Fish Shooting Game: Shot Cost, Fish Values and What Decides a Win

Question under test: in a fish shooting game, what actually decides a win, and how much does a session cost? Method: the paytable format these tables share was set against peso arithmetic, using names from the fish lane such as JILI’s Jackpot Fishing, CQ9’s Hero Fishing and JDB’s Dragon Fishing. Result: five numbers decide it, and only one of them is fully in your hands.

The five numbers in a fish shooting game

1. Shot cost. The stake per bullet, set by the cannon level. Raising the cannon raises the cost of every shot after it, hit or miss.
2. Firing rate. Auto-fire sends bullets out without a tap. Shots per minute times shot cost is your spend per minute, and that rate is easy to forget.
3. Fish multiplier. The help screen prints a multiplier for each species. A fish caught pays that multiplier times your shot cost, nothing more.
4. Shots per catch. Nobody knows this in advance. Small fish tend to fall within a few shots; high multipliers soak up many more, because the game lands them less often.
5. Session spend. The single figure you can fix before the first bullet. Everything else on the screen moves.

Put the first two numbers together and the spend becomes visible. At a sample ₱1 shot and roughly 60 shots a minute, ten minutes of auto-fire costs about ₱600 before a single catch is counted. Halve the firing rate and those ten minutes cost half as much, while every fish keeps the same multiplier.

A worked session in pesos

The figures below are invented for arithmetic only, using a ₱2 shot and a sample fish worth 20x. They describe no particular table.

Result: the catch animation is the same in every row, yet only the first one leaves you ahead. A 20x fish pays ₱40 on a ₱2 shot no matter how long it took to fall, so the shot count is what turns a “win” into a loss.

Jackpot tables and special weapons

Several fish-lane names carry a jackpot: Jackpot Fishing and Jackpot Fishing 2, Ocean King Jackpot and Fortune King Jackpot under JILI, and Cai Shen Fishing JACKPOT under JDB. The jackpot is an extra prize with its own trigger, explained in each table’s help screen; the per-shot charge underneath stays the same. Special weapons such as bombs or lasers, where a table has them, follow the rules printed on that table.

Problem: the boss fish’s multiplier fills the screen and pulls every shot towards it. Fix: decide a shot allowance for it before you start, and treat the allowance as spent once it is gone.

What to read before the first shot

The fishing games lane overview counts the 18 studio cards and their tables. Two formats with a different rhythm sit next door: crash games, where you choose the cash-out, and a mines game grid where you stop between picks. For phone play, start with the lobby’s app options.