This game is amazing but PLEASE Dovetail.. Make the Lures move and act like the actual lures! Give em the sounds they should have! We're spending 80% of the time looking at our Lures and you just pasted a JPEG of the LURE on a line! PLEASE FIX THIS. If the old SEGA Bass fishing game can do it back then.. then I'm sure you guys can do it! PLEASE!

well lets start out with the good:
boat runs...zooooom!
you dont catch a 10lb bass every cast (this atleast makes it slightly better)
cotrols for gamepad are ok.

now the bad:
everything else.
the AI they are raving about seems broken also , i went into a lake with perfect 70 degrees water temp , perfect for spawning bass and didnt find a single bass in shallow water for several hours....what a joke.
they have 10 pros in game and apparently never talked to any of them because most of the tools a professional bass fisherman uses(i was one) are not in game.
things missing:
contour maps(essential for any pro fisherman that wants to keep his lower end and prop on his boat and essential to use for finding key structure.)
a fish graph not straight out of 1975(first one i bought in real life in late 70s or early 80s was better then this.
livescope , 360 and sidescan.
gps.
caST OPTIONS LIKE FLIP , PITCH , SKIP...
trolling motor control is bad....trolling motor trolls you.
the devs were so lazy they didn't even bother to make spinner baits , buzzbaits and prop baits spin...its that bad.
this game was either made by some 14 year olds as a first project , some seriously lazy people or people that hated their boss and wanted it to fail...maybe all 3.
so much bad and so little good , maybe wait a few years until its free or fixed.
i am plenty willing to change this review but this game needs some work.

The creators of this game has clearly never fished in their entire lives not to mention even been on a boat or near any body of water.

The casting mechanics and movement controls are convoluted, not fluent nor natural making each cast a chore and a bore fest of slowness for no reason. And why a mini game just to land a fish...

I'm not even going to go into detail regarding the the lure and reel in mechanics its just laughably BAD.

Even after they stated they fixed the crashes in character creation my game crashed to desktop in the character creation section then when I restarted the game it simply skipped character creation all together,

The boat controls are a joke also clear to see they don't know how a boat works not to mention the crappy controls for the Trolling motor, Which for some unholy reason is mapped to the arrow keys on a keyboard and not WASD which is a gaming sin tbh!

Go get yourself a copy of trophy bass and go study how to make a fishing game right!

Honestly, I was loving this game at first, it was relaxing and very "chill" however I learned that the multiplayer does not work on pc. Major let down as one of the main reasons why I bought the game was because it had a non-competitive multiplayer fishing mode however none of the modes work. In all honesty, I probably would've not have bought it had I known this. I mean if all you want to do is play singleplayer then sure this game is alright. It also bothers me that this issue has been known since at least November of last year and not one update or fix yet.

I'm late getting into this game. This game is great. Yea I fish in real life. When I play fishing games, I never use any underwater camera that comes with the game. because it breaks the immersion, and you really can't do it in real life...you'll drown! When I play fishing games, I always have my camera above the water because that's how it is in real life. Fishing AI in this game is better than most fishing games out there. On good days, you will land big ones, on bad days, you will land nothing...and so is this game. So yes, quite realistic. AI seems to have improved compared to previous DTG fishing games. Cheap tactics I use on previous DTG games don't work on this anymore so I am happy something or someone updated the AI. Now... about these dead lures. No idea what the noise is about. Is it the lure animation action underwater being "dead"? If this is what the noise is about with the lure, wow... I feel sorry for the players who complain about it. I have yet to see an angler stick their head in the water to check their lure movement while fishing. Lesson learned for DTG... do not provide underwater cameras. It totally breaks the immersion, and you open yourselves up to people who have never really fished in their life. There is no underwater camera when you fish in real life! Get this game. It's pretty good.

I want to like this game. I really do, but like every other fishing game, it just isnt anything like actual fishing. How to make a good fishing game: 1. Consult actual fisherman, preferably pros. When they can even get your character to hold a baitcaster properly and reel it like a normal human being you know your in for a bad time. 2. Make the act of reeling in a fish actually something akin to real life. The likelihood of a fish throwing a jig is far lower than them throwing a crankbait for example. The fight isnt even fun, its just annoying.
3. FIX YOUR BUGS! Fish dont swim vertical in water. Fish dont swim UNDER the bottom. I shouldnt have to get up and down from my trolling motor/console to get the engine to run.
4. Make your lures move. The baits are lifeless on the retrieve. A spoon doesnt just sink straight to the bottom and it certainly doesnt just come straight in. Get your spinnerbaits and buzzbaits to actually sit upright instead of laying on their side.
I could go on, and maybe I'm nitpicking, but just once I would like a fishing game to feel something close to the real thing. If you want something that is anything like actually fishing, steer clear of this game. If you want a game that feels like a terrible fishing game from 10 years ago, go for it.

Half of what should be present in a fishing game isn't present,
and half of what is present is not working or is complete garbage.

-Game looks and runs very poorly : Game looks like a game from 2013 to be honest.

-Very little character customization : I've seen better character customization in Super Nintendo games. Only male, no beard, if you have hair, it goes over your hat...

-No first person. A simulation game without first person isn't a simulation game.

-No servers for online and no ability to host peer to peer : I get it, it's day 1 of launch, there are always issues with online servers... If only there was 1 !

-No options for controls : Again, new game, it might miss a few things, but in this case it's missing all of it.

... less than 1 minute in the tutorial, games freeze while wasd tutorial, can't do anything... Alt+F4

-One of the lamest menu for game options in a long time.

Finally, Dovetail Games, you are on my "never buying a game from you again" list.

Decent fishing game and better than some of the reviews give it credit for. Similar to the Catch but the mechanics have been tweaked and the focus is different. You don't have overly long fights with each fish like in the Catch and you tend to land fish in much more realistic timeframe. Also the focus here is strictly on lure/spinner fishing. You won't find floats in this game. Overall though, it's not bad and hopefully won't get immediately abandoned by Dovetail (like they usually do) before they make it great.

Bad. I feel like the developers have never been bass fishing ever.

Yet another poorly made fishing game meant to serve as a quick cash grab for those of us who like to fish in real life.

Pros:
- Fishing in any variety is fun.
- Fish different famous lakes/bodies of water.
- There is an unrealistic amount of fish and bites which is enjoyable at first...

Cons:
- BUGS BUGS BUGS
- Unrealistic lure mechanics
- Unrealistic fish behaviors
- Poor casting and retrieve mechanics
- Horrible tackle management system
- Only the sponsored lures get any represenation i.e. Yum, 13 Fishing, Favorite etc.
- Entire categories of lures and techniques are gone.
- Made by people who don't understand fishing