Net A Fish Wiki

Turn your tutorial catch into income:

1. Take your fish. After reeling in, open the Fish Cooler with E and select Take on Royal Sturgeon.
2. Start earning. Carry it to an empty showcase and use E — Place Fish.
3. Collect cash. Walk onto the green Collect pad in front of the display to transfer its accumulated earnings into your balance.

Buy Twine Net for $150 when prompted. The tutorial’s Legendary Royal Sturgeon is a special opening catch; Twine Net normally retains Common fish.

• Lucky Spin: One free spin becomes available every 30 minutes. Select Spin → SPIN to receive a random prize, which can include cash, Pearls, or a timed boost.
• Playtime gifts: Select the bottom-right gift button when it displays OPEN!. Claiming it starts the countdown for the next gift.
• Group bonus: Join the game’s group through Join Group or JOIN for a permanent +25% to all showcase income.

1. Aim from your own dock. Select THROW NET and move the mouse to position the highlighted area.
2. Cast. Click the water or press C. Leave the net fishing to accumulate more catches while space and fishing time remain.
3. Retrieve. Select REEL IN when available; you can retrieve an unfilled net when the control permits it.

“Escaped! Needs [net name]” is an equipment requirement. Spare capacity and covering the fish do not replace the named net. An escaped fish does not necessarily end the cast.

Buy nets in order through Upgrades → Nets. Each purchase automatically equips the new net. Later Rebirth requirements are additional conditions; reaching the required rank does not skip earlier purchases.

From Mythril, budget $13M to reach Apex:

• Runebound — $5M: Raises base capacity from 80 to 98, retaining the Mythic limit.
• Deepforge — another $8M: Raises base capacity to 120 and opens Apex catches.

An intermediate net can improve capacity without opening a new rarity, while remaining a required purchase.

• Timer ends with space unused → Longer Soak. Its first level costs $150. It extends maximum fishing time; a full net or manual retrieval still ends the cast earlier.
• Net fills too soon → Net Weaver. Its first level costs $700 and adds capacity; extra soak time cannot fix a full net.
• Want larger fish → Giant Bait. It increases size and weight, improving fish income.
• Want mutated catches → Mutation Magnet. It improves mutation luck.

Purchased Fishing upgrade levels survive Rebirth. These cash upgrades are separate from consumable bait.

• Find missing species: Open INDEX and look for named entries with question marks. Check the target’s net requirement before pursuing it.
• Claim permanent bonuses: Discover every species on a standard rarity page, then select CLAIM +2% · +1% MUT. Each claimed page permanently adds +2% Money and +1% mutation chance; collecting every mutation is unnecessary.
• First Mythic bonus: Your first Mythic catch unlocks an extra showcase slot. This is separate from completing and claiming an Index page.

Each recipe consumes matching fish of one species and the required input tier, producing one fish of the next tier:

Use Fuse on an eligible Cooler stack for a single group. Fuse All → Confirm processes every eligible group and continues through higher tiers as far as the remaining materials allow.

Mutation is separate from species and rarity: a fish can be both Mythic and Shiny.

These modifiers are not multipliers for your total showcase income. For a display choice, compare the individual fish’s current placement income under matching conditions; size and bonuses can make a lower-mutation individual earn more.

Haunted is a separate Halloween variant, outside the normal Shiny-to-Starlit fusion ladder.

• Fisherman: Builds duplicate stacks for fusion and can also discover species. Prioritize him when gathering copies of fish you want to improve.
• Spear Gun: Excludes Common fish and favors larger catches; Range upgrades improve reach and fish size.
• Boat: Repeats an independent trawling cycle and delivers hauls to the Cooler.

These systems can operate alongside your own net and equipped pets.

Online AFK casting requires Auto Throw owned and switched ON, with you inside your base and the game running. Offline showcase cash is a separate system.

After Rebirth 1, visit Boat Dock, press E, and buy the Rowboat for $25,000 to start automatic trawling.

• Hull: Sets the catch-rarity limit and available component levels.
• Trawl Net: Increases fish per trip.
• Engine: Shortens the trip interval.
• Sonar: Improves rare-fish luck.

NEXT HULL means that component has reached your current hull’s cap. Buy the next hull to open more levels, then purchase those component upgrades separately; changing hulls does not fill them automatically.

Open Cooler → Pets → Equip. Equipped pets provide their Money bonus and hunt independently.

Leveling: Use spare copies of the same pet. For Bigmouth Bass, Level 1 → 2, two spare copies are consumed, leaving one upgraded pet: Money rises from ×1.1 to ×1.12, and trip time falls from 60 to 58.2 seconds. That copy requirement applies to this upgrade.

Second slot: The +1 Pet Slot pass lets two pets hunt simultaneously. Their Money bonuses add together; do not add or multiply the two displayed card multipliers to calculate a combined multiplier.

Ocean Crates can come from boss rewards, the Crew daily target, or Pearl purchases. In Pearl Shop → Crates:

Each crate hatches one random pet, and multiple crates can produce duplicates.

Abyss has eight-pet and nine-pet pools. The eight-pet pool ends with Dawnmother Whale; the nine-pet pool adds Evercoil Serpent. Match hatch odds to the pool in your crate menu.

For an income-focused choice among pets you already own, the leading base-level or Level 1 Money bonuses are:

Prioritize the highest actual Money value in your inventory; upgraded pets can change comparisons.

Evercoil appears in the nine-pet Abyss pool, with a 0.05% hatch chance per crate. That percentage is neither a hunting chance nor a guarantee after a set number of purchases.

Fill every unlocked showcase, then replace weaker earners using the fish’s current placement preview. A higher mutation label alone does not guarantee better income, even within the same species.

Keep these readings separate:

• Catch result: The income shown when the fish is caught.
• Placement or displayed fish $/s: The individual’s income in that display context.
• Total $/s: Your whole base’s income rate.
• Collect amount: Accumulated cash waiting to be claimed.

Walk onto green Collect pads to make that cash available for spending.

• Ongoing display income: Showroom Lights adds 4% showcase income per level to every displayed fish.
• Time spent offline: Night Watch increases the share of showcase income earned while away. It starts at 30% at Level 0 and reaches 60% at Level 10, adding three percentage points per level through that stage. Level 11 gives 62%; Level 12 gives 64%.

Buy these through Upgrades → Market. Choose according to how you earn; the early Night Watch increment does not continue unchanged at later levels.

Return carried fish with Store All, then use Equip Best to apply your best available showcase lineup before selling surplus catches.

Auto-Sell includes Common through the selected rarity. Choose NOTHING to disable it.

• KEEP MUTATED FISH ON: Retains mutated fish inside the sale range, but does not protect ordinary fusion duplicates.
• Always retained: New species and fish at your current net’s highest catchable rarity enter the Cooler.
• Saving ordinary fusion materials: Put the sale ceiling below their rarity, or select NOTHING.

Automatically sold fish still count as catches.

Both requirements must be met: all-time fish caught and cash currently held. Your first promotion, Deckhand, requires 8 catches and $1,500. Select REBIRTH → TAP AGAIN TO CONFIRM.

• Resets: Cash becomes $0, including any surplus.
• Keeps: Fish, Cooler, Showcase, Nets, Upgrades, and Journal. Pearls and Charm bonuses also remain.
• Awards: Each Rebirth gives 3 Skill Points and its permanent rank rewards.

You can buy useful retained upgrades before resetting, but must still hold the required cash after spending.

Open Rebirth → SKILL TREE and spend points according to your immediate goal:

• Showcase income: Learn Showcase Polish for 1 point to gain +3% showcase income at Level 1.
• Net capacity: Learn Tight Weave for 1 point to gain +2% capacity at Level 1.
• Mutations: Learn Lucky Waters → Shimmer. Reaching Shimmer from an untouched branch costs 2 points total; Shimmer’s first level gives +5% mutation luck.

Learning a preceding node opens the next one. Special prerequisites still apply: Fortune’s Favor in the five-node Luck layout requires the other Luck skills to be maxed.

Pearls and Charm bonuses survive Rebirth. For a lasting purchase, choose the Charm that supports your routine in Pearl Shop → Charms:

These prices and effects apply to the first upgrade. Pearl Charm affects fishing Pearls, rather than Contract or minigame rewards.

Buy tools through Pearl Shop → Tools, then use them from Cooler → Other.

Mutation Reroll changes a showcase fish’s mutation:

The two-tier outcome is included in the 40% upgrade chance.

Mutation Lock prevents a downgrade on the next reroll and is automatically consumed by it. It does not guarantee an upgrade or protect subsequent rerolls.

• Starter: Follow the current objective through the opening stages. Early goals include displaying three fish and opening INDEX, catching 200 fish and buying a boat, then upgrading the boat three times.
• Today: Complete the three current daily objectives and collect their displayed rewards. Targets can differ between sets.
• Weekly: Completing all three daily objectives advances the five-day counter toward the Weekly chest.

The Starter stages and Today’s daily set are separate tracks. Use the targets in your current quest panel.

Open Quests → Contracts, complete each slot’s exact objective, and press Claim on each finished slot separately.

Fisherman catches count toward Contract catch progress. Cash and any additional bonus depend on the active task. For a showcase-income objective, improve income by the requested amount; your existing total is not the credited increase.

In Quests → Deep Current, meet both the charge cost and net requirement, then select CALL. Cast your next net to catch the incoming creature.

• Mythic: 3 charge.
• Apex: 6 charge.
• Demigod: 12 charge.

The creature must be caught within five minutes. Charge is refunded if you miss that window or leave.

Deep Current selects a creature’s rarity, rather than a named species or boss encounter. Enough charge does not bypass the selected tier’s net requirement.

1. Enter Turret Mode. During a Megalodon encounter, go to your dock’s Spear Gun and use E or ENTER TURRET MODE.
2. Shoot while in range. Aim at Megalodon, click or press Space, then wait for each reload.
3. Claim after victory. Review the reward panel and select CLAIM when the server defeats the boss.

Once Megalodon leaves your turret’s range, you cannot keep hitting it from that turret. Other players can still finish the shared fight.

1. Cast ahead of Kraken. Throw your net into its path in front of your dock.
2. Keep the net in. When Kraken arrives and the interface says “keep your net in!”, leave it in the water to contribute damage.
3. Collect after victory. Open the reward panel and select Collect.

Your net can continue catching ordinary fish during the fight, subject to their equipment requirements. A Kraken fish is a possible reward, not a guaranteed drop from every victory.

• Packed River: 50% more fish for two minutes—keep casting when catch quantity is your goal.
• Lucky Tide: ×2 luck for two minutes—use the window to pursue rarer catches.
• Shimmer Surge: ×3 mutated fish while active—fish for variants during its bonus.
• Purchased Server Luck: ×2 luck server-wide for 15 minutes. Buying it again extends the timer; it does not raise the multiplier to ×4.

Keep fishing after TSUNAMI WARNING, then recast after retrieving each haul. Read the current Rare, Mut, Fish, and countdown displays: runs can have three or four waves, with different types and orders.

Earlier waves can produce valuable catches, so waiting for the final wave wastes fishing opportunities. Higher-rarity targets still require the appropriate net.

Pearl summon: Hub → Pearl Shop → Boosts → Call a Wave Rush costs 3,000 Pearls, affects the current server, and is limited to one purchase of that type per week.

During Halloween’s Witching Hour, Haunted fish appear at ×3 the normal rate for three minutes. Fish during that window; equipment requirements still apply.

Hollow King has separate rewards: Candy tribute goes to everyone online, while netting Hollow King earns a separate reward that can include the Hollow King Slayer title. Press Collect on the reward popup.

After unlocking the title, equip it through Quests → Titles.

• Find a team: Open CREWS or visit Crew Master in the Hub, then select FIND CREW.
• Create a team: The CREATE option requires Rebirth 2; this is the creation requirement.
• Same-server bonus: Having a crewmate in your server gives +5% Money.
• Daily shared target: Catch 100,000 fish collectively in a day for cash equal to 15 minutes of income and one Ocean Crate.

Open the Trading stall in the Hub. Both players must be at least Rebirth 5, and their Rebirth counts must differ by no more than three. At Rebirth 5, eligible partners are at Rebirth 5–8.

For an income-focused exchange, compare the specific fish’s size, weight, and income under matching configurations. Account for the income you give up and any fish displaced from a showcase. Mutation labels alone do not determine the better earner, and showcase income is not a fixed trade price.

Choose a pass for the action or income source you want to improve:

• Auto Throw: Automatically casts while you remain inside your base, with the pass owned and switched ON.
• Auto Collect: Collects showcase cash without repeated trips to the pads.
• Auto Fuse: Processes Cooler stacks when enough recipe materials are available, including further eligible tiers.
• 2x Money: Doubles money earned by showcased fish.

Auto Collect handles collection convenience; 2x Money increases showcase earnings. Auto Fuse still requires the fusion materials.

Equip appearances through Cooler → Skins. Choose the category and an owned skin, then select Equip; use Off to restore the normal appearance.

• Cloudy, Blazing, and Marble bundles: Their bonuses require the matching Base skin equipped. Within the same price-and-bonus configuration, their listed benefits are equal, so choose by appearance. The same 800-Robux price can accompany different bonus configurations.
• Moonpearl Net: Its November monthly offer costs 5,000 Pearls. It is a cosmetic net skin with no added stats.

Use the top Dock and Hub buttons to travel:

• Dock: Your Cooler, showcases, collection pads, and fishing equipment.
• Hub: Trading, Potions, Crews, Quests, and Pearl Shop stalls.

World unlocks: Captain, Rebirth 6, opens Jungle Swamp; Stargazer, Rebirth 11, opens Frozen Glacier. These change your personal surroundings around the river—each player sees their own environment. After unlocking a world theme, access its selection through Cooler → Skins.