My game is exploration-and-interaction base. Now that the player has struggled and found a fishing rod, I would like my character to convey the message that "this pond appears to be sufficiently populated with fish, and it is a worthy place to consider fishing."
How can I convey these two ideas in one word or in a short phrase?
I think the word you're probably looking for is "teeming", which describes something as being densely populated or swarming with life.
In your case, the appropriate phrase would probably be something like:
"This pond is teeming with fish! Maybe I can catch one."
A piscary is a body of water natural or artificial (a piscine would only be an artificial one) under active piscicultural care to render it fit for piscation and related piscatorial—or simply piscatory—pursuits perpetrated by piscivorous piscators, at which point said piscose body will be perfectly pisculent — that is, it will be fit for fishing.
But I predict a potential problem if you go with pisculent and related terms.
Although all these words are of obvious meaning and attested by the OED, it is always possible that some petty pissants hearing such words will perceive them as presenting the pissants not with a piscary but with a pissoir, and perforce pitch a personal pot of puissant poison into your pretty poisson pond in a puerile act of piscicide instead of fishing it per your preference.
Pity, that.
How about: "This pond looks well-stocked. I can fish here."
You could put more fish icons in a pond that's well-stocked; and fewer fish icons, or even green-blue algae in an ill-stocked pond. "This pond is filled with algae. I can't fish here"
The answer "this pond looks like a good place to fish", is an excellent phrase for your purposes. However, if you want a short way to describe a pond that is "fishing-worthy", the usual way of doing it in English is to say:
This pond has good fishing.
Good for angling?
East, Big Lava lakes look good for angling
(The Bulletin - Oct 12, 1967) [emphasis added]
angling to be a bit of an esoteric word. I don't expect my players to know that. It is a good fit though.
You could use "promising".
"This pond looks promising. I can fish here!"
Or, if you want a more unusual word, you could go with "propitious".
Giving or indicating a good chance of success; favourable:
Looks like a good fishing hole!
This pond appears bountiful judging by the glutton of birds on the opposite shore.
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[Maybe Later]
Try using abundant.
Either
The fish in this pond are abundant.
or even
The pond is abundant.
(if the context is clear). As a bonus, the word connotes "overflowing", which would be appropriate for a body of water.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned "fishful".
It's defined at Wordnik as "abounding in fish" with the following quote from that page:
Coming down the hill, out of the town, the delusion is that this great fresh-water lake is but itself a bay, the mouth of which is concealed from view, but not so, for its waters run clear and fresh, and as fishful as the Erne.
Also, if you use the word despite its rarity, its meaning would be clear to the reader, especially in your sentence.
Assuming we are trapped with the set grammar, I would go with "well stocked" also assuming the target audience are native-speaker adults. "full of fish" in other cases.
For those that don't know, many software systems do not allow full phrases. Cases like this can be limited to "This {place} appears {adjective}. I can {verb} here."
The actual code can look something like:
$text = sprintf("This %1$s appears %2$s. I can %3$s here.", place, noun, verb);
Or in a translation file (the major reason it's done like this) it can look like:
"この%1$sは%2$sでしょう、私はここに%3$sします。" Rearranging the replacement words is also possible if needed. The noun/adjective etc are translated elsewhere.
You have an opportunity to refer to English as She Is Spoke, about which Mark Twain once wrote, “Nobody can add to the absurdity of this book, nobody can imitate it successfully, nobody can hope to produce its fellow; it is perfect.”
Este lago parece-me bem piscoso. Vamos pescar para nos divertirmos.
That pond it seems me many multiplied of fishes. Let us amuse rather to the fishing.
Source: English As She Is Spoke, via Wikipedia
You could also use all or part of the suggested alternative:
This lake looks full of fish. Let's have some fun fishing.
Source: Wikipedia
