Overview

Estimated trophy difficulty: Trophy Difficulty Rating (2/10 Personal estimate)
Offline: 12 (1 , 4 , 7 )
Online: 0
Approximate amount of time to 100%: 8-10 hours
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1 + "I love fishing"
Number of missable trophies: Two
Glitched trophies: None
Do cheat codes disable trophies?: No cheats

Introduction

Having graced many formats over the years, including the Sega Dreamcast, gamers may be familiar with the title Sega Bass Fishing; an arcade style fishing game that doesn’t take itself too seriously. While the game may seem daunting to new players at first, it really isn’t too difficult to get to grips with, it just takes a little practice and some knowledge on which lures are effective in certain situations. Give the game a little time and perseverance, and it won’t be long until you’re enjoying what the game has to offer. For those that may be struggling, I have included some general lure tips at the bottom of this Road Map.

Walkthrough

Step One - How to Play & Arcade Mode

I highly suggest before you start Arcade mode giving the ‘How to Play’ slides a read, these can be located via ‘Help & Options’ at the main menu. They will give you a general idea of Sega Bass Fishing’s control scheme and an overview of the gameplay mechanics. Once done, head to Arcade Mode where you can put what you’ve learned into use. Completion of Arcade Mode will unlock "Arcade Winner" and you will have also earned "A Gift Lure" along the way.

Step Two - Original Mode

Original Mode consists of four tournaments - each having a trophy for placing first. To avoid a second playthrough you need to place first in each one before progressing to the next, as you can’t go back to a previous tournament without starting a new game. It’s not essential you win each stage of a tournament, just to be the overall winner. However, that being said there are two missable trophies tied to the ‘Professional Tournament’ - in order to unlock these specifically - you must place first in all stages. Unlocking all the tournament related trophies may seem quite a task, but in reality it’s deceptively easy due to the fact you can quit out during stages if you aren’t doing well, or quit out of the game entirely at the results screen, without the game saving your progress. Take advantage of this, progressing through tournaments only when you have done well thus ensuring you the win and ultimately all the trophies.

Step Three - "I love fishing"

After steps one and two you should have in the region of 200 - 250 fish caught. The last step towards 100% is a grind to the 500 total to unlock the "I love fishing" trophy. How you go about this is up to you, there's the option to play Arcade/Original mode again, but I suggest utilising 'Practice Mode' as you can catch fish at a much faster rate.

Lure Tips

I want to make clear these are the methods that I personally used and found the most effective, I in no way claim these are the best options available. Half the fun with this game is finding your own methods, your own spots to fish, and your own lure techniques.

I found the ‘Pencil Bait’ the most effective lure to use in water temperatures of 60-70 degrees. The bass will be swimming in and around shallow water in these conditions, with this lure sitting on the surface of the water it’s ideal to catch the attention of the bass. The exception to this however, is in rainy weather conditions. Due to the noise the rain will make on the surface, the Pencil Bait will prove to be less effective; switch to the ‘Popper’, it’s effectively the same lure but makes noise on the surface of the water, drowning out the noise the rain would be making. For water temperatures of 71 degrees and over I favored the ‘Suspend Minnow’. This lure drops down into the water, and suspends motionless at a similar kind of level to where the bass will be loitering, twitch the lure to tempt the bass in for a bite.

[PS3T Would Like to Thank Puzzler For This Roadmap]