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Fishing Tourney Poolside Event Guide

The Fishing Tourney Poolside event has begun in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp for iOS and Android, running from July 23rd to 28th, 2019. Learn how to catch tourney fish and get all the summer poolside-themed prizes in our complete guide!

How to Catch Fishing Tourney Fish

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In this tournament event, travel to the Saltwater Shores location in the bottom-right of your map and meet Chip the Beaver when he welcomes you on your first arrival to the ocean. After beginning the event by speaking with him, just start fishing in the nearby ocean by throwing your fishing rod towards sparkling shadows in the water. Those sparkles indicate a tourney fish ready to catch!

For Fishing Tourney Poolside, there are three different special tournament fish to catch during the event: Shark, Saw Shark, and the Hammerhead shark. You’ll always catch one of these fish when you go after a sparkling shadow in the water!

Unfortunately, the special sparkling tourney fish are only available in limited batches before they disappear until the next spawn time. After catching between six to nine of these fish, a notice will pop-up indicating there are no more left to catch right now.

Thankfully, the re-spawn of sparkling tourney fish are directly tied to the 3-hour villager cycle. This means that every time villagers cycle around the map to new locations, there will be new tourney fish to catch!

For an extra boost to your fishing prospects, don’t forget to take the time to speak to your villagers at the campsite fairly often as they can offer you bonus tourney fish as gifts when speaking to them. This is a great extra method to progress and happens during interactions where they share materials or bells with you!

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Win Exclusive Summer Poolside-Themed Items

After catching all of the special tourney fish available in the ocean during a villager cycle, head over to Chip north of the dock and talk to him to collect your rewards. Chip will ‘assess’ your inventory of tournament fish and add up the measurements to your total-size goal. Then you’ll receive prizes according to your total-size goal milestones reached so far!

Here’s the full list of the special event prizes you can win during Fishing Tourney Poolside and how to unlock them:

Item	Unlock
Shark Hairpin	Goals between 200-1,300cm
Blue Floral Beach Ball (x2)	Goals between 200-1,300cm, Goals between 34,000-51,500cm
Blue Floral Inner Tube	Goals between 1,700-3,800cm
Pink Water Blaster (x2)	Goals between 1,700-3,800cm, Goals between 7,100-10,500cm
Green Floral Beach Ball (x2)	Goals between 4,200-6,300cm, Goals between 34,000-51,500cm
Geyser Water Fountain	Goals between 4,200-6,300cm
Green Floral Inner Tube	Goals between 7,100-10,500cm
Blue Whale Pool Float	Goals between 11,500-17,500cm
Pink Whale Pool Float	Goals between 19,500-30,500cm
Golden Whale Pool Float	Goals between 34,000-51,500cm
Reissue Material Map, 1 Reissue Material (x2)	Goals between 34,000-51,500cm
Duplicates: Blue Whale Pool Float, Blue Floral Inner Tube, Green Floral Inner Tube, Geyser Water Fountain	Goals at 53,700cm and beyond infinitely

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In addition to the prizes above, Chip will give you up to 30 Seashell Clusters by completing filler goals before the —-cm milestone. Collect Seashell Clusters for progress towards the Vacation Memory Melody Seasonal Event in July. You will also get a variety of essence material items.

Win Fishing Tourney Trophies

At the conclusion of the fishing tourney event, you will receive a trophy based on your total size of fish caught and turned into Chip! Here’s what you’ll want to aim for to get each type of trophy:

• 100–4,999 cm: Wood Fish Trophy
• 5,000–17,999 cm: Bronze Fish Trophy
• 18,000–31,999 cm: Silver Fish Trophy
• 32,000+ cm: Gold Fish Trophy

If you want a different one than you previously own, you might need to intentionally earn less points as weird as that is! Be sure to login to Pocket Camp as soon as possible after the event to ensure you can claim your trophy prize as there is a limited time period to do so.

Chip Challenges: Treasure Maps and Leaf Tickets

For even more prizes, be sure to check out the Chip Challenges that can accessed by tapping the purple Chip icon on the right side of your screen. By completing Chip Challenges, you can earn special treasure maps for use in Blathers’s Treasure Trek, free Leaf Tickets, and free tourney nets!

Here’s the full list of Chip Challenges available to complete during Fishing Tourney Poolside and their associated rewards:

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Catch More Tourney Fish with the Golden Rod

If you don’t have much time to play and want to be sure to get all of the items from this event, there’s another option. For 80 Leaf Tickets, you can purchase the Golden Rod from Chip to guarantee double catches for all of your tourney fishing for the duration of the event.

With the regular silver fishing rod, there’s only a small chance of about 13% for catching two fish at once. This means you have the chance to make almost twice as much fishing progress with the Golden Rod in the same amount of time.

Is the Golden Rod Worth It?

Based on our rough calculations, we estimate this event will require completing between three to five fishing cycles every day of the event to obtain the final Golden Whale Pool Float item reward using the regular silver fishing rod.

Unfortunately that’s a very wide range of required cycles because luck is a substantial factor here due to both the massive spread of random milestones from 34,000cm to 51,500cm to unlock the final set of rewards, and the size of fish caught in every cycle.

If you don’t feel confident you can complete a full three to five fishing cycles consistently through the entire event, and the final item or two is important to you, it may be worth purchasing the Golden Rod to ensure victory. You’ll also get all of the Reissue Material at the end of the rewards that you may miss out on otherwise, plus plenty of duplicate furniture if you like the theme of this event!

Another option to help your event progress besides the Golden Rod is to purchase the Fishing Tourney Support Pack. The pack comes with one Large Tourney Throw Net, one regular Tourney Throw Net, and 100 Leaf Tickets. Individual Large Tourney Throw Nets can always be purchased for 20 Leaf Tickets.