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Fishing is easy in the game. The explanation the game gives you on how to fish is... well, it's shit.

Don't give up on the game because of that though. The game has a bit of a slow start and takes a while to get going, but once it does it's great.

Here's a brief explanation on how to fish, just because:

1) drop line into water. Try to keep the bobber near the surface.

2) as soon as the bobber starts to sink, yank up.

3) if this doesn't work the first time, just keep trying. It shouldn't take too many tries using this method.

4) After the fish bites, you don't have to hit anything. Link automatically pulls it in.

I know this the hard way. At one point in the game I spent four damn hours trying everything and no fish were buying. The reason? Because nobody ever explained how absurdly easy it was to fish in the game. I was making it too damn hard. Finally I was so frustrated I registered on the Penny Arcade forums just to ask how to fish. Once it was explained, took me a minute or two to get things right.

I have no idea why Nintendo dropped the ball on that tutorial -- normally, that sort of thing is extremely polished, and indeed the rest of the game is sparkling in this regard. But seriously, don't give up on TP because of one minor glitch. The instructions above will yield you a fish in five minutes or less. And the rest of the game is top-notch. Don't give up.