How to Become a Child Again Oot

Below is a complete guide for the Angling Pond in Ocarina of Time. This includes a guide on how to collect the Piece of Heart, Aureate Scale, and the elusive Hylian Loach.

Where

Angling Swimming Locations at Lake Hylia

The Angling Hole is constitute in the north-eastern expanse of Lake Hylia. As a child, Link tin achieve information technology every bit presently every bit he leaves Kokiri Forest. As an adult, while the Lake Hylia is drained, he'll need the Hookshot and the Scarecrow's Song to achieve the entrance, or he must have planted the Magic Bean. Subsequently on, once Link has cleared the Water Temple, the water level of the lake will rise, allowing him to just swim over to the Fishing Pond once more.

Afterward paying 20 Rupees to the Fishing Hole Man, Link can fish for every bit long as he wants, but will have to render the line-fishing rod when leaving, and pay again when returning.

How to Fish

Later on getting the line-fishing rod from the Fishing Pigsty Man, aim for the water and press B to cast. You can target the fish to aim directly at them, but yous'll take to choose your distance by pressing A and the Command Stick in order to finish it in its tracks.

Fishing:

A: Reel line in.
A + R: Reel in faster.
Z/L: Zooms in and out.
B: Tugs the line (attracts fish).
Command Stick: Wiggles the line in a direction.

Hooked:

Nada: Releases fish.
A: Reel line in / Sets the hook.
Z/L: Zooms in and out.
Control Stick: Pull line in direction.

The general idea is to target a fish, make it a good position, cast with B, so employ A + Command Stick to end the line before information technology gets too far. When you become near your fish, use a combination of B and the Control Stick to jerk your lure around. The all-time way is to wiggle a flake, terminate, repeat.

In one case a fish catches on to your line, never release the A push. Agree down on the command stick and never release the control stick. As long as you continuously hold the A push button and agree down on the control stick, at that place is a good chance that the fish will usually non get abroad from you. It might take a couple of minutes to reel in the largest fish, and then just be patient.

If a different fish than the i you are trying to catch snags your line, only printing cypher and the fish will permit go. If you miss your target fish or terminate upwards going as well far, apply A + R to reel in chop-chop and endeavor over again.

You lot tin only hold one fish at a time, so concur onto one and keep trying until you lot're sure you have the biggest ane around.

Biggest Fish

The biggest fob to finding the biggest fish is to realize that each fish starts out in the same identify each time you enter the pond. As long as you don't jump in the water and scare them to the deep water, y'all can hands pick out specific fish.

That beingness said, the biggest fish can always exist found near the arched log, but a little towards the three poles sticking out of the water. Target it in one case you lot find information technology, but be careful not to scare it away!

The best way to catch the largest fish, either every bit a child or equally an developed, is once you walk into the pond, walk to the left around the pond and then advisedly make your way so you lot are standing on summit of the arched log near the center of the pond. Bandage your line while standing on the biconvex log, that fashion once the fish catches on, y'all don't demand to pull it very far at all.

Besides, the size of the fish tends to exist a footling larger than the "tape fish" in the tank, then if the "biggest fish" was originally 15 pounds and you caught information technology, the next one would be around 18 pounds and then on.

Stand on the arched log
Reel it in
Works equally an Developed as well
Catch the Biggest Fish

The Prizes

Past: ten+ Pounds - Piece of a Centre
Hereafter: xiii+ Pounds - Golden Scale
Hyliyan Loach: Any - 50 Rupees

Tips & Tricks

DON'T SCARE THE FISH! They run to the deepest role of the pond if they go scared. This will also clutter all of the fish near where the largest fish is located, making information technology hard to catch it.
You tin can apply the Atomic number 26 Boots to go on your feet downwardly while y'all Z target your fish. You can also cast the line as long as your head is above the water.

Frenzied Fish

Right earlier the sun sets and rises, footling fish come out, causing all the others to get into a frenzy and chase afterwards them. All the fish are very easy to catch at this fourth dimension. In one case they've eaten a little fish, they'll calm downwardly for most 30 seconds earlier starting upwardly again. After a certain fourth dimension, the little fish disappear and the frenzy stops.

Now, in some means, this is the easiest time to fish, merely in others, it's too the hardest. Information technology'due south especially useful for catching the legendary Hylian Loach. Simply, information technology'due south also INCREDIBLY hard to come at the perfect time when, non only are the fish frenzied, but the Loach is there.

Also, it'southward probably easier to find and catch the biggest fish the regular way, since the little ones won't make it the manner and constantly snag your line that way.

The Sinking Lure

Subsequently catching a ten-pounder (past) or 13 pounds (futurity), you'll be able to discover the Sinking Lure. Information technology tin can be constitute in a few locations but yous'll accept to find it over again every fourth dimension you leave. It'south invisible, then only walk around the following areas until you find it:

In the shallow stream, against the wall
Side by side to the three rocks at the end of the feeder stream.
In the grass on the outside wall, near a pair of rocks.
On the arched log.

Notation, you have to go and get the Sinking Lure immediately once you pay to play. If you beginning fishing or walk around in the swimming right when you enter, the Sinking Lure will simply no longer announced. You'll take to leave the Line-fishing Pond and re-enter to get information technology. I recommend always checking the shallow stream first, staying against the outer wall. This manner you don't scare equally many fish to the eye of the pond.

After you get the Sinking Lure, communicable the really big fish volition go a sinch, as all the fish admittedly love this thing. It'south especially useful for catching the infamous, Hylian Loach. But sadly all the fish you catch with it are deemed illegal. Unless of course you say pretty please to the Fisherman.

You tin keep the fish you lot catch with the Sinking Lure past talking with the fisherman and choosing "Let'southward talk most something." Later on that, get ahead and counterbalance your fish and he'll permit y'all keep information technology.

Discover the Sinking Lure
Larn the Sinking Lure

Hylian Loach

This eel-similar fish is very rare and weighs a lot! The prize for getting it is a measly 50 Rupees, but it sure does feel good to know you did it.

Basic Behavior

The Hylian Loach volition appear every 4th time you enter the Fishing Pond and pay the 20 rupee admission fee. Therefore, your 4th, 8th, 12th, etc. paid admission will take at least one Hylian Loach. The Hylian Loach likewise cycles in multiples of 4 when returning to the shallows from the deep. Link will hear a "thwap" sound on top of the h2o every couple of minutes then returns to the deep. On the fourth, 8th, etc. the Hylian Loach will move to the shallows underneath the pond's correct or left patch of lily pads. While in the shallows, the Hylian Loach makes very distinct swirls in the h2o as it's chasing Link's lure.

The Hylian Loach can be defenseless with both the Sinking Lure (simply as Developed Link) and regular lure. The regular lure is only constructive at catching the Hylian Loach in the shallows of the lily pads, while the Sinking Lure (used as Adult Link) is able to take hold of it anywhere.

Locations and Strategies

Child Link

Kid Link has 2 Hylian Loaches in his pond. When you enter the pond, the start Hylian Loach is located well-nigh the dorsum of the right patch of lily pads while the second Hylian Loach is in the left lily pad patch near the back. As kid Link, the Hylian Loach will merely seize with teeth the regular lure and can but be caught in shallow water. Child Link is unable to catch the Hylian Loach with the Sinking Lure.

Adult Link

As Adult Link at that place is only ane Hylian Loach in the swimming. Equally y'all enter the pond, the Hylian Loach is located near the back of the left lily pad patch. It will always get-go there unless you scare it off, at which point information technology volition then travel closer to the center of the pond and start the aforementioned "thwap" cycle.

At the bottom of the Swimming
On the line
Reel it in
Take hold of the Loach

The Fisherman

As an adult you'll observe that the Fisherman is wearing a hat and a new rule has been posted that reads "4. Don't cast at anyone." At present, if you can cast at the Fisherman just right yous'll snag his hat and pull information technology off his head, revealing that he'south gone bald in the past 7 years. Y'all can at present either requite it back, or throw it in the water for which he'll yell at you, so fine you 50 rupees. If you threw it in the water it'll exist gone forever and every fourth dimension you come back it'll still exist gone. At present don't you feel bad?

Fisherman With a Chapeau
Fisherman Without a Lid
Fisherman Baldheaded