Armed with three rods with which to catch the river-living victims, Fred runs up and down the river bank in an attempt to reel in the objects pulling on the end of each line (They're not always fish either!). The key to reeling in a rod is to stand one space to the left of the rod rest.

Sounds simple...? You might think so but while you frantically try to reel in your rods - Percy the Pike swims around the screen. Should he hit any of the objects on the lines the object will disappear and you will lose a point. From time to time it will rain (cyan squiggles coming from the cloud) and the sun will go in. When this happens you must position Fred over the "U" on the river bank, and press 'U' on the keyboard to put up your fishing umbrella. Until this task is completed you cannot reel in any of the lines. The game lasts two minutes and you must score as many points as possible in this time.

Z - Left, X - Right, ? - Reels In Line, U - Put Up Fishing Umbrella

Objects on Lines:

BBC Basic is fairly standard. However, it does permit the use of procedures and functions. These are defined using DEFPROC (procedure name), ended with ENDPROC and called using PROC (procedure name). Other BASICs may not have this facility, however, it should be relatively easy to replace these procedures using subroutines.

In the graphics mode 5 the BBC Micros screen size is 20 characters by 32 rows and it may therefore be necessary on some computers to change a number of the PRINT statements.

The BBC Micro uses the SOUND and ENVELOPE commands to create sound effects and these will have to be omitted or replaced with the appropriate commands. One other command peculiar to the BBC Micro is the PRINT TAB command which serves the same purpose as the PRINT AT or PRINT @ commands on other computers.

Tape: CHAIN"" (RETURN) Disc: SHIFT-BREAK