Fishing Sim World Pro Tour

I played a bit of that in January. It was a bunch of fun and beautiful locations.  
I documented some of my catches. 
gamerdvr.com/gamer/test777777/screenshots.  Oh the most recent cap isn't fishing. I logged into WOTC recently, received a message saying I'd been performing well on the battlefield without having logged in for about 6 months so logged out again. I think they through a week or so of premium my way too. No idea why. 

Rest of caps are my attempts at capturing my fishing results.

Back to the fishing 
Buggy as hell and the simulation elements don't seem to be there apart from the locations. 

I found it very difficult to determine consistency and working strategy for getting predators to strike for example or how the different price points for gear relate to a benefit or why there were so many rods/reels/lures. That were mostly identical. 

What I mean by that is I could practice with a rig and get a bucketload and then get nothing when tournament occurred with exactly the same setup with exactly the same weather and time of day at the same location. It seemed so hit and miss, as if the variables for what works changes each time a lake was loaded which makes practice a bit pointless.  I mean to some extent fishing can be like that but from my experience, one gets used to what fish respond to, what conditions they feed in and what areas they respond well in.
That hot cold thing doesn't really occur. 

The fish finder was next to useless on the boats. Trolling motor was cool though. 

Carp fishing basically was throw a bunch of rods in the water and catch fish faster than they can be reeled in. 

I didn't really understand the finer differences between the Rods and Reels and line types and even rigs. I get some of it from real life but it didn't seem to translate to the game.  Overly complex number of options which really didn't need to be and I didn't recognise any of the brands either which is not a big Deal I suppose. I don't do a lot of real life fishing these days but  Jarvis Walker, Shakespeare, Daiwa, Shimano and a few others are brands that I do recognised from Bluewater fishing when I was very active but they don't exist in the game. 

The weight of line didn't seem to matter nor the size of the hook or lure either except that if the line was light, chances are the fish would be lost if it was hooked. I'd expect lighter line = more bites and smaller hook meant smaller fish but in the end I just ended up going for the heaviest.  

It was a lot of fun for a bit. Even my youngest got in on the act.