Fishing in the Sea of Thieves

I’ve always enjoyed fishing in video games. While I’ve never properly gone fishing in real life, I’m quite happy to do so in the confines of a video game. Heck, I have spent multiple hours staying up and fishing, over a nice selection of games. Somehow, I’m just attracted to fishing mini games.

My two favourite games to fish in are Warframe and Minecraft. In Warframe, I used my love of fishing to, well, fish my way up to the top rank of Cetus. Using Volt, I could catch fish with ease and without buying other fishing spears. In Minecraft, I’d spend ages and ages fishing, picking up all sorts of enchantments. By fining and melding various fishing poles, I could easily get cool loot any time I went out in my boat. There’s also fishing in the Pokemon games, but I mostly ignored it in Pokemon Shield. I preferred catching the Wailmers, Gyaradoses and other Pokemon that stuck out of the many lakes.

With that sort of track record, you can see why I like fishing here in the Sea of Thieves. Of course Sea of Thieves has a fishing mini game.

In fact, there’s an entire faction built around fishing. Members of the Hunter’s Call absolutely love it if you swing by and sell your fish to them. I found out that they’ll also accept Kraken meat, Megalodon and shark meat and meat from snakes, pigs and chickens that wander around some islands. If you want even more money, then you can cook all this food first. I don’t know why they all want their food cooked, but for some reason, they’ll pay more for anything properly cooked. A shame, really, because cooking fish 1. takes forever and 2. removes all the pretty colours, going brown as they cook.

I’m getting distracted. Back to fishing.

In the Sea of Thieves, the fishing mini game is simple once you get the hang of it. It took me a while to be able to fish properly, even with professional guidance. It’s actual fishing, as opposed to the spear fishing you do in Warframe. Well, I say it’s actual fishing, but it’s closer to reality’s choice of leisurely fishing compared to many other games.

So basically, when a fish bites, you have to pull in the opposite direction of the fish, then reel it in when it gets too tired to escape. Then you remove it off your rod and put it in a crate or something. You can keep some fish in your inventory as well, which is handy. Some fish require different types of bait, but my first fishing session, we just fished for Pondies, which are free to catch. Either way, it did take me a while to get the hang of this. Mostly because I’d accidentally right click, or I’d start reeling in too fast. It didn’t take long for me to get the hang of fishing though.

The nicest thing about fishing though? It’s super calm and relaxing. Nothing but yourself, a (optional) friend or two, and a vast sea of fish to catch. Sure, sometimes you get attacked and have your ship sunk. But most of the time, fishing in the Sea of Thieves is a calm, peaceful thing to do. I recommend it.