Ways/Places to fish on the Island

The traps don't work for me. I see swirls in water around the traps but it says there's nothing in it. As for the giant net, my sims can fish there, but the net itself doesn't catch anything.

"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.