So I go out in my khyek, drop anchor and cast a line. I understand that after hooking a fish I am supposed to right click, then QER as indicated. After a bit of QERing, the fish get away. What am I missing in landing the fish???
The rarity level of the fishing rod might also affect that sometimes. I find that I was not able to reeling any tier V fishes and some of tier IV ones with the regular fishing rod (white) even if I pressed everything correctly, some IVs are alright though.
Do they sell better fishing rods (rare, epic etc) and do they provide faster fishing or a chance at better catch or maybe both?
After getting the purple rod, I can fished the tier V ones easily so I think a purple rod makes it easier to 'reel in' the purple and some blue fishes. If you wanna increase the chance that a rarer fish will 'bite your bait'/appear, Krills are what you're looking for as stated by @kvet.
The tooltip for the purple rod says that it reels in 50% faster. While it doesn't seem quite that fast, I *do* know I haven't missed a single fish with the new rod and I used to miss about 1/5 IV and 1/3 V before it, so it definitely helps.
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not unless you like doing that. There is no game benefit.