I started LS yesterday and am considering to invest a lot of time to level Cooking and Fishing. Do you believe I am making a smart choice for higher level play? Please answer honestly.

Thanks in advance!

Unless there are some amazing updates or else you spend a whole lot of time (and I mean a whole whole lot of time) I really don't think that it's worth it.

You have enough forum gold to have an incredibly easy climb. If you buy a level 10 dagger with 40ee and a level 10 attack charm with 50ee or more and maybe a heal charm with some ee you'll do just fine. But anyways - I really don't think that it's worth it, so I voted for the top option.

if i had the same time, i would just slash in arena/well or raise my glyph proficiency.
in arena+well+shrine cooked fish won't help as much as in hard cata runs (or pvp ).

voted for the 2nd (75%).

All you do which doesn't bring exp or fg is a waste of time imo (so fishing is).

you cant do 9 waves with out mana fishes to refuel the healers......

autism seems to be making a lot of fg from selling fish

consider the amount of time he spent getting his prof to level 15 - that's thousands upon thousands of fish. Probably the person with the highest prof on each core will be able to make fg from selling them (hc more), but personally i don't see the point. You'll probably make more fg from climbing and selling your finds.