alright, well after a long day and about 4 or 5 hours attempting to catch one because this post made me encouraged, and it was finally snowing in my town after at least 2 or 3 weeks with NO SNOW AT ALL...
after 30 minutes of catching every fish i found waiting for the ominous shadow to appear...
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alas, it was a tuna... finally got my inventory full with fishies to sell to make this quest worthwhile, so i began to long trek back to nook to get some more space. on the way though... i got spotted...
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here we go again, another 2 hours catching everything and scanning the shoreline constantly... AH HA!
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to add to my depression of playing almost 2 months and still not having a fishy to show off, i *****ed out and hit A too quickly. this happened 3 other times before i began taking pictures of the shadows, mind you. it was a long day...
AND THEN...
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FINALLY!
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and now i is the happiest girl in coketown.
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good luck to all you guys out there. don't give up! took me like 4 or 5 total hours to finally get this accomplished and it even stopped snowing with 3 hours in the middle of the time elapsed... now i'm hoping to get 1-3 more to put on display in my house before winter packs it's backs and finally leaves. <3