Salanar pond after the Gar buff was great. At roughly 1275 mastery, I had a healthy yellow/blue mix with discarded greens, tons of bottles for leveling the life skill, a small number of relics, and a Gar catch rate that varied but maybe averaged sowmthing close to one a day. In the last several days (perhaps aince two patches back?), I have seen my yellow rate drop to about 4% from at least 10-15%, bottle rate dropped by maybe half, and I have caught no gars. It feels like salanar was stealth nerfed or had its table reverted. It has shifted from

being mid-level profit with amazing skill growth to a waste of time. 

Fish at Duvencrune.  It's silver and skill is consistant, as resources are almost always abundant.

Either there, or go to Velia Beach.