Originally posted by stormbringer_1966:

Early fish not even worth it now!
It takes a lot more effort to find the trader, raid dungeons etc to get the coin to buy the fishing rod and bait than it does to kill a dear, find some blueberry and plant a few carrots. Yet, the fish you catch yield 5 min less time than the Deer stew.. go figure... thought the foods were going to be based on level of difficulty to obtain? sure fish Wraps are the bomb in late game.. and yes i know how to make fish traps np "= time consuming, upside is your swimming skill will rock after you die many times lol" anyhow, hope they fix it.

I use a mod made to parody the fishing problem in Valheim. It's called Fishy Fishy! It's just spam the G key when around fish and they'll magically fly into your inventory while your character does a funny animation with voice over.

It's very good early game food but not good enough to be necessary to spend the time getting it. For fishing to be attractive, I at least expect to have a chance at hooking Odin's ring and the one to rule them all, type of action happening.