Variety of information on fishing that is up to date mostly.
 
 
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The famous pool with fish splashing in it.
 
 
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There could be a more updated version of the text below, behind the link above, so i suggest you check that instead. Here is the same text dated on 30.8.21:
 
 

Originally posted by Sr. Morajsakom:
Fishes do not seem to get tired, if they first start pulling so hard that you gotta give them more line thinking they get tired after a while, they do not, they will eat more and more of the line, so making a fish tired does not seem like its implemented yet, if you figure a fish is stronger than your line, just press ESC to end fishing, your bait will be gone but your equipment saved.

After all it seems that making a fish tired was implemented, or has been silently introduced since fishing was launched. If somebody knows something, feel free to reply on this thread. 
Originally posted by xKiCkx - [] :
It does get tired that's why you will need to pay attention, unfortunately for now it's not getting tired in the way it should but you still have a chance to catch it. 
Originally posted by xKiCkx - [] :
It does get tired that's why you will need to pay attention, unfortunately for now it's not getting tired in the way it should but you still have a chance to catch it. 
While still pondering upon what xKiCkx said, i made a little video visualizing my style of catching bigger fish, with mousewheel and shift key actions shown. https://youtu.be/WErS4gSphxQ - [youtu.be] 

Redlining the reeling bar does not build up into a memory, meaning, with the bigger fish you can let it dip into red while reeling in, and immediately give some line to make it go down, and repeat that without cumulative penalties.

Using a worm, a bread bait or a cheese bait, you have a higher chance of getting smaller fish, there might be other baits too giving that result. (I have started collecting data on this, i will report results when i have enough, and keep adding more to it.)

MAJOR TIP:
 For getting your gear back from that too big of a fish, just press ESC at any point and the fishing ends, you only lose your bait from doing that.


TIP:
 Game now has 2 types of cheese that have the same icon, only the original cheese can be turned into cheese baits. Corn baits are made from Sweet corn, that canned one.


Every bait seem to have the chance to give you a line breaking catch, so a worm does not guarantee a small fish.

If the floater is too close to you, the fish will not bite. (not 100% sure if its the case always)

TIP:
 Focus mode indication only means the location has fish in it, the exact spot for the indication has nothing else to do with fishing. (Conclusion after catching thousands of fishes)


TIP:
 One of the three floater types is luminescent making it possible to do fishing in complete darkness.


TIP:
 If you want to take a 3rd person selfie while holding the fish with the keep/release choice on the screen, enter either the tab menu or a map and exit it once, it then lets you to rotate the camera, with alt pressed.


TIP:
 To return back into the "holding" mode for the rod, just press ESC


TIP:
 Carry the rod in holster or put it in the backpack so you dont risk losing your gear if the line catches onto something when walking around.


When fishing in shallow waters, walking towards the fish does not count into reeling, it will only push the fish away the same amount.

Catching a fish does not give you FP.

A pike seems like it can be found in the same places you find it in real life, amongst the reed.

When boating, you can anchor the boat at any point, and do fishing from that. As you do that, you might want to keep heavier gear in the boat cargo instead on you, so that if you tip over the boat, you wont drown. For keeping the boat from tipping, you want to be near the center line of it at all times, just like in real life.
You can go standing onto the bow of the common wooden boat as it has a nice even platform for it. Before you put your backpack to the cargo hold, you want to take as many bait as possible outside of the backpack into the cargo of the boat, from there you can directly double click over a bait you want to use and voilà it appears onto your rod.

Looking to get a shark by fishing? Sorry:
Originally posted by xKiCkx - [] :
You are not able to fish for sharks but you can kill it if you want to, shark was added as a threat to sea parts of the map. 
Originally posted by xKiCkx - [] :
You are not able to fish for sharks but you can kill it if you want to, shark was added as a threat to sea parts of the map. Although if you get one killed:
Originally posted by xKiCkx - [] :
Yes you will need to chop them up to get Fillet and then you will be able to eat them. 
Originally posted by xKiCkx - [] :
Yes you will need to chop them up to get Fillet and then you will be able to eat them. 
Things that ive not yet seen:
 
World spawned 0.50 fishing line at last, found one on 8.8.2021 V0.6.1
 
35+kg Tuna catched my record chanced to 36kg early july
 
World spawned Pro fishing reel
 

 
 
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