[WovenDarkness]

Gonna put in my two pennies here.

I'm a low level fisher....something like 17 atm IIRC. ...as you can tell, I haven't fished in some time. I've broken poles and lost lures till I was blue in the face and spitting mad....enough so that I've actually logged off the game because I wanted to fish, lost my sabiki rig, and was angry enough (and poor enough) that I didn't wanna take the time to farm up more gil for one. After some cool down time, and some time farming, I headed over to the AH and bought a composite pole, and then I went back to Selbina and bought yet another sabiki rig. While I didn't catch as many fish due to some of the fish being to small for that particular pole, I stopped loosing lures do to line breaks when I accidentally tried to land the fish while it's status bar had a small sliver left..... I found that to be a bonus.

So...FWIW, if your tired of loosing lures/rigs, you might try what worked for me. The only time that I can actually remember loosing a rig with that set-up was when I had to frantically start hitting the "Enter" button on the keyboard while the fish was @ 1/2 stamina because there was a Sea Monk that wasn't happy with me....

As far as the mechanics go, I don't have a clue. I had planned on making a game mechanics post in the off topic area, but I haven't been able to do that yet. ....work does get in the way of fun.

Please accept my humble apologies for running off on what might have been a semi-related tangent.