Yeah, I saw this and went mental... briefly. I used the Fancy Bait on top of one of those rare spinning fish spots that are supposed to increase your luck and got moss! I managed to finished this event super fast and found I was stuck in a situation where I don't want event items anymore (I will only go so far to help others
). More so because the mines are effected too so you can waste rare mining tools for a set of useless cheap rocks.
I did work out a workable solution though. If you have an Android device, you can switch your account to this device for the rest of the week and play from there. The event is not running on Android so they don't get these items. You will be able to fish and mine as per normal, and as a bonus, your newspaper will be devoid of event items