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    Old Betsy not unlocking after completing Fishing challenges

    I completed the Fishing challenges, the one where you have to catch the fish over the state record weight, but even after an hour of game time waiting, I cannot get the Old Betsy fishing rod to unlock.
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    Ubi-Bandicoot's Avatar Ubisoft Support Staff
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    Originally Posted by Machini5t Go to original post
    I completed the Fishing challenges, the one where you have to catch the fish over the state record weight, but even after an hour of game time waiting, I cannot get the Old Betsy fishing rod to unlock.
    Hey,

    Just to check, have you broken all of the fishing records or just one of the state records? Could you get some images or footage showing which records you have broken so we can verify if the requirements have been met to unlock Old Betsy?

    Thanks
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    Old Betsy

    I have the same issue. The first time through the game, after beating ALL of the fishing records, Old Betsy unlocked after I closed the game and restarted. I got a red box on the upper left of the screen stating that I had unlocked a Ubisoft something or other.

    The second time through the game, I marked off the fishing records on a printout of the records to make sure that I didn't miss one. After doing all of the records Old Betsy has not unlocked.
    I did note that on a few of the fish, when caught, there was a note stating that a record had been caught.

    Does the record rise if a player has caught a bigger fish in a previous game?

    Also, the fishing action has changed. When fly fishing the retrieve is much slower now, unless I hold down the right mouse button. Was this change intentional?
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    UbiMorning's Avatar Community Representative
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    Hey guys! You may want to try these Xbox steps to see if Old Betsy will appear. If it has not unlocked after those steps, please provide screenshots of your completed records and submit a ticket with them attached. Thanks for the update!
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    Sorry for the late response.
    I had completed the game with nearly all the quests done and I was looking for 100% completion after the main story when I went to chase down the 4th fishing pole.
    Out of frustration with not getting 100% completion of the game quests, I started the game over for a second time and I went to complete Old Betsy before most other quests but this time it was unlocked for me when I was done.

    Now working on the 5th play through and aiming for 100% completion, I always get Old Betsy done very early.
    Sorry for lack of screenshots of the Blue Ribbons at Falls End bar and lack of screenshot for the Old Betsy not unlocked in the menu, I just moved on. but no issues with this now since I get the pole early for each play through.
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    Thanks for sharing this information Machini5t!
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    Betsy

    I'm in the same boat. No betsy.. I'm no where near completion of game but I know I've beat all the hardest fishing spots and weights. In total I've caught 1663 fish. Ah Ha.I just figured it out!! You have to catch certain fish multiple times in different hard locations. The rainbow trout just unlocked it next to Rae's pumpkin farm. That makes 549rainbow and 1671 total. Hope it helps others too.
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    Thanks for the update Darkmatter! We're glad you were able to figure it out
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    I'm having the same issue as you... :(

    I have just visited Hope County Jail, Fall's End and Wolf's Den and I have blue ribbons on all fishes as I have catched all hard fishes along with beating the old records.
    I have restarted the game, but I only have the basic rod. All other rods are gone.
    I even made sure to login to ubisoft Club with third-party cookies enabled, then login to Uplay and started the game from there. Still no rod. I'm now on my third day to try to view the Old Betsy but there's a bug somewhere preventing me from getting this rod. What shall I do to see it?
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    It is not automatically equipped. One has to go to a gun shop and look for prestige "weapons". There it is. Ie. found it.
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