Spearfishing

Spearfishing is a new type of Fishing introduced in Stormblood (4.0).

Unlock

Quest: A New Fishing Ex-spear-ience
Requirement: Fisher level 61
Quest Starting Location: The Ruby Sea (X:28.9 Y:15.9)
Quest Starting NPC: Sumitsubo
Pre-requisite Quests: level 63 MSQ In Soroban We Trust

Spearfishing Locations

Spearfishing Tutorial

This article is about he overhaul in patch 6.0 with the launch of Endwalker. For the previous version of spearfishing, see Spearfishing/Old.

Spearfishing involves a mini-game wherein players strike fish as they swim across the screen.

Spearfishing Basics

With your Spearfishing Gig equipped, use the Fathom and Shark Eye actions to locate teeming waters.

As fish swim across your field of vision, strike them using the Gig action.

New Spearfishing Features

Weak Spots

Fish are caught by striking their weak spot as they swim through the teeming waters.

Certain fish will have a distinctive appearance, indicating they are guaranteed to be large-sized when caught.

Wariness

Nearby fish will take notice of your actions in the teeming waters, their wariness represented by a gauge at the top of the spearfishing interface. Wariness increases slowly over time, as well as with each strike of your spear. When the gauge is full, the fish will disperse, ending your spearfishing attempt.

Catch Counter

Successfully catching fish in quick succession will increase your catch counter (up to a maximum of ten), which slows the rate at which wariness increases. Be mindful, however, that the counter may reset should you go too long without catching any fish.

To abandon a spearfishing attempt, press the Escape key, or the Quit action.

Conditions

Specific conditions may be required in order to gather fish through spearfishing. After completing the conditions, a special node will appear. This will occur through regular fishing nodes and job quest nodes^[1].