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This guide helps you powerlevel fishing and cooking. This page combines both fishing and cooking, as they complement each other very well, and if you're going to skill up your fishing then you might as well skill up your cooking with all the fish you will be catching. You may also find that many zones yield fish that are more profitable than the low level lake in your starting zone.

Your cooking will always level faster than your fishing. You'll have to make use of lures even more when the gap between your fishing and cooking increases. Typically, by the time one reaches 300 cooking, fishing skill is anywhere between 230 and 250.

It will take you a minimum of 11 hours to complete this guide, but more likely about 14-15.

Also, please be aware that this is not a fully comprehensive guide to both cooking and fishing and was never intended to be. The sole purpose of this guide is to level up your cooking and fishing in the quickest way possible. If you want a guide that covers almost everything about these two skills then please check out Draznar's excellent guides here: Fishing and Cooking.

Fishing Buddy is an invaluable addon for powerleveling fishing. This and listening to some music in the background makes the time pass by so much faster.

Skill Up Formula

You skill up by number of successful catches. The equation is approx. as follows:

(current unmodified fishing level - 75) / 25 = total # of catches required to level

...with a minimum of 1 catch per level.

So, with that knowledge, you'll realize that you can skill up fishing from 1 to 300 by fishing the water of your faction's city. The reason for the different locations mentioned in this guide is for you to be able to skill up your cooking as well.

Horde Crest Horde Guide

1-50

Objectives:

Go to your fishing trainer and cooking trainer and pick up Fishing and Cooking skills. Buy a [Fishing Pole] and a stack of [Shiny Baubles]. You're now ready to begin.

The best place to start is in Bloodhoof Village in Mulgore. Go speak to Harn Longcast and buy [Recipe: Brilliant Smallfish] and [Recipe: Longjaw Mud Snapper] from him. Now start fishing in Stonebull Lake.

Equip your rod and then apply the [Shiny Bauble] lure to it, as this will make catching fish easier. You'll want to catch about 60 [Raw Brilliant Smallfish] and this should take about 40 minutes. You'll find that by the time you have caught 60 [Raw Brilliant Smallfish], you'll also have about 30 [Raw Longjaw Mud Snappers]. Once you have 60, cook them. You can either build your own fire or jog back to Harn Longcast and use the fire in front of him. Cook the [Brilliant Smallfish], then at level 50 start cooking [Longjaw Mud Snappers] (after learning the recipe you bought earlier).

50-75

Objectives:

You'll need to go and catch [Raw Longjaw Mud Snappers] now and the best places for these are the ponds in Orgrimmar by Lumak the Fishing trainer and the pond in front of the bank in Thunder Bluff (I know you've been catching quite a few where you are, but those places offer the greatest probability of catching the fish you want). Between levels 50 and 75 go learn journeyman fishing and cooking. The [Longjaw Mud Snapper] recipe is orange from levels 50 to 100 of Cooking, so you'll need 50 fish.

75-150

Objectives:

Go to the river to the east of Tarren Mill or to one of the rivers or lakes in Ashenvale (after skill level 110) and fish for Bristle Whisker Catfish. Depending on your cooking level, you're going to need about 80-100 of these to get cooking up to 175. You can buy [Recipe: Bristle Whisker Catfish] from Derak Nightfall in the Hillsbrad Foothills, Kilxx in Ratchet, Naal Mistrunner in Thunder Bluff, Sewa Mistrunner in Thunder Bluff, or Ronald Burch in the Undercity.

To raise your Cooking skill above 150, you'll need to go to Shadowprey Village in Desolace and buy the [Expert Cookbook]. You'll need to go to Booty Bay and buy the fishing book to raise fishing above 150. Speak to Old Man Heming and buy the book [Expert Fishing - The Bass and You].

150-225

Objectives:

Once you're up to 175 cooking, go to Shadowprey Village in Desolace. Speak to Wulan and buy [Recipe: Mithril Head Trout] and start fishing on the pier there. Alternatively you can purchase the [Recipe: Mithril Head Trout] from Shankys who stands at the dock in Valley of Honor in Orgrimmar. You're going to need about 60 of these to get your cooking up to level 225.

At this point you should now have level 225 fishing and level 225 cooking. If you're not level 35 yet, then this is as far as you can go. If you are level 35+ then you have two quests to complete before you can continue.

225-226

Objectives:

  • Obtain artisan level cooking and fishing

First quest: Cooking

Requirements: Level 35, 225 Cooking.

Go to Gadgetzan in Tanaris and speak to Dirge Quikcleave. He is in the tavern. He'll want you to bring him 12 [Giant Eggs], 10 [Zesty Clam Meat] and 20 [Alterac Swiss]. You should actually be able to buy the eggs and clam meat off of AH, but in case you can't here's where to find them. Now according to the quest Giant Eggs drop off of Rocs in Tanaris or any large bird. If you circle around the skeletons at [41, 63], [37, 68] and [32, 60] you should get them all pretty quickly. They are on a shared spawn with the hyenas in the area, so kill them too if you're getting few birds. Only needed to kill about 20 of these to get my 12 eggs. They are level 47, so you might want to hold off if you can't kill them easily yet. The clam meat comes from clams in level 35+ areas. However, you're better off killing turtles at Steamwheedle Port to get these. The drop rate is quite high and you'll have your clam meat in no time. While you're at Steamwheedle Port, speak to Gikkix. You'll want to buy the following two [Recipe: Spotted Yellowtail] and [Recipe: Poached Sunscale Salmon] for use in the 226-250 skill levels later. The levels are around 41 for Steamwheedle Port. The Alterac Swiss is the easiest part. Go to Galgrom, the provisioner inside the Caverns of Time, and buy them. At most, 20 Alterac Swiss will cost 1g 60s. Hand them all in and you'll get your Artisan Cooking.

Second Quest: Fishing

Requirements: Level 35, 225 Fishing.

You need to go and find Nat Pagle in Dustwallow Marsh. He is standing on a small island to the West of Theramore [58, 60]. He'll ask you to catch four rare fish for him. This quest is actually really easy and the only hard part is the amount of traveling involved. The fish you need to catch are:

You should catch these fish within 5 to 10 casts at each location. So it won't take long. The best order I've found to do this quest in is (assuming you don't already have all the flightpaths): From Dustwallow, ride to the Great Lift and then head West through Thousand Needles to Camp Mojache in Feralas - From Feralas, ride North West into Desolace and onto Shadowprey Village - From Desolace, fly to Orgrimmar - Get Zeppelin to Grom'Gol Base Camp - Ride North to Duskwood - Ride East to Deadwind Pass - Ride through Deadwind Pass to Swamp of Sorrows.

Now go back to Nat and get your Artisan Fishing. There is apparently a bug with this quest, if go away from Nat BEFORE getting your fishing level to 226, the quest can bug and you'll be stuck on 225 for good. Didn't happen to me, but I've seen a few posts from people who it's happened to.

Ok, so you're now at level 225 in both cooking and fishing and you've done your Artisan quests. Time for the home stretch.

226-250

Objectives:

Go to Steamwheedle Port and speak to Gikkix. You'll want to buy the following two [Recipe: Spotted Yellowtail] and [Recipe: Poached Sunscale Salmon]. Now go to Revantusk Village in the Hinterlands and fish for Spotted [Raw Spotted Yellowtails]. Alternatively, if you don't want to go all the way back to the Eastern Kingdoms, you can fish them up off the coast of Azshara. You'll need about 30 to get your cooking from 225 to 250.

250-275

Objectives:

Go to Bloodvenom Falls in Felwood and fish for Sunscale Salmon.

  • The best locations to catch Raw Sunscale Salmon is in the Verdantis River, in Feralas. Also check Lake Elune'ara in Moonglade which is a great fishing spot for this tasty fish. Note that this fish is very difficult (if not impossible) to catch at night, when you'll get Nightfin Snappers instead. Fish for these around noon server time. You'll need about 30 to get your cooking from 250 to 275.

275-300

Objectives:

As Horde to Camp Mojache in Feralas and speak to Sheendra Tallgrass buy [Recipe: Mightfish Steak] and the lobster recipe. While you're there buy about 40 [Hot Spices] and 40 [Soothing Spices], along with Refreshing Spring Water as you're going to be making the food that you will want through level 60 (without going into instances that is). It gives a +10 stamina buff for 15 minutes which is always helpful.

Now go to the Bay of Storms in Azshara and fish for [Large Raw Mightfish] (this also yields the best [Stonescale Eel] drops in the game, a profitable fish used in creating Stonescale Oil) You'll need about 30 [Large Raw Mightfish] to get your cooking from 275 to 300. You may need to bring some lures with you at this point, as your cooking will level up faster than your fishing and Azshara is a 330 fishing zone. You will need something in at least the 380 skill range, so if you try to come here right at 260 fishing bring a +20-25 rod and +100 lures. Once your cooking is a 300, keep fishing till you've maxed out that too. It will take 7 to 10 catches to get one skill up at this point, so take your time.

300-375

Objectives:

Ok, first things first: buy some lures, +75's preferably. Now go and buy the Master Cookbook, to give yourself master cooking level, from Baxter in Thrallmar (Hellfire Peninsula).

Now go buy Master Fishing - The Art of Angling from Juno Dufrain in Cenarion Refuge (Zangarmarsh).

Now go buy [Recipe: Blackened Trout] from Gambarinka in Zabra'jin (Zangarmarsh). Head back to Swamprat Post and buy [Recipe: Feltail Delight] from Zurai.

Head back to Cenarion Refuge and fish for [Barbed Gill Trout] and [Spotted Feltail]. You only need to catch about 25 in total to get your cooking up to 320. Your fishing level will probably only be about 305 by this stage, if you're lucky (it's a long, slow process and not for the easily bored). Cook up the Trout and Feltails.

Now take a trip to see Nula the Butcher in Garadar, in Nagrand. Buy [Recipe: Poached Bluefish] and find a nice quiet spot in Nagrand to fish for [Icefin Bluefish]. You are really going to need to have lures attached here, unless you spent a lot more time in Zangarmarsh fishing. Keep fishing till you have about 40 Bluefish and then cook them to take your cooking to 350.

NOTE: Nagrand is officially 380 to cast. Even with a +25 pole and Bright Baubles you will have a great deal of failure at 305 natural. It is highly recommended to hit 320 natural plus another 100 bonus fishing before attempting. You will still see around 20 percent failure.

By this point, your fishing will probably only be about level 320. You might want to go to Terokkar Forest and fish for [Golden Darters]. When cooked, these give a +44 healing and +20SPI buff, so they are great to sell to healing classes. Or you can head back to Nagrand and fish for [Figluster's Mudfish], which give a +20AGI and +20SPI buff when cooked. Either way, to get to 375 you're going to have to make about 650 successful catches. That should take a normal person about 8 hours, so you'll want to break that up into something like 30-60 minute chunks, spread out over a period of time.

NOTE: Highlander's guide originally discussed fishing for Furious Crawdad before maxing your skill. However due to the extreme difficulty of the highland lakes -- requiring 430 skill to even cast there and 525 to completely avoid fish getting away -- I would not recommend fishing there without very high skill and good equipment.

The final challenge of fishing in Outland requires a flying mount, as the best fish are only found in Highland Mixed Schools in three lakes in Terokkar Forest, all of which can only be accessed with a flying mount. In these schools you can catch [Furious Crawdad], used in [Recipe: Spicy Crawdad], the only cooking recipe that will take you to 375 easily. [Spicy Crawdad] is also valuable because its food buff grants +30 stamina, more than any other food in the game.

The three lakes are:

Go see Rungor in Stonebreaker Hold (Terokkar Forest) and buy [Recipe: Spicy Crawdad].

Alliance Crest Alliance Guide

1-50

Go to your fishing trainer and cook and pick up Fishing and Cooking skills. Buy a fishing rod and a stack of Shiny Baubles (a lure that adds +25 to your fishing skill). You are now ready to begin.

The best place to start is in Elwynn Forest. Speak to Tharynn Bouden in Goldshire and buy [Recipe: Brilliant Smallfish] and [Recipe: Longjaw Mud Snapper]. Start fishing in Crystal Lake. You'll want to catch 50 [Raw Brilliant Smallfish] to get your cooking from 1 to 50.

50-75

Go to Stormwind City and fish the canals for [Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper]. You'll need 56 of them to raise your cooking to 100.

Between levels 50 and 75 go learn journeyman fishing and cooking. Go to Southshore and speak to Lindea Rabonne and buy [Recipe: Bristle Whisker Catfish] and [Recipe: Mithril Head Trout].

75-150

Go to the river to the north-east of Southshore and fish for [Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish]. You'll need about 80-100 of these to get your cooking to level 175. Between levels 125 and 150 go to Shandrina by Mystral Lake in Ashenvale and buy [Expert Cookbook]. You'll need to go to Booty Bay and buy a book for your Fishing level. Speak to Old Man Heming and buy the book [Expert Fishing - The Bass and You]. Alternatively, if you are lazy and are not bothered spending a bit of gold, someone always posts a few copies of these books in the Auction House.

150-225

Now go to the Lakes outside Stromgarde Keep in Arathi Highlands and fish for [Raw Mithril Head Trout]. You're going to need about 60 of these to get your cooking up to level 225.

225-226

At this point you should now have level 225 fishing and level 225 cooking. If you're not level 35 yet, then this is as far as you can go. If you are level 35+ then you have two quests to complete before you can continue.

First quest: Cooking

Requirements: Level 35, 225 Cooking.

Go to Gadgetzan in Tanaris and speak to Dirge Quikcleave. He is in the tavern. He'll want you to bring him 12 [Giant Egg], 10 [Zesty Clam Meat] and 20 [Alterac Swiss]. You should actually be able to buy the eggs and clam meat off of AH, but in case you can't here's where to find them. Now according to the quest [Giant Egg] drop off of Rocs in Tanaris or any large bird. The best place I found for the eggs, was the owlbeast in The Hinterlands. Only needed to kill about 20 of these to get my 12 eggs.(about a 25% drop rate) They are about level 43'ish, so if you're not that high a level, get help or wait till you can handle them. The clam meat comes from clams, naturally! Well to save you swimming around the sea looking for clams, you're better off killing turtles at Steamwheedle Port or Revantusk Village. The drop rate is quite high and you'll have your clam meat in no time. The levels are 41'ish for Steamwheedle Port and 49-50 for Revantusk Village. The [Alterac Swiss] is the easiest part. Go to the Cheese Shop in Stormwind, and buy them from the cheese vendors there. In addition, if you have your Hearthstone set for Shattrath and if you are at least friendly with The Scryers you can buy the cheese from the innkeeper where you spawn. Hand them all in and you'll get your Artisan Cooking.

Since the opening of the Caverns of Time, the provisioner inside, Galgrom, sells [Alterac Swiss]. You can now get all the drops necessary for Artisan cooking in Tanaris.

Second Quest: Fishing

Requirements: Level 35, 225 Fishing.

You need to go and find Nat Pagle in Dustwallow Marsh. He is standing on a small island to the West of Theramore (58,60). He'll give you the quest Neutral [45] Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme, which asks you to catch four rare fish. This quest is actually really easy and the only hard part is the amount of travelling involved. The fish you need to catch are:

Feralas - [62, 51]

Desolace - [25, 77]

Stranglethorn Vale - [33, 32]

Swamp of Sorrows - [90, 72]

(Note: There isn't a particular spot that is best to fish at. As long as your mini-map zone name matches the zone name in the quest log, you are in the right spot. You DO NOT need to move around once you are in the correct zone. You should hopefully catch these fish within 5 to 25 casts at each location. So it wont take long.)

Now go back to Nat and get your Artisan Fishing. (There is apparently a bug with this quest, if you go away from Nat before getting your fishing level to 226, the quest can bug and you'll be stuck on 225 for good. Didn't happen to me, but I've seen a few posts from people who it's happened to.)

226-250

Go to Steamwheedle Port and speak to Gikkix, You'll want to buy the following two recipes: [Recipe: Spotted Yellowtail] and [Recipe: Poached Sunscale Salmon]. Either fish for [Raw Spotted Yellowtail] at Steamwheedle Port or go to Revantusk Village (well... not to it, just a little North of it) for the slightly better drop rate. You'll need about 30 to get your cooking from 225 to 250.

250-275

Now go to Bloodvenom Falls [41, 47] in Felwood and fish for [Raw Sunscale Salmon]. You'll need about 30 to get your cooking from 250 to 275. You may also fish for [Raw Sunscale Salmon] and [Raw Nightfin Snapper] in Lake Elune'ara. The drop rate of each depends on the time of day, with the [Raw Sunscale Salmon] dropping the most just after noon and not at all just after midnight, and the [Raw Nightfin Snapper] dropping most at night and not at all just after noon.

275-300

Then go and speak to Vivianna in The Feathermoon Stronghold of Feralas and buy [Recipe: Mightfish Steak] and [Recipe: Lobster Stew]. While you're there buy about 40 [Hot Spices] and 40 [Soothing Spices] as you're going to be making the food that you will want as a level 60 (without going into instances that is). It gives a +10 stamina buff for 15mins which is always helpful. Also be sure to buy about 40 [Refreshing Spring Water] for making [Lobster Stew] with the [Darkclaw Lobster] you are bound to be catching soon.


Now go to Scalebeard's Cave [54, 49] in Azshara (it's one of the islands to the East) and fish for [Large Raw Mightfish]. (This is also one of the best fishing spots for [Stonescale Eel], a profitable fish, used to make Stonescale Oil) You'll need about 30 to get your cooking from 275 to 300. You may need to bring some lures with you at this point, as your cooking will level up faster than your fishing and Azshara is a 330 fishing zone. You will need something in at least the 380 skill range, so if you try to come here right at 260 fishing bring a +20-25 rod and +100 lures. Once your cooking is a 300, keep fishing till you've maxed out that too. It will take 7 to 10 catches to get one skill up at this point, so take your time. At first, you may experience "Your fish got away!" quite frequently, but as your skill level goes up, you will catch more and more fish.

Powerleveling Fishing from 300-375

Ok, first things first. A quick shopping trip. Buy lures!! +75's preferably. Now go and buy the [Master Cookbook], to give yourself master cooking level. If you are Horde, buy it from Baxter in Thrallmar (Hellfire Peninsula). If you are Alliance, buy it from Gaston in Honor Hold (Hellfire Peninsula).

[Master Cookbook] is also sold by Naka in Cenarion Refuge

Now go buy [Master Fishing - The Art of Angling] from Juno Dufrain in Cenarion Refuge (Zangarmarsh).

Now go buy [Recipe: Blackened Trout]. If you are Horde, buy it from Gambarinka in Zabra'jin (Zangarmarsh). If you are Alliance, buy it from Doba in Orebor Harborage (Zangarmarsh). While you're here buy [Recipe: Feltail Delight].

Horde can go back to Swamprat Post and buy [Recipe: Feltail Delight] from Zurai.

If you are level 70, you can also visit Old Man Barlo to pick up the daily quest, Neutral [70] Shrimpin' Ain't Easy, at this point. You can find him fishing northeast of Shattrath City by Silmyr Lake. This is purely optional, but you will be fishing where the [Bloated Barbed Gill Trout] are caught and part of the quest's reward is +100 lures that you may find very useful.

Head back to Cenarion Refuge and fish for [Barbed Gill Trout] and [Spotted Feltail]. You only need to catch about 25 in total to get your cooking up to 320. Your fishing level will probably only be about 305 by this stage, if you're lucky (it's a long, slow process and not for the easily bored). Cook up the Trout and Feltails.

Now take a trip to see Nula the Butcher in Garadar if you are Horde or Uriku [56, 73] in Telaar if you are Alliance, both are in Nagrand. Buy [Recipe: Poached Bluefish] and find a nice quiet spot in Nagrand to fish for [Icefin Bluefish]. You are really going to need to have lures attached here, unless you spent a lot more time in Zangarmarsh fishing. Keep fishing till you have about 40 Bluefish and then cook them to take your cooking to 350.

By this point, your fishing will probably only be about level 320. You might want to go to Terokkar Forest and fish for [Golden Darter]. When cooked, these give a +44 healing and +20SPI buff, so they are great to sell to healing classes. Or you can head back to Nagrand and fish for [Figluster's Mudfish], which give a +20AGI and +20SPI buff when cooked. Either way, to get to 375 you're going to have to make about 650 successful catches. That should take a normal person about 8 hours, so you'll want to break that up into something like 30-60 minute chunks, spread out over a period of time.

(NOTE: Highlander's guide originally discussed fishing for [Furious Crawdad] before maxing your skill. However due to the extreme difficulty of the highland lakes -- requiring 430 skill to even cast there and 525 to completely avoid fish getting away -- I would not recommend fishing there without very high skill and good equipment.)

The final challenge of fishing in Outland requires a flying mount, as the best fish are only found in Highland Mixed Schools in three lakes in Terokkar Forest, all of which can only be accessed with a flying mount. In these schools you can catch [Furious Crawdad], used in [Spicy Crawdad] the only cooking recipe that will take you to 375 easily. Spicy Crawdad is also valuable because its food buff grants +30 stamina, more than any other food in the game.

The three lakes are:
Lake Jorune - north west of Stonebreaker Hold.
Lake Ere'Noru - south east of Allerian Stronghold.
Blackwind Lake - in the south east corner of the map, in the Skettis area.

If you are Alliance, go see Innkeeper Biribi in Allerian Stronghold (Terokkar Forest) and buy [Recipe: Spicy Crawdad]. If you are Horde go see Rungor in Stonebreaker Hold (Terokkar Forest) and buy [Recipe: Spicy Crawdad].

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