Fishing pole
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| Name | fishing pole |
| Appearance | fishing pole |
| Base price | {{{cost}}} zm |
| Weight | {{{weight}}} |
| Material | [[{{{material}}}]] |
| Monster use | Will not be used by monsters. |
A fishing pole is a tool in SLASH'EM. It counts as a polearm, and thus uses this kind of skill. It's main use is to fish. Applying a fishing pole will prompt you for a location. The range of a fishing pole is the same as pounding with a regular polearm, but without a minimum range.
Fishing
Applying a fishing pole on a water square may have the following effects :
- You hook yourself, dealing yourself 10-19 points of damage
- You hook an item on the target square, retrieving it
- You may "snag some garbage from the water", which gives you an uncursed +0 pair of low boots. This can only occur once.
- You catch tonight's dinner, a cram ration.
Dry Land
Note that you may still apply a fishing pole to a square when that square is on dry land. Usually, there is no need to do this, as most items may simply be picked up. However, if the item is at the bottom of a spiked pit, it might be safer to fish for the item than to try your luck with poisonous spikes.
Strategy
A potentially powerful, albeit slow, use for the fishing pole is to catch a large number of cram rations. Once you've caught as many as you can carry, you can sell them at shops to get gold or credit. Also, keep in mind that you will catch cram rations frequently enough that you will never starve while fishing.
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