Fishing

Fishing sends you to the pier to cast for fish. Each cast spends banked steps and can bring back a fish or, now and then, a byproduct washed in on the tide.

How fishing works

A cast costs 200. The Riverside farm type and fishing mastery lower that cost.
What bites depends on the season, so the catch changes through Spring Summer Fall Winter.
Every fish has a species rarity, and each catch also rolls a quality tier, from Regular to Pristine, that sets its sell price (see Marketplace).
Even a cast that comes up empty earns a little fishing Mastery XP, and rare or legendary catches are worth far more.

Rarity

Fish come in four rarities. Rarer fish are harder to hook and sell for much more.

Common Uncommon Rare Legendary

Common fish

Fish	Season	Base value (gold)	Description
Anchovy	spring	18	A tiny silver schooler; salty little mouthful.
Pale Minnow	winter	18	Too small to bait, too common to throw back.
Blenny	spring	20	A comic little face peeking from every hole.
Sardine	spring	20	An oily coastal staple that packs well for travel.
Shiverling	winter	20	Trembles in your grasp like a dropped spoon.
Spotfin	fall	21	Named for the inky eyespot that bluffs its predators.
Clearwater	spring	22	So transparent you can read its breakfast.
Coldscale	winter	22	Scales that bite back with a winter chill.
Herring	spring	22	Migrating in glittering shoals each spring thaw.
Reef Butterfish	fall	22	A patient disc that studies the coral like a scholar.
Saltcarp	fall	22	A carp that traded the river for the briny deep.
Sleet Perch	winter	22	Small, striped, and reliable in any winter storm.
Snow Perch	winter	22	Near-white flanks that disappear against a drift.
Blue Butterfish	summer	24	A drifting powder-blue disc that bruises easily.
Bluefish	summer	24	All teeth and temper under a bright summer sun.
Ice Carp	winter	24	Slower cousin of the river carp; hearty stew meat.
Softscale	spring	24	Handle with care, its scales come away on your thumb.
Cod	fall	25	Reliable, flaky, and always cold to the touch.

Uncommon fish

Fish	Season	Base value (gold)	Description
Clownfish	spring	48	Striped, silly, and stubbornly loyal to one anemone.
Flounder	spring	48	Both eyes drift to one side, nature has its jokes.
Longfin	fall	48	Streamers of fin drag behind like festival silk.
Tideperch	fall	48	Rides every incoming tide for the rising bait.
Blue-Yellow Butterfish	summer	50	Wears sunrise and sea on the same pair of fins.
Fanfish	spring	50	Opens fins like a courtier's fan in bright shallows.
Frost Trout	winter	50	The old trout's colder, sterner cousin.
Iciclefish	winter	50	Long, rigid, and pointed at both ends.
Red Corral Fish	fall	50	Matches the autumn reefs brick-for-brick.
Spindletail	summer	50	A narrow hunter that spins in impossible arcs.
Brightscale	summer	52	Shimmers so hard it ruins the line sight at noon.
Chillbass	winter	52	Leaves frost on the deck where it flops.
Shellfin	fall	52	Grows armor plates like a reef's own tiny knight.
Wavefin	spring	52	Rides the swell like a breathing blue ribbon.
Winterfin	winter	52	Thickens its fins like a coat for the deep cold.
Black Drum	fall	54	Drums a low note through the hull when it surfaces.
Freezescale	winter	54	Will stick to bare skin on a cold enough day.
Hoarfish	winter	54	Rimed in white frost even pulled from the boat.
Purple Butterfish	summer	54	A drifting amethyst that forgot it was a fish.
Angelfish	spring	55	Floats through coral like a stained-glass ghost.
Blue Tang	summer	55	Electric blue and perpetually forgetful.
Sea Bass	spring	55	A sturdy fighter that tests even a seasoned angler.
Stillwater	winter	55	Moves only when it absolutely has to.
Black Durgon	fall	56	Ink-black in shade; electric blue the moment sun hits.
Bladefin	fall	56	Its dorsal edge will split a careless palm.
Polar Cod	winter	56	The cod that went north and never really came back.
Big Eye Trevally	summer	58	Saucer eyes for hunting in the late-summer gloom.
Glassfin	winter	58	Fins so clear you can see its pulse.
Glimmerfin	summer	58	Trails a ribbon of light through tidepools.
Snook	spring	60	Lurks near pilings, waiting to ambush its supper.
Snowray	winter	60	Glides under the ice like a drifting sheet of paper.
Suncarper	summer	60	A reef carp that sunbathes at the surface at midday.
Icefang	winter	62	Teeth like broken stalactites. Do not grab-check.
Mutton Snapper	summer	62	Prized on the plate; stubborn on the line.
Hogfish	fall	64	Roots the reef bottom like a bristled farmhand.
Pearlfin	spring	65	Scales catch the morning sun like scattered seed-pearls.

Rare fish

Fish	Season	Base value (gold)	Description
Silverray	spring	140	Flashes like a coin tossed into the surf.
Wave Koi	spring	150	A reef-wandering koi that rides the spring swell.
Moonfish	summer	160	A pale disc that drifts up on warm summer nights.
Hailray	winter	165	Leaves a pattern of little ice-stones in the hull.
Idolfish	fall	165	Swims with a priestly solemnity across the drop-off.
Blizzard Eel	winter	170	Slithers under the floes when the wind picks up.
Deep Koi	fall	170	A koi gone wandering; returns with darker scales.
Rainbowfin	summer	170	Every stripe on its fin matters to somebody somewhere.
Frostjaw	winter	175	A grin of ice-white teeth beneath the hood of the sea.
Crystalfin	winter	180	Fins refract the low winter sun like prisms.
Stormfish	fall	180	Bites hardest when the glass is falling fast.
Tuna	summer	180	A muscled missile of the open water; market prize.
Frozen Koi	winter	185	A koi caught mid-shimmer by the first hard freeze.
Glacierfin	winter	190	Carries a glacier's grudge in its slow, cold fins.
Lionfish	summer	190	Gorgeous. Venomous. Mind your thumbs.
Whitefang	winter	195	Pale teeth that glow in the lamp of the ice-hut.
Glacier Pike	winter	200	A fanged predator born in waters below freezing.
Halibut	fall	200	A flatfish the size of a door; good luck lifting one.
Swordfish	summer	210	Wields a blade for a nose, do not hold it wrong.
Sailfish	summer	220	Unfurls a bright sail when it runs the reel hot.
Reef Shark	fall	240	A grey shadow that patrols the drop-off line.

Legendary fish

Fish	Season	Base value (gold)	Description
Echo Eel	spring	800	You can hear its name twice in a quiet cove.
Dogfish	summer	850	Hunts in packs; grins when it surfaces.
Rune Perch	spring	850	Swims in alphabets the old scholars argued over.
Deep Dogfish	winter	900	The Dogfish's bigger, colder sibling.
Lightfin	summer	900	Fins catch the noon sun and refuse to give it back.
Relicfin	spring	900	Scales bearing script older than the village.
Dreamling	fall	950	Felt in sleep before it is ever hooked.
Omen Koi	spring	950	Its rising is a sign; whether good or bad, depends.
Celest Carp	summer	1,000	A carp that swam too high and came back changed.
Mythscale	spring	1,000	Every scale is a tiny story nobody remembers.
Nightfin	fall	1,000	Invisible in moonlight and insufferable after dark.
Ember Eel	summer	1,100	Warm in the hand, the ocean's own live coal.
Fatefin	fall	1,100	Swims whichever way the end of your story lies.
Moon Koi	winter	1,100	Rises only on the coldest full-moon nights.
Spirit Carp	fall	1,200	A koi you feel more than see.
Abyss Koi	winter	1,300	A koi from somewhere no lantern has reached.
Astral Ray	summer	1,300	Drifts like a patch of night torn out and placed in water.
Stormray	winter	1,300	Brings a small thundercloud along in its wake.
Soulfish	fall	1,400	Said to keep something owed to somebody.
Sun Serpent	summer	1,400	Rises only when the sun is directly overhead.
Void Ray	fall	1,500	A hole in the water that prefers a hook over conversation.
Worldfish	spring	1,500	Said to carry a map of the coast in its gut.
Starshark	summer	1,600	Its flanks are a sky mid-August, constellations and all.
Timelurker	winter	1,600	You are not sure which of you has been waiting longer.
Glacier Whale	winter	2,000	Ancient titan of the winter sea; songs of it predate the village.

Byproducts

Each cast also has a chance to pull up a byproduct instead of a fish. When it does, the result is one of the following, weighted by drop chance. These have no season.

Item	Chance	Base value	Notes
Old Trash Bag	7.3%	1	Has seen tides. Do not reopen.
Old Socks	6.1%	2	Hold them up to the wind; gag; throw them overboard.
Trash Bag	6.1%	2	Heavy, knotted shut, inevitable.
Old Boot	6.1%	3	Past squelching; onto crumbling.
Plastic Bottle	7.3%	3	The ocean keeps handing these back to us.
Old Apple	4.8%	4	Bobbed in on the tide from who-knows-where.
Boot	4.8%	5	Someone's boot. Still squelches.
Bottle	6.1%	5	Empty. A bit of label still clings to the neck.
Green Algae	8.5%	6	Every angler gets a fistful eventually.
Bright Green Algae	6.1%	8	Vivid green tangle; smells faintly of summer shallows.
Shell	7.3%	10	A pretty spiral; sells for small coin at the docks.
Red Algae	4.8%	12	Rust-red strands; a dye-maker pays well for it.
Ridged Shell	6.1%	12	Deeply ridged; jewelers like these for setting stones.
Banded Shell	4.8%	14	Striped like a painted dish; a conversation piece.
Glasses	3.6%	18	Someone's lost pair; the lenses somehow still clear.
Nori	4.8%	35	Dried sea-sheet; a cook will barter well for it.
Caviar	3.6%	85	Pearls of black gold; the sea's richest surprise.
Pearl in a Shell	1.8%	120	A stubborn oyster. Flint can crack it, no guarantees.