How to Fish Money Guide: Earn More From Every Catch

What are the confirmed ways to make money?

The official Steam description confirms these money mechanics in How to Fish:

• Selling catches. Fish, kill, sell — selling your haul is the core income loop and the funding source for every upgrade.
• Trick shots. The game confirms trick shots as a mechanic tied to value, but exactly how much they add is not yet officially documented.
• Cooking. Cooking is a confirmed mechanic that interacts with your catch before it is sold.
• Gambling. A gambling mechanic is confirmed as another risk-and-reward money system.

What is not confirmed yet: the numbers. No official source has published the multiplier for any of these systems, and this wiki does not invent stats.

How do you estimate what a catch is worth?

Use the Sell Value Calculator. Enter the base value the game shows you, apply the multiplier you expect, and it returns the final sell value. Verified trick shot, cooking and gambling multipliers will be added to the calculator’s data file as they are confirmed, so the tool gets more useful with every verified patch.

What should you spend money on first?

The confirmed upgrade categories are fishing gear, weapons and equipment. Since the core loop is Fish → Kill → Sell → Upgrade, early upgrades compound: better gear means faster catches, faster kills and therefore faster money. Prioritize whatever removes the bottleneck in your current loop — if catching is slow, upgrade fishing gear; if the fight is the slow part, upgrade weapons.

How does progression spending fit in?

Quests lead to bosses, and bosses lead to new islands — see the island progression guide for the full loop. Money is what keeps you ready for the next step: arriving under-geared at a boss like the Pufferfish just makes the fight longer. Steady selling plus steady upgrading is the confirmed path, with trick shots, cooking and gambling as boosters once their numbers are verified.