WoW Fishing Guide

Fishing is one of the three secondary professions that are available to WoW-players. It is of course optional to take this profession but there are many advantages when you decide to do so. There are many fun achievements that can be completed if you decide to level up your fishing. Besides that you can make a nice amount of gold by selling your fish. There are also other items that can be fished out of lakes and seas which can also have a nice value. 

If you combine the Fishing profession with the Cooking profession, you can also turn the fishes you caught into meals that give you buffs. This is nice while leveling and once you get to the levels where you can raid because a ‘food buff’ basically makes your character stronger.

If you are interested to level up your Fishing profession you have come to the right address because you can find the guidelines for both the Horde and the Alliance below. Follow these and you will level it up successfully and fast. On top of that, these guides combine leveling & cooking so you can hit two birds with one stone! 

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+Fishing Gear:
I also recommend that you use +fishing gear on your travels, as this will help your chances of success. While this isn't a requirement, if you purchase a "Strong Fishing Pole" once you reach level 10 fishing skill, you will increase your fishing by +5.

Leveling Your Fishing Skill:
Fishing skill is leveled by successive catches. If you haven't fished before you will level with just about every successful catch you make. Once you reach higher levels, it will take more successful catches in order to level your skill. For certain levels it will take at least 10 successful catches to gain one skill point.

Horde Fishing Guide:

1. First go to a Fishing trainer in either your starting area or in one of the major cities. They can be found near the water. Learn the profession, buy a fishing pole and a stack of Shiny Baubles that increase your Fishing skill.

2.Move to Bloodhoof Village in Mulgore.

3.Speak with Harn Longcast and buy the Longjaw Mud Snapper  and Brilliant Smallfish recipes.

4. Apply the Baubles on your Pole, equip the Pole and start Fishing at Stonebull Lake.

5. Catch about 60 Brilliant Small Fish, you will probably catch some Longjaw Mud Snappers while you’re at it.

6. Once you have the needed fish you should make a fire and cook them in order to level up your cooking skill.

7. Once you cooked all the Small Fishes it is time to bake the Mud Snappers.

8.Move  to Orgrimmar where you can ask a guard for firections to the Fishing trainer. Learn Journeyman Cooking which will enable you to Fish up to skill level 150.

9. If you are leveling your Cooking skill at the same time, you should fish some more Snappers, about 25, in Orgrimmar so you can cook these.

10.Take the Zeppelin to Hillsbrad. Derak Nightfall in Tarren Mill sells the Catfish recipe and you should buy this one.

11.There is only one big river in the Hillsbrad Foothills and this is where you can catch Bristle Whisker Catfish. You have learned to cook these so do so until it turns green for you.

12. Now that your Fishing skill is above level 125 you can learn Expert Fishing. You need to buy the Fishing book from Old Man Heming in Booty Bay.

13. Head to Desolace, Shadowprey Village on the western coast to be exact, once you reach skill 175, where you can but the Mithril Head Trout Recipe. Start Fishing in the sea until you have skill level 225.

14. You can only level up your Fishing and Cooking skill up to 225 if you are not above level 35.

 
Alliance Fishing Guide:

1. Learn the Fishing profession in your starting area or in one of the major cities. They can always be found near the water.

2. Start Fishing in Elwynn Forest, where you can also obtain the Brilliant Smallfish and Longjaw Mud Snappers recipes in the Inn.

3. Fish at Crystal Lake just a bit to the East.

4. Make sure that you have around 60 Brilliant Smallfish so you can cook these and get your cooking skill up to level 50

5. Once you hit skill level 50 you can go to your Fishing and Cooking trainer to train. You can Fish in the canals of Stormwind to catch some more Longjaw Mudsnappers. Make sure that you can get your Cooking level up to 100 before you leave SW

6. Next, go to Southshore and talk to Donald Rabonne and purchase the recipe for Bristle Whisker Catfish and Mithril Head Trout.

7. Now you should go to the river just a tiny bit east of Southshore where you can catch these Whiskers. DO this until you got both your Cooking and Fishing skill up to 125.

8.Once you hit level 125 it’s time to go to Booty Bay where you can Purchase the Expert Fishing book which will allow you to Fish up to skill level 225.

9. Head to the Arathi Highlands and move to Stromgarde Keep. There are some small lakes in front of the keep, here you can catch about 100 Mithril Trout. You should be able to get both your Fishing and Cooking skill up to 225.

10. You need to be level 35 or higher in order to go beyond skill level 225.

Here is my recommended comprehensive gold guide: Gold Guide
Here is my recommended comprehensive leveling guide: WoW Leveling Guide

I hope that this guide was helpful and that you have been given some valuable information.

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