Far Cry® 5 Guide

Fishing Records for Far Cry 5

Fishing Records

Overview

Fishing Records from each region and where you can find a fish to catch

Description

Before you start, this guide is only a help for you. Don’t use it if you want to catch all the fish your own way 🙂

You will find in this guide a help how you can unlock a fishing rods.

Why the tab “All Regions”?
Because the first four fish on all the fishing boards are the same. The two or three fish on the right are always the unique region-only types 😉

What is with the bait?
If you wanna catch a certain fish type, you should use the correct bait. So i included it in the guide

So and now have fun and don’t forget 😉

Fishing Rods

Here’s a quick list of every fishing rod and how to unlock them

Basic Rod:
Found a fishing spot? There’s a basic fishing rod there.

How to Unlock:One is found at every marked fishing spot on the map.

Natural Rod:

How to Unlock: This slight upgrade can be purchased at any gun shop.

Wonderboy Rod:
The best fishing rod early on. Travel to Dylan’s Master Bait Shop in the Whitetail Mountains area and talk to Skylar. .

How to Unlock: Complete her quests to receive the Wonderboy

Old Betsy Rod:
Catch difficult fish at the Hard Fishing Spots found throughout Hope County.

How to Unlock: Beat every regional record to unlock this rod.

ATTENTION: To get the rod you have to beat every region leader!

All Regions

Before you begin fishing, I really recommend purchasing a Natural Rod from the gun store, or go straight to Dylan’s Master Bait Shop in the Whitetail Mountains to unlock the Wonderboy Rod.

Fish
Weight
Location
Bait
Bull Trout
21 lbs
Jacob’s Region: Northwest of Langford Lake
Trout Bugger
Golden Trout
4 lbs
Jacob’s Region: West of the northern bridge entrance on Silver Lake.
Trout Bugger
Lake Trout
37 lbs
Jacob’s Region: North of Fort Drubman in Wishbone’s Lake
Trout Bugger
Rainbow Trout
28 lbs
John’s Region: In the small pond southwest from Rae-Rae’s Pumpkin Farm.
Trout Bugger

Holland Valley Region

Fish
Weight
Location
Bait
Pallid Sturgeon
55 lbs
South of the Lamb of God Church
Hybrid Sturgeon
Paddlefish Sturgeon
112 lbs
Far southwest or East of Rye & Sons Aviation
Hybrid Sturgeon

Whitetail Mountain Region

Fish
Weight
Location
Bait
Chinook Salmon
27 lbs
Northwest of the F.A.N.G. Center
Salmon Egg
Kokanee Salmon
6 lbs
Along the southwestern shore of Cedar Lake
Salmon Egg
Arctic Grayling Salmon
3 lbs
High up in a pond along the southwestern border of Jacob’s Region.
Salmon Egg

Henbane River Region

Fish
Weight
Location
Bait
Smallmouth Bass
6 lbs
Along the river on the eastern edge near the Gethemane Greenhouse.
There is also one in the middle of henbane river and in the south
Bass Popper
Largemouth Bass
8 lbs
North of the smallmouth bass spot, on the river close to Whistling Beaver Brewery
Bass Popper
Rock Bass
3 lbs
Right in the center of Rock Bass Lake
Bass Popper

Enjoy!

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