[Lil]

These are all good thoughts. As far as lures and bait and healing go, I believe this release was written a long time before fishing came out. I'm sure these were all ideas that they had but didn't end up using. Maybe they will someday, who knows. I believe I also hear rumors that we could keep fish at pets but that hasn't happened yet either.

"The more fish you catch, the better you get" might just refer to your skill. I'm sure you miss less than you used to and now know the best places to fish. There might have been plans to have fishing EXP that you acrue but that doesn't to be the case now. Also, I don't know why we always talk about bigger rods making things more rare without talking about the possibility of bigger rods intrisically being better at catching certain species because it is a better rod. While I'd think that would make sense, I do agree that it doesn't seem like that is true.

As far as making the first fish harder to catch, yes it is possible for them to do, but not likely. I am a programmer so I know it shouldn't be too hard. However I don't think they'd do that. The goal should be to program it to be as statistically similar to real fishing and that feature wouldn't be very realistic. More likely it is your mind trying too hard to find patterns in your random luck of catches. Humans are good at this, too good.