While your fork may be a mighty weapon, that’s not the only thing you have to defend yourself with inAnother Crab’s Treasure. Alongside the Adaptations you’ll obtain through progress and learning powerful skills, you can also make use of the humble but versatile Barbed Hook to aid you in your quest.

These single-use items give you a way to let you fight back against ranged enemies, or to pull those annoying, evasive enemies close, so you can finally get a hit on them. You can’t just use them off the bat, though – you’ll need to utilize your powers of Umami to learn a special skill first.

Kril in the skills menu at the Moon Snail and preparing to buy the Spearfishing skill in Another Crab’s Treasure.

How To Obtain The Spearfishing Skill

While you’ll begin finding Barbed Hooks soon after you begin the game, you’llhave to complete some prerequisite tasksandobtain the Spearfishing skillbefore you’re able to use them.

Barbed Hooks canoften be found as pale green shining itemson the ground, or can bedropped by most smaller enemiesin the game, such as Sardines.

Kril locking onto a Crab with a parasol during his Spearfishing skill in Another Crab’s Treasure.

First, you’llneed to beat Nephroandvisit the Duchessin Fork Slacktide,unlock the Fishing Line, and finally,get access to the Moon Cavesvia the Duchess' request.

Past the boss at theend of the Moon Caves, you’ll find the Moon Snail, who’llunlock the ability to learn a variety of useful skillsin return forUmami Crystals.

Kril attempting to real in a dangerous enemy and performing a minigame to succeed in Another Crab’s Treasure.

You can get Umami Crystals bybreaking Umami Crystal Clustersin the world or bybeating enemies with glowing purple eyes.

Go into theLearn Skills menu, head into theWay of the Predator pathandunlock the Skewer skillfirst for20 Umami Crystals. After that, you’ll get access to theSpearfishing Skill for another 20 Umami Crystals.

How To Use Barbed Hooks

With the Spearfishing Skill, you’ll nowhave the ability to use Barbed Hooksinside and outside of battle, whichwork as a grapple attack.

You canhold up to two Barbed Hooksat once while therest are stored in your inventory, giving youtwo attempts to use them per restat a Moon Shellunless you pick more up.

It’s possible to increase the amount of Barbed Hooks held bypurchasing the Tackle BagfromThe Prawn Shop in New Carcinia.

Use the L2 while you’ve got Barbed Hooks toaim at the enemy you want to hit, let thereticule turn orange, thenpress L2 again to reel them inat thecost of one hook per reel.

For asmall or medium-sized enemy, you’ll be able topull them towards you without a fight, andif you break their Balancein the process,they’ll be Capsized, allowing you to getsome free hits or use Dispatch if it’s unlockedfor some big damage.

Ifyou’re quick enough, you can use a Barbed Hook to break an enemy’s guard orstop them from using an attack.

If you’re dealing withlarger enemiesandenemies with glowing purple eyes, you may have a slightly different process andhave to fight to reel them in.

When this happens,pull your fishing linewhen the enemyisn’t strugglingto gain progressuntil you reel them insuccessfully.Avoid attempting to reelthemwhile they’re strugglingor else theenemy will break the line, waste a Barbed Hook, andleave you open to attack.

Barbed Hooks are great forpulling enemies off platformsto their death or toget them off high ground.