Fishing

Fishing "Fishing allows you to fish, and to craft a primitive fishing pole." Requirements: Skill(s) required: Survival Skills Proficiencies required: {{{Flora & Fauna}}}"{{{Flora & Fauna}}}" is not a number. Flora & Fauna {{{Herbs & Sprouts}}}"{{{Herbs & Sprouts}}}" is not a number. Herbs & Sprouts {{{Hunting & Hideworking}}}"{{{Hunting & Hideworking}}}" is not a number. Hunting & Hideworking Skills Unlocked: Seamanship Simple Cooking Crafts Unlocked: A Fish in the Reeds Filet on the Rocks Makeshift Fishing Rod Tasty Sink-knot Buddies on a Branch Seaweed Masque Builds Unlocked: None Others Unlocked: Fish Any Fish Razzle-Tazzle Lure

A fisherman and his catch

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 (source).

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.

Robo: 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.

[ Illustration coming soon ]

Also:

• Caught fish inherit the same purity as the water from which they came.
• 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 Shallows, Sea Depths	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 Shallows, Sea Depths	Common Earthworm,Razzle-Tazzle_Lure	Positive	Negative	Positive	Negative	Positive	Negative	Negative	Positive	Positive	Positive	Positive	Negative	Negative	Negative
Red-Finned Mullet	Sea Shallows, Sea Depths	Common Earthworm,Cricket Moth	Negative	Positive	Negative	Positive	Positive	Positive	Negative	Negative	Negative	Negative	Negative	Negative	Positive	Negative
Red Herring	Sea Depths, Lake Depths, River Depths	Common Earthworm,Razzle-Tazzle_Lure	Positive	Positive	?	?	Negative	Negative	Negative	Positive	Negative	Negative	Negative	Positive	Positive
Blueback Tuna	Sea Shallows, Sea Depths	Shark Bait,Seaweed Wobbler, Stick Spinner,Razzle-Tazzle_Lure	Positive	?	?	?	Positive	?	?	?	?	?	Positive	Positive	?	?
Ghostly Whitefish	Lake Depths, River Depths	Seaweed Wobbler, Shark Bait	Negative	?	?	Negative	?	?	Positive	?	?	?	Negative	Positive	Negative	?
Gold Pickerel	Lake Depths, River Depths	Shark Bait,Cricket Moth	?	?	?	?	?	?	Positive	?	?	?	Positive	?	?	Positive
Hellish Halibut	Sea Depths	Razzle-Tazzle_Lure,Stick Spinner	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Long-Whiskered Catfish	River	Cricket Moth	?	?	?	Positive	?	?	?	Positive	?	?	?	?	?	Positive
Raging Bullhead	Lake Depths (Darkness)	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	Positive	?	?	Positive	?	?	?	?
Silt-Dwelling Mudsnapper	Lake Shallows, Lake Depths, River Shallows, River Depths	Common Earthworm, Cricket Moth,Razzle-Tazzle_Lure	Positive	Positive	Negative	Positive	Positive	Negative	Negative	Positive	?	Negative	Positive	Positive	Positive	Positive
Tiger Trout	River Shallows, River Depths (?)	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	Lake Shallows, Lake Depths, River Depths, River Shallows	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	Lake Depths, River Depths	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. (source).

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. May be required for high tier fish [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 rods and lures affect fish caught.

Footnotes

1. Fishing Pole: "May be required for high tier fish" - needs confirmation; do poles have any effect or is it only the lures?