Dinkum brings all the wonderful life simulations of Animal Crossing: New Horizons to the Australian outback. In Dinkum, you’ll help build up a town amongst the lush Aussie deserts and billabongs. Spend your day planting crops, taking care of your animals or simply going bug hunting and fishing.

Fishing in Dinkum is one of the game’s core mechanics and a great way to make some extra money. Like some life sim games with fishing, there are some timing mechanics you’ll need to wrap your head around. If you want to stock your museum with various fish in the region, it will take a lot of time and effort to get it done.

Fortunately, our Dinkum Fish Guide has every fish species and where to find them, so you know exactly where to look.

 

How To Fish

To start fishing in Dinkum, you’ll need to get a fishing rod from John’s shop. This can be purchased regardless of whether he’s at the tent or you’ve moved him into a permanent building.

Then, head on out to your nearest body of water, either ocean or freshwater inland. Make sure you can see fish before you start fishing, so choose a good spot that has several of them swimming around. Aim the fishing rod in the direction of the fish and try and get the bobber as close as possible.

After some time a fish will takes the bait and nibble on the line. There are two different types of nibbles – a light, quick nibble that’s nothing. And then a more dramatic nibble where the bobber will disappear underwater. Once it disappears, you’ll want to press to reel in the fish.

Only reel in the fish when it’s not thrashing, if not you’re likely to break your line and lose the fish. You may have to repeat this process a few times to properly tire the fish out and finally pull it out of the water.

 

Northern and Southern Ocean Fish

Name	Time of Day	Season
Blue Spot Flathead	Morning and Afternoon	Summer, Fall, and Spring
Black and White Snapper	Afternoon	Fall and Spring
Anchovy	Morning and Night	Fall and Winter
Bluefish	Any	Any
Garfish	Any	Winter and Spring
Banded Morong	Any	Winter
Travalla	Any	Fall and Spring
Goat Fish	Any	Summer and Spring
Stingray	Night	Summer and Fall
Eyestripe Surgeonfish	Afternoon	Summer and Spring
Luderick	Afternoon	Winter
Barracuda	Night	Summer, Fall, and Spring
Blob Fish	Night	Fall and Winter
Marlin	Afternoon	Fall and Winter
Yellowfin Tuna	Morning and Night	Fall and Spring

 

River & Billabong Fish

Name	Time of Day	Season
Barcoo Grunter	Any	Any
Jungle Perch	Any	Any
Barcoo Grunter	Any	Any
Silver Perch	Any	Fall and Winter
River Bass	Any	Summer and Spring
Carp	Any	Any
Grayling	Afternoon	Fall and Winter
Bonytongue	Any	Any
Blackfish	Any	Spring
Tarpon	Any	Any
Golden Perch	Morning	Spring
Barramundi	Any	Fall, Winter, and Spring
Murray Cod	Morning	Winter and Spring
Galaxias	All	Winter
Saratoga	Night	Summer and Autumn
Short Finned Eel	Night	All

 

Mangrove Fish

Name	Time of Day	Season
Barcoo Grunter	Any	Any
Eel Tailed Catfish	Any	Any
Boofhead Catfish	Night	Summer, Fall, and Spring
River Bass	Any	Summer and Spring
Carp	Any	Any
Mangrove Jack	Any	Any

 

Dinkum

Dinkum is out now early access for PC on Steam. It will be coming to other platforms later but that has yet to be announced. For our full review of Dinkum be sure to read it here!