Help! Chip is only giving me generic prizes in fishing tourney...

[Baboom]

I gave him three fish in different sizes at 9:05 this morning and all he'd give me was boring items like "blue vase" or "green table" For the third fish I reset a few times but still only got rubbish and nothing from the "fish" range!

Do you have to beat an actual villagers record to get something special do you know or should I keep on resetting? Don't want to waste my time!

Thanks!

 

[Annemalcrossing]

Yeah not sure what is up with that, happened to me too. I got a cheese wall..party wall...and I was like...oh thanks, because I can't get that at the Emporium. Lol.

He eventually gave me a crab clock, fish lamp and something else, but that was it

 

[Twilight Sparkle]

You have to pass the current villager record

 

[Baboom]

You have to pass the current villager record

I passed Eugene's record and still I only got a kitchen tile! Then I gave him my Whale Shark I had stored in the top floor of my museum and finally he gives me a Dab Table!

Chip is a jerk! Nat is much more generous with his prizes during the bug-off and he doesn't rudely eat your catch in front of you like Chip!

 

[insaneluzer]

Hm... not sure about this, but for the Bug-off you also had to beat a villager's record first, didn't you?

 

[Adelee]

Hm... not sure about this, but for the Bug-off you also had to beat a villager's record first, didn't you?

You had to beat 80 points or something to get a piece of the bug furniture. From my experience as of today, its random when he gives you furniture. So its either a fish piece or a normal piece. Can anyone else confirm this?

 

[JellyBeans]

I've gotten some generic prize, and a crab clock...

 

[Baboom]

You had to beat 80 points or something to get a piece of the bug furniture. From my experience as of today, its random when he gives you furniture. So its either a fish piece or a normal piece. Can anyone else confirm this?

I'm thinking maybe it's random but you stand a higher chance with a shark. I got a Fish Lamp through giving him a Whale Shark, reset without saving and got a Dab Table. My friend gave him a Whale Shark and he just gave her a guitar...

 

[CrankyCupcake]

I started with a seahorse and ended with a whale shark. What did I get for the trouble? 3 dab tables, 3 crab clocks, 2 pop marine floors, football fish lamp, sea anemone bed, blue table, ranch chair, and at least 10 other generic furniture items that I sold immediately. Very frustrating.

 

[Pimmy]

Okay, so I caught like 15 sea bass of steadily increasing sizes, and I noticed something. I was getting nothing but random furniture... But! The moment I hit a "pretty big" size for the bass, I got a fish furniture EVERY time!

 

[aetherene]

Okay, so I caught like 15 sea bass of steadily increasing sizes, and I noticed something. I was getting nothing but random furniture... But! The moment I hit a "pretty big" size for the bass, I got a fish furniture EVERY time!

I'm having this issue right now. So far, I've only gotten a Marine Pop Wall, Jellyfish lamp, and a flounder table and a bunch of generic items.

But like you said, I noticed a couple of fish that I submitted were considered big and was given a piece of the fish furniture. I guess I better go get fishing...

 

[Rio_]

Confirming that you need to beat the record with a fish that's considered big for it's species!

 

[FireNinja1]

Okay, so I caught like 15 sea bass of steadily increasing sizes, and I noticed something. I was getting nothing but random furniture... But! The moment I hit a "pretty big" size for the bass, I got a fish furniture EVERY time!

I got a puffer-fish TV from an 8.7 in. crucian carp. I think it's by size, not by rarity.

 

[TheDuke]

I didn't get my first fish set until as other people said got the large for its kind remark.

 

[aetherene]

Yeah, I think the fish has to be bigger than the average size. So now I'm using this:

http://acwiki3ds.wikispaces.com/Fish

It lists all of the average sizes of the fish. Now I'm trying to catch and keep fish that is larger than the average.

 

[Offbrand Noodle]

it's size, i turned in over 50 fish today, got like 20 pieces of fish furniture

 

[NuttyS]

Chip is a jerk! Nat is much more generous with his prizes during the bug-off and he doesn't rudely eat your catch in front of you like Chip!

Not in my games lol. Nat is the jerk in mine and Chip is awesome! Nearly didn't get all the bug stuff (although I did miss a week as the game didn't arrive in time), but the first fishing tourney and I'm only missing 1 item of the set!

 

[Unidentified Floor Orange]

I prefer Chip. At least you know what to turn in and what not to turn in. I mean with Nat, you know not to turn in bugs that are small for their species or bugs that are really common, but there's no way to tell luster (at least to my knowledge). So it's frustrating if you want to get above the 80 point mark but not completely blow it out of the water (and make it harder to obtain more bug furniture).

So far I've got an octopus chair and puffer fish TV. Thank you crucian carp, you finally served a purpose other than annoying me when I'm trying to complete my encyclopedia lol

 

[NuttyS]

Thank you crucian carp, you finally served a purpose other than annoying me when I'm trying to complete my encyclopedia lol

Today was the first day I was HAPPY to catch sea bass.

 

[SageJ]

When I took him my fish he said I was the first one to submit fish and I had the highest score. I got an exotic wall and something else I can't remember. Then he gave me the Crab Clock.