Fortunately, Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ Barreleye is available in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres year round. This means that players do not need to worry about catching one before it temporarily disappears, and with enough fishing they will eventually come across one. However, there are some things to know that will help those players that are specifically trying to catch a Barreleye.
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The first important details about the Barreleye in ACNH are that it spawns from 9pm to 4am, and it only appears in the sea. As such, fans that are looking to get one of these rare fish for their museums in Animal Crossing: New Horizons should head to the beaches for some night time fishing.
With respect to the shadow size of Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ Barreleye, it is on the smaller side, and fans can get a visual reference in the video found above. Players hunting for a Barreleye should thus be looking to fish up any of these smaller size shadows, and fans can use fish bait to repeatedly spawn fish until shadows of this size appear.
To summarize, players that are trying to catch a Barreleye in Animal Crossing: New Horizons should fish in the sea from 9pm to 4am at any time of the year. Furthermore, they should target smallish shadows, and they can use fish bait to gain access to a steady stream of that size fish. While this all may sound simple enough, catching a Barreleye is anything but easy, and indeed it may take quite a while before a player finds themselves handing this rare fish over to Blathers.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available now, exclusively for Nintendo Switch.
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