See the “Elite Angler” trophy.

See the “Seeing Spots” trophy.

You’ll most likely unlock the “Quick Catch” trophy along side this one. Just follow the strategy specified there and you’ll eventually get this one.

See the “Elite Angler” trophy.

See the “Too Perfect!” trophy.

See the “Hooking Perfection” trophy.

See the “Flap Jack” trophy.

You just have to weigh in early not even win. You can weigh in early by going back to the docks after a little time has passed during the event. Obviously, you'll need to have caught at least one fish to weigh in.

See the “Master Challenger” trophy.

After you hook a fish, don’t do anything and the fish will eventually get away and you’ll unlock the trophy.

You should unlock this naturally. If you’re having trouble, just do the following: Choose a “fast casting” lure. Go away from any fishing spots. Throw the cast about 100 feet or so. Press and hold down on the and start reeling it in. The trophy will unlock shortly thereafter.

See the “Lure Master” trophy.

This is actually harder than the “Victory!” trophy that requires you to get first place, the reason being that the other fishermen are pretty bad. It’s best to hold off on this trophy until you’re in the Legend Season, where the other fishers are at least decent. Then pick an event that requires you to catch a certain number of fish and always just stay right behind the lead. Don’t tie with the lead, because the tie always goes to you.

This trophy is kind of a pain. There are 19 other fishers on the lake during any event and there’s no real way to keep track of all of them except possibly jotting their names down. I’m not sure if you have to drive up and fish next to each of these competitors in a single event, but I’m pretty sure you don’t. In any case, it’s definitely possible to do this in a single event, because I did. If you go this route, be sure to pick an event that has a reasonably long time limit and be prepared to loose the event because you might not have enough time to actually fish. (Don’t worry you can always replay the event.)

I don’t recommend going out of the way to do a secondary objective because many of them will come naturally. But if you’re getting impatient, most of the secondary objectives are really easy. To see the secondary objective, pause the game with and then choose the “Objectives” option.

See the “Master Challenger” trophy.

By the end of this game, I had caught over 500 fish. So, yeah, this one will come naturally.

There’s not much to say here. In fact, I think you actually have to try to fail in order to never get in first place on some of these events.

These are five in game hours not real life hours. So, you’ll need to drive around for five minutes in a tournament event, then place in the top 5. While this may sound hard, it is not at all, because your opponents are pretty bad fishermen. It’s probably best to knock this guy out during the Rookie Tournament though, because the other fishers do get better. I think the best way to go about getting this trophy is to drive around for the first five minutes of the event, then go and do what it takes to get in the top five, preferably first place. Again, this should be pretty easy.

See the “Driven” trophy.

Well, you should be playing all of the events in all the tiers so you can rack up the most points and ensure that you win the tournament. But if you insist on cutting corners, you at least should finish all the events in the first tier or the Rookie Season to unlock this trophy and the “Intermediate Angler” trophy.

See the “Elite Angler” trophy.

This is best gotten while doing challenges in Free Fishing mode because there is a challenge (I can’t remember the name) on one of the lakes (I think it was Minnetonka) that requires you to catch four different species. If you do this challenge by catching the four regular fish on the lake and then go catch the monster fish afterwards, you’ll unlock this trophy.

You want to start by using the same strategy as in the “Isn’t She Cute!” trophy, making sure that you cast far enough so that it takes at least 30 seconds to completely reel in the lure. Remember to cast away from fish because you do not want any fish to bite.

You will unlock this ability very early in the game, as long as you’re progressing through tournament mode first. Consult the "special moves" portion of the "How to Fish" part of the road map for details on flipping fish.

See the “True Legend” trophy.

After the normal time runs out for a tournament event, you are given 10 minutes to get back and weigh in. During this 10 minute period, you need to catch five fish. After you’ve caught the fifth fish, the trophy will unlock.

This was one of the first trophies I got. Just find a fishing spot quickly and catch a fish. The time you take to choose your lure and whatnot don’t count towards this trophy, so you can take your time to get a good fishing set first.

This is another trophy that will come without any extra effort. For reference, I had about 2300 cast when I was finished with the game.

This is quite easy. Just uncover five fishing spots and cast into them. Remember you just have to cast. In other words, you don’t need to catch or even hook a fish.

See the “Master Challenger” trophy.

See the “Master Challenger” trophy.

Unlike the "Journeyman" trophy, trophy actually depends on your actual accumulated driving time, not the in game time. That said, I’m pretty sure this is still near impossible to not get this trophy naturally, since you’ll be doing a lot of driving from challenge to challenge in this game. But if you’re getting impatient, you can just drive around for an hour to unlock the trophy straight away.

This should unlock relatively early in your time with this game, as long as you’re following the casting instructions outlined in the “How to Fish” portion of the road map.

This is another extremely easy trophy. I unlocked it naturally while playing tournament mode. If you need more insight on how to get a perfect hook, consult the “How to Fish” portion of the road map.

See the “Elite Angler” trophy.

(Possibly missable) It may be the case that this trophy and the one that references it are missable, but they’re pretty hard to miss. You get a penalty by ramming your boat into others while they’re fishing or driving your boat into their fishing line. Basically, you get a penalty if you try to screw up another fisherman. However, you won’t get a penalty right away, at least I didn’t. If I ever accidentally hit messed with another fisher, I usually just got a warning. So, to avoid getting penalties, just steer clear of other fishermen and you’ll be fine.

This is actually really easy. You can cast right next to a fishing spot just not in one. So, go find good fishing spots like you normally would, move your fishing ring around until it turns green, then move it slowly away from this point and stop just after it is no longer green. You’ll still be next to all the fish, but you won’t technically be casting into a fishing spot.

You can unlock this trophy any time you want. The Fish-O-Pedia can be found at the main menu or the pause menu. The menu hierarchy is as follows:

• Fish-O-Pedia
  • Lure Presentation Techniques
  • Equipment
    • Fishing Boats
    • Rods
    • Reels
    • Fishing Lines
    • Lures
    • FishFinder/GPS (no submenu)
  • North American Freshwater Lakes
  • Fish Species
  • Rapala Pro Staff

While working towards this trophy, you will necessarily unlock the other trophies that reference it. The tournament champ is determined by the number points you have at the end. You get more points by placing high in events. So, as long as you’re placing high in the events and doing all of the events, winning the tournament will be very easy. If you’re careful and take a look at the other Tournament mode trophies while playing the events, you shouldn't have to replay any of them. One final important note: you should avoid getting penalties because you may have to replay Tournament mode if you end up getting one. See the “Good Sportsmanship” trophy for more details.

Click here for my brief Monster Fish Guide.

In tournament mode, fishing spots show up as little white dots or large green spots. The large green ones have hot-air balloons floating above them. In free fishing mode, all of the fishing spots show up as medium sized light yellowish dots on the radar. In order to be sure that you are casting into a fishing spot, you maneuver the casting ring over the general area until it turns green and then you need to perform a perfect case into the ring.

There have been early reports that this trophy may be glitched, but I had no problems with it unlocking. For me, it actually unlocked in the second tier of the Legendary Season tournament. I just made sure to cast in any fishing spot that showed up on the radar as I progressed through the various tournament events.

Alternatively, southurnbuck has found a method posted over at our sister site to quickly knock out this trophy. However, the original post was removed (or deleted) for some reason. Anyway, milhouse46 has been kind enough to summarize the method:

I got this very early in my quest to knock out the challenges in free fishing mode. There will be many challenges that require you to catch a certain number of fish without any other stipulations. Use these opportunities to catch bass.

You unlock clothing items as you clear tournament mode events and complete challenges. If you finish the tournament mode first, then this trophy will unlock just before you get the “Master Challenger” trophy.

This unlocked naturally for me sometime while playing through the tournament mode. So, unless the weather during this mode is random, you should unlock it during that mode, as well. If this is the case, you can go for while in free fishing mode, since you can adjust the weather setting in that mode.

Since many of the lures only unlock after you complete an associated challenge, this will be one of the last trophies you unlock, unless you carefully plan which challenges you go for. At any rate, you can click here for an alphabetized lure checklist.

This is one of the hardest things to do in the game, but it’s not that bad. You’ll come across this event late in the Legends Tournament. Once you learn how to reel in these large fish, getting in the top 5 isn’t hard at all. You’ll roughly need 150 – 180 lbs in total weight, which corresponds to averaging about 50 – 60 lbs per sturgeon. To catch these things, just follow the instructions in the “How to Fish” portion of the road map, specifically the "reeling" part. Remember to be sure that you're using a 10 lbs line. The lure you choose won't affect the trophy, but you should obviously use one that's effective to catching sturgeons.

All of the trophies that reference this one will unlock in your quest to unlock this one. In particular, there are many challenges that have you fulfill specific trophy requirements. So, you’ll get those along the way.

This trophy is the real time sink in this game. It stinks because there are many challenges that have overlapping requirements (e.g. “catch 20 fish” and “catch 20 fish of the same species”), but you have to complete them independently. It’s also pretty annoying that you have to drive your boat to each challenge location, but the challenge locations aren’t marked on your radar. So, you’ll often have to a little searching. On the plus side, 90% of the challenges are extremely easy. However, there are some that are tougher because they have very specific requirements on the type or weight of the fish that need to be caught and this can boil down to a little luck.

There is one challenge worth singling out though and that is the “Bass Fight!” challenge on Lake Lanier. This challenge reads: “Catch a world record Largemouth Bass (over 22lbs 4oz)”. However, I found the description extremely misleading. You do not need to catch a fish larger than 22 lbs 4 oz. I don’t know what the minimum weight is, but after about 1.5 hours of searching for a record largemouth bass, I said “screw it” and caught the largest one I could find and managed to complete the challenge with a 16 lbs fish.

One last remark, there is a monster fish challenge for each lake, and moreover, many of the remaining challenges will be made easier if you hunt a monster fish (e.g. challenges that require you to catch a certain weight in fish). As such, you may want to refer to the monster fish guide periodically while completing your challenges. Here is a link.