There’s no UI element to tell you when a fish is done cooking. In order to increase the value of your catch, you’ll therefore want to find a campfire on any of the islands and cook the fish in a pan (F on PC, X on Xbox One). However, the amount earned for uncooked fish is less. Once you have a few fish to sell, you can then trade them to Merrick and his family, in order to unlock commendations and earn coin. Taking the fish off the line is important, because you will lose the fish if you die with it still on the line (we learnt this the hard way). If not, you’ll have to empty your inventory first into a barrel. This will add it to your food inventory, if you have room. Once you have a fish, you can then take it off the hook (using F on PC, X on Xbox One). Once it stops, reel it in as fast as you can (hold RMB on PC, RT on Xbox One), then repeat the process until caught.
Pull in the opposite direction to where the fish is swimming and after a while the fish should stop thrashing in the water. Once it does, you will need to tire it out before attempting to reel it in (using ASD keys on PC, left analogue stick on Xbox One). Also, be sure to leave as much room as possible to either side of you, as if the shore or a ship should interrupt the line between you and the fish it will break.Īfter a while, a fish should appear to bite your line. Don’t worry about being close to any of the fish you see swimming in the water, as fish will appear regardless of where you aim. Once you’ve decided what type of fish it is you want to catch, head to the appropriate area and cast your line out (by pressing LMB on PC, RT on Xbox One). These are much larger fish that put up a bit more of a fight. It’s also worth noting that there are trophy variants for each fish type. Simply press the RMB button before the fish bites (the LT on the Xbox One) and the line will retract. This way you can avoid wasting bait on Splashtails when you want to catch another rarer fish type. Learn to identify each fish from their pictures in the reputation menu. We recommend taking the fort method, because you can pretty easily avoid aggroing the skeletons on an active skull fort (the cannons will still fire at you on approach though) if you avoid stepping on the island or use a rowboat.
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We’ve outlined how to catch each of them below: These include: Seafoam Splashtail, Amethyst Islehopper, Starshine Ancientscale, Watery Plentifin, Coral Wildsplash, Moonsky Pondie, Firelight Devilfish, Bittersweet Battlegill, Moon Wrecker, Twilight Stormfish. On top of this, each fish species also has at least one variant that needs to be caught at night.