Found a loophole to bypass the "Mission Curse" (How to catch mission fish easily!)
Hey everyone,
My wife stumbled onto a massive loophole that seems to completely lift the "mission curse" (where the game tweaks the math/spawn rates and makes mission-specific fish nearly impossible to catch). This trick makes the game fun again and still gives you the completion.
The Step-by-Step Loophole:
- Travel to the exact mission location specified by the game.
- Deactivate/untrack the mission in your journal once you are standing in the right spot.
- Set up your rig normally for that specific fish type, weather, and time of day.
- Cast your line and fish. Deactivating the mission seems to revert the game's math and spawn logic back to standard, non-mission rates.
- Catch the fish. Even though the mission is deactivated, catching the target fish in that zone will still trigger and register as "Mission Complete!"
Hopefully, this saves a ton of you from the brutal grinding and frustration on some of these trickier trials. Let me know if this works for you guys!
P.S. We did it multiple times in a row with no FAIL!
Posted Aug 29, 2026, 3:08 AM UTC
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