About fp-helper
fp-helper is a free, ad-free, open community reference for Fishing Planet. It exists because the information players need is split across two places, and neither one lets you search it properly.
Why this exists
The official wiki has the only complete rod, reel and line documentation anywhere — but its search is effectively broken. It runs MediaWiki without the CirrusSearch extension, so queries fall back to a plain SQL substring match: no relevance ranking, no typo tolerance, no partial-word matching. That is a limitation of the installation, not something tuning can fix.
fp-collective has excellent structured data and a genuinely useful catch map, but it carries no rods, reels, lines, boats or accessories at all, and puts several of its best features behind a premium tier.
This site merges both, adds search that works, and keeps everything free.
Sources & credits
All game data, names and imagery are the property of Fishing Planet LLC. This site is unofficial and unaffiliated. It is a community reference, published in the same spirit as the fan wikis and spreadsheets the community has always maintained.
- Fishing Planet Wiki — every equipment category: rods, reels, lines, boats, leaders, rigs, feeders, groundbaits, rod holders, cases, tackle boxes, hats, waist coats, glasses, bobbers, alarms, aromas, particles and fireworks, plus their technologies and brands. Parsed from the public MediaWiki API across 47 pages. Contributed by the wiki's editors; content © Fishing Planet LLC.
- fp-collective — fish, lakes, lures, baits, hooks, jigheads, sinkers, weather and the catch-marker dataset. Retrieved from their public JSON API. Built and maintained by the fp-collective team, whose work made the catch analysis here possible.
- The community "Ubersheet" contributors, whose bait and lure effectiveness research reaches this site indirectly through fp-collective.
If you maintain either source and want something changed or removed, please open an issue on the repository — it will be actioned promptly.
How it is built
A build-time pipeline fetches both sources, normalises them into a single schema, and writes a versioned snapshot into the repository. The site is then generated as static HTML. Nothing is fetched from a third party when you load a page, so this site cannot break because an upstream API went down, and every data change is a reviewable diff.
| Snapshot | 2026-08-20 |
|---|---|
| Fish | 279 |
| Lakes | 30 |
| Lures | 1,360 |
| Rods | 165 models / 382 variants |
| Reels | 143 models / 339 variants |
| Lines | 38 models / 149 variants |
| Boats | 50 models / 66 variants |
| Leaders, rigs & feeders | 55 models / 211 variants |
| Groundbaits | 32 models / 128 variants |
| Equipment | 250 models / 250 variants |
| Bobbers & alarms | 55 models / 55 variants |
| Consumables | 37 models / 37 variants |
| Wiki equipment total | 825 models / 1617 variants |
| Cross-references | 6,234 |
Accuracy
Specs are parsed automatically, and the game updates regularly. Two things worth knowing when you read a number here:
- Prices carry a currency. Credits and baitcoins are shown differently and are not comparable. A 350 baitcoin rod is a premium item, not a cheap one.
- Catch rankings describe what players logged, not what is possible. A bait with no recorded catches may still work; it just has not been reported.
Found something wrong? Please report it — parser bugs are fixed at the source so every affected page is corrected at once.
Licence
The site's own code is open source. The game data it presents remains the property of Fishing Planet LLC and its respective contributors, and is reproduced here for reference purposes.