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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Something you left out is that you can get to level three fishing to buy bait just by having Robin build a fish pond on your farm (forage the seaweed and kill green slimes for the green algae - both can be pulled from trash cans too) and dropping a cart-bought or trash can fish, or certain beach forage, in there, completing fish pond quests and collecting stuff produced by the pond gets you fishing experience. (Although some fish are probably better than others for that, some fish pond quests are a pain.)

    Edit: also don’t sleep on the training rod early game, it’s super cheap and basically sets your fishing skill to level five to make fishing easier, and you’ll only hook easy fish. Also Spoilers: if you haven’t reached fishing level 1 by spring 28 year 1 you can trigger a cutscene where Willy shows up and gives you fishing level 1 and the training rod.


  • I just checked and, at least on the current patch, you can buy all the fish for the default bundles from the travelling cart, I think there was an RNG issue with the cart fish in previous patches though. But good luck getting them all if you’re not metagaming. And I didn’t bother checking the remixed bundles, some of those might force you to fish. Perfection requires fishing though, but you could absolutely get max fishing level without ever doing the mini game and

    Spoilers

    get the advanced iridium rod from the mastery cave, which can make fishing extremely easy

    and just complete the fishing collection with that. The twitch streamer Bla_de did that recently for his Maximum Perfection challenge.