So I haven't been able to get the forced fish spawn to work for me consistently, the bugs on the other hand have worked great. I've tried all of the following:
- Clearing all the present fish by fishing (both catching and intentionally pulling away too fast)
- Clearing all the present fish by running
- Clearing all the present fish by fishing & running (alternating)
- Resetting my internet settings + resetting my router
- Rebooting to payload / hard powering off and doing the CFW boot process
- Deleting the ACNH Poker folder and trying again from scratch
- Changing the date to both a time the fish would be available and a time they would not
- Resetting all the fish before and after selection in the program (I selected them again after the latter)
- Selecting a random fish and leaving the checkbox white/in the "middle"
- Clicking through a random fish to select and then unselect
- Genning items during the process
- Hitting "Update" next to my IP
- Using bait
- Leaving everything unchecked (fish continued to spawn normally)
- Selecting everything and unselecting
The only time I was successful was when I used bait, but each time after using it 5-6 times it would stop working and no more fish would spawn.
Each time I tried something different I completely turned off my game, changed the date forward, and tried a fresh copy of the program. I'm on the newest version of everything (just haven't touched the wedding event files yet).
I tried it with the ribbon eel, great white shark, and hammerhead shark for the ocean, and for the gar, arapaima, and arowana for the river. I've tried both sets at once, individually, and individually by each fish. Please let me know if I'm overlooking something simple because I likely am LOL
Pm your discord it shouldn’t be this hard lol