Ideas
I got the screenshots of the UI. Will share what I found on the EA help site as well.
First thing that is difficult to share without UI is the Spearfishing at Mua Pel'Am and St. Taz. Both have the same glitch. You can spearfish, gain xp, but nothing you catch will appear in your inventory. I don't know if this is related but I don't think you can spear fish anywhwere else in the Sims 4.
Also, with the help of the UI, it's easier to show why I think this could be an issue with how sims move around the map. I only see this when a sim physically can't get to somewhere.
Sims can set traps to catch fish, but so far, I have not had them catch anything. Even after speeding up time.
I turned off mods to replicate screenshots of the UI during the unmodded test. Examining the water works, and the sims in Ohan'Ali Town will path to a boat to perform the fishing interaction. After multiple tests, they only path to a boat in Ohan'Ali Town, not Mua Pel'Am or St. Taz. It does appear that this bug is a little different depending on where your sim is in Sulani.
Given what I found, I went to a beach kiosk to buy a boat. I placed the kiosk on a beach lot I made in St. Taz. I tried to see if my sim would use the boat from the Kiosk to fish in St. Taz if he had it in his inventory. It didn't work.
The final test was going back to Ohan'Ali Town to see if what I tried to do in St. Taz would work there. It took a few tries, but it did end up working.
It worked after I moved Stevie all the way towards the fishing sign and then he pathed back to his boat to fish. This is a bit tedious because it requires having your sim walk or run pretty far to get them to fish this way.
The best advice I can give for getting around this bug in Sulani is to go to a beach kiosk, buy the boat, and then use it to fish from while sailing. I can do more tests to confirm it, but I'm pretty sure it should be possible to fish in Sulani from a boat if you have one in your sim's inventory. Until the bug gets fixed, this is my only work around I've found. If you go to Ohan'Ali Town to fish, your sim will path toward their boat or a boat in the open world.
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