how to make cash fishing!!!!Follow

First of all, get your buns to Booty bay and buy the book that will get you to 225 fishing. Staying at 150 for your level is unconscionable.

Then head for Menethil harbor. fish there until you get to 225. You'll get lots of Oily Blackmouths and Firefin Snappers. throw the rest of the fish away.

Once you reach 225, go to Theramore. On an island in the bay, you'll find Nat Pagle. He will give you a quest that will allow youto raise your fishing to 300.

I went from 225 to 300 in Tanaris (with +75 lures). Why? The cooking quest is in Tanaris, and part of it is fishing for clam meat. And, as long as you are fishing for clam meat, you might as well fish for eels there, too. ...and you don't have to be L45 to fish there either. It's easy enough to get there in your mid 20's and fish safely. The turtles don't attack you and the road from Gadgetzan to the beach is always clear of mobs.

Lures are not a waste of money, as Chosenorc states. They help you catch fish faster and reduce the number of missed catches. Anything that makes more money than it costs can hardly be considered a "waste". Now, I normally don't use +100 lures - I use +75's, which when added to my Big Iron pole and the +5 fishing hat = +100. The +100 lures last 1/2 the time of the +75's as well as being more expensive. But then again, I use +100's on Sundays at the tournament, just for an extra edge.

Edited, Mon Mar 6 11:24:26 2006 by ohmikeghod

Looking at Deviate fish from a PVE viewpoint: People don't just want to be "pirates and ninja's" but Gnomes do want to be in line of sight (i.e. taller target).

FOR THE ALLIANCE! ;)

Agreed! What are you going to do? Fish the Barrens oases for a few gold per hour, or fish the Tanaris ocean for tens of gold per hour (at the cost of a few silver)?

Gee, I had to use shiny baubles to catch those stonescale eels...

im also leather/skinning if that makes a differecne

I don't normally disagree with Mike, as he knows his stuff. But I am very curious on this highlighted sentence. So far as I know, nothing increases your speed at catching fish; it is entirely random.



I don't think this is what the poster was talking about. At a certain skill level, you simply won't miss fish in a zone (I believe it is 300 in Tanaris for complete coverage ^_^).

What I thought Mike originally meant was that lures increase the speed at which you pull up a fish. In other words, you pull up a fish in 10 seconds average instead of say, 15. I thought this because he said:



Any comments, Mike? Interested in any evidence you have, with numbers or not. If it can be proven, I will advocate using lures in the Sticky; but right now, I believe it is completely random and speed is not due to fishing skill at all. Why? Because at skill level 1 you sometimes pull up a fish almost instantly, and at level 300, I still need to wait for the entire channeling bar to finish before I get a bite at times ^_^

Those are some horrid prices

BlackRock on a good day

Deviate fish - 10-12g a stack
BlackMouth - 3-5
Firefin - .75 - 1.5
Stonescale - 20-40g
Winter squid - 3g uncooked

Those are good days, though. The secret is to wait for low supply periods and price your fish at a decent price. No reason to waste time fishing if your gonna get crap for money.

Without a lure, I normally get about 28-30 casts per 10 minutes. With a +75 lure, I normally get 35+ casts per 10 minutes. There also seemed to be less missed catches (and yes, you can still miss catches at 400 fishing [300 skill, +20 pole, +5 hat, +75 lure]).

im now a lvl 25 horde undead rogue with 170/225 fishing with a +3 pole in hillsbrad i can cook but i really dont kno were the hell i should fish!!!!!!

Oh my. I love my server then.

On Eredar, I regularly sell 1/2 a stack for 20-22g.

On Sunday, I sold 82 of them for 140g to some alchemist in IF. Thanks for the buy.

You can fish anywhere an still get the regular mix o' fish.

However, there are also specific fish schools (firefin, blackmouth, sagefish, greater sagefish, deviates and wreckage) that will yield a much different mix of fish.

For example, from a firefin snapper school you will either get a firefin snapper (maybe 80% of the time), stranglekelp, or an unlocked chest. Wreckage will yield a chest, rum, bloated fish (contains gem), or stranglekelp.

There are different chests for different areas. Higher level chests contain better items, and they are usually level-appropriate for the area. I do a little happy dance whenever I see wreckage.

If you are going after a particular type of fish (e.g. fishing the tainted oases for deviate fish) it is to your advantage to search for and fish the schools rather than stand in one spot and catch mostly other types of fish.

Predictably, the price of these schooled fish has dropped because they are consequently quicker to catch.

i catch and cook Deviate fish and sell 5 for 2.75g on mal'ganis - made about 33g yesterday from them

the recipie cost 17-30g on my server