History Main / FishingForSole

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* It's pretty interesting what sort of "junk" you can fish up with the [[GameMod Fishing Creation]] bundled with the Anniversary Edition of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''. There's normal stuff like empty bottles of wine, buckets, and flagons, but you can also find weapons and armor (which may also be enchanted, depending on your luck), troll skulls, ''filled'' bottles of wine (and ale too), and even some artifacts that previously only appeared in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]''. If you're fishing in a spot near some [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Dwemer]] ruins, you get a pretty different list of junk that includes stuff like gears, scrap metal, and entire structural supports. Speaking of Dwemer stuff, using a Dwarwen fishing rod increases the chances of this trope occurring.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' has a guy fishing up a "necklace" belonging to the local mermaid (in the Japanese version, it's her bra). The remake on the Switch would also add an empty bottle that could be caught in the FishingMinigame.

* Official ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' YonKoma comic ''Inaba of the Moon, Inaba of the Earth'' has [[PrincessClassic Kaguya]] trying her hand at fishing. She manages to fish out random junk like the classic boot, an empty can of mackerel, an old magazine, and [[ButtMonkey Reisen]], while missing all the fishes in the lake. As a strip title points out, "in a sense, it's an amazing hit rate".

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* ''FanFic/TheAristocatsIsland'': At the end of the episode "A Great Discovery", Jenny has [[spoiler: repaired the broken fishing line]] and is fishing in the lagoon when Berlioz comes along. He takes the fishing line and catches an old boot.

* The "7Seas" MiniGame in ''VideoGame/SecondLife'' has a variety of boots you can catch with your fishing pole. Like the VideoGame/{{Suikoden}} example above, these are wearable items and often have shiny bling.

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* It's pretty interesting what sort of "junk" you can fish up with the [[GameMod Fishing Creation]] bundled with the Special Edition of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''. There's normal stuff like empty bottles of wine, buckets, and flagons, but you can also find weapons and armor (which may also be enchanted, depending on your luck), troll skulls, ''filled'' bottles of wine (and ale too), and even some artifacts that previously only appeared in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]''. If you're fishing in a spot near some [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Dwemer]] ruins, you get a pretty different list of junk that includes stuff like gears, scrap metal, and entire structural supports. Speaking of Dwemer stuff, using a Dwarwen fishing rod increases the chances of this trope occurring.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Hydroneer}}'', while fishing you occasionally pull up a "stanky old boot" with a split toe. Pure vendor trash since the game has no clothing mechanic. Oddly, placeable fishing pots can catch boots as well, even though logically they should only catch things capable of swimming into them.

* [[RunningGag Hopper]] in ''Anime/AnimalCrossing: The Movie'' has [[SerialEscalation increasingly bad luck]] fishing.

* While fishing in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' with fishing skill lower than the required for the zone, significant part (up to ''all'' of them) of catches will be useless junk, like twigs...and occasionally An Old Boot (which can't even be worn). However, even at high enough levels to not catch any junk, plenty of ''actual fish'' is useless to the degree of not even being a worthy VendorTrash. It also sometimes is inverted, with rare non-fish catches being more valuable, or at least [[CosmeticAward cosmetic]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' you can fish while roaming Earth's Plains of Eidolon or Venus' Orb Vallis, and if you miss your intended catch there's a small chance you'll reel in a Grineer or Corpus trooper's boot instead; you'll also get a [[Funny/{{Warframe}} brief banjo ditty or electronica tune to go with it]], as opposed to the more triumphant tune for a regular catch. Finally, whilst you can sell the boots as VendorTrash, you can choose to mount them on trophy boards and display them in your Orbiter.

* ''VideoGame/MyChildLebensborn'': If the PlayerCharacter fails to actually catch a fish while fishing, it will be shown as them getting an old shoe, instead. If the child is present when it happens, they may remark on it, one of them wondering if there is currently someone wearing fish on their feet.

* Taken to [[RefugeInAudacity ridiculous extremes]] in one episode of ''Manga/DetectiveConan'': fishing in a rain-swollen river, Kogoro hooks something huge...and discovers to his horror that he has hooked his rental car, which was swept away in a flash flood.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-11-15 Lil' Evil gets a book, a laptop, and a pitchfork, which expresses its disapproval.]]
* {{Invoked|Trope}} by Marten in ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' in regards to [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2536 fishing for compliments from Faye]].

** The game both plays this straight and subverts it. Non-fish objects that you can catch include the usual junk like sticks, cans, and old cartwheels, but also some good things such as an empty bottle, a bag of rupees, or the most effective fishing lure in the game. The sign in the fishing hole area warning people not to throw junk in the water might be a Lampshade Hanging, or it might just be a clue about dredging up the good stuff.

* The "7Seas" MiniGame in ''VideoGame/SecondLife'' has a variety of boots you can catch with your fishing pole. Like the VideoGame/{{Suikoden}} example above, these are wearable items and often have shiny {{bling}}.

--->"Okay, it's cool, but I don't think we can eat this for dinner... do you want it?"

* Case 43 of ''VideoGame/CriminalCase'' opens with Jones reeling in (part of) the victim's corpse.

* The UpdatedRerelease of ''VideoGame/Persona4'', the lowest-rank "fish" you can catch at Shirichi Beach is a tire. It's completely useless, but fishing there can also net you the [[JokeWeapon Joke Weapons]] for every party member. This results in the protagonist fishing up objects like bus stop signs, benches, a ''drill'' and '''an antique flintlock pistol'''.