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Among all the tradeskills, fishing is one of the easiest to max since all you need to do is buy a pole and bait and sit by some water for awhile... albeit a long while. The concept is simple: Equip a Fishing Pole; have some Fishing Bait in your inventory; and use your fishing skill (which everyone has). Sometimes you will catch an item, sometimes you will lose your bait, but over time you will catch a lot of fish.

The best thing about fishing is that it can help you in purchasing spells and items by selling fish at a lower level and can continue to do so up to level 65.

The fishing skill is also quite popular due to the fact that you can fish up treasure maps once you've attained 150 skill.

Tips and information

A Gnome casts his line into the Valley of Erimal's fishing pool.
  • If it is night and find yourself without bait and you are in the area, head to Stinger's Bog and kill some froglok fishermen for a pole and stack of bait per kill. They can be found around the Mielech A zone. The Rivervale dock merchant also sells bait, but only at night.
  • Some zones such as Caverns of the Deep One(aka PoWater), Dragon Necropolis, and Lasanth give "Nothing to fish" messages despite having bodies of water.
  • The beginning + fishing items are extremely helpful and may even be a necessity
    • They are Fishing Net, Fishing Spear, and Ulfrig's Fishing Pole
    • They stack for a total of +6 and allow you to catch higher level fish sooner, but do not affect trivials. Darksun fishing appliance and rod of guidance will raise this even higher.
  • Never throw away any fish. Nearly all fish can be sold. (Except rotten fish, Plaguelands catches, etc, will sell for nothing, but are still useful for skill) Initially, this will recoup your bait costs and after a few levels will enable you to make a profit. Typically, the higher the skill needed to catch the fish, the more it will sell for.
  • Purchasing Handmade Backpack will reduce the total weight of fish you catch.
  • Spell caster characters, while fishing, remember to practice spell casting. The time spent fishing is perfect to cast low level spells to raise your skill level.
  • Skill-ups from 120-164 will be *extremely* slow. Expect 2 points an hour. At 164, get +6 fishing skill from items, and head to Towers of Agony for a 1000% increase in skill-up time.
  • While it is possible to skill up from 155 to 170 at both Sea of Swords and The Oasis, it will be much faster to train in The Oasis- you will catch a Baby Crocodile much more often than you will Swordfin Tuna, and it far offsets the possibility of getting a treasure map while working on skill level.
  • Skill 230 to 250 in Western Wastelands
149.6 Stacks of Fishing Bait used, (2992 Individual Fishing Bait)
140 Drakefish caught. (4.68% Average chance per Fishing Bait based on these numbers)

Fishing up Treasure Maps

  • Ongoing testing is showing that an approximate average for fishing up maps at 250+6 skill follows these averages. No data has been made public to support these claims, so please take that into account.
    • VE/E/M/D maps seem to show up in similar ratios (slightly skewed in favor of the easier ones, but not much). That is if you get ten VE, maps you might have about 7 Difficults.
    • Simple maps drop about 2x as much as VE maps.
    • VD seem to show once per 200 stacks of bait.
    • ED seem to show once per 1000 stacks of bait.


Fishing hotkey

The following is a standard fishing hotkey. Using this hotkey you can reduce the required button mashing to once every 60 second or so.

/pause 118,/doability #
/pause 118,/doability #
/pause 118,/doability #
/pause 118,/doability #
/doability #

i reccomend adding something like "fishing over" here so u know when your hotkey is done. -liraell (where the last do ability is anyways.

(#) = The slot that fishing is located in the Action/Ability Menu.

With recent changes to the game, it is advised to use this hotkey only when you are actively fishing. A one hour macro ban will be enforced if a set question is not answered.

Tip: Have a Large enough chat window exclusively filtered for "other" and /chatfontsize 5 or lower depend on preference. This is where the passcolor check will show up until you close the window. Even if using a fishing bot be sure to have enough food and drink to avoid the spam message of being hungry or thirty from scrolling and blending with one of the passcolors before you notice and enter it.

Skill Modifying Items

Fishing

Item Image Skill Modifier Slots Class Source
Errant Fish Hook
 
Fishing +01
Ear
WAR, CLR, PAL, RNG, SHD, DRU, MNK, BRD, ROG, SHM, NEC, WIZ, MAG, ENC
Fishing Spear
 
Fishing +03
Range, Primary
WAR, CLR, PAL, RNG, SHD, DRU, MNK, BRD, ROG, SHM, NEC, WIZ, MAG, ENC
Merchant (A gnoll fisherman)
Fishing Net
 
Fishing +02
Secondary
WAR, CLR, PAL, RNG, SHD, DRU, MNK, BRD, ROG, SHM, NEC, WIZ, MAG, ENC
Merchant (A gnoll fisherman)
Harpoon of the Deep
 
Fishing +01
Back, Primary
WAR, PAL, RNG, SHD
Ulfrig's Fishing Pole
 
Fishing +01
Primary
WAR, CLR, PAL, RNG, SHD, DRU, MNK, BRD, ROG, SHM, NEC, WIZ, MAG, ENC
Rod of Divine Guidance
 
Fishing +05
Primary
WAR, CLR, PAL, RNG, SHD, DRU, MNK, BRD, ROG, SHM, NEC, WIZ, MAG, ENC
Gauntlet of Lord Trillent
 
Fishing +01
Hands
CLR, DRU, MNK, BRD, ROG, SHM, NEC, WIZ, MAG, ENC, BST
Darksun Fishing Appliance
 
Fishing +03
Primary
WAR, CLR, PAL, RNG, SHD, DRU, MNK, BRD, ROG, SHM, NEC, WIZ, MAG, ENC
Dagger of the Fisherking
 
Fishing +03
Secondary
WAR, CLR, PAL, RNG, SHD, DRU, MNK, BRD, ROG, SHM, NEC, WIZ, MAG, ENC
Treble Hook
 
Fishing +02
Primary
WAR, CLR, PAL, RNG, SHD, DRU, MNK, BRD, ROG, SHM, NEC, WIZ, MAG, ENC
Self-Spinning Lure
 
Fishing +03
BRD, BST, PAL, SHD, RNG, CLR, DRU, SHM, ENC, WIZ, MAG, NEC, MNK, ROG
Golden Hook
 
Fishing +07
Range, Secondary
WAR, CLR, PAL, RNG, SHD, DRU, MNK, BRD, ROG, SHM, NEC, WIZ, MAG, ENC
Taldorian Fishing Pole
 
Fishing +01
Primary
WAR, CLR, PAL, RNG, SHD, DRU, MNK, BRD, ROG, SHM, NEC, WIZ, MAG, ENC




Skill gain info

Catch Must be a "After a Struggle!"
Effortlessly Means the catch was trivial and will give no skillups
A skill up can occur after 5 "After a Struggle!" catches, and scales up to 7 as skill increases.

Experience gain

Skill level XP Reward per Skill-up
0 - 30 500 experience
31 - 60 672 experience
61 - 67 1,336 experience
68 - 90 3,818 experience
91 - 140 5,726 experience
141 - 160 4,772 experience
161 - 190 5,727 experience
191 - 220 7,636 experience
221 - 250 9,544 experience
Total 1,047,950 experience

Good spots to gain skill

Skill level Zone
10 - 40 Northern Waste of Tarhyl or Sadri Malath
20 - 30 Centaur Hills
30 - 50 Northern Badlands, Southern Badlands - $$ Badlands Catfish $$
50 - 75 Thurgadin,
Eastern Wastelands $$ Northern Widemouth$$
75 - 105 Western Wastelands
105 - 115 The Darkwoods
105 - 130 King's Pass - $$ King's Trout $$
105 - 120 Siren's Grotto, Wyvernfang Coast,
Western Plaguelands, Lake Starfall
121 - 156 Cauldron of Dawn $$ Silver Dawnfish $$
157 - 170 Sea of Swords or The Oasis
170 - 200 Towers of Agony
200 - 250 Tasinath, Land of Bliss
216 - 225 Towers of Agony
230 - 250 Western Wastelands

Fishing Merchants

Zone Name Location Time
Southern Newport Aralia -283, -26, 1 Day
Sadri Malath Milet -65, -63, 3 Day
Sadri Malath Bildreg -65, -63, 3 Day
Rivervale Tilik 13, -355, -2.25 Day
Athica Anika Serallus 163, -599, 11 Day
Erudin Alathea Falakor 206, -9, 20
(Docks)
Day
Underhill Mikra 732, -155, -26 Day

Fish by trivial

Fish Trivial Fish Trivial Fish Trivial
Athica
Fish Scales 1-15 Freshwater Pipefish 10-40 White Bass 46-75
Electrical Eel 75-101 Golden Starfish 87-120 Silver Dawnfish 149-180
Yellow Angelfish 160-195
Cauldron Of Dawn
Fish Scales 1-15 Crappie ?-<55 Rock Bass 46-60
Cauldron Kroaker 117-135 Rockfish 117-150 Silver Dawnfish 149-180
Centaur Hills
Fish Scales 1-15 Perch 11-40 Small Catfish 20-50
Striped Trout 20-55 Red Bass 20-56 Dalaya Kroaker 31-65
East Freeport
Fish Scales 1-15 Perch 11-40 Dalaya Kroaker 31-65
Black Widemouth 40-70 Bluewater Sardine 40-76 Blue Marlin 55-85
Bony Tuna 40-?
Eastern Wastelands
Fish Scales 1-15 White Bass 46-75 Northern Widemouth 55-85
Coldwater Musky 75-105
Eldenal's Mansion
Fish Scales 1-15 Undead Fish ~49-54+ Shrouded Bonefang ?-?
Erudin
Fish Scales 1-15 Striped Trout 20-55 Dalaya Kroaker 31-65
Bluewater Sardine 40-76 Bony Tuna 40-?
Everfrost
Fish Scales 1-15 Northern Perch ?-<70 White Bass 46-75
Coldwater Musky 75-105
Faentharc Woods
Fish Scales 1-15 Bluegill 14-46 Small Catfish 20-50
Black Bullfish 30-57+ Swamp Eel 41-57 Northern Bullfish ?-<86
Faentharc Widemouth 198-206
Fearstone Keep
Fish Scales 1-15 Crappie ?-<55 Black Widemouth 40-70
Rock Bass 46-60 Gudgeon 68-<144
Filtration Chamber Six
Wastewater Eel ? Scum Sucker <95 Rotting Fish <95
Frosthorn Coast
Fish Scales 1-15 White Bass 46-75 Cod 50-81
Coldwater Musky 75-105 Red Snapper ?-103+
Goblin Skull Mountains
Fish Scales 1-15 Perch 11-40 Dalaya Kroaker 31-65
Black Widemouth 40-<=74 Mountain Trout 45-<85 Golden Starfish 87-121
Greenmist Jungle
Fish Scales 1-15 Freshwater Pipefish 10-40 Greenmist Bass 19-<56
Bluegill 28-46 Small Piranha 61-91
Grobb
Fish Scales 1-15 Black Bullfish 20-50 Small Catfish 20-50
Bluegill 28-46 Swamp Eel 41-57
Halas
Fish Scales 1-15 Northern Perch 15-? White Bass 46-75
Halls of Mielech
Fish Scales 1-15 Bluegill 14-46 Small Catfish 20-50
Black Bullfish 20-50 Swamp Eel 41-57
Heartland Plateau
Fish Scales 1-15
Hidden Temple of Yaralith
Fish Scales 1-15 Freshwater Pipefish 10-40 Bluegill 28-46
Greenmist Bass 19-<56 Small Piranha 61-91 Baby Alligator ?-?
Icewell Keep
Fish Scales 1-15 White Bass 46-75 Coldwater Musky 75-105
Kaladim
Fish Scales 1-15 White Lurker 43-<80 Rock Bass 46-60
Greyfin Cavefish 81-100 Angelfish 81-102
Keep of Mielech
Fish Scales 1-15 Bluegill 14-46 Small Catfish 20-50
Black Bullfish 30-57+ Swamp Eel 41-57
King's Pass
Fish Scales 1-15 Pike 35-45 Goldfin Carp ~93-<110
King's Trout ~110-140
Lair of Paw
Fish Scales 1-15 Badland Catfish 35-55 Pike 35-45
Bleeder Trout ~40-70 Goldfin Carp ~93-<110
Lake of Ill Omen
Coral Trout <215-220 Coldwater Musky 75-105 Warpfin 65-95
Glowing Fungus ? Bloatfish ?
Lake Starfall
Fish Scales 1-15 Perch 11-40 Striped Trout 20-55
Rainbow Carp 103-125 Baby Shark 103-135 Rainbow Trout 116-?
Starfall Sturgeon 120-147+
Mielech's Lair
Fish Scales 1-15 Small Catfish 20-50 Bluegill 28-46
Black Bullfish 30-57+ Swamp Eel 41-57
Mistwoods
Fish Scales 1-15 Yellow Perch 10-40 Mist River Sardine 15-46
Mist River Trout ??-54+ Gudgeon 68-<144 Electrical Eel 75-101
Newport Sewers
Fish Scales 1-15 Small Catfish 20-50 Badland Catfish 35-55
Pike 35-45 Bleeder Trout ~40-70 White Lurker 43-<80
Small Piranha 61-91
North Badlands
Fish Scales 1-15 Pike 35-45 Badland Catfish 35-55
Bleeder Trout ~40-70 Goldfin Carp ~93-<110
Northern Waste of Tarhyl
Fish Scales 1-15 Freshwater Pipefish 10-40 Yellow Perch 10-40+
Oasis
Fish Scales 1-15 Freshwater Pipefish 10-40 Flounder 35-49
Rockfish 117-150 Baby Crocodile 155-185 Freshwater Perch >181-?
Prophets Landing
Fish Scales 1-15 White Bass 46-75 Shadowfin Crappie 84-<106
Daggerfish <215 Baldakan Slicer >230
Rivervale
Fish Scales 1-15 Glowing Riverfish 121 (no skillups)
Ruins of First City
Fish Scales 1-15 Whitefin Cavefish <151 Ancient Sturgeon 186-215
Sadri Malath
Fish Scales 1-15 Perch 10-40 Freshwater Pipefish 10-40
Flounder 35-49 Warpfin 65-95
Sea of Swords
Fish Scales 1-15 Pufferfish <36-64 Black Widemouth 40-70
Blue Marlin 55-85 Small Piranha 61-91 Blue Angelfish 76-106
Golden Starfish 87-121 Baby Barracuda 96-130 Baby Shark 103-135
Swordfin Tuna 157-190 Yellow Angelfish 160-195 Nurse Shark 170-200
Bottled Scroll 150-250
Shadowdale
Fish Scales 1-15 Yellow Perch 10-40+ White Lurker 43-<80
Shadowfin Crappie 84-<106
Shrouded Island
Fish Scales 1-15 Undead Fish ~49-54+ Shrouded Bonefish 173-178
Siren's Grotto
Fish Scales 1-15 White Bass 46-75 Northcoast Razormouth 75-105
Baby Barracuda 96-130 Baby Shark 103-135 Baby Swordfish 130-?
Southern Badlands
Fish Scales 1-15 Pike 35-45 Badland Catfish 35-<56
Bleeder Trout ~40-70 Goldfin Carp ***?***
Southern Newport
Fish Scales 1-15 Perch 11-40 Red Bass 20-55
Striped Trout 20-55 Dalaya Kroaker 31-65 Bluewater Sardine 40-76
Bony Tuna 40-?
Stinger's Bog
Fish Scales 1-15 Bluegill 14-46 Small Catfish 20-50
Black Bullfish 30-57+ Swamp Eel 41-57
Storm Sea
Fish Scales 1-15 Striped Trout 20-55 Red Bass 20-56
Dalaya Kroaker 31-65 Black Widemouth 40-70 Bluewater Sardine 40-76
Electrical Eel 75-101 Needlefish 102-109 Baby Seahorse 103-181<185
Bottled Scroll 150-250
Stormkeep
Fish Scales 1-15 White Bass 46-75 Coldwater Musky 75-105
Sundered Mountains
Fish Scales 1-15 Freshwater Pipefish 10-40 Perch 11-40
Flounder 35-49 Warpfin 65-95
Surefall Glade
Fish Scales 1-15 Perch 11-40 Small Catfish 20-50
Red Bass 20-56 Dalaya Kroaker 31-65
Tasinath, Land of Bliss
Fish Scales 1-15 Rainbow Angelfish 200-230 Sunfish 225-250
The Darkwoods
Fish Scales 1-15 Warpfin 65-95 Baby Renderfish 85-115
Darkwood Doublehead ~168-200 Spikefang Darter 185-215
Thurgadin
Fish Scales 1-15 White Bass 46-75 Coldwater Musky 75-105
Towers of Agony
Fish Scales 1-15 Black Murderfin 170-200 Torment Razorfang 191-225
Underhill
Fish Scales 1-15 Crappie ?-<55 Rock Bass 46-60
White Lurker 43-<80 Greyfin Cavefish 81-100 Anglerfish 81-102
Valley of Erimal
Fish Scales 1-15 Rock Bass 46-60 White Lurker 43-<80
Greyfin Cavefish 81-100 Anglerfish 81-102
Warpstone Caverns
Fish Scales 1-15
Western Badlands
Fish Scales 1-15 Pike 35-45 Badland Catfish 35-55
Bleeder Trout ~40-70 Goldfin Carp ~93-<110
Western Plaguelands
Fish Scales 1-15 Bloatfish ?-<56 Plaguewracked Bullhead <97-120
Rotgill ~100-130
Western Wastelands
Fish Scales 1-15 Coldwater Musky 75-105 Northcoast Razormouth 75-105
Drakefish 225-250
Wyvernfang Coast
Fish Scales 1-15 White Bass 46-75 Cod 50-81
Baby Barracuda 96-130 Northcoast Razormouth 75-105 Baby Shark 103-135
Baby Swordfish 130-?

Fish by name with prices (to amiable merchant)

Image Item Trivial Price to Vendor Image Item Trivial Price to Vendor
 
Anglerfish (81 - 102) ?
 
Baby Alligator (Unknown) ?
 
Baby Barracuda (96 - 127+) 1 Gold 2 Silver 7 Copper
 
Baby Crocodile (150 - 185) 1 Gold 9 Silver 8 Copper
 
Baby Renderfish (<105 - 114) 4 Silver 9 Copper
 
Baby Seahorse (103 - 181<185) 6 Gold 6 Silver 3 Copper
 
Baby Shark (103 - 135) 2 Gold 1 Silver 3 Copper
 
Baby Swordfish (130 - ?) 3 Gold 7 Copper
 
Badland Catfish (35 - 55) 2 Silver 5 Copper
 
Baldakan Slicer (>220) 12 Platinum 3 Gold
 
Black Bullfish (30 - 57+) ?
 
Black Murderfin (170 - 200) 3 Gold 4 Silver 3 Copper
 
Black Widemouth (40 - 70) 1 Silver 3 Copper
 
Bleeder Trout (~40 - 70) 4 Silver 4 Copper
 
Bloatfish (? - <75) ?
 
Bony Tuna (40 - ?) ?
 
Blue Angelfish (76 - 106) 5 Silver 7 Copper
 
Bluegill (28 - 46) ?
 
Blue Marlin (55 - 85) 4 Silver 7 Copper
 
Bluewater Sardine (40 - 76) 7 Copper
 
Bottled Scroll (Treasure Map) (150 - 250) ?
 
Cauldron Kroaker (117 - 135) 3 Silver 8 Copper
 
Cod (79? - 81) 3 Silver 5 Copper
 
Coldwater Musky (75 - 105) 9 Silver 1 Copper
 
Crappie (? - <55) 1 Silver 5 Copper
 
Dalaya Kroaker (31 - 66+) 1 Silver 8 Copper
 
Darkwood Doublehead (~168 - 200) Does not sell to vendor
 
Drakefish (225 - 250) 10 Platinum 7 Gold 9 Silver 3 Copper
 
Electrical Eel (75 - 101) 7 Silver Copper
 
Faentharc Widemouth (198 - 206) ?
 
Fish Scales (1 - 10) Copper 3
 
Flounder (35 - 49) 2 Silver 4 Copper
 
Freshwater Perch (>181 - ?) ?
 
Freshwater Pipefish (10 - 40) Copper 7
 
Glowing Riverfish No Skill-up ?
 
Goldfin Carp (~93 - <110) ?
 
Golden Starfish (87 - 121) 2 Gold
 
Greenmist Bass (19 - <56) ?
 
Greyfin Cavefish (81 - 100) ?
 
Gudgeon (? - <144) ?
 
King's Trout (~110 - 140) ?
 
Mist River Sardine (15 - <56) ?
 
Mist River Trout (? - 54+) ?
 
Mountain Trout (45 - <85) ?
 
Needlefish (102 - 109) 7 Silver 3 Copper
 
Northcoast Razormouth (75 - 105) 5 Silver 6 Copper
 
Northern Bullfish (? - <86) ?
 
Northern Perch (15 - ?) ?
 
Northern Widemouth (55 - ?) 6 Silver 9 Copper
 
Nurse Shark (170 - 200) 4 Platinum 1 Gold 1 Silver 1 Copper
 
Perch (11 - 40) Copper 6
 
Pike (35 - 45) 2 Silver
 
Plaguewracked Bullhead (<97 - 120) ?
 
Pufferfish (<36 - 64) 3 Silver 1 Copper
 
Rainbow Angelfish (? - 230) 5 Gold 2 Copper
 
Rainbow Carp (103 - 125) 3 Silver 8 Copper
 
Rainbow Trout (116 - ?) ?
 
Red Bass (20 - 56) 1 Silver 1 Copper
 
Red Snapper (? - 103+) ?
 
Rock Bass (46 - 60) 1 Silver 3 Copper
 
Rockfish (117 - 150) 1 Gold 4 Silver 9 Copper
 
Rotgill (~100 - 130) ?
 
Shadowfin Crappie (84 - ?) 5 Silver 8 Copper
 
Shrouded Bonefish (173 - 178) ?
 
Silver Dawnfish (149 - 180) 5 Gold 2 Silver 4 Copper
 
Small Catfish (20 - 50) 1 Silver 3 Copper
 
Small Piranha (61 - 91) 3 Silver 3 Copper
 
Spikefang Darter (185 - 215) 1 Platinum 8 Gold 1 Silver 5 Copper
 
Starfall Sturgeon (115 - 147+) 2 Gold 4 Silver 8 Copper
 
Striped Trout (20 - 55) 1 Silver 9 Copper
 
Sunfish (~227 - 250) 55 Platinum 5 Gold 4 Silver 3 Copper
 
Swamp Eel (41 - 57) ?
 
Swordfin Tuna (157 - 190) 7 Gold 8 Silver 8 Copper
 
Torment Razorfang (191 - 225) 37 Platinum 7 Gold 1 Silver 3 Copper
 
Undead Fish (~49 - 54+) ?
 
Warpfin (65 - 104) Does not sell to vendor
 
White Bass (46 - 75) 1 Silver 5 Copper
 
White Lurker (43 - <80) ?
 
Whitefin Cavefish (Unknown) ?
 
Yellow Angelfish (160 - 195) 1 Platinum 2 Gold 5 Silver 4 Copper
 
Yellow Perch (10 - 40+) ?