Live Bait finishes after you bait the fishing hooks and resolve the riverbank encounter. Speak to Yanna outside Coen's house after All Good Things, and complete it before Sacred Covenant. Playing tag and fighting the officer are optional.

Accompany the family

  1. Offer Yanna help on the road outside the house. Follow the siblings toward the river rather than looking for a separate fishing vendor.
  2. Choose whether to play tag. Playing adds one time segment. If you accept, approach Mirto and Lunka and use their interaction prompts to catch them, then resume the walk. Declining continues the trip.
  3. Use Focus at the riverbank. Search the nearby bush for the hidden fishing rods and collect all four.
  4. Place the rods at the four bank markers. Use the rock-and-mud piles beside the water. Check every placement before trying to bait them.
  5. Interact with a rod to set up bait. This spends the quest's main time segment and starts the conversation.
  6. Handle the officer's questions. Avoid sword-icon responses to continue without the duel. Choosing those responses starts the optional fight; the subsequent intervention brings the scene back to dialogue.
Placed rods beside the river with Live Bait and the baiting objective visible; the rods are no longer hidden in this frame.
Placed rods beside the river with Live Bait and the baiting objective visible; the rods are no longer hidden in this frame. · All Things How / Rebel Wolves

Already left to gather herbs?

You can tell Yanna you need herbs for your mother first. PowerPyx records that the siblings may leave while you are away, changing your objective to meeting them by the river. On that route, you rejoin at baiting rather than having to recreate the escort and every rod-placement step.

Follow your current journal objective. Their absence from the road does not by itself mean failure, but the Sacred Covenant deadline still applies. See prologue order before advancing the story.

Stuck at the fishing spot?

On the full escort route, check rod collection first, then the four placements, then the bait interaction. These are separate objectives. On the later-arrival route, do not search for an earlier step already completed by the family.

Read the time prompt before baiting. The recorded cost is one segment, or two with tag, and the quest reward is 250 XP. That reward does not guarantee a particular level or a new skill point in every playthrough.

Coen and the siblings at the riverbank; the officer and dialogue choices are outside this frame.
Coen and the siblings at the riverbank; the officer and dialogue choices are outside this frame. · All Things How / Rebel Wolves

Do you have to beat the officer?

No. The duel is optional, and the intervention can occur after either participant is badly hurt. Do not treat it as a required kill or deliberately damage Coen to reach an invented health threshold.

After the final conversation, check Live Bait in the completed journal. The first ATH account's mandatory-tag and no-fight claims are contradicted by its later walkthrough and PowerPyx. Long-term effects of accepting the offered gift are not established here.