Best Fishing Team: All 7 Fishing Pals, Ranks, and Saddles

Exactly seven Pals in the Paldex carry a partner skill that does nothing at all unless you have a rod out, and between them they move five different parts of a cast — where the gauge starts, how fast it fills, what a miss costs you, what falls out alongside the Pal, and how good that Pal's stats are when it lands. This guide covers the five-slot party worth running, the exact figure every one of the seven pays from an unranked copy up to ☆4, which four of them are inert until you build a saddle, where to catch all seven, and which bait stacks on top instead of overlapping.

The Best Fishing Team

None of these skills need the Pal summoned. They pay out from a party slot, which is the whole reason a fishing team is worth building at all — you fill four slots with anglers, keep the fifth for whatever you were already carrying, and every cast for the rest of the session is better. The four below were picked because no two of them touch the same number: Whalaska handles the gauge, Solmora Lux handles what you land, Gloopie handles what a miss costs, and Jelliette handles the haul. Stacking two Pals that both raise drops would waste a slot; this spread does not overlap anywhere.

Slot	Pal	Partner Skill	What it changes	Live when
1	Whalaska	Chilled Whale Cruiser	Gauge opens partly filled and fills faster on the shadow	Saddle built (tech 42)
2	Solmora Lux	Shocking Fish	Better odds the Pal you land has high stat potential	Saddle built (tech 66)
3	Gloopie	Sticky Princess	Gauge drains slower while the bar is off the shadow	The moment you catch it
4	Jelliette	Jelliette Drop	More items on the line and more drops off the Pal you hook	The moment you catch it
5	Free	—	Your mount, your fighter, or Jellroy if you are salvaging	—

Slot 5 is genuinely free and should stay that way for most of a playthrough, because the two saddle-gated slots take a long time to switch on and the other two are worth almost nothing while you are still on a Beginner rod. Early on the honest version of this team is Gloopie plus Jelliette and three empty slots — both are Beginner-pool catches, both are live from the moment they are yours, and together they cover the two things a new angler actually loses casts to. Swap Whalaska Ignis into slot 1 only after its saddle exists, and hand slot 5 to Jellroy on days you are running the magnet instead of hunting Pals. You can stack any five of these in the Palworld Team Builder to see the totals side by side.

All 7 Fishing Partner Skills and What They Pay

Every ladder below is the Pal's own rank ladder — five steps from an unranked copy up to ☆4, the same steps the Pal Essence Condenser climbs. The spread between the two ends is what decides whether a Pal is worth feeding duplicates into, and it is wildly uneven here: the two jellyfish gain 40 percentage points across the ladder while both sunfish gain 8 or 10, so one family is worth condensing and the other is close to finished the day you catch it. Read the "live when" column first, though, because a skill that has not switched on yet is worth zero regardless of what its top step says.

Pal	Partner Skill	What it moves	Unranked	☆4	Live when
Jelliette	Jelliette Drop	Extra items on the line, and extra drops off the Pal you hook	+55%	+95%	On catch
Jellroy	Jellroy Drop	Extra loot out of salvage pulls only	+55%	+95%	On catch
Gloopie	Sticky Princess	Cuts what the gauge loses while the bar is off the shadow	−12%	−35%	On catch
Whalaska	Chilled Whale Cruiser	Starting gauge, and gauge fill rate — both at once	+5% / +5%	+14% / +14%	Saddle at tech 42
Whalaska Ignis	Cozy Whale Cruiser	Starting gauge, and gauge fill rate — both at once	+7% / +7%	+17% / +17%	Saddle at tech 71
Solmora	Charming Fish	Chance the Pal you land rolls high stat potential	70%	80%	Saddle at tech 65
Solmora Lux	Shocking Fish	Chance the Pal you land rolls high stat potential	74%	82%	Saddle at tech 66

The ordering here is close to the reverse of how useful the Pals are, and that is the awkward part of the whole family. Jelliette, Jellroy and Gloopie are all Beginner-grade catches with no saddle, no tech unlock and no crafting in front of them — three of the seven are free and available on your first rod. The four that move the minigame itself are locked behind saddles at technology levels 42, 65, 66 and 71, so the Pals that make fishing easy are the ones you have to already be good at fishing to reach. Plan the team in two halves: the free pair now, the gauge and talent pair much later.

Gloopie: The Only Skill That Pays on a Miss

Six of the seven skills reward you for doing well. Sticky Princess is the only one that reduces the punishment for doing badly — while your bar has slipped off the shadow and the capture gauge is bleeding back down, Gloopie trims that loss by 12% on a fresh catch and 35% at ☆4. That makes it the single most forgiving pick in the family and the one that matters most on high-grade water, where the shadow fights the bar hardest and a run of failed casts costs you rod durability as well as bait. It is also completely free: Gloopie is a Paldeck #48 Water and Dark Pal, it is not rideable, there is no saddle or gear anywhere in front of it, and the bonus starts the instant it joins the party.

One trap worth flagging — the Gloopie Primo subspecies is not an upgrade here. It shares the Paldeck slot and the look, but its partner skill is a flat defense ladder of 15% climbing to 30%, with no fishing line on it at all. If you are building this team, the plain Water and Dark form is the one you want, and a Primo in the slot does nothing for your casts.

Whalaska and Whalaska Ignis: A Head Start on the Gauge

Whalaska's card understates it badly, because the skill pays the same figure twice on every single cast. One half sets where the capture gauge already sits the moment the minigame opens — you begin the fight partway home rather than from empty — and the other half raises how much each frame of overlap fills it. Both halves run 5% on an unranked copy through 7, 9, 11 and 14% at ☆4. Whalaska Ignis runs the identical pair at 7% through 17%, which is the strongest fishing bonus in the game, and it is also the last one you will ever get.

	Whalaska	Whalaska Ignis
Elements	Ice / Water	Ice / Fire
Starting gauge, unranked → ☆4	+5% → +14%	+7% → +17%
Gauge fill rate, unranked → ☆4	+5% → +14%	+7% → +17%
Saddle technology level	42	71
Saddle materials	20 Leather · 10 Cloth · 20 Refined Ingot · 10 Cryogenic Coolant · 25 Paldium Fragment	24 Leather · 12 Cloth · 20 Soralite Ingot · 20 Flame Organ · 30 Paldium Fragment
Fished from	Advanced spots, Lv 50–69	Grand Master spots, Lv 71–79
Map spawn spots	187	112

Twenty-nine technology levels separate the two saddles, and the real distance is wider than that, because the Ignis saddle wants 20 Soralite Ingot and Soralite Ingot comes out of nothing but an Ancient Furnace — another unlock at level 66 costing 5 technology points, needing Pals with high Kindling and high Cooling stationed at it, and taking roughly a hundred times as long per ingot as a Refined Ingot does. Plain Whalaska's saddle asks for Refined Ingot and Cryogenic Coolant, both of which you will have been stockpiling anyway by the time you hit level 42. Run the plain form. It is the one that actually carries you up the fishing tiers, and its twin arrives three points of gauge later, after the climb is already over. Whalaska also has an alpha at level 55 and Whalaska Ignis one at level 74 — check the Palworld interactive map for the exact pins on both.

Solmora and Solmora Lux: Better Pals Out of the Same Water

Charming Fish and Shocking Fish do not make the minigame easier by a single point. What they change is the quality of what you pull out of it — the chance that the Pal on the end of the line rolls high stat potential rather than average. That is the reason a fishing team exists for a lot of players in the first place, because hooking a Pal you were going to catch anyway is worth far more when its stats came out near the top of the range. If you are not sure what that ceiling looks like, the highest max IV stats by Pal breakdown shows exactly what a good roll is worth.

	Solmora	Solmora Lux
Elements	Water	Water / Electric
High-potential chance, unranked	70%	74%
High-potential chance, ☆4	80%	82%
Extra ladders on the same skill	Swim speed +10–25%	Swim speed +10–25%, ranged attack +5–20%, element switch to Electric
Saddle technology level	65	66
Saddle materials	20 Leather · 10 Cloth · 10 Coralum Ingot · 25 Paldium Fragment	24 Leather · 12 Cloth · 12 Coralum Ingot · 20 Electric Organ · 30 Paldium Fragment
Map spawn spots	109	251

There is no argument between these two. Solmora Lux leads at every single rank — 74% against 70% unranked, 82% against 80% at the top — for the sake of one extra technology level, and it throws in a ranged attack ladder and an element switch that plain Solmora does not have. It is also more than twice as common in the wild, at 251 spawn spots against 109. The one thing the base form has going for it is a cheaper saddle with no Electric Organ line, and if you are 25 Coralum Ingot short that is a real consideration — where to find Coralum Ore covers the input. Otherwise take the Lux. Note that the top of this ladder is only 8 to 12 points above the bottom, which is the flattest climb in the family: a freshly caught Solmora Lux is already doing 90% of the job, so spare copies are better off condensed into something else.

Jelliette and Jellroy: Same Ladder, Different Payout

These two look identical on paper — both climb 55% to 95% across the ranks, both are Paldeck neighbours, both are free the moment you catch them. They are not the same skill. Jelliette pays on two channels at once, adding items to what comes up on the line and raising the drops off the Pal you hooked, so it is live on every cast you make. Jellroy pays on exactly one: salvage pulls, the junk-and-treasure hauls you get with a magnet. If you are fishing for Pals, Jellroy is dead weight in the slot, and if you are running salvage, it is the best thing you can put there.

Pal	Skill	Pays on Pal catches	Pays on salvage	Unranked → ☆4	Also carries
Jelliette	Jelliette Drop	Yes — items and Pal drops	No	+55% → +95%	Watering work speed +50→120%
Jellroy	Jellroy Drop	No	Yes	+55% → +95%	Watering work speed +50→120%

Both also carry a watering work-speed ladder, and that is the one thing to be careful about: a base job and a party slot cannot run at the same time, so each copy does one thing or the other. Pick a use per Pal rather than trying to get both out of the same body. This family has the steepest condense ladder of the seven — 40 percentage points between an unranked copy and ☆4 — so if you are only going to feed duplicates into one member of the fishing team, feed them into Jelliette. It is also the easiest to farm for: Jellroy shows up across 1,193 spawn spots on the Palworld interactive map and is heavily nocturnal, and Jelliette sits at 868 spots and prefers daylight.

What You Need Before Any of This Works

The gate on the whole activity is small and comes early. The Beginner Fishing Set unlocks at technology level 15 for 2 points and gives you both halves you need at once — the Beginner Fishing Rod (Chillet) and Simple Bait — and you cannot cast at all without bait in the bag. From there the ladder is a rod every fifteen-odd levels, with the Advanced Fishing Rod (Depresso) at the top as a Legendary-rarity schematic craft rather than a tree unlock. Everything else on this page is optional layers on top.

Requirement	Where it comes from	Needed for
Beginner Fishing Set	Technology level 15, 2 points	Casting at all — rod plus Simple Bait
Any Pal from the free three	Catching it	Gloopie, Jelliette or Jellroy pay from the party slot with nothing built
Whalaska Saddle	Technology level 42, 3 points	Switching on Whalaska's gauge bonus
Solmora Lux Saddle	Technology level 66, 4 points	Switching on the stat-potential bonus
Whalaska Ignis Saddle	Technology level 71, 4 points, plus an Ancient Furnace	The strongest gauge bonus in the game
Powerful Fishing Magnet	Technology level 62, 3 points	Salvage pulls — the only thing Jellroy pays on

Note that being rideable is not what gates these skills. Three of the seven are not mounts and need nothing; the other four hold their fishing bonus behind a saddle even though the effect has nothing to do with sitting on the Pal. Building the saddle is the switch, not equipping it, and once it exists the bonus runs from a reserve slot with the Pal never summoned.

Where to Catch All Seven

There are 367 fishing spots on the main map plus 55 more in the tree region, with 102 and 22 rare spots on top, and every one of them is pinned on the Palworld interactive map. Four of the seven are catchable by rod, which is the neat part of this family — you fish up the Pals that make you better at fishing — and all seven also spawn on land or in open water where a sphere works just as well. The Beginner-pool three are the ones to grab first; the rest can wait for the tech levels.

Pal	Fishing tier	Fished level band	Spawn spots	Best time	Map
Jelliette	Beginner	Lv 1–32	868	Day	View pins
Jellroy	Beginner	Lv 1–45	1,193	Night	View pins
Gloopie	Beginner	Lv 10–49	743	Night	View pins
Whalaska	Advanced	Lv 50–69	187 (alpha at Lv 55)	Day	View pins
Solmora	Expert	Lv 65–69	109	Any time	View pins
Solmora Lux	Expert	Lv 65–79	251	Any time	View pins
Whalaska Ignis	Grand Master	Lv 71–79	112 (alpha at Lv 74)	Any time	View pins

Watch the rod-durability cost when you go hunting the late three. A cast at a Beginner spot strips 1 point of condition off your rod; from Advanced grade upward it costs 4, so the same rod gives you a quarter as many attempts against the water Whalaska and both Solmoras live in. Pack spares before the trip. Full pool odds, shadow sizes and grade difficulty are in the Palworld fishing database, and how to catch Pals covers the sphere route for anyone who would rather not fish for their anglers.

Getting the Team to ☆4

Duplicates through the Pal Essence Condenser are the obvious route, and for Jelliette and Jellroy — the two with 40 points of headroom — it is worth the grind. For the rest it usually is not, and there is a shop route that skips the farming entirely. Starfruit each move a Pal one specific step of the ladder and are stocked at the Medal Shop; Ripe Starfruit adds a rank from wherever the Pal currently sits and is sold at the Bounty Shop. Recycling Ancient Relics turns up both kinds as well.

Item	Moves	Price	Shop
Starfruit ☆1	Unranked → ☆1	50 Dog Coin	Medal Shop
Starfruit ☆2	☆1 → ☆2	100 Dog Coin	Medal Shop
Starfruit ☆3	☆2 → ☆3	200 Dog Coin	Medal Shop
Starfruit ☆4	☆3 → ☆4	400 Dog Coin	Medal Shop
Ripe Starfruit	One rank from anywhere	50 Successful Bounty Token	Bounty Shop

Priced out, the full climb from a fresh catch to ☆4 costs 750 Dog Coin in Starfruit, which is the right way to finish a Solmora Lux you are never going to see a spare of. The two sunfish gain only 8 and 10 points across the entire ladder, so they are the worst condense targets in the family and the best Starfruit targets — one purchase, done, no duplicate hunting. Do the opposite with the jellyfish: they spawn in the four figures, so duplicates cost you nothing but time and the payoff is four times larger.

Bait to Pair With Each Slot

Nine baits exist and they move four different numbers between them, which means the useful question is not "which bait is best" but "which bait doubles down on what my party already does". The table below is the overlap map. Everything in it is a multiplier on the cast rather than a flavour difference, and the two 80% baits are the only ones that meaningfully change what a session is worth.

Bait	What it does	Stacks with
Simple Bait	Baseline — required to cast at all	—
Beginner Bait	Gauge drains at 0.68×	Gloopie
High Quality Bait	1.5× chance a Pal bites	Nothing — no partner skill touches bite rate
Sweet Bait	1.5× bite chance, cheaper tier	Nothing
Deluxe Bait	Minigame bar 1.15× wider	Nothing directly
Quick Bait	Bar 1.25× wider and 1.5× bite chance	Nothing directly
Lucky Bait	Bar 1.25×, +40% Pal drops, +40% item drops	Jelliette
Alluring Bait	Bar 1.3×, +40% Pal drops, +40% item drops	Jelliette
Risky Bait	+80% Pal drops and item drops, harder bar	Jelliette and Whalaska

Read that last row against slot 1 and the team starts to look deliberate. Risky Bait hands you the largest haul multiplier in the game and takes the minigame bar away in exchange — and a ☆4 Whalaska opening the gauge 14% full and filling it 14% faster is precisely the counterweight that makes the trade survivable. Nothing in the family stacks with bite chance, so High Quality and Sweet Bait are for sessions where you are waiting around rather than losing casts. Full bait multipliers, pond percentages and both salvage wreck tables live on the Palworld fishing database.

The Short Answer

Run Gloopie and Jelliette the whole game — both are free Beginner-pool catches whose bonuses are live from the party slot with nothing built, and between them they cut what a miss costs and raise what a hit pays. Add Whalaska at technology level 42 and Solmora Lux at 66, which are the only two saddles in this family genuinely worth the tech points, and leave the fifth slot for your mount. Feed duplicates into Jelliette because its ladder is worth 40 points; buy Starfruit for Solmora Lux because its ladder is worth 8. And skip Gloopie Primo, plain Solmora and — unless you are running the magnet — Jellroy.

Related Guides

Hubs: Palworld fishing database · all Palworld partner skills · Palworld Team Builder · Palworld interactive map · all Palworld guides

Fishing and catching: Palworld fishing guide: best catches, rods and bait · how to catch Pals · where to find Coralum Ore · all Water type Pals

Party building: best team comps · best Gobfin team · all Pals by max IV stats · how to farm IV fruits and training crystals