I've just uploaded a patch for the Third Edition. You can get it with this link:
http://www.pishtech.com/rwffu110.zip
Download and follow the instructions in the included readme.txt file.
Note: This update ONLY works with the full Third Edition (not with the demo version or older editions of the game.)
If some of you would like to give it a try, I'd appreciate some testing. It contains a fix for the line stripping issue (which actually happened when the fly was bumping on the bottom) and the absense of crappie. You should be able to find crappie in Barron Pond, and confirm that line doesn't strip out no matter how much your fly drags on the bottom.
Also, just for fun, the update includes a tweak requested by Pitti: If you create a file in the game folder called rodcolor.txt and put in one line of text with a hex color code, the rod will appear in that color. If you don't have an image tool that can produce hex codes for colors, you can find plenty of hex color codes on-line. Here's a site with a bunch of them:
http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/refe ... lor_codes/
Please let me know how the update goes for you. If it seems to work smoothly I'll add the link to the downloads page.
Thanks, and happy fishing!
Paul