Think there may be a bug there. On the stream this past week the devs tried to catch one with no success because many have brought up this issue. I haven’t caught one there yet either. Think they will patch this hopefully soon.
Had the same issue on the Gigantica road lake with catching pike in there i tried every lure in game to no success had them following and moving onto the lure as if to hit it i mentioned on here only to be told they are more difficult too catch as there is only a few in the lake. No one acknowledged that it couldve have been a glitch, have you tried the dead baits on a lighter line to see if that works.
Yep that's there attitude to every problem , we have put it in the game and it works fine,no need to bother checking it and see if there is a problem or not. If the player can not catch a spiecies of fish the he is doing some thing wrong,it's not a problem with the game.( which it always is ).