Continuing their journey to Nimbasa City, Ash and the gang decide to
stop in town. They notice Bianca is running around and she crashes into
Ash, throwing him into the water channel. While Ash is drying his
clothes, Bianca shows a poster announcing a fishing contest for which
the prize is a golden fishing rod. Cilan loses control of himself, and
announces that he is a Fishing connoisseur and they all decide to enter
the contest, unknowingly being staged by Team Rocket. They sign up in
Castelia City and are issued their Fishing Balls and are told to choose
their fishing rods, but Cilan has brought his own and he helped Bianca
choose one for beginners level. They begin to fish, but Bianca does not
know how to fish. She casts her rod around wildly, eventually hooking
onto Ash's jacket. Cilan decides to give the gang a crash course in
fishing, during which he catches a blue-striped Basculin. He sends
Pansage out to battle it, and after some missed shots, Pansage weakens
the Basculin and allows Cilan to catch it. Iris tries to fish for a
Pokémon, but she gets bored when nothing has taken the bait. She decides
to instead use her hands to catch a Pokémon, and lifts a blue Basculin
out of the water only to receive a yellow card for her actions. Bianca
pulls in a female Frillish which begins to constrict Ash. Bianca scans
Frillish on her Pokédex. Cilan and Iris try to help only to get pulled
into its grip. Ash orders Pikachu to use Thunderbolt on them to free
them. Team Rocket leave only to find that their boat is pushed away. As
everybody realizes that something suspicious is going on they reveal
that they are actually Team Rocket. They begin to battle, and when the
want to escape with captured Pokémon, they realize that the same
Frillish has opened them up and freed all of the Pokémon. Emptyhanded,
Team Rocket escapes in their jetpacks. Cilan tries to find the golden
rod only to find it was made out of wood. They part with Bianca and
continue to Nimbasa City.
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