Fish

Where Link finds it

• Lake HyliaOn the map: 1, after Princess Zelda is safe in the Sanctuary
• Lake HyliaOn the map: 1, after Princess Zelda is safe in the Sanctuary, until Agahnim is beaten

Carrying it

Link lifts it like a pot and can carry it or throw it. On the ground it flops about in little hops, and if a hop lands in deep water, the fish is gone.

Thrown into deep water, it sinks, and 48 frames later a fish leaps back out. At the top of the leap it says this, and where it lands it leaves a Red Rupee:

Anything else Link throws into deep water, such as a pot, a bush, or a rock, sends up a fish 50% of the time. That fish leaps out the same way but says nothing and leaves no Rupee.

An enemy frozen by the Ice Rod can be lifted and thrown too. In deep water it sinks and is gone, and 50% of the time a fish leaps out in its place.

Who buys it

Bottle Merchant

A fish. When one touches him, he takes it and drops all five things below at once. He does this for every fish, before or after selling the bottle.

• Red Rupee
• Large Magic Jar
• 8 Bombs
• 10 Arrows
• Green Rupee

Side quests and minigames

• Trading with the Bottle MerchantTrade

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