I hate to catch these threads too late >< Sorry you had to drop mining, but for those who don't know, water logged chests and such actually have a pretty nice drop chance off of normal fishing nodes. Those chests almost always contain bolts of cloth and leather of a level similar to the waters you fish them out of. If you need light leather or medium leather, for example, somewhere like Silverpine Forest is a good place to fish. I found this out when I was fishing for gold in STV. I got about 2 trunks for every 3 or 4 nodes I fished.