Fish

Fish are a type of aquatic animal that can be caught with a Fishing Rod using bait (or a Lure Rod using lures) while fishing in the Dark Cloud series. In Dark Cloud, Fish have no practical use, but the FP (Fishing Points) gained by catching fish can be exchanged for rare items. In Dark Chronicle, Fish can be cooked on a Cooking Stove, submitted for weigh-ins at a Fishing Contest, or entered in the Finny Frenzy races. An aquarium is needed to raise and feed fish.

The Cooking Stove can be bought for 300 Gilda from Morton's Sundries, and is available right away, although it is functionally useless without caught fish. Fish must be in the inventory, and not the aquarium, to be cooked. Each cooked fish heals 24 hit points, which can be a cheap source of health regeneration early on when you have a surplus of fish with no purpose. Later on it becomes less useful when the health needed to be restored becomes much larger, and other more convenient items are available. When bought it can also not be removed from the inventory.

Dark Cloud

Fish size and spawn rate

The time of day is entirely irrelevant for all fish except the Mardan Garayan. The Mardan Garayan's spawn rate fluctuates; 2% in the afternoon, 3% at night, 4% in the morning, and 5% at dusk. If a Mardan Garayan spawns then it has 20% odds to be a Baron Garayan. Garayans are comparatively worth much more than the other fish however. Fish with a lower spawn rate are also worth more points than the more common species. The spawn rate for fish at the waterfall and oasis areas, other than the Garayans, is under the assumption there is no successful Garayan spawn. Since Bomb Nuts are the only bait in the Oasis that both types of Garayan dislike then you can use them to easily tell if one spawned by the interest in the bait.

Icon	Fish	Locations					Size
		Norune Pond	Water- fall	Peanut Pond	Docks	Oasis	Min.	Max.
	Niler	25%
	Gummy	25%	33%
	Nonky	25%	33%
	Gobbler	25%		35%
	Baku Baku		33%	35%
	Tarton			20%
	Umadakara			10%
	Hama Hama				20%
	Kaji				20%
	Piccoly				20%
	Bon				20%
	Bobo				20%
	Den					30%		200cm
	Heela					30%
	Negie					40%
	Mardan Garayan		2-5%			2-5%	50cm	160cm
	Baron Garayan		0.4-1%			0.4-1%	50cm	300cm

Bait per fish

Icon	Fish	Bait
	Niler
	Gummy
	Nonky
	Gobbler
	Baku Baku
	Tarton
	Umadakara
	Hamahama
	Kaji
	Piccoly
	Bon
	Bobo
	Den
	Heela
	Negie
	Baron Garayan
	Mardan Garayan

Dark Chronicle

Fish	Locations	Time[a]	Preferred bait and lures
Baku Baku	Palm Brinks (lake), Fish Monster Swamp, Starlight Canyon	Day, night
Baron Garayan	Heim Rada (hot springs)	Evening
Bobo	Veniccio, Ocean's Roar Cave	Day, evening, night
Bon	Veniccio, Ocean's Roar Cave	Morning, day, evening, night
Den	Palm Brinks (river), Cave of Ancient Murals, Heim Rada	Day, evening, night
Gobbler	Palm Brinks (river), Rainbow Butterfly Wood, Starlight Canyon	Day, night
Gummy	Palm Brinks (river and lake), Sindain, Rainbow Butterfly Wood, Fish Monster Swamp (lake), Starlight Canyon, Heim Rada	Morning, day, evening, night
Hama Hama	Veniccio, Ocean's Roar Cave	Morning, evening
Heela	Palm Brinks (river), Rainbow Butterfly Wood (Star Path), Balance Valley Station, Cave of Ancient Murals	Morning, evening, night
Kaji	Veniccio, Ocean's Roar Cave	Morning, day (rare)
Mardan Garayan	Fish Monster Swamp (lake), Yorda's Valley, Cave of Ancient Murals	Evening, night
Negie	Sindain, Fish Monster Swamp, Veniccio	Morning, day, evening
Niler	Sindain, Rainbow Butterfly Wood, Starlight Canyon	Morning, day, evening, night
Nonky	Palm Brinks (lake), Fish Monster Swamp (ponds), Balance Valley Station, Starlight Canyon	Morning, night
Piccoly	Palm Brinks (lake), Sindain, Rainbow Butterfly Wood, Starlight Canyon	Morning, day
Priscleen	Rainbow Butterfly Wood, Fish Monster Swamp (ponds), Heim Rada, Yorda's Valley	Morning, day, night
Tarton	Palm Brinks (lake), Balance Valley Station, Veniccio, Ocean's Roar Cave, Cave of Ancient Murals	Day, night
Umadakara	Starlight Canyon	Night (better chance with rain)

Notes

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Baku Baku

Bobo

Bon

Den

Gobbler

Gummy

Hama Hama

Heela

Kaji

Negie

Niler

Nonky

Piccoly

Priscleen

Tarton

Umadakara

Baron Garayan

Mardan Garayan