World of Warcraft: Forever Fishing Guide

Fishing is a secondary profession that lets you catch fish and other items from lakes, rivers, and coastal waters throughout Azeroth. This overview covers how to fish, professions that use your catch, Fishing skill boosts, useful fishing locations, campfire items, and how to learn each rank of Fishing in WoW Forever.

Fishing lets you gather fish for food and crafting by casting a fishing pole into the water. Fishing is a secondary profession, so you can learn it alongside both of your primary professions and the other secondary professions; you do not need to give up another profession to start fishing.

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Your catch depends on where you fish. Early areas provide fish such as Raw Brilliant Smallfish and Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper, while other waters contain fish used in higher-level food and oils used by alchemy. Fishing schools let you target particular catches, and floating wreckage can contain trunks and other items.

Many fish can be cooked into food that restores health, and some recipes also grant temporary stat bonuses. This makes Fishing useful both while leveling and at Level 60, whether you want to prepare your own food, or sell useful fish to other players.

As your Fishing skill increases you can fish more reliably in waters that require greater skill, reducing how often you fish up junk items and increasing the number of actual fish you catch. Fishing poles, lures, and other skill bonuses can help you meet these requirements and reduce the number of fish that get away. Certain fish also only appear at specific locations, requiring you to choose an area that offers the fish you need.

Cooking is the most direct match for Fishing. Many Cooking recipes turn raw fish into food, allowing you to level both professions together at the same time, saving plenty of gold and providing you with food while leveling. Both professions are secondary professions, so this pairing leaves your two primary profession slots available.

Alchemy also uses several fish as crafting materials such as: Oily Blackmouth to make Blackmouth Oil, Firefin Snapper is used to make Fire Oil, and Stonescale Eel is used to make Stonescale Oil. Keep these fish when you need them for Alchemy or sell them to other players who use the oils.

Learn Apprentice Fishing from a Fishing trainer, then buy a Fishing Pole from a Fishing Supplies or Trade Supplies vendor. Equip the pole, face a nearby body of water, and use Fishing from your profession abilities. Watch the bobber and right-click it when it splashes to collect your catch; cast again after each attempt.

Your Fishing skill determines which waters you can fish in and how reliably you catch something. A fish may get away even though you clicked the bobber when it splashed if your fishing skill is not high enough for the area. Increase your effective skill with a lure or fish in an easier area to reduce how often this happens, eventually bringing your chancce to succeed up to 100%.

Schools appear as patches of disturbed water and contain specific fish. Position yourself so your bobber lands inside the school; if it lands outside, cast it again until it lands inside the pool before waiting for a bite. A school disappears once all of its available catches have been taken. Floating wreckage works in a similar way, but can provide containers and other loot instead of a regular fish, such as scrolls or potions.

You gain Fishing skill by making successful catches. As your skill increases, you need more successful catches for each skill point, but moving to a harder zone does not make those points come faster. Choose water where you can catch fish reliably, then change locations when you want different fish for Cooking or other recipes; it's possible to stay in a single area and level up fishing all the way to 300, as long as you train the next fishing rank when needed.

Fishing poles, equipment, enchants, lures, and some foods increase your effective Fishing skill; these bonuses help you meet an area's fishing requirement and reduce the number of fish that get away. They do not replace the base skill required to learn your next Fishing rank.

Item	Effect	Source
Blump Family Fishing Pole	Increases Fishing skill while equipped. Requires Fishing 1.	The Family and the Fishing Pole from Gubber Blump in Auberdine, Darkshore.
Strong Fishing Pole	Increases Fishing skill while equipped. Requires Level 5 and Fishing 10.	Fishing Supplies vendors.
Big Iron Fishing Pole	Increases Fishing skill while equipped. Requires Level 25 and Fishing 100.	Shellfish Traps off the coast of Shadowprey Village, Desolace. Can also be traded or bought on the Auction House.
Nat Pagle's Extreme Angler FC-5000	+25 Fishing skill while equipped. Requires Fishing 100.	Snapjaws, Mon!, from Katoom the Angler in Revantusk Village, The Hinterlands.
Arcanite Fishing Pole	+35 Fishing skill while equipped. Requires Fishing 300.	Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza reward.

The following equipment and enchants provide additional Fishing bonuses. The tournament rewards come from separate rare fish turn-ins, so you do not have to win the main competition to obtain them.

Item	Effect	Source
Lucky Fishing Hat	+5 Fishing skill while equipped. Requires Fishing 1.	Rare Fish - Keefer's Angelfish, Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza.
Nat Pagle's Extreme Anglin' Boots	+5 Fishing skill while equipped. Requires Fishing 1.	Rare Fish - Brownell's Blue Striped Racer, Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza.
High Test Eternium Fishing Line	Permanently adds +5 Fishing skill to a fishing pole. Requires Fishing 150 to apply.	Rare Fish - Dezian Queenfish, Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza.
Enchant Gloves - Fishing	Enchants gloves to grant +2 Fishing skill.	Enchanting (145).

Apply a lure to your equipped fishing pole before you start casting. Lures provide a temporary skill increase and need to be reapplied when they expire; use one that your base Fishing skill allows you to apply.

The Luremaster Legacy perk gives you a chance to catch an additional fish while a lure is active. This makes lures useful even when your Fishing skill is already high enough to prevent fish from getting away.

Item	Effect	Source
Shiny Bauble	+25 Fishing skill for 10 minutes.	Fishing Supplies vendors.
Nightcrawlers	+50 Fishing skill for 10 minutes. Requires Fishing 50.	Fishing Supplies vendors and creature drops.
Aquadynamic Fish Lens	+50 Fishing skill for 10 minutes. Requires Fishing 50.	Alliance Electropellers quest in Loch Modan; also available from a Fishing Rack.
Bright Baubles	+75 Fishing skill for 10 minutes. Requires Fishing 100.	Fishing Supplies vendors and Fishing Rack.
Flesh Eating Worm	+75 Fishing skill for 10 minutes. Requires Fishing 100.	Rotted Ones in Duskwood.
Aquadynamic Fish Attractor	+100 Fishing skill for 5 minutes. Requires Fishing 100.	Crafted with Engineering (150); also sold by Fishing Supplies vendors.

The following foods grant a Fishing skill buff for 15-minutes after you spend at least 10 seconds eating. The required level in the table is your character level, rather than your Fishing skill.

Item	Effect	Source
Loch Frenzy Delight	+3 Fishing skill. Requires Level 5.	Cooking.
Fillet of Frenzy	+5 Fishing skill. Requires Level 5.	Cooking.
Bristle Whisker Catfish	+8 Fishing skill. Requires Level 15.	Cooking or fish vendors.
Rockscale Cod	+12 Fishing skill. Requires Level 25.	Cooking or fish vendors.
Filet of Redgill	+18 Fishing skill. Requires Level 35.	Cooking.
Spinefin Halibut	+18 Fishing skill. Requires Level 45.	Fish vendors.

The table below lists useful catches and the most common zones where you can typically find them; different waters within the same zone can contain different fish depending on which subzone you are in. Use the area requirements below when deciding whether your Fishing skill is high enough for a particular location before heading there, and stock up on any consumables needed to reach the recommended levels.

Fish	Used In	Main Catch Areas
Oily Blackmouth	Blackmouth Oil, used in Alchemy.	The Barrens, Wetlands, and Stranglethorn Vale coasts.
Firefin Snapper	Fire Oil, used in Alchemy.	Wetlands, Tanaris, and Stranglethorn Vale coasts.
Stonescale Eel	Stonescale Oil, used in Alchemy.	Azshara, Tanaris, and Feralas coasts.
Raw Sunscale Salmon	Poached Sunscale Salmon: +40 attack power.	Inland waters in Feralas, Moonglade, and Western Plaguelands.
Large Raw Mightfish	Mightfish Steak: +40 attack power.	Bay of Storms in Azshara.
Raw Winter Squid	Grilled Squid: +1% critical strike chance.	Azshara, Tanaris, and Feralas coasts.
Raw Summer Bass	Hot Smoked Bass: +1% critical strike chance.	Azshara, Tanaris, and Feralas coasts.
Raw Whitescale Salmon	Baked Salmon: +28 spell damage.	Eastern Plaguelands, Frostfire Hot Springs in Winterspring, and Jademir Lake in Feralas.
Darkclaw Lobster	Lobster Stew: +28 spell damage.	Bay of Storms in Azshara.
Raw Plated Armorfish	Plated Armorfish: +150 armor.	Eastern Plaguelands, Winterspring, and Jademir Lake in Feralas.
Raw Redgill	Filet of Redgill: +18 Fishing skill.	Inland waters in Feralas, Moonglade, and Western Plaguelands.
Deviate Fish	Savory Deviate Delight transformations and Elixir of Giant Growth.	Oasis waters in The Barrens and Wailing Caverns.
Whimsyfin	Savory Whimsyfin Delight transformations.	River and smaller lake east of Lake Everstill in Redridge Mountains.

WoW Forever adds Whimsyfin, a fish found in Redridge Mountains. Cooks use it to make Savory Whimsyfin Delight, a new transformation food. This gives players another special fish to gather alongside Deviate Fish from The Barrens.

Seasonal Fish Steaks are another new crafting material. They are prepared from Raw Winter Squid or Raw Summer Bass and are used in the Fishing Hut recipe. Keep the distinction between the raw catch and the prepared ingredient when gathering materials for your campsite.

The Fishing Rack grants the ability to catch uncommon fish for one hour, while the Fishing Hut grants access to rare fish for one hour. These benefits give you another reason to prepare a campsite before a fishing session. A full list of the catches available through these buffs will be added as more information becomes available.

Fishers use Bait and Tackle to craft their campsite items. The Fish Bowl increases the stats of players sitting nearby, and the advanced items provide the same benefit as well as lures and additional fishing rewards. Place these items near a campfire provided by Cooking; all camping features share a cooldown of one hour.

Campfire Item	Skill to Place	Source	What It Does
Fish Bowl	20	Fishing trainer.	Increases stats by 8% for nearby sitting players. Does not stack with Blessing of Kings.
Fishing Rack	140	Blueprint: Fishing Rack	Grants access to uncommon catches for one hour, provides Fishing lures, and includes the Fish Bowl buff.
Fishing Hut	300	Blueprint: Fishing Hut	Grants access to rare catches for one hour, provides Fishing lures, and includes the Fish Bowl buff.

The Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza takes place every Sunday from 2 to 4 P.M. server time; players must catch 40 Speckled Tastyfish from special tournament fish schools along the coast of Stranglethorn Vale and bring them to Riggle Bassbait in Booty Bay. WoW Forever expands the competition to 50 winners and adds the Extravagant Extravaganza Coin as a prize currency. Winners can exchange these coins with Jang for rewards such as Surfer Shoes or Bitter Baitling.

Winners also receive the Master Angler title for a limited time, until the next tournament begins. Jang sells the additional rewards below including gold pouches and Message in a Bottle, which may contain very rare end-game items such as Plans: Lionheart Helm.

Item	Effect	Cost
Hook of the Master Angler	Transforms you into a fish, allowing underwater breathing and increasing swim speed by 25%. Can only be activated while swimming; some combat actions can end the effect. 5-second cooldown.	1 Extravagant Extravaganza Coin
Master Angler's Fishing Hat	Cosmetic head item.	1 Extravagant Extravaganza Coin
Empty Fish Bucket	Cosmetic off-hand item.	1 Extravagant Extravaganza Coin
Handful of Coins	Open to receive money.	1 Speckled Tastyfish
Small Bag of Coins	Open to receive money.	5 Speckled Tastyfish
Hefty Sack of Coins	Open to receive money.	10 Speckled Tastyfish
Message in a Bottle	A reward container that you can open.	20 Speckled Tastyfish

Accept the quest before traveling to collect the four fish; each fish comes from a specific area, and you will likely require several successful catches before you find them. Fish anywhere in the named waters rather than looking for a special quest pool, then return to Nat Pagle once you have all four.

Quest Fish	Where to Fish
Feralas Ahi	Verdantis River, Feralas.
Misty Reed Mahi Mahi	Misty Reed Strand, Swamp of Sorrows.
Sar'theris Striker	Sar'theris Strand, Desolace.
Savage Coast Blue Sailfin	Savage Coast, Stranglethorn Vale.

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