- Old Crafty
- Binds when picked up
- Held In Off-hand
- +5 Stamina
- Item Level 20
- "Said to be the craftiest fish in Orgrimmar, it appears he was outsmarted at last."
- Sell Price: 25
Old Crafty is am uncommon off hand item. It gives a bonus to stamina.
Source
This item is an extremely rare fish that can be caught in the city limits of Orgrimmar. The waters in the Valley of Honor and the Valley of Spirits have both been cited as sources for obtaining this elusive trophy.
Your best chance at getting this fish, while the off-hand stat bonus is still useful, is to train up your fishing skill in Orgrimmar. Use a [Shiny Bauble] lure at first. Orgrimmar requires a fishing skill (with fishing lure) of 75 to ensure that none of the fish get away, and has a skill limit up to skill 75. Each point of skill short of 75 is a percent that your catch will get away.
Note: For a quick and easy method to obtain this fish for your endgame characters, you must have sufficient fishing skill to partake in the Crocolisks in the City daily quest. After obtaining the quest, go to Orgrimmar and fish in any of the bodies of water inside the city walls — make sure you have autoloot disabled. You will find that you fish up a Crocolisk, do not loot it, but release it and fish again. A high probability exists that your next cast will fetch both a Crocolisk and/or an Old Crafty.
There are further complaints in some cases of people catching many Old Craftys (This bug also applies to the Alliance equivalent fish), but in some cases being unable to loot them. While petitions have been filed with GMs pertaining to this problem, the responses are to the effect that the functions and loot tables pertaining to fishing are working as intended.
Alliance version
The Alliance version of this fish is [Old Ironjaw] which can be caught within the city of Ironforge. These two fish are the only off hand trophy fish that give a stat bonus, both give +5 to Stamina.
Achievement
Patch 3.0.2 added Achievements including Professions achievements. In the Fishing section of the Professions achievements are two achievements, "Catch Old Crafty" and "Catch Old Ironjaws".
This fits well with the Fishing achievement The Fishing Diplomat which requires you to "Fish something up in Orgrimmar and Stormwind".
Patches and hotfixes
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