[quote=“indigorain, post:7356, topic:42”][quote=“Coolthulhu, post:7355, topic:42”]Fishing requires actual spawned fish. Fish monsters. You can sometimes see those in the shallow water.
When there are fish mons, you can both fish and set traps. Fishing with the rod will nail you down to the spot for a while, then either fetch a fish and kill it or tell you you failed.
Trap will trigger after (exactly) 3 hours. If it succeeds, it will select a fish (possibly more than one), despawn it and spawn its corpse on the trap. Has better chances if there are fish in range, but can “fetch” a fish that isn’t currently in game (low chance, though). Regardless of success, it wastes some charges (bait).
tl;dr Find fish monsters, fish near them.[/quote]
Wow. Okay. When you say monster, you mean that they are under the category of “Monsters” instead of wildlife. Is that correct? I’ve been playing with classic zombies only–too much frustration with having a mi-go and flaming eye spawn near my starting points has made me select this other option. So, that means to fish, I must have all monsters/creatures available.
Or are fish creatures just extremely rare?[/quote]
They should have the WILDLIFE tag and therefore be included in Classic; conversely, there’s nothing preventing others in the world from killing 'em. Try not to lead the zeds to your fishing spot. 
