How to Fish Money Guide: Prices, the Crab Farm and the Roulette

31 August 2026 · 4 min read

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Money in How to Fish is unevenly distributed: on the first island you count every hundred, by the fourth you are counting thousands. Below are the prices you actually pay, and three earning methods that work at different stages of the game.

What things cost

Those numbers set the rhythm of the game: the first two islands run on hundreds, the third and fourth on thousands, the fifth demands tens of thousands.

Stage 1: mussels and the first few hundred

At the start you own nothing but the crab rod. The fastest money is mussels off the rocks: picked by hand, no bait required, worth about 60 a run. That is exactly enough for the first boss bait at 40.

⚠️ Do not spend your first money on fishing gear. The 10 radar and the 150 shotgun pay for themselves faster than any lure.

Stage 2: cooked fish instead of raw

The simplest income multiplier in the game: cooked fish is worth roughly 1.5 times raw.

The mechanic is simple — put the fish on the grill and hold F. But there are two traps:

1. Fish can burn. A burnt one loses value rather than gaining it. Take it off in time.
2. The grill has to be lit first. That is the «Grillmaster» achievement — 80.3% of players have it, so nearly everyone does it, just not immediately.

If you fish with the professional lure and cook the whole catch, income from the same amount of time rises by half with no extra cost.

Stage 3: the crab farm

This is the strongest method in the game, and it breaks the late-island economy.

The loop:

1. Return to the first island and buy a lot of beer.
2. Hand the beer to the old man on the bench — each bottle yields an empty can, which is the spider crab bait.
3. Summon the boss, kill it in ~5 seconds (trivial with a proper weapon) and collect a shell and three crab sticks.
4. Repeat.

What that gets you:

• Shells — an expensive item and fuel for the slot machine.
• Crab sticks restore 100% hunger and health even raw — food stops being an expense entirely.
• Seagulls do not steal boss meat, unlike ordinary fish.

Side bonus: killing a boss in under 10 seconds unlocks the «Easy» achievement (32.5% of players).

Stage 4: the roulette

The last two islands have tables with a green bet paying x35. It is the only way to turn thousands into hundreds of thousands.

The «All in» achievement (winning on green) sits at 38.0% — not rare, because plenty of people try the bet.

«Rich! Millionaire» — selling something for 100,000 or more — is at just 17.2%. The reliable route: stake a fish worth around 3,000 and win on green. x35 of 3,000 already clears 100,000.

⚠️ Patch 1.0.10 fixed the roulette spinning forever and the ball clipping through the level. Older guides built on roulette exploits no longer apply.

What to spend it on

In priority order:

1. Shotgun (150) — to progress through the islands at all.
2. Boat engine (230), then the best engine — the «I am speed» achievement (62.3%). The basic upgrade unlocks «Getting an upgrade» (86.5%).
3. SMG with attachments (≈2,500) — the mid-game workhorse.
4. Assault rifle (≈85,000) — the endgame.

A detailed breakdown of what is genuinely worth buying is in the weapons guide.

Next

How the kill bonus system works — killscore. The full boss chain is here. If you are just starting, start here.