You're not making it easy to help you if you're just going to ignore the advice given/question asked.
My problem was not with which rod to use, but rather, why I was receiving "you didn't catch anything" messages in a spot which landed me 10 fish (when I was within that limitation) within 15 minutes 24 hours previously.

Is the character perhaps less than 2 weeks old?
Aside from the level 20, this is another thing that will activate the restrictive restriction.
The character is less than two weeks old as I have read that is one of the restrictions placed upon a character as far as fishing fatigue; however, from what I understood it was one OR the other, with the other being a character less than level 20. Is the level restriction irrelevant to fishing fatigue?? Is it solely whether or not your character is less than two weeks old?? Do you have to have both??