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Ghost Flounder
Caught in the Lakefront · Worm (tier 1) · Casting Your Line
Quick Answer
How to catch Ghost Flounder
Catch Ghost Flounder by fishing in the Lakefront with a Worm loaded — the tier-1 bait. No season, time or weather condition is recorded for the fish.
A Worm sitting in your bag is not a Worm you are fishing with. Open the rod and load it, or the fish is recorded at a base of 0% and nothing will bite.
Keep one for Casting Your Line before you sell or cook anything. The recorded value runs from 20g to 40g across the quality tiers.
At a glance
The full catch formula in one table. Every value is recorded rather than assumed, and a condition the data does not state is labelled as unrecorded.
| Where | Lakefront |
|---|---|
| Bait | Worm — tier 1 bait |
| Rod | No rod gate recorded for this water |
| Season | None recorded — any season |
| Time | None recorded — any time |
| Weather | No requirement. Weather moves the quality roll, not the catch. |
| Special quality | None recorded — the records define no named tier above tier 3 |
| Quest use | Casting Your Line |
| Cooking use | 5 recorded recipes |
| Value | 20g base, 40g at the top tier |
Where to catch Ghost Flounder
The recorded pool, and whether one spot is better than another.
Lakefront
The recorded pool for Ghost Flounder is the Lakefront. That is the water the fishing row names, and it is the only one in the data.
Which spot on the water?
The record names a single pool for the area rather than separate spots, so every standard fishing point at the Lakefront draws from the same list of fish. There is no recorded spot that is better for Ghost Flounder than the rest.
Need the route there? Fishing guide →
Ghost Flounder vs Fog Eel
Both of these fish live in the same water and are wanted by the same task, so the difference between them is the answer to most failed casts.
| Ghost Flounder | Fog Eel | |
|---|---|---|
| Water | Lakefront | Lakefront |
| Bait | Worm | Leech |
| Rod | No rod gate recorded | No rod gate recorded |
| Task | Casting Your Line | Casting Your Line |
| Usual mistake | Leaving the bait in the bag instead of loading it | Fishing with the previous tier’s bait |
Which bait catches Ghost Flounder?
The bait, the tier it sits on, and the bait tier that does not work.
Worm
Worm is the only bait on tier 1, so it is not merely the easiest option — it is the bait the fish is listed against.
Load it, don’t just carry it
Carrying bait is not the same as fishing with it. The rod’s own text is the instruction — the Old Fishing Rod reads “Select ‘Use’ to check bait” — and the game tracks a single loaded bait type in a variable the Bait Swap events write to. Each swap consumes one of the bait it switches to, so a Worm in the bag does nothing until it is the loaded bait.
Why the tier matters
Bait is tiered, and each fish’s fishing row names the tier it responds to. The bait table names every bait with its own tier, so the tier is a fact rather than a guess: tier 1 is Worm, tier 2 is Leech, tier 3 is Bug, tier 4 is Dragonfly, tier 5 is Lugworm and tier 6 is Firefly. Ghost Flounder is recorded on tier 1, so Worm is not just the convenient bait — it is the only bait on the tier the fish is listed against.
Where to get Worm
- Pick up in the Bathroom (1)
- Pick up in the Closet (1)
- Pick up in the Empty Store (1)
- Pick up in the House2 Basement (1)
Recorded price: 8g. No shop source is recorded for this bait, so the routes above are the way to get it.
If you are on the Casting Your Line route you do not need to buy anything: starting the task hands you the Old Fishing Rod and a small stack of Worms. That stack is the tier-1 bait this fish wants, so your first catch is set up by the task itself.
Which fishing rod do you need?
What the data records for this water, including when it records no rod gate at all.
No rod gate is recorded for this water
Unlike the Mall, the Sewers, the Old Woods and the Catacombs — whose rows each name a rod — this area’s fishing row leaves the rod column blank. The data therefore records no rod requirement here, and the page does not invent one.
The Lakefront is the only fishing area whose row leaves the rod and bait columns blank, and its row carries a retained note about season and night behaviour in the current build. Nothing in the extracted data states a season, a time or a weather condition for the fish itself, so this page does not claim one — it says the data records none.
Do you need to upgrade?
Not for this fish. The rod from Casting Your Line is what the route hands you, and higher-tier rods are recorded for other areas rather than for this one.
Season, time and weather
Catch conditions and quality conditions are different things, and mixing them up is how a fishing guide sends you out to wait for rain.
| Condition | Recorded value |
|---|---|
| Season | None recorded |
| Time of day | None recorded |
| Weather | None recorded |
These are catch conditions, not quality conditions
Nothing here decides whether Ghost Flounder can appear — the water and the bait do that. The game still rolls a quality on each catch, and that roll is what weather and luck move. So “fish in the rain” is not a rule for finding this fish; it can only change which quality comes up.
How to catch Ghost Flounder
Four steps, in the order the game checks them.
Be at the right water
Lakefront is the pool this fish belongs to. Other areas record their own separate pools, so a cast somewhere else cannot produce it.
Load Worm
Carrying bait is not the same as fishing with it. The rod’s own text is the instruction — the Old Fishing Rod reads “Select ‘Use’ to check bait” — and the game tracks a single loaded bait type in a variable the Bait Swap events write to. Each swap consumes one of the bait it switches to, so a Worm in the bag does nothing until it is the loaded bait.
Cast from a fishing point
Use the water at a fishing point in the area. The rod has to be on you — bait cannot be loaded and a cast cannot start without it.
Expect the roll to give several fish
A valid cast does not guarantee this one fish. The Lakefront pool holds 6 fish, and the ones with no bait gate recorded can turn up on a cast that was set up for Ghost Flounder.
Why can’t I catch a Ghost Flounder?
Work through these before deciding the water is wrong. The first one is the answer most of the time.
What’s stopping the catch?
The most common cause, and the one the game does not warn you about. A Worm sitting in your bag is not a Worm you are fishing with — the rod has to be opened with "Use" and the bait set. Until a tier-1 bait is the loaded bait, Ghost Flounder is recorded at a base of 0, which is why the water can look empty while a Worm sits unused in the inventory.
What else is in the Lakefront?
The fish that share the pool, with the recorded values shown as recorded rather than turned into odds the data cannot support.
| Fish | Bait recorded | Recorded values |
|---|---|---|
| Ghost Flounderthis fish | Worm (tier 1) | base 0%, Worm +25 |
| Corpsefish | No bait gate recorded | base 10% |
| Fog Eel | Leech (tier 2) | base 0%, Leech +25 |
| Lake Screamer | No bait gate recorded | base 20% |
| Mud Perch | Worm (tier 1) | base 0%, Worm +15, Leech +15 |
| Rock-Dweller | No bait gate recorded | base 15% |
What these numbers are
The fishing row records a base value and a bait adjustment ("base 0%; bait 1: +25"). Those are the selection inputs, not a catch probability: turning them into a percentage would need the size of the pool, the treasure roll and the effect of the loaded bait, none of which the extracted data records. The page therefore names what shares the water and which bait each fish answers to, and does not print odds it cannot compute.
3 of the 6 fish in this pool are recorded against a bait, and 3 have no bait gate recorded at all — which is why they can appear on any cast.
Ghost Flounder for Casting Your Line
What the task wants, and whether a fish you already had counts.
| Task | Casting Your Line — Fisherman Herb, at the Lakefront |
|---|---|
| Wants | Ghost Flounder |
| Bait for it | Worm — tier 1 |
| Rod | No rod gate recorded for this water |
| Any quality? | Yes — the hand-in reads the fish, not a specific quality. |
Does a fish you already had count?
Herb’s hand-ins read the fish in your bag. The recorded recipe unlocks are explicit inventory checks against all four Ghost Flounder entries (the plain fish and its three quality variants), which is why any quality of Ghost Flounder satisfies the request. Whether the hand-in also removes the fish is not recorded.
Full walkthrough: Casting Your Line guide →
What is Ghost Flounder used for?
Every recorded use, scanned in reverse from the recipes that consume it — including the recipes it unlocks, which is a narrower thing.
Recipes this fish unlocks
The recorded recipe unlocks are inventory checks naming this fish, which is why carrying one is enough to learn them.
| Recipe | Other ingredients | Unlock |
|---|---|---|
| Ghost Broth | Radish | Requires access to Cooking Pot |
| Ghost Flounder Soup | Bitter Herb | Requires access to Cooking Pot |
| Ghost Sashimi | Secret Sauce | Requires access to Cooking Pot |
| Harvest Stew | Corn, Pumpkin, Red Mushroom, Bitter Herb, Cooked Meat, Recipe: Harvest Stew | Requires access to Cooking Pot |
| Tempura | Bread | Requires access to Cooking Pot |
Ingredient counts are not recorded per recipe, so the page names what each recipe wants rather than a number the data does not carry.
Can other fish replace Ghost Flounder?
The recipes record an ingredient group, not a single item, and that is the mechanism behind a swap.
Recipe substitution is not quest substitution
The recipes record their fish ingredient as a shared ingredient group rather than one item, so another fish in that group can be cooked in place of Ghost Flounder — but only once the recipe is known. The quest hand-in asks for Ghost Flounder itself.
Can be cooked in its place
- Corpsefish — Caught by fishing in the Lakefront
- Lake Screamer — Caught by fishing in the Lakefront
In the same group, but not a dependable swap
- Glowfish — no route recorded at all, so it cannot be relied on as a substitute.
- Lake Shrimp — recorded as from a crab pot in the lakefront, but that route is not confirmed as normally obtainable.
The cooking recipes list their fish ingredient as an ingredient *group* rather than one item id, and the group holds more than Ghost Flounder. Corpsefish and Lake Screamer are in that group, so once a recipe is known they can be cooked in place of Ghost Flounder. The group is not a quest substitute, and Glowfish and Lake Shrimp sit in the group without a normal route of their own — Glowfish has no source recorded at all, and Lake Shrimp only comes out of a Crab Pot.
How many should you keep?
Driven by the recorded hand-in and recipes, not by a guess.
| Use | What it takes |
|---|---|
| Casting Your Line | Ghost Flounder |
| Ghost Broth | 1 ingredient slot |
| Ghost Flounder Soup | 1 ingredient slot |
| Ghost Sashimi | 1 ingredient slot |
| Harvest Stew | 1 ingredient slot |
| Tempura | 1 ingredient slot |
Keep one Ghost Flounder for Casting Your Line before selling or cooking anything. The first stage of the task wants the fish itself, and the three recipes that stage teaches are all unlocked by carrying a Ghost Flounder, so the fish is doing double duty until Herb has seen it. After that, the Lakefront is a repeatable source and the fish is a cooking ingredient.
Should you sell it?
Keep what the active Herb task and your cooking plans need, then sell spares. The Lakefront is a repeatable catch, so a Ghost Flounder is not a one-off, but it is one of the few early fish that several recipes ask for — so the surplus is worth selling rather than the whole catch.
Ghost Flounder quality
The recorded tiers and values, and the dynamic rule behind them.
| Tier | Recorded value |
|---|---|
| Default | 20g |
| Quality tier 1 | 26g |
| Quality tier 2 | 33g |
| Quality tier 3 | 40g |
How the quality is decided
A catch rolls for quality rather than being given a fixed one. The recorded rule is two steps: the first roll has to beat a dynamic chance the game recalculates from your save, and a second roll then picks which tier — 1, 2 or 3 — comes out above the plain fish. That chance is modified by luck, weather, fishing level and other state, and the data records no fixed percentage for it, so the page lists the tiers and what moves them rather than printing odds it cannot compute.
- Fishing level
- Luck
- Weather
- Other save state the game reads
Is there a Void-quality Ghost Flounder?
No tier named "Void" is recorded for this fish. The fishing rows record the plain fish plus catch quality tier 1, 2 and 3, and name nothing above tier 3. "A Ghostly Catch" does appear in the data as a later quest name, but its requirements are not recorded and nothing in the fishing or quest data ties it to a quality tier of this fish — so this page does not send you looking for a Void catch. The tiers that do exist are the three listed above.
The fishing records label these tiers with numbers rather than names, so the page keeps the numbers and the recorded values. It does not attach a colour or a name the fish does not carry.
What this page cannot answer
Facts a player may reasonably expect, which the extracted data does not record. They are listed rather than guessed at.
- A catch probability for Ghost Flounder, or any way to turn the recorded base and bait values into odds
- What each quality tier is named — the fishing records label them tier 1, 2 and 3, and do not attach a quality name to a fish
- By how much luck, weather or fishing level move the quality roll, or which weather is better
- Whether the day/night cycle gates any Lakefront fish at all, beyond the retained season/night note
- Whether Herb’s hand-in removes the Ghost Flounder from the bag
- What the Lakefront treasure roll can give, and how often it replaces a fish
- Whether the loaded bait is consumed per cast, per catch or only on a swap
- What the rod and bait columns being blank on the Lakefront row means in play — the data names no rod or bait gate for the area
FAQ
Answers built only from the recorded fields.
Where do I catch Ghost Flounder?
Lakefront. That is the only pool the data lists it in.
What bait does Ghost Flounder need?
Worm, which is the tier-1 bait. The fishing row registers the fish against that bait tier rather than against the water alone.
Why can’t I catch one with Worm in my bag?
Carrying bait is not the same as fishing with it. The rod’s own text is the instruction — the Old Fishing Rod reads “Select ‘Use’ to check bait” — and the game tracks a single loaded bait type in a variable the Bait Swap events write to. Each swap consumes one of the bait it switches to, so a Worm in the bag does nothing until it is the loaded bait.
Do I need a better rod?
The area records no rod requirement, so a rod upgrade is not needed for this fish.
Is it seasonal, or only at night?
No season, time or weather condition is recorded for the fish. The area carries a retained note about season and night behaviour, but nothing links it to this fish, so no such condition is claimed.
Do I need rain or a storm?
No. Weather moves the quality roll if anything; it is never recorded as a condition for the fish to appear.
Why do I keep catching other fish?
Because the Lakefront pool holds 6 fish and some of them are recorded with no bait gate at all, so they can appear on any cast. A correct cast is not a guaranteed catch of this fish.
How many does Casting Your Line need?
The recorded hand-in is Ghost Flounder, and Herb asks for one fish at a time. Any quality counts, because the check reads the fish rather than a specific tier.
Can I catch it before starting the task?
Herb’s hand-ins read the fish in your bag. The recorded recipe unlocks are explicit inventory checks against all four Ghost Flounder entries (the plain fish and its three quality variants), which is why any quality of Ghost Flounder satisfies the request. Whether the hand-in also removes the fish is not recorded.
Does Herb take the fish?
Whether the hand-in removes the fish is not recorded. The recorded recipe unlocks read the fish in your bag, which is why carrying one is what matters.
What is Ghost Flounder used for?
Ghost Broth, Ghost Flounder Soup, Ghost Sashimi, Harvest Stew, Tempura — all recorded as consuming this fish.
Can I cook another fish instead?
In recipes, yes — Corpsefish and Lake Screamer are recorded in the same ingredient group. Not in the quest, which asks for Ghost Flounder itself.
What is the difference between the quality tiers?
They are the same fish at different recorded values. The fishing rows label them tier 1 to 3 above the plain fish and attach no name to them, so the page keeps the numbers and the values.
Should I sell it?
Keep what the active Herb task and your cooking plans need, then sell spares. The Lakefront is a repeatable catch, so a Ghost Flounder is not a one-off, but it is one of the few early fish that several recipes ask for — so the surplus is worth selling rather than the whole catch.
What is the difference between Ghost Flounder and Fog Eel?
They share the same water and the same task, so the recorded difference is the bait: Fog Eel answers to Leech and Ghost Flounder answers to Worm.
Related guides
Where to go next from a catch.
Guide checked against the current release data. 8 fishing facts are not recorded in the source data and are listed above.