Million Bell Night

Yesterday, I received Cesar’s goodbye letter in the mail. Yes, already! He only lasted about a week and a half in town!

I saw this message on the bulletin board, and it was pretty funny. Once again, I did not do any morning aerobics this summer.

I met up with Cesar’s replacement: It’s Buzz, a cranky eagle.

He lived in Forest before, back in 2012…but I didn’t even meet him at the time! Welcome to Forest, Buzz!

If you’ve been following me (and this game) for a while, you may know that early September brings something special for fishing. There are no sea bass or jellyfish in the ocean in early September, so there are only three fish you can catch in the ocean (excluding the acre with the mouth of the river): Red snappers (3,000 bells), barred knifejaws (5,000 bells), and if it’s raining, coelacanths (15,000 bells). This is the best time of the year to make bells, especially if you do it on a rainy day.

Since it was raining, I set out to take advantage of the situation. For each run, I fished until my pockets were full. Sometimes I’d try another fish or two to possibly replace a red snapper with something better, but then I’d head to the store and sell what I caught. In two hours of fishing, I filled up my pockets 13 times. Here is a chart of what I sold, with the totals in the bottom row.

Cocos	Barred	R. snaps	Bells
4	7	4	107,000
2	6	7	81,000
1	6	8	69,000
3	5	7	91,000
4	3	8	99,000
3	4	8	89,000
1	2	12	61,000
1	4	10	65,000
0	2	13	49,000
4	2	9	97,000
2	3	10	75,000
1	4	10	65,000
4	4	7	101,000
30	52	113	1,049,000

So I caught a total of 30 coelacanths! And believe it or not, there were at least five or six others that got away! But more importantly, I made over one million bells in one night! That’s something I’ve wanted to do for a few years now, but either I missed out on the rainy days in early September, or I didn’t have enough time to spend a couple hours fishing.

In this pic, you can see my 32 money bags, each with 30,000 bells. I also had 89,000 bells in my pockets. I put it all into savings, and my balance went from 22.13 million to 23.18 million.

Of course, I also encountered some trash while doing all that fishing. But I just left it all near Ursala’s house. 😆

There was something else interesting that I encountered: I saw this huge fish shadow in the river. I tried to fish it out, and it didn’t take the bait. Then it started to almost blend into the shoreline briefly, before floating under the bridge, out of sight. I tried fishing it out, but I never saw it again despite waiting there for over six minutes. So that was a bit disappointing, but I can’t complain considering how many other fish I caught. 😆

I played again today, and I something surprising in the waterfall: It was a rainbow!

It’s only the 2nd time I’ve seen a rainbow in this game, and the first since 2011! 😲

Tom Nook is having a sale on Friday, and several of my villagers tried to hide that fact from me. Just…not very well. 😛

I found Gulliver down on the beach; he apparently fell off his ship again. What’s new? He thanked me for saving his life (you know, by waking him up) and he gave me a tribal mask.

Over at the wishing well, a new message really caught me off guard!

My town rating had taken a hit due to Ursala’s new collection of garbage! 😆

So I was forced to clean up the mess to get Forest back to perfect town status. 😛

When I spoke with my buddy Tom, he told me that he likes the bugs’ sounds of autumn more than the sounds of summer. I think I’d have to agree.

And I’ll wrap up this blog entry with a picture of Pete flying off to deliver the mail. ✉️ See you all next time!