Fishing

The following lists known information about the act of actual fishing. If you want to see information about fishing rods, the unknown entity, etc, please visit their respective pages. Thanks!

Related pages:

• The bobber entity (entity created at end of fishing line)
• Fishing rod (not written yet[if you see it is written, please link it here])

Fishing...

When it is raining, the chance of catching a fish goes up 40%. (From 1/500 ticks to 1/300 ticks)

There are 65 uses on a fishing rod.

A Fishing rod is useful in PVP on servers like hypixel, because it stops their sprint jump and makes them just sprint. This is helpful when chasing someone. In vanilla, a fishing rod does not effect players.

As of snapshot 20w12a:

☀When fishing, treasure loot can now only be obtained by fishing in open waters.

• A fishing location is considered to be open water if the following conditions are met:
  • There is at least a 5×1×5 area of water beneath the bobber and a 5×2×5 area of air above (for a combined 5×3×5 free area required).
  • Waterlogged blocks that have no collision, such as signs and coral count as water. However, bubble columns do not
  • The water is above ground.

(Minecraft Wiki)

Possible Catches

Junk

Item	Percent Chance	Extra Data
Bone	12.048%
Bowl	12.048%
Fishing Rod	2.410%	up to 90% damaged
Ink Sac	12.048%	10 Items
Leather	12.048%
Leather Boots	12.048%	up to 90% damaged
Rotten Flesh	12.048%
Stick	6.024%
String	6.024%
Trip-wire Hook	12.048%
Water Bottle	12.048%

Treasure

Item	Percent Chance	Extra Data	Ench.
Bow	16.667%	up to 25% damaged	Lvl. 30
Ench. Book	16.667%		Lvl. 30
Fishing Rod	16.667%	up to 25% damaged	Lvl. 30
Lilly Pad	16.667%
Name Tag	16.667%
Saddle	16.667%

Fish

Item	Chance
Clown	2%
Fish	60%
Puffer	13%
Salmon	25%

Enchantments

	Junk	Treasure	Fish
Luck o' the sea	Decreases Amount	Increases Amount	N/A
Lure	Decreases Amount	Decreases Amount	Increases Amount

The enchantment "Lure" is known for decreasing the time until the next catch when throwing the bobber.