After eventually figuring out what I needed to do spear fishing, I went to the vendor in Gridania and the Bronze Gig is going for 13,000g. When I saw it mentioned online, it was listed as being around 900g. It's particularly annoying because I bought a fishing rod and bait and then started a bunch of fishing quests only to find out there's this mysterious "secondary item" that I need and so had to fail the quests. Now I find I can't even do them again until I get 13,000g when I'm getting about 50-100g off quests right now.

As a secondary question, is there any affordable clothing I can get to improve my fishing at this level in and around Gridania?