Fishing in Guardians of Azuma


Post in progress:


You will not be able to fish until you go to the Winter Village.  Immediately meet Watarase who will give you a Fulishing Road and the Pescapedia, an encyclopedia of all the fish you catch.  Catching every variety is a subsidiary ‘Pure Azuma’ Quest and gives rewards in the form of recipes at every milestone when you report back to Watarase.

​Fishing has many different variables in every Rune Factory game, but I found this one more  inconstant than others.  Here are the factors:

First, Seasons.  The four Villages are defined by the four seasons.

Weather:  Some fish, like Taimen and objects like the Boot* appear to require rain.  Actually did catch a Boot in the sky but the sky islands are not affected by weather.


Freshwater or Saltwater:  This can be restricted to specific Seasonal Village locations simply because they have either a saltwater location or a freshwater one.


Quality of Fishing Rod


I am going to list the specific fish I caught at specific locations.  Doing this after completion of Pescapedia so will not include earlier results unless I find verification in my journals.


Eastern Tri-Shell Island:


Boot*

(Is weather even a factor in the Sky?  All I know is that every time I caught a about on Azuma, it was raining.  On the sky island, no weather displays.  It takes about 5 hours to fish out the area completely.


Squid

Abalone

Snapper

Throbby Snapper

Golden Salmon

Glitter Snapper

Red King Crab

Seerfish 

Cutlassfish

Needlefish

Pike

Yellowtail

Sand Flounder

Boot

Can


Night:

Squid

Needlefish

Octopus

Alfonsino

Seerfish

Boot


I am fairly certain I caught Flounder here for the first time at one point but need to look through my journals.


Sage of Sweets Villa, aka Bamboo Island:


Flounder

Sardine

Girella

Cutlassfish

Snapper

Alfonsino

Sand Flounder

Needlefish

Sardine

Rare Can

A smaller area, it can be fished out in a couple of hours.  As you can see, I confirmed a Flounder catch here.

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