Sturgeon & Stringfish
With the easier fish out of the way, let’s move onto the rarer ones. The Sturgeon is a large, alligator-like fish that’s rather picky about where it will appear. It can only be caught in a small stretch of your town’s river, right at the point where it meets the ocean, as seen below.
Unfortunately, it’s also one of the rarer fish in the game, making this window a bit more dire. On the bright side though, it can be found at any time of day, and it’s larger-than-average silhouette makes it pretty easy to identify.
Set aside plenty of bait and time for river mouth fishing, and you should be able to turn one in to Blathers before they disappear until September.
Of the critters leaving Animal Crossing: New Horizons at the end of March, the Stringfish is the toughest catch of the bunch, with a lot of factors that contribute to it’s rarity.
For starters, it’s only found in clifftop water, like the picture below, meaning that you’ll need to have a ladder before even getting an opportunity. Next, like the Football Fish, it only spawns during the 4PM to 9AM timeframe, and it’s a rare spawn even during those times.
Add that to the fact that once it leaves, it will be gone until December, and it becomes clear why this particular fish is in such high demand. We figure a lot of players will want to make the Stringfish priority #1 of the March exodus.
The one good thing about the Stringfish is that its larger shadow is easy to spot, but you’ll probably need a bucketful of bait to ensure you get one before it swims off to distant shores.
