How to Fish Island Order Walkthrough: Navigation, Radar Blips, and Boss Unlocks
Navigating through How to Fish involves conquering five distinct campaign islands in sequential order, defeating territorial boss encounters, and returning specific trophies to local quest NPCs.
Exploring the archipelago in How to Fish requires mastering the shipboard Radar, as the game provides no traditional map screen. Unlocked destinations appear on the instrument as distinct colored blips across open water. The campaign spans five main islands arranged in a navigational loop roughly 900 to 1100 meters apart: the Lighthouse appears as a grey dot, the Forest shines as a green dot, the Desert shows as a sand-coloured dot, the Rocks show as a red dot, and the Volcano glows as a magenta dot. Landmasses materialize visually once your vessel arrives within about 240 meters, or 260 meters for the volcanic peak.
The journey begins on the Lighthouse island where your boat originally washes ashore. Talk to the lighthouse keeper resting on the bench, buy the Knife to dispatch beach crabs, and prepare for the Spider Crab boss encounter. After defeating the crustacean, preserve its unique trophy drop rather than selling it for meat, and hand it to the keeper to receive the boat keys. Sailing northeast brings you to the green dot of the Forest island, home to the Swamp Daughter. Here, you must collect five leeches on Island 2 scattered across dry paths to advance quest objectives toward the giant piranha.
Handing the Giant Piranha skeleton to the Swamp Daughter awards a flash drive containing coordinates to the third campaign stop: the Desert island. Navigating toward the sand-coloured blip reveals arid terrain where a tourist NPC rests beneath a coconut palm. This stop features the Grillmaster cooking station alongside the venomous Pufferfish encounter. Defeat the inflated creature by dodging its telegraphed lunges and claim the prized pufferfish fin, which you must trade to the tourist to secure your next navigational heading.
The tourist hands over navigation data leading to the red blip of the Rocks island. This rugged stop hosts a gun store, the Lucky Bait casino on the hilltop, and the Seagull NPC waiting inside the bait shop. Players trigger the aerial confrontation against the Albatross battle here. Fight from beneath hut roofs to block diving strikes, fell the bird with shotgun blasts, and retrieve the albatross head. Presenting the head to the Seagull NPC yields a flash drive unlocking the fifth and final campaign sector.
Steer your vessel toward the magenta blip marking the Volcano island, the ultimate destination of the expedition. A scientist stationed in a hazard suit guards the crater base near military supply caches and a roulette wheel. The endgame demands conquering the colossal Bowhead Whale and its devastating second phase, the Mutated Bowhead Whale. Take shelter along the right-side house wall to evade aerial body slams, firing upward during hover intervals to conclude the story and unlock the military boat ride home.