Skill Fishing

I am so tired. Leave me be. All I wish to do is fish!
- Aglthin Dasmore

About

Fishing allows people to pull fresh fish (among other things) from bodies of water. It requires a fishing rod (e.g. Fishing Pole) and bait (e.g. Fishing Bait or Fishing Grubs).

To fish, equip a rod in your main hand with bait in your inventory and stand near a body of water, then cast your line by using the Fishing skill. The smallest fishable body of water in the game is the small puddle in the tunnels leading from the West Freeport newbie area to North Freeport. Any body of water larger than that can also be fished in, including bodies of water inside dungeons.

• All fishing rods have a chance to break (and be destroyed) on use.
• Bait is used on successful catches (whether fish or junk) and can also be lost on failed catches.
• Fishing has a 10 second cooldown.
• You can fish while sitting (meditating). You cannot fish while swimming.
• If you receive the message about fishing for land sharks, make sure you're close enough to the water.
• "Skill Mod: Fishing" on rods, baits, and lures is not classic and these skill modifiers are nonfunctional on Project 1999. [1] [2]
• In order to begin the process of fishing, you must not have anything "in your hands" (on your cursor). This same limitation does not exist at the point in time when you would catch something.
• If you do not meet the requirements for beginning the process of fishing (i.e. having an item on your cursor) then, when the skill is activated, you will not fish and the skill will be placed on cooldown.
• setup a macro to /autoinventory the item on your cursor then /doa <fishing ability #>

Classes

• All (Max: 200)

Fishing is level capped (5*level)+5, so if you are level 20, you can only build your fishing skill to 105.

Fishing Rods

• Fishing Pole
• Collapsible Fishing Pole
• Aglthin's Fishing Pole
• Ancient Fishing Pole
• Uliorn's Fishing Pole

Note: Tuuak's Fishing Pole and Kerran Fishingpole cannot actually be used for fishing, only fighting.

Recipes

For most fish-related recipes, see Baking.

To make Fish Eggs, combine either a Thunder Salmon or Greengill Salmon and a Skinning Knife in a Tackle Box (Trivial Fishing 135). It will produce 2 Fish Eggs and 2 Fish Scales.

Combine a Gunthak Mackerel and a Skinning Knife in a Tackle Box to make 5 Fishing Baits.

You can make many varieties of lures but they have no special effect. The hooks for these can only be purchased in Ocean of Tears on Zachariah Reigh island. These are all made in a Tackle Box (purchasable from the same place as the hooks). Silk thread is made in a Sewing Kit (see Tailoring). Use the lures in place of bait. Hooks and tackle box can also be purchased from Kogg in The Feerrott.

Lure	Ingredients	Trivial
busy bee dry fly	bixie wing, silk thread, dry hook	<29
night swooper dry fly	bat fur, silk thread, dry hook	<29
purple trickster dry fly	pixie wing, silk thread, dry hook	<29
screeching dry fly	giant bat fur, silk thread, dry hook	<29
shimmering gossamer dry fly	faerie wing, silk thread, dry hook	<29
squeaking nibbler dry fly	rat fur, silk thread, dry hook	<29
yappin doggie dry fly	gnoll fur, silk thread, dry hook	<29
yellowjacket dry fly	wasp wing, silk thread, dry hook	<29
busy bee treble fly	bixie wing, silk thread, treble hook	<29
night swooper treble fly	bat fur, silk thread, treble hook	<29
purple trickster treble fly	pixie wing, silk thread, treble hook	<29
screeching treble fly	giant bat fur, silk thread, treble hook	<29
shimmering gossamer treble fly	faerie wing, silk thread, treble hook	<29
squeaking nibbler treble fly	rat fur, silk thread, treble hook	<29
yappin doggie treble fly	gnoll fur, silk thread, treble hook	<29
yellowjacket treble fly	wasp wing, silk thread, treble hook	<29
busy bee circular fly	bixie wing, silk thread, circular hook	>29
night swooper circular fly	bat fur, silk thread, circular hook	>29
purple trickster circular fly	pixie wing, silk thread, circular hook	>29
screeching circular fly	giant bat fur, silk thread, circular hook	>29
shimmering gossamer circular fly	faerie wing, silk thread, circular hook	>29
squeaking nibbler circular fly	rat fur, silk thread, circular hook	>29
yappin doggie circular fly	gnoll fur, silk thread, circular hook	>29
yellowjacket circular fly	wasp wing, silk thread, circular hook	>29

Zone-Specific Fishing

When fishing in various zones, you will find a wide variety of items being reeled in on your line. (Several zones still have fresh fish as their main fishing items, so bakers need not despair that they'll run out of normal fish for baking anytime soon.)

Also note that there are several fish that you have to kill to get. They are not fished - you have to jump in the water and give them a chance to bite you back if you want them. These include: Rivervale Trout (Rivervale), Pirahnas (Rivervale), Cabilis Barracuda (Cabilis), and the infamous koalindl (N. Qeynos). Unsurprisingly, since the koalindl is a sacred fish, certain residents of Qeynos take offense if you kill it, so beware of faction hits, and guards that will try to kill you if you attack one of these little fish.

Zone	Reeled In
Ak'Anon	Clockwork Koi
Blackburrow	Hound Pike (can be baked into a fillet)
Butcherblock Mountains	Stonefish , Saltwater Seaweed
Cabilis	Fetid Bass , Gigantic Fetid Bass , Large Fetid Bass , Sewer Catfish
Chardok	Chokai Bass (from a pool at the base of the waterfall on the way to the royals area)
City of Mist	Ikfish , Fogwater Trout (can be baked into a fillet)
Cobalt Scar	Cobalt Cod (51+ skill to fish, used for Cod Oil), Dragon Bay Snapper (60+ skill to fish)
Crystal Caverns	Crystalline Cave Fish
Crushbone	Boar Carp (can be baked into a fillet)
Dagnor's Cauldron	Cauldron Trout (can be baked into a fillet)
Eastern Wastes	Rygorrian Toothfish
Erud's Crossing	Barren Flounder , Timorous Tuna
Feerrott	Thullian Mudskipper
Felwithe	Koada Cichlid
Firiona Vie	Fetid Bass , Large Fetid Bass , Gigantic Fetid Bass , Sewer Catfish
Highpass Hold	Highland Pike (can be baked into a fillet)
The Hole	Hatch Dace
Iceclad Ocean	Salty Whitefish , Iceclad Cutlassfish
Innothule Swamp	Thullian Mudskipper , Rujarkian Chub (can be baked into a fillet)
Karnor's Castle	Wulf Fish
Kael Drakkel	Frosty Cave Trout
Kedge Keep	Kedge Carp (apparently there are spots in the zone that you can fish from if you are levitating <boggle>)
Kerra Island	Kerra Catfish
Lake of Ill Omen	Bloodfin Trout (can be baked into a fillet)
Lake Rathetear	Rathe Muskie
Mines of Nurga	Cave Guppy , Sponge Mushroom
North Karana, South Karana, West Karana, East Karana	Thunder Salmon (can be baked into a fillet or converted into fish eggs and fish scales)
Ocean of Tears	Saltwater Seaweed (no drop, used for Sea Temper)(Trivial ~70), Gunthak Mackerel (can be turned into bait)
The Overthere	Danak Grouper
Old Sebilis	Kunzar Koi
Siren's Grotto	Grotto Bluegill
Sleepers Tomb	Weary Wrass
Surefall Glade	Pine Cichlid
Swamp of No Hope	Krup Guppy , Despair Chub (can be baked into a fillet)
Timorous Deep	Timorous Tuna , Saltwater Seaweed (no drop, used for Sea Temper)
Tower of Frozen Shadow	Grotto Bluegill
Toxxulia Forest	Greengill Salmon (can be baked into a fillet or converted into fish eggs and fish scales)
Warsliks Woods	Evergreen Salmon
Western Wastes	Red Roughy

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