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Fishing (WoW)

	Fishing (Secondary Profession)
	Ingredients • Quests • Fish by Item • Fish by Area • Trainers

Fishing is a leisurely secondary skill to while the time away, and perhaps bring home dinner!

What Fishing Creates

Most obviously, fishing rewards you with fish. There are other items that are sometimes caught, however there are many different items that CAN be caught during fishing.

List of items that have been fished

What Fishing Requires

Literally, fishing requires a fishing rod, a pool of water, and some free time to sit and watch a bobber until the "bite" occurs and you can reel in your catch. In order to fish successfully, however, you will typically want to use a lure of some kind, which dramatically improves your fishing skill for a period. The difficulty of fishing in an area is determined by the zone, and some zones essentially require a skill well above what should normally be attainable for your level (or at all!)

Is Fishing For Me?

Fishing is a secondary skill, which means there is no reason to specifically avoid it, but some players find it extremely boring or worthless. If you have room in your bag for a fishing rod, sometimes it can't hurt to fill a dull period while waiting for a group, but most players who fish do so because they enjoy it or because they are trying to catch specific fish for cooking or for alchemy.

In terms of making money, fishing isn't much of an AH killer. However, anything you catch is pure profit, and sometimes you will reel in some items that are worth selling to a vendor. Although the cash flow is not highly rewarding, fishing can be done with little-to-no danger.

There are a select few items that can only be found through fishing, such as Mr. Pinchy, a non-combat pet. There is also the fishing extravaganza in Booty Bay, which has its own unique reward for fishermen. There are two raid bosses in the game, Gahz'ranka and The Lurker Below, who can only be summoned by fishing.

Specialization

There is no specialization for fishing.

Fishing Quests

Quests strictly for Fishermen

There are a handful of quests that require fish, including:

• Alliance:
• Gaffer Jacks (Darkshore, level 12)
• Electropellers (Darkshore, level 12) requires completion of Gaffer Jacks
• The Family and The Fishing Pole (Darkshore, level 14)
• Selling Fish (Redridge Mountains, level 21)

• Horde:
• Snapjaws, Mon! - While this quest doesn't require fishing, it does provide a very nice fishing pole as a reward and is well worth doing if you're playing a horde character.

Leveling Information

Like all secondary skills, you can only learn to achieve skill level 150 from trainers. In order to advance the skill cap beyond that you will need to either purchase books or perform quests.

• Skill level 1-50: This is learned from the trainer. All that is required is a character level of 5.
• Skill level 51-150: This is also learned at the trainer. You can train for the next skill cap at skill level 40 and a character level of 10.
• Skill level 151-225: For this you are required to purchase a book Expert Fishing - The Bass and You. You can find this in Booty Bay in Stranglethorn Vale and it is sold, to both factions, by Old Man Heming.
• Skill Level 226-300: For this you will need to perform a quest. You cannot get the quest until you're skill level 225 and character level 45. The quest Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme is available to both factions from Nat Pagle on an island in the bay of Dustwallow Marsh. (the co-ordinates are 58,60)
• Skill level 301-375: You will again need to purchase a book: Master Fishing - The Art of Angling. Juno Dufrain at the Cenarion Refuge in Zangarmarsh sells this book to both factions.

Other Fishing Info

The actual act of fishing is performed using a skill that will appear in the general tab of your spellbook. If you have a fishing rod equipped and are pointed out over a body of water, a fishing bobber should appear somewhere in the water. Within the next minute, the bobber will sink briefly to represent a fish taking your bait, and you must right-click on the bobber to reel him in. Higher-level areas generally require higher skill for fancier fish, but unlike other tradeskills, fishing can be done entirely to the cap from what you start with, which is why many players recommend simply fishing in the Stormwind Canals or some other basic place.

All fish are in one of two categories, freshwater or saltwater. Every body of water will only be one or the other. If you are trying to catch a particular fish, such as Oily Blackmouth, you will need to seek the proper area.

In order to encourage fishing to be a meaningful activity to skill up and take with you on the road, you will sometimes find schools of fish. If you fish near one of these areas, you are guaranteed to have a bite from the fish that are in it, and the school will remain until you catch a few fish from it, much like a mining node. There are other expanses of water that are similiar to schools, but exist for other objects, such as floating debris in the water (random junk) and pools of pure water (elemental water).

It is particularly useful to fish in the floating debris in the water since you may get lucky and get the book that will allow you to learn how to spot pools of fish on your mini-map rather than having to look at the bodies of water for the round glowing area. Once you 'catch' that book, you read it to learn how to find fish. Then, you can switch that skill on (much like you turn on your Find Herbs or Find Mines skill). To date, the book seems to be between rare and common... so there is a decent chance to find the book if you fish from the floating debris every time you see it.

As of patch 2.4.0 a new fishing daily quest has been added and can be obtained at level 70 with a fishing skill level of at least 1 but to be able to fish in the areas required for the quests a fishing skill at atleast 300 is recommended. The fishing quest can be obtained from old man Barlo outside Shattrath City. The quest rewards for the fishing daily can be quite good and be worth the time to do if you have taken up the fishing profession. Some of the items that can be obtained from this daily quest relate to fishing such as sharpened fishing hooks(adds +100 fishing for 10 minutes) and a recipe for Captain's Lager which adds a +10 fishing food buff when used.

Besides lures, there are other items which can be obtained to increase a players fishing skill. The items that can be used to increase fish skill are the lucky hat (adds +5 fishing), eternium fishing line (adds +5 fishing when applied to a fishing pole) and fishing boots (adds +5 fishing). All of these items are obtained through catching rare fish that spawn in the tasty fish pools during the fishing contest in Stranglethorn Vale every Sunday between 2-4pm server time.

Fishing Equipment

External links

WoWGuideOnline.com - Fishing 1-375 with Maps

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