The most recent patch put a dent in the number of quality fish on the shore.
That said I gave up on caving and went with the p**is map seed that has tetra 5 min from spawn in, and got a stack of 9 T1 tetra without a pole. After 20+ frost caves, I hit a limit on my patience. The land-fish thing let me bypass the @#$% serpent trophy so cheese works for me given the current state of the passtime.

I now am going to mostly fish meadows if I decide for some reason I want to fish or restock my wraps. With grilled bug meat, wraps are starting to fade from my diet though, even as an around the house food. I put stam food aside for etir food so I can use staves, so 2 health 1 eitr now instead of 1 stam, so the angler isn't interesting to me. I do have a T4 one in my hot tub, though.