Idle income deep-dive
The dock takes half
Sell at the dock and the buyer pays 50% of a fish's value, after a 5 s wait — the game's own sellValueRatio 0.5. Land the catch yourself and every coin is yours. The idle angler also burns real time per fish: ~3 s deciding tackle, 1.5–5.5 s fighting, 3.5 s holding it up, plus the walk back to the boat.
Water never empties
Spawns are deterministic — one fish per spawn point, respawning 600 s after it's caught. No weighting tables: every row at a spot gets fished evenly over time. Legendaries lock their spawn for 20 h once you land the trophy size — and come back bigger than your record.
Every water, ranked by idle coins/catch
| spot | idle | manual |
|---|---|---|
| Safety Cove | ~123 | ~242 |
| Watchers Point | ~108 | ~208 |
| Otter Cove | ~107 | ~212 |
| Divers Drop | ~91 | ~171 |
| Seals Rest | ~90 | ~171 |
| Frostbite Flats | ~72 | ~138 |
| Craggy Reef | ~67 | ~122 |
| The Rapids | ~59 | ~103 |
| Underwater Meadow | ~47 | ~91 |
| Picnic Point | ~47 | ~91 |
| Shallows Edge | ~33 | ~61 |
| Eagles Nest | ~32 | ~56 |
| Fisherman's Rest | ~31 | ~58 |
| The Mistwood | ~24 | ~44 |
| Beaver Dam | ~22 | ~42 |
| The Fork | ~16 | ~29 |