Three-Eyed Fish

Found in 1 fishing area across 1 zone. Bites on 3 different baits.

Large fish
Skill cap81Fish level for skill-ups and loss chance
Rod strengthrank 25Rods with a lower max rank risk snaps and breaks
SizeLargeSmall rods take a penalty
NPC price487–512 gilLowest to highest fame
RarityUncommon50% weight in its catch pool

Recommended setup

≈30% of casts land Three-Eyed Fish
Qufim Island · Southwest Seaside
  • Ties the best odds of any spot
Slice of Cod
  • Three-Eyed Fish is 76.5% of fish bites there
  • Used up on each catch
Composite Rod
  • Breaks 1 in 30 casts here (Three-Eyed Fish); no rod that lands it as often is safer
  • Lands Three-Eyed Fish 73% of the time; no rod does better

Bait that works

Odds shown for· Southwest Seaside with a Composite Rod, fishing skill 81. Lures are kept after a catch; bait is used up.

Three-Eyed Fish's share of fish bites at that spot Only Three-Eyed Fish bites this bait there (100%)
BaitHook weight Chance it's Three-Eyed Fish
3Bestbait power 3
Slice of Cod6577%
Minnow · lure6244%
1Weakbait power 1
Rogue Rig · lure4013%
How Phoenix calculates this
1. Each fish gets a hook weight
50 time of day / moon (fixed on Phoenix)
+ bait bonus power 3: +80 (lure +75) · 2: +65 (+60) · 1: +35 (+30)
− ¼ per skill point you're under the fish
− 0.15 per point you're over it by more than 10
− 3 large rod on a small fish · − 5 small rod on a large fish
+ 50 shellfish bait on a shellfish
× rarity, then kept between 20 and 120
2. Odds = its weight ÷ all weightsOnly fish that accept your bait are in the running. Whether you hook a fish, junk, a monster or nothing is rolled first, from moon phase, weather and the area.

Which rod?

Safest first. When the fish bites the server rolls, in order: does it get away, does the line snap, does the rod break. A “bad feeling” warns of a snap, a “terrible feeling” of a break, but both also show up as false alarms. Assumes fishing skill 81.

RodYou land itGets awayLine snapsRod breaks
Lu Shang’s Rodlegendary100%———
Composite Rod73%—19%8%
Clothespole36%—55%9%
Single Hook Rod36%—55%9%
Mithran Rod36%—55%9%
Willow Rod18%50%28%4%
Yew Rod18%50%28%4%
Bamboo Rod18%50%28%4%
Fastwater Rod18%50%28%4%
Tarutaru Rod18%50%28%4%
Glass Fiber Rod18%50%28%4%
Carbon Rod18%50%28%4%
Hume Rod18%50%28%4%
Halcyon Rod18%50%28%4%

Where to catch it

1 zones · 1 areas · best spots first

Stars rate how often a cast lands Three-Eyed Fish at the zone's best spot with the bait shown and the first rod: 5★ 60%+ · 4★ 50%+ · 3★ 40%+ · 2★ 30%+ · 1★ under 30%. Rods are listed safest first. Break odds count everything that can bite there, including junk items and monsters.

Qufim IslandSouthwest Seaside≈30% of castsBaitSlice of CodRodComposite RodBreaks 1 in 30 castsOther fish bite every bait that works here.

Used in

1 recipe · lowest craft level first
Paralysis DustAlchemy (72)
Lightning Crystal
  • 1x Three-eyed Fish
Yield · what an NPC pays for it
  • NQ2x Pinch of Paralysis Dust (800 gil)
  • HQ14x Pinch of Paralysis Dust (1,600 gil)
  • HQ26x Pinch of Paralysis Dust (2,400 gil)
  • HQ38x Pinch of Paralysis Dust (3,200 gil)