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Animal Crossing: New Horizons is finally out, and if you want your island to succeed, there are few things you have to do on day one. In this video, Jake will walk you through some of the activities you need to do on your first day.

Most importantly, you’ll need to get your museum prepped by donating fish and bugs to Tom Nook. If you put this off or forget to do it, you may not get a fully functioning museum for days. Of course, if you have day one tips for your fellows travellers, be sure to drop them in the comments below.

In Kallie Plagge’s review in progress she gave it an 8, saying, “While I’ve spent a lot of time developing my island so far, I still feel as if there’s plenty left for me to do and see–there’s a lot in New Horizons to occupy your time with.”

There are a lot of ways to make money in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but if you want to maximize profits here are some tips to make a ton of bells.

This video covers fishing and bug catching strategies, deserted islands, and the Stalk Market. As always, if you’ve found some efficient ways to make money in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, please share them in the comments below.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is out March 20 on Nintendo Switch. In Kallie Plagge’s review in progress she gave it an 8, saying, “While I’ve spent a lot of time developing my island so far, I still feel as if there’s plenty left for me to do and see–there’s a lot in New Horizons to occupy your time with.”

Fishing is one of the main pastimes in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and living on an island presents many opportunities to catch a wide range of fish. Fish can be sold, handed into the museum, given as gifts to villagers, or displayed as furniture. What you do with them is up to you.

To catch a fish, find a fish-shaped shadow in the water around the island and equip any kind of fishing rod. While facing the water, press A to cast your line–though you will not cast properly if you are too far away from the edge of the water. Wait for your fishing rod’s floater to submerge under the surface of the water and quickly press A again to reel in the fish. Pressing the A button too quickly or too slowly can result in a failure, scaring away the fish.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons has a total of 80 fish–that’s eight more than Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Below, we’ve broken down everything that can affect how and when fish spawn. We also have a table listing every fish we’ve caught so far in both the northern and southern hemispheres, their spawn locations and dates/times, and the number of Bells you get for selling them.

Equipment

In order to catch any fish, you will need a fishing rod. The first rod you get in the game is the flimsy fishing rod, which can be upgraded to the fishing rod at a DIY bench. Don’t be thrown off too much by the various fishing rod types; it just determines how many times the tool can be used before breaking. Once a fishing rod breaks, just craft a new one at a DIY bench with resources found around the island or purchase a new one at Nook’s Cranny.

Location

There are three types of environments for fish on the island: ocean, river, and pond. The river is further split into three categories–river mouth, river clifftop, and general river–and the ocean also includes the more specific pier location, which is the wooden pier somewhere on your island (but not the one leading to the airport). Fish like salmon can only be found at the river mouth, which is where the river meets the ocean, while others, like the cherry salmon, can only be found at parts of the river on your island’s cliffs, for example.

Weather

Weather has less of an effect on fish than it does bugs, but it does still affect the spawn rate of fish. It is generally believed that rain and snow encourage rarer fish to appear; for example, you can only catch the rare coelacanth in rain or snow. It’s also worth noting that rain and snow also increase the spawn rate of fish, so rainy days and the winter months are a great opportunity to stock up on fish.

Shadow

Fish shadows come in all different sizes, and each type of fish appears as the same size shadow each time–either extra small, small, medium, large, or extra large. Longer, skinnier shadows in the ocean are eels, which can be caught like any other fish.

Sometimes you will find a fish shadow in the ocean that has a fin. This can be a shark in the water, which requires a much quicker reaction time to catch. Most fish shadows with a fin are worth a lot of bells, so you’ll want to try catching them the moment you see them.

Time And Date

Since time in Animal Crossing is synced up with the real world, or whatever time you have entered into your Nintendo Switch, the time you choose to play matters. The game goes through all the stages of a 24-hour period in real time, with different fish appearing at different times. Fish also vary depending on what month it is, which the game refers to as seasonality. If you want to collect every kind of fish, you will need to play the game at all different hours and throughout the year. The seasonality of fish changes depending on which hemisphere you chose, too.

For reference, you can always check what time and months the fish that you have caught will spawn in your Critterpedia.

All The Fish We’ve Caught So Far

The list below contains the time of year, locations and price for every fish we have found so far. This is divided into two separate tables, as the months of the year will be different for each hemisphere.

Northern Hemisphere

Fish	Seasonality	Location		Time		Price
Anchovy	All year	Ocean		4 AM – 9 PM		200
Angelfish	May – Oct	River		4 PM – 9 AM		3,000
Arowana	June – Sept	River		4 PM – 9 AM		10,000
Barred Knifejaw	Mar – Nov	Ocean		All day		5,000
Barreleye	All year	Ocean		9 PM – 4 AM
Betta	May – Oct	River		9 AM – 4 PM		2,500
Bitterling	Nov – Mar	River		All day		900
Black Bass	All year	River		All day		400
Blowfish	Nov – Feb	Ocean		9 PM – 4 AM		5,000
Blue Marlin	Nov – Apr, July – Sept	Pier		All day		10,000
Bluegill	All year	River		9 AM – 4 PM		180
Carp	All year	River		All day		300
Catfish	May – Oct	Pond		4 PM – 9 AM		800
Char	Mar – June, Sept – Nov	River		4 PM – 9 AM		3,800
Cherry Salmon	Mar – June, Sept – Nov	River (Clifftop)		All day		1,000
Clownfish	Apr – Sept	Ocean		All day		650
Coelacanth	All year	Ocean (Rain)		All day		15,000
Crawfish	Apr – Sept	Pond		All day		200
Crucian Carp	All year	River		All day		160
Dab	Oct – Apr	Ocean		All day		300
Dace	All year	River		4 PM – 9 AM		240
Football Fish	Nov – Mar	Ocean		4 PM – 9 AM		2,500
Freshwater Goby	All year	River		4 PM – 9 AM		400
Golden Trout	Mar – May, Sept – Nov	River (Clifftop)		4 PM – 9 AM		15,000
Goldfish	All year	Pond		All day		1,300
Guppy	Apr – Nov	River		9 AM – 4 PM		1,300
Hammerhead Shark	June – Sept	Ocean		4 PM – 9 AM		8,000
Horse Mackerel	All year	Ocean		All day		150
King Salmon	Sept	River (Mouth)		All day		1,800
Koi	All year	Pond		4 PM – 9 AM		4,000
Loach	Mar – May	River		All day		400
Mitten Crab	Sept – Nov	River		4 PM – 9 AM		2,000
Moray Eel	Aug – Oct	Ocean		All day		2,000
Neon Tetra	Apr – Nov	River		4 AM – 4 PM		500
Oarfish	Dec – May	Ocean		All day		9,000
Ocean Sunfish	July – Sept	Ocean		4 AM – 9 PM		4,000
Olive Flounder	All year	Ocean		All day		800
Pale Chub	All year	River		9 AM – 4 PM		200
Pike	Sept – Dec	River		All day		1,800
Piranha	June – Sept	River		9 AM – 4 PM 4 AM – 9 PM		2,500
Pond Smelt	Dec – Feb	River		All day		320
Pop-eyed Goldfish	All year	Pond		9 AM – 4 PM		1,300
Puffer Fish	July – Sept	Ocean		All day		250
Rainbowfish	May – Oct	River		9 AM – 4 PM		800
Ranchu Goldfish	All year	Pond		9 AM – 4 PM		4,500
Ray	Aug – Nov	Ocean		4 AM – 9 PM		3,000
Red Snapper	All year	Ocean		All day		3,000
Ribbon Eel	July – Oct	Ocean		All day		600
Salmon	Sept	River (Mouth)		All day		700
Sea Bass	All year	Ocean		All day		400
Sea Butterfly	Dec – Mar	Ocean		All day		1,000
Seahorse	Apr – Nov	Ocean		Any Time		1,100
Soft-shelled Turtle	Aug – Sept	River		4PM – 9AM		3,750
Squid	Dec – Aug	Ocean		All day		500
Stringfish	Dec – Mar	River (Clifftop)		4 PM – 9 AM		15,000
Sturgeon	Sept – Mar	River (Mouth)		All day		10,000
Suckerfish	June – Sept	Ocean		All day		1,500
Sweetfish	July – Sept	River		All day		900
Tadpole	Mar – July	Pond		All day		100
Tilapia	June – Oct	River		All day		800
Tuna	Nov – Apr	Pier		All day		7,000
Whale Shark	TBD	Ocean		TBD
Yellow Perch	Oct – Mar	River		All day		300
Zebra Turkeyfish	April – May, July – Nov	Ocean		All day		500

Southern Hemisphere

Fish	Seasonality	Location		Time		Price
Anchovy	All year	Ocean		4 AM – 9 PM		200
Angelfish	Nov – Apr	River		4 PM – 9 AM		3,000
Arowana	Dec – Mar	River		4 PM – 9 AM		10,000
Barred Knifejaw	Sept – May	Ocean		All day		5,000
Barreleye	All year	Ocean		9 PM – 4 AM		12,000
Betta	Nov – Apr	River		9 AM – 4 PM		2,500
Bitterling	May – Sept	River		All day		900
Black Bass	All year	River		All day		400
Blowfish	May – Aug	Ocean		9 PM – 4 AM		5,000
Blue Marlin	Jan – Mar, May – Oct	Pier		All day		10,000
Bluegill	All year	River		9 AM – 4 PM		180
Carp	All year	River		All day		300
Catfish	Nov – Apr	Pond		4 PM – 9 AM		800
Char	Mar – May, Sept – Dec	River		4 PM – 9 AM		3,800
Cherry Salmon	Mar – May, Sept – Dec	River (Clifftop)		All day		1,000
Clownfish	Oct – Mar	Ocean		All day		650
Coelacanth	All year	Ocean (Rain)		All day		15,000
Crawfish	Oct – Mar	Pond		All day		200
Crucian Carp	All year	River		All day		160
Dab	Apr – Oct	Ocean		All day		300
Dace	All year	River		4 PM – 9 AM		240
Football Fish	May – Sept	Ocean		4 PM – 9 AM		2,500
Freshwater Goby	All year	River		4 PM – 9 AM		400
Golden Trout	Mar – May, Sept – Nov	River (Clifftop)		4 PM – 9 AM		15,000
Goldfish	All year	Pond		All day		1,300
Guppy	Oct – May	River		9 AM – 4 PM		1,300
Hammerhead Shark	Dec – Mar	Ocean		4 PM – 9 AM		8,000
Horse Mackerel	All year	Ocean		All day		150
King Salmon	Mar	River (Mouth)		All day		1,800
Koi	All year	Pond		4 PM – 9 AM		4,000
Loach	Sept – Nov	River		All day		400
Mitten Crab	Mar – May	River		4 PM – 9 AM		2,000
Moray Eel	Feb – Apr	Ocean		All day		2,000
Neon Tetra	Oct – May	River		4 AM – 4 PM		500
Oarfish	June – Nov	Ocean		All day		9,000
Ocean Sunfish	Jan – Mar	Ocean		4 AM – 9 PM		4,000
Olive Flounder	All year	Ocean		All day		800
Pale Chub	All year	River		9 AM – 4 PM		200
Pike	Mar – June	River		All day		1,800
Piranha	Dec – Mar	River		9 AM – 4 PM 4 AM – 9 PM		2,500
Pond Smelt	June – Aug	River		All day		320
Pop-eyed Goldfish	All year	Pond		9AM – 4PM		1,300
Puffer Fish	Jan – Mar	Ocean		Any Time		250
Rainbowfish	Nov – Apr	River		9 AM – 4 PM		800
Ranchu Goldfish	All year	Pond		9 AM – 4 PM		4,500
Ray	Feb – May	Ocean		4 AM – 9 PM		3,000
Red Snapper	All year	Ocean		All day		3,000
Ribbon Eel	Jan – Apr	Ocean		All day		600
Salmon	Mar	River (Mouth)		All day		700
Sea Bass	All year	Ocean		All day		400
Sea Butterfly	June – Sept	Ocean		All day		1,000
Seahorse	Oct – May	Ocean		All day		1,100
Soft-shelled Turtle	Feb – Mar	River		4 PM – 9 AM		3,750
Squid	June – Feb	Ocean		All day		500
Stringfish	June – Sept	River (Clifftop)		4 PM – 9 AM		15,000
Sturgeon	Mar – Sept	River (Mouth)		All day		10,000
Suckerfish	Dec – Mar	Ocean		All day		1,500
Sweetfish	Jan – Mar	River		All day		900
Tadpole	Sept – Jan	Pond		All day		100
Tilapia	Dec – Apr	River		All day		800
Tuna	May – Oct	Pier		All day		7,000
Whale Shark	TBD	Ocean		TBD		TBD
Yellow Perch	Apr – Sept	River		All day		300
Zebra Turkeyfish	Jan – May, Oct – Nov	Ocean		All day		500

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When it comes to Animal Crossing, consistency is the key to success. With that in mind we put together a list of 11 things you should do every day in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. In this video, Jake will walk you through 11 things you should do every day in Animal Crossing.

This video covers everything from efficient resource gathering, quick money making tips, and checking in with all the key NPCs on your island. As always, if you have daily tips for your fellows travellers, be sure to drop them in the comments below.

In Kallie Plagge’s review in progress she gave it an 8, saying, “While I’ve spent a lot of time developing my island so far, I still feel as if there’s plenty left for me to do and see–there’s a lot in New Horizons to occupy your time with.”

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons is finally out on Nintendo Switch, and if you’ve never played an Animal Crossing game before, it might seem a bit overwhelming. Fortunately, Jake is here to run you through some essential tips you need to know as you are adjusting to island life.

These 13 tips range from daily tasks you won’t want to forget about to advice on how to catch some of the most cunning insects. Of course, if you have tips for your fellows travellers be sure to drop them in the comments below.

In Kallie Plagge’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons review in progress, she gave it an 8, saying, “While I’ve spent a lot of time developing my island so far, I still feel as if there’s plenty left for me to do and see–there’s a lot in New Horizons to occupy your time with.”

Netflix has confirmed all the new TV shows and movies coming to the streaming network in April, and the 1995 original live-action Mortal Kombat movie is among the new additions.

The film, which was among the first video game movies ever, debuts on April 1, and no, this is not an April Fools joke. Here’s a silly message from Netflix announcing the addition of Mortal Kombat.

Mortal Kombat is directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. He went on to direct the billion-dollar grossing Resident Evil franchise, starring actress Milla Jovovich, who he is married to. Anderson is also directing the Monster Hunter movie, which is due to hit theatres later this year.

The original Mortal Kombat movie made $122 million worldwide back in 1995, and it was followed up in 1997 with Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, which was a big flop with only $51 million worldwide.

Mortal Kombat stars Christopher Lambert as Raiden, Robin Shou as Liu Kang, and Linden Ashby as Johnny Cage. Talisa Soto plays Kitana, while Chris Casamassa portrays Scorpion, and Francois Petit stars as Sub-Zero.

A new Mortal Kombat movie, which was filmed in Australia, is due in theatres in January 2021 (assuming theatres re-open by then). The film is produced by Aquaman director James Wan, and will be directed by Australian commercials director Simon McQuoid.

For more, check out GameSpot’s roundup of all the new TV shows and movies headed to Netflix in April 2020.