Originally posted by Bishop_396:

Is there a way to catch the fish ? I seen them beached on the shoreline , havent shot with a bow or speared one yet

Yes. You can't shoot or spear them, you will know it when you get it. You can pick up the beached ones, and even rig the shoreline to cause that for freebies, but the official way is with equipment you will find later.

It's very confusing that the game gives you a simple spear with an overarm attack and fish swimming around the shallows, but makes those fish immune to stabbing.

Is there a way to catch the fish ? I seen them beached on the shoreline , havent shot with a bow or speared one yet

When exploring a new island, I scout along the coasts first. While doing so, I'll keep an eye out for visible fish, and mark those spots to go fishing later, especially if I see a tuna.

It's been my experience that the fish-spawning spots do appear to change from time to time. One day a spot might be full of fish, but go back a couple of game-weeks later, and the respawn may have occurred elsewhere.

So... keep looking. As another mentioned, if you don't SEE any fish, you likely won't catch anything.

Just bad luck, they wash up dead on my terraformed shores all the time.

Or maybe the Hitchhiker had something to do with it.
42 ;)

best luck when Wind is blowing towards me .

Originally posted by Happy:

All the high quality fish worth catching are in the plains I find. (tuna) they land 4 bits/ per catch.

Irrelevant. I pull them out off the meadows. I haven't nailed down if its RNG or depth of the water or what to get tuna but its not tied to the shore biome.

Just unlucky

Some places seem to have more fish than others. Not sure why!

Some say that you should only fish where you can see fish swimming in the water, but I'm not sure there's anything to that

Thanks however, i went back to spot that had plenty of fish before but nothing now. Have seen no fish on any of the islands, Strange???

did you put down a spawn blocker (bench, portal, etc?) nearby?
Otherwise, they should return every 3 or so days.

Ill trade you some fish for jute :]

Fish take like 5 days to respawn ( wiki says much less but ita what i saw when i tried to fish a lot ) , and only in meadows coast if you want to be in a secure place doing it

All the high quality fish worth catching are in the plains I find. (tuna) they land 4 bits/ per catch.