Shady Crate

A crate, not a fish: the wiki says Shady Crate is hauled in during the Shady Surge Admin Event, with a 50% listed beside it. It sits in the Special group with a Limited tag, uses Magnet as bait, and cannot be traded. Its location is simply Admin-Exclusive.

Opening one gives either 2 to 5 of a random bait or a sum of currency between 15 and 50, and every reward has an equal chance. The bait pool has eight entries: three Limited (Barnacle Cluster, Blackwater Leech, Shady Larva) and five Special (Golden Coin, Singularity, Star, Taco, UFO).

Catching one is worth 400 base XP, which ranks #99 of 101 Special fish. Only Broken Scylla (248) and Colossal Nico (50) are lower, while Admin Relic (1200) and Sunhat (1000) pay three times as much or more. The catch lines are “Who left this here?”, “Sus...” and “A Crate!”