At level 49 fishing, I've spent 36 bait before I got 1 level. Now at 50. I must be doing something wrong. How can I level a bit faster. At this rate will take over 1,000 casts before I hit 80. lol
get producer exp elsewhere, gather craft . . . . once yu have a good sized pool use a option of Guidance then fish . Once oyu can unlock the special skills lock base skil and start each subskill. Once oyu have them GMN go back and use points to GM the base skill
Press the K key and then select the Crafting tab. The number at the bottom right is your crafting pool. If your pool is really small, skills go up slower. If it is really small, I recommend you turn all crafting skill to off, and start saving up crafting xp. Of note, quests that give XP give both Adventure AND Crafting XP. All 3 of the Outskirts areas give XP if you do all the quests there.