Fish

This is a summary table of all fish discovered in A Tale in the Desert 11. Fish are a Resource that can be obtained via the Fly Fishing skill and are used in Cooking.

In order to catch fish, you need to have learned the Fly Fishing skill at a School of Body. When you purchase the skill, the scientists will give you a Basic Fly Rod.

Fly Tying must be learned from a School of Worship to create Lures. When you have a Fly Rod equipped and are near water, a new gathering button will appear. Above the new button is another button to show your current lure and allow you to equip a different one. You must have a lure equipped to fish.

All freshly caught fish will go under the Whole Fish category in your inventory, labeled "<Fish type> (weight in db)" if a special fish and with just the fish type otherwise, for instance "Abdju" or "Horned Pigfish (16 db)". They all weight 1 db and take 20 bulk in your inventory.

Lures and locations

There are common fish, which you can catch any time by just moving a little along the Nile or the Sea for different types, and then seasonal fish that vary on the month, skill, fishing rod, time of day, speed, location and rod, also there is an individual variation, so two fishermen, standing in the same spot at the same time, with all things equal, will catch different size fish.

Fish	Rarity	Lure(s)	Location(s), seasons, skill, rod, speed and time of day
Abdju	Common	Glass Worm, Horned Hookworm, Mud Asp, Pickel Slug, Red Cricket, Slime Moth	Blue Nile, Giza, Swenett (lake), Bernike (Res Sea)
Amur Pike	?	White Sawfly (up to 19db), White Mealybug (up to 8db), Honey Fly (?db)	440, -4146, VoQ (23db, White Sawfly, 4:00 AM, Shemu IV-17, 4 speed, Whisperer's Rod)
Ayu	?	?	?
Bay Lobster	?	Woolly Aphid,Needleworm	?
Bottlenose Squid	?	Bat Mite, Bristleworm, Raspberry Moth, Red Cricket, White Mealybug	Arabia, Asyut, Bernike (sea), Meshwesh Delta, Upper Egypt (Nile)
Camelfish	?	Glass Worm, Leafhopper, Pickel Slug, Stone Fly	Asyut, Giza, Meshwesh Delta, Swenett (lake), Upper Egypt
Carp	Common	Bristleworm, Clearwing, Corn Maggot, Fruit Maggot, Glass Worm, Horned Hookworm, Mud Asp, Pickel Slug, Red Cricket, Rose Mite, Rose Swallowtail, Ruby Hornborrer, Salt Mite, Slime Moth, Woolly Aphid, Queen Maggot	Asyut (common), Blue Nile, Giza, Meshwesh Delta (common), Swenett (lake), Thebes (common), Upper Egypt, White Nile (pond)
Catfish	Common	Golden Asp, Corn Maggot, Feather Midge, Horned Hookworm, Mud Asp, Rose Mite, Pickel Slug, Woolly Aphid	Axum, Blue Nile, Giza, Meshwesh Delta, Red Sea (common), Upper Egypt
Cherry Bonefish	?	?	?
Chromis	Common	Bristleworm, Clearwing, Feather Midge, Fruit Maggot, Horned Hookworm, Leaf Snapper, Mud Asp	Upper Egypt (common), Meshwesh Delta
Flying Fish	?	Clearwing,	?
Giant Crayfish	?	?	?
Great Knucklefish	?	Golden Asp, Snowberry Butterfly, Sand Mite	Axum, Meshwesh Delta
Horned Pigfish	?	Clearwing, Feather Midge, Fruit Maggot, Red Cricket, Glass Worm, Rose Mite (preferred)	Thebes (lake), Upper Egypt (Nile), West Kush (Nile)
Hylian Loach	?	Slime moth	Swenett pond
Ivory Knifefish	?	Slime Moth	Philae (-218, -3009)
Kingfish	?	Bristle Worm, Pickel Slug	Meshwesh Delta (889, 6847)
Lima Chub	?	Leafhopper, Queen Maggot, Raspberry Moth	Wesh Kush (Nile)
Malapterurus	?	Queen Maggot	Suez (1325, 6129), MWD Nile
Medusafish	?	Raspberry Moth	Meshwesh Delta (1043, 7522)
Moonfish	?	?	?
Nile Mackerel	?	Horned Hookworm, Needleworm, Pickel Slug (preferred)	Thebes, Red Sea (sea), West Kush (Nile), Bahariya Oasis (-2550, 5597 @ 11:25p)
Octecs Longfin	?	?	?
Octopus	?	?	?
Orange Spongefish	?	?	?
Otterfish	?	Glass Worm, Pickel Slug, Leaf Snapper, Slime Moth	Kahun (pond), Upper Egypt (the Nile)
Oxyrynchus	Common*	Clearwing, Corn Maggot, Glass Worm, Pickel Slug, Ruby Hornborrer, Salt Mite, Sand Mite, White Mealybug	Asyut (nile), Bernike (sea), Swenett (lake)
Pancake Loach	?	Leaf Snapper, Mud Asp, Fruit Maggot, Rose Mite, Wooly Aphid, Stone Fly, Rose Swallowtail	West Kush
Perch	Common	Bristleworm, Clearwing, Corn Maggot, Feather Midge, Fruit Maggot, Glass Worm, Horned Hookworm, Mud Asp, Needleworm, Pickel Slug, Red Cricket, Rose Mite, Slime Moth, Woolly Aphid	Axum, Asyut (rarely), Blue Nile, Bernike (common), Swenett (common), Upper Egypt, West Kush (common)
Phagrus	Common	Bat Mite, Bristleworm, Corn Maggot, Feather Midge, Fruit Maggot, Glass Worm, Leaf Snapper, Mud Asp	Giza, Hamim, Upper Egypt, Asyut, Meshwesh Delta
Queen Lionfish	?	Glass Worm, Mud Asp	Bernike (sea), Meshwesh Delta
Rainbow Cod	?	Corn Maggot, Fruit Maggot, Rose Mite, Raspberry Moth, Stone Fly, Queen Maggot	Elephantine (141, -3578), Upper Egypt, Bernike (2367, -828), West Kush 831, -3480 Shemu IV-23, 2:36PM
Razorfin	?	Oyster Mite	?
Reticulated Toothfish	?	Bristleworm, Corn Maggot, Dew Fly, Feather Midge (preferred), Horned Hookworm	Bernike, Red Sea, Thebes
Ribbonfish	?	Red Cricket, Sand Mite	West Kush
River Crab	?	Clearwing, Glass Worm	?
Sea Urchin	?	Clearwing, Corn Maggot, Feather Midge, Ruby Hornborrer	East Sinai, West Kush (Nile)
Serpentfish	?	Horned Hookworm, Leaf Snapper, Camel Weavel	?
Shelomits Puffer	?	?	?
Singing Lamprey	?	Leafhopper	?
Spiny Dogfish	?	Orchid Hopper , Corn Maggot,	?
Spoonfish	?	Clearwing, Horned Hookworm	Swenett (lake), Upper Egypt
Spotted Sea Cucumber	?	Fruit Maggot, Wooly Aphid	Swenett (lake), West Kush
Striped Batfin	?	?	?
Tigerfish	?	Golden Asp, Bristleworm, Needleworm, Oyster Mite	Axum, Timna (pond 5083, 3900), Upper Egypt (Nile @ 779, -2219)
Tilapia	Common	Bristleworm, Clearwing, Corn Maggot, Feather Midge, Fruit Maggot, Glass Worm, Horned Hookworm, Leaf Snapper, Pickel Slug, Woolly Aphid	Asyut, Meshwesh Delta (common @ 911, 7011), Upper Egypt
Tilefish		Feather Midge, Stone Fly, Ash Centipede (small), Rose Mite (small), Skinlicker	?
White Oniontail	?	?	?
Yellowfin Snapper	?	Blister Beetle, Slime Moth, Glass Worm, Horned Hookworm, Wooly Aphid	Asyut, Bernike (sea), Blue Nile (Lake)

See also

• Filleting