Animal Crossing: New Horizons Fishing Guide Where & How

Of all the pastimes of Animal Crossing : New Horizons fishing is among the most fun and important.

Living on a peninsula will give you the opportunity to catch lots of fish that you can sell, give them to the museum, give them to the villagers and display them as trophies. It's up to you.

How to catch fish

To catch a fish you will find a characteristically shaped shadow on the water, equip the fishing rod.

In front of the water press button A and cast the line, as soon as the float will sink to the surface of the water quickly press button A to wrap the fish, do not be too fast or too slow otherwise you will scare the fish and escape.

Equipment

The first fishing rod is: "fragile fishing rod", which can be improved on a DIY bench, don't think too much about which rod is better, as soon as one breaks you can reassemble it at the DIY bench or buy a new one at Nook's Cranny.

Best fishing locations

There are three types of fishing environments: the ocean, the river and the pond. The river is divided into three parts: river mouth, river reef and river, ocean means the wooden pier that is located on your small island (but not the pier leading to the airport).

Salmon can be found at the mouth of the river which is the point where it meets the ocean, while others like cherry salmon can be found on the cliff.

Climate

The climate does not influence the catch (as for insects) but the increase in the number of fish you can find, for example you can only find Latimeria when it rains or snows.

Basically, in winter and on rainy days you will have more chances to catch more fish.

Manage the shadow

The shadows of the fish appear in different sizes, they can be super small, small, medium, large or super large. The long, lean shadows are the eels, which you can catch safely.

If you see the shadow of a finned fish, well, it's a shark! You'll need a very short reaction time to catch it, it's worth a lot of bells and don't miss them.

Day and Time are important

Animal Crossing is synchronized with the real world (or your nintendo switch) so the fish will appear at certain times and months.

To catch them all you'll have to play at different times of the day and...all year round, so bookmark this guide, the table will come in handy!

Table of all fish by time and season

As opposed to Animal Crossing : New Leaf there are 80 fish (8 more!), the fish reproduce in certain periods and we have the exact list for fishing (both northern and southern hemisphere) and dates and times of reproduction.

In addition, you will also know how much it will yield in terms of bells to the sale, here is the table (which concerns our hemisphere, the North one):

Fish:Season:Season:Time:Price: