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After this, you'll get a quest called "Tools are the Foundation." This gives you a rod, just open up the Olvia Academy UI and select the fishing rod as a reward from the "Family Rewards - Life Skill - Fishing." You can then Auto-navigate to NPC Zaaira for your supplies which will give you some basic bait and a much worse fishing rod, you might as well use the Terrmian Fishing Rod we're given as a reward

I feel sure that a more static approach may only have produced a couple of fish at best

The fish finder automatically adjust the sonar settings, according to the conditions, to get the best sonar image

If you dry-dock your boat, be aware that most boatyards cant be held liable for damage done to transducers during the docking process