Lake Hylia

Gotta get that Bottle with Ruto's Note

Grab the bottle with the note

After visiting Zora’s Domain and earning the Silver Scale, you must go to Lake Hylia. Link does this by diving through the underwater tunnel to Lake Hylia. After you get to the surface on the other side, there is a bottle with a note in it under water. Dive for it and get it.

Once you warp to Lake Hylia the bottle should be right in front of you

The Note says:

“Help me. I’m waiting for you inside Lord Jabu Jabu’s belly.”

-Princess Ruto.

P.S. Don’t tell my father!

Head Back to Zora’s Domain

Now head back to Zora’s Domain the same way you got here. Once you have shown the note to King Zora, he will move out of your way, and you can use the empty bottle to catch a fish.

Get a fish in your bottle

You can either buy a fish at the Zora shop, or get one for free. To get a free one, go next to a fish in shallow water and press the bottle button to grab a fish. You should now have a fish in a bottle.

Plop a fish in front of Jabu Jabu

Now go back to the place that King Zora is. Go through the path behind him, and get to Lord Jabu Jabu. Use the fish in a bottle right in front of Lord Jabu Jabu.

Dump a fish right in front of Lord Jabu Jabu

He should inhale the fish, and you too.

Ocarina of Time Switch 2 screenshots: Lake Hylia

3 screenshots of Lake Hylia from the Nintendo Switch 2 remake, taken from the September 8, 2026 Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct and the trailer that closed it. The remake is not out until November 5, 2026, so the walkthrough above is written from the N64 original. All Switch 2 screenshots and everything we know →

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From the trailer: Lake Hylia. The Lakeside Laboratory on the left is a tall white tower topped with a rickety observatory platform and weathervane, chimney smoking, half-timbered house at its base. Two rope bridges run out to the big rock island in the middle of the lake, the same layout as the original, with the water reflecting the evening sky.
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From the trailer: the Fishing Pond is back. Young Link has the rod bent double with a fish thrashing on the line, the pond owner watching from the hut behind. Clear water over pebbles, reeds along the bank, and the light coming through the trees.
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From the trailer: Kaepora Gaebora hauling Link up out of Lake Hylia by the talons, water still streaming off him. The owl ride is back. The Fishing Pond hut with its fish-flag sign is straight ahead behind the two stone pillars.

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