Talk:Fishing spots/@comment-73.114.149.45-20190320010557/@comment-73.114.149.45-20190320115315

This can be tested very easily. Just grab 1 fish as fast as possible, and catch the same fish but waste a lot of time. My results:

Golden Salmon fast: 5 minutes

Golden Salmon slow: 22 minutes.

The conclusion: time isn't ACTUALLY frozen. The clock doesn't update yes, but time still progresses normally at all points while fishing. The amount of "time" a fish takes to reel in depends more on the difficulty of the catch (hard fish take longer to reel in) and not because of any hard coded time value. Better poles and higher player skill ultimately reel in more fish in less world time.