Fishing

Fishing is an activity that can be performed in lakes that have yellow and white glowing orbs floating in a circle above them. There are two locations in Ekbatan to fish, and some levels of the dungeons can have lakes in them where the player can fish. The lower the dungeon that the player fishes in, the higher chance they have of finding better fish or finding artifacts. Fishing requires a fishing rod in the player's inventory, which costs 200 gold. It is recommended to buy a fishing rod at the beginning of the game to generate a small amount of income through selling whatever is fished up.

Fish
Fish that are caught have the ability to transform the player's pet into another creature, which will be stronger than the pet's original state. The statistics of a fish's effect versus the pet's current stats are displayed when the player's mouse rolls over the fish in an inventory, displaying the strength, dexterity, vitality, magic, and armor of its transformation. A fish's effect duration matters based on its quality: fingerling (120 seconds), small (300 seconds), lunker (600 seconds), and flawless (permanently).

Gear
All levels of gear can be found while fishing, but fishing is a great practice to gather artifacts, especially in very deep dungeon levels. Artifacts, or yellow-quality gems, weapons, and other equipment, can be caught while fishing. The equipment will not be identified when it is first picked up by the player; often times, the equipment will require a high identification level, which if the player doesn't have enough charm magic to do so, or doesn't have the identify spell, can either use an identify book on the item or talk to Shaz the Identifier.

List of All Fish
This section features a list of all fish obtainable in this game -- with exception of the Dogfish which simply reverts your pet back to normal. Listed are the five main stats Strength, Dexterity, Vitality, Magic, and Armor, as well as the minimum depth as determined in the game files.

For most fish only a minimum depth (most likely referring to the smallest dungeon level number at which the corresponding item is available) is specified. However, there are some fish which list a separate depth value "Minimum Fishing Depth" -- in this case the normal "Minimum Depth" value probably keeps track of from when on the item is purchasable at Pikko. The complete list of fish reads as follows; the four depth values defer to the minimum depth value of the fingerling, small, lunker, and flawless version of the item in this order, and if a separate minimum fishing depth exist for the fish in question then it is listed in parentheses underneath the main values: a The only version of the Tadpole to be found in the game is the "Flawless Tadpole"