confused about fishing

[waflob]

Hi all,
just when you think you're getting the hang of the game, something happens that makes you realise that you're still clueless ...

For instance fishing ...

I'm trying to level fishing and go to an area that I can fish, but the results are usually that the fish got away. Every now and then, I actually catch one, but don't get an increase in the fishing skill.

This confuses me, as it appears to be hard enough to miss a lot, but easy enough to not gain skill. How can this be ?!?!?

I know that adding something shiny help, but I'm not sure if that then decreases the chance of gaining skill. i.e. is the base value used, or the enhanced value?

Any ideas ?

DelBoy

[Baboon]

You can level fishing in any sort of water, as long as you catch stuff. So this means if you spend enough time in a level 5 area, you could fish to 375 in theory.

You get a point for about every 9 fishes usually (atleast at later levels, it's probably faster at the start). If your fish gets away, it will take longer ofcourse.

To prevent fish getting away, you can use lures (you should always use them, unless no fish gets away ever without them). If you still have fish getting away, move to a lower level area.

And anyway, fishing is the most tedious of all thing to level. Try to do it while waiting for something, like a battleground queue. I see you are a Troll, try fishing outside the battleground place in Orgrimmar while waiting.

[Wintrow]

Alliance:
you can fish in the Stormwind motes
you can probably fish in the Forlorn Cavern as well (??)
you can fish in Darnassus (water all over the place)
but on the Exodar, where could i fish w/o running back out to sea? Luckily the sea is a tad closer using the back-entrance...

[Dhoum]

As has been said, you can raise your fishing skill in any body of water that your skill allows you to fish in. Fishing in lower level areas mean that you will rarely (if ever) fail to land a fish (no "Your fish got away" messages) but the fish you catch will be worth less and won't be as useful to you.

Also, the number of successful catches required to raise your skill a point goes up as your skill raises. At the beginning you will gain a skill raise with every successful catch, fairly soon that switches to one every two, then one every three, and so on up to one skill raise every ten successful catches at the late 200s skill.

I recommend El's Extreme Anglin' (http://www.elsanglin.com/) guide for everything you want to know about fishing.

[Cattleya]

The best places to level fishing are where you can catch something worthwhile. For a long time, I did a lot of fishing outside of the Troll village on the west coast of Ashenvale. You catch a fair amount of Oily Blackmouths and Firefin snappers, which are used by alchemists and so sell decently. I think you need about 150 skill (which can include bait and any fishing pole bonus) to reliably catch fish there.

I did some fishing in Tarren Mill and Shadowprey Village to level my cooking. I used the guide in the professions forum (http://wow.incgamers.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3711393&postcount=3) here to match up the cooking/fishing leveling. It seemed to work pretty well for me. Once my cooking was at 300+ I moved to fishing in Feralas where I could get the Nightfin snappers which cooked into mp5 food.

[Mincemaker]

Skilling up fishing is determined by number of catch, not by the difficulty of the catch. That means, if you never miss a catch, you can level up fishing as fast in Undercity as compared to the Plaguelands. Also, the number of fish required to level the skill increases depending on what is your current skill level. Meaning, you need to catch more fish for one skill point at 300 fishing skill level as compared to 1 fishing skill level.

[waflob]

thanks for the explainations. I was (mistakenly) under the impression that this was like other profession skills, eg skinning, mining, herbalism, etc etc etc, where the colour of what you're doing is important. You know, the grey, green, ..., up to red.

I guess fishing is different *shrug*

thanks once again

DelBoy