Freshwater Eel

[clear prairie]

Is anyone else having trouble catching the Freshwater Eel? I've been at this for days, following the wiki and its supposed to be a common catch but I'm just not getting it? I've tried all the locations, with and without fishing bait and nothing! I'm fishing in Fall too.

[odd junco]

Hello! So my method for catching tons of fresh water eel is just setting out a bunch of fish traps outside of my farm- there’s that first bridge and the little river section that goes down that first path, and i just set up a bunch of fish traps there. I got most of my freshwater eel during spring though. You can put traps over that bridge though and all around it, I think i had about 7

Pro tip for catching any fish that’s being particularly fickle is just setting up traps- i had the same issue where I couldn’t catch the koi or tiger beetle, and so at the beginning of every month I set up traps in places people fish or whatever the wiki says and it usually works (although you still have to fish for legendary fish, I have never caught one in a trap)

[clear prairie]

Awesome thank you so much! 🥹💛