Palia Fishing Guide | Fish List & Buffs

Palia's cozy vibes make it the perfect game to hang out by a lake and do some fishing. If you're looking for rare fish, or just a specific fish for your recipes - this guide will help you start fishing, explain the rewards for doing so, and where you can find every fish currently available.

Quicklinks: Palia Fish List | Baits | Upgrades

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How to Unlock the Fishing Rod in Palia

You can unlock the Fishing Rod in Palia by reading the Letter from Einar after placing your Makeshift Tent on your Housing Plot for the first time.

How Palia Fishing Works

After equipping your fishing rod from the tool bag, you can hold the use button to charge up your cast. Holding it for longer will let you cast out further — note that fishing will always take the same amount of time, regardless of how close or far away you cast out.

Once you've cast your line out, wait until the bobber starts to be pulled underwater. After a few tugs, it'll be dragged under completely. Using your fishing rod again will then start the main minigame.

The aim is to keep the bobber within the "( )" lines, moving it left or right when necessary. You want to keep reeling in the fish at all times, unless it jumps into the air.

If you let the fish leave the lines, or attempt to reel it in while it's jumping, your fishing line will lose health. Deplete the fishing line health completely, and the fish will get away.

Sometimes you'll come across circles of bubbles in the water. Fish caught from these will be high quality, though no fish types are exclusive to the bubble spots.

Palia Fishing Baits

The type of fish you can catch depends on the area you're fishing in, time of day, and the bait you use (though you can catch fish without using bait). The current types of bait are:

• Worms - Can be bought for 10 Gold each at Zeke's store, or made using a Worm Farm (recipe unlocked via Einar).
• Glow Worms - Can be made using a Glow Worm Farm (recipe unlocked via Einar) or with Medals from Einar's Store.

Both types of worm farm are crafters that you build and place on your plot. Each process food into bait, with higher tier food giving more bait in return.

• Tip: I like to fill out 4 plots with Tomatoes, and use HarvestBoost Fertilizer to grow a bunch of Tomatoes that I use for creating Glow Worms. Due to the quantity that food creates, it's best to have 3 Glow Worm Farms running at once.

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Palia Fishing Rod Upgrades

Einar will sell recipes for better tools, once you reach certain Fishing Levels. He spends most of his time in Fisherman's Lagoon in Kilima Village. You must upgrade through each tier of rod in sequence (i.e. you can't skip from Makeshift to Fine).

Palia Fishing Rod List

• Makeshift Rod
  • Default, available after reading the letter from Einar.
• Standard Rod
  • Requires Fishing Level 3. Recipe costs 250 Gold, and requires 20 Sapwood Plank, 5 Copper Bar.
• Fine Rod
  • Requires Fishing Level 6. Recipe costs 1,500 Gold, and requires 10 Heartwood Plank, 5 Iron Bar.
• Exquisite Rod
  • Requires Fishing Level 9. Recipe costs 3,000 Gold, and requires 5 Flow-Infused Plank, 2 Palium Bar.

Palia Fishing Upgrades & Food

Some of the fish in Palia can be quite tricky to catch, with fast movement, and lots of jumping. To help you reel these in, there's a number of upgrades that you can apply to your rod, as well as some food and drink to boost your fishing skills too!

Fishing Rod Upgrades

• Minor Rod Health Booster (Level 2 Fishing) - 100 gold in Einar's Store
• Major Hook Time Booster (Level 10 Fishing) - 5 Fishing Medals in Einar's Store
• Major Rod Recovery Booster (Level 10 Fishing) - 5 Fishing Medals in Einar's Store
• Major Safe Zone Size Booster (Level 10 Fishing) - 5 Fishing Medals in Einar's Store
• Major Safe Zone Speed Booster (Level 10 Fishing) - 5 Fishing Medals in Einar's Store

Fishing Foods

You can cook certain foods to boost your abilities alongside the upgrades above, as well.

• Fisherman's Brew
  • 1,000 Gold at Einar's Store at Level 5 Fishing
  • Gives a Minor Safe Zone Size Boost
• Fish Stew
  • Found while fishing the Bahari Coast with a Worm
  • Gives a Minor Safe Zone Speed Boost
• Sashimi
  • Found while Fishing Bahari Rivers without Bait
  • Gives a Minor Rod Recovery Boost
• Sushi
  • Found while fishing from Pods with a Glow Worm
  • Gives a Major Rod Health Boost
• Trout Dinner
  • Found in Einar's Cave upon reaching Level 3 Friendship
  • Gives Minor Hook Time Boost

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Palia Fish List

Fish are split into several different locations, which can be seen in their descriptions once caught. While some fish say they're caught in Kilima Village Lakes, they're also found along the coastline. The same applies to Bahari Bay, with coast and river fish sharing the same catch list.

Cave Fish

There are two Caves in Palia, in which you can catch specific fish:

• Pavel Mines (Bahari Bay)
• Temple of the Waves (Kilima)

Pond Fish (Your Plot, Kilima Village, Bahari Bay)

Ponds can be found in all 3 areas, and you'll know it's a pond if there's no water feeding into it from a river.

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Kilima Village Lake

The lake is considered the entire coastline (technically that's the lake!) as well as the smaller lake where you can find Einar.

Kilima River Fish

Rivers in Kilima are areas you can fish outside of Ponds and the Lake. Areas around Waterfalls count as rivers.

Bahari Bay Rivers

Similar to Kilima - Rivers can be found primary on the northern side of Bahari Bay.

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Bahari Bay Coast

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That's the end of our Palia Fishing Guide. You can learn more about the game by checking out our other guides below!