WoW Fishing Guide | Fishing Leveling Guide WoW

Fishing, as one of the secondary professions in the World of Warcraft was considered to be one of the hardest professions to level up. Up to the Burning Crusade expansion, fishing wasn’t even appreciated as a very useful profession.

With the new cooking recipes that had a major impact on the improvement of your character in a raid, fishing has become a very useful and valued profession.

Wrath of the Lich King expansion in 2008 brought us also expansion in fishing. With the new achievements in professions, new daily quests and expansion in cooking, fishing has become more popular than ever.

By doing all of the fishing achievements you will be granted a special title “Salty” which, we can surely say, is quite difficult to get and there aren’t many players with it. In order to get this title you will need to do series of fishing achievements like The Coin Master which has three parts - A Penny For Your Thoughts, Silver in the City and There's Gold In That There Fountain.

You will also need to win on a Sunday’s Booty Bay fishing contest for the Master Angler of Stranglethorn achievement, do all of the five fishing daily quests found in Dalaran for the Chasing Marcia achievement, fish from different types of fish schools in Outland and Northrend, etc.

Not only that fishing is a useful profession, it is a very profitable profession as well. You can level up fishing without levelling the cooking, however, these two match each other perfectly so it would be advised to level them both up.
How can I make money with fishing?

Well, the answer is simple – fish! You can just go to certain areas on the map and find fishing spots and just fish. Selling raw fish is also very profitable and stacks of various fishes are sold on the Auction House in the split of a second. However, if you have cooking levelled up than the best thing would be to make food.

There are various foods made from fish that can increase stats of any class, like spell power, spirit, stamina, hit rating, crit rating, haste rating, agility, strength, attack power, etc. There is a special food for hunters’ pets and for the whole raid – Fish Feast.

The Fish Feast is made from three different types of fish and Northern Spices, which can be obtained by completing Dalaran cooking daily quests. This special Fish Feast will grant anyone who eats it 80 attack power, 40 stamina and 46 spell power for one hour duration.

We can say with certainty that fishing is very useful and that together with cooking it belongs to the professions that can boost your character as well as your friends and guildies. However, anybody who ever tried or levelled fishing can tell you that levelling of this wonderful profession goes slower than with any other.

To level up fishing you will need an adequate fishing pool, fishing lures which will increase your fishing skill and suitable areas for fishing. Other than that, as in real life so in WoW, you will need a lot of patience. Casting your fishing pool into the water and waiting for a fish to bite can take time.

If you just started levelling fishing don’t give up straight away. Wait a bit and if you aren’t in a rush you can level up your fishing skill to a certain point and then start doing the dailies. It will go a lot easier from there.

WoW Fishing Guide 1-450

Fish until you reach 75. Find your Fishing Trainer in the area (Uthan Stillwater or Lee Brown) and train.

Learn Recipe:Brilliant Smallfish and cook all you can. If you haven't reached Cooking 50, fish for more. At Cooking 50, learn Recipe:Longjaw Mud Snapper and cook all of them.

You're probably not at Cooking 75 yet, but we're going to move because there is a higher catch rate for Raw Longjaw Mud Snappers in these other locations.

Go to Thunder Bluff, train Cooking, and fish from the small pond on the lower rise or Stormwind, train Cooking and fish from the canals.

Cook all of your fish and make sure you have Cooking 75. Time to head to Hillsbrad Foothills.

Head to Tarren Mill or Southshore and go over to the river. Fish in the Sagefish schools. Occasionally you will fish up a trunk, open it and hope you get a Weather-Beaten Journal which will teach you the Find Fish ability.

Be sure to get all the recipes from your Cooking and Fishing Suppliers. They are near the Trainers.

If you don't have the Weather-Beaten Journal, don't worry you can still get it at the next stop.

Head to Altreac Mountains, to Lordmere Lake near the Dalaran Crater. Fish from the Greater Sagefish schools all along the shore. If you didn't get the Weather-Beaten Journal, fish in the Waterlogged Wreckage pools until you get it. Don't leave here without it!!

Get Fishing and Cooking to 225. This will allow you to get Nat's Lucky Fishing Pole (this is the best pole in the game until you get lucky on a Fishing Daily in Dalaran, get exalted with the Kalu'ak or win the Fishing Contest in Stranglethorn Vale). Click for more info on fishing poles.

Now you have to do some traveling. Go to Dustwallow Marsh and find Nat Pagle (58,60). Pick up Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme.

Back to Gadgetzan, fly to Camp Mojache or Feathermoon Stronghold in Feralas and buy all the recipes from Sheendra Tallgrass or Vivianna.

Get to Booty Bay however you want and find Kelsey Yance in the Old Port Authority building. Buy all of his recipes.

Go to Dustwallow Marsh and see Nat Pagle (58,60) again. Turn in Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme and get Nat's Lucky Fishing Pole. Click for more info on fishing poles.

At this point we're going to concentrate on Cooking since you can fish anywhere and still level. Fishing for 10-20 minutes (1-2 lures) at each location should get your cooking where it needs to be.

Start near the shore (I like (50,50) on the ruins jutting into the water). Cook to at least 250.

Move out to The Bay of Storms (on the island with Scalebeard's Cave (54,50) is a good spot).

Cook to 300 (You will need Refreshing Spring Water to cook the lobsters, so save them until you get to a vendor). If you want to stay here until Fishing 275, feel free.

Head for Thrallmar or Honor Hold and train Cooking from Baxter or Gaston. Cook the rest of the fish from Azshara.

Horde get all the recipes from Rungor (Stonebreaker Hold, Terokkar Forest), Nula the Butcher (Garadar, Nagrand), Gambarinka (Zabra'jin, Zangermarsh), and Zurai (Swamprat Post, Zangarmarsh).

Alliance get recipes from Innkeeper Biribi (Allgerean Stronghold, Terokkar Forest), Uriku (Telaar, Nagrand), and Doba (Orebor Harborage, Zangarmarsh). You need to be at least Neutral with the Kurenai to talk to the last 2 NPCs.

Now Head to Cenarion Refuge, Zangarmarsh and buy all the recipes from Juno Dufrain. If your Fishing is 275, train it too.

Start in Umbrafen Lake (I like the island around (73,63)). After about 10 minutes (1 lure) here you can start working on your Fishing Achievements starting with Outland Angler.

Kylene (World's End Tavern, Shattrath) has 3 recipes, but you have to train them. Stewed Trout is skill 320, Fisherman's Feast and Hot Buttered Trout are 350.

Rollick MacKreel (Valiance Keep, Borean Tundra)
Brom Brewbaster (Valgarde, Howling Fjord)
Katherine Lee (A Hero's Welcome, Dalaran)
Orn Tenderhoof (Warsong Hold, Borean Tundra)
Thomas Kolichio (Vengeance Landing, Howling Fjord)
Awilo Lon'gomba (Sunreaver's Sanctuary, Dalaran)

Make sure you do the quest Northern Cooking (there are 2 versions for each Faction), you will need the reward later for one of the Cooking Dailies. You can't get this quest in Dalaran!!

After 400 you will need to do the Dalaran Cooking Dailies (listed below) to get new recipes and Northern Spices. You can get the dailies at Cooking 350, but the recipes require Cooking 400 to learn. Pick the one(s) you like and cook them to 450.

Old Man Robert (Valiance Keep, Borean Tundra)
Byron Welwick (Valgarde, Howling Fjord)
Fishy Ser'ji (Warsong Hold, Borean Tundra)
Angelina Soren (Vengeance Landing, Howling Fjord)
Marcia Chase (The Eventide, Dalaran)

In between catching fish to level Cooking, you can work on your Fishing Achievements to get some cool rewards and the "Salty" title. Catch stuff until you're 450.

	Alliance	Horde
Fishing trainers 1–300	Arnold Leland – Stormwind City Astaia – Darnassus Grimnur Stonebrand – Ironforge Erett – The Exodar Lee Brown – Elwynn Forest Diktynna – Azuremyst Isle Matthew Hooper – Redridge Mountains Paxton Ganter – Dun Morogh Warg Deepwater – Loch Modan Harold Riggs – Wetlands Donald Rabonne – Hillsbrad Foothills Androl Oakhand – Teldrassil Myizz Luckycatch – Stranglethorn Vale Brannock – Feralas	Drathen – Silvermoon City Kah Mistrunner – Thunder Bluff Armand Cromwell – Undercity Lumak – Orgrimmar Lau'Tiki – Durotar Uthan Stillwater – Mulgore Clyde Kellen – Tirisfal Glades Kil'Hiwana – Ashenvale Lui'Mala – Desolace Katoom the Angler – The Hinterlands Myizz Luckycatch – Stranglethorn Vale
Master Fishing trainers 300–375	Juno Dufrain – Zangarmarsh	Juno Dufrain – Zangarmarsh Zurjaya – Zangarmarsh
Grand Master Fishing trainers 375–450	Byron Welwick – Howling Fjord Old Man Robert – Borean Tundra Marcia Chase – Dalaran	Angelina Soren – Howling Fjord Fishy Ser'ji – Borean Tundra Marcia Chase – Dalaran

I hope this WoW Fishing guide has helped you to reach 450.