I fully agree fishing is annoying af yet you have to go through that pain with every new character.
the biggest Problem is see with fishing especially now that i entered HM in my Master world is surviving to have the time to fish.
with enemy Spawns that can even move through walls not even building cages in the respective fishing biome makes me survive longer in addition to having to wear the fishing gear in the primary Slot which will cost you alot of defense including the fishing accessories taking up multiple accessory Slots if you missing 1 Vital Part to tinker them together.
either make fishing more interactive&fun and less deadly or give us other ways to get these items.
i mean i had to literally fish 6 hours straight one day for just getting water walking boots because in my world none of the Water Chests contained them
and if that wasn't already annoying enough i had to do the same for Anklet of the Winds and Ice Skates because again not one of their respective Chest contained them.
oh and having 2 fully corrupted oceans ontop of "jungle gets rekt" right after beating WoF makes fishing for certain quests even more annoying.
and as a final let down is when you successfully finished a tough quest in Master HM and the Angler rewards you with some frickin useless vanity that doesn't even sell well...
honestly at this stage we should have an angler vodoo doll that we throw into the lava instead a vodoo doll of our helpful buddy the guide...
I too built his housing over a pool of lava put actuators on the floor blocks and everytime he gives me crap as reward i flip the switch and send him bathing