A: OK, time for some explanation about fishing rods:

The spear-fishing facility and the fishing rods work only with my new-
added water creatures; in fact, all code is attached to the creature.

So, if you are using other mods containing the same Cait's creatures
(Wilderness 2, Morrowind4Fish, Cait's Sea and so on), these features
will not work with creatures added by other mods.

You can easily recognize a creature added from my mod switching to 3d
person view, opening the game console and clicking on the creature: the
console window title will show the creature name; my creatures have the
ab01 prefix.

Anyway, if you are trying to use a fishing rod with the right creature
( a fish introduced by my mod), you should see explanation message
telling you if you are acting the right way.

So, if you don't have any crab meat bait, a message should tell you that
you need it to go fishing and so on. If no messages appear, it's
probably the wrong fish (not a small enough fish of my mod, or not a
fish of my mod at all).


Q: I have a last question for you: when will the message box "Pearl Fish
gathered from caught fish" will display ? (what difference with "Pearl
Fish gathered"?)

A: "x Fish gathered from caught fish" = gathered using fishing rod. "x
Fish gathered" = standard gathered with autoloot on "You got it with the
spear!" = gathered with the spear (randomly acquired ingredient not
specified)

Q:But I wonder how many time should the player use the rod (clicking the
mouse) to catch a fish? Of course I can catch fishes easily, but I click
many times with the mouse for that... if the message "a good throw"
appears, does it mean that I have to wait the fish approaches, or do I
have to click a few times (to make the fish come closer and to catch
it)?

A: You should study the fish; if it's coming closer, wait without more
clicking until you see the "it's near!" message (you could have multiple
message if there are many fishes), then start clicking again near the
fish

Q: When the fishes are close, it's easy to hit them with the rod...
should the player try to avoid that? is it the normal way for fishing or
shall I use the rod (one single click) and wait till the fish is
gathered?

A:It's better if you click near the fish, but there is no real problem
if you hit it, apart some possible unavoidable "critical hit" message.
There is not a "click count" for catching a fish. It depends on your
position relative to the fish, on the presence of other fishes, on the
fish AI, on randomization, on your (fishing academy compatible, + 0.2
for every caught fish) fishskill, on your PC luck... The more you fish
( = the higher your fishskill), the less clicks should be needed, but
relative positioning and other factors count