CELESTAY: Lures, Fish, and Records Guide

A guide to all the lures, fish, and records in CELESTAY and how to acquire them.

CELESTAY: Lures, Fish, and Records Guide

Lures

Lure	How to get it	What it is for
Fishhook	You start the game with it.	Nothing requires it. It is the weakest lure.
Wooden	Fishing shop for 15. Available from the start.	No fish needs it exclusively. For Idle Fishing or Skill Fishing: Perfect!, it is the best way to catch the fish that only the Wooden and Good lures can land: Rustfeeder, Mimic Surgeonfish, Foxface, Venustus, Barracuda, Crack Serpent, Ocean sunfish, Yellowtail snapper, Bluefin trevally, Redtoothed triggerfish.
Good	Fishing shop for 100. Unlocks at building height 35.	The only lure for 8 fish: Wailrot, Flagfin angelfish, Humphead wrasse, Blue dragon, Lobster, Seahorse, Yellowfin tuna, Largehead hairtail. Most of them need Skill Fishing: Great!.
Magnetic	Fishing shop for 50. Unlocks at building height 15.	A salvage lure, used mostly for treasures (records and memories). Until you own the Last Lantern record, it makes that record almost certain at 17–100 m. Nothing is exclusive to it.
Dream	The Sentry gives it in his 4th dialogue, which appears once you own the Red gemstone ring.	The only lure for the Oarfish (91–93 m) and the Salt Prayer record (88 m). It is also the top pick for many shallow and mid-depth fish with Idle Fishing or Skill Fishing: Perfect!.
Quiet	Reward for the Fishing Maniac’s Oarfish quest. Once you catch the Oarfish, he comes back by boat.	The only lure for the Sawshark, Echohearer, and Mahi-mahi. It is also the best choice for the Coelacanth, Footballfish, and Goblin shark.

The deep-sea lures unlock one after another:

Get the Red gemstone ring. You need a building height of at least 40 and the Magnetic lure equipped. Depth does not matter. After that, the Sentry’s dialogue gives you the Dream lure.
That dialogue brings the Fishing Maniac on his first visit. He gives you the quest “I’d like you to catch an oarfish…”
Catch the Oarfish with the Dream lure. The Fishing Maniac returns and hands you the Quiet lure.

Fish

Page	Top left	Top right	Bottom left	Bottom right
1	Japanese Horse Mackerel	Siltlurker	Wailrot	Rustfeeder
2	Moon jellyfish	Lionfish	Mimic Surgeonfish	Red Sea Bream
3	Blackspotted Puffer	Benimokuzu	Orange-band surgeonfish	Blue-green damselfish
4	Foxface rabbitfish	Bluespine unicornfish	Venustus angelfish	Flagfin angelfish
5	Humpback grouper	Falco hawkfish	Bird wrasse	Bluefin trevally
6	Great barracuda	Black scraper	African pompano	Redtoothed triggerfish
7	Crack Serpent	Sawshark	Coelacanth	Humphead wrasse
8	Ocean sunfish	Echohearer	Blue dragon	Lobster
9	Sea slug	Seahorse	Roosterfish	Hogfish
10	Yellowfin tuna	John Dory	Footballfish	Oarfish
11	Lookdown	Yellowtail snapper	Mahi-mahi	Largehead hairtail
12	Goblin shark	Japanese sea nettle	Sea robin	—

Best Lure and Depth for Each Fish

Idle Fishing and Skill Fishing: Perfect! are in one column because they both use the normal catch table. To get a Perfect!, stop the moving bobber on the tiny orange stripe in the fishing mini-game. It is the hardest spot to hit, but one hit finishes the catch on the spot.

The orange stripe does not show up on every cast. It appears more often the deeper you fish.

Skill Fishing: Great! means stopping the bobber inside the blue area. As you go deeper, the blue area shrinks and you need more hits in a row. At 100 m, a Great! takes 4 consecutive hits on the smallest blue area.

In the two method columns, each cell gives the lure and depth with the best odds. A dash (—) means that method cannot catch the fish.

Lures that can catch it includes every lure with any chance at the fish, across all depths and methods. Some of those chances are tiny, so a lure in this column is not always worth using. When only one lure is named, you must use it.

#	Fish	Idle Fishing / Skill Fishing: Perfect!	Skill Fishing: Great!	Lures that can catch it
1	Japanese Horse Mackerel	—	Dream, 3–5 m	All except Good
2	Siltlurker	Dream, 76–80 m	Quiet, 100 m	Any
3	Wailrot	—	Good, 100 m	Good
4	Rustfeeder	Wooden, 16 m	Wooden, 46–50 m	Wooden, Good
5	Moon jellyfish	Quiet, 16 m	Good, 16 m	Any
6	Lionfish	Dream, 36–40 m	Good, 51–55 m	Any
7	Mimic Surgeonfish	Wooden, 3–5 m	Wooden, 41–45 m	Wooden, Good
8	Red Sea Bream	—	Good, 81–87 m	Wooden, Good
9	Blackspotted Puffer	Dream, 81–87 m	Good, 91–93 m	Any
10	Benimokuzu	Dream, 41–45 m	Good, 71–75 m	Any
11	Orange-band surgeonfish	Dream, 26–30 m	Good, 41–45 m	Any
12	Blue-green damselfish	Dream, 10–15 m	Good, 6–9 m	Any
13	Foxface rabbitfish	Wooden, 26–30 m	Wooden, 51–55 m	Wooden, Good
14	Bluespine unicornfish	Dream, 36–40 m	Good, 46–50 m	Any
15	Venustus angelfish	Wooden, 36–40 m	Wooden, 61–65 m	Wooden, Good
16	Flagfin angelfish	—	Good, 36–40 m	Good
17	Humpback grouper	Dream, 31–35 m	Wooden, 56–60 m	Any
18	Falco hawkfish	Dream, 3–5 m	Dream, 10–15 m	Any
19	Bird wrasse	Dream, 6–9 m	Dream, 21–25 m	Any
20	Bluefin trevally	Wooden, 81–87 m	Good, 94–99 m	Wooden, Good
21	Great barracuda	Wooden, 100 m	—	Wooden, Good
22	Black scraper	Dream, 51–55 m	Quiet, 89–90 m	Any
23	African pompano	Wooden, 17–20 m	Good, 17–20 m	Any
24	Redtoothed triggerfish	Wooden, 76–80 m	Wooden, 94–99 m	Wooden, Good
25	Crack Serpent	Wooden, 100 m	Good, 89–90 m	Wooden, Good
26	Sawshark	Quiet, 76–80 m	Quiet, 88 m	Quiet
27	Coelacanth	Quiet, 94–99 m	Quiet, 94–99 m	Good, Quiet
28	Humphead wrasse	Good, 89–90 m	Good, 100 m	Good
29	Ocean sunfish	Wooden, 89–90 m	Wooden, 71–75 m	Wooden, Good
30	Echohearer	Quiet, 91–93 m	Quiet, 89–90 m	Quiet
31	Blue dragon	—	Good, 100 m	Good
32	Lobster	—	Good, 66–70 m	Good
33	Sea slug	—	Good, 56–60 m	Wooden, Good
34	Seahorse	—	Good, 36–40 m	Good
35	Roosterfish	Dream, 16 m	Fishhook, 16 m	Fishhook, Good, Dream
36	Hogfish	Dream, 56–60 m	Good, 76–80 m	Any
37	Yellowfin tuna	Good, 100 m	Good, 100 m	Good
38	John Dory	Dream, 100 m	Good, 100 m	Any
39	Footballfish	Quiet, 100 m	Quiet, 94–99 m	Good, Quiet
40	Oarfish	Dream, 91–93 m	Dream, 91–93 m	Dream
41	Lookdown	Dream, 56–60 m	Quiet, 94–99 m	Any
42	Yellowtail snapper	Wooden, 94–99 m	—	Wooden, Good
43	Mahi-mahi	Quiet, 76–80 m	Quiet, 94–99 m	Quiet
44	Largehead hairtail	Good, 51–55 m	—	Good
45	Goblin shark	Quiet, 100 m	Quiet, 100 m	Good, Quiet
46	Japanese sea nettle	—	Good, 100 m	Any
47	Sea robin	Good, 21–25 m	Good, 21–25 m	Wooden, Good

Catch all 47 fish to unlock the Marine Life Expert achievement.

Records

#	Song	Artist	How to get it
1	Tidebound Memories	Elliot Rowan	You have it from the start of the game.
2	Waterworn Names	Samuel Hart	Buy it from the Shopper for 40. It shows up in the Shopper’s random item slot until you own it.
3	Last Lantern	Noah Bennett	Fish with the Magnetic lure at 17–100 m. With any fishing method, it is almost certain.
4	Letters That Never Arrived	Oliver Crane	A special catch on any lure at any depth once your building height is at least 1. It comes very early.
5	After the Kingdom	Miles Carter	The Musician gives it on their 2nd visit. That visit comes after you build the pipes playing music prop, which unlocks at building height 67.
6	Salt Prayer	Julian Frost	Fish with the Dream lure at exactly 88 m. Any fishing method makes it almost certain.
7	Buried Choir	Theo Williams	Woody gives it on his 4th visit. That visit needs his 3rd dialogue and the memory A small key, and it follows a short while later.

Get all 7 records to unlock the Record Collector achievement.