Aquaculture 2 adds new fishing rods to the game. You can still use the vanilla wooden fishing rod and modded fishing rods to catch Aquaculture fish. But only the Aquaculture fishing rods are able to get equipment attached, that adds various mechanics that improve your fishing capabilities.

Improved fishing

Aquaculture add various mechanics that can boost your chances of catching something while your line is cast, for example, bait. You can use use bait to increase your chances of catching a fish. Bait includes:

• Worms
• Minnow
• Leech You can obtain Leeches and Minnows by fishing, and Worms in a worm farm.

Fishing Rods

The only difference between the rods is different durability. Fishing rods

Hooks

Iron and Diamond: chance to not use durability. Gold: Increased luck. Light: casts further. Heavy: casts shorter. Double: chance to catch two things. (10%) Redstone: longer opportunity to reel in a fish. Note: audible alert when a fish is approaching. Netherstar: chance to not use durability and increased luck. Hooks

Cosmetics

The mods also adds various cosmetic items into the game to customize your fishing rods.

Bobber

A dyeable bobber that can be dyed like leather armor.

Fishing line

A dyeable fishing line that can be dyed like leather armor.

Tackle Box

Aquaculture also adds a Tackle Box. In it, you can store all of these items and fish bait. The Tackle Box is also where you can attach equipment to the fishing rods *The top corner items can be either, Green Dye, Algae or Kelp Link