Sometimes while im fishing the fishing bobber (i dont know what its called sorry :c) will start floating out of the water.
All you have to do to encounter the glitch is to fish normally.
MC-13139
Fishing Issues
Resolved
Duplicate
0
jamie
(Unassigned)
Unconfirmed
Minecraft 1.5.1
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