That’s with 120 fishing & over 900 luck. This is patently ridiculous for such a hard to obtain/expensive item. That was just the first 10 casts btw. After that we gave up.
The pole was a much longed for holiday gift. The pleasure has now been ruined.
"I'm not sure skill helps with this, or luck, i remember succesfully fishing up a searing weapon using it without fishing skill"
You expected to get items in just 10 casts? It does not have charges so common sense tells you it is not meant for instant gratification.
The lava fishing poles have 50 uses also. After they are used up, it turns into a regular npc bought fishing pole.
First of all, that was just on the first 10 casts. The failure rate will likely be much higher. The previous pole also brought up a lot of junk. Someone on Stratics posted that she used 3 poles and got nothing. This is supposed to be a reward item—any item with a failure rate of 20%-100% does not meet my criteria for a reward item.
The pole does not show uses but after 50 casts, it turns into a plain pole. The lava poles are the original reward, then after some publish (to early for research) it became a hook. It has the same odds of pulling up stuff as the hook does. They work exactly the same. I was curious myself and tried a few.