It's coming back by popular demand! The Bell Tree World Championship! After three years, our grand gaming event will return on May 18th with ten Nintendo Switch games to play, both competitively and casually. Signups for the event are now open as explained in the new Bell Tree World Championship 2024 thread!
I know after about 7pm is a good time but for whatever reason around 4 am I kept running into them over and over again. Is the spawn rate better before dawn or was I just lucky to have so many appear?
Any time past 9PM is best, but not because of any different spawn rates - simply that past 9PM the Ocean Sunfish stops spawning, so you'll know for sure that any finned fish you see while catching beetles is going to be a shark.
On the flip side, 5PM-7PM is the worst time, because of all those grasshoppers and long locusts hopping around, and they're much harder to scare off than hermit crabs and wharf roaches.
I like going past 11pm because of the chance of catching giant stags and scarab beetles... I just have to TT to that time, because I'm never up that late! XD