Fishing in Graveyard Keeper 2

Fishing in Graveyard Keeper 2 is a cast-and-wait mini-game built on three gates: the bait a spot will accept, the bite window you have to strike, and the Farming mastery that decides whether the line survives the fight. One community wiki page tabulates the system — six spots, 22 fish and three baits — and a creator video plus a Reddit thread fill in the handling and the port quest. None of it is developer-published, so every figure below carries its source and the label community wiki data, unconfirmed as of October 20, 2026.

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钓鱼四个要点

Four rules cover most first sessions: when to pull, what the bait actually does, why a spot stops producing, and what decides a successful reel.

reported in The Lost Noob video, unconfirmed as of October 20, 2026

Wait for the exclamation mark, then hold and release

Interact with a spot and choose a bait; the cast defaults to no bait. Wait for the exclamation mark before pulling, hold to reel, and release when the mark disappears. Holding with no exclamation mark turns the rod red and eventually snaps the line, so tapping rather than holding while the mark is absent is the safe habit the video recommends.

community wiki data, unconfirmed as of October 20, 2026

One bait is spent per cast

The bait window only offers baits that at least one fish at that spot takes. Four fish bite on an empty hook and the rest only on a specific bait; a bait that no fish at the spot takes is simply not offered. Every cast consumes one bait.

community wiki data, unconfirmed as of October 20, 2026

A spot holds 1 to 5 of each fish

Each spot stocks between one and five of every fish it contains and restocks them one at a time. A fish whose stock is gone cannot be caught until it comes back, and the four legendary fish take five to ten times as long to restock as the others.

community wiki data, unconfirmed as of October 20, 2026

Farming mastery and the rod decide the fight

Pulling gains line only while your Farming mastery outweighs the fish’s pull, which is its fight strength times how hard it is resisting at that moment. A better rod adds line bonus — from +1 to +6 — and the Fisherman perk lowers every fish’s fight strength, Pike from 9 to 6.

How a catch works

每次抛竿的五个步骤

The wiki breaks a catch into five decisions, and only one of them is the button timing most players think fishing is about. The other four happen before or after the bite.

Bait

The bait window only lists baits at least one fish at the spot takes. Four fish bite with no bait; every other fish needs a specific one. One bait is used per cast.

The roll

A fish’s chance is its weight, times the multiplier its bait gives it, times its day or night multiplier, times how many of it are still in the spot — compared across every fish in that spot. A fish whose stock is gone cannot be caught until it restocks.

The bite

When the bobber dips, the bite has to be struck before the bite window closes. Each fish has its own window: Roach has the longest, Celestial Salmon and Swamp Ghost the shortest.

Reeling

Pulling gains line while Farming mastery outweighs the fish’s pull — its fight strength times how hard it is resisting at that moment. A better rod lets the line take more strain, and the Fisherman perk lowers every fish’s fight strength.

Stock and restock

Each spot holds one to five of each fish and restocks them one at a time. The four legendary fish take five to ten times as long to restock as the others.

The roll is arithmetic, not a hidden dice roll: the wiki states the comparison explicitly, and gives one worked example. Roach has a weight of 1,000 at the Inquisition Base and Village spots against 5 to 10 for every other fish there, so an unbaited cast at the Inquisition Base lands a Roach 98.9% of the time by day while the spot’s two Roach last. Roach takes no bait at all, so any bait removes it from the roll entirely — community wiki data, unconfirmed as of October 20, 2026.

Fishing spots

六个钓点，只有一个有表

The wiki counts six fishing spots; the video walks through five and locates them by landmark rather than by name. Only the Inquisition Base has a published catch table in the supplied material, so it is the only spot reproduced with numbers.

Fish	Bait and chance (day / night)	Stock
Roach	No bait: 98.9% / 99.3%; Breadcrumb Bait: no bite	2
Gudgeon	No bait: 1% / 0.5%; Breadcrumb Bait: no bite	2
Pike	No bait: no bite; Breadcrumb Bait: 100% / 100%	1
Crucian	No bait: 0.1% / 0.2%; Breadcrumb Bait: no bite	1

community wiki data, unconfirmed as of October 20, 2026

The Inquisition Base is the only tabulated spot

Four fish live there, and the bait window offers only no bait and Breadcrumb Bait. Chances in the table above are for a full spot; every catch removes one fish until it restocks.

reported in The Lost Noob video, unconfirmed as of October 20, 2026

The video locates five spots by landmark

The Lost Noob lists one west of your base, one north of the village, one south of the port, one at the entrance of the swamp and one inside the swamp, and says the further out you go, the harder the fish are. The wiki’s sixth spot is not named in the supplied extract.

Unconfirmed (checked 2026-10-20)

Map icons mark where you may fish

A Reddit reply to the port-lock thread says that wherever the map shows a fish icon, you can fish there, and that the sea spot sits right beside the quest giver. The thread does not list the spots or their names.

Unconfirmed (checked 2026-10-20)

The pond by the first trader reportedly keeps restocking

One reply in the same thread says the pond north of the tavern and first trader respawns fish even when you only take the ones that bite without a hook, which is the opposite of the port report below. Two players, two spots, no shared rule.

The count itself is disputed: six on the wiki, five in the video. The supplied material never reconciles them, and no first-party source names a spot, so treat the six/five difference as an open question rather than an error in either account.

Bait

三种鱼饵，三道门槛

Breadcrumb, Insect and Live Bait are the only baits the wiki lists, and each is made at the Kitchen Table from a different base. The fish each one attracts barely overlap, which is why the window is short rather than a full list.

Bait	Fish that take it	Made and sold
Breadcrumb Bait	Anchovy, Bream, Carp, Catfish, Herring, Frog, Mackerel, Pike, Silverfin	1 Bread; sells for 2 bronze at the Fish Stand at usual stock
Insect Bait	Eel, Frog, Goldfish, Salmon, Swamp Ghost, Trout, Tuna	4 Firefly; sells for 9 bronze at the Fish Stand from level 2
Live Bait	Celestial Salmon, Elder Catfish, Kraken Jr, Mythic Carp	1 Lacquer and 1 Flesh; sells for 22 bronze at the Fish Stand from level 3

The wiki’s own bait paragraph names Crucian, Frog, Gudgeon and Roach as the four fish that also bite on an empty hook, and says every legendary fish takes Live Bait only. Frog appears on both Breadcrumb and Insect lists, so a fish can accept more than one bait. The video adds a progression gate: breadcrumb bait at Fishing level 2, insect bait as the next tier, and Live Bait at level 4. It also calls Live Bait an end-game item and says the game still flags the special fish as catchable later even when the bait is not in your inventory — reported, unconfirmed as of October 20, 2026.

Fishing rods

四种鱼竿与鱼线加成

Fishing needs a rod and at least one level of Farming mastery. The rod’s line bonus is added to Farming mastery when line tension is worked out, so the upgrade is not cosmetic: it is what keeps a hard-fighting fish from snapping the line.

Rod	Line bonus	Made at and sold by
Basic Rod	+1	Woodworking Workbench I; no trader sells it
Amateur Rod	+2	Woodworking Workbench I; sold at the Fish Stand
Advanced Rod	+4	Woodworking Workbench II; sold at the Fish Stand from level 2
Pro Rod	+6	Woodworking Workbench II; sold at the Fish Stand from level 3

The video describes the requirement differently: every fish has a mastery requirement made of the shovel you carry, the rod you use and the inspirations you hold, and the Fisherman perk improves the rod. The wiki reduces the same idea to Farming mastery plus the rod’s line bonus. Both are creator or community descriptions, not a developer stat sheet — unconfirmed as of October 20, 2026.

Fish list

22 种鱼，四种需要点名

The wiki counts 22 fish but the supplied extract lists them only through the three bait pools and one spot table; it does not enumerate all 22 names. What follows is every grouping the material actually states, with no name invented to fill the gap.

Group	Fish	What the source says
No bait	Crucian, Frog, Gudgeon, Roach	The four named as biting on an empty hook; the video says three fish take no bait, not four.
Breadcrumb Bait	Anchovy, Bream, Carp, Catfish, Herring, Frog, Mackerel, Pike, Silverfin	Nine names in the wiki’s Breadcrumb list; Pike is 100% by day and night at the Inquisition Base while its stock lasts.
Insect Bait	Eel, Frog, Goldfish, Salmon, Swamp Ghost, Trout, Tuna	Seven names, and the tier a Reddit player crafted to unlock a gated port spot.
Live Bait	Celestial Salmon, Elder Catfish, Kraken Jr, Mythic Carp	The four legendary fish. Each takes Live Bait only, none is bought by a trader, and the first catch unlocks a recipe.
Day or night	11 of 22	A fish marked for day has half the weight at night and the reverse for night fish; the other 11 are the same around the clock.
Best sellers	Eel, Swamp Ghost, Trout	1 silver 92 bronze, 1 silver 54 bronze and 1 silver 40 bronze at the Fish Stand — the three highest prices the wiki states.

The four legendary first catches unlock cooking recipes: Fried golden carp, Kraken steak, Heavenly salmon and Elder’s meal. How each maps to its fish is not stated in the extract, so the recipes are listed in the wiki’s order rather than assigned. Fish Filleter is the other fish-side perk: it doubles the fillets each fish cuts into at the Kitchen Table, Pike from 4 to 8 — community wiki data, unconfirmed as of October 20, 2026.

The port quest

港口任务与鱼饵门槛

The video and the Reddit thread describe the same progression from opposite ends: one explains what the quest asks for, the other what happens when a spot refuses to start.

reported in The Lost Noob video, unconfirmed as of October 20, 2026

Five river fillets open the port chain

The video says filleting comes before the quest: you need five river fish fillets, cut from fish caught at the first two spots near your home and north of the village, and only then do you head south to the port and talk to the quest giver. The chain then moves from river fish to sea fish filleting.

Unconfirmed (checked 2026-10-20)

The sea spots refuse a no-bait cast at first

The same video says you cannot fish the sea spots with no bait initially and that breadcrumbs make them fishable. A Reddit player reports the refusal as a message — “I don’t have the correct bait to fish here” — even while holding bait and enough energy, and says crafting the next tier, Insect Bait, let the mini-game start.

Unconfirmed (checked 2026-10-20)

The later quest asks for five sea fillets

After the first hand-in the Reddit player received a quest to make five sea fillets, then a mysterious fish fillet. Their kitchen table had consumed three fish: a Goldfish caught at the port, a Swamp Ghost from the swamp, and a Silverfin the player assumed came from a river.

Unconfirmed (checked 2026-10-20)

The port spot locked again, and stayed locked

The same player caught one more fish and a Goldfish, then got the bait message again. Returning to the same port spot a week later, it was still locked. A reply reports the same spot unrefreshed after three weeks and guesses it only refreshes once every fish is caught — a guess the thread does not confirm.

The thread also contains a competing explanation: one reply says fishing has a long-standing bug where the respawn cooldown grows exponentially each time until fish effectively stop returning, and that reply calls it a bug outright. Neither the quest gate nor the cooldown theory is confirmed, and the material contains no developer statement about either.

仍未确认的内容

This page is deliberately narrower than the wiki it cites. The supplied extract tabulates one spot and names fish only through bait pools, so these gaps are recorded rather than filled.

The name and location of the sixth spot. The wiki counts six; the video lists five by landmark; only the Inquisition Base is named in a table, and the Village spot is named only in a weight example.
The full 22-fish list. The wiki says 22 entries but the supplied extract does not enumerate them, so no name outside the three bait pools is repeated here.
Whether four fish or three fish bite on an empty hook. The wiki says four and names Crucian, Frog, Gudgeon and Roach; the video says three.
What exactly unlocks Live Bait. The video places it at Fishing level 4; the wiki gives only its recipe and the four legendary fish that take it.
Whether the port lock is a quest gate, a bait-tier gate, a stock problem or the reported respawn bug. The message is consistent, the cause is not established.
The restock interval for any fish. The wiki gives only a relative figure — legendary fish take five to ten times as long — and no base time.
Whether the pond north of the first trader really restocks differently from the port spot, as one Reddit reply claims and another player’s three-week wait contradicts.
Which legendary fish unlocks which cooking recipe. The four recipe names are published, but the extract does not pair them with the four fish.

这些事实的出处

下面每一条来源都按其性质标注：开发者或发行商官方来源、平台商店页面、媒体报道、视频，或玩家维护的粉丝页面。粉丝页面用于核对术语；当某个数字只有粉丝页面留下记录时，该数字会写成社区 wiki 数据，并标注为仍未确认，同时给出最后一次核对它的日期。

粉丝页面 wikily.gg — Graveyard Keeper 2 fishing: every fish, spot, bait and catch chance — Community wiki data page captured 2026-10-20. It is the source of the six-spot/22-fish/three-bait count, the five-step catch resolution, the Inquisition Base catch table (Roach 98.9%/99.3% and two in stock, Gudgeon 1%/0.5% and two, Pike 100%/100% on Breadcrumb and one, Crucian 0.1%/0.2% and one), the three bait recipes and prices, the four rod line bonuses and their benches, the 1-to-5 stock per fish with legendary fish taking five to ten times as long to restock, the 11-of-22 day/night split, the Eel/Swamp Ghost/Trout sell prices, the four legendary fish that take Live Bait only and their recipes, and the Pike fight-strength and fillet examples. Every value is reproduced on /fishing/ with "community wiki data, unconfirmed as of October 20, 2026". The supplied extract does not enumerate all 22 fish names.
视频 The Lost Noob — Graveyard Keeper 2: The Complete Fishing Guide — An 8:46 creator video captured 2026-10-20 and the source on /fishing/ for the handling and the five-spot list: one spot west of the base, one north of the village, one south of the port, one at the swamp entrance and one inside the swamp, with harder fish further out; the wait-for-the-exclamation-mark, hold-to-reel, release-when-it-disappears routine and the red-line snap when the mark is absent; the five river fillets that precede the port quest giver; the river-to-sea fillet progression; and the statement that sea spots refuse a no-bait cast until breadcrumbs are used. Its mastery explanation (shovel plus rod plus inspirations) and its three-no-bait-fish count conflict with the wiki and are recorded as reported rather than merged.
粉丝页面 Reddit r/GraveyardKeeper — “GK2: locked out from fishing at sea port? Is it finite?” — A player thread captured 2026-10-20 and the source on /fishing/ for the port lock: the quest giver sends the player to another nearby spot, two or three fish are caught, then a message says the keeper does not have the correct bait despite bait and energy, and crafting the next tier — Insect Bait — lets the mini-game start; after one more fish and a Goldfish the lock returns and the spot is still locked a week later. Replies add a three-week no-refresh report, a guess that every fish must be caught first, a claim of exponential respawn cooldown treated as a bug, and a report that the pond north of the tavern and first trader keeps restocking. Reproduced as Unconfirmed (checked 2026-10-20); the thread does not establish the cause.

常见问题

钓鱼常见问题

How does fishing work in Graveyard Keeper 2?

Choose a bait at a marked spot, cast, and wait for the exclamation mark. Hold to reel and release when the mark disappears; holding while it is absent turns the rod red and can snap the line. The catch itself is resolved from the spot’s stock, the bait and the time of day, and the reel succeeds while your Farming mastery outweighs the fish’s pull. The handling comes from The Lost Noob video; the resolution rules are community wiki data, both unconfirmed as of October 20, 2026.

How many fishing spots and fish are there?

The wiki counts six spots, 22 fish and three baits. The video locates five spots — west of your base, north of the village, south of the port, the swamp entrance and inside the swamp — and the material never reconciles the difference. Only the Inquisition Base has a published catch table here, so the sixth spot and the full fish list remain unconfirmed.

Do you need bait to fish?

Not for every fish. The wiki says four fish bite on an empty hook and every other fish needs a specific bait; the video says three fish take no bait. The bait window only offers baits that at least one fish at the spot accepts, and each cast consumes one bait. Breadcrumb Bait is made from 1 Bread, Insect Bait from 4 Firefly, and Live Bait from 1 Lacquer and 1 Flesh at the Kitchen Table.

Why can’t I start the fishing mini-game at the port?

A Reddit player got the message “I don’t have the correct bait to fish here” despite carrying bait and enough energy, and crafting Insect Bait let the mini-game start. After a few more catches the same message returned and the spot was still locked a week later; a reply reports three weeks without a refresh. Whether this is a quest gate, a bait tier, a stock rule or the reported respawn bug is unconfirmed as of October 20, 2026.

Which rod should I use?

The wiki lists four: Basic Rod +1 line bonus, Amateur Rod +2, Advanced Rod +4 and Pro Rod +6. Basic and Amateur are made at Woodworking Workbench I, Advanced and Pro at Workbench II; the Fish Stand sells Amateur from the start, Advanced from level 2 and Pro from level 3. Fishing also needs at least one level of Farming mastery, and the line bonus is added to that mastery during the reel.

Are these fishing numbers confirmed?

No. The spot table, bait recipes, rod bonuses, stock sizes, prices and perk effects are all community wiki data from wikily.gg, unconfirmed as of October 20, 2026. The mini-game handling and the five-spot list come from one creator video, and the port lock comes from one Reddit thread with player replies. No developer or publisher source in the supplied material publishes a fishing figure.