fishing is trash

[Funhouse Leon]

one day of fishing 200 g 12 mayo 5000g
fishing has no value why is 70% of the game looked behind an unwinnable minigame the only fish i caught sat at the bottom the only advice available for fishing is "play the game five head" "rhythmic tapping" real helpful. the control seem to fucntion on like a j curve so trying to move JUUSSSTTT A BIT is impossible even when i can get the bar to sit it spot with"rhythmic tapping" the fish just glides out of place and its gone theres no time it doesnt feel like I'm doing anything wrong. I would complain about there being no explanation on where to fish but this game explains about ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.
i have to stop playing now because my arm hurts from digital fishing thanks Concerned Ape

[TheVampire100]

You can install a mod that removes the fishing minigame if it bothers you too much.
It should be noted that the difficulty of the minigame depends on your fishing skill and what tackle you use.
Fishing can pay off on high levels but this is a farming game, so you will always make the most money with farming. But on farming you have to wait until your harvest is ready, you can fish anytime however.

[Snowy Sprout]

At higher levels and better skill, you can earn up to six or seven thousand gold per day from fishing.

Ways to make it easier:

1. Switch to the Training Rod
2. Use Trout Soup or other fishing enhancements
3. Think of it more like playing with one of those paddle balls with the elastic string. Each tap sends the fishing bar up fast, and then it falls down a little slower. There is no way to get better other than practicing. Your fingers will eventually learn.

Whining about how hard it is doesn't make you better, and giving up on a rich and wonderful game like this because you're frustrated at one part is short sighted and petty.

Good luck to you, but try approaching problems a little more positively and not insulting those of us who got through that phase, and you'll get a warmer reception. I've been as helpful as I could here, anyway, but it wasn't easy to be this nice to someone acting this sour.

[Jermarlie]

The very first time I played the game I actually thought fishing was very profitable at the start. And with more immediate returns. It wasn't until later after I set up the slightly more passive profit-making production lines that I stopped fishing, because the minigame is hard for me too. You have to do a combination of clicking and holding that kills my wrist. Mostly clicking. Holding tends to make you lose control, especially if you let the bar bounce off the top or bottom. Now I just play with a mod that skips the minigame. As Vampire^ said, the minigame gets easier as you level your fishing skill, and you can use different tackles to make it easier to catch certain fish (eg if you have a fish that stays still most of the time, but then quickly darts somewhere else, use the tackle that makes you lose less progress when the fish isn't in your bar).

As for the "this game doesn't explain anything" point: it does. The wiki is extremely helpful, but all the information on the wiki does exist in the game. The books you dig up sometimes at artifact spots are readable in the museum, and many of these have hints on where legendary fish and other things are. For normal fish, there's a channel on the TV that gives information on where and when to find them. The channel is unlocked by doing Pam's potato quest from the special order board.

I do feel for you though lol...Some people absolutely love the fishing minigame and will play Stardew JUST to fish all day. I am not one of those people. :p

[Stavbearer]

I feel like the fishing minigame is balanced around being able to catch every fish you hook. Some fish are almost impossible to catch at lower fishing levels, and use that as a gate to the more profitable fish. In a good day of fishing for me, I can get 1000 or 2 pretty easily. It does fall off in the endgame, yes, but it's a great way to earn money for most of the first year while you're waiting for crops to grow.

[Phirestar]

Some advice for fishing:

• Click-and-hold to raise the bar, and release to lower it. I think a lot of people probably aren't aware that you can do this, and they assume that you have to mash-click in order to raise the bar. You should only click repeatedly when you're trying to keep the bar in the same location, as in when the fish stops moving.
  
  
• For the tougher fish that move around more rapidly and unpredictably, your immediate instinct is likely to race after it with the bar and try to put the icon in the center of the bar. I think it's designed to take advantage of that instinct, because what usually ends up happening is that you'll rush up to the fish with the bar, and then when you finally reach it the fish will stop suddenly, change directions, or sometimes make very short movements to fake you out, and you end up being out of range of it again as a result. In those cases, I've found that what you should try and do is trail slightly behind the fish and anticipate those movements. If the fish icon races up to the top of the meter, move the bar only far enough to where just the tip of it will touch the fish, and you'll be much more likely to keep the fish in the center and can more easily follow it when it goes down to the bottom. The same for the other way: when it drops to the bottom, keep the buttom edge of the bar on the fish instead of trying to put it into the center of the bar. As long as any part of the bar is over the central section of the fish icon, it'll count towards you catching it. You don't need to have the whole thing over the green part, and bouncing in-and-out on the edge stabilizes the catching meter.

[Maya-Neko]

Strange, how you compare fish to the 6,4k g (you shouldn't forget the artisan skill here, if money is everything you care about), which 12 chickens could produce daily, while 12 pigs produce ~ 40k g per day. If you want to min-max everything, then at least do it properly. And ancient fruits outperforms that further with even less effort.

Though, fishing is obviously heavily balanced around the early game, where it outperforms most other forms of making money, given that you mathematically can't get 12 chickens on day 3 without cheating.

And i'm also confused. Currently the game doesn't force you to fish every day, which should be a very good thing for you, since you seem to hate the minigame anyway, yet you're complaining about fish not being worth more, which would automatically force you into going fishing more often?

But ultimately, as others said, there are mods to either make it easier or even to make it impossible to fail at all. There are also things like a fishing net mod, which automatically catches fishes for you or rebalancing mods, which give you more money for it.

[Phirestar]

The interesting thing is that once you've done enough of the fishing minigame, you'll come to learn that each fish actually has sort of a distinct "feel" in the way that it moves the icon. You can get to a point at which you actually begin to reliably predict exactly what type of fish you're catching based on the little ways that the fish icon moves. You can tell the difference between a Chub, a Walleye, a Salmon, and a Catfish.

(Some can be quite close to each other, but even then there's usually subtle differences, like one makes big jumps and then settles for a time, while another does small bursts of movement frequently. Carp almost doesn't move at all; once your bar's big enough you don't even have to click in order to catch them.)

[ShiZniTe]

fishing in the beginning is definitely trash lol. later it's much better but still trash.

[red255]

if you know what you are doing you can make a good 5000 a day fishing.

if you get yourself a decent fish, sturgeon is probably fine you can throw it in a fish pond to get your fishing skill up.

crab pots also work. but require fishing 3 to purchase, then you can just buy and bait alot of them to get fishing up.

you buy the big iridium rod. get it enchanted if you really want I got mine enchanted with master +1 fishing level. throw on a trap bobber, maybe some wild bait.

yeah hell befriend linus he'll send you some fish for your fish pond. give you some wild bait, you can befriend him with spring onions and salmonberries he doesn't mind. he'll send you a fish in the mail eventually. get you started on a fish pond.

[zombygunner]

fishing is poo here also

[mooglemania]

I agree, fishing is the weakest part of the game. Not that the fighting/cave-diving is much better. Or the arcade mini-games. Honestly this game is mid at best, but it's got a lot of clout for being 'cozy' so it's untouchable in the eyes of a lot of people, but it's genuinely pretty flawed and far from being as perfect as some people make it out to be.

["The" SeanMacLeod]

I just got back into SDV after a break of about four or five years, and I got a fish pond just to get sturgeon roe for caviar to complete the missing bundle and turn the abandoned JojaMart into a movie theater. The first person I invited to see a movie was the dwarf

I don't agree that the fishing in SDV is "trash" (although I've caught quite a lot of trash while fishing lol) but I do think it might carry more weight in the game than necessary. Of course, that's just the opinion of a player, not a game designer.......

[Funhouse Leon]

Originally posted by Maya-Neko:

Strange, how you compare fish to the 6,4k g (you shouldn't forget the artisan skill here, if money is everything you care about), which 12 chickens could produce daily, while 12 pigs produce ~ 40k g per day. If you want to min-max everything, then at least do it properly. And ancient fruits outperforms that further with even less effort.

And i'm also confused. Currently the game doesn't force you to fish every day, which should be a very good thing for you, since you seem to hate the minigame anyway, yet you're complaining about fish not being worth more, which would automatically force you into going fishing more often?

Its rather simple I Like To Raise Chickens, i did not like pigs or other livestock but they didnt require me to wiki locations or complete a specific request so i could try and memorize data on one fish that might not even be needed. I cant memorize ♥♥♥♥ ill restart days 6+ time because i keep forgeting its _____'s birth day. you want to complete requests and bundles guess what grab a rod time for a mini game.
Ive started fish in the pond next to marines and im using some +3 fishing food from the cavern but this ♥♥♥♥ sucks it feels like an absolute waste of time spending half the day to catch 4 fish.

[God of Snacks]

Fishing is more profitable early. Farming becomes better later as you can setup your automated super farm.

Fishing CAN be very profitable with end game functions: wild bait for double fishes and the special lure thing that makes fish iridium quality the two skills that increase value of fish.

["The" SeanMacLeod]

Originally posted by Funhouse Leon:

I cant memorize ♥♥♥♥ ill restart days 6+ time because i keep forgeting its _____'s birth day.

That's why I got a calendar and mounted it next to the bed in the farmhouse