The Kynseed Fishing Guide 🐟

Trying to fish your way to glory? Here's the guide for you!

Introduction 🌊

Hi!

Here's a quick little fishing guide for you! I'm going to add some more information as I'm playing.

I'm planning to add the following information:

• General advice
  
• Fish and fishing locations
  
• The in-game quality hints you get
  
• The Master perks you can get from Twig
  
• Fishing pole upgrades

I'd be willing to make one of these for farming as well if there are any takers, so let me know!

Tips and Tricks

• Invest in the Fishmonger shop specialisation: when you have a goods shop, you'll be able to upgrade it to a Fishmonger, which comes with several perks including "Small Fry 01" and "Small Fry 02".
  
  • Small Fry 01: Fish of 3 star quality or below, caught in the morning/evening, will have double yield
    
  • Small Fry 02:Fish of 4 star quality or below, caught in the morning/evening, will have double yield
  
  These perks will allow you to make more money in your shop and make it easier to get the fish you need for Twigs Master Perks.
  
  
• Time: before you get a real clock, time-keeping can be quite a hassle, especially when you need to know when to go to which area to fish. So a quick list:
  
  • 4 AM - 5 AM: Dawn
    
  • 6 AM - 11 AM: Morning
    
  • 12 AM: Noon
    
  • 1 PM - 6 PM: Afternoon
    
  • 7 PM - 8 PM: Dusk
    
  • 9 PM - 11 PM: Evening
    
  • 12 AM - 3 AM: Night
  
  
• If you get the first tier Fishing Master perk, you can use your fishing rod to retrieve notes and items that fell out of reach.
  
  
• There's a Blessing you can get on Druida Day that makes fish spawn in larger quantities, definitely worth it if you're planning on fishing a lot that week.
  
  
• You can use the Piscatootle item to order your owl to go fishing for you. As far as I can tell, the fish will be the quality you'd get if you just fished it with the rod. Yay! (Update: I think they might've changed this, I've been getting lower quality fish :( )
  
  
• Some fish need you to have certain temporary traits. There's a ghost trader you can encounter in Rivermoor that curses you if you buy items, sometimes those curses align with your fishing goals :)

Fish and fishing locations 🎏

Fish	Location	Timing	Season
Barbel	Mellowfields rivers (e.g., Twanging Gardens, Freyl's Field)	Evening (7 PM - 11 PM)	Any
Bluefish	Mellowfields ponds		Not during Spring
Checkered Chub	Vale ponds (e.g., Dreamers Nook)	Evening	Not during Autumn
Cointail	All regions, pools (e.g., Testy Acres)	Any	Winter, Spring, and Summer
Cursefish	All regions, ponds	During storms	Any
Eel	All regions, rivers (e.g., Greymarket)	Night	Any
Fire Fish	Any, ponds	Daytime, while sunny	Winter, Spring, Summer
Fishie Wishie	Tir Na Nog, ponds	Night (10 PM-...)	Any
Fish of Many Fingers	E'ergreen	During the Afternoon	Any
Flag Fish	Summerdown ponds (e.g., Loverwood)	Day, windy	Spring, Summer, and Autumn
Flickerfin	Tir Na Nog rivers (on the right of the map)	Evening	Any
Gasbelly	Woemarsh	Morning	Any
Lorianthe	E'ergreen	Morning	Any
Minnow	Summerdown, ponds (e.g., Loverwood)	Mornings	Any
Moonfish	All regions, ponds	Even days, during the night	Any
Mudkipper	Woemarsh, rivers (e.g., Greymarket)	Evening	Autumn, Winter, and Spring
Needlenip	E'ergreen	Evening	Any
Offal Tench	The Vale, pond furthest North of Cowpat Farm, the south-west pond of the Festival Green	Morning	Any
Pike	All regions, river	Day	Any
Pondlurker	The Vale, ponds	Day	Any
Rainfish	All regions, ponds	During rain	Any
River Trout	The Vale, rivers	Evening	Any
Salmon	Summerdown, rivers (e.g., Loverwood)	Day	Spring, Summer, and Autumn
Silver Scale	Mellowfields	Day	Any
Swamflatch	Tir Na Nog	All day	Any
Weedskimmer	All regions in ponds	Any	Summer, Autumn, and Winter

Quality hints ⭐

Fish	⭐	⭐	⭐	⭐
Barbel	At Dusk	Journeyman level tool	Strength Up	In Mild Weather
Bluefish	Only in Winter	Adept level tool	NPC who hates you	In Blizzard
Checkered Chub	Only in Winter	Journeyman level tool	Toughness Up
Cointail	Legendary tool	Only in Spring	Even Days	In Sunny Weather
Cursefish	Only in Autumn	Expert level tool	Accuracy Down	While Flatulent
Eel	During rain	Journeyman level tool	Lantern off	Intelligence Up
Fire Fish	First Week of Summer	Master level tool	Only in Summer	Any Weather but Rain
Fish of Many Fingers	Legendary Tool	Under Moonbeams	Fillifryth Following	Only in Winter
Fishie Wishie	During Bubbles	Legendary Level Tool	Intelligence Up	Even Days
Flag Fish	At Dawn	Craftsman Level Tool	While Flatulent	First Week of Spring
Flickerfin	During Bubbles	Adept level tool	Constitution Up	At Dusk
Gasbelly	Expert level tool	At Dawn	Eclipse active	throw a gassy apple in the water
Lorianthe	Master level tool	At Dawn	Intelligence Up	Not in Spring
Minnow	At Dawn	Apprentice level tool	Agility Up	Only in Spring
Moonfish	Only in Spring	Master level tool	Bloodmoon active	Lantern off
Mudkipper	Journeyman level tool	Only in Autumn	In the Afternoon	During Rain
Needlenip	Master level tool	Lantern off		Have Bumbabloopfnoop Following
Offal Tench	At Dawn	Artisan level tool	Have Follower with the Greens	Scent trait active
Pike	At Dawn	Craftsman level tool	Intelligence Up	Even Days
Pondlurker	Journeyman level tool	Only in Spring	In Sunny Weather	Fifth day of Week
Rainfish	At Dusk	Adept level tool	During a Storm	During Rain
River Trout	At Dusk	Apprentice level tool	Have Pig Following	Second Week of Autumn
Salmon	Only in Spring	In Overcast Weather	Expert level tool	Intelligence Up
Silver Scale	Adept level tool	At Dusk	In Hot Weather	Fifth day of Week
Swamflatch	Have Bumbabloopfnoop following	Artisan level tool	Constitution Up	During Bubbles
Weedskimmer	Only in Summer	Agility Up	Constitution Up	Journeyman level tool

Master Perks

In exchange for fish, Twig (at Dreamers Pond) will give you these fishing perks. You need to unlock them in four tiers:

🎣 Hook item: With this, you aren't limited to catching fish on your line!

🎣🎣 Angling Map: Identify currently active fish using the Angling Map feature on the map screen
🎣🎣 Big Hook: Catch fish more easily when landing the hook directly on them

🎣🎣🎣 Unzipped Fly: Attract fish from further away when rippling
🎣🎣🎣 Dace in the Hole: the hook will land accurately in the centre of the target zone

🎣🎣🎣🎣 Fish Food: Throw food into the water to attract nearby fish
🎣🎣🎣🎣 Codswallop: Fish near the hook will be splashed out of the water and automatically caught

Tip: have the Moghog of Cuckoo Wood help you improve the quality of your fish.

Fishing pole upgrades 🎣

• Novice: Catch Range +1
  
• Apprentice: Line Length I
  
• Journeyman: Extra yield chance I
  
• Craftsman: Catch Range II
  
• Artistan: Line Length II
  
• Adept: Extra yield chance II
  
• Expert: Catch Range III
  
• Master: Line Length III
  
• Legendary: Star rating up

[custardsire]

Oh update on my previous comment: I encountered the proverb you mentioned! (and added it to the guide). Being faster means you need up your agility! You can always check these proverbs and what they mean in your inventory under the proverbs tab.

Another tip I recently noticed: talk to the NPC, sometimes they complain about certain things (eg. their stomach is upset because of something they ate), if you then give them something that counteracts the effect (eg you give them Mint because it has the digestive trait), they will give you an option between People, Items or World facts. If you pick Items, you usually get a useful proverb :D

[custardsire]

@Cymbiotic

Thank you so much!

It refers to a status effect you can get by consuming certain produce, food or potions. I think potions and food last longer so you should probaby go for those if you're trying to catch multiple Weed Skimmers. If it's just for short 1-2 fish fishing session, produce should be okay and I just checked, Pumpkin ups your constitution. You can check the status effects in your inventory in the food category!

[Cymbiotic]

I just got a tip from an NPC that the Weed Skimmer has better quality if you're faster - is that what the constitution up is referring to?

Super helpful guide by the way - I have been struggling with figuring out how to catch certain fish because I can't find proverbs/befriend NPCs fast enough to get their hints.