Monday was Labor Day in the U.S., so that meant Tortimer could be found near the wishing well. He had various things to say about taking a break from working too hard, and stopping to enjoy life.
I received a letter from Nookington’s in the mail, informing me of a special offer on a stunning toilet. However, I wasn’t interested, so I didn’t want to flush my money down the drain.
I started up the game many times over the past week, looking for rain. But each time it wasn’t raining, I didn’t play long…typically just a couple minutes. But today (September 9th), I finally got the rain I was waiting for.
There was a letter from Anicotti in the mail; she has moved out of town. I’m okay with that.
The rain must’ve really been bumming Candi out, because she was actually happy to see me! But then again, she was squinting, so maybe she thought I was someone else.
It was quite a different story with Maple. She couldn’t even remember my name!
On the beach, I saw Gulliver passed out…but I also saw a large fish shadow in the water. So I went fishing. 😉
I caught a coelacanth and then woke Gulliver up. He gave me a Mouth of Truth, which is one of my favorite items of his.
I met my newest resident Patty the cow. Like most of the villagers in this game, she has lived in Forest before. In fact, she was one of my residents when I first started this blog in 2011!
After circling my town, I emptied out my pockets (except for my fishing rod) and headed down to the ocean. It’s early September, and that means it’s the best time of the year to go fishing! I fished for about an hour and five minutes, and I was saving all the coelacanths to sell at the end. I was hoping to get a full 15 of them, but I only managed to catch ten of them on the night.
Of course, I also caught a bunch of barred knifejaws and red snappers. And I earned a total of 462,000 bells in fishing tonight. That’s a good chunk of bells, to be sure…but it is less than I earned in my September fishing trip from last year.
In terms of catching the coelacanths that I saw, I was actually more efficient this year (catching 10 of 11 vs. 13 of 20 last year). But I saw nearly twice as many last year, and that’s what made the difference.
I think my strategy of trying to save up all the coelacanths to sell at once backfired this time. It means I made more frequent trips to Nook’s, and not always selling a pocketful. So I spent more time running back and forth, and less time fishing.
But oh well. It was still a productive night of fishing. And the money I earned bumped my bank account balance over 20 million bells!
There’s just a couple more days of great fishing before the sea bass return, so good luck to any GameCube fishers out there! 🙂
What percentage of that 20 Million was from September Fishing.
Good question! I checked some old blog entries, but I noticed that prior to last year, I didn’t do extended fishing trips. Most years I just filled up my pockets once or twice. But adding up the totals going back to 2011 (when I started this blog), it came out to nearly two million bells.
So that’s nearly 10% of my total bank account balance right there, not counting any September fishing prior to 2011 (which I didn’t keep track of). I also don’t remember what year I discovered the ocean fishing tip in the first place. So I’d guess it’s probably around 12% or so, but almost definitely in the 10-15% range.