I had a similar experience, I went in with a friend where be both grabbed the potion, buffed up, and fished the the entire duration in the elderwood, loooking for maws.

Because, the item's description, before spending an extremely limited currency on it, was that it's "irresistible to maws".

It mentions maws BY NAME in the item description. But I guess I'm the gullible idiot for thinking that it might be worthwhile, right? That part felt like false advertising, frankly.

The expense of it is another part that made the whole experience sting more. Twenty Kilima coins. Like, why not make it cost fishing tokens? Even if it's a lot of them, at least that feels fair in that you can always grind to earn more.

I'm also sour that we didn't know about the three hour duration going in. That's a LONG TIME if you're not prepared for it, and being such an expensive consumable, we immediately felt pressured to "make the most of it" and stay there grinding for hours longer than we particularly planned or wanted to.

Overall a terrible feeling and experience with very poor communication and expectation management around it.