Dressed Spinner
| Dressed Spinner | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Tackle |
| Location | Fish Shop; Crafting; Fishing Treasure Chests; Festival of Ice |
| Recipe | Fishing (Level 8) |
| Sell Price | 500g |
The Dressed Spinner is the Spinner with streamers on, and it works twice as hard for one extra scrap of Cloth. Fish notice a rod carrying one about seven and a half seconds sooner at worst, which is the largest bite bonus any tackle offers. It arrives at Fishing level eight, by which time most farmers own an Iridium Rod and are thinking about volume rather than survival at the minigame. It also has an unusually wide spread of sources: Willy's shelf, fishing treasure chests, Mystery Boxes, a Community Center bundle, the Festival of Ice and Willy's own Winter Star gift all hand one over. Anyone fishing for money or for a long quest count keeps one clipped on.
The in-game description reads: The metal tab and colorful streamers create an enticing spectacle for fish. Increases the bite-rate when fishing.
Recipe
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Iron Bar | 
|
2 |
| Cloth | 
|
1 |
Use
Tackle that speeds up bites pays off in direct proportion to how long the water normally keeps a rod waiting. In slow spots, and at low Fishing levels where the wait is longest, the Dressed Spinner is transformative. In the fast, crowded water of the ocean during a storm it matters less, because fish were already queueing up.
The gain is purely in throughput. Nothing about the catch itself gets easier, so a Dressed Spinner suits a farmer who already lands most fish comfortably and simply wants more casts in a day. On the Iridium Rod's single slot the trade is against the Trap Bobber or the Cork Bobber, both of which make the minigame kinder but neither of which puts more fish on the line.
On an Advanced Iridium Rod a pair of them doubles the saving again to roughly fifteen seconds, which is the fastest a rod can be made to bite. More often the better arrangement is one Dressed Spinner for speed and one Quality Bobber for value, since the two effects do not overlap.
Upgrades
The recipe needs two Iron Bars and one piece of Cloth, so the only new ingredient over the plain Spinner is a bolt of cloth from a Loom fed with Wool, or a length bought from the Desert Trader. Willy sells the finished tackle for a thousand gold at Fishing level eight, and the Traveling Cart lists one at a steeper price now and then.
It is also one of the easiest tackles to be given. Fishing treasure chests start producing it from Fishing level six, two levels before the recipe unlocks, and the golden chests behind Fishing Mastery hold it more often still. Mystery Boxes and Golden Mystery Boxes can contain one from the same level. Completing the Lake Fish Bundle in the Fish Tank pays out a Dressed Spinner, Willy sometimes gives one at the Feast of the Winter Star, and the first win at the Festival of Ice fishing contest includes one among its prizes.
That spread means many farmers own a Dressed Spinner well before they can make one, which makes the Fishing level six Treasure Chest route worth knowing about.
Notes
A piece lasts around twenty bites before it is used up, and because the Dressed Spinner's whole purpose is to produce more bites, it burns through its durability faster than a tackle that only helps with the catch. Packing spares, or enchanting the rod with Preserving at the Volcano Forge, keeps a long day going.
The streamers change the bobber floating on the water, which is the easiest way to tell at a glance which tackle is loaded.
Selling a Dressed Spinner is a poor idea once the recipe is known, since the cloth is worth more in a shirt and the bars are worth more in another tackle.
All Tackle and Bait
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Bait | 
|
- |
| Bait (item) | 
|
1g |
| Barbed Hook | 
|
500g |
| Challenge Bait | 
|
1g |
| Cork Bobber | 
|
250g |
| Curiosity Lure | 
|
500g |
| Deluxe Bait | 
|
1g |
| Dressed Spinner | 
|
500g |
| Lead Bobber | 
|
150g |
| Magic Bait | 
|
1g |
| Magnet | 
|
15g |
| Quality Bobber | 
|
300g |
| Sonar Bobber | 
|
250g |
| Spinner | 
|
250g |
| Tackle | - | - |
| Targeted Bait | 
|
0.1 × Fish Price |
| Trap Bobber | 
|
200g |
| Treasure Hunter | 
|
250g |
| Wild Bait | 
|
15g |