Hunting in Area 4 doesn't progress past the searching stage

Also I can't seem to fail even though I was failing at the lvl 50 spot all the way to level 91

I can't fail on fish either but I expected that because of the overlevel. Fish seemed to hit 100% success rate much quicker than hunting, so I guess it's an intended mechanic in my case. Too bad I've never been able to fail for exp on the new content though :p