Wow Fishing Guide

I've set up this wow fishing guide to teach you how to level up as quickly as possible, hence I've left out what you don't need to know that is a waste of time.

If you are leveling your fishing you may also want to level your cooking at the same time, as these 2 skills can go hand in hand.

It should take you about 15 hours to complete the following guide (perhaps 11 if you are really fast!)

What causes your skill rate to change?

What decides your skillups is the number of successful catches.

From level 1 to 75 you will get a skillpoint on pretty much every successful catch, this will decrease as your skill gets higher and from 300 to 450 you will need to do more than 10 successful catches for each skill point gained. The following equation gives a rough estimate:

(Current Fishing Skill - 75) / 25 = Rough number of successful catches for a skill-up.

You should also be aware that it does not matter where you fish, your skill rate only changes due to the number of successful catches that you make.

Before reading on, I wanted to let you know:

Here is my recommended comprehensive gold guide: Gold Guide

Here is my recommended comprehensive leveling guide: WoW Leveling Guide

WoW Fishing Leveling Guide 1 - 450

First, visit any trainer in the main cities of old Azeroth - just ask a guard, and learn Fishing Apprentice.

• 1 - 300 
  Buy a Fishing Pole, it's sold by trade goods vendors and fishing suppliers. Go to the nearest water, and fish from skill 1 to 300. When you reach skill 75, you can go to Barrens and cath [Deviate Fish], the best spot is to go into Wailing Caverns and fish there, because then you won't have to move between pools to find School of Deviate Fish. You can sell the fish raw at the Auction House or if you have the recipe you can sell [Savory Deviate Delight].
  
  Do not forget to visit your fishing trainer when you reach skill 75, 150 and 225!

300 - 450

Before you travel, gather together gear and lures that improve your effective fishing skill. At least a +5 Strong Fishing Pole and a stack of +75 Bright Baubles. There are a lot more fishing Poles, check out this link for the list of every fishing Poles and this link for the list of lures.

Go to Borean Tundra in Northrend and learn Master rank from Fishy Ser'ji (Horde) in Warsong Hold, or Old Man Robert (Alliance) in Valiance Keep. Even with good gear and lures, initially you will catch a lot of junk fishing in Northrend, in Borean Tundra you will need 475 effective skill to fish without catching junk. If you are higher level, around 80, you should go to Wintergasp instead of Borean Tundra, you can make the most gold by fishing there, at the start, around half of your cathes will be junk, but the amount of junk will gradually decline.

Do not forget to visit your fishing trainer when you reach Fishing skill 375!

Here is my recommended comprehensive gold guide: Gold Guide

Here is my recommended comprehensive leveling guide: WoW Leveling Guide

I hope you've gained some valuable info from this WoW Fishing guide. I highly recommend that you sign up for my free mini course which is a quick guide to Levelling from 1-80 in World of Warcraft.