What others have said, play the game the way you want. There’s no “wrong answers” and any online guides for the game will mostly be about optimising all the fun out of the game, so I wouldn’t recommend looking things up and just experimenting instead, only look things up if you’re really stuck.
I will say though that the fishing minigame is actually fun. It’s just presented initially in a poor way. Go to the fishing shop and buy the training rod, it removes all the frustration from having a low fishing skill, and swap away from it once you’re ready. Of course, if you still don’t enjoy the fishing minigame, you don’t have to play it, it’s just that I find a lot of people hate it because it leaves a bad first impression, but is actually quite fun later in the game.
What others have said, play the game the way you want. There’s no “wrong answers” and any online guides for the game will mostly be about optimising all the fun out of the game, so I wouldn’t recommend looking things up and just experimenting instead, only look things up if you’re really stuck.
I will say though that the fishing minigame is actually fun.
It’s just presented initially in a poor way. Go to the fishing shop and buy the training rod, it removes all the frustration from having a low fishing skill, and swap away from it once you’re ready. Of course, if you still don’t enjoy the fishing minigame, you don’t have to play it, it’s just that I find a lot of people hate it because it leaves a bad first impression, but is actually quite fun later in the game.