Ye Olde Fishing Vortex
At Ye Olde Fishing Vortex (also known as Underwater Fishing), each of your Neopets is allowed to cast their line and fish up an item.
Each one of your Neopets can cast a line at least once per day. There seems to be a cooldown period between successful catches, ranging from less than 2 hours to over 24 hours, but an exact time range is unknown. Each pet has an independent cooldown, which means even if one pet is on cooldown, your others will not be until they cast a line.
Companion App
The Fishing Vortex can also be accessed in the Companion App. Both versions are linked, meaning if you fish on-site, you will need to wait your pet's full cooldown window in order to successfully fish again on-site or in-app.
Bonus Rewards
All users have access to one bonus reward per day as an in-app exclusive, which bypasses the normal cooldown window before a pet can typically fish again for a prize. Premium users can use their extra cast immediately, while non-Premium users will be prompted to watch an ad first. The cast is once per account, per day, not once per pet.
Rewards
Each time your pet successfully fishes at the cavern, they have the opportunity to raise their fishing level and/or receive an item prize. Your pet's fishing level is directly correlated to their potential item prizes.
Fishing Skill Level
Each time your pet fishes at the cavern, there is a chance that their fishing skill will increase by one level, and as their level increases so does the list of items they could possibly hook. You can also increase their level (up to a maximum of 3 levels) by reading them the book Fishing Made Easy.
The maximum fishing level that your pet can obtain is 500. Whenever a Neopet is abandoned or transferred, their fishing level resets back to 1. If that same Neopet returns to an account where they had accumulated levels, those levels will be reinstated. In other words, your Neopets' fishing level records are locked to your account.
The fishing level for a pet can be found in the Fishing Skill section of the pet's lookup (https://www.neopets.com/petlookup.phtml?pet=PETNAME).
Item Prizes
Below is a list of the items you can find at the vortex, along with the minimum confirmed fishing level your pet must be at in order to find them. If you'd like to see the information for these items, click on the item's name or image to be taken to its page in the Item Database.
At any level, it is also possible to fish up a Paint Brush, Petpet Paint Brush, Transmogrification Potion, or other rare items, although this is a very rare occurrence.
Confirmed Paint Brushes (at any level)
Confirmed Petpet Paint Brushes (at any level)
Confirmed Transmogrification Potions (at any level)
Other Rare Items (at any level)
Avatar
At around level 80, it is possible to catch a Titanic Giant Squid. Fishing up one of these will also net you an avatar!
Fishing - Titanic Squid / Guide
Catch a Titanic Giant Squid in the Underwater Fishing Cavern.
This avatar is available in both the on-site version and on the Companion app.
Released: June 20, 2005
Note that it is not possible to borrow a pet with a >80 fishing level from another player, as a Neopet's fishing level is linked to the account, not the Neopet, and so will return to 1 if you abandon or transfer them to another account.
This page was written by JN Staff and last updated on June 21, 2026.
