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Fishing guide · WoW Forever

Before you begin

Fishing is slow at first and steady after that: every catch gives skill until about 75, then it takes a few casts per point. What matters is the water. Fish where your skill fits and almost every cast lands; fish too high and they slip away.

Each step lists the zones for your faction, the fish you will pull out most often there, and the gear that helps. Keep the fish: the Cooking guide uses many of them.

Bring

  • Fishing Pole×1

Good to know

  • If fish keep escaping, the water is too hard for you: go back to the zones of the step before for a while.
  • A lure adds to your skill for 10 minutes. Put one on before a long session.
  • Fish pools (schools of fish you can see on the water) give more fish per cast, but they give the same skill.
  1. 1–50Home ponds
  2. 50–100Keepers
  3. 100–150Keepers
  4. 150–225Keepers
  5. 225–275Keepers
  6. 275–300Keepers

Step 1 of 6 · skill 1–50

Home ponds

Stop at50

Learn Fishing from any Fishing trainer and buy a Fishing Pole from a fishing supplies vendor. Equip the pole, then cast into any lake or river near your starting town. Every catch gives a point in this step.

You will catchAbout 60 catches

  • Raw Brilliant Smallfish
  • Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
  • Raw Slitherskin Mackerel

Where to go

AllianceAlliance

  • Elwynn Forest
  • Dun Morogh
  • Teldrassil

HordeHorde

  • Durotar
  • Mulgore
  • Tirisfal Glades

Trainers

  • AllianceArnold LelandFishing TrainerStormwind City55, 69.4
  • AllianceGrimnur StonebrandFishing TrainerIronforge48.2, 6.6
  • AllianceAstaiaFishing TrainerDarnassus47.4, 56.4
  • HordeLumakFishing TrainerOrgrimmar69.4, 28.4
  • HordeKah MistrunnerFishing TrainerThunder Bluff55.8, 47.6
  • HordeArmand CromwellFishing TrainerUndercity80.4, 31.2

Gear that helps

  • Fishing Pole
  • Shiny Bauble

Where the materials come from

Raw Brilliant Smallfish
  • Fishing: Dun Morogh 60%, Mulgore 60%, Elwynn Forest 59%, Tirisfal Glades 45%, Teldrassil 26%
Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
  • Fishing: Thunder Bluff 60%, Stormwind City 60%, Darnassus 60%, Orgrimmar 60%, Arathi Basin 44%
  • Vendors - 18c (limited stock): Vernon Hale Alliance - Redridge, Innkeeper Thulbek Horde - Stranglethorn, Wigcik - Stranglethorn, +23 more
  • Drops from 49 enemies - best chances:
    • Lady Sedorax (elite, level 18, Darkshore): 22%
    • Stormscale Toxicologist (level 15, Darkshore): 9.8%
    • Stormscale Wave Rider (level 15-16, Darkshore): 9.8%
  • Pick Pocket (Rogues): 47 enemies, e.g. Vile Fin Tidecaller 64%
Raw Slitherskin Mackerel
  • Fishing: Durotar 60%, Teldrassil 56%, Westfall 14%, Darkshore 13%, Silverpine Forest 12%
  • Vendors - 18c (limited stock): Vernon Hale Alliance - Redridge, Innkeeper Thulbek Horde - Stranglethorn, Wigcik - Stranglethorn, +23 more
  • Drops from 47 enemies - best chances:
    • Blightsculler (rare, level 10, Tirisfal Glades): 44%
    • Deeb (rare, level 12, Tirisfal Glades): 17%
    • Makrura Elder (level 8-9, Durotar): 11%
  • Pick Pocket (Rogues): 10 enemies, e.g. Goldtooth 3.1%

Step 2 and on · skill 50–300

Sealed for keepers

The first step is open to everyone. The rest of the Fishing road, with every count, zone and vendor, is for Ledger keepers. Keepers keep the addon free for everyone else.

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