This has been a well known issue ever since all of these items were added and I think it's time this got addressed.
For the "heavy" fish tasks that Pearl gives you, she accepts any fish above 70% of their weight class. However, there's a major inconsistency with the heavyweight lure that you get from Pearl herself, as this item only attracts fish above 80% of their weight class. This means that a significant portion of all the "heavy" fish that could be given to Pearl straight up don't get attracted to the lure whose entire purpose is to complete that task.
Players might think that using another lure and a pocket scale might fix the issue, as characters will say a line if the fish happens to be "heavy", but the pocket scale also has an incorrect value. A pocket scale will only consider a fish to be "heavy" at above 75% of its weight class. This means a chunk of the fish that Pearl accepts don't even get acknowledged by the item whose entire purpose is to weigh fish. (I'm not sure which value the fish scale-o-matic uses.)
There is obviously a clear problem here, and I don't think this inconsistency is intentional. It seems like there was a miscommunication in the team when deciding what counts as a heavy fish and the issue never got addressed. However, I think this is long overdue for a fix.
1. Try to catch heavy fish for Pearl's heavy fish task
2. Notice how she accepts fish that neither the pocket scale nor the heavyweight lure identify
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