Fisch Skycrest: Full Guide to All Five Fudo Idol Trials

Fudo is one of seven stone-carved Ancient Idols scattered across Skycrest, the floating island added to Fisch on September 5, 2026. Each idol hands out five trials, and clearing them pushes your Idol Favor level while feeding the stat Charm tied to that idol. Fudo’s set is built around precision fishing, so the trials are less about rare spawns and more about controlling the minigame.

Quick answer: Perfect Catch five fish in a row, stall a common fish’s minigame past 60 seconds with a Flimsy Rod at Moosewood, chain 10 Perfect Casts and Perfect Catches, directly catch 10 Giant fish at Skycrest under a Sundial Totem High Weight buff, then land a Perfect Catch on a Hunt Fish while the Artisan Rod is equipped. Return to Fudo after each one to bank the Favor.

The five Fudo trials and what each one asks for

Trial	Requirement	Where to do it
1	Perfect Catch 5 Fish in a row	Anywhere
2	Maintain a catch minigame against a Common Fish for 60+ Secs	Moosewood
3	Perfect Cast and Perfect Catch 10 Fish in a row	Anywhere
4	Directly Catch 10 Giant fish at Skycrest	Skycrest
5	Perfect Catch any Hunt Fish with Artisan Rod	Anywhere a hunt can spawn

Note: only the fourth trial is locked to Skycrest itself. The other four can be knocked out at whatever spot gives you the easiest fish, then turned in when you head back up.

Getting to Skycrest and the Fudo idol

Head to Moosewood and stand beside the leaderboard at roughly (350, 135, 250). The large pink clam teleporter there sends you to the Fischfest 2 island. If you have filled 50% of the Fischfest 2 Bestiary, the Magic Conch does the same job instantly.

Grab a boat from the Shipwright and sail to the vertical waterfall at (-25700, 2591, -4712). Swim up through it to surface on Skycrest.

Walk the island and interact with the Fudo idol to open its trial list. All seven idols sit at different spots on Skycrest, and each keeps its own separate five-trial track, so accepting Fudo’s list does not lock you out of the others.

Gear to line up before you start

Item	Used for	How to get it
Flimsy Rod	Trial 2 stalling	Starter rod
Sundial Totem	Trial 4 High Weight buff	Totem Carver
Evil Pitchfork Rod, Sea Overlord, Sea Prince	Trial 4 Giant fish setup	Existing collection
Artisan Rod	Trial 5, mandatory	Elder Kaito’s weekly shop, 80,000 C$
Megalodon Hunt Totem	Trial 5 hunt spawn	Totem Carver
Tryhard Worm Bait	Trial 5 hook speed	Bait supply

Elder Kaito’s stock rotates weekly, so if the Artisan Rod is not listed when you check, trial 5 has to wait for a refresh. Everything else can be prepared before you ever climb the waterfall.

Trials 1 and 3: Perfect Cast and Perfect Catch streaks

These two are the same skill at two difficulty levels. Trial 1 only counts the catch half, so five clean reel-ins on any basic fish clears it. Trial 3 adds the cast, meaning the casting bar has to stop inside the green zone and the reel-in has to finish without a miss, 10 times back to back.

Pick a shallow, low-difficulty fishing spot with high-control gear. Small common fish move the bar slowly and are far easier to keep centered than anything rare.

Bobber floating in the water during a Fisch cast, with the reel prompt on screen — The cast lands and the bobber sits in the water, ready for the reel-in minigame.

For the cast, tap to stop the moving marker precisely in the green segment. Anything outside it still casts, but it wipes your Perfect Cast chain for trial 3.

Hold and release to keep the slider on the fish icon until the progress bar fills. A catch only counts as perfect if the bar never drops out, so let go early rather than overcorrecting.

Fisch catch minigame with the slider held on target as the progress bar climbs — Holding the slider on target pushes progress up during the reel-in.

One failed catch resets the counter to zero for both trials, so it is faster to fish somewhere forgiving for 10 straight attempts than to grind a difficult spot.

Trial 2: Hold a common fish’s minigame for 60 seconds

This one rewards bad gear. A weak rod fills the progress bar slowly, which is exactly what you want when the goal is to stay in the minigame for over a minute without finishing it.

Travel to Moosewood, equip the Flimsy Rod, and attach any bait. The bait choice does not matter here.

Hook a common fish such as an Anchovy, Bream, or Trout. Rarer fish can end the minigame on their own terms, so a plain catch is the safer target.

Deliberately stall. Let the slider drift off the fish just enough to bleed progress back down, then nudge it on again before the bar empties and the catch fails. Ride that balance past the 60-second mark.

Left and right arrow control bar highlighted during a Fisch reel-in — The left and right control bar is what you feather to keep the minigame alive without finishing it.

Once the timer is beaten, stop stalling and complete the catch normally. Losing the fish before the minute is up does not count, and neither does landing it early.

Trial 4: Directly catch 10 Giant fish at Skycrest

Giant is a weight condition, so the fix is to stack weight luck rather than hunt a specific species. This is the only Fudo trial that has to happen on the island itself.

Stand at a Skycrest fishing spot and use Sundial Totems until the High Weight buff appears. The buff applies 1.5x luck toward High Weight fish, and repeat totems are the only reliable way to force it.

Equip the Evil Pitchfork Rod and run Sea Overlord and Sea Prince alongside it. That combination pushes catch sizes up while the buff is live.

Fish until 10 catches register as Giant. Reapply the totem whenever the buff expires, because catches made without it convert far more slowly.

Trial 5: Perfect Catch a Hunt Fish with the Artisan Rod

The final trial has a hard gate. It will not tick unless the Artisan Rod is the rod in your hands, which means buying it from Elder Kaito for 80,000 C$ before anything else.

Purchase the Artisan Rod from Elder Kaito’s weekly stock, then equip it from the Fishing Rods menu.

Fisch Fishing Rods menu with the Artisan Rod selected and marked as equipped — The Artisan Rod equipped in the Fishing Rods menu, which the trial checks for.

Roll Piercing and Overclocked enchants onto the rod and attach Tryhard Worm Bait. That setup keeps progress climbing fast enough to avoid a slip on a large target.

Use a Megalodon Hunt Totem to start a hunt. Any Hunt Fish satisfies the trial, but the Megalodon totem gives you a spawn on demand instead of waiting for one.

Player fishing at sea in Fisch after a Megalodon hunt begins — Fishing the open water after the Megalodon hunt kicks off.

Hook the hunt target and finish the reel-in without dropping the bar once. A normal catch closes the hunt but leaves the trial unfinished, so a missed bar means summoning another one.

Claiming the rewards and confirming progress

Each cleared trial has to be turned in at the Fudo idol. Interact with it, claim, and your Idol Favor rises, with the Idol Level counter on screen ticking up as you hand in successive trials. That is your confirmation the trial registered.

Fudo’s payout is the Endurance Charm, which upgrades as you keep feeding the idol. Charms slot into the Crest Amulet handed to you by the Keeper of the Sky, and the amulet opens more slots, up to nine, as your Idol Favor level climbs. Charms also gain levels from ordinary fishing in Skycrest, so the trials and the grind stack.

Tip: clearing five trials from any single Ancient Idol also satisfies the requirement Ryusei sets before he lets you wish for a limited-time rod. Finishing Fudo’s set therefore counts twice.

If a trial refuses to advance, the cause is almost always one of four things: the streak was broken by an imperfect cast or a dropped bar, the stall ended before 60 seconds, the Giant fish were caught somewhere other than Skycrest, or the Artisan Rod was not equipped for the hunt catch. Fix the condition and the counter starts moving again on the next cast.