Eel

Eel

Type	Fish
Location	Ocean
Time	4pm to 2am
Season	Spring; Fall
Weather	Rain
Difficulty	70
Behaviour	Smooth
Size	12 to 81
Sell Price	85g
Energy	30
Health	13

The Eel is a long, slippery ocean fish that only comes close to shore on rainy evenings in Spring and Fall. Its narrow window makes it one of the trickier ocean fish to plan for. It is worth catching for several reasons. The Night Fishing Bundle needs one, and it is the main ingredient in two dishes, Fried Eel and Spicy Eel. Spicy Eel is a popular snack for the Mines because it raises both Luck and Speed. A Help Wanted request for an Eel also pays far more than the fish itself.

The in-game description reads: A long, slippery little fish.

Catching

The Eel lives in the ocean at The Beach and in the salt water of the Beach Farm. It needs three things at once: Spring or Fall, rain, and an hour between 4pm and 2am. A dry evening or a rainy morning will turn up other fish.

Rainy days are the time to plan around. On a wet day in Spring or Fall, spend the daytime on the river or the farm, then walk to the beach in the late afternoon. The Eel bites from 4pm until the farmer has to head home.

On the line, the Eel has smooth behaviour, so it moves in long, even sweeps rather than sudden jumps. Its difficulty is still high, and it covers a lot of the bar quickly. A Cork Bobber on an Iridium Rod widens the green bar and makes it much easier to follow.

Magic Bait removes the rain, time and season limits. With it, the Eel can be caught at the beach on any day.

There are a couple of other ways to get one. Garbage Cans in town sometimes hold an Eel in Spring and Fall. The Traveling Cart may sell one, though always at a mark-up.

Prices

A normal Eel sells for 85g, and an iridium Eel for 170g. The Fisher profession adds a quarter, and Angler adds half. An iridium Eel sold by an Angler fetches 255g.

Cooking usually pays better than selling. Fried Eel sells for 120g and Spicy Eel for 175g, both well above the raw fish.

A Fish Smoker doubles the price and keeps the quality of the fish. It uses one piece of Coal per fish.

In a Fish Pond, Eels reproduce every three days. The pond produces only Eel Roe, which is brown. Roe is worth 30g plus half the fish's base price, so Eel Roe sells for 72g. A Preserves Jar turns it into Aged Roe worth twice as much.

The pond grows through three requests. The first asks for Driftwood, a Frozen Geode or Seaweed. The second asks for Clams or Coral. The last asks for Aquamarine, a Mussel or Sea Urchins. Below five fish, the pond only makes roe some of the time. From five fish upward, every item it produces is roe.

Sell prices by quality, with the bonus from each profession.

Quality	Price	Fisher (+25%)	Angler (+50%)
Normal	85g	106g	127g
Silver	106g	132g	159g
Gold	127g	158g	190g
Iridium	170g	212g	255g

Uses

The Night Fishing Bundle in the Fish Tank room needs a Walleye, a Bream and an Eel. Its reward is a Glow Ring. The Eel is often the last of the three to arrive, since it depends on rain.

Cooking an Eel with Oil makes Fried Eel. It restores a fair amount of energy and health.

Cooking an Eel with a Hot Pepper makes Spicy Eel. Eating it gives a small boost to Luck and Speed for a while. Both buffs help in the Mines and the Skull Cavern, so many players cook a stack of Spicy Eel before a long dive.

A villager may post a Help Wanted request for a single Eel. The reward is 255g and 150 friendship points, which is three times the price of a normal Eel.

The Eel also counts as "any fish" for Sashimi, Maki Roll and Quality Fertilizer. At the Sewing Machine, an Eel in the spool makes a dyeable Sailor Shirt. In the dye pots at Emily and Haley's house, it works as an orange dye.

A Bait Maker turns an Eel into Eel Bait. Targeted bait raises the chance of hooking the same fish again, which is useful on the few rainy evenings when Eels bite.

Cooking Eel with the other ingredients below makes these dishes.

Dish	Image	Ingredients
Fried Eel		Eel (1), Oil (1)
Spicy Eel		Eel (1), Hot Pepper (1)

The Community Center asks for Eel in these bundles.

Bundle	Room	Amount
Night Fishing Bundle	Fish Tank	1

Gifts

A raw Eel is a poor gift. Among those who feel neutral about Eel are the older villagers Demetrius, Linus and Pam. Willy and Leo share that view, and so do the marriage candidates Elliott and Sebastian.

Eel is a poor gift for Jas and Vincent. The older residents Caroline, George, Jodi, Kent and Lewis share that view, and so do the shopkeepers Clint, Gus, Marnie and Robin. The Dwarf, Krobus, Sandy and the Wizard dislike it as well, as do Abigail, Alex, Emily, Harvey, Leah, Maru, Penny, Sam and Shane.

Evelyn, Haley and Pierre hate it.

Notes

Make the most of every rainy evening in Spring and Fall. One Eel goes into the Night Fishing Bundle, and the rest are best kept for Spicy Eel. Hot Peppers grow in Summer, so store a few Eels from Spring to cook once the peppers are ready.

All Fish

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name	Location	Season	Price
Albacore	Ocean	Fall; Winter	75g
Anchovy	Ocean	Spring; Fall	30g
Angler	Pelican Town	Fall	900g
Blobfish	Submarine at Night Market	Winter	500g
Blue Discus	Ginger Island	All	120g
Bream	River	All	45g
Bullhead	Mountain Lake	All	75g
Carp	Mountain Lake; Secret Woods; The Sewers; Mutant Bug Lair	Spring; Summer; Fall in The Mountain Lake; All in Secret Woods, The Sewers, or Mutant Bug Lair	30g
Catfish	River; Secret Woods; Witch's Swamp	Spring; Fall Secret Woods / Witch's Swamp:; Spring; Summer; Fall Only with Rain Totem: Winter	200g
Chub	Mountain Lake; Forest River	All	50g
Clam	-	All	50g
Cockle	-	All	50g
Crab	-	All	100g
Crayfish	-	All	75g
Crimsonfish	Ocean	Summer	1500g
Dorado	Forest River	Summer	100g
Eel	Ocean	Spring; Fall	85g
Flounder	Ocean; Ginger Island	Spring; Summer	100g
Ghostfish	Floors 20 and 60 of The Mines	All	45g
Glacierfish	Cindersap Forest	Winter	1000g
Glacierfish Jr.	Cindersap Forest	All	1000g
Goby	Cindersap Forest Waterfalls	All	150g
Halibut	Ocean	Spring; Summer; Winter	80g
Herring	Ocean	Spring; Winter	30g
Ice Pip	The Mines, Floor 60	All	500g
Largemouth Bass	Mountain Lake; Wilderness Farm	All	100g
Lava Eel	Floor 100 of The Mines; Volcano Caldera	All	700g
Legend	Mountain Lake	Spring	5000g
Legend II	Mountain Lake	All	5000g
Lingcod	River; Mountain Lake	Winter	120g
Lionfish	Ginger Island	All	100g
Lobster	-	All	120g
Midnight Carp	Mountain Lake; Forest Pond; Ginger Island North & West (freshwater)	Fall; Winter	150g
Midnight Squid	Submarine at Night Market	Winter	100g
Ms. Angler	Pelican Town	All	900g
Mussel	-	All	30g
Mutant Carp	The Sewers	All	1000g
Octopus	The Beach; Ginger Island; Submarine at Night Market	Summer; Winter (during Night Market (15-17)); All (Ginger Island)	150g
Oyster	-	All	40g
Perch	River; Mountain Lake; Forest Pond	Winter	55g
Periwinkle	-	All	20g
Pike	River; Forest Pond	Summer; Winter	100g
Pufferfish	Ocean; Ginger Island	Summer	200g
Radioactive Carp	The Sewers	All	1000g
Rainbow Trout	River; Mountain Lake	Summer	65g
Red Mullet	Ocean	Summer; Winter	75g
Red Snapper	Ocean; Beach Farm	Summer; Fall; Winter with Rain Totem	50g
Salmon	River	Fall	75g
Sandfish	The Desert	All	75g
Sardine	Ocean	Spring; Fall; Winter	40g
Scorpion Carp	The Desert	All	150g
Sea Cucumber	Ocean; Submarine at Night Market	Fall; Winter	75g
Shad	River	Spring; Summer; Fall	60g
Shrimp	-	All	60g
Slimejack	Mutant Bug Lair	All	100g
Smallmouth Bass	Town River; Forest Pond	Spring; Fall	50g
Snail	-	All	65g
Son of Crimsonfish	Ocean	All	1500g
Spook Fish	Submarine at Night Market	Winter	220g
Squid	Ocean	Winter	80g
Stingray	Pirate Cove	All	180g
Stonefish	Floor 20 of The Mines	All	300g
Sturgeon	Mountain Lake	Summer; Winter	200g
Sunfish	River	Spring; Summer	30g
Super Cucumber	Ocean; Ginger Island; Submarine at Night Market	Summer; Fall; Winter during Night Market (15-17)	250g
Tiger Trout	River	Fall; Winter	150g
Tilapia	Ocean; Ginger Island	Summer; Fall	75g
Tuna	Ocean; Ginger Island	Summer; Winter; Ginger Island (except Island North): All	100g
Void Salmon	Witch's Swamp	All	150g
Walleye	River; Mountain Lake; Forest Pond; Forest Farm Pond	Fall; Winter with Rain Totem	105g
Woodskip	Secret Woods; Forest Farm	All	75g