I agree that the Lucis rod is stupid. Either Ironworks rod should be buffed up a bit or perhaps be upgrade-able in the future.

Also I think the datamined adamantoise mount could be a cool and fitting reward for fishing up all big fishes in the latter half of the patch. Let's say they were to add big fishes to make it into total of 130 big fishes, which you'd have to collect all to get the mount.

Who knows, one can only dream.