Fishing in Discovery Online can be quite an experiance! no, honestly! Its strangly calmes the nerves in the intrepid seas, filled with wicked piretes: stoic as regards to merder in there attempts too terrorize the worlds nations.... Sorry did i get carried away there! Regardless of its plesure giving qualities fishing also has other advantages. fishing is the pricipal means of collecting materials used too upgrade ship parts. and also is the ONLY way of getting hold of fish cards.

1. Basic Fishing

	In order too fish you will need to purchace a fishing net or pole. Fishing is done out at sea, so you will also need to be on your boat when you do it. To purchace a net or pole return to the dockyard master in a birth town (visit: London - Dockyard master mary; Lisbon - Dockyard Master Lilisa; Sevilla - Dockyard Master Daineya; Hangzhou - Dockyard Master Xia Zhou; In-cheon - Dockyard Master Cui Xiarong; Suzhou - Dockyard Master Wang Yuexi) and select Buy ship parts from the menu.
	Or if its a net your looking for, get a much bettre one from the Item mall. this one you can purchase from any where at any time. all you need to do is buy some jango points.
	You can right-click on your net/pole straght from your ships' cabin. Or you can load it onto the shortcut bar, by draging and dropping it. To use your item in the shortcut bar right-click it or press the related number or function key(in the example image my net is in F1 , and my pole is doing into F2). This will stay in place untill you lose connection to the server other than quitting the game, this can happen if your online when we shutdown the game server or if your client shuts down due too a bug.
	This is a school of fish that require the fishing net too recult. We call it a sparkling school! Whilst sailing, as in you MUST be in movment, (hint ;)) even if its just fast enough too follow the schools' movment. Once you have activated the net you will see the casting circle. aim the cast circle as close too the sparkle as possible. and cast the net.
	Once you have taken aim left click to cast your net and start catching fish. Whilst catching the loading bar will show your progress. I find that I get better results casting just before the sparkle shows so that the sparkle is visible whilst the net is in the water but that could just be a coincidence.
	This is a school of fish that require the fishing pole too recult. We call it a flyer school! Whilst NOT moving you can casting your line. Aim the line for directly under the flyer fish Icon for a better catch.
	When i fish I direct the Camera directly downwards this helps me aim. When cast an extra circle apears this also helps too aim for the center. Once you have caught all the fish in that zone you will see a message in the text zone telling you.
	Once your ship is fully loaded with fish, take your catch back to port, only system towns have fishmongers, represented by the two fish Icon, speak too him and he will help you open up your fish for a great many bonus items including fish cards that you can collect, read more below to find out more.

Remember to have some free space in your ship's cargo-hold to fill with fishes.
Fishing gives you experience! And is peacefull way to earn it =)

2. Fishing skills

Fishing Skills will boost your fishing abilities, making you fish more faster and get more and bettre items from openning them. However, you will have to sacrifice some of your other skills as you can only have your level+10 skill points! Click here too see a list of the fishing skills and there descriptions. Or go to the character page too find out more on skills

3. Fish card collection

IWhen you fish you can sometimes collect fish-cards eather by the quests given by the fisherman or by random drops from disecting fish. Each card has a rarety value. Once a page of the card collection book is full your "total rarity degree" will show you the levels you have access too.

You will need a full page and a total rarety value of 6 to have access to the first level ability.
You will need a full page and a total rarety value of 12 th ahve access to the 2nd and 1st level abilities.
You will need a full page and a total rarety value of 18 th ahve access to the 3rd, 2nd and 1st level abilities.
You will need a full page and a total rarety value of 24 th ahve access to the 4th, 3rd, 2nd and 1st level abilities.
You will need a full page and a total rarety value of 30 th ahve access to the 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd and 1st level abilities.

Once you are able to open an ability click on open in the bottom left hand corner of the book's page. you can only have one ablilty open on each page so choose carefully. here are a list of all the abilities you can get for each page.