I had all the fish in inventory, self-caught, taxidermied the 4 trophy fish and held all 5 of the “ultimate” fish, and the major trophy. No recipe appeared in the workshop.
My final stab at this furnishing would be if the Mandje Mandje is somehow stealing the barb’s slot in this puzzle and blocking it based on the mistake in the coding. Like, whoever was supposed to make Lava barb code into the trophy accidentally coded it into the Meal.
I’d apply Occam’s Razor here and say they originally intended the Major trophy to require all those fish and the tooltips never got updated, or it is something that isn’t in the game yet and the tooltips were prematurely applied.
I don’t follow your theory of a bug and even trying to decipher what you mean there is more energy than I think this is worth.
I spoke to customer support about this morning, they basically said it was forwarded to their “admin team” and it will be some time for them to respond and that I should find the answer “during gameplay”. Whatever that means.
@Luxendra Will legendary fish and madtoms get updated soon, alongside the animal viscera and animal eye update?
I have updated the spreadsheet with the most accurate information I currently have.
If anybody notices something they believe is incorrect, please let me know! The information used is a combination of what I have seen in-game, read in this thread, and read on NWDB.info.
After scanning forum search results for a while, I’ve come to believe no one submitted these issues as a bug report yet, so I have created a report. Here’s hoping we can get some kind of response from someone soon. 
From what I’ve seen, data mining of the PTR shows no changes to the issues with fish we’ve been discussing. I assume fishing is too low on the priority list. I hope it’s even on the list. 
if the support told you that, is because it can be crafted
its hidden, maybe you need to catch a “expedition backstory” in the water with instructions.
Amazon support is not a reliable source for information about in-game systems. They are not part of AGS and are known to tell you whatever you need to hear to feel better.
I do not believe is just a secret recipe. The other secret recipes and the things they create have been found by data miners. The odds that all the data miners just didn’t notice an extra trophy and secret recipe is minuscule.
Very nice read. Thank you for clearing that up and giving more information to AGS to fix the mixups.
1.1 patch notes: exists
Me: Patch notes for 1.1 has a section on fishing! 
1.1 patch notes: 
Me: 
it is very important, i have a big problems with that. Now i can again sleep and eat normally.
But still no coins from the chests =-(
P.S. Little fisherman lvl 200
I reported that one back in alpha. It takes them a while…
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Its waste this legendary fishes its hard to get, the cost for create food is to much… how much will cost a food for example +40dex (fried albenaja) and who will buy it? So devs make balance it…
I’ve been seeing lots of posts about the new fishing skin Twitch drop, so I went and got it. I like it, but I’m confused why it was given away now, when so many problems with fish still haven’t even been acknowledged. The skin feels like bait, getting more people excited for a dead profession with useless legendaries.
in general fishing seems to be broken - since the november update i dont catch any usefull legendary fish like the gnufish but cosmetic fish light the guardfish.
thre was no mandje mandje , noch gnufish , no albenaja or abaia serpe .
so there must be something gone realy wrong if i dont catch any crafting fish after 2 days of secret hot spot camping since the patch went live.
oh yeah i got 3 major trophys in my houses but i feels like there is no impact - feels more like having less luck fishing -
by the way shouldnt there be a buff of the fishing chests loot or did i miss something ?
This must be super low on their priority list.
Regretting grinding to 200 fishing
@TheWasabi That’s what I think too, it’s probably just not a priority. I have a feeling that fishing would have been a very lucrative profession if gold hadn’t been removed from chests. I catch tons of them.
@Dauru I went and caught some fish to see if any had been removed from the possible catches and decided to record my catches, out of curiosity. I had no trouble catching Guardfish and Gnufish. I play on one of the smallest population servers in my region and the entire map is owned by my faction, so I have been PvP flagged since the update, even while fishing. I do not know if this has had an effect, but I am seeing similar results to before the patch, possibly more chests and legendaries than before. It’s a small sample size, but take what you will from it.
For reference, here are things I use to improve my odds of catching rares & legendaries:
Fishing level: 200
Bait used: Glowworm/Firefly
Hat: Lucky Waters 2
Shirt: Lucky Waters 3
Gloves: Lucky Waters 3
Pants: Lucky Waters 3
Boots: Lucky Waters 3
Pole: Lucky Day 3, Lucky Night 3
Trophies: Basic x1
my fishing level is 198 always using firefly or glowworm as bait
i got 3 major trophys - lucky day/night 3 pole - on 4 of my 5 equiptment slots is lucky waters 3 (still need epic hat) as well as collosus 3 on 3 of the items
i just keep catchting blue chests (almost 400 in 4 days )
sometimes i get a oyster or a sculpin and some guardfish
but gnufisch is like 2-3 in 4 days
oh yeah and since i can fish in shatterd mountains there was only 1 lava barb !