Fishing Tourney 2023

Today, I received Pompom’s goodbye letter in the mail. She has waddled away after two months in town.

The fishing tournament was underway, and Hank said he may need me to help carry the fish he was going to catch. 😆

Purrl, on the other hand, wasn’t as pleasant. Snooties are very hard to like in this game. Even Purrl.

Puck and Belle were fishing together at the northeast part of the lake. Puck thought it was a good spot to catch fish.

Chip told me that Hank was the current leader, with a 19-inch fish. Of my first few fish (all regular bass), the biggest was 18 inches. I continued to fish as I made my rounds.

I found a mistake when I spoke with Maple: She said she accidentally bought two “peach” (instead of peaches).

But she gave me one for free; that was nice of her. 🙂

It was raining in town, and many of my villagers were complaining about it. Baabara said there’s not much to do in the rain (even though a tourney was underway?), and she’s going to go to the bakery if it’s still raining tomorrow. Yeah, good luck with that.

I was surprised to see Tortimer out and about; I forgot he pops out of his shell during tournaments. But he wasn’t even near the wishing well this time, he was several acres away. He told me if I was tired, he would catch a lunker for me! Yeah, right. He couldn’t catch a fish if it was in a fishbowl in front of him.

I noticed there were only six minutes until the tourney ended, so I decided I better get serious about fishing! When I caught a large bass at 5:56, I felt pretty good about my chances. Even my 18-incher was a regular bass, and that was only an inch shorter than Hank’s. So I rushed it over to Chip. But he told me it was also 19 inches, so Hank was still the leader! Uh-oh!

With just two minutes to go, I was unable to catch another large bass in time. 🙁 So I officially lost the tournament. But it was nice just to participate. In fact, this was my first time competing in the GameCube fishing tournament since 2012! 😲

On the bright side, I got to meet my new villager, Freckles. I like her, she’s cute.

So one duck replaced another. 😛 Freckles also lives in my town of Ohio, and she previously lived in Forest back in 2011.

When I got back around to my house, I checked the bulletin board. To my surprise, Puck was the winner with a 26-inch fish! So he must have passed Hank in the final two minutes! I guess that makes it easier to take the loss then, since I wasn’t tied with the winner.

Of course, I would have been even more upset if I had taken the lead with a 20-incher and then lost in the final two minutes. Oh well. Maybe next time…whenever that will be. 😆

Thanks for stopping by, and Never Stop Crossing! 🙂