Fishing equipment

	Fishing (Profession)
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Fishing equipment

The only equipment required for fishing is a fishing pole. Unlike the other professions, you can boost your fishing skill considerably with equipment and lures.

Boost	Item	How to Obtain
Fishing poles — only one can be equipped at a time
—	[Fishing Pole]	Vendor, also Quest: [6] Red Snapper - Very Tasty!
+3	[Blump Family Fishing Pole]	Quest: [14] The Family and the Fishing Pole
+5	[Strong Fishing Pole]	Vendor (limited quantity (1))
+15	[Darkwood Fishing Pole]	(very rare) Found while fishing inland waters in Ashenvale, Hillsbrad Foothills, and Stonetalon Mountains
+20	[Big Iron Fishing Pole]	Drop found in Shellfish Trap
+20	[Nat Pagle's Extreme Angler FC-5000]	Quest: [50] Snapjaws, Mon!
+20	[Seth's Graphite Fishing Pole]	Quest: [64] Rather Be Fishin'
+25	[Nat's Lucky Fishing Pole]	Quest: [45] Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme
+30	[Jeweled Fishing Pole]	Quest reward (Daily Fishing Quests)
+30	[Bone Fishing Pole]	Quest reward (Daily Fishing Quests)
+30	[Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole]	Kalu'ak faction vendor (requires Exalted)
+40	[Arcanite Fishing Pole]	Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza: Competition Reward
Fishing Lines — permanent enchantment on fishing pole, only one at a time
+3	[Spun Truesilver Fishing Line]	Quest reward (Daily Fishing Quests)
+5	[High Test Eternium Fishing Line]	Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza: Rare Fish turn-in
Fishing Lures — 10 minute enchantment on fishing pole, only one at a time
+25	[Shiny Bauble]	Vendor, also Quest: [6] Red Snapper - Very Tasty! (only one)
+50	[Nightcrawlers]	Vendor, and Drop from most level 19-60 Undead monsters
+50	[Aquadynamic Fish Lens]	Quest: [12] Electropellers
+75	[Bright Baubles]	Vendor
+75	[Flesh Eating Worm]	Drop from Rotted One in Duskwood
+75	Fishing Hat Lure (spell)	Use: [Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat]
+100	[Sharpened Fish Hook]	Quest reward (Daily Fishing Quests)
+100	[Aquadynamic Fish Attractor]	Vendor (limited quantity (1) or (2)), and Engineer-Made (skill level 150)
+100	[Glow Worm]	Quest reward (Daily Fishing Quests) (Lasts 1 hour)
Fishing hats — only one can be equipped at a time
+5	[Lucky Fishing Hat]	Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza: Rare Fish turn-in
+5	[Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat]	Quest reward (Daily Fishing Quests)
Other
—	[Fishing Chair] (allows seated fishing)	TCG Loot Card reward (from Gone Fishin’)
+2	[Enchant Gloves - Fishing]	([Formula]) Drop from murlocs in the Western Strand of Hillsbrad Foothills
+5	[Nat Pagle's Extreme Anglin' Boots]	Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza: Rare Fish turn-in
+15	[Boots of the Bay]	Kalu'ak Fishing Derby: Competition Reward
+10	[Captain Rumsey's Lager]	([Recipe]) Quest reward (Daily Fishing Quests)
+50	[Underbelly Elixir]	Found in the Underbelly (Only works in Dalaran and one of the three possible buffs)
+217	Total Possible Fishing Skill Boost

Fishing lures

As you can see from the chart, the fishing lures give a much larger boost to fishing skill than any other gear. They are also low cost and readily available. They are an extremely cost effective way of boosting your fishing skill when you need to.

Fishing gloves

The [Enchant Gloves - Fishing] enchantment creates a permanent profession skill bonus on a glove apparel item, which is then worn to apply the fishing skill bonus. Casting the [Enchant Gloves - Fishing] enchantment on a very low level non-binding white or gray quality cloth glove enables the glove to be worn by any character. This will also prevent anyone from accidentally disenchanting the glove. (The materials for the enchantment cannot ever be recovered in any case.)

Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza gear

Any player can win the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza and claim the [Arcanite Fishing Pole] as a reward, which grants +40 fishing (pre Patch 3.1 this was +35 fishing).

You can win the contest with as little as 225 skill (or less and some lures), but you cannot equip the Arcanite Fishing Pole until you have 300 base fishing skill.

A low level character fishing in Stranglethorn Vale's coastal waters will require assistance.

The competition for the

[Arcanite Fishing Pole] is intense, and there are only 52 contest winners a year per server.

Note, too, that there are two very good prizes for winning the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza and you only get to choose one each time you win. There's not much point to winning more than twice per character, but the first time you win, you might want the

[other prize].

The other fishing items from Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza are not competitive prizes. They are awarded in exchange for turning in rare fish that can be caught during the full two hours of competition, even after a winner of the competition has been declared, and there is no limit to the number that can be awarded (but the drop rate is very low). You can turn these rare fish in to the exchange NPC, Fishbot 5000, up to an hour after the competition ends (three hours after it started).

Kalu'k Fishing Derby

The Kalu'ak Fishing Derby is a fishing event—introduced in Patch 3.3—held every Saturday between 14:00 and 15:00 by the Kalu'ak. The objective is to be the first player to catch a [Blacktip Shark], with the winner allowed to choose between a [Dread Pirate Ring], and [Boots of the Bay].

Fishing gear combinations

The highest achievable skill is to 667 (450 skill, +100 lure, +40 pole, +5 line, +5 hat, +5 boots, +2 gloves enchant, +10 lager, +50 underbelly elixir).

While 667 fishing is available, the most difficult fishing zone currently only requires a fishing skill of 575 to avoid junk casts. This gives several different opportunities for players to get this maximum required amount:

Someone who has much of the best gear, doesn't need to use any consumables:
- Skill (450), [Arcanite Fishing Pole] (+40+5 with [High Test Eternium Fishing Line]), [Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat] (+5+75 built-in lure). (This also has the advantage of only taking 2 bag slots)
Someone who doesn't have the luxury of the finer gear (but still has 450 skill) can still have no junk casts by simply using a +100 lure (available by several different means). This only requires +25 fishing.
- This can be done with any of 5 poles:
  - [Nat's Lucky Fishing Pole] -- available through a quest to anyone who gets a fishing skill of 225
  - [Jeweled Fishing Pole] and [Bone Fishing Pole] -- poles available through the daily fishing quests
  - [Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole] -- requires Exalted with the Kalu'ak
  - [Arcanite Fishing Pole] -- From the tournament
Getting down to only using +75 lures (which can substantially reduce costs) and still avoiding all junk casts requires +50 skill, which can be done with several different combinations:
- The tournament pole (+40), the lager (+10)
- The tournament pole (+40), and any two of (+5 each):
  - Boots
  - Hat
  - Nice Line
  - Cheap Line and gloves enchant
- A nicer Wrath pole (+30), the lager (+10), and any two of (+5 each):
  - Boots
  - Hat
  - Nice Line
  - Cheap Line and gloves enchant
- Nat's pole (+25), the nice line (or the cheap line and the gloves enchant) (+5), the lager (+10), Boots (+5) and a hat (+5).
- [Underbelly Elixir] (+50) and any pole.