Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

As you may or may not know, this is the BEST time of year to make lots of money in Animal Crossing. For the first half of September, there are NO sea bass in the ocean! The jellyfish from late August are also gone.

That means the ocean only has red snappers (worth 3,000 bells each), barred knifejaws (5,000 bells), and if it’s raining, coelacanths (15,000 bells). So if you go fishing in the ocean, you can earn a ton of money in a short period of time. You will want to avoid the acre where the river empties in the ocean though; you can still catch river fish there.

It was raining in my town tonight, which meant coelacanths are out and about. I was short on time, so I only fished enough to fill up my inventory once. I did catch one coelacanth in that span.

I kept going until I caught 15 fish, which took me about 7 minutes.

I went to Nook’s and sold my fish; he gave me 67,000 bells. Not bad for 7 minutes of fishing.

I first discovered this tip several years ago. At the time, I could find no mention of this valuable strategy online anywhere, so I may have been the first to popularize it. I shared it on the old AOL Animal Crossing boards (which sadly no longer exist). Then in 2007, I made a Youtube video telling people of the tip. I still try to share it with people each year.

I hope you’re able to take advantage of this tip and earn some big bells. Happy fishing!

Late last night, I found my summer camper’s tent. Jane was inside and I played a few games. But then, at midnight, the tent disappeared. Camper tents are supposed to remain in town until 3 p.m. on Sunday, so why did it disappear? I checked all around town to see if it moved. No luck. I saved and quit my game, started again, and looked all around for it once again. It was gone.

So this morning, I tried again. It’s not anywhere. I didn’t get the item I need for my next house redesign, and now it looks like I’m out of luck for another year. Unless I put one of them in storage in a letter at the post office or gave one to another character in town (both seem unlikely but I’ll check at some point). This is a major bummer. Can anyone explain this? I don’t understand why the tent would have disappeared. If it is a glitch, why didn’t the tent return when I started up the game again? If anyone can provide any insight in the comments, I would appreciate it.

I got a goodbye letter from Rhoda, so she is now gone.

I went to go meet my new neighbor Queenie. She has a really cool chess themed house.

I took the island furniture out of my upstairs and took it to the island for storage. (Where else?) I started the preliminary decorating of my upstairs for my next house redesign…which is still a very long time off. But I wanted to at least get it started. I think it looks really cool so far. Sorry, no pictures of it yet. I always like keeping my house designs a secret until I upload my annual house tour video on Youtube.