Fishing
The Fishing skill can be learned at a School of the Human Body for 25 twine and 1 sharpened stick. The school will give you a Basic Fishing Pole when you learn the skill. Fortunately, and unlike previous tales, you can also assemble additional fishing poles.
You must have a fishing pole with you to fish.
Stand close enough to water to see the fish icon, and click it, and you will fish. 
Fishing with a basic fishing pole works best at night, after about 6 pm and before about 8 am. In some situations you may catch fish in daylight hours, but it's unusual. If you get a message about the water being dead, move away, or try at a different time. If the message mentions ripples in the water, keep trying there or nearby, as you may catch fish. Everyone can catch the same types of fish at any particular location. However, the catch rate depends on location and time of night, and varies between people. The size of fish caught is dependent on your Speed attribute and can be affected by cooking.
Note: Sometimes the water reports cycle from dead to ripples to yielding fish over a 5-10 minute cycle. You can catch fish immediately after multiple dead water reports. However, in most situations that's not optimal fishing strategy. Where it might make sense is if it's a spot that yields the rarer fish.
Types of Fish
The following types of fish exist:
| Common | Uncommon | Rare | Very Rare | Special Rod Reqd |
| Carp | Abdju | Oxyrynchus | Serpent Fish | Malapterus (sp?) |
| Perch | Phagrus | Tiger Fish | ||
| Catfish | ||||
| Tilapia | ||||
| Chromis |
Fishing Bands
Fish gather in fishing bands. Those bands run from NE to SW across the map and are 210 coordinates wide. They oscillate about 30 coordinates NW to SE (sidewise) which changes the type of fish that you will find at a particular location.
- (X-Y) is the critical relationship in the formula so, if you want to follow the same kind of fish, as you move west X gets smaller so you will have to also move south to get a smaller Y. The edge of a fishing band is therefore a diagonal that runs NE (upper right) to SW (lower left).
- If you want to get a different kind of fish, you'll want to move directly across the band, which means NW (upper left) to SE (lower right).
- In practice you're going to be stuck with following the shoreline anyway, so if you're moving in any direction other than directly NW/SE across the band, the apparent fishing band will be wider and the various types of fish will be further apart.
Bands contain the following fish types from NW to SE (moving across the band):
- Serpent/Carp
- Serpent/Carp/Oxy
- Carp/Oxy/Perch
- Oxy/Perch
- Perch
- Perch/Abdju
- Perch/Abdju/Catfish
- Abdju/Catfish
- Catfish
- Catfish/Tilapia
- Tilapia/Chromis
- Tilapia/Chromis/Phagrus
- Chromis/Phagrus
Mathematical Model
Which fish is usually given by a certain location (X, Y) can be computed as follows:
(X - Y) mod 866
Fish bands have result between 0 and 210. Values between 836 and 865, as well as 211 and 240 can also contain fish due to the oscillation of the bands.
Carp and Serpent Fish are close to 0 end, Chromis and Phagrus towards the 210 end.
Python Code
For those with python:
def fish(x, y):
return (x - y) % 866
def band(x, y):
return fish(x, y) / 16
>>> band(1357, -3879) 2
Band 2 is Carp/Oxy/Perch from above (numbering from 0)
Fishing Poles
There is currently only one type of fishing pole widely available:Three other types of poles may be won as prizes in competitions:
- The [Craftsman Fishing Pole]?
- The [Fine Fishing Pole]?
- The Huntsman's Fishing Pole
- The [Deep Nile Fishing Pole]?
Grilled Fish
You can cook fish in Firepit, and will get grilled fish. You can eat this (one at a time) from the special menu; you will then get +2 endurance for the next three TeppyMinutes. Grilled fish are portable! It does not matter what kind of fish you use.
Locations
- Map of Locations (2 MB)
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Location
Region
Game Time
Type |
Raw Data
| Location | Region | Game Time | Type |
| 1014, -3392 | 12:09 AM | 5 Perch Fish size 1, 1 Perch Fish size 2, 14 rings | |
| 773, -3752 | 02:00 AM | 2 Tilapia Fish size 1, 11 rings | |
| 775, -3753 | 10:40 AM | Tilapia Size 1/2. Chromis Size 2. | |
| 1446, 2159 | 2:00 AM - 6:30 AM | Catfish & Tilapia, 1-11 deben | |
| 1476, 2266 | 2:00 AM - 6:30 AM | Perch, 1-5 deben | |
| 1479, 2243 | 7L | Abdju, Perch 1-2 db | |
| 1475, 2284 | Perch, Oxyrhynchus 1-5 db | ||
| 3505, -117 | CotS | 7:00 PM - 5:00 AM | Catfish, Tilapia, Abdju 1-5 db |
| 409, -3960 | Carp 1-4db, few Oxyrhychus | ||
| 1794 1803 | 12.30am | Carp 1-2 deb | |
| 1528 1499 | 10.30pm > | carp, perch, oxyrinchus all 1-2 | |
| 1483 2160 | 10.30pm > | tilapia, chromis up to 7deb | |
| 1052 -714 | Karnak | 12:44am | carp 3db |
| 1435, -1280 | Karnak | 2:13am | catfish, abdju 1-2db |
| 1439, -1288 | Karnak | 2:04am | catfish 1db |
| 1454, -1291 | Karnak | 12:14am | catfish 1-2db |
| 1470, -1303 | Karnak | 12:26am | catfish, tilapia 1db |
| 1499, -1322 | Karnak | 12:35am | chromis 1db |
| 1505, -1326 | Karnak | 12:49am | chromis, phagrus 1-2db |
| 1542, -1039 | Karnak | 12:10am | Serpent, Carp |
| 1462, 2122 | 7L | 3:19am | Chromis, Tilapia 2-9db |
| 1229, 6329 | 12:30am | carp, perch, 1-8db | |
| 3296, 4155 | Sinai | 9:20 PM | Carp 1-5 deben, ~60% catch rate, catch rate dropped drastically after 10:05pm |
| 3366, 4044 | Sinai | 9:00pm > | Chromis, Tilapia - 1-12db |
| 3363, 4069 | Sinai | 9:00pm > | Catfish, Tilapia - 1-10db |
| 3212, 4831 | Sinai | 9:00pm > | Abdju, Perch, Catfish - 1-9db |
| 3147, 4859 | Sinai | 9:00pm > | Carp, Perch, Oxyrynchus - 1-9db |
| 3257, 4832 | Sinai | 9:00pm > | Tilapia, Catfish - 1-8db |
| 3312, 3965 | Sinai | 9:00pm > | Phagrus, Chromis - 1-10db |
| 3489, 3455 | Sinai | 9:00 pm > | Oxyrnchus, Perch |
| 3493, -77 | CotS | 7:50PM | Perch 1-3db |
| 1211, 7086 | LE | 12:00pm - 2:30 pm | Chromis, Phagrus, Tilapia - 1-3db |
| -2108, -581 | Fool's Paradise | 12:00AM-5:00PM | Chromis, Phagrus |
| -946, 3292 | Desert of Shades | 11:00pm > | Perch, Abdju, Catfish - 1- 4db |
| 1488, 3248 | UE | 3AM | Carp, Serpent,Oxyrynchus |
| 1501, 3172 | UE | 3am> | Perch |
| 1488, 2374 | Seven Lakes | 11:00pm - 1.30am | Carp (up to 13db), Serpent |
| 667, -8005 | Khartoum | 7pm-5am | Carp, Serpent |
| 4335, 6917 | Tanis | 9pm > | Carp, Oxyrynchus |
| 4286, 7640 | Tanis | 1am? > | Abdju, Perch, Catfish 8-12db just north of CS |
| 1565, -1034 | Karnak | 2:15am | Carp |
| 4676, -703 | CotS | 2:00am | Catfish, Tilapia |
| 4701, -620 | CotS | 3:00am | Abdju, Perch |
| 4564, -836 | CotS | 11:00pm | Tilapia |
| 3183, -1174 | CotS | 5 am | Carp |
| -183, 6680 | Qatara | 6pm > ? | Catfish: 8db, Perch: 8-11db, Abdju: 8-10db (South of UThought) |
| 1083 1760 | 7L | Tilapia & Chromis | |
| 2670, 5245 | Sinai | 9pm | Carp and Perch in a Small Pond |
| 4562, 2 | CotS | 10:30 PM | Chromis, Phagrus (kept telling me water was dead, even though I'd see rings & catch fish other times, same exact spot) |