I got 6 fish. I got no love. Does it have to be 5 exactly???

very late comment but i want to say this method definitely worked for me

yeah took me like over a dozen tries. the one that succeeded I wasn't waiting in gamakatsu's area when it turned daytime, didn't watch him set up. I decided to wait longer before eating the food. I dont think this made a difference, I think I just got luckier, but whatever. I didn't catch any monkfish or slow fish, was all pinkfish, sunfish, and ironfish. I don't think the kirikiri saute was wearing off or anything, I think it was just all luck and I was unlucky for like 14 times before the 15th. this was trash

I keep catching junk no matter what I do. everyone saying switch to japanese just got lucky, cause when I switched to japanese my first catch was junk, and I got 2 out of my 5 casts. I tried having him explain the rules of the contest to me since 1 time I got no junk, but only 4 fish after a did that, but the 2nd time I got 2 junk.

it's pure luck, nothing helps. just reset after every failure, restart the game, eat the kiri kiri saute, warp back, wait a minute in the cove, catch junk on the first catch, fuckin cry. also I keep getting monk fish and that other slow guy or they nibble on my line for what feels like 5 minutes before biting. this thing is so luck based. I've done it like 10 times now, I failed it like 4 times normally before I've been save scumming here and nothing helps.

this just sucks and was poorly tested, the devs either needed to add more time or make junk not catchable for an event you can only do once a week.

This guide is relatively helpful. It is improving my scores of 0 - 2 fish per attempt, to 2 - 3 per attempt which is good... But it's not a 4 to 5 fish score yet.

But I keep seeming to get either really difficult fish that waste my time too much early on, have the bobber not go down fast enough, or I fish up some empty cans that prevent me from breaking that 3 fish barrier.

I keep seeing stuff about changing the language to Japanese to see if that alter's the RNG, but I'm not sure how. I try changing it in steam's properties tab for the game but that doesn't seem to change anything. I'm not sure what to do there.

The Kirikiri dish isn't seeming to change results either.

Not sure if anybody's mentioned this, but for anybody struggling with the fishing contest, try changing your language to Japanese. It could be placebo, but I got 5 fish on my first try (with the kirikiri dish) this way. I have a theory that the RNG could be effected by the translation, as the translation actively changes the speed of the text, as well as changing the samples of the character's voices.

This is the kind of insanity the fishing contest brings you to.

nope still painful

Yeah, I already figured, got to do both get the 5th part and have both Clis's love events, and thankfully she was there in time for Solarday

Didn't help at all because I still caught 2 cans...

to Deep Weeb: That is a story event where the Hero goes to the restaurant and becomes a nuisance. There should be details on how to get past that part in a full guide to the game. I can't exactly remember the solution (it might be just waiting), but you can't order any food until the Hero leaves.

Issue: I got the 4 parts of the rocket before getting in the restaurant and that triggered the Hero event, now it doesn't seem like anyone is willing to serve any food to me
Do I really need to waste another week for this after finding the 5th rocket part?