Fishing

Fishing

"Fishing allows you to fish, and to craft a primitive fishing pole."

Requirements:

Skill(s) required:

Survival Skills

Proficiencie(s) required:

600

Frontier & Wilderness

600

Hunting & Gathering

Skills Unlocked:

Crafts Unlocked:

Builds Unlocked:

None

Others Unlocked:

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

Construct a fishing rod and lure.
Equip the fishing rod (requires both hands free) and lure (left-click to pick it up then right-click the fishing rod).
Click the Fish action under the Adventure menu, the cursor will change to a crucifix.
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,Stick Spinner	Positive	Positive	?	?	Negative	Negative	Negative	Negative	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	Positive	?	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, Lake Shallows	Shark Bait	?	?	?	?	?	?	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

Transcluded from: Lures
Fishing Lures	Materials	Catches
Common Earthworm	Found whilst digging, or in Compost bins	Trunk-Nosed Lake Perch, Silt-Dwelling Mudsnapper, Tiger Trout, Cape Codfish, Red-Finned Mullet, Red Herring, Angel-Winged Seabass, Shin Spinner, More research needed
Razzle-Tazzle Lure	Bought from stalls in Boston for 400 silver	Trunk-Nosed Lake Perch, Silt-Dwelling Mudsnapper, Tiger Trout, Cape Codfish, Blueback Tuna, Red Herring, Angel-Winged Seabass, Hellish Halibut, Shin Spinner, More research needed
Tasty Sink-knot	Autumn Grass x2, Berry x1, Stone x1	Trunk-Nosed Lake Perch, Silt-Dwelling Mudsnapper, more research needed
Cricket Moth	Dead Wartbite Cricket x1, Maple Leaf x2	Trunk-Nosed Lake Perch, Silt-Dwelling Mudsnapper, Red-Finned Mullet, Tiger Trout
Seaweed Wobbler	Seaweed x1, Leather x2	Gold Pickerel, Blueback Tuna, Red-Finned Mullet, Ghostly Whitefish, more research needed
Stick Spinner	Sharpened Stick x2, Hay x2, Bar of Iron x1	Trunk-Nosed Lake Perch, Blueback Tuna, Angel-Winged Seabass, Hellish Halibut, More research needed
Shark Bait	Any Raw Steak x5, Bar of Iron x2	Trunk-Nosed Lake Perch, Silt-Dwelling Mudsnapper, Tiger Trout, Gold Pickerel, Blueback Tuna, Ghostly Whitefish, More research needed

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

Fish

Transcluded from: Any Fish
Fish	Butcher	Notes
Angel-Winged Seabass	Filet of Angel-Winged Seabass x2	Can be caught on sea water
Blueback Tuna	Filet of Blueback Tuna x2	Can be caught on deep sea water
Cape Codfish	Filet of Cape Codfish x2
Ghostly Whitefish	Filet of Ghostly Whitefish x2	Can be caught on lake depths
Gold Pickerel	Filet of Gold Pickerel x2	Can be caught on lake water
Hellish Halibut	Filet of Hellish Halibut x2
Long-Whiskered Catfish	Filet of Long-Whiskered Catfish x2
Raging Bullhead	Filet of Raging Bullhead x2
Red-Finned Mullet	Filet of Red-Finned Mullet x2	Can be caught on deep sea water
Red Herring	Filet of Red Herring x2	Inspirational; Can be caught on deep sea water and lake depths
Silt-Dwelling Mudsnapper	Filet of Silt-Dwelling Mudsnapper x2	Makeshift Fishing Rod + Cricket Moth: Pull West, High Five =mudsnapper, reel back>high five=mudsnapper, high five, want it badly in boston harbor=mudsnapper
Tiger Trout	Filet of Tiger Trout x2	Makeshift Fishing Rod + Cricket Moth: Pull West -> Pull hard = Tiger Trout drops for me..., Pull West 3 times=tiger,pull west 2 times =tiger, pull high>pull west=tiger, pull down>pull west=tiger
Trunk-Nosed Lake Perch	Filet of Trunk-Nosed Lake Perch x2	Makeshift Fishing Rod + Cricket Moth fished from deep part of large rivers. think of england>pull hard=Lake Perch pull west>pull hard=lake perch. Make it Happen>High Five in Boston Harbor, want it badly>pull west=lake perch
Shin Spinner	Filet of Shin Spinner x2	Can be caught on lake depths and river depths