There are a ton of different species in the game that are typical for the waters of the Northern Hemisphere. Each species have their distinct habitat and behaviour that may change between the seasons. Topics like this will be handled little more in this section. Maximum weights are all approximate values. Also depths are general guidelines for preferred depths where each species can be caught.

Most of the fish in the game have swarm behaviour, and the game relies on kind of an area system where this area consists of these swarms. Swarms move inside these areas that have fish from 1 to a lot of fish. Swarms can move around pretty much the whole lake and they may change their position depending on multiple factors, like for example season, time of day. Of course depth and other environmental circumstances have an affect what fish can be inside a specific swarm.


Max weight: 8 kg / 18 lb Depth: Shallow
Asps live in brackish and fresh water environments. It prefers large lakes and streams and lives near the surface. Their diet consists mainly of other fish, but younger asps may also eat larvae and other small aquatic animals. In Europe they can be met north of the Alps and east from the river Rhine.


Max weight: 2 kg / 5 lb Depth: Medium
Black crappie is a typical fish for the North American continent. They like waters with as little current as possible and school in clear waters with lots of places to hide. Crappies feed in the morning and very late in the evening after midnight, which are the best times to catch them.


Max weight: 2 kg / 5 lb Depth: Medium
Bluegills are one of the species in the game that are typical for North American continent. It lives in streams, rivers, lakes, and ponds and likes an environment where it has a lot of hiding places. It can live both in shallow and deep waters, but they do not like direct sunlight.


Max weight: 6 kg / 13 lb Depth: Shallow-Medium
Breams can be met in most parts of Europe north of the Alps and as far east as Aral Sea. Younger breams like to live in shallow water, but older breams favor deeper waters. In both cases breams like to school near the where they mainly find their food. However, breams are very omnivore species and eats almost anything except other fish.


Max weight: 3 kg / 6 lb Depth: Shallow
Brook trouts are originally from North America, but have been bought into Europe in the late 1900s. They are sensitive species which prefers clear and very pure waters. However, they live in wide range of environments including lakes of all sizes, rivers, streams, creeks, and spring ponds. Their diet includes mainly on smaller aquatic invertebrates, but they eat also smaller fish.


Max weight: 8kg / 18 lb Depth: Shallow
Naturally brown trouts live in all over Europe excluding the most southern parts, but it has been planted to many other areas like for example North and South America, some Asian and African countries and even in New Zealand and Australia. They live in lakes, rivers, creeks and seas. Brown trouts eat all kinds of aquatic invertebrates and smaller fish. The diet depends on the age of the fish, but also their habitats. In smaller creeks brown trouts tend to be smaller than in areas that are connected to bigger water areas.


Max weight: 5 kg / 12 lb Depth: Near the bottom
Burbots can be found in the most areas in Northern America, Europe and Northern Asia and they prefers fresh waters even though they can survive in brackish waters. Spawning time is in the mid winter and then they come near the shore to shallow water to spawn. Other times of the year burbots are found in the colder waters of the deeper basins and may live even as deep as over hundred meters or few hundred feets.


Max weight: 3 kg / 7 lb Depth: Shallow - Medium
A European fresh water fish that is known as European chub in Northern America. It likes lush and muddy waters that are still or slowly flowing. It primarily eats small aquatic invertebrates, but includes also water plants. Bigger fish may also eat smaller fish, frogs and even water voles.


Max weight: 5 kg / 11 lb Depth: Medium - Deep
Crucian carp is found widely from Western Europe to Russia. It is exceptionally tough species which can survive even in the low oxygen lakes, which can even freeze from the surface to bottom during winter. Crucian carps typically favor deeper waters and is not encountered near the surface or in shallow waters.


Max weight: 5 kg / 11 lb Depth: Deep
Eels have very distinct snake like shape. Eels have spread into coastal areas and drainage basins of sea areas in Europe and Northern Africa. Eels move mostly at night and near the bottom. During winter they may dig themselves into bottom and go into hibernation.


Max weight: 8 kg / 18 lb Depth: Near Bottom
Definitely one of the strangest looking fish in the game is flounder. They live near the bottom and during wintertime they retire to very deep basins, even to over a 100 meters or 300 feet. Other times of the year they live in shallow water. Flounders are usually salt water or brackish water fish, but may endure also fresh water environment.


Max weight: 4 kg / 10 lb Depth: Near Surface
Ide is mainly a northern Eurasian fresh water species. They eat invertebrates from the bottom, but older and bigger fish may also hunt smaller fish. During winter ide schools deeper. Excluding the spawning time after an ice run during springtime, ide schools in open waters on larger lakes and also on the sea. It lives in deeper waters during winter and near the surface during other seasons.

Max weight: 3 kg / 8 lb Depth: Medium
Perch can be found almost everywhere in Europe and in Russia. Typically perch lies in a shallow water, but during mid winter they like to suspend over deep waters or move to deep basin. On a good moment when perch is in a feeding frenzy, it is possible to catch a fish every time when lowering a jig into water in the middle of perch school. During these moments they can basically eat anything, so fast to use equipment are good to have in these situations.


Max weight: 20 kg / 44 lb Depth: Shallow - Deep
Pike is a highly territorial species and they act aggressively if other fish of the same species try to move into their living space. It is also one of the biggest predators found from the fresh waters and it can grow very big and it is found most of the waters on northern hemisphere in Europe, Asia and North-America. Biggest pikes can be caught from the deep waters, but typically they live in weedy shallow waters where there are lots of places to hide. Also clear rocky waters are good places for pike to lie and wait for their prey.


Max weight: 3 kg / 7 lb Depth: Shallow - Deep
Prussian carps originate from as far east as Amur river in Siberia. They have been planted around Europe and lives in fresh and brackish water environments. Its main diet are invertebrates from the bottom.


Max weight: 10 kg / 23 lb Depth: Medium
Originally from North-America, but has been since brought to Europe. Similarly to brook trout it likes streaming and not very deep waters, but is a rare fish to meet free outside fish farming areas. It eats insects and their larvae, worms and small fish.


Max weight: 1 kg / 2 lb Depth: Shallow - Medium
Roach has spread everywhere in the Northern Europe and it lives both in fresh and brackish water environments. During winter it retires deeper near the bottom. Roaches typically live in schools and they can even mix into schools of other species. The main diet is vegetation based, but they also eat small worms and larvae. What comes to the habitat, roach is not a demanding fish. It can be met in all kind of environments, but it favors shallow lush and warm waters.


Max weight: 0.5 kg / 1 lb Depth: Shallow
Rudd is a widespread species all over the world. However, they like warmer climates, so they are not met at the most northern waters of the globe. Rudds prefer shallow weedy areas in lakes and river backwaters. Grown rudds feed on aquatic plants, but younger eat also zooplankton, aquatic insects and occasional small fish.


Max weight: 0.2 kg / 0.5 lb Depth: Shallow
Ruffe is a very common small slimy fish and typical for most areas in Europe and northern Asia excluding the most northern waters. They like to move near the bottom searching something to eat. They especially like chironomidae larvae.


Max weight: 30 kg / 66 lb Depth: Medium - Deep
Salmons can grow very big and they are mainly found from the seas. They spawn in rivers where they travel only to reproduct. On the sea they are predatorial species and their diet mainly consist of other fish. Although, during the river phase young salmons also eat aquatic invertebrates from the bottom.


Max weight: 4 kg / 9 lb Depth: Shallow - Medium
Tench are spread widely in Eurasia from Western Europe to as far east as Yenisei River. Tench prefers slow-moving fresh water rivers and lakes and lives near the bottom. They feed mostly at night and the diet consists of aquatic invertebrates it finds from the bottom. The very round shape makes it easy to identify from other fish.


Max weight: 10 kg / 23 lb Depth: Shallow - Medium
Whitefish is a very diverse species and unique in a way that they do not have so homogenous behaviour than other species. However, they like pure cold waters that are rich from oxygen. Young whitefish eat plankton, but as they grow older their diet will become more diverse with small fish, larvae and other small aquatic animals.


Max weight: 10 kg / 23 lb Depth: Medium - Deep
Familiar fish especially in Central and Northern Europe. Zander resembles and is closely related to walleye, which is more familiar to North American fishermen. Youngest zanders eat mostly plankton, but soon they turn into predators whose main diet are other fish. It likes to school in warmer waters, but bigger zanders may also move by themselves. During winter they go to deeper basins, but during other seasons they school nearer to the surface where their prey also is.


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