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sh-fishing brings a complete fishing minigame to your FiveM server. Players purchase bait from a shop NPC, travel to one of the designated PolyZone fishing areas, cast their line with /fish, wait for a bite, then mash [E] to reel in their catch — and finally sell their haul to a buyer NPC for cash. The script runs in either a fully standalone mode (no external money system required) or integrates with NAT2K15 for persistent economy support.

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Dependencies

You must install PolyZone before starting sh-fishing. Without it, the zone-restricted casting system will not function and the resource will throw errors on startup.
DependencyRequiredNotes
PolyZone✅ YesDefines all fishing zone boundaries
NAT2K15❌ OptionalRequired only when Config.Framework = 'nat'
okokNotify❌ OptionalRequired only when Config.Notify = 'okok'

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Gameplay Flow

1

Buy bait

Approach a bait shop NPC and purchase bait. Each purchase gives you Config.PurchaseBaitAmount units at Config.BaitPrice per transaction.
2

Travel to a fishing zone

Head to one of the six PolyZone fishing areas. Zone blips appear on the map when Config.LocationBlips = true.
3

Cast your line

Run /fish while standing inside a valid zone with bait in your inventory. Your character will play a casting animation and the line will go in.
4

Wait for a bite

The script waits a random number of seconds between Config.MinBaitTookTime and Config.MaxBaitTookTime before a fish bites. Stay patient.
5

Reel in with [E]

Once a fish bites, mash [E] as fast as you can. You have Config.TimetoMash seconds to register between Config.MashMin and Config.MashMax key presses — miss the window and the fish escapes.
6

Sell your catch

Take your fish to a buyer NPC sell point. Each fish earns Config.FishPrice in cash.

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Commands

CommandDescription
/fishStart fishing — must be inside a valid PolyZone area and have bait
/fishinventoryDisplay your current bait count and fish count
/propstuckEmergency cleanup to remove any props stuck to your character

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Configuration

Open config.lua to customise sh-fishing for your server. The most important settings are covered below.
config.lua
Config.Framework = 'nat'         -- 'standalone' or 'nat' (NAT2K15)
Config.Notify    = 'standalone'  -- 'standalone' (GTA native) or 'okok' (okokNotify)

Config.BaitPrice           = 25  -- Price per bait purchase
Config.PurchaseBaitAmount  = 25  -- Bait units received per purchase
Config.FishPrice           = 60  -- Cash paid per fish sold

Config.MinBaitTookTime = 4   -- Minimum seconds before a fish bites
Config.MaxBaitTookTime = 8   -- Maximum seconds before a fish bites

Config.TimetoMash = 10  -- Seconds the player has to mash [E]
Config.MashMin    = 10  -- Minimum presses required to land the fish
Config.MashMax    = 30  -- Maximum presses required to land the fish

Config.LocationBlips = true  -- Show map blips for all fishing zones

Config.BaitShopLocations = {
    vector3(-2188.22, -400.52, 12.25),
}
Config.SellShopLocations = {
    vector3(-2205.15, -373.32, 12.25),
}
Increase Config.MashMin and Config.MashMax together to make fishing harder, or lower Config.TimetoMash to create a tighter reeling window.

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Fishing Zones

sh-fishing ships with six PolyZone areas out of the box:
ZoneLocation
Vespucci OceanCoastal waters along the western shoreline
Sandy Bridge 1River section near Sandy Shores (north section)
Sandy Bridge 2River section near Sandy Shores (south section)
Sandy LakeInland lake in the Sandy Shores region
Vespucci Ocean 2Extended coastal waters south of Vespucci
Paleto OceanNorthern bay waters near Paleto Bay
All zone polygons are defined in locations.lua. This file is escrow-ignored, meaning you can edit it freely without affecting the encrypted portion of the resource.

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Adding Custom Zones

To add a new fishing area, open locations.lua and append a new PolyZone polygon entry following the existing format. Each zone is a table of vector2 coordinates that form a closed polygon around the water you want to designate.
locations.lua
-- Example: add a custom fishing zone
Config.FishingZones = {
    -- Existing zones ...
    [7] = {
        points = {
            vector2(100.0, 200.0),
            vector2(150.0, 200.0),
            vector2(150.0, 250.0),
            vector2(100.0, 250.0),
        },
        minZ = 0.0,
        maxZ = 100.0,
        box = false
    },
}
Do not rename the resource folder. sh-fishing checks its own resource name on startup and will immediately stop itself if the name does not match sh-fishing. Keep the folder name exactly as shipped.