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Professional Lure — How to Fish

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Professional Lure: catches, cost and trip planning

Professional Lure costs $50 on Rocks Island. See its recorded catch pool, what to prepare and how it fits the island's quest and collection goals.

Supply
Professional Lure
Route stage
Rocks Island
Reference price
$50
Rod
Fishing Rod

Base equipment prices, damage and catch pools: Patch 1.0.10 reference. These figures are not a new playtest of the latest release.

When to choose the Professional Lure

At $50, the Professional Lure is the regular fishing option for the Rocks stage. Its broad pool is useful for filling the collection and building the budget for a precision weapon or the $1,200 Professional Boss Lure. Decide which purchase you are funding before making a long fishing trip.

Recorded catch pool

Base values describe the creature before sale modifiers. This list identifies possible catches; it does not specify their probabilities.

CreatureBase valueEncounter
Parrotfish$350Regular catch
Voxelfish$340Regular catch
Bass$250Regular catch
Halibut$290Regular catch
Eel$280Regular catch
Tigerfish$310Regular catch
Flying Fish$320Regular catch
Sengarat$280Regular catch
Red Snapper$280Regular catch
DripperNot recordedRegular catch
Tuna$2,000Boss encounter
Seahorse$100Regular catch

Plan the fishing trip

Set aside the story budget first. The Rocks route needs a defeated Tuna to attract Albatross, so a crew that spends everything on optional purchases can arrive at the encounter chain without enough money for its boss lure.

Check each catch against the collection before selling it. This pool includes species such as Voxelfish, Dripper and Flying Fish that are easy to overlook when the trip is treated only as income farming. Its Seahorse entry also overlaps an earlier island pool.

Keep the next objective in view

Tuna appears in the regular reference pool as well as on the Professional Boss Lure page. If a Tuna becomes your story trigger, keep the body out of the sale, cooking and roulette routines. Its next use matters more than the immediate payout.

The lure is a route to possible catches, not a fixed earnings rate. Base values exclude combat bonuses, and the number of casts required for one named species is not documented here.

Check a known creature in Fishipedia

Patch 1.1.3 added a bait-name hint to Fishipedia after you have defeated a creature once. Use that hint when revisiting a known catch, especially if your installed version includes content beyond this reference pool.

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Halibut — How to Fish
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Eel — How to Fish
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Voxel Fish — How to Fish
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Dripper — How to Fish
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Tuna — How to Fish
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Seahorse — How to Fish
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Rocks Island scene from the How to Fish 3D island model
Rocks Island scene from the How to Fish 3D island model
Desert Island scene from the How to Fish 3D island model
Desert Island scene from the How to Fish 3D island model
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Neutral placeholder because no verified in-game portrait of the Rocks Store Clerk is available
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