Riot55: You know your trade well. I haven't even seriously started fishing and I have a fair idea on which ones I can sell for money and which ones I can just NPC. Mostly through trying out other crafts.

Shiyo: FFXI fishing started similarly like this before stuff like fatigue and such were put in. Now they put it back to how it was but with better animations and less complexity among the bait choices.

Meimei: If you're asking fr33lancr is they fish, their comment suggests they do. They seem to know the biggest problem (in my opinion) with fishing...space. Space needed for bait/lures and space needed for fish caught. I'll admit there are other problems (like the useless GP or cross skills) but catching the fish is currently ok. It can be tweaked to offer better performance as more bait/lure is brought out I think but the catching of the fish is working as intended. It needs patching but it doesn't need a serious patch.