After the ending in How to Fish, you wake back up on island 1 with your gear intact and all five islands open, which makes the remaining cleanup achievements much easier to finish.
How to Fish is the physics-based fishing-and-shooting game from Dazed Games on Steam, and rolling credits doesn’t lock you out — it hands you the ideal setup for mopping up the achievements you skipped. The post-game is where the trick-shot kills, fast boss timers, gambling grinds, burnt-food unlocks and collection gaps all become trivial, because you already own everything and can sail anywhere.
- What changes after the credits
- Post-game cleanup checklist
- Fast kills and trick-shot achievements
- Cook and eat a mini-boss for two achievements
- Gambling and roulette money achievements
- Filling the encyclopedia for Collector and Fishipedia
- Achievements to leave off the cleanup list
- Frequently Asked Questions
What changes after the credits
When the ending finishes and you regain control, you crash back onto island 1 with everything you owned still in your pockets — your maxed weapons, your money, all of it. Every one of the five islands is open to travel to freely, with no boss or quest gating in your way.
Key That combination is the whole reason to save the fiddly achievements for now. Fast kills, style shots, the money grinds and the encyclopedia gaps are all far easier once you have endgame gear and can go straight to whatever island you need. Everything below is done here, safely, instead of wasting attempts mid-story.
Post-game cleanup checklist
| Cleanup goal | How to do it |
|---|---|
| Easy | Beer on the rod, fish the island 1 spider crab, mag-dump it with a maxed assault rifle. |
| 360 no scope | Spin a full 360, then hipfire a low-level fish — no ADS. |
| Noob | Mag-dump a fish lying on the floor for a zero-multiplier kill. |
| Impressive | Headshot a flying seagull from range for a 5x multiplier. |
| Let me go | Die, skip respawn, and wait for a seagull to carry you off. |
| I’m the bird now | Detonate one bundle of dynamite under your floating boat. |
| Everyone’s dream | Bait a seagull to a stick of dynamite, then shoot the dynamite. |
| Yummy in my tummy | Burn a creature solid black on the grill, then eat it. |
| Competitive eating | Eat a mini-boss — the burnt Beginner Boss Lure mini-boss covers both. |
| GOLD GOLD GOLD | Feed drip creatures into any Reel of Fortune for a legendary skin. |
| All in | Bet a high-value cooked fish on green at island 5 roulette and win. |
| Rich! Millionaire | Sell something worth 100,000 or more — the green payout does it. |
| Collector | Open Tab, then hunt every missing creature island by island. |
| Fishipedia | Same as Collector but for drip creatures, which respawn endlessly. |
That covers the full list at a glance. The methods that need real setup or sequencing are expanded below.
Fast kills and trick-shot achievements
Easy
Put beer on the rod, fish up the island 1 spider crab, and mag-dump it with your maxed assault rifle to drop a boss inside 10 seconds.
360 no scope
Rotate a full 360 degrees, then hipfire (never ADS) into a low-level fish so one shot kills it — on low sensitivity the spin can be split across two quick swipes, and there’s leniency.
Noob
Do the opposite of a style kill: mag-dump a fish lying flat on the floor with a ranged weapon so it scores no multiplier at all.
Impressive
Shoot a seagull in the head from a distance while it’s in flight — guns are hitscan, so the 5x multiplier is easier than it looks.
Let me go
Die and do not press respawn; sit still and a seagull will come take you. If it stalls, blow yourself up with dynamite and wait.
I’m the bird now
Float your boat, drop one bundle of dynamite underneath it, and detonate — the blast launches the boat without destroying it.
Everyone’s dream
Lay a stick of dynamite with a fish beside it as bait, back off out of the blast, and shoot the dynamite the moment a seagull dives for the fish.
Cook and eat a mini-boss for two achievements
Buy the Beginner Boss Lure
Grab it for $40 on island 2 — it’s the cheapest mini-boss summon and the easiest fight in the game.
Summon and kill the mini-boss
Fish it up with the lure and take it down with your usual loadout.
Burn it solid black
Hold it over the grill until it turns solid black; press F while cooking and watch the multiplier fall to 0 as your cue.
Eat the burnt mini-boss
One bite pops both Yummy in my tummy and Competitive eating together.
Gambling and roulette money achievements
| Target | Method |
|---|---|
| Legendary skin (GOLD GOLD GOLD) | Feed drip creatures into any Reel of Fortune; farm more when they respawn. |
| All in + Rich! Millionaire | Bet a cooked fish worth 2,858+ on green at island 5 roulette; the 35x payout sells for 100,000+. |
Legendary skins are their own thing — they come from gambling, not roulette. Feed drip creatures into any Reel of Fortune and the machine plays for a skin; the roll is pure RNG, but drip creatures respawn endlessly, so you can always farm more attempts. That’s GOLD GOLD GOLD done.
For All in and Rich! Millionaire, the tool is roulette on island 5. Betting on green pays 35x the value of whatever you wager and returns an item you then sell, so a single green hit can clear both at once. To sell something worth 100,000 you need to bet a fish worth at least 2,858 (100,000 ÷ 35). Island 5’s lava cooks everything at a flat 1.5x, so a raw fish worth around 1,906 gets you there — but aim for roughly 3,200 after cooking so an imperfect catch doesn’t leave you stuck at 99,000.
The loop runs itself: fish island 5, lava-cook everything, and check values with F. Anything at or above your threshold goes on green; anything below gets sold normally to fund more fishing. Green is one pocket in 37, so treat this as a patience play — it might land on your fifth spin or your ninetieth. There’s no bet cap, so one high-value fish is enough whenever green finally comes up.
Only put fish worth 2,858 or more on green, so the moment a winning spin lands it pops All in and Rich! Millionaire at the same time.
Filling the encyclopedia for Collector and Fishipedia
Cleanup for Collector (kill every creature) and Fishipedia (kill every drip creature) runs through the in-game encyclopedia. It shows which creatures you’re still missing, so the work is checking the gaps and sailing back to the right island to fill them, one by one.
Fishipedia is a longer grind than a hard one — drip creatures respawn indefinitely, so no variant is ever permanently missable; you just keep hunting until the list is clean. The creature most players finish on is island 5’s optional mini-boss, summoned with the Scientific Boss Lure ($5,800). Nothing in the story points you toward it, so budget for that lure before you spend your endgame money elsewhere.
Achievements to leave off the cleanup list
Two achievements don’t belong in a casual post-game session. Bean asks you to finish the whole game inside one hour, which is a dedicated timed run, not something you knock out between fishing trips. Handyman carries its own condition — beat the final boss with your bare hands — that has to be met during an actual playthrough, not after it. Treat both as separate projects.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Can you keep playing after the ending?
Yes. Beating the final boss and watching the ending drops you back on island 1 with all your gear and every island unlocked, with no time pressure from there. That’s why the post-game matters: 26 of the 28 achievements are comfortably within anyone’s reach, and this is simply where you clean up the ones that were awkward to attempt mid-story.
Should Bean be done on the same save as normal cleanup?
No. Keep two separate save files — one for your normal playthrough and achievement cleanup, and a second dedicated to the Bean speedrun. Bean is also better run solo, since co-op coordination costs more time than it saves under a one-hour timer.
Does the encyclopedia show creature locations?
No — it tracks completion, not location. The Tab menu tells you which regular and drip creatures you still need, with drip variants listed as their own category, but it never shows where they live, so you hunt island by island. The tutorial mentions it once and it’s easy to forget, so open it early; it’s the entire solution to Collector and Fishipedia.
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