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Fishing
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Jump to navigationJump to searchAmong 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
- 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 |
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| Errant Fish Hook |
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| Fishing Spear |
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| Fishing Net |
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| Harpoon of the Deep |
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| Ulfrig's Fishing Pole |
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| Rod of Divine Guidance |
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| Gauntlet of Lord Trillent |
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| Darksun Fishing Appliance |
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| Dagger of the Fisherking |
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| Treble Hook |
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| Self-Spinning Lure |
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| Golden Hook |
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| Taldorian Fishing Pole |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Southern Newport | Aralia | -283, -26, 1 | 
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| Sadri Malath | Milet | -65, -63, 3 |
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| Sadri Malath | Bildreg | -65, -63, 3 | 
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| Rivervale | Tilik | 13, -355, -2.25 |
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| Athica | Anika Serallus | 163, -599, 11 |
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| Erudin | Alathea Falakor | 206, -9, 20 (Docks) |
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| Underhill | Mikra | 732, -155, -26 |
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Fish by trivial
Fish by name with prices (to amiable merchant)
| Image | Item | Trivial | Price to Vendor | Image | Item | Trivial | Price to Vendor |
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| Anglerfish | (81 - 102) | ? | Baby Alligator | (Unknown) | ? | ||
| Baby Barracuda | (96 - 127+) | 1  2  7  |
Baby Crocodile | (150 - 185) | 1 9 8
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| Baby Renderfish | (<105 - 114) | 4 9 |
Baby Seahorse | (103 - 181<185) | 6 6 3
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| Baby Shark | (103 - 135) | 2 1 3 |
Baby Swordfish | (130 - ?) | 3 7
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| Badland Catfish | (35 - 55) | 2 5 |
Baldakan Slicer | (>220) | 12  3
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| Black Bullfish | (30 - 57+) | ? | |||||
| Black Murderfin | (170 - 200) | 3 4 3 |
Black Widemouth | (40 - 70) | 1 3
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| Bleeder Trout | (~40 - 70) | 4 4 |
Bloatfish | (? - <75) | ? | ||
| Bony Tuna | (40 - ?) | ? | Blue Angelfish | (76 - 106) | 5 7
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| Bluegill | (28 - 46) | ? | Blue Marlin | (55 - 85) | 4 7
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| Bluewater Sardine | (40 - 76) | 7 |
Bottled Scroll (Treasure Map) | (150 - 250) | ? | ||
| Cauldron Kroaker | (117 - 135) | 3 8 |
Cod | (79? - 81) | 3 5
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| Coldwater Musky | (75 - 105) | 9 1 |
Crappie | (? - <55) | 1 5
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| Dalaya Kroaker | (31 - 66+) | 1 8 |
Darkwood Doublehead | (~168 - 200) | Does not sell to vendor | ||
| Drakefish | (225 - 250) | 10 7 9 3 |
Electrical Eel | (75 - 101) | 7
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| Faentharc Widemouth | (198 - 206) | ? | Fish Scales | (1 - 10) | 3
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| Flounder | (35 - 49) | 2 4 |
Freshwater Perch | (>181 - ?) | ? | ||
| Freshwater Pipefish | (10 - 40) | 7 |
Glowing Riverfish | No Skill-up | ? | ||
| Goldfin Carp | (~93 - <110) | ? | Golden Starfish | (87 - 121) | 2
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| 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 3
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| Northcoast Razormouth | (75 - 105) | 5 6 |
Northern Bullfish | (? - <86) | ? | ||
| Northern Perch | (15 - ?) | ? | Northern Widemouth | (55 - ?) | 6 9
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| Nurse Shark | (170 - 200) | 4 1 1 1 |
Perch | (11 - 40) | 6
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| Pike | (35 - 45) | 2 |
Plaguewracked Bullhead | (<97 - 120) | ? | ||
| Pufferfish | (<36 - 64) | 3 1 |
Rainbow Angelfish | (? - 230) | 5 2
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| Rainbow Carp | (103 - 125) | 3 8 |
Rainbow Trout | (116 - ?) | ? | ||
| Red Bass | (20 - 56) | 1 1 |
Red Snapper | (? - 103+) | ? | ||
| Rock Bass | (46 - 60) | 1 3 |
Rockfish | (117 - 150) | 1 4 9
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| Rotgill | (~100 - 130) | ? | Shadowfin Crappie | (84 - ?) | 5 8
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| Shrouded Bonefish | (173 - 178) | ? | Silver Dawnfish | (149 - 180) | 5 2 4
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| Small Catfish | (20 - 50) | 1 3 |
Small Piranha | (61 - 91) | 3 3
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| Spikefang Darter | (185 - 215) | 1 8 1 5 |
Starfall Sturgeon | (115 - 147+) | 2 4 8
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| Striped Trout | (20 - 55) | 1 9 |
Sunfish | (~227 - 250) | 55 5 4 3
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| Swamp Eel | (41 - 57) | ? | Swordfin Tuna | (157 - 190) | 7 8 8
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| Torment Razorfang | (191 - 225) | 37 7 1 3 |
Undead Fish | (~49 - 54+) | ? | ||
| Warpfin | (65 - 104) | Does not sell to vendor | White Bass | (46 - 75) | 1 5
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| White Lurker | (43 - <80) | ? | Whitefin Cavefish | (Unknown) | ? | ||
| Yellow Angelfish | (160 - 195) | 1 2 5 4 |
Yellow Perch | (10 - 40+) | ? |