Rapala Fishing Frenzy 2009 - Walkthrough overview
This game is a fishing simulation in an arcade style, so it's not too realistic. It only has 9 achievements and all of them are quite easy and straight forward to obtain. Some achievements will take some dedication so be prepared for some longer grinds. However, the game is still fun so try to enjoy it while playing it
I will separate this walkthrough in the 2 game modes you need to finish which is tournament and quick fishing challenges.
So, enter your boat and show those fishes who´s the boss
Rapala Fishing Frenzy 2009 - General hints and tips
This game is rather straight forward, but there are a few things that might come in handy
ALL fish can be caught by using the default Lure! Some challenges will require you to use a certain Lure, but basically you can catch all fish with every lure which makes this game really easy. The colour doesn't mater for catching fish, also the depth doesn't mater (just to stay on the safe side, use the default settings).
Basically you don't have to move to finish any challenges. Therefore, you can stay where you started and start fishing right away (especially in later challenges this is crucial since you will need every second). If however you should struggle to find the right fish where you are, move to one of the hotspot locations, those are 100% guaranteed to have the needed fish
Have a good watch on your time. Only use the bonuses that help you reel the fish in faster, every other bonus will lengthen the process to catch it. After some time you will have an eye for the right fishes (if not, those that resist the most are quite often the right fish). If you caught the wrong fish, cut your line rather than spending precious time on them.
After you finished the needed challenge ALWAYS use the remaining time in tournaments to keep fishing. Try to catch many different fish since you will need them for a specific achievement. One of a kind is sufficient
Aim for high scoring fish, this is especially important on higher difficulties. Try to cast your line far away, use attract for extra points and reel in slowly. This way you can get a lot of points out of one single fish and also you get more multipliers the longer it takes.
If you fail an event, all the caught fish will be lost, so make sure to finish them all accordingly.
Rapala Fishing Frenzy 2009 - Story walkthrough
First off we will will create a new character. You can only choose between male or female, can't change names and looks, so it's not much of a choice. However, we will start right off with the tournaments
Tournament Mode
There are 3 different difficulties and you will have to play through every single one to unlock the corresponding achievements and the higher difficulties. The first tournament will be on easy.
Easy
There are a total of 5 different lakes, you have to beat the challenges in the given time. The challenges are as follows:
- Lake Wylie - Catch a striped bass in 15 minutes
- Clear lake - Catch 3 largemouth bass in 15 minutes
- Lake St. Clair - Catch 5 Largemouth bass in 15 minutes only using the shad rap lure
- Lake of the Ozarks - Catch 20lbs of spotted bass in 20 minutes
- Lake Ocheechobee - Catch 5 fish in 17 minutes
Upon completing the last lake, you get an achievement for finishing the easy tournament
Normal
There are a total of 5 different lakes, you have to beat the challenges in the given time. The challenges are as follows:
- Lake St. Clair - Catch 5 smallmouth bass of at least 12" in 20 minutes
- Lake Amistad - Catch 3 4,5 Star Smallmouth bass in 20 minutes
- Lake of the Ozarks - Catch 6 fish in 19 minutes
- Lake Logan Martin - Get 10 000 points in 20 minutes with Largemouth Bass
- Lake Okeechobee - Catch 30lbs fish in 25 minutes
Upon completing the last lake you will unlock an achievement for finishing the normal tournament
Hard
There are a total of 6 different lakes, you have to beat the challenges in the given time. The challenges are as follows:
- Lake Wylie - Catch 35lbs of fish in 25 minutes
- Lake Amistad - Get 12 000 points catching only smallmouth bass in 20 minutes
- Lake of the Ozarks - Catch a 5 star reputation spotted bass in 12 minutes
- Clear Lake - Catch 5 largemouth bass of at least 16" in 20 minutes
- Lake Logan Martin - Get 15 000 points in 25 minutes catching only spotted bass
- Lake Okeechobee - Get 8 Largemouth bass in 24 minutes using only the countdown lure
Upon completing the last lake you will unlock an achievement for finishing the hard tournament
If you used the extra time during each single tournament and caught additional species of fish, you should have the fish connoisseur as well. If not, replay certain lakes for the fishes you still need in tournament mode since this achievement ONLY counts in this game mode.
Fish ConnoisseurCaught at least 15 different fish species while fishing in the Tournaments.
Since we finished the tournament mode, we will now switch to the quick fishing challenges
Quick Fishing Challenges
Choose quick fishing challenges from the main menu. You will have noticed that the fish related achievements are missing. You should have around 20 - 23 of each after you finished the tournament mode. So basically what we do now is, we pick a lake where we can fish for the missing ones and concentrate on catching those for the corresponding achievements. This is really easy and straightforward and shouldn't take longer than 5-7 challenges. You can check your progress in the extras menu.
Now finish 30 in total of those. However, the fastest and in my opinion easiest challenge is on Lake of the Ozarks. Try to get the challenge called catch a 5 star spotted bass. This is extremely easy once you found a hotspot. However, the challenges on this lake are random so basically you can get this out of 3 different ones. Simply quit out and restart if you don't get this one and you should be fine.
Congrats, you successfully finished this game on a full 1000!
Rapala Fishing Frenzy 2009 - Lake List
This is a short list of all the lakes and the fishes you can find in them
Lake Wylie (4 different fish)
- Largemouth Bass
- Stripped Bass
- White Bass
- Roanoke Bass
Clear Lake (4 different fish)
- Largemouth Bass
- Black Crappie
- Brown Trout
- Bluegill Sunfish
Lake St. Clair (6 different fish)
- Largemouth Bass
- Smallmouth Bass
- Brown Bullhead
- Walleye
- White Perch
- Lake Sturgeon
Lake of the Ozarks (5 different fish)
- Largemouth Bass
- Smallmouth Bass
- Striped Bass
- Channel Catfish
- Walleye
Lake Okeechobee (5 different fish)
- Largemouth Bass
- Shoal Bass
- Suwanne Bass
- Black Crappie
- Redear Sunfish
Lake Amistad (5 different fish)
- Largemouth Bass
- Smallmouth Bass
- Striped Bass
- Rainbow Trout
- Crappie
Lake Logan Martin (5 different fish)
- Largemout Bass
- Spotted Bass
- Redeye Bass
- White Perch
- Perch