Animal Crossing: New Horizons – How To Catch A Hammerhead Shark

With shark season in full swing, you might be looking for a Hammerhead Shark in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Here’s how you can find one.

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With the summer season in Animal Crossing: New Horizons comes sharks populating the ocean. As with past installments in the series, players perusing the beaches during the months of June-September may occasionally spot finned shadows out at sea, waiting to be plucked from the watery depths. When you see one of those, you’ve encountered one of the many different varieties of shark available.

If you’ve come to this guide, you’re looking for the Hammerhead Shark. He isn’t the most elusive of fish in New Horizons, but he can still be a little tricky to spot. The worst thing about going for any specific shark is that you can’t tell specifically from its shadow which one you’ve spotted. There’s a bit of RNG involved with finding them.

Still, you can use these small tips to give yourself a better chance of finding sharks, in general.

As you can see in the screenshot above, that is the exact shadow you want. I happened to get stupidly lucky and pull up a Hammerhead from it, but you’ll sometimes nab a Great White, Whale Shark, or Suckerfish. If that does happen, don’t fret. You’ll just need to keep trying and one will eventually spawn.

To help yourself along, remember that Hammerheads only spawn between 4:00 pm and 9:00 am on any given day. If you see a finned shadow before then, it is either the Whale Shark or Suckerfish. There are also slight variances with the size of finned shadows, but that is probably going to be more work than its worth to spot.

If you want to really give yourself the best advantage, grab a Nook Miles Ticket, head to a deserted island, and bring lots of Fish Bait. Throwing that into the ocean there will give you a better chance of a shark spawn (since there aren’t any piers nearby). Fishing during the rain will also increase the spawn rate of rarer fish.

Once you do get a Hammerhead -and after you’ve donated one to the museum-, you can sell the fish for 8,000 bells at Nook’s Cranny. If CJ is on your island that day, he’ll buy one for 12,000 bells.

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