Fishing: every spot and all 98 fish — Suikoden STAR LEAP
Fishing in Suikoden STAR LEAP: what the village spot pays at each phase of the Great Tree, the six spots out in the world, and all 98 fish with their sizes and the score it takes to reach S.
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Fishing in Suikoden STAR LEAP: what the village spot pays at each phase of the Great Tree, the six spots out in the world, and all 98 fish with...
Two places to cast, and only one of them pays. The spot the village rebuilds is a facility: it turns with the phase of the Great Tree and every catch comes home as a cooking material. The six out in the world take the same rod and hand over nothing but the record of what was landed.
The village spot
The spot the village rebuilds for itself is the only one that pays. A session is played against a score, and what comes out of the water is a cooking material graded from one diamond to five. What is in the water is decided by how far the village has come and by the phase of the Great Tree — and by where the cast lands, since near, middle and far each draw from a pool of their own.
Opens at
Opens at VLG Lv. 8.
The score
A session is played against 8,000 points.
The cast bar
The cast bar runs 0 to 100: up to 33 is near, up to 66 is middle, past that is far. At most 3 shadows are in the water at a time, and which of the three zones the line lands in is the only thing the player chooses.
The hour
The hour makes no difference. Morning, Noon, Evening, Night draw from the same pool, down to the odds.
What you land
Ginbuna comes home as Silver Crucian Carp, Common Carp as Carp, Sterlet as Caviar.
VLG Lv. 1
Phase and cast
Ginbuna
Common Carp
Lake Smelt
Char
Cherry Salmon
BloomNear
58.8%
17.6%
23.5%
BloomMiddle
31.3%
56.3%
12.5%
BloomFar
31.3%
56.3%
12.5%
VerdantNear
45.0%
35.0%
20.0%
VerdantMiddle
51.9%
40.4%
7.7%
VerdantFar
45.0%
35.0%
20.0%
RedleafNear
63.6%
36.4%
RedleafMiddle
63.6%
36.4%
RedleafFar
63.6%
36.4%
SnowflakeNear
71.4%
28.6%
SnowflakeMiddle
55.6%
44.4%
SnowflakeFar
29.4%
70.6%
Fish and phase
Near
Middle
Far
GinbunaBloom
58.8%
31.3%
31.3%
GinbunaSnowflake
71.4%
55.6%
29.4%
Common CarpBloom
17.6%
56.3%
56.3%
Common CarpVerdant
45.0%
51.9%
45.0%
Lake SmeltBloom
23.5%
12.5%
12.5%
Lake SmeltSnowflake
28.6%
44.4%
70.6%
CharVerdant
35.0%
40.4%
35.0%
CharRedleaf
63.6%
63.6%
63.6%
Cherry SalmonVerdant
20.0%
7.7%
20.0%
Cherry SalmonRedleaf
36.4%
36.4%
36.4%
HQ Lv. 5
New in the water: Freshwater Crab, Trout and Salmon.
Phase and cast
Ginbuna
Common Carp
Lake Smelt
Freshwater Crab
Char
Cherry Salmon
Trout
Salmon
BloomNear
41.1%
12.3%
16.4%
30.1%
BloomMiddle
21.4%
38.6%
8.6%
31.4%
BloomFar
18.5%
33.3%
7.4%
40.7%
VerdantNear
14.3%
11.4%
22.9%
11.4%
40.0%
VerdantMiddle
26.0%
8.0%
28.0%
8.0%
30.0%
VerdantFar
21.6%
10.8%
27.0%
10.8%
29.7%
RedleafNear
16.0%
28.0%
16.0%
16.0%
24.0%
RedleafMiddle
8.5%
44.7%
25.5%
8.5%
12.8%
RedleafFar
16.0%
28.0%
16.0%
16.0%
24.0%
SnowflakeNear
51.7%
20.7%
27.6%
SnowflakeMiddle
40.5%
16.2%
43.2%
SnowflakeFar
38.5%
15.4%
46.2%
Fish and phase
Near
Middle
Far
GinbunaBloom
41.1%
21.4%
18.5%
GinbunaSnowflake
51.7%
40.5%
38.5%
Common CarpBloom
12.3%
38.6%
33.3%
Common CarpVerdant
14.3%
26.0%
21.6%
Lake SmeltBloom
16.4%
8.6%
7.4%
Lake SmeltSnowflake
20.7%
16.2%
15.4%
Freshwater CrabBloom
30.1%
31.4%
40.7%
Freshwater CrabVerdant
11.4%
8.0%
10.8%
Freshwater CrabRedleaf
16.0%
8.5%
16.0%
CharVerdant
22.9%
28.0%
27.0%
CharRedleaf
28.0%
44.7%
28.0%
Cherry SalmonVerdant
11.4%
8.0%
10.8%
Cherry SalmonRedleaf
16.0%
25.5%
16.0%
TroutVerdant
40.0%
30.0%
29.7%
TroutRedleaf
16.0%
8.5%
16.0%
SalmonRedleaf
24.0%
12.8%
24.0%
SalmonSnowflake
27.6%
43.2%
46.2%
HQ Lv. 12
New in the water: Sterlet, Takitaro, Eel and Turtle.
No longer biting: Freshwater Crab, Trout and Salmon.
Phase and cast
Ginbuna
Common Carp
Lake Smelt
Sterlet
Char
Cherry Salmon
Takitaro
Eel
Turtle
BloomNear
34.6%
19.2%
26.9%
19.2%
BloomMiddle
19.4%
41.9%
22.6%
16.1%
BloomFar
18.8%
31.3%
18.8%
31.3%
VerdantNear
34.5%
24.1%
13.8%
27.6%
VerdantMiddle
44.8%
34.5%
6.9%
13.8%
VerdantFar
32.1%
25.0%
14.3%
28.6%
RedleafNear
41.2%
23.5%
35.3%
RedleafMiddle
53.8%
30.8%
15.4%
RedleafFar
41.2%
23.5%
35.3%
SnowflakeNear
62.5%
25.0%
12.5%
SnowflakeMiddle
55.6%
22.2%
22.2%
SnowflakeFar
38.5%
15.4%
46.2%
Fish and phase
Near
Middle
Far
GinbunaBloom
34.6%
19.4%
18.8%
GinbunaSnowflake
62.5%
55.6%
38.5%
Common CarpBloom
19.2%
41.9%
31.3%
Common CarpVerdant
34.5%
44.8%
32.1%
Lake SmeltBloom
26.9%
22.6%
18.8%
Lake SmeltSnowflake
25.0%
22.2%
15.4%
SterletBloom
19.2%
16.1%
31.3%
CharVerdant
24.1%
34.5%
25.0%
CharRedleaf
41.2%
53.8%
41.2%
Cherry SalmonVerdant
13.8%
6.9%
14.3%
Cherry SalmonRedleaf
23.5%
30.8%
23.5%
TakitaroVerdant
27.6%
13.8%
28.6%
EelRedleaf
35.3%
15.4%
35.3%
TurtleSnowflake
12.5%
22.2%
46.2%
Six spots take a line beyond the village. Eighty-nine fish move between them, each with its own size range and its own score ladder — and nothing caught here is paid out as an item or as coin. What a catch earns is the encyclopedia entry and the size record.
How a catch is judged
Cast, wait for a shadow to take the hook, and land it. What comes back is a score, and the score is read two ways.
The score ladder
Every fish carries its own thresholds from E up to S, so the same number is a middling catch on one fish and a perfect one on another. Landing more of a species opens the notes kept on it.
Crowns
A specimen at either edge of what its species reaches is crowned: silver for a notably small or notably large catch, gold for the true extremes.
Fishing Encyclopedia
Every fish, with where it bites and what it is worth. Twelve of them swim at the village spot, and only there does a catch come back as a cooking material. Open a row for its size extremes, the water it lives in and the notes the encyclopedia keeps on it.
Ginbuna
Common Carp
Lake Smelt
Char
Cherry Salmon
Freshwater Crab
Trout
Salmon
Sterlet
Takitaro
Eel
Turtle
