The Ultimate Guide to Fishing Mastery

Fishing got a complete makeover in the 1.6 update. Along side all of the additions such as deluxe bait, bait makers, and the buffed worm bins, fishing mastery adds more possibilities for both beginner and expert fishers! Let's go over all of those possibilites!

Sections:
0:00 - Intro
0:21 - Challenge Bait
2:26 - Advanced Iridium Rod
4:37 - Hunting Legendary Fish
6:09 - The Largest Possible Fishing Bar
6:53 - Golden Fishing Chests
7:55 - Best Chance for Fishing Chests

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Here's the lofi Stardew Valley music I use a lot:

[wheatdaddy_]

The amount of money you can get from the lava eels for an "easy" catch with the statue of blessings is crazy

[cherryoctopie]

The octopus is the most shocking reveal I've seen in a while.

[pentagonuniversecubeartistsfam]

I gasped so loud when you said it was an Octopus, my sister actually came to check on me hahaha. Now I know where I'm gonna invest my money

[eviwl]

And most important, it allow you to finally get the full collection of legendary fish in iridium quality

[Cgg_]

These videos about each mastery at once are very nice, haven't seen any other youtuber do that.

[The_Nametag]

For the record, you can get at least two of the unique golden fishing chest items from a catch. I had one that had two sets of fairy dust in it.

[its-really-just-me]

The 1.6 update makes fishing so much more fun and useful! I'm liking it a lot.

[erik.isomer]

I used to hate fishing, but I have to say it might be my favorite skill now. The mixing and matching of bobbers just allows for so much cool stuff

[travisretriever]

And here's to Seafoam Pudding (esp when gold quality via Qi Seasoning) being goated af.

[cinnamoone]

i've been doing my recent legend II farming with a trap bobber, a quality bobber, and wild bait. sure, it's only a 10% chance to hook each time, but there's also that small chance to duplicate the fish when caught. most i've caught in three days with this setup is 36 iridium quality legend IId, utilizing tent kits to sleep by the mountain lake for more time save. after smoking, and relevant professions, the entire stack sold for just over 1.5 MILLION gold. in three days.

[twofacedmgrim]

Screw that Lingcod jokes aside. Unlock the mine carts, then winter suddenly becomes more profitable.

[CecilAlucardX]

I used the rod during a three day rainy stretch to catch over a hundred Catfish. With Quality bobber making them all iridium and the extra value skills, it was over 170k. All from home on the Riverland farm.

[garlicbread]

The advanced iridium rod is so useful if you want to catch all legendary fishes as irudium quality. Especially the Anglerfish.

[folklaur]

As someone working towards the 10 mil needed for perfection, this is very helpful as a way to vary the day to day gameplay

[TocsTheWanderer]

You forgot the 3 points of luck you can get from the food at the desert festival when calculating the best chance for getting a chest.

[leonardo]

Love these videos! Came back to Stardew after a break, and I've been marathoning your content haha. Good stuff!

[porpoise]

I think you do the golden trwasure chests a disservice here.

Looking at the odds of a golden treasure chest under fairly reasonable circumstances:

Base 15%
Magnet 15%
Pirate 15%
The lower limit for stardrop Luck 3.5%
Special charm 1.25%
Two rings (very easy to get now witj iridium pan) 1%
Lucky Lunch plus Gingerale 2%

So 52.75% chance of a chest

A golden chest is a base 25% but +/- 10% based on daily luck plus 2.5% for lucky charm so 34.5% on the worst stardrop luck day.

Leaving you with a 18.2% chance every catch. Which doesn't sound like a lot, but with two dressed spinners, it takes you on average of between 1 and 1.5 seconds for a bite and it takes a maximum of 3 seconds to determine whether you got a golden chest or not. Lets say it takes an average of 7.5 seconds per cast to cancel a non-golden chest (seems pretty generous for cast time plus bite time plus three seconds maximum chest time), the average time to hook a golden chest is 40 seconds.

And that is assuming pretty reasonable circumstances, it could definitely be optimized.

[jugomebu]

Thanks Sal for another solid upload! It's so beautifully presented and easy to follow ❤

[vulpeculacollective]

i really really enjoy your videos, you make them informative without feeling like a mountain of information is being shoved down my throat, you kinda make it mouthsized if that makes sense and i love that for a cozy evening, when i don't want to have to think as much. also your voice is super calming <33

[jacksonvandenheever]

Winter is my favorite season. Relaxed fishing and mining