Dinkum Dinkum - ORGANIZED fish list

Intro

Built for EARLY ACCESS, version 0.4.5, July 31 2022. The game will continue to evolve, they will keep adding new content... so at some point in the future this information may become outdated. I'll try to come back and update as needed... but no guarantees.

Gonna keep this SUPER SIMPLE. Just a list of all the fish you can find in each location, with a description of each location. The list is sorted by SEASON since some fish are only available in Winter, while others show up in Spring and Fall, etc. The point is you can look at each location when you get there, and immediately see at a glance which fish are available to catch there.

If you want pictures of the various types of fish, someone else already posted that so I'm not going to do it again... just go look at this guide for photos . That guide inspired me to write this one because that guide is NOT ORGANIZED AT ALL so it's hard to find which fish I can go look for RIGHT NOW while I'm playing the game. I would need to know the name of the fish that I'm missing, and scroll through the list to find that fish FIRST and then read off the location and timing information. Annoying, right? So I decided to take that information and rewrite it in a more functionally useful way.

Waterways Of The World

There are different regions of the map, each with different climates and different wildlife. So it should be no surprise that each region also has different bugs, critters, and fish for you to catch and donate to the museum. If you press "M" to open the game's map screen, North is the "top" side of the map, East is the "right side" of the map, and I hope you can figure out the other directions on your own.

The colors on the map indicate the type of SOIL in that area as well as a general idea of the type of VEGETATION that grows there. But fish live in water, not on land, so why do we care about soil and vegetation? Keep reading and I'll tell you.

The Northern Ocean is way up north, the climate is almost tropical - very hot and damp. It has a white sandy coastline, and most (randomly-generated) game maps will usually have a ton of tiny islands dotting the water there. You do NOT need to go all the way out past those tiny islands though, just be in OPEN WATER off the main coastline. Some players have said it is "easier" if you get in a boat (once you unlock the Vehicles license) and go out to the super-deep water, but as long as it's deeper than your head you should be fine.

The Southern Ocean is way down south, considerably colder than up north. It has a white sandy coastline and is also usually dotted with lots of tiny islands off the coast. Like the Northern Ocean, you don't need to go waaaay out among or past the islands. Just go off the main coastline into open water. Some players have said it is "easier" if you get in a boat (once you unlock the Vehicles license) and go out to the super-deep water, but as long as it's deeper than your head you should be fine.

Rivers are found basically all over the map, it's any narrow channel of water that flows between two areas in the island's major land-mass. Sometimes you'll see a circular river that has an island in the center. Most rivers will connect to the ocean at some point. But some rivers are also mangrove swamps, and that MATTERS for this guide. So if you see the "mud" soil on the river banks, and mangrove trees (the dark-brown ones with the crazy roots that look like fingers in the mud), then it's NOT A RIVER for the purposes of this guide - that is a MANGROVE instead. River ecosystems will have the red dirt along the banks, not the darker "wet" looking mud.

Billabongs are basically "ponds" as we call them outside of Australia. Small bodies of water, surrounded by the red "dirt" OR white sandy beaches, typically have lily pads growing in them, and usually sort of fat and round-shaped. Often times they are isolated but sometimes they will connect to a river but only at one end. Like rivers, some billabongs are also mangroves. For the purposes of this guide - just like rivers - if you see "mud" soil and mangrove trees then it is NOT A BILLABONG, IT IS A MANGROVE INSTEAD.

Mangroves are all over the central part of the map. They can be rivers or billabong ponds but the DO NOT have the fish that usually live in rivers or billagongs. What differntiates them from other waterways is the soil and trees. They have "mud" soil which is like the red dirt but it looks darker and "wet." And there are mangrove trees that grow along the river banks in the mud. Mangrove trees are thin and dark, with roots that look like fingers gripping the mud.

The Fish List

I've separated the fish by LOCATION/ECOSYSTEM. Each location is then sorted by SEASON, and specific times of day are highlighted so you can clearly see WHEN each fish is available.

Please note: there is a difference between "FALL-SPRING" which means you can catch that fish in Fall, Winter, and Spring (but not Summer) compared to "FALL & SPRING" which means you cannot catch that fish in the Winter or Summer, only Fall and Spring.

Since the game starts in Summer, these lists start with fish that are available ALL YEAR LONG and then fish that are available in Summer, then fish that are available in Fall (but not summer) and then fish that are not available until Winter, and then fish that are only around in Spring. that way you can scroll down the list for each location in chronological order, easier to track which fish you can catch NOW and which ones won't be available until later.

For those who skipped the "Intro" chapter I will remind you: someone else has already posted screenshots of the different fish species so I'm not going to do the extra work to post the same information again here. Please go check this guide for photos if you want to see what they look like.

Remember - the only difference between the different kinds of fishing poles is how fast they reel in, and the upgraded rod has a little more durability so you can catch more fish before it breaks. You can catch EVERY fish using the basic fishing rod that you buy from John's store though. The copper one just makes it a little faster to reel them in.

Hope this helps make filling your museum a little easier. Someday MAYBE I'll do the same thing for the critters (which you catch with your bare hands underwater) and the bugs (which you catch with a bug net) but this is only for the fish that you catch using a fishing pole.

Ok here we go...

Source: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2843183512

Dinkum - ORGANIZED fish list

Intro

Waterways Of The World

The Fish List

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