Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp – 7th Fishing Tourney now live

As announced yesterday, the 7th Fishing Tourney is now live in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp! It takes place in Lost Lure Creek this time around, but the goal is still to catch as many tourney fish as you can, before bringing them to Chip Jack in order to earn in-game trophies and prizes based on the number and size of the fish.

This 7th Fishing Tourney event runs from October 23rd to October 30th, and it’s Halloween-themed. If you earn a trophy during the event, you can pick it up between October 30th and October 31st from your mailbox (you will get to see the tophy-award scene then. NB: the trophy pick-up period now lasts only 24h). You can pick up your trophy from your mailbox after the tourney has ended, but then there will be no award scene.

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp – Fishing Tourney: How to play

As mentioned above, the goal of this event is to catch as many little fishies as you can. But there’s a “catch”: only tourney fish will count, and those are only found in Lost Lure Creek.

Here’s the three types of tourney fish:0

• orange candy fish
• melon candy fish
• grape candy fish

Fortunately, those are pretty easy to spot: they have a sparkling shadow in the water. Using those fish, you can complete tasks, and then earn various rewards. The fish respawn every 3 hours, and there’s nothing you can do to make them respawn faster (no, using the Golden Fishing Rod doesn’t do anything). You can catch them up to 7 times per spawn.

Once you’ve caught some fish, you can bring them to Chip Jack, who will measure them for you. If you reach a total-size goal (ie: total size of all the fish caught during the event), then you will be able to earn some sweet rewards. You also get a special conversation with Chip Jack if you reach the gold rank for your trophy!

There’s also various Chip Jack Challenges for you to tackle, and completing those will allow you to get some more sweet rewards! To claim them, simply press the Claim button next to them in the Chip Jack Challenges list (available from the fishing tourney menu, that you can find by talking to Chip Jack). Make sure to check out the Events and Content Updates page for more details about the Chip Jack Challenges!

By the way, you can sometimes catch not one, but two tourney fish with the regular fishing rod (regular fish is still one at a time).

But if you go talk to Chip Jack, and are willing to part with a few Leaf Tickets, you can rent the gold rod: this allows you to catch 2 tourney fish at once every time, but only if there’s some available in the area (again, this does not work for regular fish). You can rent it until the very end of the tourney, but you first need to catch a tourney fish by yourself. Of course, after the event has ended, you get your regular fishing rod back.

If you really want to catch lots of fish at once, you have to use the Halloween throw net (NB: they also disappear once the event is over). There’s two types:

• Halloween throw net (available as reward for completing Jack Challenges and various other tasks)
• lg. Halloween throw net (requires Leaf Tickets)

Once the fishing tourney is over, all players will get a trophy as long as they have turned in at least one tourney fish. The size of the trophy changes depending on the total size of all the fish caught during the event. You have to pick it up between October 30th and October 31st, from your mailbox. It will then stay in your mailbox even after the pick-up period has ended, but if you wait too long, your records may not be recorded properly on it.

And starting with the 4th Fishing Tourney, there’s a special prize for you to win after you get the gold trophy, so keep fishing! The prize for this tourney is none other than… a spooky tourney banner!

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp – Fishing Tourney: Rewards

Here’s the various types of rewards available during the event (awarded randomly):

Total size of 250cm

• jack-o’-lantern hat

Total size of 500cm, 750cm, and 1 000cm

• jack-o’-lantern tee
• sporty essence x2
• 500 Bells

Total size of 1 300cm, 1 600cm, 1 900cm, and 2 200cm

• bone cap
• cool essence x2
• cute essence x2
• 500 Bells

Total size of 2 500cm, 2 800cm, 3 100cm, and 3 400cm

• bone shirt
• natural essence x2
• modern essence x2
• 500 Bells

Total size of 3 700cm, 4 000cm, 4 300cm, and 4 600cm

• bone pants
• rustice essence x2
• 500 Bells
• 1 000 Bells

Total size of 4 950cm, 5 300cm, 5 650cm, and 6 000cm

• horned headband
• hip essence x2
• 500 Bells
• 1 000 Bells

Total size of 6 350cm, 6 700cm, 7 050cm, and 7 400cm

• count’s top hat
• harmonious essence x2
• elegant essence x2
• 1 000 Bells

Total size of 7 750cm, 8 100cm, 8 450cm, and 8 800cm

• count’s jacket
• historical essence x2
• civic essence x2
• 1 000 Bells

Total size of 9 200cm and every 400cm beyond

• spookey tourney banner
• count’s top hat
• count’s jacket
• horned headband
• bone cap
• bone shirt
• bone pants
• jack-o’-lantern hat
• jack-o’-lantern tee

NB: rewards for this category are also awarded randomly, but there’s no duplicates until all items have been awards at least once.

Chip Challenge Prizes (can only be collected while the event is live!)

• Halloween throw net
• bone pants
• bone shirt
• bone cap
• jack-o’-lantern tee
• jack-o’-lantern hat
• Leaf Ticket x5
• Leaf Ticket x10
• sparkle stones
• silver treats
• bronze treats

Fishing Tourney Trophies

• wood fish trophy: 10 to 1 999.9cm
• bronze fish trophy: 1 200 to 4 799.9cm
• silver fish trophy: 4 800 to 8 999.9cm
• gold fish trophy: over 9 000cm

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp – Fishing Tourney: additional notes

Some quick notes about the event:

• as you can imagine, tourney fish can only be caught during fishing tournaments
• remaining tourney fish not given to Chip before the end of the event will simply disappear
• the following will no longer be available once the event is over: tourney throw net, golden rod (has to be rented at each fishing tourney), fish caught during the tourney (NB: if you still have fish in your inventory during the trophy pick-up period, it will be automatically measured and reflected in your total-size record. If turning those fish would have earned you some rewards, they will be automatically sent to your mailbox)

Source: Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp