Fishing RNG... Really!?

[Garlyle]

I know people here are saying that if you have enough gathering to fish the hole thats enough, but I am still not convinced that this is true, it seems like people are just speculating this). I did increase my gathering some and I have noticed now when I fish for the boar skin maps I now catch them within 5 casts, before it would be 20 or more. Happy fishing.

I'll argue the opposite - nothing to date has suggested in any way that gathering has any impact on what fish are attempted to be landed, just on whether the catch is successful, and your case is just speculation. Sitting at upwards of 350 gathering for a while now I've had a variety of timings involved in how many casts any given map requires - and there's a great deal of other factors (Availability of other fish in the pool, bait, etc).

Not that raising your gathering's a bad idea, if not solely to ensure that when it does show up you don't miss it. And hey, do it now and you don't have to do it later.

Titanic's just known to have taken quite a while for some people - one FC friend of mine has probably been to the open window about 30 times now and still hasn't had it show up. Everyone's got a different fish that just refuses to show (looking at you ninja betta)