Choose a habitat. Your avatar walks there; it does not teleport.
Walk along one continuous shore. Look for feeding rings, submerged cover and changes in depth. A visible clue helps, but it never guarantees a fish.
Move: use four shoreline direction buttons (hold for continuous movement), or choose a shoreline. Look: drag the lake view. Fishing switches to a first-person rod-and-water view. Cast: tap once to cast at a comfortable standard strength — no long press. Reel: tap once to reel, tap again to stop, and adjust Reel speed. If tension climbs, slow down or stop and reduce drag. The rod bend and line follow the actual simulation.
If a fish takes the lure, set the hook, manage the drag and line tension, and reach for the net only after tiring the fish near shore. Some casts catch nothing. If the line snaps, choose Retie line to attach a new line before casting.
Quiet field recordings, off until you tap Sound. Nature audio varies with your real shoreline habitat. Original country-radio masters are not currently installed; radio remains off. Sound effects are quiet procedural previews triggered only by real fishing actions.
CC0 field recordings: salilnair 524688, TRP 568819, and TheFlyFishingFilmmaker 614299. Edited for volume, length and smooth transitions. Original masters remain in the owner’s Drive archive.
The user test must report “running-webgl2” and 14 of 14 GLBs loaded; 2D practice does not count as 3D acceptance.
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