Fishing Guide

Guide for Escape from Duckov.

Information are gathered by own experience and some are from comments on Steam i did test and could comfirm for myself. Some are also from reddit and other pages that i tried any can confirm!

Because i get asked a lot. You get the King of Fishing achievement by doing all the Fishing Quests.

Updates

30.11.2025

After 2 Tests i will remove for now all Storm Fish!
They are in the Wiki but after 100 R6 Batteries i caught zero Orange Greenfin Fish and after 50 Toilet Cleaner i caught zero Blue Catshark

Orange Greenfin Fish Test Result

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29.11.2025
Since many people have issue finding a fish or getting a different fish by using a bait i will go over the guide but it takes a lot of time, because i need actually to start a new game any go over everything.

What i mean with that?

- Fishing Skill
- Fishing Rod
- Fishing Equipment

These play a huge role init because has higer your skill is, you get more different fish with a bait.

I did the Guide with the Worn Fishing Rod and the Decent Fishing Rod and no Fishing Skills or Equiptment.


To get more information from you, can you give it to me via comment on my Google Sheet, so i have more to go with

Link to my Google Sheet -> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YmdhlmTk7mvwvfx5YlUQEyyKX8LLIY58rcFLKYcs11E/edit?usp=sharing

Rightclick somewhere and you can make a comment


Please use at least 30 Fish bait and write down every fish you caught with it, so i can calculate the percentage at the end. (yes thats how i do it :))

What a test looks like (You can follow it on my Google Sheet live if i am playing).
As you can see it is not that easy to make a guide that is 100% accurate since you never get 100% the fish you want!

Fish

This is a work in progress but it should be to 95% correct, but Steam tables are a pain in the a**, so it can be that i forgot something to copy from my google sheet in which i gathered all information i found out by myself or tested from other informations

If something is not correct please let me know via comment.

Fish	Time	Weather	Bait	Area
Azure Galaxias	Anytime	Rain	R6 Battery	Farm Town
Bighead Goldfish	Anytime	Sunny/Rain	Worm/Bait/Toilet Cleaner	Everywhere
Blue Damselfish	Night	Sunny/Rain	Worm/Bait	Ground Zero/Warehouse Area
Blue Mackerel	Anytime	Sunny/Rain	Worm/Bait	Ground Zero/Warehouse Area
Blue Martin	Day	Sunny	R6 Battery	Farm Town
Blue Tang	Anytime	Sunny/Rain	Cippo	Ground Zero
Brown Mullet	Day	Rain	R6 Battery	Ground Zero
Brown Sardine	Day	Sunny/Rain	Worms/R6 Battery/Cippo	Ground Zero (NW)/ Warehouse Area
Brown-White Grunt	Day / Anytime (Warehouse only)	Sunny/Rain	Worm/Bait	Ground Zero (NW)/Warehouse Area
Green Fathead Fish	Night	Sunny/Rain	Worm/Bait	Ground Zero
Green Porcupine	Anytime	Sunny/Rain	Toilet Cleaner	Ground Zero
Green Snapper	Day	Sunny	R6 Battery	Warehouse Area
Green-Yellow Porcupine	Night	Rain	Worm/Bait	Ground Zero (Only NW Part)
Greenback Bighead Carp	Night	Rain	Toilet Cleaner	Farm Town
Orange Squirrelfish	Anytime	Sunny/Rain	R6 Battery	Ground Zero
Pink Goldfish	Night	Sunny/Rain	R6 Battery	Ground Zero/Warehouse Area/Farm Town
Pinkfin Flamefish	Night	Rain	Worm/Bait	Farm Town
Purple Damselfish	Night	Sunny/Rain	Worm/Bait	Ground Zero/Warehouse Area/Farm Town
Red Banded Fish	Day	Sunny/Rain/Storm	Worm/Bait/Cippo/R6 Battery	Ground Zero/Warehouse Area
Red Bigeye Fish	Anytime	Sunny	Cippo	Warehouse Area
Red Goldfish	Day	Sunny/Rain	Worm/Bait	Warehouse Area
Redfin Snapper	Anytime	Rain	Worm/Bait	Farm Town
White Angelfish	Night	Sunny	Worm/Bait	Warehouse Area/Farm Town
White Flatfish	Day / Anytime (Farmtown only)	Rain	Bait/Worm (Groundzero) / Cippo	Groundzero (NW) [6-10% Chace] / Farm Town
Yellow-Green Snapper	Night	Sunny	Worm/Bait	Farm Town

Storm Fish (?)

These Fish are in the Wiki and some sites (guides) n the Internet but i could not get one of them! That why they are now in a seperate section!

It could be that they are not yet implementet!
So do not try to get them until i give any updates about them, because it is a waste of time and items!

Fish	Time	Weather	Bait	Area
Blue Catshark	Day	Storm	Toilet Cleaner	Warehouse Area
Blue Sailfish	Night	Storm	Cippo	Farm Town
Golden Fish	Day	Storm	Toilet Cleaner	Farm Town
Orange Greenfin Fish	Day	Storm	R6 Battery	Warehourse Area
Red Spotted Grouper	Night	Storm	Worm/Bait	Ground Zero/Warehouse Area

Enjoy!

[ChrisBtw]

Couldn't for the life of me get the Greenback Bighead Carp. Went to the NW pier in Ground zero at night with rain and caught 2 within 10 baits.

[PlausibleSurvivability]

Thanks for the info about the implemented fishes. It seems that everything outside of the quest specimens is immensely rare.

[PlausibleSurvivability]

I want to convey to you that Toilet Cleaner is much harder to get and store in large quantities than, let's say Baits or batteries. In other words, people would spend less time getting Greenback if they spam available Baits/Worms/Batteries, when compared crafting Toilet Cleaners if they don't have them. Your current table implies that Toilet Cleaner is the only way to get Greenback, but Greenback is actually less likely to be caught by it than by Bait, if I read you correctly.

> the location and bait doesn't directly affect the drop rate. 1/12 drop rate to hit the table it is on at all 4 spots as long as you are in the correct weather and time of day.

I agree with this info. Maybe I'm blind, but I don't see your guide mentioning the quoted info anywhere. It would be immensely useful to add it somewhere more visible. This way, players would stop going for only one bait and then trying to farm it, when they could've spent other baits and got the fish.

[Shona (vincit omnia veritas)]

I hope this clears something. Because recording to this it does not matter which bait you use. It only matters for the time and wheater and your Luck stats.

He also actually confirmed what i got out of my test, but as i explained him people will not understand. I can change everything to all baits but the chance is 1/12, but people will still complain that they don't get a fish with a certain bait.

[Shona (vincit omnia veritas)]

Here are also his explanation about the Greenback Bighead Carp

"Another example of slightly incorrect data is for the Greenback Bighead Carp. If I am reading the code correctly, the location and bait you use doesn't actually directly affect the drop rate. If I am reading correctly it has a roughly 1/12 drop rate to hit the table it is on at all 4 spots as long as you are in the correct weather and time of day.

This chance is then affected by your luck stat which can make it higher. Then the chance to hit any specific fish on the table should be the same, but I haven't checked how many fish are on the table. This would mean though that you would specifically want to use the normal bait, not toilet cleaner, because toilet cleaner drops your luck stat significantly, which hurts your chances."

[Shona (vincit omnia veritas)]

@shpaass actually they are all in. A guy named Hero wrote me on my profile that he did reverse engineering the game code to get data for the fishing.

The chances to get a storm fish is 1/200. So you need 200 bait to get one fish, If this is really correct.

[PlausibleSurvivability]

I thought about creating a git repo to have relevant info, but judging by how few fishes can be caught compared to how many there are in the files, it's going to be too bothersome to keep it up to date. I'll wait until they implement the rest of fishes.

[PlausibleSurvivability]

> After the Greenback incident, I have more trust in a googledoc that I got somewhere on an official discord server.

Googledoc had the same info with Toilet Cleaner. The whole thing is a mess, it turns out - no sources with up-to-date data. Please disregard my previous arguments about the quality of your data.

[PlausibleSurvivability]

Thank you for your opinion. On a side note, I think a github repo would do better for a crowdfunded info - you can verify the entries before they get merged.

[Shona (vincit omnia veritas)]

@shpaass
I used the Wiki and the InGame guide and MG experience for this guide.... 😑 🤦‍♂️
The Wiki said after the game was released that the Greenback needs toilet cleaner.
I also used other guides as reference and all said the same.

Again, after an update everything changed and again read my updates and my tests.

Oh and the Wiki is also a secondary source, since the entrys are from normal players, they even I update once in a while an wiki entry. 🤷‍♂️

So you do not trust my guide but an wiki entry I might be evolved with information.. 🤦‍♂️