Originally posted by Dwarflord:

Lox and serpent trophies aren't super easy to come by. As far as I'm concerned, there are 2 kinds of fishing currently...
1. Fishing for raw fish...most easily done in the meadows with cheap and plentiful bait
2. Jumping through all the hoops to get angler fish to make fish n bread.

Anyone going through all the effort to get top tier bait and fish for angler fish in Mistlands probably has more raw fish than they will ever use.

No, not really, since you don't have to stock up hard at each level. You only need one fish of the required type to make the next bait--but now that requirement has been removed with the latest update. You just need the trophy and regular bait. So I guess all that fishing isn't needed to rise up the fishing progression. 1 fish of each type is all you need for mastery and most of those you can just pick up on shorelines after storms. It's not nearly as hard as it's being made out to be.