Solution to World Fisherman

In this puzzle, you're tasked with catching the five Legendary Fish. However, we have no clue how to go about doing it — so we must start by catching normal fish. The rules for catching normal fish are described in the solution for Catch and Release.

As we catch fish, we may notice that the plaque for each fish also has a sticky note with a word on it. Reading the notes sequentially for each pool yields an instruction. Performing that instruction and then fishing at that pool will yield the Legendary Fish for that location.

Message:

Send five teammates to the "Under the Dock" area beneath the Sailing Pavilion. Then have a sixth teammate fish to catch the legendary, Rock Smobster.

Message:

Change your hair color to lemon chiffon (#FFFACD), then fish to catch the legendary, Silver Swordfish.

Message:

"Shabby pokemon" refers to Feebas (#349), a famously difficult Pokémon to catch. Enter "349349" into the nearby Minerva cluster, then fish to catch the legendary, Kyogre.

Message:

Cast your line, type "serendipity" on your keyboard, and then reel it in to catch the legendary, Queen Cakefish.

Message:

Upon submitting "OTHERWORLDLY FISH" to the Hunt website, teams received the instructions: Draw us a fish and send it to us as a PNG image. After teams emailed us a fish drawing, we would then get back to them with the following email:

Dear [team name],

Thank you for your fish drawing! We're not sure what prompted you to send us this, but Cameron's a huge fan nonetheless. He put it up on our bulletin board for the whole lab to see.

Also—our instruments have sensed that something has changed in ⊥IW. Perhaps if you're really patient, you can catch a glimpse of something special.

Best,
Robin
        

After receiving the email, simply cast your line, wait 15 seconds, and then reel in, to catch the legendary, Otherworldly Fish. Its graphic will match the image that teams sent us.

Once you've caught all five Legendary Fish, you'll automatically complete the field goal, obtaining the answer O'DONOGHUE'S.

Author’s Notes

In the words of Yoko Taro, JRPG needs fishing, so we had to put a fishing puzzle in somewhere. A video game just doesn't feel quite right without fishing, does it?

I got a lot of interest in fish drawings, and many Trendsetters submitted doodles! I was originally hoping to have an "MSPaint"-style round, and teams would submit their drawing as the legendary for that round, but the fishing portion was already a little long (even spread across two achievements), so it got cut.

Here are some of the other Trendsetters' drawings:

Some of our favorite drawings that we received from participating teams:

Pearl Readability

Gawey Traitors

Spore Giant

Team Chaos

TTFKATFKATFKATTBNL

Left as an Exercise for the Reader

Palindrome

Wafflehaüs

Puzzkill

Immoral, Illegal, and Fattening

We Can't Hear You You're On Mute

An Attempt Was Made

Monkey-Fighting Snakes on a Monday-to-Friday Plane

Team Left Out

Libra Complexity

🚀🚀🚀

Non-Abelian Rage Theory

🅱️uzzle Idiots

Finally, a huge THANK YOU to the amazing artists who contributed fish!