I can't seem to catch a fish in Zelda: Twilight princess. I can see the fish on the screen, my line is underwater, and I've waited like that for quite a while, but alas, I can't catch any. And without fish I can't catch the cat and continue on.

Any bait?

edit: just a guess, I've never played the game. Try googling it, I am sure there are hundreds of guides and walkthroughs for the game.

Are you lure fishing or bobber fishing? (The former can only be done at the fishing hole, the latter can be done anywhere.) I have the guide, so I can help you out.

Secondly, are you playing on the Wii or the GC?

This is easy all you have to do is fish next to the cat and you nearly always catch a fish. (also you have to catch 2 fish to progress.)

Well, I have the fishing rod that you get for free at the beginning of the game. I'm not far along. Also, I have no lures or bait. and what fishing hole?

I am playing on the Wii.

You're bobber-fishing, then.

All you have to do is press B, and lower the stick enough so the bobber's in the water. If you're in Ordon Village, try fishing off the dock behind Talo and Malo's house (the one with the water wheel). Wait a couple of seconds, and you'll get a fish. When that happens, just keep the Wiimote raised and Link will reel it in automatically.

EDIT: The fishing hole's in Northern Hyrule, in Lanayru Province. If you're just starting out, don't worry about it yet. Hope this helps, LNSU.

EDIT 2: Also, bait isn't really necessary unless you're trying to get big fish. If you're trying to get through the game in the fastest amount of time (which is what I challenge myself to do each time I play), non-baited hooks are fine for what you need to do.

I've finished this game before. I can help as well. First set the rod to Y or X. Press that button to cast the rod. Wait for the bobber to go down under the water, then pull up on the C-stick. You should be able to catch something, after that just keep holding the c-stick down to reel it in. Nsword knows more than me and might be more help, since I'm good at sporadic crappy directions, and he knows more than me. When you are able to lure fish, you will be given a tutorial on how to fish.

Yeah, fishing on that game is really hard.

It's really easy once you get the hang of it. Though to catch the reekfish later in the game, once you find all of the Shadow Fragment things, I forgot what they were called, you can get a special hook from the Zora Prince something an another once you are required to hunt down this snow monster thing. The hook which is an earring made out of special coral will work as various types of bait and allow you to catch more types of fish without bait. Lure fishing, there is a guide. To find the Sinking lure however, you need to go to the area separated with a piece of dock. Fish until you catch a few items such as the empty bottle and a few rupee bags. Then go to the little bit of water jutting in by the fish house. You need to fish there and you will find the sinking lure. Make sure Hena doesn't see you using it though or she will take it away. When you get the ability to transform from human form to wolf form and vice versa, you can dig on these little mounds of dirt you will find in various grottos to find worms. I hope I didn't just ruin too much.

Part of it, I think, is just that the wii controls on that game were never all that good either.

Things like aiming the Hero's bow and such can be increasingly difficult due to the lack of the usual joystick. Even a slight motion can offset the balance of the Wiimote and throw off your aim and get you thrown off a cliff. It you are a spaz/klutz, it gets worse. I am also used to an inverted Y axis. I'm not sure how that will throw off the Wiimote, though I'm sure it will somehow. Wii is just not suited very well for Twilight Princess.

Personally I really liked the wii controls on twilight princess.

I've never actually played Twilight on a wii. It just seems kinda shakey. I mean if your dog bursts into your room, knocks you over disrupting an important final arrow shot against the hardest boss you will face, you fall over or stumble, your shot misses, you get hit and die. Well it could happen. The controls do not seem real bad though, it looks like using the 2 part of the controls together can simplify everything instead of needing to have superior hand-eye coordination

And if your dog bursts into the room when you have, say, a Gamecube controller in your hand, you'll still be able to play perfectly even as you're falling to the floor?

I personally found the Wii remote faster and more precise to aim arrows and stuff with than a thumbstick on any other controller, since you can just aim it at your target and shoot rather than having to nudge the thumbstick in whatever direction until the target lines up properly. And you can always just z-target anyway, so aiming in the middle of a battle isn't that big of a deal, either with the Wiimote or another controller.

The only things I really didn't like about the Wii controls on TP were shield thrusts (it sometimes did spin attacks no matter how I thrusted the nunchuk) and flying (where you aim in the direction you want to fly, such as the carnival game with the fruit; I kept accidentally moving the cursor off the screen, which just made it center back out and crash into something). Other than that I liked the Wii controls because they were more intuitive than button presses, so I felt more like I was in the game.

Coindicentally no actually that would not disrupt my aim, at least not in my room. I have plenty of things to catch myself on. I would most likely be sitting or standing when playing the Wii, where I can just lay on my bed and play with the Gamecube. And I also have done enough things like what I mentioned earlier, that falling you not severely disrupt my aim. Yes, the aiming on the Wii is a little easier except when things are not on the edge of the screen since you do not need to be as precise with the Wiimote. A joystick, I find takes more skill to aim than the Wiimote since with the small distance within the little pocket that the joystick is in, more precise movements can be made.