How fishing mini game works?

[Nik]

Ok, I left click to start fishing. Then left click when the hook becomes yellow. The mini game with the fish and the rectangle appears. What do i do and what do I control with what I'm doing. In the mini game it only says left click = reel but no joy. Any suggestions?

[Raiden]

i dont know how to fish...no minigame. Only Hook gets yellow, i klick LMB but the nothing happens

[Nik]

I finally figured it out. After the hook becomes yellow, you control the rectangle by holding the left mouse button. This shifts the rectangle to the right. When you stop holding the mouse the rectangle shifts to the left. You use this to try and keep the fish inside the rectangle. A line above shows how close you are to catching the fish. When that line is full the fish is caught.

[Leon]

@Raiden this is happening to me as well.
I'm new, and once i realized I can't even make filets yet I figured i'd look into it later, so we'll see if a reload works as I was learning on outpost and didn't feel like reloading, given the pointless I pointed out.

Another thing that crossed my mind before launching up again though, is maybe the mini game is there, as when i LC, its not normal, fingers move like it reels for a split second, but if held, doesn't; so what if, the mini-game is just having a gfx glitch and is invis or not showing.

if the last one is possible heres some of my settings to see if we can compare notes on some pivotal cause:
RTX 3060(12GB) on AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
Border-less
Textures: Epic
Texture-pool:12000
View distance: Epic
AA:Epic
DLSS: Balanced @ 75 sharpness
Simple building shadows: on
Most others are default / high

I'll be adjusting if a simple reboot doesnt fix, and update if I find anything on my own.

[JimmyTheSaltyMelon]

keep the little box on top of the fish, I mean really you did not see and figure that out ?