I have posted a bug report already, however, I wanted others to know that fishing lures do not appear to be working, at least, Thousandbite Piranha lures do not. I will be testing Temporal Dragonhead lure next.
While in fresh water, at 110 fishing, with a Thousandbite Piranha lure used (buff showing), I attempted 100 fishing casts. Over 100 catches, I received only 17 Thousandbite Piranhas. I received an equivalent (17) number of Temporal Dragonhead fish in the same 100 casts.
Please look forward to an update when I am done using a Temporal Dragonhead lure.
Similar results with the Temporal Dragonhead. With ~100 casts of the fishing rod in fresh water, with 110 fishing, I received 25 Temporal Dragonhead fish and 20 Thousandbite Piranhas, and 26 Scalebelly Mackerel.
These results show that, on average, you receive about an equivalent amount of common fish with a lure. I would expect a Lure to provide me noticeably more of the type of fish I have a lure for.
That’s what lures actually did in other expansions, so I felt quite bamboozled when I realized the other day that I don’t get any fish from the lure.
I have found that SOME types of lures can be applied to a fishing pole while it is still in my bags - and some cannot. It’s also VERY annoying that the fishing pole does not appear anywhere in the character screen where all the armor and weapons are shown. There is probably an /unequip command to get the fishing pole back into my bags, but so far, the only way I’ve found to get a special pole back in the bags is to equip a SECOND fishing pole to replace it and make it swap back out. Whoever the developer is who tries to fix this will need to check that Weather Beaten Fishing hats, Day Old Donuts, and Hydrodynamic Fishing Lures and all the other types of lures, baits, fishing buffs work. They will ALSO need to ADD A BOX in the Character’s Equipment view to show where a fishing pole is equipped!! Someone will ALSO need to FIX the display that when I equip a fishing pole, it shows up on my back instead of my axe or bow or other weapon, EVEN WHEN I RE-EQUIP MY WEAPONS! I actually have to LOG OUT and BACK IN to fix the display to show my weapons on me! /reload ui did NOT fix the displayed items. Pretty much everything about the fishing poles, their lures, their equipping or unequipping, and displaying poles versus weapons, is ALL bollixed up in Dragonflight. A HUGE mess of repairs is needed and then it would be nice to see a complete notification of all those fishing pole/lure/equipment display repairs carefully described in this forum and also mentioned in the BlizzardCS twitter feed and also under maintenance changes with whatever patch number they get applied to. Meanwhile, I’m going to stock up on some Day Old Donuts because they at least seem to work. My Weather Beaten Fishing hat doesn’t. And I have not yet tested ANY of the specific-fish lures in the Draenor zone, but I expect they’re likely also messed up.
You can use the Leatrix Plus addon to fix this annoyance for good.
The fishing pole is “equipped” in the Fishing Journal (press K for Professions window and it’s in there in the Fishing section). To unequip it, you can click on the fishing pole in the Fishing Journal and drag it into a bag.
If you have a fishing pole equipped into the Fishing Journal (top right corner of the Journal) and the hat equipped to your character, you can right click on the hat, and then left click on the fishing pole icon in the Journal to apply the buff. At that point, you can even unequip the hat and the buff will remain on the pole until it runs out of time.