Do Fish Respawn?

[MikeOfDragon]

Fish in an area get depleted if you overfish, right? So do fish respawn at all (like will you find fish in area that once had no fish, or even would they eventually replenish in the same spot?)

[MagicManICT]

They will replenish over time. note: I'm not even sure this is a thing anymore with the change to the current fishing system. I've never fished a single spot long enough to notice even a drop in quality like in legacy.

[MikeOfDragon]

They will replenish over time. note: I'm not even sure this is a thing anymore with the change to the current fishing system. I've never fished a single spot long enough to notice even a drop in quality like in legacy.

Ah, thank you very much

[Tamalak]

I overfished an area in W11 and it never improved again. I checked for at least a month.

[shubla]

Could also be related to time of the day, month and other stuff.
My friend told that our cave has a nice spot for some fish, but I couldn't find any fish from there.

[Sevenless]

I haven't seen any decrease in fish node density or quality despite some heavy fishing (140ish perch in an hour). Moon cycles and day/night will have significant impact. A cave fish node I was playing with would go from 5% bite chance to 30% depending on the time of day.

[MagicManICT]

Moon cycles and day/night will have significant impact. A cave fish node I was playing with would go from 5% bite chance to 30% depending on the time of day.

I've wondered about this myself. I've definitely noticed something, but not enough to really say "Yes, this is a thing" or "the effect is minimal." It doesn't help that fish just aren't what they were in legacy, so it feels like a wasted effort because people only fish the first couple of weeks before moving on to bigger, better things.