Fish (and other items from fishing) cannot be caught with a fishing rod

Could this be related to the recent trigger changes

• fishing_rod_hooked - entity

and/or misc player trigger syntax changes? The patchnotes say the old syntax should still work, but may not have been tested in all instances.

I got this stack trace on the server, hope it helps

[12:59:02] [Server thread/FATAL]: Error executing task on Server                                                        java.lang.NullPointerException: null                                                                                            at be.b(SourceFile:183) ~[server.jar:?]                                                                                 at bi.a(SourceFile:32) ~[server.jar:?]                                                                                  at bdo.b(SourceFile:478) ~[server.jar:?]                                                                                at biv.a(SourceFile:23) ~[server.jar:?]                                                                                 at bjh.a(SourceFile:212) ~[server.jar:?]                                                                                at yv.a(SourceFile:273) ~[server.jar:?]                                                                                 at zl.a(SourceFile:1000) ~[server.jar:?]                                                                                at sp.a(SourceFile:31) ~[server.jar:?]                                                                                  at sp.a(SourceFile:9) ~[server.jar:?]                                                                                   at nh.a(SourceFile:21) ~[server.jar:?]                                                                                  at uo.run(SourceFile:18) ~[server.jar:?]                                                                                at alu.c(SourceFile:144) [server.jar:?]                                                                                 at aly.c(SourceFile:23) [server.jar:?]                                                                                  at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.b(SourceFile:789) [server.jar:?]                                                at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.c(SourceFile:159) [server.jar:?]                                                at alu.w(SourceFile:118) [server.jar:?]                                                                                 at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.bc(SourceFile:771) [server.jar:?]                                               at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.w(SourceFile:765) [server.jar:?]                                                at alu.c(SourceFile:127) [server.jar:?]                                                                                 at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.v(SourceFile:750) [server.jar:?]                                                at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(SourceFile:702) [server.jar:?]                                              at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) [?:1.8.0_241]

Yeah this is happening for me too, and I would really like it to be fixed; fishing is one of my favorite things to do

I have this issue too. Right clicking when the bobber goes down to indicate a bite does nothing. After the catch is missed, right clicking returns the bobber to the player.

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Resolution of this issue says "Fixed", However I just noticed i am having this exact problem in 1.16.4.
I'm not sure if it was fixed in earlier versions, and became an issue again in 1.16.4 or if it hasn't been fixed yet.
I am able to catch things like bows, enchanted books, and i'm not sure what else. But i am unable to catch fish, or any common drop as 95% of my catches result with nothing.

If you get nothing, you probably fished wrong. Also note that it's a probability thing, so even if you get no fish 100 times in a row, it might just be very bad luck.

I've tried reeling in the fishing rod as soon as the fish particles reach the floater, and reeling in after when it is under water, and reeling in after it bobs back up. If it's a timing issue on my end I would say the time frame where i would catch something is too short. I've fished before i do know how it works.

It might be a unique problem, but i am responding to this thread because it most accurately describes my problem. So i assumed it hadn't been fixed yet.

I might try making a brand new world, without datapacks, optifine, or texturepacks but these things shouldn't affect fishing.

Datapacks and mods definitely invalidate bug reports (or version reports).