@crinrict It would appear this bug has been fixed :D One of my members said so, and I went to test it myself and had no trouble catching them at level 10.
Here's something odd I noticed about pomegranates.
On my 'main' / first sim, I never fished one up, and when I had fishing 10 I was not able to go back to the pond and catch one after many full 'days' of fishing with or without bait.
Second sim, fishing 5/6 comes along and he catches one within 3 casts at the pond. Then he proceeds to catch 2 more over the next fishing trip while the other sim hasn't caught any yet still (I have not attempted lowering her skill to see if it matters, his is now about 6).
It could just be rng being rng, I played wow long enough to know how rng can affect farming efforts, but it's just a bit silly to me given the disparity of time spent. I know rare is rare, but ... blah.
I can believe the randomizing of fishing spawns though, that'd be interesting...
Because I caught my Tilapia elsewhere, I can't remember entirely but right now I'd swear it was near the 'golfcourse' spots in Oasis, again on my lower leveled fishing sim. I remember being confused as to why I hadn't caught all the common fish yet and then he comes along and gets it right away. Now that he has the doesn't-need-sleep aspiration reward, I'm going back to more 24hr+ fishing trips so I'll see what I can find.
Should have recorded things from the beginning but I don't tend to bookkeep what I catch where.
Interestingly enough, my Sims don't have trouble catching the catfish, and catch the odd tilapia as well - but cannot catch the piranha or the shark.
All four Sims in my household are maxed out in their fishing skill and have completed the fishing aspiration as well. Yet I cannot catch those two fish. I have tried every kind of fish as bait at every fishing spot, tried frogs and plants also - spent eight or so *realtime* hours just fishing, but I cannot catch those two fish. Not certain if this is the same bug - but it's sure frustrating!
Are you using the right bait ?
