Fishing equipment

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Contents 1 Fishing equipment 2 Fishing lures 3 Fishing gloves 4 Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza gear 5 Fishing gear combinations 6 External links

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
+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).

Fishing gear combinations

Since the release of 2.4, the addition of [Recipe: Captain Rumsey's Lager] in the Daily Fishing Quest rewards have increased the highest achievable skill to 612 (450 skill, +100 lure, +40 pole & line, +12 clothes, +10 lager). The Daily Fishing Quests require a level 70 character, but some of the rewards of the Daily Fishing Quests can be sold or transferred. The lager recipe binds on pickup, but the brewed lager can be traded.

A more realistic goal, acknowledging that it may be a while before you win the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza, is a fishing skill of 597 (450 skill, +100 lure, +30 pole, +5 line, +12 clothes) achievable by anyone with persistence; 607 with +10 lager, either by luck from fishing quests or by purchase.

A level 80 character can get to a fishing skill of 600 (450 skill, +100 lure, +30 pole, +3 line, +7 clothes, +10 lager) without even doing the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza.

The most difficult fishing zone currently only requires a fishing skill of 575 for no catches getting away. This can be achieved with simply the quest reward [Seth's Graphite Fishing Pole], a +100 lure and some combination of clothing, enchants, lines or lager to give the final +5 skill.

Raising your skill bonus to +50 excluding lures will allow you to use +75 rather than +100 lures for your Northrend fishing. This is possible without ever doing the fishing extravaganza, but will require gaining every reward from the Outland fishing dailies, gaining exalted with Kalu'ak and the use of a lager. Only by winning the fishing extravaganza will you be able to reach 575 skill using only a +75 lure and no lager.

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