All 63 Fish and How to Catch Them in Harvest Moon: Echoes of Teradea

The fish in Harvest Moon: Echoes of Teradea include finned fish along with crayfish, prawns, shrimp and lobsters, and you catch them with a rod at fishing spots across Teradea, its islands and Quarrytop Mine. Fishing is one of the quickest ways to earn money in the game, and the fish you catch also supply cooking ingredients and request items. You can collect and keep track of every fish in the game, including where each one turns up and what it takes to catch it.

How to Catch Fish in Harvest Moon: Echoes of Teradea

Everything starts with the Old Fishing Pole, so get one before you head out. Choose bait the fish you're after accepts, cast, and watch for the bite. Press the action button the moment the fish bites, because a missed bite loses it.

Once the fish is hooked, the struggle begins, and this is where the controls really matter. While it pulls, leave the button alone and push the left stick the opposite way to its movement. If it tries to break away, rotate the stick against its escape direction. Press the button again only once the fish stops fighting, since that press reels it in, and mashing the button loses the line.

Wrong inputs drain your rod's durability faster, so practice on a common fish before you go after a rare one. Rod upgrades help too, since they improve durability and reduce how much stamina the fights use.

Best Bait for Fish and How Chum Works

Bait goes on the hook, and it changes both the bite and the fight. Fish notice the hook sooner and put up less of a struggle when they're baited, so the right choice makes the catch easier. Each fish takes only certain bait. The bait types are Worm, Ragworm, River Bug, Bug Bait, Cut Bait, Fish Bait, Peeled Shrimp, Shrimp Bait and Clam Meat.

Some fish will also bite with an empty hook. Others are picky. Cod are drawn to Ragworm, Cut Bait and Peeled Shrimp, and Saffron Cod, found in the icefield, is a different fish that won't count toward a request for Cod.

Chum works differently from bait. Minced Fish and Minced Bug aren't put on the hook. You throw a handful into the spot instead, which raises the spot's activity, and some fish only show up while the right chum is in the water.

Where to Find Fish in Teradea and Quarrytop Mine

Fishing spots are spread across Teradea and its remote islands, and once you've seen a spot it appears on your DocPad map. Fish turn up at named spots, each tied to a region and a nearby landmark, so you can match them to your map. Some of the best spots are shared by several species, so if you're after one particular fish, you may need to work the same spot more than once.

Quarrytop Mine works differently. Its fish live in ponds at the rest stops, and those rest stops change between visits. The Rest Stop Guide (Fishing Spot), available from the Mine Shops, is the dependable way to find the ponds.

Fishing Conditions: Time, Weather, Season and Peak Hours

Many catches depend on more than the spot and the bait. Some fish need a certain time of day, rain, a Harvest Moon, a particular season or peak hours before they bite. These conditions are attached to specific spots, so the same fish can bite in one place and not another.

Snakehead only bites when it's raining, and Pirarucu only bites at peak hours. Cape Lobster bites in winter at its Quarrytop spot, and Lobster bites in summer at a particular spot in Tidewind. Many fish also list a best season, which is worth checking when you plan a trip.

Restoring a region's Spirit Tree can add a Hyperblossom effect, which makes fish bite more easily. It only helps the bite, though, and doesn't make reeling in any easier.

Priya's Fishing Zone and Fish Faceoff Points

Priya's Fishing Zone doesn't put fish in your bag. Each catch earns points instead, based on the fish's base value at its smallest size, and bigger fish earn proportionally more. The zone's stock rotates daily, so the fish on offer change over time.

Some of the highest-scoring fish only join the rotation after Priya's expansion requests unlock them. Lava Crayfish and Lava Mosquitofish never appear in the zone at all, so you catch them only the regular way.

The Fish Faceoff uses the same idea of turning catches into points. It's a tournament held in Tidewind that sits on top of regular open-water fishing.

The Most Valuable Fish and the Biggest Catch

Golden Carp has the highest normal shipping price in the game, which is what it sells for, so it's the one to aim for if money is the goal. It shares the top Fishing Zone points with Nidhogg, a mine fish that shows up more often in Quarrytop Mine once Priya asks you to bring her one. If you're after the biggest catch, Pirarucu is the largest fish in the game.

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