How to catch fishes, sharks and mainly froggy?

Overview

This guide is about a character Big the cat ONLY.

Let’s start with …

Big the cat has the shortest story mode in Sonic Adventure (DX).

The main goal in every level is to find Froggy.

The controls for a fishing rod:
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MOVING the bait in underwater

CONTROLS:

Arrow Keys or Analog Joystick

EXAMPLE:

LEFT button the rod goes on the RIGHT
RIGHT button the rod goes on the LEFT
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HOLDING the bait in underwater (keeping a hook still for a second)

CONTROLS:

Arrow Keys or Analog Joystick

EXAMPLE:

Hold DOWN
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Pulling the bait SLOWLY

CONTROLS:

Action or Attack button

EXAMPLE:

Action or Attack Button
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Pulling the bait FASTER

CONTROLS:

Jump button

EXAMPLE:

Jump
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STOP fishing (immediately)

CONTROLS:

Camera angle

EXAMPLE:

Two buttons of camera (left & right) If you hold it both of them.

Power Ups

The most important thing is to collect as much as Power Ups as you can as in few levels they become harder at catching Froggy.

You can look all the upgrades here:
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Main part of catching a fish/Froggy

You start fishing by holding the action button and select the area by moving Arrow Key or Analog stick, which direction you want to fish. (underwater of course).
Then release the action button to start fishing.

NOTE: Be sure you are close to the edge and that you throw it in the center of water. Don’t go fishing when you are away from the edge, then you’ll less likely catch a fish or Froggy.
And be sure the fishes/Froggy are not stuck at the wall.

After the bait is deep in the water try to look around by moving camera.
To move the bait is to hold left or right. Left is the right. Right is the left.

Right before you’re about to lure a fish/Froggy into the bait, HOLD the DOWN button (arrow key or analog stick) immediately.

When a fish/Froggy holds on to the bait you press the Action or Jump button to pull.

Watch out the Meter!

Some fishes are hard to catch because there is a thin line when it comes to meter. If you pull too hard the string can break, and you lose the game. So you have to have to be very careful and stop pulling until the meter drops just enough for you to go back at pulling. Unfortunately by then the fish/Froggy could be on the other side of the pool/too distant from you and it’ll take you much longer to catch it.