Fishing is an important skill inPalia: you’ll need fish to complete bundles to get rewards, certain fish to hand over to villagers for their massive relationship boosts, and you’ll need to fish up various recipes to improve your Focus-building skills in the kitchen. Plus, who doesn’t love fishing in life sims?

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This guide covers everything you need to know about fishing, from how to actually fish, to catching rare and special fish, to getting your own bait to improve your chances of getting something really special on the end of the line.

How To Fish In Palia

We’ll start off with the basics - how does fishing actually work?

Your Rod does have a health bar, shown at the bottom of the screen (the green bar.) Some fish just can’t be caught with the basic Rod - you’ll need to upgrade the Rod at Einar’s shop and also buy Rod health upgrades.

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Fishing Tips

That’s the basic principle of fishing, but here are some more advanced tips.