Fisch: How to Get the Blue Galapagos Octopus

The Blue Galapagos Octopus is one of the three fish added to Fisch alongside the Budling companion, and it sits behind a fairly narrow set of conditions. It is an Exotic catch tied to a single spot in Desolate Deep, and it only shows up when the season and weather line up.

Quick answer: Fish the Desolate Pocket inside Desolate Deep using Seaweed bait during Summer while it is raining. Time of day does not matter.

Blue Galapagos Octopus catch requirements in Fisch

Every preference below stacks in your favor. None of them are hard locks in the sense that bait is mandatory, but Summer and Rain are what make the octopus realistically reachable, and Seaweed is the bait it prefers.

Requirement	Detail
Rarity	Exotic (chance increases with luck)
Location	Desolate Pocket, inside Desolate Deep
Season	Summer
Weather	Rain
Time of day	Any
Bait	Seaweed
Source	Fishing Rod

Note: the Blue Galapagos Octopus is a Favoring Exotic, so higher luck raises its odds. Luck boosts do not replace the season or weather conditions.

How to reach the Desolate Pocket and start fishing

Open your inventory and pull out the Traveler’s Whistle. Use it to fast travel to the Desolate Deep Buoy instead of sailing out there manually.

Fisch gameplay screen with the hotbar open and a Press G to Open prompt visible — The hotbar and item prompt used before fast traveling out to Desolate Deep.

From the buoy, head into Desolate Deep and move to the marked Desolate Pocket area. This is the only spot in the zone where the octopus can be hooked, so fishing in the wider Desolate Deep water will not work.

Equip Seaweed as your bait before casting. If you are not in Summer or it is not raining yet, wait out the cycle rather than burning bait on casts that cannot produce the fish.

Cast into the Desolate Pocket and keep fishing. Because this is an Exotic, expect a stretch of common Desolate Deep catches such as Cockatoo Squid before it appears.

Reeling it in: resilience and Runaway behavior

Hooking it is only half the job. The Blue Galapagos Octopus has a resilience value of -10, which the game classes as Extreme, so a weak rod will make the bar fight you the whole way.

It also uses Runaway behavior, meaning it actively pulls away from your bar rather than drifting into it. If your rod’s Control stat is 0.7 or higher, it starts moving erratically instead, which changes how you track it. Working in your favor, the fish carries a +30% progress speed modifier, so clean tracking fills the bar quickly.

Fisch reeling minigame with the center marker held inside the moving arrow bar — The reeling minigame, where the marker has to stay inside the bar as the fish pulls away.

How to confirm you caught it

Two things confirm the catch. Your character shouts one of the fish’s catch quips, either “A LITTLE BLUE GUY?!” or “OCTOPUS!!!”, and the catch itself is announced in the chat log with the Exotic tag, its weight, and any mutation attached to it.

Once caught, it is registered in your Desolate Deep bestiary, which is worth checking if you are chasing zone completion rather than just the sell value.

Fisch chat log showing catch notifications during a Blue Whale Migration event — Catch notifications in the chat log, where the Exotic tag and weight confirm the octopus.

Why the Blue Galapagos Octopus is not appearing

If dozens of casts go by with nothing, the cause is almost always one of a short list of misses.

You are fishing in Desolate Deep but not inside the Desolate Pocket itself.
The season is not Summer.
It is not currently raining in the server.
You are using a bait other than Seaweed, which lowers the odds without blocking the catch outright.

Blue Galapagos Octopus value, weight, and XP

This is a small fish, so the payout comes from its rate per kilogram rather than raw bulk. It sells for 21,775 C$ per kilogram and grants 6,480 XP.

Weight tier	Weight	Sell value
Minimum	0.1kg	2,177.5 C$
Average	0.15kg	3,266.3 C$
Base	0.2kg	4,355 C$
Maximum (no boosts)	0.4kg	9,146 C$

Size labels follow the same scale. Anything under 0.05kg counts as Tiny, under 0.099kg is Small, above 0.2kg is Big, and above 0.398kg is Giant.

The octopus arrived in version 2.01.0 alongside the Walrus at Snowcap Island and the Reef Triggerfish at Roslit Bay, so if you are working through the new additions, a Summer rain window is the moment to make the trip out to Desolate Deep and clear all the conditions in one session.