Fishing on the ipad

[Kerstin]

Hallo zusammen, ich hab da mal eine Frage. Ich spiele Stardew Valley auf dem iPad und bekomme nicht einen Fisch an die Angel. Ist das möglich dass das auf einem Pad schwerer bis gar nicht zu steuern geht? Hat da noch jemand Probleme? Hab mir schon etliche Videos angeschaut und versucht was zu finden, aber alle spielen mit Maus oder Joypad…. Bin ratlos und gefrustet

English-
Hi everyone, I have a question. I play Stardew Valley on the iPad and I don't get a fish on the line. Is it possible that this is harder or impossible to control on a pad? Does anyone else have problems? Have already watched several videos and tried to find something, but all play with mouse or joypad.... I'm at a loss and frustrated

 

[Hill Myna]

Hello everyone, I have a question. I'm playing Stardew Valley on iPad and I can't hook a fish. Is it possible that this is harder or impossible to control on a pad? Anyone else having problems? I've already looked at a number of videos and tried to find something, but they all play with a mouse or joypad.... I'm at a loss and frustrated

Hello Kerstin! A reminder to keep posts in English, as per the forum rules.

It's unclear to me whether you're having issues hooking the fish (starting the fishing minigame) or actually succeeding in the minigame.

If you're having troubles hooking the fish, then either you need to time your tap after the ! better, or you are experiencing a bug.

If you're having troubles succeeding in the minigame, then can I recommend purchasing the Training Rod from Willy?

I would also recommend fishing at the Mountain Lake (rather than the Beach), the Carp there are really easy to catch.

Hope this helps!

 

[Kerstin]

Hello Kerstin! A reminder to keep posts in English, as per the forum rules.

It's unclear to me whether you're having issues hooking the fish (starting the fishing minigame) or actually succeeding in the minigame.

If you're having troubles hooking the fish, then either you need to time your tap after the ! better, or you are experiencing a bug.

If you're having troubles succeeding in the minigame, then can I recommend purchasing the Training Rod from Willy?

I would also recommend fishing at the Mountain Lake (rather than the Beach), the Carp there are really easy to catch.

Hope this helps!

Hi, thanks for the reply. I own the training rod. I can cast it and there is also a fish on the hook but I’m not able to control the green bar. So the fish are gone

 

[Lew Zealand]

I'll try this tonight but I think I've been able to catch Fish on the iPad. Tap and hold on the screen to raise the green fishing bar and release to stop raising it, but the controls are more precise on a keyboard or Switch controller. However if you use a Switch controller wirelessly, there is a slight delay which can be offputting. I'll compare the Switch and iPad later today.

 

[MissDandy]

there is a slight delay which can be offputting.

I also noticed this delay on Steam with the mouse. Sometimes the reaction takes a few milliseconds until it's recognized,

 

[Lew Zealand]

I'll try this tonight but I think I've been able to catch Fish on the iPad. Tap and hold on the screen to raise the green fishing bar and release to stop raising it, but the controls are more precise on a keyboard or Switch controller. However if you use a Switch controller wirelessly, there is a slight delay which can be offputting. I'll compare the Switch and iPad later today.

OK I tried Fishing on my iPad Mini 2 (a little older now) and it works similarly to other devices but instead of pressing a button or key to raise the green fishing bar, you just tap the screen. Tap and hold to raise quickly but since the mechanism is the same, really multiple little taps give you the most control. Tap anywhere you like on the screen, it doesn't need to be near the fishing bar itself, I usually just tap at the bottom of the screen as it's the most comfortable for me.

Responsiveness is as good or similar to Switch controller buttons or Mac/PC mouse, perhaps the very slightest bit delayed but then I Fish a lot and am sensitive to those differences. The Switch controllers running wirelessly have a notably larger lag.

I also noticed this delay on Steam with the mouse. Sometimes the reaction takes a few milliseconds until it's recognized,

I use the GOG version of SDV and use a mouse but don't notice any lag but maybe I'm just used to it!

 

[PoppyForPenny]

I play on ipad and android phone. I had a hard time learning to catch fish, too. At first I couldn't get the minigame to start. You have to respond quickly to the exclamation mark, but not too fast.
Controlling the fishing bar takes a gentle touch. I would always do it too hard, so my bar would just smash to the top, crash to the bottom, and the fish escape. You have to go like, tap tap tap, longer tap, longer tap, TAP TAP, longer tap, tap tap tap. Gentle, barely touching it in soft rhythm.
There are a few ways to make it easier. At the mountain lake by the mine and the carpenter's house, you can catch carp. They stay at the bottom or move up very slowly. Sometimes you don't have to do anything, just let the bar rest at the bottom.
At Willy's shop on the beach dock, you can buy trout soup. There are also other foods that give fishing buff, like dish of the sea. Eating food with +fishing makes the bar a little bigger, which makes catching the fish easier.
And as you level up your fishing skill, it gets easier because the bar gets bigger. You level up even if you catch trash! You can use recycling machines for most trash, and you can drink joja cola or give it to Sam, Leah likes driftwood, and you can eat algae and seaweed. Catching trash is fine. So keep trying! The more you fish the easier it gets.

 

[MissDandy]

I use the GOG version of SDV and use a mouse but don't notice any lag but maybe I'm just used to it!

Could be, or maybe it's time for me to get a new mouse...

And maybe update Steam. Might help.

 

[imnvs]

I also noticed this delay on Steam with the mouse. Sometimes the reaction takes a few milliseconds until it's recognized,

You don't have to play while connected to Steam. You can load the game without loading the Steam client and that may fix the delay you're seeing.

 

[CynthiaSV22]

I play on ipad and android phone. I had a hard time learning to catch fish, too. At first I couldn't get the minigame to start. You have to respond quickly to the exclamation mark, but not too fast.
Controlling the fishing bar takes a gentle touch. I would always do it too hard, so my bar would just smash to the top, crash to the bottom, and the fish escape. You have to go like, tap tap tap, longer tap, longer tap, TAP TAP, longer tap, tap tap tap. Gentle, barely touching it in soft rhythm.
There are a few ways to make it easier. At the mountain lake by the mine and the carpenter's house, you can catch carp. They stay at the bottom or move up very slowly. Sometimes you don't have to do anything, just let the bar rest at the bottom.
At Willy's shop on the beach dock, you can buy trout soup. There are also other foods that give fishing buff, like dish of the sea. Eating food with +fishing makes the bar a little bigger, which makes catching the fish easier.
And as you level up your fishing skill, it gets easier because the bar gets bigger. You level up even if you catch trash! You can use recycling machines for most trash, and you can drink joja cola or give it to Sam, Leah likes driftwood, and you can eat algae and seaweed. Catching trash is fine. So keep trying! The more you fish the easier it gets.

I have a similar issue with fishing except my real problem is hooking the fish. When I tap when I get an exclamation, the hook just comes out of the water and I have to recast and start over. What’s the trick to hooking the fish? What do I tap, where and for how long?

 

[Odin]

I have a similar issue with fishing except my real problem is hooking the fish. When I tap when I get an exclamation, the hook just comes out of the water and I have to recast and start over. What’s the trick to hooking the fish? What do I tap, where and for how long?

The main thing to focus on with fishing is to tap as soon as you see the ! or hear the sound that accompanies it. If the ! has faded from the screen by the time you tap, it's too late. If possible, I recommend listening for the sound and tapping based on that, I personally find it easier to react in time to the sound than the visual.

I believe where you need to tap depends on which controls you are using on mobile:

Tap-to-move	Tap and hold over water to cast, tap anywhere as soon as you see the ! to hook a fish
Joystick/Invisible Joystick	Tap and hold the left button to cast, tap the same button when you see the ! to hook a fish. It seems like using "Invisible Joystick & 1 Button" creates an issue where you can't hold down to cast the line further, but there is no issue with catch. I would still recommend against that control setup for fishing, unless I was just missing an aspect of how it worked.

 

[Maher]

The way I think about the fishing bar in iOS is like pulse width modulation. The longer the duty cycle, the higher the bar hangs in the column. No tap is 0%, Tap and hold is 100%. Because of the way the screen works it's simplest to say the higher your tap rate, the higher the bar hovers. Thinking about it like this meant that I caught Legend on the first rainy day of Spring 2 in my current save, and that was the last mainland fish I would need for Master Angler.

 

[PJW]

It is impossible to fish on an iPad. I have a newer iPad, but haven caught one fish. It seems like my only hope is the traveling cart. I will never complete the community center. I’m so depressed.

 

[FilthyGorilla]

It is impossible to fish on an iPad. I have a newer iPad, but haven caught one fish. It seems like my only hope is the traveling cart. I will never complete the community center. I’m so depressed.

Are you having difficulties actually completing the minigame?

I would recommend - as earlier messages in this post did - buying a training rod from Willy, it's only 25g and it both increases your fishing bar size to the level 5 fishing bar size and slows the rate in which fish can escape when playing the game. It also prevents you from reeling in any hard fish

While it does have restrictions on what fish you can catch and only catches basic quality, it's great for levelling up your fishing skill to a level where you no longer need the rod (by virtue of the practice you've accrued and because the fishing bar grows every time you level up)

Good luck fishing, and please do ask if you have any other questions, as someone who primarily plays mobile I understand how the controls can be annoying to deal with plenty of the time

 

[MogBeoulve]

It is impossible to fish on an iPad. I have a newer iPad, but haven't caught one fish. It seems like my only hope is the traveling cart. I will never complete the community center. I’m so depressed.

You can get pretty far off the traveling cart, Krobus's shop on Wednesdays, and checking trash cans (they also sometimes give you fish). Collect all the beach forage and then get a crab from rock crabs in the mines. The first time I finished the community center, I only caught maybe half the fish required. The hardest fish I caught was an eel. I didn't even start fishing until the second year.

 

[VasioKinos]

I got a new problem about fishing on ipad, when the fish bubble appears at the kitty corner, I can’t throw my rod obliquely towards the bubble. This is easy on the pc, just by pressing the wsad, but it seems impossible to be done on my ipad. Does anyone knows how to do this ?

 

[Shivacious]

I am also having trouble fishing on mobile. I’m on android atm and I’ve only caught one fish in about 100 tries. I can cast and I can catch (after the hit to the line), but I can’t seem to reel it in. The few times I’ve managed to get the green line almost to the top, the fish rapidly drops and crashes my line back down. It’s very very frustrating. Also, I do have the training rod.

 

[LRangerR]

I am also having trouble fishing on mobile. I’m on android atm and I’ve only caught one fish in about 100 tries. I can cast and I can catch (after the hit to the line), but I can’t seem to reel it in. The few times I’ve managed to get the green line almost to the top, the fish rapidly drops and crashes my line back down. It’s very very frustrating. Also, I do have the training rod.

One of the things is always just going to be practice. Practice practice practice. Do you think that all of us regular anglers were able to regularly catch puffers and lava eels on the first try in our very first play through? Absolutely not. Those suckers are among the harder fish to catch and they don't come out of the water easily. Heck, even catfish usually give me trouble early game still.

My best advice to anyone is just be patient. Not only with the fish but with yourself too. There will be fish you can't catch yet, and that's okay. Level up your fishing skill, eat some
good food, toss your line out there end just enjoy your quiet time, just like irl fishing.

As for food, you can buy trout soup from willy, or eat one of the sea jellies for a +1. Dish o the Sea with a +3 is pretty easy to get the ingredients, needing only 2 sardines, but if you're having trouble with that, I recommend the +2 escargot as it requires zero fishing to get the snails out of a crabpot. I probably need to be fact checked, but I believe willy will eventually give you that recipe. You'll also need garlic.

Once you can purchase the iridium rod from willy, you have access to some pretty good fishing tackle to help you out. My go-tos are the cork and trap ones, but for a new fisher, the sonar bobber might help you out to know what you have on the line until you get an idea for what different fish "feel" like. I can probably tell what fish in have on the line about 95% of the time before I reel it in, but it might help a new fisher to not be discouraged by what you cannot comfortably or regularly catch yet.

If your problem is fishing on a smart device. Try using different fingers. For some the pointer fingers works, for others the thumbs, and for others the nose or elbows works best. And remember, if you're not having fun, there's plenty to do in stardew. The fish will always be there, even if it's a year later