At some point in Fisch, the game flips your expectations completely. You spend hours building luck, chasing rare fish, optimizing rods… and then suddenly a quest asks for trash.
Not just any trash. Specific trash. And here is the catch most players miss at first. Everything you have been doing to increase luck now works against you.
How to Get Rusty Bolt, Broken Gear & Scrap Metal in Fisch
Before getting into locations or rods, understand this one thing clearly:
High luck = worse drop rate for these items
- Rusty Bolt
- Broken Gear
- Scrap Metal
All of them are trash rarity, which means the game actively reduces their chances if your luck is high.
This is why so many players struggle. They walk in fully optimized… and unknowingly make the grind slower.
Best Setup
Forget your best rod for a second. What you actually want is:
- Low luck rod (or anything without strong luck boosts)
- Trash bait (this lowers luck further)
- Avoid shiny boosts, events, or enchantments
It feels wrong at first, but this setup dramatically increases your chances of pulling trash instead of rare fish.
Scrap Metal
If you want a quick win, start here.
Locations:
- Collapsed Ruins
- Crown Ruins
- Crystal Cove
- Mine Shaft
- Vertigo / Depth areas
This one is flexible. You are not locked into a single zone, which makes it the easiest to farm alongside other objectives.
Extra Tip:
Fishing during the day tends to feel more consistent here. Not mandatory, but noticeable over time.
Rusty Bolt
This is where movement matters.
Location:
- Mine Shaft only
Same strategy:
- Lower your luck
- Use trash bait
- Stay consistent
There is nothing complicated here. The only mistake you can make is using a high-luck setup.
Broken Gear
This one feels a bit slower, but not because it is rare. It just has a slightly longer catch behavior.
Location:
- Zeus’s Font of Chaos
- Kurano Wyrm hunt area
If it feels like it is taking longer than the others, that is normal. Do not overthink it or change your setup.
This part is worth calling out because it happens a lot.
Players often:
- Use high-end rods with luck boosts
- Keep shiny or event buffs active
- Try to “optimize” like they would for rare fish
All of that reduces trash drops.
You are not farming rarity here. You are doing the opposite.
This is one of those rare cases in Fisch where doing less actually gives you more. Lower your stats, simplify your setup, and let the system work in your favor.
Once it clicks, these items stop feeling like a grind and start feeling like quick checklist progress.