Animal Crossing New Leaf Tools Guide: Fishing Rod

Animal Crossing New Leaf is the latest entry of the long running Nintendo series called Animal Crossing. It’s actually one of the most successful series created by the Japanese company, thanks to it’s simple yet engaging premise as well as the many customization options given to players that allow them to customize their character and house in many different ways and interact with others in some really interesting ways.

New Leaf brings some welcome addition to the gameplay formula, making the game even more addicting than before. Customization options have been vastly increased for both character and house customization. As if it wasn’t enough players will have the possibility, for the first time ever, to become the mayor of their town, allowing the new virtual mayors to even customize the town and improve it with public works. Creating a good city will allow you to get a Perfect Town rating as well as a 100% approval rating and the appreciation of your virtual citizens.

As usual you’ll also be able to take part in a lot of different activities for the game: bug catching, diving, fishing and more. Animal Crossing New Leaf is truly the perfect game for all those players who love to collect items: to truly find everything in the game you’ll have to work extra hard.

Among the new features introduced in Animal Crossing New Leaf are Spot Pass features, DLC and Online Play that make the best use of the Nintendo 3DS unique features.

Knowing how to use Tools in the game is really important since they’re going to be the only way to truly improve your town, as well as completing your item collection and more. All Tools can be upgraded to a Silver and Gold version once some requirements are met.

To equip a tool, drag it with the stylus onto your character in the inventory screen or use the D-pad to quickly equip or switch tools.

If you don’t need a specific tool, you can also store them in your house or even give them to other players.

• Fishing Rod

The Fishing Rod is used, quite unsurprisingly, to catch fiss. Find a shadown in the water, press A to cast and A again when the bobble is completely under the water. The Fishing Rod can be bough from the Nookling General or Isabelle; the Silver rod can be purchased from the museum’s second floor extension after donating at least 30 Fish; the Gold rod is obtained by talking to Fishing Tournament host after catching every fish in the game. The Rod upgrades will make it easier to fish.