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Rune Factory Frontier Fishing Guide

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Ah, the Fisherman's Life

Fishing in Rune Factory Frontier is a prime way to make lots of money, raise your cooking skills, and win the hearts of certain eligible maidens.

If you're unfamiliar with this fun rpg/farming game for the Wii, please check out my review Rune Factory Frontier.

Here you'll find a guide to fishing in Frontier, including where to cast your line to find specific fish and make the most money.

Fishing Basics

Your first fishing rod is a gift from Cinnamon, after you find her fishing and talk to her about it. It's just an old cheap rod, but it will do. Find a spot along the water and you're ready to begin.

When you cast your line, a bar will display showing an orange area, a blue area, and a green area. A needle will fluctuate, back and forth. When you hook something, the needle will dive into the green, then move back down, going back into the blue. If you click on this second move up, odds are you'll lose the fish because it's a short one. Best to wait until the third, or more. Stopping it in blue is a success, while green gives you a higher quality fish than you would have gotten otherwise.

What you can catch depends not only on where you're fishing, but also on your skill and the level of your fishing rod. Weather and time of day seem to affect percentages of what types of fish you're likely to catch, as well. Pressing the B button to do the rod's "special attack" increases your chances of catching better fish.

Fishing Poles

Cheap Pole
Obtained from Cinnamon. This pole, like other starting tools, has no special attack.
All others are created using the Forge and are capable of the B "special attack" boost.

Starter Pole
Fishing Level 10
Smithing Skill Needed: 5
Made of Cheap Pole, 1 Iron

Average Pole
Fishing Level 30
Smithing Skill Needed: 25
Made of Starter Pole, 1 Silver, Thin Stick, Bamboo Shoot

Famous Pole
Fishing Level 60
Smithing Skill Needed: 45
Made of Average Pole, 1 Gold, Fish Fossil, Fairy Dust, Monster Hide

Sacred Pole
Fishing Level 99
Smithing Skill Needed: 65
Made of Famous Pole, 1 Platinum, Noel Grass, Thick Stick, Root, Little Crystal

Ocean

No matter what your fishing level and rod you're using, this is the place you'll catch the highest value fish in their raw state, outside of dungeons. There are two different fishing spots here: Dock, and Shore. If you're not having much luck with one on any given day, try the other.

Black Fish
Blowfish
Bonito Fish
Flounder
Mackerel
Needlefish
Salmon
Sardine
Shrimp
Snapper
Squid
Yellowtail

Freshwater

Stream, Town Square, Mist's Pond

All the freshwater fish are fairly low-money, raw. The catch with the highest sell-price is shrimp.

Carp
Char
Chub
Pale Carp
Red Salmon
Shrimp
Trout

Lake Poli

Carp
Char
Chub
Pond Smelt

Green Ruins

Bottom Floor

The fishing spot outside the boss door in this dungeon is a tiny trickle of water, but if you aim right, you can fish in it. Selling raw fish, you'll make the most money here until you get the fishing spots in the Lava Ruins, then Snow Ruins opened up.

Dye Trout
Lamp Squid
Lover Snapper
Taimen

Lava Ruins

Bottom Floor

Dye Trout
Fall Fish
Lamp Squid
Lobster

Snow Ruins

Bottom Floor

You'll catch the highest selling fish here.

Fall Fish
Glitter Snapper
Lobster
Sun Squid

Drying Fish

There are drying racks on the beach. You can't access these yourself, but Erik uses them in winter. Talk to him there, and help him with his thief problem, to be unlock the ability to give him a fish each winter morning and receive it back the next day, dried. Limit of one fish a day.