Fishing

***“Hey, come help us out!” “Bring any fish you catch back to one of our fish pens” “We’ll pay you for the fish you deliver” “We use them to study fish populations on Wobbly Island”***

Fishing is a job and casual activity, with starter locations at three different docks, where the fishing hook icon is situated on the map. The player uses a fishing rod - either attached to a boat or on land by lakes - to catch fish and other trash items. The player can earn money by depositing the fish they catch at the docks, in order for the research purposes of NPC Wobblys. Each fish is worth different amounts, depending on how rare they are, and each location has different species

The rarer the fish the more expensive it is, but also the more difficult it is the fish up. The fishing system involves the player swapping between dragging the fish the opposite way its trying to swim to and reeling it in. Trash items in the brown category can be done practically in one cycle of this, as the progress achieved during the reeling in is rarely undone greatly during the directional dragging. This difficulty increases however, as the purple fish in particular can take a few minutes to successfully pull onboard, if at all.

Regardless of whether the fishing is done as a job or as an activity, in order to get money from handing them in the fish must be brought by the player to a fish pen at one of the ocean fishing huts.

The three fishing job and boat locations are:

* The Marina at Residential Island
* The Warehouse Docks at the City
* The Water Taxi dock on Jungle Island

The land fishing locations are:

* The lake on the Kart Race Course on Residential Island
* The lake that the Sword appears from on Jungle Island
* The Ice Lake near the top of Mountain Island

## Job

The job version of fishing requires the player to start the job from the job NPC that's in each of the ocean fishing huts. When begun, the job does not have a timer and it is up to the player which fishing vehicle they choose. Depending on which location the job is started from, a circle appears nearby to show the area in which the 5 fish required are to be caught in.

The player can take their time and fish as much as they want, but trash items do not count towards the counter at the top of the screen. After 5 are caught the information changes to bring the caught fish back to the pen at the dock the player had started from. No matter how many fish are brought only five are counted for the job to end, a lot like how Waste Removal works. The player is awarded a base amount of $20 plus whatever the worth of the fish is. When completed the player earns an achievement and outfit.

## Task and Ocean Collection

Fishing is useful not just as a job, but as a way to make money and complete collections. After catching something for the first time the player obtains an activity for their to-do list called *Gone Fishing*. This requires the player to catch at least one of every fish in the game, which is also usefully kept record of in-game. The Fishing Book is an item located in every ocean fishing hut - much like the present and toxic waste barrel exhibits in the Museum lobby - showing how many fish types have been caught as well as other information.

The book details how many fish are in each area, the rarity, and - after caught - the price. Other information is a counter of how many of each type of fish the player has caught and how many altogether. By catching all fish in the book the player completes that activity, earns a achievement, and unlocks the Super Yacht, spawnable only from the Residential Marina.

The Ocean Collection from the Museum is also made up of 4 treasures that can only be fished up in different locations, as hinted to by the clues in its cabinet. These are also of some kind of difficulty level to fish up, thus perhaps adding even more time a completionists may spend out at sea.

While completing this the player is likely to make a good amount of money, leading to it being a profitable job if willing to put the time in. Even with fish being worth as low as $4, the truly random chance of getting rarer fish will lead to a lot earnt before the Fishing Book is complete.

## Fishing Book Information

While the in-game book has a personalised counter of how many of each fish a player has caught, all other information displayed here is consistent.

The Marina on Residential IslandThe Warehouse Docks by the CityThe Water Taxi on Jungle IslandFishing InstructionsInside a Fishing Hut, the Job NPC and Fishing BookExample of one of the larger fishing boatsA possible fishing location for the jobHow it looks to be fishing in that circle3 of the 4 pieces of the Fishing ClothesThe alternative hat and 4th piece of the Fishing Outfit