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Carl's The Sims 3 Fishing Guide: Tips and Help
Bait, Fish, and Catch
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Fishing Tips
Here I'll list some general tips that can help many newbie fishermen.
Fish "above your level"
Other sites will list a fishing level next to the fish. You won't find that here. The levels are for when you would be able to catch a fish without bait. If you use bait, you can catch rare and exotic fish very early. Fish for vampire fish using garlic, or go out and catch some alley catfish (with cheese), then use them as bait for angelfish. Your Sim can then fish for Death Fish at the graveyard with the angelfish as bait. Someone reported to me that they were able to do this as low as fishing level 5!
Pack a Lunch: Raise your gardening skill slightly, and help satisfy one of your Sim's needs by Planting at least one apple tree. Taking an apple from a tree just outside your Sim's home along on fishing trips will help to keep them from quitting because of hunger. With that in mind, make eating the first step in their routine before your Sims head out on a fishing trip, followed by a trip to the toilet. This will help you to milk possibly a couple hours or more of extra fishing from every trip.
Pack some Tunes!: Put a portable radio into your Sim's inventory by dragging it on top of him. Once at the lake, set the boom box on the ground and have your Sims listen to their favorite music. This should provide a boost of +20 or more to mood. Being in a good mood helps your Sims to learn skills faster, and gain more lifetime happiness points.
Stay on Top of Wishes and Opportunities: Fishing offers some of the easiest wishes and opportunities to complete in the Sims 3. Stay on top of them, and help your Sim gain massive lifetime happiness points quickly.
How to Fulfill 'Catch 1,000kg Fish Wish': After the other incremental weight wishes, a Sim may eventually wish to catch a 1,000kg fish. There is only one fish that fits the bill. That's the Robot Fish. Why? Metal of Course. Head to the Science Lab and use Piranha as bait to reel them in and hope for the big one! This wish won't come until later on in your Sim's Fishing career, probably just about the time you'd be able to catch Robot Fish anyway!
Spend Lifetime Happiness Points Wisely
If you want your Sims to be better fishermen, able to bring in more catches from one fishing trip, first choose the steel bladder lifetime reward. This will eliminate the need to use the toilet. The desire to go to the bathroom will interrupt almost all fishing trips that start with high energy. Since the hunger need can be filled by eating an apple, or cooking your catches on the portable fire pit by the lakeside or beach, bladder is the big nuisance. Your Sim can get more out of every day by never having to take trips to the bathroom, so this helps all skills to raise faster and Sims to be more productive.
Next I would consider taking the Opportunistic reward. Why? Fishing has many many easy opportunities your Sims can complete, and you often have a very nice variable reward to look forward to. Opportunistic will sharply increase the reward for all opportunities completed, so this is best taken a bit early if possible. I still think I'd take steel bladder first, however.
| Fishing | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How to Fish | Bait | Traits | Tips | Fish List |
| Aquariums | Challenges/Opps | Riverview Spots | Sunset Valley Spots | World Adventures |
| Athletic | Charisma | Collecting | Cooking | Fishing | Gardening | Guitar |
| Handiness | Instruments | Inventing | Logic | Martial Arts | Mixology | Nectar Making |
| Painting | Photography | Riding | Sculpting | Writing | ||