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* Clear your farm a bit until 7:30am.
* Clear your farm a bit until 7:30am.
* Go to the beach. Willy will give you an old fishing rod.  
* Go to the beach. Willy will give you an old fishing rod.  
* Try out the fishing mini game from the pier for 3 to 5 casts. Ignore your success on the first cast; it's fake and not representative. Then evaluate your prospects and start formulating a decision: How good are you at fishing? Were you close to catching anything? Would you like to try from an easier spot with some extra help? It doesn't delay the story to delay fishing for a month. So you aren't required to fish. But fishing is comparatively good income at first. If you don't want to try it, spend your money on 25 more (no more than that) Parsnip Seeds (General Store) and return straight home to level up your farming, mining, and foraging by planting, watering, and chopping tree tops and small rocks. If your fishing prospects don't look great, but you still want to try it, do the following:
* Try out the fishing mini game from the pier for 3 to 5 casts. Ignore your success on the first cast; it's fake and not representative. Then evaluate your prospects and start formulating a decision: How good are you at fishing? Were you close to catching anything? Would you like to try from an easier spot with some extra help? It doesn't delay the story to delay fishing for a month. So you aren't required to fish. But fishing is comparatively good income at first. If you don't want to try it, spend your money on 25 more (no more than that) Parsnip Seeds (General Store) and return straight home to level up your farming, mining, and foraging by planting, watering, and chopping tree tops and small rocks. If your fishing prospects don't look great, but you still want to try it, follow the bulleted walk-through at [[Stardew Valley/Fishing#Coping with poor fishing skills]].
** Buy one or two Trout Soup from Willy if you have gold. It's good general food (a little worse than Salad from the Saloon), so it's not a waste of your money to buy two.
** Go straight north and east to the Carpenter's Shop and the [https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Fishing_Strategy#The_Mountains Mountain Lake], at the east end of the long fence and start fishing from there. Some of the fish here can be caught passively (no clicks).
** Eat the fish and algae you catch as needed for energy and note whether you are already making fishing energy-positive.
** If you start to have success and feel good about your spot(s), but your fishing is energy-negative or you would just like a bit of help for 4 1/2 real-world minutes (maybe to see if you will be able to endure this once you level up), eat a Trout Soup and fish non-stop as you note the Buff icon near your clock.
** If your casts suddenly get longer even after your Trout Soup Buff is gone, congratulations. Check your skills; you just leveled up in Fishing. Now you can reach silver star fish that are a little further from walkable areas. You may not be fishing for income this month, but at least you know you can eventually succeed.
** If after all that, you still bombed out at fishing, just forget about it for now.
* Keep an empty space in your backpack at all times. Eat your smallest stacks of fish, forage, algae, and seaweed to make space or just for energy. All this will get you to fishing level 1 or beyond today. From there on out everything just gets better.
* Keep an empty space in your backpack at all times. Eat your smallest stacks of fish, forage, algae, and seaweed to make space or just for energy. All this will get you to fishing level 1 or beyond today. From there on out everything just gets better.
* If you are an expert fisher, keep fishing until 11pm. Then decide whether fishing will be worth income until you become a rich farmer.
* If you are an expert fisher, keep fishing until 11pm. Then decide whether fishing will be worth income until you become a rich farmer.
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