How to Fish Fish List: All 49 Creatures and Their Lures

Updated 2026-09-02 · Steam How to Fish

How many fish are in How to Fish, and how do you catch them all? Player-built catch lists count 49 creatures: 38 regular fish and 11 boss or special creatures. What you hook is decided by the bait or lure on your rod, not by the island you are standing on, so players report the whole collection can be finished from one late island: the volcano island the guides number as island 5, where every bait is said to be on sale. This how to fish all fish list pairs each creature with the bait that catches it, then covers drip variants, endangered species and how cooking changes what a fish sells for.

The creature names and bait pairings below come from three player-written Steam guides that were cross-checked against each other. Where two guides disagree, both answers are shown. Nothing here is an official species list from Dazed Games; the in-game encyclopedia on the Tab key is the only authoritative checklist, and it tracks drip variants separately.

Every regular fish and what catches it

Players report 38 non-boss creatures. The numbering follows the community catch list. "Free bait" is the starting bait some guides call the basic lure or the chip; "sausage" and "hot dog" appear to be the same shop item under two names in different guides.

#	Creature	Bait or lure	Notes
1	Brown Crab	Free bait, or sausage	Also listed under the crab fishing rod's ham bait
2	Piranha	Sausage, or beginner lure	Two guides say beginner lure, one says sausage
3	Gar	Free bait
4	Shrimp	Free bait
5	Mackerel	Free bait
6	Rock Crab	Free bait, or sausage	The Bait and Fish Guide and the Lure Guide both file it under hot dog
7	Lobster	Sausage or hot dog
8	Cod	Beginner lure
9	Goby	Beginner lure	Spelled "Golby" in one guide
10	Pike	Free bait, or beginner lure	Not the same creature as The Old Pike mini-boss
11	Salmon	Beginner lure	One guide files it under standard lure instead
12	Perch	Beginner lure
13	Triggerfish	Beginner lure
14	Goldfish	Free bait, or beginner lure
15	Catfish	Standard lure
16	Clownfish	Standard lure
17	Sea Urchin	Standard lure
18	Yellow Boxfish	Standard lure
19	Needlefish	Standard lure	Endangered species
20	Angelfish	Standard lure
21	Bluegill	Standard lure
22	Seahorse	Standard lure	Endangered species
23	Bowlfish	Standard lure	Endangered species, called "fish in an aquarium" in some guides
24	Bass	Professional lure
25	Eel	Professional lure
26	Red Snapper	Professional lure
27	Sengarat	Professional lure
28	Halibut	Professional lure
29	Tigerfish	Professional lure
30	Flying Fish	Professional lure
31	Voxel Fish	Professional lure
32	Parrotfish	Professional lure	Its drip version had a cooking bug, fixed in patch 1.0.11
33	Dripper	Professional lure	A normal creature despite the name, unrelated to drip variants
34	Blobfish	Scientific lure
35	Oarfish	Scientific lure
36	Anglerfish	Scientific lure	Health nerfed in patch 1.0.10
37	Stonefish	Scientific lure
38	Superdwarf Fish	Scientific lure

One guide also lists a creature called Bing Bong, caught with a coconut. It does not appear in the 49-creature list from the other two guides, so treat it as player-reported and not confirmed.

Boss and mini-boss creatures

These 11 fill the rest of the encyclopedia. Shop shelves only ever carry the mini-boss summons; no merchant stocks a lure for an island boss, so each of those has to be earned from that island's quest instead. Full fight strategies live on the bosses page.

Creature	Bait or lure	Type	How you get the bait
Sunfish	Beginner boss lure	Mini-boss	Shop, island 2
The Old Pike	Beginner boss lure	Mini-boss	Shop, island 2
Blue Shark	Standard boss lure	Mini-boss	Shop, island 3; its body unlocks the grill
Tuna	Professional boss lure	Mini-boss	Shop, island 4; drop the body to summon the Albatross
Goblin Shark	Scientific boss lure	Mini-boss	Shop, island 5; optional, nothing in the story points at it
Spider Crab	Empty beer can	Island boss	Give a beer to the lighthouse keeper on island 1
Giant Piranha	Modified leech	Island boss	Give three leeches to the lady in the forest
Pufferfish	Carrot	Island boss	Give an endangered fish to the tourist on island 3
Bowhead Whale	Fish bucket	Island boss	Give five fish to the scientist on island 5
Albatross	Tuna	Island boss	Kill a Tuna and drop the body on the ground
Mutated Bowhead Whale	Bowhead Whale	Final boss	Throw the dead whale into the volcano

One catch list places the Blue Shark under the ordinary standard lure as well as the standard boss lure. Players report it most often as the boss-lure mini-boss, so plan around the boss lure.

Ordinary lures, and the ones used on mini-bosses, can snap when you cast them and disappear from your inventory. Island boss lures are consumed every single time, so a failed attempt on the Pufferfish or the whale means redoing the quest that produced the bait. Both facts are player-tested rather than documented by the developers.

Where each bait and lure is sold

Only the entries with a price below are actually sourced. Where a guide never named the island or the cost, the row says so rather than guessing.

Bait or lure	Island	Price	Source type
Beer (becomes the empty beer can)	Island 1 lighthouse shop	12 dollars	Player-reported
Crab fishing rod	Island 1	3 dollars	Player-reported
Beginner lure	Not confirmed yet	Not confirmed yet
Beginner boss lure	Island 2	40 dollars	Player-reported
Standard lure	Island 3	Not confirmed yet	Guides call it the pink lure
Standard boss lure	Island 3	280 dollars	Player-reported
Professional lure	Island 4	Not confirmed yet
Professional boss lure	Island 4	1,200 dollars	Player-reported
Scientific lure	Island 5	Not confirmed yet
Scientific boss lure	Island 5	5,800 dollars	Player-reported

All bait is available for purchase on the volcano island, which is why collection hunters set up there instead of sailing between the islands. A fuller breakdown of what each tier attracts is on the bait page.

A note on island numbering. The player guides used for this page treat the volcano island as island 5 and call it "the final island", and every island number in the table above is theirs. Official patch note 1.0.11, dated 1 September 2026, instead refers to moving the roulette table on island 6, and this wiki counts six islands in total on the islands page. So there is at least one area past the volcano that the guides here do not number, and the roulette tables described further down this page may sit on island 6 rather than island 5. Which shops sit on which of the two is not confirmed yet; treat the island numbers in the bait table as the guide authors' numbering, not as official labels.

Drip creatures

Drip is a rarity tier layered on top of the creatures you already know. When one bites, the catch message comes up in rainbow colouring and the model itself wears a joke skin, so you will never wonder whether you got one. They use exactly the same bait or lure as the normal version, so there is no separate drip bait to buy. Players report roughly a 10 percent chance for an eligible non-boss catch to come up drip; that figure is player-tested and has never been confirmed by the developers.

They are the currency for the Reel of Fortune slot machines, one per island, which pay out weapon and rod skins. The available skin pool widens with each island.
They respawn, so nothing you gamble is permanently lost.
The common farming trick from the bait guides: cast, then reel slowly, and right-click to release anything that is not drip instead of landing it. Players report five to eight bites per cast this way.
Patch 1.0.5 on 22 August 2026 fixed the drip-collection achievement, which previously demanded every drip creature plus one extra before it would unlock.
Patch 1.0.11 on 1 September 2026 fixed the drip parrotfish refusing to cook.

Endangered species

Endangered species are a separate system from drip variants. Only a few named species qualify, the game labels one as endangered on screen as you land it, and guide authors report that killing one pays a bonus. Every guide agrees there are three of them, that they are all standard-lure catches, and that handing one to the tourist on island 3 is what earns the carrot that summons the Pufferfish. A fish can be endangered and drip at the same time.

The guides do not agree on the names, though, so this list is not settled:

Guide	Names it gives	Notes
"All 28 Achievements and Post-Game Route"	Needlefish, bowl fish, sea horse	Matches the creature spellings used in the catch lists above
"Ultimate Guide to Unlocking All Achievements" (speedrun section)	Needlefish, Seahorse, Fish-in-an-Aquarium	"Fish-in-an-Aquarium" is almost certainly the Bowlfish under another name
"Ultimate Guide to Unlocking All Achievements" (Vacation section)	Pigeonfish, Sea Horse, Fish-in-an-Aquarium	"Pigeonfish" appears nowhere in the 49-creature list; it may be a translation slip for Needlefish, but that is not confirmed yet

Two of the three are safe to plan around: Seahorse and Bowlfish. The third is listed as Needlefish by two of the three passages and as Pigeonfish by one, and no official Dazed Games source names any of them, so check the on-screen flag when you land the catch rather than trusting a name.

Cooking, cleaning and what a fish sells for

There is no published per-fish price table anywhere in the sources, and this page will not invent one. What is documented is the set of multipliers that decide the number.

Mechanic	Effect	Where it comes from
Grill cooking	Value climbs from 1x to a peak of 1.5x, then falls to 0 when the fish turns solid black	Player-tested
Lava cooking, volcano island	A flat 1.5x, with no window to misjudge	Player-tested
Killscore multipliers	Stylish kills multiply the sell value of the creature	Player-tested, see the killscore page
Roulette green	A winning green bet returns 35 times what the staked item was worth, as an item you then take to a merchant	Player-tested
Difficulty setting	Easy gives creatures 25 percent less health, hard gives 25 percent more	Official, patch 1.0.9

Hold F to inspect an item. Four readouts appear on the panel, according to the guide authors: value, the cooking multiplier, weight and killscore. The multiplier ticks upward in real time while the fish sits above the heat, which is how you know when to pull it at the 1.5x peak. The same 1.5x applies to weapons and other items, not just fish, so cook a gun before selling it.

Two cleaning and selling rules come straight from official patch notes rather than from players. Patch 1.0.10 on 27 August 2026 made weapons and tools get cleaned from cooking when dipped in water, so a cooked gun no longer stays charred. The same patch started saving items dropped on the ground between sessions, up to 64 items, prioritising weapons, tools, quest items and creatures. Patch 1.0.11 then required that an item must have been held once before it can be sold.

For the money maths players use: to sell something for 100,000 you need to bet an item worth at least 2,858 on roulette green, which after the flat 1.5x lava cook means a raw fish worth roughly 1,906. Guide authors leave themselves a margin and stake cooked fish valued near 3,200, which stops a slightly-off catch from paying out just under the 100,000 line. Scientific-lure fish from the volcano island are the ones players farm for this, because they report those as worth far more than anything on the earlier islands. One achievements guide adds that green x35 tables only appear on the last two islands, and patch 1.0.11 notes that a roulette table on island 6 was shifted slightly, which confirms one exists there, so expect to carry your cooked fish one hop further than the volcano; the exact table you use is not confirmed yet.

Fish changes in the patch notes

These are official developer notes, not player reports. The full log is on the patch notes page.

Patch	Date	Change affecting creatures
1.0.4	21 August 2026	Nerfed Pufferfish; nerfed Whale
1.0.5	22 August 2026	Fixed the all-drip-creatures achievement needing all plus one
1.0.10	27 August 2026	Nerfed anglerfish health; weapons and tools clean off cooking when dipped in water; fixed dying to the tuna, spawning the albatross and being unable to respawn
1.0.11	1 September 2026	Fixed drip parrotfish not being cooked; items must be held once before selling

Mods that help with the fish list

Since this is a mods wiki, the relevant Thunderstore packages for collectors are the informational ones rather than anything that plays for you.

Mod	Version	Downloads	What it does
Fishydex by AtomicStudio	0.1.1	6,839	Shows which lure you need to catch a given fish
FishHP by evansvl	0.2.2	14,346	Native-style HP bars for living non-boss creatures you have damaged
FishHealthBars by JCGGGGGGGG	1.1.1	3,649	Overhead health bars with an F8 settings menu and a display range setting
SuperCreatures by Ponchik	1.1.5	12,693	Dynamic creature sizing from 0.2x micro to 25x giants, plus custom loot weights
RandomCreatureSize by YuWan	1.1.3	6,050	Randomises the size of every creature, bosses included
ChumBucket by Azumatt	1.1.0	8,939	A portable bucket you drop anywhere, so you sell a whole catch at once

Aimbot, god-mode and cheat-menu packages for this game do exist on Thunderstore and are among its most downloaded uploads. This site does not cover them. Installation for everything else is on the mods page.

Sources and last check

Checked on 2 September 2026 against the research set for this wiki.

The 49-creature count, every creature name, and every bait or lure pairing come from three player-written Steam Community guides: the "ALL THE TYPES OF BAITS" complete fish and bait list, the "Bait and Fish Guide", and the "Lure Guide". All three are player-tested, not official, and they disagree on Piranha, Salmon, Rock Crab and Blue Shark, which is noted in the tables above. The 10 percent drip rate, the five-to-eight-bites-per-cast reeling trick, and the claim that lure rather than island decides your catch are all player-reported.

Lure and boss-lure prices, the grill and lava cooking multipliers, the F-key inspect panel, the Tab encyclopedia, and the roulette 35x maths come from the Steam guide "How to Fish - All 28 Achievements and Post-Game Route", whose author notes their prices were recorded on version 1.0.4 in a multiplayer run and have not been re-tested since. Treat every dollar figure on this page as player-reported and version-dependent.

The endangered species names are player-reported and contested. The "All 28 Achievements and Post-Game Route" guide gives Needlefish, bowl fish and sea horse; the "Ultimate Guide to Unlocking All Achievements" gives Needlefish, Seahorse and Fish-in-an-Aquarium in its speedrun section but Pigeonfish, Sea Horse and Fish-in-an-Aquarium in its Vacation section. That conflict is unresolved and is shown in full in the endangered species table above.

Island numbers on this page are the guide authors' numbering, in which the volcano island is island 5 and is called the final island. Patch 1.0.11 refers to an island 6, so those numbers are player-reported rather than official, and the roulette location in particular is not settled.

Only the patch notes table, the difficulty health and damage percentages, the cooking-cleanup change and the drip parrotfish fix are official, taken from the Dazed Games Steam announcements for patches 1.0.4 through 1.0.11 as published on the game's Steam store and community news pages, dated 21 August to 1 September 2026. Mod names, versions and download counts are from Thunderstore as of 2 September 2026 and will drift.