Tripod Fish
Can you picture it? A fish with legs strolling on land? When the tripod fish was first found, Heidel's top biologists decided it was a mutation of a flying fish. They even called it a cursed, ill-fated creature and tossed it into the roaring flames to burn. Yet, fishers kept reeling them in, and in the end, scholars dubbed it the tripod fish, acknowledging it as a true fish.
Fishing Zones
Known fishing zones are established by reviewed baseline data or maintained community assignments.
Potential fishing zones are suggested automatically from real-player ranking observations and still need review.
How ranking evidence is attributed
Ranking observations record a fish, timestamp, and player position—not the fish’s exact catch location. FishyStuff attributes a 500-game-unit uncertainty ring around that position to the current fishing-zone map.
The entire uncertainty ring falls inside one fishing zone in the current map. This is stronger spatial support, but it is not promoted automatically: ranking evidence does not establish a fishing group, and zone boundaries may still need review.
The ring crosses a zone border and touches more than one fishing zone. Every touched zone receives weaker positive support because the exact zone attribution is unclear.
These counts indicate presence support, not catch rates or drop rates.