A Short Hike

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The Fish Are Biting Today

The Fish Are Biting Today

Trade every species of fish.

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How to unlock the The Fish Are Biting Today achievement in A Short Hike - Definitive Guide

Here's a visual guide for where the fish show most frequently.

https://www.neoseeker.com/a-short-hike/walkthrough/Fishing_G...
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20 Nov 2021 22:54

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pink white bass not required
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By G Acute G on 29 Dec 2021 22:59
It would be good to add to the guide where to find the fishing rod. The guy you get it from is fishing at Meteor Lake.
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By FLEEBS on 28 Jan 2022 16:47
Actually rainbow trout is also not required
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By GalacticBoss306 on 05 Aug 2023 07:29
The only fish you need is the ones that are Hidden behind the shadows in the Fish Journal.
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By Guts Cursed on 05 Aug 2023 17:31
Where do you get bait?
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By Iggsy81 on 08 Aug 2023 20:52
If you catch multiple of the same fish you can go back to the guy on the boat who you sell the fish to and he will give you bait for ones you’ve already caught
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By SnippierGecko21 on 08 Aug 2023 22:31
That guide has to be wrong there is absolutely no way there is white perch in meteor lake, i just pulled 160 fish out of that lake in one sitting 62 in another sitting before that and only yellow perch of every variation not any white!? what am i doing wrong?!?!

and btw you don't actually NEED worms to fish you can keep fishing without them and you still keep pulling in fish whole time
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By DooMiNaTriXx on 21 Oct 2023 17:49
am I missing something or did my achievement bug? I've found literally every fish on the list plus their special/albino forms and sold them to the boat guy but the achievement hasn't popped for me.
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By SrIeLbEeNlT on 31 Oct 2023 19:21
It popped for me after giving him all the basic fish, just enough to fill up the Fish Journal. He then gives you a Golden Fishing Rod to help you catch rare versions of fish, to presumably keep getting money for other things.
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By EarthboundX on 11 Nov 2023 12:15
This is the guide I used. It worked for me.
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By Sashamorning on 11 Nov 2023 20:46
The achievement pops when the captain tells you that you've brought him all the fish from his journal, which means at least one variant of each type). You can use the journal itself to know what all you've gotten, and then just go to him and empty your inventory.
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By Adayin on 29 Nov 2023 09:13
One place to get bait is the hidden creature camping in the cleft at the bottom of a cliff. Hard to describe the location, but it's just a little ways up from where the crater lake is I believe. You'll see a blue tarp and as you get closer the camera angle changes and you can see it's a camp spot, where a cat or whatever is camping illegally w/o a permit so she bribes you with bait.
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By KungFuMonk3y on 12 Aug 2023 13:50
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One of each of the following species is needed (all fish species have a rare variant and can also be big or tiny);
  • (Albino) Bluegill
  • (Albino) Brook Trout
  • (Albino) Burbot
  • (Golden) Catfish
  • (Albino) Common Carp
  • (Albino) Crayfish
  • (Albino) Northern Pike
  • (Albino) Pink White Bass
  • (Albino) Pumpkinseed Fish
  • (Actually) Rainbow Trout
  • (Albino) Salmon
  • (Albino) Spotted Brook Trout
  • (Albino) White Bass
  • (Albino) White Perch
  • (Albino) Yellow Perch
At the moment there is a glitched lake which I was able to use to catch all the species of fish required to get the achievement to unlock.
The route from the hand-in location (the bird on the boat), to Bill (where you get your fishing rod) and then to the glitch lake is shown in this video:


If you manage to unlock this achievement with less fish handed in, please let me know in the comments so I can update the solution.
Any other feedback is welcome.
Thank you.

Thank you to Grumpy0lLady for pointing out that only 1 variant of each species is needed
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02 Nov 2023 15:50

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Worked like a charm. I got most of the species using this method, Thanks for sharing.
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By mo0ohammed19988 on 03 Nov 2023 02:41
I couldn’t find an albino spotter brook trout or actually rainbow trout to save my life. Although I was able to get the achievement by turning in everything else and getting the golden rod.
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By SettlingCrib503 on 13 Nov 2023 03:36
Thank you for the feedback, I shall remove those fish from the list.
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By Aki2403 on 13 Nov 2023 09:12
Great find! I had 4 left and got them all in this pond.

FYI, you only need one of each species, which you can check in the fish journal (Y and the fish icon). While you get paid for different types of each one (common, albino, etc.), as long as it's a base fish - for lack of a better term - it counts regardless of what version it is.
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By Grumpy0lLady on 27 Nov 2023 14:59
So you'd only need one out of Common Carp & Albino Common Carp and it wouldn't matter which one?
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By Aki2403 on 27 Nov 2023 23:04
That's how it worked for me.
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By Grumpy0lLady on 28 Nov 2023 15:57
Excellent, thank you.
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By Aki2403 on 28 Nov 2023 16:33
Caught them all but got nothing...
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By Gut gulper on 06 Jan 2024 15:21
Have you handed them all in?
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By Aki2403 on 06 Jan 2024 21:02
I just got it buuut I had to get 20 fish which I'm not sure if there was an update or not to the game for adding more fish but it was a relaxing achievement to say the least ☺️☺️ when there's photos of the fish blacked out, it tells you in a note of where to find them!
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By OnlyJPanda16 on 17 Jan 2024 04:13
I handed all the fish and their alt variants and the achievement has not pop for me. New save file?
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By yeskezspanem on 14 Feb 2024 22:47
I handed all the fish and their alt variants and the achievement has not pop for me. New save file?
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By yeskezspanem on 16 Feb 2024 10:11
You should mention in the guide text that the "hand-in" location is the guy on the big boat
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By DutchRudder2007 on 05 Mar 2024 17:39
I've edited the paragraph above the video to make it clearer the hand in location is where the video starts.
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By Aki2403 on 06 Mar 2024 04:46
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You need to catch one of each SPECIES of fish in the game, you don't need to catch every single fish that's available in the game (e.g. I only needed to catch the White Bass, I didn't need the Pink White Bass).

This guide will also walk you through this:

Part 4 - The Fish are Biting Today Achievement

I've added a google doc checklist with species and locations that you can check off as you catch them, feel free to use this if it helps you keep track.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J8Xt2v2XgrDj8Z8p7bfp...
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23 Nov 2023 22:12

Before you can fish you need to get a fishing rod by speaking to the fisherman on Meteor Lake (That is the lake in the center of the island). With it unlocked, simply equip the rod and press button-b.png to cast it, wait for a bite and tap button-b.png to reel it in.

With your rod, you can go speak to the captain on the ship to the east of the main island. He will offer to trade your caught fish for coins and bait. After bringing him 5 different types of fish, he will also give you the fishing journal, which can be used to track what you have caught and still need to catch.

There are 22 different fish in the game, but you only need to catch and trade the 15 mentioned in the fishing journal. You can use this map with your compasss to find specific fish locations.
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While there are quite a plethora of different types of fish you can catch in the game, you only need 14 for this trophy. You basically need each "species" of fish and not their variants. To actually unlock the trophy, you'll be collecting the fish and selling them to the Boat Captain on the boat off the Eastern coast of the island. After you sell 2-3 fish, he'll give you a Fisherman's log that will track which fish you still need. The 14 fish you need (and where you can get them) are all listed below. 
  • Spotted Brook Trout
  • Brook Trout
  • Albino Brook Trout
  • Catfish (at the top of the waterfalls where the water runs calmly)
  • Salmon (at the bottom of waterfalls)
  • Common Carp (you'll automatically get this when you learn how to fish the first time)
  • Northern Pike
  • Rainbow Trout
  • White Bass
  • Bluegill
  • Burbot (in the rough river waters)
  • Crayfish
  • Pumpkinseed Fish
  • White Perch (at the top of the waterfalls where the water runs calmly)
  • Yellow Perch
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If you go to the list of fish and click on any of them, there will be a riddle hint where you can catch them. Take advantage of this, otherwise I came across this when I had the last fish left.
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