New player question

[Wanderlust]

Oh, I had another question. I remember reading somewhere during my research someone said to be SURE and level MIN and BOT up first, before taking on fishing. I don't remember why, they said something about how hard and boring it would be to level up FSH without having done MIN and BOT first. But I don't recall why. Any idea what they were talking about, and is this a consensus view?

EDIT: I found the post. The comment was that Fishing for "red scrips" is ridiculously slow and boring and much easier to do with MIN and BOT. Does this make sense?