This year’s Sum­mer Fes­ti­val has a good amount to do based upon fish­ing. For those of you who haven’t both­ered to learn the hobby yet, it might be a good idea to track down a Hobby Mas­ter and get started. You can start fish­ing at Level 5.

The nice thing about the fish­ing activ­i­ties related to the Sum­mer Fes­ti­val is that none of them require a spe­cific pro­fi­ciency in fish­ing. You could just be start­ing (with lit­er­ally as low as 1 point in your fish­ing skill meter) or a sea­soned vet. It also doesn’t seem to mat­ter what type of pole you use. All that mat­ters, really, is patience. With a lit­tle of that, you’ll be on your way to get­ting sev­eral items unique to the Sum­mer Festival.

In Bywa­ter, Bree-land, Celondim and Thorin’s Hall you can find spe­cial Fish­er­men NPCs that allow you to trade in fish you’ve caught for items and Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens. Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens can be traded in for addi­tional items dur­ing the Sum­mer Fes­ti­val.  The Fish­er­men only want fish that have been newly added for the Sum­mer Fes­ti­val, how­ever, so don’t expect to trade in all of those old, smelly bit­ter­lings you caught last month.

At first you might real­ize that you’re not catch­ing any of the spe­cial barter fish. That’s because cer­tain pre­req­ui­sites need to met first.

Get­ting Started

Your first stop should be Ned­die Grub, who stands next to a shack along the river in Bywa­ter. He will ask for help stock­ing his pond for the fes­ti­val and requests that you bring him three sets of fish that are located in Bree-land, Celondim and Thorin’s Hall. These fish will appear in very spe­cific loca­tions and show up as yel­low text in the chat window.

The first are called Drums and are avail­able in Bree-land. The quest text for this is kind of vague (sev­eral peo­ple in chat seemed to have issues, includ­ing myself), but you can find the pond where these fish are located by fol­low­ing the road from the South Gate of the town of Bree. You’ll know you’re in the right place if you hap­pen upon a fish­er­man bar­ter­ing for items. No other body of water in the entirety of Bree-land con­tains these fish.

The sec­ond are called Luil­lim and are caught in Celondim. This is easy enough: just fish off the docks until you’ve caught them all.

The third and final set are called Amber­jack and are caught within Thorin’s Hall. Pass up the giant statue upon enter­ing the city and make a left. You’ll quickly arrive at the Blue Gar­ri­son, where you’ll find a river going right through the city. You can catch these fish here with lit­tle problem.

It’s worth not­ing that since you’re start­ing in Bywa­ter, the best place to catch a horse is Michel Delv­ing. It costs 1 sil­ver to travel to West Bree, Celondim and Thorin’s Hall from this travel point. In addi­tion, catch­ing these fish does not advance your fish­ing pro­fi­ciency. It’s pretty much an inde­pen­dent thing.

You can catch more than the allot­ted num­ber of fish dur­ing this quest (for exam­ple, 5 Amber­jack instead of just 3), but my expe­ri­ence has been that you’re bet­ter off fin­ish­ing this quest and return­ing later … Doing it at this point seems to take far longer: not only will the rarer fish never appear, you also seem to catch a larger amount of nor­mal non-barter fish than you would under the daily 20 minute fish­ing quests. It’s not really worth the time.

Time to Fish!

Upon catch­ing all the required fish, return to Ned­die Grub in Bywa­ter. This will unlock a new set of daily quests, one in each of the four fish­ing areas you’ve just vis­ited. Each of these quests start a 20 minute timer, dur­ing which you will be able to catch a good deal barter fish (along with nor­mal fish and the typ­i­cal junk). Some will be of the more com­mon vari­ety, but oth­ers will be slightly more rare. Their rar­ity affects their trade-in value.

I have found that you can catch barter fish for a short period after the timer stops. This lasts another three min­utes or so, if that. It’s not a lot, but it can be enough time to catch another fish or two and round out your numbers.

Here are the types of fish you can catch:

Rare Fish:

• Starry Floun­der
• Golden Red­fish
• Sil­ver Haddock
• Caleb­hal

Com­mon Fish:

• Small Fish
• Luil­lim
• Amber­jack
• Drum

Each fish­ing area con­tains dif­fer­ent fish and each barterer offers dif­fer­ent items for them. In order to get every­thing (assum­ing you care about every­thing), you will have to fish at each loca­tion and trade with the local vendor.

Small Fish do not cur­rently have any­thing they can be bartered for. At this point it’s unclear if that’s a mis­take or if some­thing will be com­ing up for them later. Since you can also catch Luil­lim, Amber­jack and Drum near Bywa­ter, this doesn’t seem to cre­ate much of an issue.

Bartered Items

Once you gath­ered up some fish, there’s some pretty cool stuff to barter for. The items are all hous­ing items and cloth­ing exclu­sive to the Sum­mer Fes­ti­val. As men­tioned, each barterer offers dif­fer­ent items for their local vari­eties of fish.

Please note that Ned­die Grub is the only fish­ing barterer that accepts all types of fish in exchange for Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens. The other three only accept fish from their area.

I’ve listed their trades below.

Ned­die Grub near the river in north­ern Bywater:

• All-Shire Run Token = 3 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens
• 1 Starry Floun­der = 5 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens
• 1 Golden Red­fish = 5 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens
• 1 Sil­ver Had­dock = 5 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens
• 1 Caleb­hal = 5 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens
• 4 Drum = 1 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Token
• 4 Amber­jack = 1 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Token
• 4 Luil­lim = 1 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Token
• 12 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens = ‘Lithe Days’ Wall
• 1 Starry Floun­der + 8 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens = Sea­sonal Banner
• 6 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens = Green Fire­works Launcher
• 1 Starry Floun­der = Orange Fire­works Launcher
• 6 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens = Blue Fire­works Launcher

Gael­lien by the docks in Celdondim:

• 1 Caleb­hal = 5 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens
• 4 Luil­lim = 1 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Token
• 1 Caleb­hal + 8 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens = Cer­e­mo­nial Dress
• 12 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens = ‘Fes­ti­val of Ened­hin’ Wall
• 12 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens = Fes­ti­val of Ened­hin Music Box
• 1 Caleb­hal + 8 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens = Sum­mer Wel­come Mat
• 12 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens = Veg­etable Garden
• 1 Caleb­hal + 8 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens = Large Flowerbed

Láfi by the river in Thorin’s Hall:

• 1 Sil­ver Had­dock = 5 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens
• 4 Amber­jack = 1 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Token
• 1 Sil­ver Had­dock + 8 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens = Cer­e­mo­nial Dress
• 12 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens = ‘Sum­mer­fest’ Wall
• 12 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens = Sum­mer­fest Music Box
• 6 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens = Pur­ple Fire­works Launcher
• 1 Sil­ver Had­dock = Red Fire­works Launcher
• 6 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens = Yel­low Fire­works Launcher

Moll Hind­marsh south of Bree town:

• 1 Golden Red­fish = 5 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens
• 4 Drum = 1 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Token
• 1 Golden Red­fish + 8 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens = Cer­e­mo­nial Dress
• 12 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens = ‘Sum­mer­days’ Wall
• 12 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens = Sum­mer­days Music Box
• 12 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens = Orange Flowerbox
• 1 Golden Red­fish +8 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens = Pur­ple Flowerbox
• 1 Golden Red­fish +8 Sum­mer Fes­ti­val Tokens = Herb Garden

As you’ve prob­a­bly noticed, none of these items is a neces­sity, but if you own a house there’s quite a lot of new stuff here to get your atten­tion. The wall­pa­pers, in par­tic­u­lar, are quite nice.

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