Osprey Favorite Fish — What to Serve in Scale the Depths

Osprey appears in Loch Ness and pays a favorite tip for European Smelt. European Smelt is Osprey's signature — no other customer treats it as a favorite, so any European Smelt you land has exactly one ideal buyer.

There are two versions of Osprey. The base pays up to 218 (175 base + 43 tip); the rarer variant pays up to 314, a 96-coin jump for the same fish. A variant of Osprey is always worth serving over the base when both are on screen — same catch, bigger payout.

Keep European Eel away from Osprey — it is the one fish that lowers its payout. Everything else is fair game as long as it fills the hunger of 240.

European Smelt is caught in Loch Ness — the same world where you meet Osprey, so you can serve it fresh without backtracking. It has 25 health and a feed value of 62. Scale it cleanly to clear Osprey’s favorite threshold and bank the 43-coin tip.

Full stats for every catch are in the fish almanac.

The osprey is a powerful fish-hunting bird of prey found near lakes, rivers, and coastlines across much of the world. Sometimes called the sea hawk or fish hawk, it boasts an impressive wingspan of around 180 centimetres. Osprey feed almost entirely on fish. They soar high above the water before diving feet-first to snatch fish from beneath the surface, adjusting their strike to account for the refraction of light in the water. Like owls, ospreys have a reversible outer toe that lets them grasp slippery fish with two toes in front and two behind. Their nests are large and often reused for many years, with pairs frequently returning to the same nesting site season after season.

In-game species label: Pandion haliaetus