Reel Rush Fishing

Twelve real waters, 240+ species, and weather that changes what's biting. New: live water temperature, thermal patterning, and storms with real lightning.

Read the water. Pick your rig. Set the hook.

Reel Rush Fishing is a fishing game with an actual fishery underneath it. Every one of the 240+ species has a depth range, a feeding clock, and a water temperature it wants — and all three decide whether it is there at all. Learn the pattern and the lake starts giving up its secrets.

TWELVE REAL WATERS From a warm California bass lake to a Smoky Mountain trout creek, the Chesapeake, the Great Barrier Reef, Cabo's blue water, and the cold deep of Kenai Fjords and the Gulf of Maine. Each one is drawn from the real place, down to the horizon you fish against.

FOURTEEN RIGS THAT FISH DIFFERENTLY A worm under a bobber. A spinnerbait you hold to retrieve. A curly-tail grub that spins on the reel. A crankbait that digs to its running depth. A flutter spoon they hit on the fall. A dry fly that has to be twitched. Each rig is worked its own way, and each one calls up different fish.

WEATHER, HOUR, AND TEMPERATURE MATTER Fish dawn for the low-light bite, or after dark for catfish and walleye. Watch a storm gather, break, and throw lightning across the water — then feel the bite turn on. Water temperature moves with the location, the hour, the weather, and how deep you drop, and the fish move with it. There is a thermocline down there.

FIGHT THEM PROPERLY Hold to reel, keep the line tension in the gold, and let a running fish take line before it snaps you off. Big fish sound for the bottom, shake their heads, and roll onto their side when they're beaten.

BUILD THE OPERATION Upgrade rod, reel, line, and hooks. Buy boats from a kayak up to a lake cruiser, or take a Personal Watercraft, a Party Pontoon, or the Golden Gill from the Cash Shop. Set minnow and critter traps. Chum the water. Enter the derby. Mount your best catch on the trophy room wall, and fill in the Fish-o-pedia one species at a time.

CLIMB THE LEADERBOARDS Game Center keeps three boards — biggest fish, most fish caught, and lifetime earnings — and your records go up against every other angler's. Signing in is optional, and the game never waits on it.

NO ENERGY TIMERS Fish as long as you like. Coin packs and the Cash Shop boats are optional: they skip grind, never gates, and anything you buy restores on a new device. Switch on the daily reminder if you want a nudge when your reward is stacked, or leave it off — the game plays the same either way.

Tight lines.