Riverland and Beach Farm Fishing is Still "Trash"

[Entropy]

In both ways ;). Spending 1.5 hour in game time to fish in better place is always better. Lots of junk items and it is rarely worth it. Trash chance must be decreased.

Note: Quality is not the problem, amount of trash is problem

[J-Shizzle]

Same issue. The only good fishing spot seems to be the pier on the south end of beach farm but still worse then the beach/ocean.. anyone can confirm?

[esotericist]

the river map is 70% river and 30% pond (as in the cindersap pond) fishing. as far as i'm aware, it does not have specific trash chances. if you're getting a notable amount of trash, either you're casting too close to shore, or you're just getting unlucky and that could have happened in the places it's sourcing its loot tables from.

as far as i can tell beach is slightly worse than the ocean, but still worthwhile if all you're after is getting your bundle fish. being able to immediately fish without having to worry about transit to/from (or having to deal with totems) was worthwhile enough for me, personally.

both farm maps are great for crab pots. river farm more than beach farm, admittedly. beach farm has the advantage of having the most buildable space of any of the farm maps.

if you want to fish explicitly for profit, you probably want to be heading to the mountain lake anyway.

[Pixel Peeper]

Huh... I remember the fishing on the Riverlands farm being pretty decent. Not as good as the Mountain Lake, but the trash was uncommon if you fished in the right spot.

Originally posted by Felix:

Same issue. The only good fishing spot seems to be the pier on the south end of beach farm but still worse then the beach/ocean.. anyone can confirm?

Haven't seen a map of the fishing zones for the Beach yet, but I tried fishing in that spot and got a whole bunch of trash. I think the entire Beach farm is super polluted.

[esotericist]

generally, fishing rewards getting the largest distance away from land, and the positioning mechanics mean fishing east or west will get you more distance than north or south. (i know tripoteur ventripotent knows this part, but it's context for other folks reading the thread)

in my experience best place on the beach farm to fish is off of the east coast, on the south end. there's a couple stones jutting into the water next to one of the aquatic trees. that little spot has had adequate results for me.

again, not as good as the riverlands map: the beach map is flagged as a "foraging and fishing" map, so it's distinctly not as good at either as the forest and river maps, but it does have both, and it is definitely better for fishing than any farm map other than the river map. plus the sprinkler tradeoff for more building space.