How to Farm Sturgeon in Animal Crossing New Horizons

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons features a wide variety of fish to collect, with some being much harder to find than others. What fish you catch depends on the time of day, the season, and where you’re fishing – certain fish only appear in specific locations.

This guide explains how to catch Sturgeon in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. It also shares tips on how to make Sturgeon appear more often, so you can catch a lot of them quickly and earn thousands of Bells.

How to Get Sturgeon in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

In New Horizons, you can catch Sturgeon from September to March – that’s seven months out of the year. It can be caught any time of day, but it’s tricky to find because it’s rare and only spawns at the river mouth.

  • How to find Sturgeon in Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Search the mouth of the river for a size 6 fish shadow in September, October, November, December, January, February, or March.

Sturgeon are very large fish, so you should only try to catch them when you see the largest fish shadow – a size 6 shadow – in the game. If you see a large shadow, but it’s not the biggest one, it’s probably a Black Bass, which also lives in this part of the river.

How to Farm Sturgeon in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Players can obtain Sturgeon by frightening fish throughout the game’s waters, which causes them to spawn near the river’s entrance.

While they could manage this on their island, the surrounding ocean is so large and offers many other suitable spawning grounds for sturgeon and other fish, making this approach less effective.

The easiest way to find Sturgeon is to use a Nook Miles Ticket to travel to a random island. Look for islands that have a river – these smaller islands are quick to run around, making it much easier to collect Sturgeon. If the island doesn’t have a river, just return to your main island and try again until you find one that does – that’s where this method works best.

To catch Sturgeon, players need to either jump across the river using their pole or run along the bank to frighten the fish. New fish will keep appearing as different parts of the river move out of view. Once all the fish have been scared away, players should check the river’s entrance to see what has spawned there.

Okay, so I’m thinking maybe they won’t even find the fish they’re really after right away. But honestly, checking only takes a few seconds, so all they have to do is try to spook whatever shows up at the river’s entrance. If it’s not a huge sturgeon, they just quickly go around again and check another spot. It’s a pretty quick process, really!

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Players can easily earn 10,000 Bells by catching a Sturgeon. They often repeat this process, catching many Sturgeon, and then sell their catch to either C.J. or the Nook brothers (Timmy and Tommy) for a substantial profit.

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2026-01-20 00:06