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.

"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. :)

I can never get the fish traps to work unfortunately. It always tells me it's partially full, which either way I can't seem to be able to collect anything, and then all of a sudden I need to set them up again :\

"Sigzy05;c-17148810" wrote:
I can never get the fish traps to work unfortunately. It always tells me it's partially full, which either way I can't seem to be able to collect anything, and then all of a sudden I need to set them up again :\

Most times I have to click Empty trap twice because some times the first one doesn't work. The traps also lose their bait if your sim travels, so you have to set them again. I've lost quite a few catches to that, and of course I forget to empty them within 24 hours, and that also "resets" them.

I still haven't figured out how to get the sims to fish in the boat. I've tried several things, but I kept getting a message about not being able to do that while the boat is moving? (Even though the boat was completely still at the time.) How is it supposed to work?

@Amapola76 - yes, the boat must be still. Then just click on the boat and go fish.

@Karababy52 - how did you move the fishing sign?

I guess they got the fishing sign from debug mode.

"simstr0ng;c-17149157" wrote:
@Amapola76 - yes, the boat must be still. Then just click on the boat and go fish.

@Karababy52 - how did you move the fishing sign?

"simstr0ng;c-17149157" wrote:
@Amapola76 - yes, the boat must be still. Then just click on the boat and go fish.

Yes, but as I said, I've received that message several times when the boat WAS still.

"simstr0ng;c-17149157" wrote:
@Amapola76 - yes, the boat must be still. Then just click on the boat and go fish.

@Karababy52 - how did you move the fishing sign?

@simstr0ng As mentioned by @Dianesims I used an Island Living fishing sign found by using bb.showhiddenobjects to access the debug objects. I placed it by using the bb.moveobjects cheat, if that's what you meant by moving it! :)

Also, I'm guessing what everyone says about the fishing traps not working if you leave your home lot is true. I don't know for sure though because Fara has never tried trapping other than offshore from her home lot and she doesn't leave Mua Pel'am very often. I believe y'all, but I might do another experiment myself just to satisfy my curiosity and appease my stubborn way of needing to see how things work in the game for myself. :)

"Karababy52;c-17149391" wrote:

"simstr0ng;c-17149157" wrote:
@Amapola76 - yes, the boat must be still. Then just click on the boat and go fish.

@Karababy52 - how did you move the fishing sign?

@simstr0ng As mentioned by @Dianesims I used an Island Living fishing sign found by using bb.showhiddenobjects to access the debug objects. I placed it by using the bb.moveobjects cheat, if that's what you meant by moving it! :)

Also, I'm guessing what everyone says about the fishing traps not working if you leave your home lot is true. I don't know for sure though because Fara has never tried trapping other than offshore from her home lot and she doesn't leave Mua Pel'am very often. I believe y'all, but I might do another experiment myself just to satisfy my curiosity and appease my stubborn way of needing to see how things work in the game for myself. :)

Hmmm I live in Mua Pel’am too and my sim travels frequently to the main town area in Sulani. I have still had zero issues with traps getting completely full of fish. Might be a location issue I don’t know I’ve yet to try them elsewhere.

My Sims don’t live I’m Mua Pel’am, but the traps finally worked, I just hadn’t figured I needed to wait 24(sim)h and not leave the lot. My sim works as a fisherman, is level 9 for the fishing skill, and a Mermaid (Yeah I feel very bad too).