Anyone looking to upgrade their Stardew Valley fishing skills will need three things to do so: patience, a better fishing rod, and some bait. While bait is pretty easy to come by in the game, it might be a little difficult to figure out how to use it. But if players want to catch the best legendary fish in Stardew Valley, they'll need the leg up from the bait.

Catching fish in Stardew Valley is much easier when players can bait their rods, but first, they will have to make the bait. Bait is made from Bug Meat, and Magic Bait can be made from one Radioactive Ore and three Bug Meat. Bug Meat is dropped by any bug-class of monster, including Cave Flies, Grubs, and other Bugs. Radioactive Ore is found in The Mines and Skull Cavern.

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Bait, when attached to a fishing rod in Stardew Valley, makes fish bite faster. Magic Bait not only makes fish bite faster, but also allows a player to fish for any type of fish that comes from the type of water they throw the line into, even if the season or time of day is not the correct ones to find that particular fish type.

So, for example, Super Cucumbers are fish in Stardew Valley that can only be caught at night during the Summer or Fall in the Ocean. A magic bait would let this very rare fish be caught in the ocean, during the day or at night, any season of the year.

In order to bait a rod, players first have to have upgraded to a rod that has a slot for bait. The Bamboo Fishing rod is great for starting out and beginning to level up the fishing skill in Stardew Valley, but players cannot use bait with this basic kind of pole. However, when a player upgrades to either the Fiberglass Rod or Iridium Rod, these each have a slot for bait. The Iridium Rod has an additional slot too, for a lure.

Adding bait to the rod requires the use of the Use Tool key in Stardew Valley. For PC users, the Use Tool button is right click, for Switch players it is Y, X for Xbox users, and Square for PlayStation users. Push the Use Tool button on the bait to attach it to the rod. Now players just need to sit back, play the fishing mini-game, and hope to catch all the Largemouth Bass they need to complete all the Stardew Valley villager quests.

Stardew Valley is available now on Mobile, PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One.

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