Fishing Guide

General Information

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 lev2: 200 Tadpoles. 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

There are rumored to be 49 different species split into 7 different groups

• Ash centipede
• Blister Beetle
• Bloodworm
• Bristleworm
• Clay Slug
• Corkscrew Asp
• Desert Millipede
• Dew Fly
• Feather Midge
• Footworm
• Fruit Maggot
• Glass Worm
• Golden Asp
• Grass Slug
• Hairy Slug
• Honey Fly
• Horned Hookworm
• Leaf Hopper
• 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, foraging

Achievements

• Found all 7 Tree Dwelling insects.--merek
• Found all 7 Ground Dwelling insects.--meriamon
• Found all 7 Water Dwelling Insects. -- NecasT

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.

Amora: I caught a 1db Pancake Loach with a pickel slug lure at 8:08 a.m. and the next cast with the same lure told me to try different lures or locations. This tells me when we get the message "try a different lure/location" that might not mean a fail. I will need to keep trying 5-10 times? Also, at the same spot (9:32 a.m.), I tried again with the same lure 7 more times, fail. Time of day still a factor? 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), Ringed Wasp (1db)
• Catfish - Mud Asp (1db), Nippleworm (1db), Glass worm (1db), Spittlebug (1db)
• Bay Lobster - Orhid hopper (2 db)
• River Crab - Orchid Hopper (3 - 21 db), Bloodworm (9 db)