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What’s Biting? A Guide to Fish, Bait & Weather

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Fishing Bait

You can’t fish without bait, and the type you use makes a big difference in spawn rates. There are three kinds of bait, and each one increases your chances of catching rare or region-specific fish. If you're hoping to reel in a Glowing fish or a Local Legend, choosing the right bait is just as important as weather conditions.

Common Bait

How to Obtain
- Daily Pip-Boy Quest: Big Fish in a Small Pond: Rewards 10 Common Bait
- Live Bait Barrel (C.A.M.P. Resource): Chance to generate Common Bait
- Coolers & Broken Fridges: Chance for 1 to 2 Common Bait. Can Do! perk card does not improve the chances
- Casting Off Quest: Rewards 10 Common Bait
- Purchase from The Fisherman & Captain Raymond Clark: You can server hop to reset the vendor’s inventory, but they sell 100 at a time — so you probably won’t need to very often.

Improved Bait

How to Obtain
- Daily Pip-Boy Quest: Big Fish in a Small Pond: Rewards 5 Improved Bait
- Live Bait Barrel (C.A.M.P. Resource): Chance to generate Improved Bait
- Coolers & Broken Fridges: Chance for 1 to 2 Improved Bait. Can Do! perk card does not improve the chances
- Casting Off Quest: Rewards 5 Improved Bait
- Public Events: 100% chance to reward Improved Bait. You'll always get 1, 2, or 3 pieces.
Conditions
You must complete the Casting Off quest before Improved Bait can drop for you from Public Events.

Superb Bait

Get the top-of-the-line bait for your never-ending line-casting escapades!
Greater chance of catching rarer fish than Improved Bait

How to Obtain
- Season Scoreboard (Main Pages): Redeem 5 pieces for 15 and 20 Tickets.
- Bonus Page Two (Repeatable): Redeem 5 pieces for 75 Tickets. Can be claimed repeatedly during the season.

Conditions
You don’t need to upgrade your fishing rod to use Superb Bait — it works with the base rod. But without rod mods, it’s very hard to catch rare fish. Rod mods make your line stronger, help you reel in faster, and stop fish from getting away.

Weather Conditions

Just like bait, there are three types of weather conditions that affect the catch and spawn rates of fish and axolotls:

Rainy Weather
Increases your chances of catching Uncommon Region Fish, Common Region Fish, and Axolotls.

Nuclear Weather
Offers the highest chance to catch Glowing Fish, and also improves spawn rates for Uncommon Region Fish, Axolotls, and Local Legends when using Superb Bait.

No Weather
(includes clear skies or any weather that isn’t rainy or within a nuke zone)
Best for catching Generic Fish with Common Bait, and offers moderate chances for Common Region and Uncommon Region Fish when using Improved or Superb Bait.

Rainy Weather Conditions

Counts as Rainy Weather when any of the following are happening:
- It’s misty and rainy
- It’s raining
- It’s heavy rain with low visibility
- A Thunderstorm Weather Station is active within the area you’re fishing
- A Snow Weather Station is active within the area you’re fishing
- A Snow Aurora Weather Station is active within the area you’re fishing

Nuke Weather Conditions

Counts as Nuke Weather when any of the following are happening:
- There’s a radiation storm
- There’s a Nuke Zone
- A Mothman Weather Station is active within the area you're fishing
- A Radstorm Weather Station is active within the area you’re fishing
- A Nuke Zone Weather Station is active within the area you’re fishing
- A Skyline Valley Weather Station is active within the area you’re fishing

Your C.A.M.P.’s active weather machine takes priority and overrides all other weather conditions, including Nuke Zones and Natural Weather — only one weather effect applies to the spawn rates at a time. You’ll also receive the full benefit from someone else’s C.A.M.P. weather if you’re fishing there, even if you don’t own the weather machine yourself.

Spawn Rates

When you cast your line, the game checks for the rarest fish first—like Local Legends or Axolotls. But those only have a chance to appear if you’re in the right spot, during the right month, or standing at a marked Local Legend location.
If those checks fail or don’t apply, it moves on to look for Glowing or uncommon fish depending on the bait and weather.
If none of those roll successfully, the game falls back to regular fish from the region or even junk items. This fallback system guarantees that every cast gives you something, even if it’s not the fish you were hoping for.

Fish Types

Below is a list of all fish types, the regions they spawn in, and the bait and weather conditions required for them to appear.

Generic Fish

8 Fish

Brook Silverside

  • Region: All Regions
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common

Chain Pickerel

  • Region: All Regions
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common

Redbelly

  • Region: All Regions
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common

Ridge Trout

  • Region: All Regions
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common

Smoky Salmon

  • Region: Regions
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common

Sunscream

  • Region: All Regions
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common

Walleye

  • Region: All Regions
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common

Yellow Bullhead

  • Region: All Regions
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common

Common Region Fish

7 Fish

Alpine Sawgill

  • Region: Savage Divide
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved

Bog Sawgill

  • Region: Cranberry Bog
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved

Muddy Sawgill

  • Region: Mire
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved

Noxious Sawgill

  • Region: Toxic Valley
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved

Sooty Sawgill

  • Region: Ash Heap
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved

Static Sawgill

  • Region: Skyline Valley
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved

Timber Sawgill

  • Region: Forest
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved

Uncommon Region Fish

14 Fish

Armored Spinefish

  • Region: Savage Divide
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved, Superb

Ashen Ambusher

  • Region: Ash Heap
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved, Superb

Bloodwhisker

  • Region: Forest
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved, Superb

Blisterfish

  • Region: Cranberry Bog
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved, Superb

Bluefin Zapper

  • Region: Skyline Valley
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved, Superb

Bog Lurker

  • Region: Cranberry Bog
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved, Superb

Deathjaw

  • Region: Ash Heap
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved, Superb

Gulpy

  • Region: Mire
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved, Superb

Kanawha Piranha

  • Region: Forest
  • Weather: Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved, Superb

Leatherback

  • Region: Savage Divide
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved, Superb

Potbelly Kelt

  • Region: Toxic Valley
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved, Superb

Purple Radpole

  • Region: Toxic Valley
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved, Superb

Spikesnapper

  • Region: Mire
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved, Superb

Stormswimmer

  • Region: Skyline Valley
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved, Superb

Glowing Fish

7 Fish

Glowing Ambusher

  • Region: Ash Heap
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved, Superb

Glowing Bog Lurker

  • Region: Cranberry Bog
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved, Superb

Glowing Gulpy

  • Region: Mire
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved, Superb

Glowing Kanawha Piranha

  • Region: Forest
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved, Superb

Glowing Potbelly Kelt

  • Region: Toxic Valley
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved, Superb

Glowing Spinefish

  • Region: Savage Divide
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved, Superb

Glowing Stormswimmer

  • Region: Skyline Valley
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Common, Improved, Superb

Local Legend Fish

3 Fish

Organ Grinder

  • Region: Fixed Spawn Location – Organ Cave
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Improved, Superb

Ryl-Tkannoth, Maw-Begotten

  • Region: Fixed Spawn Location – Big Maw
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Improved, Superb

Wavy Willard

  • Region: Fixed Spawn Location – Wavy Willard’s Water Park
  • Weather: Rain, Nuke, No Weather
  • Bait: Improved, Superb

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