I'm pretty sure this isn't exactly a hot take at this point so consider this more of a rant than anything. The only way to improve the bar is by catching legendary or exotic fish. But the abysmal drop rates of legendary fish (much less exotic fish) make it nearly impossible to get a full bar of 'Focused Fishing'. Now you can improve your chances with more people but even if you're lucky enough to get enough people in the same instance to fish, those drop rates mean you better hope RNGesus decides to bless all of you. You could have 5 people fishing at once and not get the bar up one section. Not only are the drop rates terrible, but you also better hope RNGesus blesses you again by not spawning a public event where you're fishing because that means the fishing spot disappears and you have to start all over again! Why public events completely remove the fishing spot and restart you're 'Focused Fishing' bar, I have no idea. All of this is only made worse if you're trying for 'Efficient Angler' but it's bugged. Personally, I am currently sitting at 15 out of 25 fish for 'Efficient Angler' and yet I know I've fished up those remaining 10 during this season. Now I've seen many reasons as to how to fix this bug but the main one I've seen is to get max 'Focused Fishing' once, complete the public event that spawns and then get max "Focused Fishing' again to have it start counting again. That might as well be a pipe dream with how much RNG is involved as I mentioned above. The design of this event is completely flawed. They should have either not let the fishing spot despawn during a public event (since you have to interact with the public event to do it anyway) allowing people to ignore it if they'd rather fish or if they really want to push public events, make completing a public event increase the 'Focused Fishing' bar instead of having us start all over. At least then, there's a gameplay loop that doesn't frustrate players. The fact that we are almost 1 week away from the end of the season and Bungie has not done anything to adjust the fishing or fix the 'Efficient Angler' bug is a complete joke Edit: So I just fished 3 times on Nessus and completed 'Efficient Angler' while the bar was at 1 and a half... I don't even know anymore