Leveling in FishingFollow

I need to figure out what level of fishing I need to catch certain types of fishing. Currently at 158, tried to fish in Feathermoon, but said my skill wasn't high enough. Anyone know where I can find a list of the level you need to be to fish in certain areas. I need this for my alchemy. Thanks for any help

You should be between 200 and 250 to fish successfully in Feralas. This guide is very helpful and can be found in the left column under guides.

http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/guides.html?guide=389

You can level your fishing ANYWHERE. All that matters is catching fish, not the type of fish, and not the location where you fish. You can go to 300 fishing in the newbie pond behind Goldshire or the lagoon inside Orgrimaar. It's not what you wanted to hear, but it's the truth.

Is this still valid?

Because at around 200 now, I don't get many (if any) skillups when I fish in the low level areas, while fishing up in Booty Bay, for example, will give me fast skillups.

From what we can tell from over two years of experience, fishing does not work that way. Assuming that you do not get the message that your fish got away, changing zones makes no difference whatsoever in how many fish you catch. The only difference fishing in different zones will make, again assuming you do not get the message that your fish got away, is the type of fish you pull up.

Leveling up fishing is based upon a simple concept, the higher your skill the more fish you have to pull in before you gain a skill point. For example, when you first start fishing you will gain a skill point with every fish you pull up. But at 235 fishing it may take you 6 to 9 successful catches before you gain a point. I read an excellent post once, I can’t even remember which site it was on, which listed the approximate number of casts per certain level ranges all the way to 300.

So if all you want is skill then simply stay in the starter zone and fish. But if you are trying to level up your cooking or feed a pet, it becomes a bit more complicated. That’s when you have to seek out higher level zones to be able to fish up the higher level fish.

you can expect to spend 6 hours going from lvl 300 to 375

From my experience the fishing levels up faster in higher areas, if u can successfully catch fish there. I've tested this, and it took me around 25 fishes caught in Orgrimmar (1 fishing skill req) to get from 351 to 352, but only around 16 to get from 352 to 353 in Feralas (205 fishing skill req), and when trying to fish in Winterspring (330 fishing skill req), i had to catch about 16 fishes also,but i also had about 10-12 "Your fish got away" messages.

I took uf fishing just to get deviate fish so i don't really care cuz im gunna make me some deviate delites and roll in the dough

Just to compare things a bit, I have about 170 fishing skill and I was fishing off the coast of ratchet yesterday (good for me cos I can get fish oily blackmouths + I get stranglekelp and I fish the "debris" nodes which can have nice loot). Anyhow I got a skillup every 4-5 successful catches.

Two questions that I have not seen mentioned elsewhere:
- do you get more skillups with a higher int, as is the case with weapon skills? Because I tried yesterday with int 120 and 210 (I am a druid so I have a full set of +int gear) and I didn't notice any difference.
- is it important how fast you right-click to catch the fish? Or do you always have say, 1 second to do so?