# Reel Rush Fishing — Cast, fight, collect the deep

> Realistic fishing simulation game with diverse species, locations, and tackle. (iPhone/iPad app by Johnny Pack.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/reel-rush-fishing/id6799796316 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Johnny Pack](https://appshunter.io/developer/6799796318)
- Category: Games, Casual, Simulation
- Price: Free
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 2 App Store ratings
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.0 · 13 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Chinese (Simplified, China) and 3 more
- Released: 2026-09-03
- Data updated: 2026-10-14
- Monetization: free

## What is Reel Rush Fishing?

Read the water. Pick your rig. Set the hook.

Reel Rush Fishing is a fishing game with an actual fishery underneath it. Every
one of the 240+ species has a depth range, a feeding clock, and a water
temperature it wants — and all three decide whether it is there at all. Learn
the pattern and the lake starts giving up its secrets.

TWELVE REAL WATERS
From a warm California bass lake to a Smoky Mountain trout creek, the Chesapeake,
the Great Barrier Reef, Cabo's blue water, and the cold deep of Kenai Fjords and
the Gulf of Maine. Each one is drawn from the real place, down to the horizon
you fish against.

FOURTEEN RIGS THAT FISH DIFFERENTLY
A worm under a bobber. A spinnerbait you hold to retrieve. A curly-tail grub
that spins on the reel. A crankbait that digs to its running depth. A flutter
spoon they hit on the fall. A dry fly that has to be twitched. Each rig is
worked its own way, and each one calls up different fish.

WEATHER, HOUR, AND TEMPERATURE MATTER
Fish dawn for the low-light bite, or after dark for catfish and walleye. Watch a
storm gather, break, and throw lightning across the water — then feel the bite
turn on. Water temperature moves with the location, the hour, the weather, and
how deep you drop, and the fish move with it. There is a thermocline down there.

FIGHT THEM PROPERLY
Hold to reel, keep the line tension in the gold, and let a running fish take
line before it snaps you off. Big fish sound for the bottom, shake their heads,
and roll onto their side when they're beaten.

BUILD THE OPERATION
Upgrade rod, reel, line, and hooks. Buy boats from a kayak up to a lake cruiser,
or take a Personal Watercraft, a Party Pontoon, or the Golden Gill from the Cash
Shop. Set minnow and critter traps. Chum the water. Enter the derby. Mount your
best catch on the trophy room wall, and fill in the Fish-o-pedia one species at
a time.

CLIMB THE LEADERBOARDS
Game Center keeps three boards — biggest fish, most fish caught, and lifetime
earnings — and your records go up against every other angler's. Signing in is
optional, and the game never waits on it.

NO ENERGY TIMERS
Fish as long as you like. Coin packs and the Cash Shop boats are optional: they
skip grind, never gates, and anything you buy restores on a new device. Switch
on the daily reminder if you want a nudge when your reward is stacked, or leave
it off — the game plays the same either way.

Tight lines.

## Key features

- 240+ fish species with unique behaviors
- 12 real-world fishing locations
- 14 distinct fishing rigs
- Dynamic weather, hour, and temperature effects
- Trophy room and Fish-o-pedia
- Online leaderboards
- No energy timers

## Is Reel Rush Fishing safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Reel Rush Fishing.

## Is Reel Rush Fishing legit?

Reel Rush Fishing has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Reel Rush Fishing is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Frequently asked questions about Reel Rush Fishing

### What kind of fish can I catch in Reel Rush Fishing?

Reel Rush Fishing features over 240 species of fish, each with specific depth, feeding, and temperature requirements that influence their presence in the water.

### How many fishing locations are available in Reel Rush Fishing?

The game offers twelve distinct fishing locations, inspired by real-world places like the Chesapeake Bay, the Great Barrier Reef, and the Gulf of Maine.

### Does Reel Rush Fishing have energy timers or limits on playtime?

No, Reel Rush Fishing does not have energy timers, allowing players to fish for as long as they desire without artificial limitations.

### Can I compete with other players in Reel Rush Fishing?

Yes, Reel Rush Fishing includes Game Center leaderboards for biggest fish caught, most fish caught, and lifetime earnings, allowing you to compare your records with other anglers.

### How does weather and time of day affect gameplay in Reel Rush Fishing?

Weather, the hour of the day, and water temperature all dynamically influence fish behavior and location, creating a more realistic and engaging fishing experience.

### What fishing rigs are available in Reel Rush Fishing?

There are fourteen different rigs in Reel Rush Fishing, each with unique mechanics and effectiveness for attracting different types of fish.

### Is Reel Rush Fishing available on multiple devices?

Based on the provided data, Reel Rush Fishing is currently supported on iPhone devices.

### How often is Reel Rush Fishing updated?

Reel Rush Fishing was last updated on September 3, 2026, with version 1.4, indicating recent development activity.

## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.5 — 2026-09-12

### Fixed — content that was unreachable
- Four deep species could never be caught: the reel tops out at 250 ft but
  their bands started deeper. This includes two bosses — **The Grander**
  (Cabo San Lucas, a paid 24-hour charter) and **Old Greyback** (Kenai
  Fjords) — plus the Giant Grenadier and Greenland Halibut. All four are now
  banded to touch reachable depth; three waters' Fish-o-pedia completion
  bonuses (and the full 247-species dex) are attainable again.


### Fixed — economy and money integrity


- Derbies are bound to the water they were entered on. A minimum-stake pond
  ticket could previously be cashed out against big-game water for a huge,
  repeatable profit. Casts elsewhere neither count nor score; the Missions
  card says where your derby is running.
- A derby bound to charter water whose permit lapses now settles itself
  (paying out the best catch on the board) instead of stranding the stake
  and the ENTER card forever.
- Derby entry pricing and binding now agree even if a permit expires while
  the menu is open; the result message no longer claims "no keeper" while
  naming your keeper, and shows the right dollar amounts.
- Snapped-line results no longer offer to mount (and charge for) a trophy
  you lost; lost fish and scrap show struck-through values instead of
  payout green.
- Line wear was charged twice when a fight ended in a snap — a fresh spool
  could die in two break-offs instead of the tuned four or five.
- Resetting progress no longer erases purchase history: the one-per-account
  Starter Bundle can't be sold twice, and the StoreKit crediting ledger
  (now 500 entries deep) survives, so redelivered transactions can't
  double-credit.
- Shop upgrade cards now quote the stats of the tier you own (the one being
  upgraded), not whatever lighter/broken gear you happen to have equipped.


### Fixed — stability and performance


- A full game scene leaked on every fishing trip (callback retain cycle);
  long sessions grew memory until iOS killed the app.
- The lightning-bolt texture cache grew without bound during storms
  (~350 KB per strike, kept forever); bolts now reuse a small cached set.
- The underwater gradient re-rendered and re-uploaded to the GPU after every
  single cast; it now redraws only when the water or hour actually changes.


### Fixed — controls


- A second finger touching or lifting no longer fires your cast at random
  power, drops the reel mid-fight, or kills a retrieve; the bobber-depth
  drag tracks its own finger too.
- A system interruption mid-windup (a call, Control Center, app switch) now
  aborts the cast cleanly instead of launching it at whatever power the
  meter held.
- Rotating the phone during the catch celebration could expose DOCK and
  silently discard the banked fish; exit is now gated until the catch is
  settled.


### Fixed — gameplay and presentation


- Fish radar read the water to the boat's right even when facing left, and
  re-rolled every hotspot when the phone rotated. It now reads off the bow,
  in stable world coordinates.
- Only one whale and one sea turtle could ever appear per session; they now
  return on their intended timers.
- Four sounds never played (the hook-set line scream, the derby win
  fanfare, and both arctic ice sounds) — the files were always in the app.
- Kenai blizzards no longer play the rain-on-water loop over falling snow.
- A swamp gator could eat the fish that was running with your bait and
  teleport the camera; the bait-hunting gator also approached at double
  speed. Both fixed, and stale hunters stand down between casts.
- Bait-steal now shows a correctly sized bare hook instead of a stretched
  blob; snag snaps after a fight no longer claim "It broke you off!";
  the "TAP & HOLD to cast" hint pulses again after the first cast.
- Lapsed licenses relocate you at the menu instead of mid-render (removes a
  SwiftUI "publishing during view updates" hazard).

### 1.4 — 2026-09-03

No release notes.

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