Ways/Places to fish on the Island

There’s at least one fishing spot In every neighborhood and the traps (they don’t work for me though, I never catch anything).
You can also click on a scuba diving buoy and you’ll get the option to go spearfishing underwater.
There’s also an option to go fishing with the canoes.

@Dianesims - thanks for the canoe and buoy tip - I'll try that. Still need more fishing spots. I wish I could fish off my deck.

It’s the red buoys that are in deeper water. You need to click on them then “buy scuba diving tools” and then buy a spearfishing gun.

And I agree I’d like to fish from my deck too.

"simstr0ng;c-17147791" wrote:
@Dianesims - thanks for the canoe and buoy tip - I'll try that. Still need more fishing spots. I wish I could fish off my deck.

@Dianesims - there is a "fishing chair" from the camping pack - any chance that is an actual chair for fishing. If not - that would be great to have.

Nope, it’s just a regular chair.

"simstr0ng;c-17147811" wrote:
@Dianesims - there is a "fishing chair" from the camping pack - any chance that is an actual chair for fishing. If not - that would be great to have.

Shame the fishing nets don't seem to be working.

"catloverplayer;c-17148338" wrote:
Shame the fishing nets don't seem to be working.

Are you talking about the traps? Those work fantastic for my Sim living on Key Point, the empty island lot in Mua Pel'am. She has three and rakes in between 2-5K simoleons worth of fish/treasure/trash every 24 hrs. or so. I've found the trick is you have to watch them like a hawk when it's been close to 24 hrs. since you set them.

Once you see the fish thrashing around in them and kicking up a lot of water, the traps are full to the brim. Also, don't put them near to shore, you won't get much there. They need to be in medium to deep water. Fara baits them with fish worth around 10-20 simoleons, but she was doing fairly well just baiting with plantains as well.

Fishing is also great for those trying to clean up the Island, your Sim will get points for releasing illegal fish they catch, seaweed, logs and invasive species of fish such as goldfish. It's a win-win situation.

@simstr0ng Fara uses the fishing spot located on her island lot. There's also a fishing spot (might be two) over by the abandoned boat. You've probably already seen it, but I know there's a net surrounding a fishing spot at the end of a pier in Ohan'ali Town near the bar as well.

I don't know much about any other areas, Fara pretty much sticks to Mua Pel'am and visits the bar now and then hoping for a special event/festival to pop up next door while she's there. I agree it would be cool if our Sims could fish off a pier we've built on their lot. I don't know why they can't really since they can fish anywhere from a canoe.

Hmm, I wonder if you put a fishing sign found in debug by using the showhiddenobjects cheat at the end of your pier, perhaps your Sim could fish from there then? Now I'm curious, I'm going to try it when I go in game soon tonight. :)

"Karababy52;c-17148418" wrote:

"catloverplayer;c-17148338" wrote:
Shame the fishing nets don't seem to be working.

Are you talking about the traps? Those work fantastic for my Sim living on Key Point, the empty island lot in Mua Pel'am. She has three and rakes in between 2-5K simoleons worth of fish/treasure/trash every 24 hrs. or so. I've found the trick is you have to watch them like a hawk when it's been close to 24 hrs. since you set them.

Once you see the fish thrashing around in them and kicking up a lot of water, the traps are full to the brim. Also, don't put them near to shore, you won't get much there. They need to be in medium to deep water. Fara baits them with fish worth around 10-20 simoleons, but she was doing fairly well just baiting with plantains as well.

Fishing is also great for those trying to clean up the Island, your Sim will get points for releasing illegal fish they catch, seaweed, logs and invasive species of fish such as goldfish. It's a win-win situation.

@simstr0ng Fara uses the fishing spot located on her island lot. There's also a fishing spot (might be two) over by the abandoned boat. You've probably already seen it, but I know there's a net surrounding a fishing spot at the end of a pier in Ohan'ali Town near the bar as well.

I don't know much about any other areas, Fara pretty much sticks to Mua Pel'am and visits the bar now and then hoping for a special event/festival to pop up next door while she's there. I agree it would be cool if our Sims could fish off a pier we've built on their lot. I don't know why they can't really since they can fish anywhere from a canoe.

Hmm, I wonder if you put a fishing sign found in debug by using the showhiddenobjects cheat at the end of your pier, perhaps your Sim could fish from there then? Now I'm curious, I'm going to try it when I go in game soon tonight. :)

Yes I meant traps but there is a net at one premade location and I've heard it doesn't catch fish.

@catloverplayer Ah, okay. Well, I've tried that net at the premade location and it did work for my Sim. But, all she caught was small, base game fish there. To be fair, she was at a low level in fishing at the time though.

@simstr0ng Good news! Placing a fishing sign at the end of a player made pier works! Sort've... When I first clicked on the sign my Sim did indeed start fishing and it looked like this:

https://i.imgur.com/C74duGo.png

She even caught a Leopard shark!

https://i.imgur.com/q5ib8Wy.png

But, then I noticed something. The fish are floating in the air. The only fish actually IN the water were the ones diving down to disappear.

https://i.imgur.com/8EBJig7.png
https://i.imgur.com/OTnrOwp.png

So it works, but it looks weird from the side. I also had to remove her ladder and fencing at the end of the pier. To make it look realistic, your pier would need to be at the water's edge and that would just defeat the purpose of having a pier, might as well just place the fishing sign in the sand on the water's edge in that case. But if you don't care how it 'looks', it works. :)

This was just a quick experiment though to see if it would work. Perhaps if you fiddle around with placement of your pier and the sign it would work better? *shrugs* I might do that and see what I can figure out to make the fish actually be IN the water instead of float/flying in the air above it. lol

Happy Simming! <3

*Note - It was night when I tried this, so I had to take the screenshots in build mode so I could change the time to daylight hours. That's why you're seeing the build mode white line. Man, I wish we could change the time of day in live mode sometimes for screenshots. Oh well...

"catloverplayer;c-17148433" wrote:

"Karababy52;c-17148418" wrote:

"catloverplayer;c-17148338" wrote:
Shame the fishing nets don't seem to be working.

Are you talking about the traps? Those work fantastic for my Sim living on Key Point, the empty island lot in Mua Pel'am. She has three and rakes in between 2-5K simoleons worth of fish/treasure/trash every 24 hrs. or so. I've found the trick is you have to watch them like a hawk when it's been close to 24 hrs. since you set them.

Once you see the fish thrashing around in them and kicking up a lot of water, the traps are full to the brim. Also, don't put them near to shore, you won't get much there. They need to be in medium to deep water. Fara baits them with fish worth around 10-20 simoleons, but she was doing fairly well just baiting with plantains as well.

Fishing is also great for those trying to clean up the Island, your Sim will get points for releasing illegal fish they catch, seaweed, logs and invasive species of fish such as goldfish. It's a win-win situation.

@simstr0ng Fara uses the fishing spot located on her island lot. There's also a fishing spot (might be two) over by the abandoned boat. You've probably already seen it, but I know there's a net surrounding a fishing spot at the end of a pier in Ohan'ali Town near the bar as well.

I don't know much about any other areas, Fara pretty much sticks to Mua Pel'am and visits the bar now and then hoping for a special event/festival to pop up next door while she's there. I agree it would be cool if our Sims could fish off a pier we've built on their lot. I don't know why they can't really since they can fish anywhere from a canoe.

Hmm, I wonder if you put a fishing sign found in debug by using the showhiddenobjects cheat at the end of your pier, perhaps your Sim could fish from there then? Now I'm curious, I'm going to try it when I go in game soon tonight. :)

Yes I meant traps but there is a net at one premade location and I've heard it doesn't catch fish.

The traps don’t work off lot so you must stay in that neighborhood for 24 hours or they won’t catch any fish.