Found something weird while fishing earlier today

[Ambrosia]

Hi!

So straight to the point, here's my character fishing at the beach:

As you can see, my fishing line is cast into the rock (left of the docks). The reason behind this is earlier today, I found out that if you cast the line into that rock, you will only ever get star-quality fish.

Here's a screenshot of the fish I got in a day:

(3 Iridium, 8 Gold and 6 Silver fish)

And that's it just wanted to share I guess

(I have no idea how to end a post so this is what's gonna be here until I figure it out xD)

 

[Colleen&Potato]

I’ve been playing for several years and I never knew that! I’ll have to try it out.

 

[Farrow]

The actual reason that happens in game is due to you casting one tile further when casting towards the left or the right instead of up or down. The rock is a good way to tell the depth of the water especially at the beach. But yes the rock is the sign of the depth being silver star or better

 

[BlaDe]

To re-iterate, there are no special characteristics about the rock. Casting the same distance further down the pier will have the same results.

However there is no downside to fishing there anyway.

 

[Magically Clueless]

I, for one, welcome our lonely stone overlord

 

[Cuusardo]

That is my favorite beach fishing spot.

 

[FilthyGorilla]

This might be of some insight for you:

As previously stated you cast further east and west rather than north/south.

Regardless of this, it matters less how far you can cast than where your bobber lands.
These are tied but as you can see from the image above, there are 5 fishing zones, each at a varying distance from the shore.
When your bobber lands on a higher fishing zone you will automatically have a higher base chance for quality fish as well as treasure chest loot and quantity.

This just shows that regardless of distance on the side of the dock as blade has explained, you will get the same chance of higher base quality of fish as long as all other variables remain stable.

Hope you find this somewhat helpful in deciding where to fish or at least gain a smidgen of an understanding on what happens each time you cast.

 

[Sigrah]

I, for one, welcome our lonely stone overlord

I'd embrace him too, but I hear all he does is rock out to Stone Temple Pilots all day and doesn't have a concrete platform to run on.

 

[Nadan]

This actually works, i tried it and got a iridium quality fish. Thanks for letting me know.

 

[Pangaearocks]

Like people above said, there is nothing, absolutely nothing, magical about that rock.

 

[Elenna101]

This actually works, i tried it and got a iridium quality fish. Thanks for letting me know.

If you move down a few steps, away from the rock, and fish sideways the same way, you will have exactly the same chance of an iridium quality fish.