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I'm Floundering Up Here

I'm Floundering Up Here

Listened to 25 fish jokes.

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How to unlock the I'm Floundering Up Here achievement in Borderlands 3 - Definitive Guide

On the wall to the left of the fireplace in The Lodge, there is a fish on the wall you can interact with. It will tell a joke and spit out a few guns. You can use it once everytime you go into The Lodge. (See Edit 2 below) You can see in the screenshot the fish is right inside my reticle.

Edit: As stated in the comments below as well as finding a few myself, there are a few in other location around the game but this one seems the easiest to farm.

EDIT 2: I haven't played the game since this DLC so this is info is from users in the comments. Shout out to AngryCalf452023 and FivePartTrilogy for the helpful comments.

With the addition of Mayhem 2.0, you can re-load your game quicker and the fish will tell you a new joke each re-load. Set the Mayhem level to 10 and just re-roll the modifiers by hitting X on the Mayhem settings tab. That way any loot that the fish spits out has a better chance of being something actually useful.

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26 Mar 2020 18:24

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If you do the mayhem method, talk to Hammerlock to activate his dialogue then run to the fish and it will skip the jokes. Saves a decent amount of time
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By Chaptxr on 07 Jun 2021 13:59
As an FYI, the Talking FIsh decoration you can find that can be placed in your personal quarters does not give progress towards unlocking this achievement.
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By Grimgolde on 05 Aug 2021 03:33
I found another fish in the north part of Cursehaven above "Withernot Cemetery" fast travel station.
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By S3V1K on 26 Mar 2020 19:21
There is another at the end of the library after the boss fight on a mantlepiece above a fireplace but i dont think its farmable...
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By MineMasterjake1 on 26 Mar 2020 19:53
You can also exit game and reload back in to interect with the sam fish again. Did this quite fast reloading at the lodge.
Also you can cancel out the fishes joke and just get the 'X' promt if you talk to someone before walking up to the fish.
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By M I K 3 ID v on 26 Mar 2020 20:30
True, but quitting out and loading back in is actually faster and requires less controller maneuvering. laugh
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By Sashamorning on 28 Mar 2020 18:28
My god.......these jokes. XD
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By Cr4ck Sh0t23 on 30 Mar 2020 01:38
He doesn't technically have to tell you a joke. I interacted with him and he just vomited items and it counted
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By Sneaky G Wizard on 30 Mar 2020 16:03
hello, luck for you because me the success and blocks at 96% and nothing helps !!!
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By CDR NICO on 30 Mar 2020 17:01
Also, the room decoration doesn’t count for the achievement. I got the talking fish and my progress is still at 36%. Off to farm the lodge.
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By CRAZYACE63 on 01 Apr 2020 06:41
Also stuck at 96% for this one. Seems like most people managed to get it so not sure what the issue is. Fingers crossed it pops at a later date.

Twice now the last achievement I need in a game gets stuck facepalm
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By Yadamus on 17 Apr 2020 22:27
Update: I started the dlc again fresh with a new character and managed to get it unlocked after doing the 25 over again
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By Yadamus on 17 Apr 2020 23:37
Ugh that is rough man but glad you got it in the end
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By Sneaky G Wizard on 18 Apr 2020 00:49
In case anyone was wondering, you can unlock a talking fish as a room decoration. The decoration fish tells jokes, but they do not count towards this achievement.
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By Gnemlock on 23 Apr 2020 08:44
Found an quicker way to do this one.

With the addition of Mayhem 2.0, you can re-load your game quicker and the fish will tell you a new joke each re-load.

Quicker than save-quitting!
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By AngryCalf452023 on 29 Apr 2020 20:02
Piggybacking off of AngryCalf452023 up here, I'd recommend setting the Mayhem level to 10 and just re-rolling the modifiers by hitting X on the Mayhem settings tab. That way any loot that the fish spits out has a better chance of being something actually useful. I actually got two anointed legendaries while grinding this achievement out.
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By FivePartTrilogy on 17 May 2020 03:01
You should update your solution with the Mayhem 2.0 strategy and rerolling the modifiers.
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By FailedSeppuku on 25 May 2020 00:28
I was able to get the Steam achievement using the room decoration on Sanctuary playing on PC. I found the drops plentiful and got mine in a pile of garbage in Cursehaven. Much quicker than farming the fish in The Lodge, however the decoration doesn't spit out loot.
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By mrj0bangles on 13 Mar 2023 05:45
I do find it a bit distressing that I actually guessed the punchline on many of these...5, in fact.
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By I Like Drinkin on 07 Jun 2023 04:07
if you switch between mayhems and run into the lodge and press X as soon as you see it, the fish wont tell a joke and just spit stuff out, but it still counts.
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By DJ Zibbyman on 11 Jan 2024 11:36
To streamline further, I had the Shadow over Cursehaven mission active with the active objective "Give excuse to Hammerlock," which you get right when getting to the lodge. This causes Hammerlock to talk to you as you go past him (don't talk to him), preventing the fish from talking. You can still interact with the fish and get guns and quest progress without having to hear the joke.

So I'd load in, check vending machines and sell crap guns from the last run, then go to the fish and interact while Hammerlock was blathering to get the guns and progress. Then I'd reroll Mayhem modifiers and reload zone, then repeat.
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By vSully on 15 Sep 2020 10:09
I travelled between the lodge and Cursehaven withernot cemetery. Both zones have a fish nearby the spawn location.

I was behind with the achievement cause I thought I had to find 25 different fishes. But it’s not like that, you just have to listen to 25 jokes, it can be the same fish, you just have to reload the area. If you are playing from scratch I suggest to interact with the lodge’s fish every time you travel there for other missions.
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By Poia on 13 Feb 2022 12:29
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Hello guys,

lot of people speak about reloading, but if you travel to cursehaven - withernot cemetery point and go notrh to courtyard in a house in northeastern corner is another fish, which tells you you a JOKE. Just use this one, fast travel to lodge and in main floor right side of the bar use a second fish, which tells a JOKE. Then back to cursehaven and repeat..it´s few steps and quicker for me than just save, quit and reload.
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Thanks! That method worked much better.
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By WiseManWhite on 16 Apr 2020 18:42
Yeah i came on to post this, In the brewers house that you go to in the mission to get wine for that cool but creepy guy who runs the lodge, I was going to just save/quit the lodge but i think this feels a bit more productive.
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By HoggyBear08 on 17 Dec 2020 13:48
Here's a quick video guide on how to get the I'm Floundering Up Here achievement in the Gun, Love, and Tentacles DLC!! Hope this helps!!

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29 Mar 2020 18:22

To add to rTeuty's solution if another characters dialogue is playing (Mancubus saying "Might I trouble you for the use of your 'talents' " for example) the fish will spit out guns without telling a joke. I am unaware if this counts towards the achievement but just in case I would make sure no one else speaks before you press X to 'use' to ensure the fish tells a joke.
EDIT: Thanks to Target QG, You do not need to hear the joke the fish must only shoot out the guns.

Also the achievement doesn't appear to track so just keep at it.
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26 Mar 2020 19:46

An easy way to get this achievement is to get to the lodge and go inside. If you look at the fireplace, the fish is directly to its left. If you just want to rush the achievement, activate the fish. It will tell a joke and spit out some guns. Save and quit. Then continue playing from start screen. When it loads you will be back outside the lodge door. Go inside, activate the fish. Save, quit, reload. Continue until you have 25 jokes. Easy 50G.
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31 Mar 2020 02:30

I got the fish decoration from destroying fishing nets, hung it in my quarters on sanctuary and was able to continually push Y to make the fish talk and achievement popped with out any fast travel, reloading.
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09 Jan 2022 15:36

Note: The description of this trophy is misleading, because it fails to mention that you have to listen to 25 unique jokes and not 25 repeated ones.

This can be done at anytime, just go The Lodge and press  on the mounted fish on a wall in the bottom Left-Hand corner of the ground floor (AKA the First Floor if you're in the US):


 
Each time the fish tells a joke, you will have to save, quit and reload your save for it to refresh, therefore letting you press  again to hear another joke and get showered with loot - rinse and repeat until you have heard 25 unique jokes and the trophy has popped. Note: The jokes will start to repeat after a while so expect to hear the same ones a few times before this trophy pops.

Alternate method:

TfT02 has found an alternate method, that involves obtaining a rare Room Decoration which only drops from the fish nets you find scattered around this DLC so see the following video for details:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O7Vq0itYi8

By using this method, you don't have to reload your game every time but the time saved is offset by how long it takes to actually farm the required item. If you want to use this method, then the fastest way to farm the required Decoration is head to The Lodge's Wine Cellar and press  on the 2 Fish Nets hanging in the kitchen area. If the Decoration doesn't drop, then save, quit, reload and try again - rinse and repeat until it appears. Credit to Spaceknight for the farming tip.

Unfortunately, there's no easy way to track your progress towards this trophy so keep either a written or mental note of how many unique jokes you've heard. There are multiple Fish you can talk to but the one in The Lodge is the first you will encounter, though TfT02's method is another possibility. If you want to use the Alternate Method, then use the Trading Thread to speed things up: LINK
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After completing all the quests, I went to the shelter and hung a decoration in the form of that same fish on the wall in the room, press the triangle on it 25 times and the trophy is yours.
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31 Mar 2020 01:58

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There is more than one such fish in the game. There is in the Haven and there is in the Cursed Harbor (moving to the point Cemetery of Not Withering), then to the right along the stairs, we go to the right corner of the location, there will be a room with another fish in it.
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By himeo on 11 Oct 2020 16:06
There are several options to get the trophy:

Option 1:
After completing the quests, you will receive a gift - decoration for your room. You need to return to the shelter, hang it up and press about 25 times.
You may need a little more since you need to hear 25 UNIQUE jokes, i.e. they should not be repeated.

Option 2:
Restart the session with the Shelter location. This fish is located on the ground floor behind the fireplace.



Option 3.
You can combine it if for some reason you missed a gift from the 1st option or sold it
On the ground floor of the Haven there are 2 grids. You can approach them and click on . Thus, forcefully try to knock out a gift - decoration into the room and finish it off, based on the options described above
Video guide
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By EricPhoenix on 05 Aug 2020 09:54
The first clue is not correct, it goes to the shelter to the right of the bar counter, the fish will offer a joke, click on the square, it will read it and go out, just go to the main menu and back to the game and so on 25 times.
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07 Apr 2020 23:35

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The first hint is correct - you will receive an item with a fish in the mail, which you can hang on the wall in your room in the Vault and get a trophy from it without rebooting 25 times. Plus, these fish are nailed to walls everywhere, not just at the Lodge.
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By Tabitha on 06 May 2020 23:18