The amount of money you can get from the lava eels for an "easy" catch with the statue of blessings is crazy

I gasped so loud when you said it was an Octopus, my sister actually came to check on me hahaha. Now I know where I'm gonna invest my money

The octopus is the most shocking reveal I've seen in a while.

And most important, it allow you to finally get the full collection of legendary fish in iridium quality

For the record, you can get at least two of the unique golden fishing chest items from a catch. I had one that had two sets of fairy dust in it.

These videos about each mastery at once are very nice, haven't seen any other youtuber do that.

And here's to Seafoam Pudding (esp when gold quality via Qi Seasoning) being goated af.

The 1.6 update makes fishing so much more fun and useful! I'm liking it a lot.

Screw that Lingcod jokes aside. Unlock the mine carts, then winter suddenly becomes more profitable.

I used to hate fishing, but I have to say it might be my favorite skill now. The mixing and matching of bobbers just allows for so much cool stuff

You forgot the 3 points of luck you can get from the food at the desert festival when calculating the best chance for getting a chest.

On mobile so don't have 1.6 yet, but I'll still watch cause you're entertaining. Hopefully 1.6 doesn't take the same amount of time 1.5 did.

I used the rod during a three day rainy stretch to catch over a hundred Catfish. With Quality bobber making them all iridium and the extra value skills, it was over 170k. All from home on the Riverland farm.

I hope these will be combined in one big video when they're all complete

The advanced iridium rod is so useful if you want to catch all legendary fishes as irudium quality. Especially the Anglerfish.

I remember when I first started playing, fishing was the most difficult thing for me. I could not catch anything. 4 years later and I just got the achievement for churching all the fish!

New impossible achievement ; catch 3 the legends No, not the legend 2, the legend. A perfect catch, with challenge bait, on a one time catch. Didn’t get it? Restart the day.

Perfect upload timing lol, just the video to eat breakfast to

Love these videos! Came back to Stardew after a break, and I've been marathoning your content haha. Good stuff!

Thanks Sal for another solid upload! It's so beautifully presented and easy to follow ❤

Honestly, I think the sonar bobber is so useless unless you don’t really fish. If you actually fish a lot then you learn to tell the different fish apart by their bobbing patterns from experience. It’s way better to use a quality bobber for the money increase imo.

i really really enjoy your videos, you make them informative without feeling like a mountain of information is being shoved down my throat, you kinda make it mouthsized if that makes sense and i love that for a cozy evening, when i don't want to have to think as much. also your voice is super calming

Not me catching all of the Legendary Kids with only a Trap Bobber and some Random Food bc I didn´t have anything to make Seafoam Pudding hahaha

I caught two golden treasure chests in a row, one after the other- four iridium bars in the first, three in the second! As someone who’s still only got gold tools and is still scared of skull cavern, I see this as a huge win

I am so incredibly excited for 1.6 to come to console. The fishing changes alone at so so soooo good!! I can't wait!!!

I am absolutely enjoying these guides

8:16 the best loadout for Golden chests is actually double dressed spinners since we cut the time to bite by 2/3 at the loss of only 10% chance of finding treasures

i've been doing my recent legend II farming with a trap bobber, a quality bobber, and wild bait. sure, it's only a 10% chance to hook each time, but there's also that small chance to duplicate the fish when caught. most i've caught in three days with this setup is 36 iridium quality legend IId, utilizing tent kits to sleep by the mountain lake for more time save. after smoking, and relevant professions, the entire stack sold for just over 1.5 MILLION gold. in three days.

I can do the lava eels consistently with challenge bait, but before 1.6 was a pain without the advanced iridium it was a pain since I used quality bobbers and no fishing buff.

8:41 you could also technically get extra luck (+3) from the rare fruit at the desert merchant

8:55 you forgot about the desert festival luck buff!

"Next up on our list is mining mastery..." DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?

I decided for my new play-through that I wanted to catch every fish as iridium quality and display them in tanks. The new fishing rod is a godsend as I can now guarantee iridium legendary fish that I can actually catch!

I am somewhat disappointed crab pots didn't really receive any sort of improvement from mastery, despite trapper having HALF of the perk tree. That said, i am a fisher at heart and catch legend during my first spring no problem. So all the added skill depth is so super welcome.

I was planning to get all of the collectable items in the game and this might be a real challenge for me 1. Is getting 3 of each legendary fish (for the smoke and bait version 2. While perfectly catching the legendary fish using the challenge bait, the hard part is getting the 2 roes (one for the aged roe) from treasure chest because its now possible to acquire them Wish me luck HAHAHAHHAHAHA And for the others too

6:47 THE LARGEST FISHING BAR

Regarding the Advenced Iridium Rod: If you use the Lewis shorts in the first bobber slot, your second bobber will last forever

Putting the lucky purple shorts in the first slot of the advanced iridium rod makes the second slot have infinite durability

another application of challenge bait is with the statue of blessings water blessing, going for legend 2 from the qi quest. a lot less consistent but each sells for 42,000 (smoked with artisan and fisherman professions) which could be a cool almost 400,000 gold for very little effort, just a lot of luck (if you have the right setup and are skilled enough, this could be done on any qi quest day regardless of blessings)

I think you do the golden trwasure chests a disservice here. Looking at the odds of a golden treasure chest under fairly reasonable circumstances: Base 15% Magnet 15% Pirate 15% The lower limit for stardrop Luck 3.5% Special charm 1.25% Two rings (very easy to get now witj iridium pan) 1% Lucky Lunch plus Gingerale 2% So 52.75% chance of a chest A golden chest is a base 25% but +/- 10% based on daily luck plus 2.5% for lucky charm so 34.5% on the worst stardrop luck day. Leaving you with a 18.2% chance every catch. Which doesn't sound like a lot, but with two dressed spinners, it takes you on average of between 1 and 1.5 seconds for a bite and it takes a maximum of 3 seconds to determine whether you got a golden chest or not. Lets say it takes an average of 7.5 seconds per cast to cancel a non-golden chest (seems pretty generous for cast time plus bite time plus three seconds maximum chest time), the average time to hook a golden chest is 40 seconds. And that is assuming pretty reasonable circumstances, it could definitely be optimized.

babe wake up salmence posted a new video!!

I don't know why I'm watching these guides even though i will probably forget them when 1.6 releases on mobile

Talking about fish, are you planning to talk abot Targeted Bait in any of your videos? Especially about The Legends

I got the ultimate golden fishing chest with a Stardrop tea, golden mystery box, shrimp cocktail and some ore or roe, can't recall.

man this is looking great I think I will get back into stardew soon

I only need the seasonal Legends to have Master Angler, and that requires remembering where they are in what season (I have Legend and the sewer guy!). I am willing to try the Lava Eels strategy one day. That looked like fun! Ponds are not expensive late game (or even mid game) so long as you can get the Seaweed (the Early Fishing Rods are good for this).

Another rod loadout to note is if you struggle with hard/legend fish (if the auto setup doesn't work or you want to catch the fish yourself), use deluxe bait for bar size and 2 trap bobbers with whatever fishing food buff. The 50% reduced catch loss speed is no joke, fish are immensely easier to catch. It's far better then 2 cork bobbers imo for harder fish

i think there is a mechanic with golden chests where the rate at which they appear vs norma chests is boosted by daily luck, not sure though. Great video though!

Love your videos Sal

Next up on our list to _tackle_ lol good one

Is that level 19 fishing? Damn that fishing bar is ridiculously BIG

I have 3 iridium quality glacierfish from using the challenger setup with a blessing of waters

As the largest possible fishing bar is bigger than half the wiggle room, it becomes harder *not* to catch the fish in that situation.

Oh wow, 1.6 added a lot of quality of life stuff

i’m learning all i can about the new mechanics while waiting for 1.6 to come to console lol

I watched this with my wife, warning her it was pretty niche. She's concerned about how much Brian space I have dedicated to SDV now 😂

...Ok, so with the challenge bait... would you then be able to catch multiple of each legendary fish? Like, if you're really good at it, obviously.

This seems like a good place to ask because I can't seem to find a straight answer anywhere else - If you plop a legendary fish into a bait maker, like the original ones, not the children, are you able to catch them again in their respective seasons/spots?

Challenge bait works on legendary fish too. That being said, I have no idea if it’s actually possible to do it or not because clearly I have mod installed.

Fishing is freaking impossible. I'll have to try it again

This is weird, but since the rod doesn't get upgraded like most tools, I've always preferred to hold out with the starter one until I unlocked the irridium rod. Now I'm trying to use the basic one until I get mastery since there's no way I'm spending several thousand gold on fishing rods that will be completely redundant later

"all but the most difficult fish" and then pulls an octopus

if anyone wants to know the music he is using at 2:51 it's the "pokepeligo theme" from pokeon ultra sun and moon

I do wonder what is more profitable in practice for the legend II, targeted bait or deluxe bait. If you can consistenly catch every legend II you hook, targeted bait is better. However, if your fishing skill is good but not amazing, I think there is a point at which deluxe bait (with master enchantment) becomes better for money. My gut feeling is that legend II with deluxe bait is more profitable than son of crimsonfish with targeted bait, but this claim still needs some math.

Hey, i just noticed that after my first green rain there are now a bunch more trees in mountain, bus station and so on. The wiki said the green trees will be removed. well, they kinda did, since they are not slimy anymore but returned to their not slime form. Playing vanilla right now on the latest stable build, so i dont know if this is intended or not.

i really wish you could get at least one fish with the challenge bait. the minigame cuts off immediately after i miss three times and sometimes i dont even realize i missed it thrice

Mastering the yo sup.

Wait with the bait maker is that what allows you to catch legendaries more than once because i thought it wasnt possible at all

I still use a fishing mod. But I have it on minimal settings. 😂

Wild bait is now even more rarely useful, with the new baits, CA should make the recipe cheaper, its so expensive.

Yay fishing!

I was fishing in stardew valley for at least. 3 in game days and got no fish and the fish mini game did not come up and I have 0 mastery in fishing any ideas please ?

Nice vid

You could call me the... heh heh.. heh. heh.. MasterBAITER

Do rings not combine with each other if they have the same buff?

I don't really understand stardrop tea as a late game reward. I was at full hearts with everyone besides Leo before my third year without really trying, and someone who wants to max friendship quickly would probably achieve it before ever getting their first, unless it came from the prize machine.

It’s wild 1.6 hasn’t hit console yet

Okay why are Rice shoots increased with golden chests? That makes no sense.....

This was definitely the most meh mastery for me.

Wait did they update it on mobile 😅

My guide to fishing: Don't. Just use fish ponds, and then buy a bunch of crab pots from willy 😂 Unless you like to fish, then ignore my guide

Finally

Still waiting mobile 1.6 update 🗿

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94 views!?

Loved the video, Btw i didnt like my own comment

Gasp, I can't believe you forgot to calculate the chance of getting a luck buff from the statue of blessings for the golden treasure chest math. Unsubscribed and reported..... Love the content btw

As always you somehow manage to answer questions that I didn't even realize I had been thinking of 😌🤍 Great vid Sal!!