Small Fry, Big Fish

On Wednesday, Timmy told me that he was paying 109 bells for turnips. So I sold my measly 30 turnips from Joan for 3,270 bells.

After checking Lottie’s Island last night, I left the game in sleep mode overnight. When I resumed today, I tried to fly to Harv’s Island…but Wilbur told me I couldn’t do it!

Because a new day had started, I was forced to travel back to Forest before I could go out again.

C.J. was in town today, and he wanted me to catch three small-fry fish in a row for his seasports challenge. But after catching two small fish, I spotted a shark in the ocean! There were no other small fish around, so should I sacrifice my streak for the shark? Not to mention, there’s a chance that the “shark” could be a suckerfish. What would you do?

You're working on a seasports challenge for C.J., and you've caught two small-fry fish in a row. Then you see a shark fin in the water, with no small fish in sight. Do you abandon your streak to catch the shark? #animalcrossing #acnh

— JVGS Jeff (@jvgsjeff) June 17, 2022

I decided to catch the shark, which turned out to be a hammerhead. It’s not that hard to find three small fish again.

Beardo pinged me, wanting a new catchphrase to replace “oh banana,” which he obviously learned from Louie. When a villager is using someone else’s custom catchphrase, that’s about the only time I actually do change it. 😛 I told Beardo to say “unbearable,” because that’s what he is. But he turned it around on me like a savage.

I gave him a few hits with my net for that one. 😛

Once I caught three (more) small fish, I returned to C.J.; he gave me 15,000 bells for the six fish in my pockets (which included the hammerhead).

Not long after that, I spotted a very large fish shadow in my small circular pond (the Zelda fairy fountain). I fished out an arapaima!

With that, and several other fish I grabbed out of storage, I scored another 168,000 bells from C.J.

As if that didn’t already get me into a fishing mood, Louie asked me to catch a tilapia for him. So I continued fishing until I caught one…and of course, I caught a lot of other good fish in the process too. Louie ultimately gave me a loungewear shirt for the tilapia, but the real prize was all the other fish I was able to sell: Another 110,000+ bells worth; that’s nearly 300k in total for the day! 😮

I took my earnings over to Resident Services and deposited the money into my account. My balance has now reached 40 million bells. 😎

I’ll be back with another entry tomorrow. Hope to see you then!