Catching Fish

Besides growing crops and raising animals, you can make money by catching fish in the
mountain area. There are two ways you can go fishing; one is by bare hand fishing and
the other is by using a fishing pole. You will make more money when using fishing
equipment than by just using your hands.

When you catch a fish, you will be told its species and size. The star rank of the fish
determines its shipping price, not the fish's size.

Hand Fishing

Catching fish using your bare hands is super easy to do. You can use this method to catch
fish to sell right at the beginning of the game.

There are two areas on the mountain where you can bare hand fish; the Konohana low-
mountain area and the Bluebell low-mountain area. The watery sections of these areas are
shallow enough for you to walk through. Keep an eye out for small fish shadows
swimming through the water. When you see one, walk up to it and press the A button! If
you're fast enough, you'll catch the fish. If it swims away, you can chase after it, pressing
A over and over, until you catch it or it escapes and disappears.

You can catch other things besides fish. Sometimes you will catch a Coin, Fish Bones,
Old Ball, or Old Boot. The Coin is used as gifts or message board requests, and the Old
Ball / Old Boot are necessary if you want to eventually receive the Master (fishing) Rod.
Keep 10 of each "old" item in your horse storage cart until Rutger posts the request for
the fishing pole. Fish Bones are simply garbage.

The star rank of the fish you catch using your hands will increase the more years you
spend in the game. In year 1 you can catch fish up to two stars and this increases by one
star every year; year 2 is max three stars, year 3 is up to four stars, and once you reach
year 4, you can catch fish with up to five stars.

Shallow water fish will refresh every hour. If you can't find any more fish to catch, leave
the area until the next top of the hour (:00). The fish will repopulate when you go back to
the area.
Bare Hand fishing is not possible in Winter when the shallow waters freeze.

List of Hand Caught Fish

Max Ship Price

Fish Name Location Season Time
Size 1 Star to 5 Stars
Small Spring and 10 30 G | 40 G | 50 G | 60
Konohana 6am to 8pm
Sweetfish Summer cm G | 70 G
15 30 G | 40 G | 50 G | 60
Small Char Both Spring 6am to 8pm
cm G | 70 G
15 30 G | 40 G | 50 G | 60
Small Eel Both Summer 6pm to midnight
cm G | 70 G
Summer and 15 30 G | 40 G | 50 G | 60
Small Carp Konohana 6am to 8pm
Fall cm G | 70 G
Small Spring and 30 G | 40 G | 50 G | 60
Bluebell 6am to 8pm 5 cm
Shishamo Summer G | 70 G
Bluebell (Summer) 15 80 G | 110 G | 140 G |
Icefish 6am to midnight
Konohana (Fall) cm 160 G | 190 G
Bluebell (Summer) 30 G | 40 G | 50 G | 60
Small Icefish 6am to 8pm 7 cm
Konohana (Fall) G | 70 G
Summer and 15 30 G | 40 G | 50 G | 60
Small Loach Both 6am to 8pm
Fall cm G | 70 G
15 120 G | 160 G | 200 G
Goby Both Fall 6am to midnight
cm | 240 G | 280 G
30 G | 40 G | 50 G | 60
Small Goby Bluebell Spring 6am to 8pm 8 cm
G | 70 G
Bluebell (Summer and
Fall) 15 30 G | 40 G | 50 G | 60
Small Funa 6am to 8pm
Konohana (Spring and cm G | 70 G
Summer)
Small Black 12 30 G | 40 G | 50 G | 60
Both Summer 6am to midnight
Bass cm G | 70 G
10 30 G | 40 G | 50 G | 60
Small Bluegill Both Summer 6am to midnight
cm G | 70 G
Bluebell (Summer) 15 30 G | 40 G | 50 G | 60
Small Trout 6am to 8pm
Konohana (Spring) cm G | 70 G
20 G | 30 G | 40 G | 40
Killifish Both Spring to Fall 6am to 4am 4 cm
G | 50 G
30 G | 40 G | 50 G | 60
Small Killifish Both Spring to Fall 6am to 4am 2 cm
G | 70 G
Small Masu 15 30 G | 40 G | 50 G | 60
Both Spring 6am to 8pm
Salmon cm G | 70 G
Bluebell (Spring) 15 140 G | 190 G | 240 G
Smelt 6am to midnight
Konohana (Fall) cm | 280 G | 330 G
 30 G | 40 G | 50 G | 60
Small Smelt Both Spring 6am to 8pm 8 cm
G | 70 G
30 G | 40 G | 60 G | 60
Blue Crab Bluebell Summer 6pm to 4am 8 cm
G | 70 G
Bluebell (Summer)
10 20 G | 30 G | 40 G | 40
Crab Konohana (Spring to 6pm to 4am
cm G | 50 G
Fall)
Bluebell (Summer and
30 G | 40 G | 50 G | 60
Small Crab Fall) 6pm to 4am 7 cm
G | 70 G
Konohana (Spring)
Small Blue 15 30 G | 40 G | 50 G | 60
Konohana Summer 6pm to 4am
Crab cm G | 70 G
King Fish
Bluebell (6am to
Summer
Snapping midnight) 30
Both (Stormy (Can't be shipped)
Turtle Konohana (6am cm
weather)
to 8pm)
Other Items
Summer
Letter in a 240 G | 320 G | 400 G
Both (Stormy 6am to midnight ---
Bottle | 440 G | 480 G
weather)
Bluebell (Fall - Rainy)
Yellow Collect all 6 to make a
Konohana (Spring - 6am to midnight ---
Wonderful wish
Rainy)
Bluebell (Fall - Rainy)
Collect all 6 to make a
Blue Wonderful Konohana (Spring - 6am to midnight ---
wish
Rainy)

Rod Fishing

You can't go fishing with a fishing rod until you receive one! On Summer 1, you will
receive a Fishing Rod from your town's mayor. Until then, you can only do bare-hand
fishing.

To use the Fishing Rod, equip it as a tool and then go to one of the four docks you'll find
in the mountain area. Press A when prompted on the dock to cast your rod. When you see
an exclamation point appear above your head, press A over and over until you reel in the
fish. You can't just hold down the A button to catch the fish; you have to repeat your
button presses until the fish emerges from the water.

You can catch different fish depending on which of the two fishing poles you're using. To
get the Master Rod, you need to have 7750 FP with Rutger (2 flowers = 10,000 FP) and
have a Request Level of 3 or higher; you can find your current Request Level inside your
Info menu. Rutger will request 6000 G, 10 Old Balls, and 10 Old Boots.

In the Winter season the river waters will freeze. You simply need to use your Hammer
on the ice cracks at the spot you want to fish at in order to open a hole in the ice.

Unlike bare-hand fishing, the deeper water fish are not time specific. You can catch the
same fish regardless of what time of day it is. Some fish are weather-specific though.

There are four fishing pole locations you can cast from; one in Bluebell high-mountain,
one in Konohana high-mountain, and two in Konohana mid-mountain. The two spots in
Konohana mid-mountain are not the same spot and you can find different fish in each
one.
List of Rod Caught Fish

Kono-Mid-S = Konohana mid-mountain, lower stream, Kono-Mid-W = Konohana mid-

mountain, waterfall

Max Ship Price

Fish Name Location Season Rod
Size 1 Star to 5 Stars
Kono- Spring to 25 240 G | 320 G | 400 G |
Sweetfish Fishing
High Fall cm 480 G | 560 G
Kono- Fall and 35 380 G | 510 G | 640 G |
Large Sweetfish Master
High Winter cm 760 G | 890 G
Kono- Spring to 30 250 G | 330 G | 420 G |
Char Fishing
Mid-S Fall cm 500 G | 580 G
Kono- 60 420 G | 560 G | 640 G |
Large Char Spring Master
Mid-W cm 760 G | 890 G
Eel Blue-High Spring or Master 100 310 G | 410 G | 520 G |
Kono- Summer cm 620 G | 720 G
 Mid-W
Kono-
High 150 390 G | 520 G | 660 G |
Large Eel Summer Master
Kono- cm 790 G | 920 G
Mid-S
Kono- 40 360 G | 480 G | 600 G |
Carp All Year Fishing
Mid-W cm 720 G | 840 G
Blue-High
Summer 60 390 G | 520 G | 660 G |
Salmon Kono- Master
and Fall cm 790 G | 920 G
Mid-S
Kono- 30 180 G | 240 G | 300 G |
Small Salmon Spring Fishing
High cm 360 G | 420 G
Kono- 90 450 G | 600 G | 760 G |
Special Salmon Fall Master
High cm 910 G | 1060 G
All 20 140 G | 190 G | 240 G |
Shishamo All Year Both
Locations cm 280 G | 330 G
Kono- Fall and 20 340 G | 460 G | 580 G |
Special Shishamo Fishing
Mid-S Winter cm 690 G | 810 G
Kono- Spring to 15 80 G | 110 G | 140 G | 160
Icefish Fishing
High Fall cm G | 190 G
Kono- 20 360 G | 480 G | 600 G |
Large Icefish Spring Master
Mid-W cm 720 G | 840 G
Kono-
High Spring to 90 370 G | 490 G | 620 G |
Sea Bass Master
Kono- Fall cm 740 G | 860 G
Mid-W
Kono- 40 300 G | 400 G | 500 G |
Small Sea Bass Spring Fishing
Mid-W cm 600 G | 700 G
Kono-
High 120 400 G | 540 G | 680 G |
Large Sea Bass Summer Master
Kono- cm 810 G | 950 G
Mid-W
Blue-High
Spring and 25 260 G | 350 G | 440 G |
Loach Kono- Fishing
Summer cm 520 G | 610 G
Mid-W
Blue-High
40 360 G | 480 G | 600 G |
Large Loach Kono- Summer Master
cm 720 G | 840 G
Mid-W
All 15 120 G | 160 G | 200 G |
Goby All Year Both
Locations cm 240 G | 280 G
Max Ship Price
Fish Name Location Season Rod
Size 1 Star to 5 Stars
Kono- 20 360 G | 480 G | 600 G |
Large Goby Winter Master
Mid-S cm 720 G | 840 G
 Kono- Spring to 25 240 G | 320 G | 400 G |
Funa Fishing
High Fall cm 480 G | 560 G
Kono- 60 360 G | 480 G | 600 G |
Large Funa Spring Master
High cm 720 G | 840 G
All 50 120 G | 160 G | 200 G |
Black Bass All Year Both
Locations cm 240 G | 280 G
80 240 G | 320 G | 400 G |
Large Black Bass Blue-High Winter Master
cm 480 G | 560 G
All 20 100 G | 140 G | 180 G |
Bluegill All Year Both
Locations cm 210 G | 250 G
70 240 G | 320 G | 400 G |
Large Bluegill Blue-High Winter Master
cm 480 G | 560 G
Blue-High
Spring to 40 240 G | 320 G | 400 G |
Trout Kono- Fishing
Fall cm 480 G | 560 G
High
Blue-High
Fall and 70 310 G | 410 G | 520 G |
Large Trout Kono- Master
Winter cm 620 G | 720 G
High
360 G | 480 G | 600 G |
Large Killifish Blue-High Fall Master 6 cm
720 G | 840 G
Kono- Spring to 25 260 G | 350 G | 440 G |
Masu Salmon Fishing
Mid-S Fall cm 520 G | 610 G
Kono- 60 390 G | 520 G | 660 G |
Large Masu Salmon Fall Master
Mid-S cm 790 G | 920 G
Kono- Spring to 80 250 G | 330 G | 420 G |
Blotch Snakehead Fishing
High Fall cm 500 G | 580 G
Blue-High
30 210 G | 280 G | 360 G |
Small Snakehead Kono- Summer Fishing
cm 430 G | 500 G
Mid-W
Kono-
Mid-S 120 360 G | 480 G | 600 G |
Large Snakehead Summer Master
Kono- cm 720 G | 840 G
Mid-W
Blue-High
Kono-
15 140 G | 190 G | 240 G |
Smelt High Winter Fishing
cm 280 G | 330 G
Kono-
Mid-W
Kono- 20 300 G | 400 G | 500 G |
Large Smelt Winter Master
High cm 600 G | 700 G
Blue-High
Kono- Summer
300 1200 G | 1600 G | 2000 G |
Bonito Mid-S Stormy Master
cm 2400 G | 2600 G
Kono- Weather
Mid-W
 Summer
Kono- 300 1200 G | 1600 G | 2000 G |
Tuna Stormy Master
High cm 2400 G | 2600 G
Weather
Summer
300 1800 G | 2400 G | 3000 G |
Ocean Sunfish Blue-High Stormy Master
cm 3600 G | 4200 G
Weather
Max Ship Price
Fish Name Location Season Rod
Size 1 Star to 5 Stars
Kono-
Summer
Mid-S 300 180 G | 240 G | 300 G |
Dogfish Shark Stormy Master
Kono- cm 360 G | 420 G
Weather
Mid-W
Winter
Kono- 60 840 G | 1120 G | 1400 G |
Moray Eel Stormy Master
Mid-W cm 1680 G | 1960 G
Weather
Winter
50 840 G | 1120 G | 1400 G |
Mackerel Blue-High Stormy Fishing
cm 1680 G | 1960 G
Weather
Kono-
Winter
Mid-S 70 1200 G | 1600 G | 2000 G |
Flounder Stormy Master
Kono- cm 2400 G | 2600 G
Weather
Mid-W
King Fish
Can't sell. Must have
Blue-High
200 caught a Giant
Giant Hutchen Kono- Winter Master
cm Salamandar, Dragon Carp,
High
and Giant Catfish first.
Kono- 185 Can't sell. Enter the Kono-
Giant Salamandar Fall Fishing
High cm High area after midnight.
Kono- 155 Can't sell. The weather
Dragon Carp Spring Fishing
Mid-S cm must be sunny.
Blue-High
170 Can't sell. The weather
Giant Catfish Kono- Summer Fishing
cm must be rainy.
Mid-W
Other Items
Master
Kono- (Kono-
High High) 4000 G. The weather must
Fish Fossil Summer ---
Kono- Fishing be sunny.
Mid-W (Kono-
Mid-W)
Blue-High
2000 G. The weather must
Legendary Treasure Kono- Fall Fishing ---
be rainy.
Mid-S
Green Wonderful Kono- Summer Master --- Can't sell. The weather
 Mid-W must be rainy.
Can't sell. The weather
Purple Wonderful Blue-High Winter Master ---
must be snowy.