Catfish

Catfish
An uncommon fish found in streams.
Information
Location	River • Secret Woods • Witch's Swamp
Time	6am - 12am
Season	Spring •  Fall Secret Woods/Witch's Swamp:  Spring •  Summer •  Fall Only with Rain Totem:  Winter
Weather	Rain
Difficulty	75
Behavior	Mixed
Size (inches)	12–73
Fishing XP	28    31    34    40
Energy / Health	50 22 70 31 90 40 130 58
Sell Prices Base Fisher (+25%) Angler (+50%) 200g 250g 300g 400g 250g 312g 375g 500g 300g 375g 450g 600g
Artisan Sell Prices Roe Aged Roe Aged Roe (+40%) 130g 260g 364g

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|keywords=Stardew Valley Wiki, Stardew Valley, Catfish, gift |site_name=Stardew Valley Wiki |type=article |title=Catfish - Stardew Valley Wiki }} The Catfish is a fish that can be caught in the river (in Pelican Town or Cindersap Forest), and the Riverlands Farm, Forest Farm, or Hill-Top Farm during Spring and Fall when raining, or in the Secret Woods or Witch's Swamp during Spring, Summer, and Fall when raining. It can also be caught in Winter at these locations if a Rain Totem is used.

It can also be acquired from the following:

• A pet cat with max friendship may gift it to the player.
• Garbage Cans may randomly contain one during Spring and Fall.
• The Traveling Cart may randomly sell one for data-sort-value="200"600–1,000g.
• Linus may randomly send a Catfish in the mail as a gift.
• One Catfish is contained in the Community Center Fish Tank right after the Community Center is repaired.

Catfish can be caught regardless of weather, time, or season using Magic Bait.

Map

The Catfish can be found in the river, in the Secret Woods pond when it's raining, and in the Witch's Swamp.

Bundles

Catfish is used in the River Fish Bundle in the Fish Tank.

Recipes

Image	Name	Description	Ingredients	Energy / Health	Recipe Source(s)	Sell Price
	Maki Roll	Fish and rice wrapped in seaweed.	Any Fish (1) Seaweed (1) Rice (1)	100 45	The Queen of Sauce 21 Summer, Year 1 Stardrop Saloon for data-sort-value="300">300g	data-sort-value="220">220g
	Quality Fertilizer	Improves soil quality, increasing your chance to grow quality crops. Mix into tilled soil.	Sap (4) Any Fish (1)	N/A	Farming Level 9	data-sort-value="10">10g
	Sashimi	Raw fish sliced into thin pieces.	Any Fish (1)	75 33	Linus (Mail - 3+ )	data-sort-value="75">75g

Tailoring

Catfish can be used in the spool of the Sewing Machine to create the dyeable Fish Shirt.

Fish Pond

Catfish can be placed in a Fish Pond, where they will reproduce every 4 days. The initial pond capacity is 3 fish, but the capacity can be increased to 10 by completing three quests. The only possible output is dark gray Catfish Roe.

Quests

Pond Capacity		Quest Item	Fishing XP Granted
Before Quest	After Quest
3	5	2 Amethyst, 3 Copper Bars, 3 Red Mushrooms, or 2 Topaz	40
5	7	10 Bat Wing, 2 Earth Crystals, 5 Mixed Seeds, or 2-3 Purple Mushrooms	40
7	10	1 Diamond, 3 Iron Bars, 1 Mayonnaise, or 1 Pickles	40

Produce

Item(s) Produced	Fishing XP Granted	Population	% of Items	Overall Daily Chance
Roe (1)	15	1-10	100%	23-95%
Nothing		1-10	0%	77-5%

Quests

• Item Delivery: One Catfish may be randomly requested in Spring or Fall at the "Help Wanted" board outside Pierre's General Store for a reward of data-sort-value="600">600g and 150 Friendship points.
• Fishing: Demetrius or Willy may randomly request 1-4 Catfish to be caught in Spring or Fall at the "Help Wanted" board outside Pierre's General Store for a reward of data-sort-value="200">200g per fish. (You get to keep the fish).

Bugs

• Catfish may be requested in a Fishing quest during Winter, requiring a Rain Totem to be used, despite 1.4.4 version patch notes detailing its removal from the quest.

History

• 1.4: Removed from garbage cans and most quests in Winter. Added iridium quality. Can now be used in Tailoring.
• 1.4.4: Fixed a mistake in the game data that prevented catfish-specific fish pond data from being applied (in earlier versions, catfish used the same fish pond data as all generic river fish). Catfish can no longer be requested by Demetrius or Willy in a Fishing Help Wanted quest during Winter.
• 1.6: One is contained in the Community Center Fish Tank right after it is repaired. Can now be gifted by a pet cat with max friendship.