Fishing Guide

You need to find insects to build a lure to fish.

Three skills are necessary:

• Fly Fishing from the School of Body to build the fly fishing rod (a rod is given to you upon learning the skill
• Arthropodology from the School of Worship to find insects while doing random activities in game
• Fly Tying from the School of Worship to build the lure

Making a lure requires an insect, 2 Thread, and 1 Thorn. It is built by going to the Skills menu and clicking Fly Tying.

Skills:

• Fly Fishing: 16 thread, 1 sharpened stick. SBody
• Arthropodology: 100 dirt. SWorship
• Arthropodology lvl4: 400 Cactus Sap. SWorship
• Fly tying lvl1: 100 Thread, 25 Thorns. SWorship
• Fly tying lvl2: 7 footworm, 7 corkscrew asp, 7 Spittlebug, 7 woodmoth, 7 feather midge, 7 white sawfly, 7 wooly aphid
• Fly tying lvl3: 14 Bristleworm, 14 Blister Beetle, 14 Orchid Hopper, 14 Snowberry Butterfly, 14 Desert Millipede, 14 Slime Moth, 14 Skinlicker
• Filleting: 7 Knife Blade, 7 Phagrus Meat, 20 Common Basil. SWorship
• Filleting lvl2: 3 Sharp Edged Blade, 14 Oxyrynchus Meat, 25 Salt, 77 Glass jars

Insects list( not complete, rumor says that there are 49 different species in 7 groups)

  Ash centipede
  Blister Beetle
  Bloodworm
  Bristleworm
  Clay Slug
  Corkscrew Asp
  Desert Millipede
  Dew Fly
  Feather Midge
  Footworm
  Glass Worm
  Golden Asp
  Grass Slug
  Hairy Slug
  Honey Fly
  Horned Hookworm
  Mud Asp
  Needleworm
  Nippleworm
  Orchid Hopper
  Oyster Mite
  Pickel Slug
  Queen Maggot
  Red Cricket
  Ringed Wasp
  Rose Mite
  Ruby Hornborrer
  Salt Mite
  Sand Mite
  Skinlicker
  Slime Moth
  Snowberry Butterfly
  Spittlebug
  Stonefly
  White Mealybug
  White Sawfly 
  Woodmoth
  Woolly Aphid

You can find insects while: Watermining, picking papyrus, collecting wood, thorns, slate, mud, dirt, harvesting flax, diving for pearls, carving wood, misidentifying herbs,

Achievement: Found all 7 Tree Dwelling insects.--merek

Notes

Some experiences (from Detour):

I went out fishing with 2 Red cricket (Fresh) lures. Hopped to about 6 different locations and cast about 10 times before losing both lures with no fish caught. I was getting the messages, "No fish bit. Try different lures and locations," or, "No fish bit. You also lost your lure. Try different lures and locations."

Next I used a Woodmoth (Fresh) lure. I caught 3 fish before losing it. They were 7, 6, and 6 deben Malapterurus. I was standing at 777, -1428 at around 6:26 AM game time. I lost the lure on the same cast as catching a fish and didn't get a notice about it. It just disappeared from my inventory.

Finally, I used a Wooly aphid (Fresh) lure. I got to cast it about 3 times from different locations before I lost it with no fish caught.

Khatz Fishing notes

which lure for which fish

 Hylian Loach   -  Grass slug (4db), Blister beetle (6db),Oyster mite (1db)
 Malapterurus   -  Oyster mite (9db)
 River Crab     -  Orchid Hopper (22db)
 Catfish        -  Mud Asp (1db)