pull High	Pull Low	Pull Down	Pull Hard	Pull West	Resist	Insist	High Five
Angel-Winged Seabass	Sea	Common Earthworm, Stick Spinner,Razzle-Tazzle_Lure, Seaweed Wobbler, Cricket Moth	Positive	Positive	Positive	Positive	Positive	Positive	Positive	Positive	Positive	Negative	Negative	Positive	Positive	Negative
Cape Codfish	Sea	Common Earthworm,Razzle-Tazzle_Lure	Positive	Negative	Positive	Negative	Positive	Negative	Negative	Positive	Positive	Positive	Positive	Negative	Negative	Negative
Red-Finned Mullet	Sea	Common Earthworm,Cricket Moth	Negative	Positive	Negative	Positive	Positive	Positive	Negative	Negative	Negative	Negative	Negative	Negative	Positive	Negative
Red Herring	Sea, Fresh	Common Earthworm,Razzle-Tazzle_Lure,Stick Spinner	Positive	Positive	?	?	Negative	Negative	Negative	Negative	Negative	Negative	Negative	Positive	Positive
Blueback Tuna	Sea	Shark Bait,Seaweed Wobbler, Stick Spinner,Razzle-Tazzle_Lure	Positive	?	?	?	Positive	?	?	?	?	?	Positive	Positive	?	?
Ghostly Whitefish	Fresh	Seaweed Wobbler, Shark Bait	Negative	Positive	?	Negative	?	?	Positive	?	?	?	Negative	Positive	Negative	?
Gold Pickerel	Fresh	Shark Bait,Cricket Moth	?	?	?	?	?	?	Positive	?	?	?	Positive	?	?	Positive
Hellish Halibut	Sea	Razzle-Tazzle_Lure,Stick Spinner	Positive	?	Positive	?	Positive	Positive	?	?	?	?	?	Negative	?	Positive
Medusa Head Jellyfish	Sea	Seaweed Wobbler,Shark Bait	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Long-Whiskered Catfish	Fresh	Cricket Moth	?	?	?	Positive	?	?	?	Positive	?	?	?	?	?	Positive
Raging Bullhead	Fresh	Shark Bait	?	?	?	?	?	?	Positive	?	?	Positive	?	?	?	?
Silt-Dwelling Mudsnapper	Fresh	Common Earthworm, Cricket Moth,Razzle-Tazzle_Lure	Positive	Positive	Negative	Positive	Positive	Negative	Negative	Positive	?	Negative	Positive	Positive	Positive	Positive
Tiger Trout	Fresh	Common Earthworm, Cricket Moth,Razzle-Tazzle_Lure	Negative	Positive	Negative	Negative	Negative	Positive	Positive	Negative	Positive	Negative	Positive	Negative	Negative	Negative
Trunk-Nosed Lake Perch	Fresh	Common Earthworm, Cricket Moth, Stick Spinner,Razzle-Tazzle_Lure	Positive	Positive	Positive	Positive	Positive	Negative	Positive	Positive	Negative	Positive	Positive	Positive	Positive	Negative
Shin Spinner	Fresh	Common Earthworm,Razzle-Tazzle Lure,Shark Bait	?	Positive	Positive	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	Positive	?	?	?

Equipment Wear

Fishing rods and lures are damaged with use, and this is represented as 'wear' when hovering over their icons. Equipment is damaged over time, whether a fish is hooked or not. When struggling with a fish, wear seems to tick but the effect of the wear seems to wait until you catch/lose the fish. This is apparent as your equipment will not break during the process, but often immediately after.

The amount of wear per tick is determined by the type of equipment and your Frontier & Wilderness proficiency.

Also note that your fishing rod will not be damaged when using bait (like earthworms), contrary to the use of lures where both the rod and the lure degrade.

Equipment

Fishing Rods

Materials

Note

	Makeshift Fishing Rod	Branch x4, Hay x2, Flint x1	The easiest rod to make. Less durable than the Fishing Pole.
	Fishing Pole	Sharpened Stick x4, Cotton Cloth x1, Nails x2, Leather x3	About 2x stronger than the Makeshift Fishing Rod with half the decay. [1].
	Fishmaster 1600	Fisherman's Pack	About 4x stronger than the Makeshift Fishing Rod

Bait

Bait	Purity From	Notes
Baby Squirrel	No Purity	Slowest Bait to break.
Birchbark Butterfly	Fish Hook used in it's construction.
Common Earthworm	Worm Purity	Does not add wear to your Fishing Pole.
Cricket Moth	Fish Hook used in it's construction.
Googly Glower	???
Grub	Any Plant fed to it.
Razzle Tazzle Lure	Fish Hook used in it's construction.
Seaweed Wobbler	Fish Hook used in it's construction.
Shark Bait	Fish Hook used in it's construction.
Stick Spinner	Fish Hook used in it's construction.
Tasty Sink-knot	Fish Hook used in it's construction.

* Research is still being conducted as to how lures affect fish caught.