Deep Fishing Pond Guide: How to Unlock and Use The Pond

The Pond unlocks in Deep Fishing at Level 5 for $25,000. How to reach the gate, fund the purchase, and what this AFK fishing destination offers once unlocked.

Quick answer

The Pond unlocks in Deep Fishing at Level 5 for $25,000. Fish your way to Level 5, keep $25,000 on hand, then buy The Pond as a destination when the game offers it.

Level 5 is the gate that makes The Pond available as a destination, and the destination itself costs $25,000.
Every catch feeds XP toward Level 5, including junk — a Worn Sneaker still counts toward progress.
Once purchased, The Pond is reached by travel and works as AFK fishing water where you leave your line in the water.

Where The Pond fits in the purchase order

The Pond is a mid-early purchase, not a late-game one: at $25,000 it costs more than the Bronze Rod ($12,000) and less than the Full Bronze Rod ($50,000), so it realistically lands alongside the bronze-rod stage. The ordering rule that matters is "buy rods before stats" — a stat upgrade makes a weak rod slightly less weak, but a new rod changes which water you can reach at all, and farther water holds the rarer fish. That is exactly what The Pond is: new water.

Comparison

Comparison
Purchase	Cost	Buy It When
Bronze Rod	$12,000	First real upgrade, right after the free reward claim
Full Bronze Rod	$50,000	Once your bank passes roughly $61K
The Pond (new water)	$25,000	Unlocks at Level 5

How to fund the $25,000

Funding follows the game's standard sell-upgrade-repeat loop, and the free sources come first:

The Free Reward stand on the pier is the single fastest thing a new account can claim — it hands over $13,614, which covers a Bronze Rod with change to spare.
Gifts add around 1,000 coins each, and group rewards — favoriting the game, joining the LazyGames group, and similar account tasks — are the other free bucket.
Quests contribute smaller amounts, such as $750 and 150 XP, and that XP also counts toward the Level 5 gate.
Chests are the wildcard: a Mythical Lucky Chest can hook on a 750-meter cast, gets reeled in like a fish, then opens from your inventory. One observed payout was $12,403 — roughly a quarter of the Full Bronze Rod's price.

Sales then scale with gear. Early sales land around 4.7K coins, but a single good deep run with a decent rod can clear $30.5K or more, so a couple of solid bronze-rod sessions fund The Pond outright.

Using The Pond: travel, AFK fishing, and shopping

After paying the $25,000 fee, you take the portal to reach it. See the Codes page for available codes, rewards, and redemption steps.

What holds is the progression value: rarity scales with distance and location rather than with luck purchases, which is why new water like The Pond is worth the detour.

What has been caught at The Pond (event conditions)

The Pond's everyday fish table is not documented, and the catches below come from a session filmed during an admin event with 4x luck, layered weather (rain, toxic, and thunder), and premium baits active. Treat them as an event-boosted upper bound, not normal yield:

Tips

11,000-coin legendary

A legendary catch worth 11,000 coins landed early in the session.

3,300 kg squid

A squid weighing 3,300 kg came up mid-session.

Mutated tiger sharks

One sold for 2.2 million coins.

Golden manta ray

Landed during the event window.

Great whites and Mythical squid

Great white sharks and Mythical-tier squid catches appeared mid-session.

Two Secret-rarity catches in a row

On a roughly 17,000 m cast using endgame gear.

Very long casts

With maxed gear, casts at The Pond reached about 21,000 m.

What comes next: Dune Haven

Its function is still ambiguous: right after the unlock notice, the player asked "Can I actually fish there?" and associated the area with rod enchanting before deciding against visiting. Treat Dune Haven as the next price gate after The Pond for now, and recheck its cost and purpose in-game after the next progression update.

Free bait for the road to Level 5

Meadow Bait is an early bait option and pairs with the Bronze Rod on the road to Level 5. A code name does not establish a location unlock.

Bottom line: fish to Level 5 (junk counts), claim the pier's Free Reward and run a few solid sales sessions to bank $25,000, buy The Pond, and leave a line in the water while you save toward Dune Haven's $2.5 million gate.