[Fishing] I thought I was supposed to get BETTER at fishing?

[Basara]

I'm at 117.9 skill

Recent run to the Underworld for a backpack full of fish (normally I bring my beetle but I was just looking for a couple specific fish).

34 Dungeon Fish
1 each, mud puppy & red herring (19 & 66 stone)
2 mess of small fish
TEN pairs of footwear.

48 items fished up, and approximately 1/3 of them weren't usable fish. Hell, over 20% were Footwear (at least the small fish and fish steaks from the two big fish have SOME use).

 

[vvvaaannn]

IMHO skill level has ZERO effect on anything other than the rate at which you catch rare/legendary fish. For fun I ran a test of my 120 fisher on a regular shard vs. a 100 fisher on TC. Admittedly the sample size was too small to make a definative conclusion (only about 1000 casts on each tracked), but the data seemed to clearly point to the conclusion that skill level >100 has no effect on the rate of what you catch other than the special fish, (i.e. you catch as many boots and small fish at 120 as at 100). I remember that Mark_Mythic at one time indicated that "they may look at changing it so a 120 gets less/no footware", but clearly that has never been implimented.