Lobster?

[Kippie]

what season can i get lobster and what areas have the best chances of fishing for them? Also do i use a rod or the cage?

[PhilkIced]

You use the crap pot.
http://stardewvalleywiki.com/Fish
Here, the goddess of all fishermen.

[AvatarMan]

The Lobster in this game are salt water, so put the crabpots into the ocean in any season.

[Raygun Wren]

Is there a specific spot in the ocean where you can easily get lobsters? Because I've been keeping my crab pots in the ocean for a whole year and I still haven't seen any lobster. It's the only thing I need to complete my fishing collection :/

[Seraphita]

No specific spot. Pray RNGesus and check every day. It's all you can do.

[Raygun Wren]

*weeps quietly*

[NightSnake]

I put my pots on the other beach (where the old mariner is) on the far right side . I was getting a lobster every other day. I had six pots down, and only one had a lobster in it.

[Donathan Cheadledge]

Originally posted by castorella:

Is there a specific spot in the ocean where you can easily get lobsters? Because I've been keeping my crab pots in the ocean for a whole year and I still haven't seen any lobster. It's the only thing I need to complete my fishing collection :/

Actual spot in the water body is irrelevant for everything other than legendary fish.

[Jabbersquawky]

Originally posted by Retired Messiah:

Actual spot in the water body is irrelevant for everything other than legendary fish.

Well, it seems like Messiah, given his name (bad pun) and how fishing generally is in Stardew, would be right. But I will second what Kashmir said. I had 6 pots in the ocean and checked them like 10 times and never got a lobster (yes, I baited them). I followed kashmir's advice and the next day I got a lobster. It won't hurt to try.

[Mrrshan68]

Originally posted by Jabbersquawky:

Well, it seems like Messiah, given his name (bad pun) and how fishing generally is in Stardew, would be right. But I will second what Kashmir said. I had 6 pots in the ocean and checked them like 10 times and never got a lobster (yes, I baited them). I followed kashmir's advice and the next day I got a lobster. It won't hurt to try.

Actually it does hurt to try. It huts alot because you spread superstition and misinformation. Lobster is a 5% catch in a crabpot in any tile on the beach map.
With only 6 traps your chances are low and it will take many days till you see one, moving the traps made no difference whatsoever.
More crabpots. make like 40 and you will see lobster very consistently.

[Jabbersquawky]

Actually it doesn't. The most you will lose is one day. Like I said, it worked for me. The next day and the day after I caught a lobster, so I was just confirming what kashmir said. Obviously the more lobster pots you make the higher chance for you to get them. I know about the 5% chance. Point being that if someone is asking for help, and you tell them what works for you, it might work for them. Doesn't mean it will work for everyone; that's why I said it won't hurt to try.

[fem]

Originally posted by kashmir64:

I put my pots on the other beach (where the old mariner is) on the far right side . I was getting a lobster every other day. I had six pots down, and only one had a lobster in it.

Do you mean the most eastern Island? The one with the single pier?

[starwed]

With only 6 traps your chances are low and it will take many days till you see one, moving the traps made no difference whatsoever.

It turns out that this isn't quite true. When rolling for the type of catch, the game seeds the RNG with a value that includes both the day and the y-coordinate of the tile. In practice this means that if you lay out your pots vertically (such as along the east or west side of the beach), you'll get the same pattern of catches shifted up one each day.

So by moving the pots, NightSnake effectively got 6 chances at a lobster, instead of just the one per day they were getting before while waiting. The best strategy will be to lay out your pots in different vertical columns, though, to avoid the weird RNG behavior.

(Necro'ing because I was in the same super-frustrating scenario of waiting for a lobster, and this thread is pretty high up in search results.)

[desertpunk3912]

In my experience lobsters are rarer than other shellfish. More crab pots better chance to catch it. I have the whole tidal pools surrounded by crab pots, I get a few a day.

[kerrytt]

I have caught lobsters fairly frequently. Not sure if this is any help, but I tend to place my pots off the right side of the fishing pier heading towards Willy's shack. So, if I don't happen to have bait I can grab stuff on the way up, buy bait and set the bait on the way back. And this is usually using only 3 or 4 pots.