Fishing

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This page is about the skill. For the enchantment, see Fishing (Enchantment).

Fishing UI

Fishing is a gathering skill that allows players to catch raw fish and gather fibers. Fish can be prepared using the Cooking skill, while fibers are used in Cloth Weaving.

General

Fishing was reworked and released in the v0.10.0 update, it received a massive overhaul and was the first gathering skill in Idlescape that used the node system. Gathering with a node system increases the amount of gathering areas without increasing the amount of zones, the player starts fishing in a zone and nodes are found by the player while fishing and are dependent on the effective fishing level and bait power stats, higher numbers in those stats gives increased node find chance and decreased find speed.

The caught fish can be prepared with the Cooking skill to create Filleted Fish and Fish Oil, as well as some essences depending on the fish. These can be used to create food, buff food, or buff potions. There are different recipes that can be used for different benefits, more information can be found on the Cooking page.

Fibers gathered through Fishing are used to weave cloth which can then be used to craft magic equipment for Combat.

Players have a small chance of obtaining either Sunken Treasures or Ancient Treasures. Ancient treasures have a rare chance to drop fishing gear such as Ancient Harpoon, Ancient Fishing Net and Ancient Fishing Rod which are used to craft Idlescape's first legendary tier tool, the Ocean's Embrace. Sunken treasures have a rare chance of dropping Modified Diving Gloves or a Forgotten Soul.

Equipment

Fishing equipment serves to boost your stats, increasing the chances of succeeding in fishing as well as decreasing the time needed. Wearing the Fisherman's Bucket Hat, Smock, and Waders together provides the player with a 15% stat buff, together with the Ocean's Embrace this rises to a 30% buff.

Equipment	Level	Slot		Fishing Level	Bait Power	Reel Power	Bonus Rarity
				(+Augment Bonus)
Novice Tacklebox	N/A	Tacklebox	1	3 (+0.5)	15 (+1)	5 (+1)	0 (+0.5)
Basic Tacklebox	10		2	6 (+1)	20 (+1.5)	10 (+2)	3 (+1)
Advanced Tacklebox	30		3	9 (+1.5)	25 (+2.5)	15 (+3)	6 (+1.5)
Pro Tacklebox	40		4	12 (+2)	30 (+3.5)	20 (+4)	10 (+2)
Supreme Tacklebox	50		5	15 (+2.5)	35 (+4.5)	25 (+5)	15 (+3.5)
Ocean's Embrace	80		8	40 (+5)	100 (+7)	100 (+7.5)	60 (+6)
Fisherman's Bucket Hat	N/A	Helm	3	0 (+0.5)	0 (+0.5)	0 (+0.5)	0 (+0.5)
Fisherman's Smock	N/A	Body	3	0 (+1)	0 (+1)	0 (+1)	0 (+1)
Fisherman's Waders	N/A	Legs	3	0 (+1)	0 (+1)	0 (+1)	0 (+1)

Bait

Bait can be used by clicking on it and moving it into the tacklebox. This is separate from tacklebox equipment and can be used even without one equipped.

Bait	Source	Fishing Level	Bait Power	Reel Power	Bonus Rarity
Earthworm Bait	Game Shop	N/A	N/A	5	5
Fat Nightcrawler Bait	Mining	1	15	10	5
Glowbug Bait	Foraging	1	10	15	5
Shrimp Tail Bait	Crafting (Raw Shrimp)	1	20	5	5
Fish Guts Bait	Crafting (Various Fish)	2	25	5	10
Smelly Meat Bait	Combat	2	10	20	10
Hardened Hook Bait	Crafting (Adamantite Bar)	3	N/A	35	20
Alluring Lure Bait	Crafting (Adamantite, Gold Bar)	3	30	N/A	20
Writhing Tentacle Bait	Crafting (Writhing Tentacle Bait)	5	-30	-30	60
Mysterious Bait	Bird's Nest, Mysterious Seed	?	?	?	?

Areas

Bonus Rarity must be above the minimum rarity for nodes to appear and a further 10~25 rarity for rare resources to drop.

Nodes without a minimum rarity can appear at any rarity threshold.

It is possible to get both type of fishing chests  Sunken Treasure Ancient Treasure from all zones.

Level	Zone	Exp	Recommended Gear	Min. Rarity	Node	Possible Loot
1	Shallow Pond	20	Novice Tacklebox	N/A	Drifting Around
				Oop, All Shrimp!
				Small Schools of Fish
				The Shallow Pond
20	Lazy River	30	Basic Tacklebox	25	ANGY Bois
				N/A	Migrating Schools
				The Lazy River
50	Still Lake	60	Advanced Tacklebox, Fisherman's hat or smock or waders	30	Big Catch!
				N/A	Cage Match
				The Still Lake
				75	Yedyod’s Cave
65	Open Ocean	90	Pro Tacklebox/Supreme Tacklebox, Fisherman's hat, smock and waders	50	Almost Jurassic
				N/A	Carefree Day
				75	Ghost Ship
				100	Is that a tentacle?
				50	Playtester’s Paradise
				N/A	Sharks Ate All The Tuna
				25	Shipwreck Bay
				N/A	The Open Ocean
85	Stormy Seas	100	Supreme Tacklebox/Ocean's Embrace, Fisherman's hat, smock and waders	75	Endless Vortex
				N/A	Eye of the Storm
				100	INFO’s Stand
				N/A	The Stormy Seas
				50	World’s End
				Common Encounter	Ascended
				Common Encounter	Swordfish
				Rare Encounter	Swordfish Champion
				Rare Encounter	Ancient Ascended

The Stormy Seas is a dangerous location. While fishing there, a Swordfish, Ascended or Swordfish Champion will occasionally spawn and attack the player. This fight cannot be escaped from, and losing will lock the player out of the location for 15 minutes.

Fibers

In addition to the above drops, each area has a chance to yield fibers per Fishing action. Fibers can be processed through Cloth Weaving to produce Cloth, which is used to craft Magic equipment and Skilling equipment. Some fibers require a specific Bonus Rarity threshold to be met before they can be gathered. This stat can be increased by using certain baits and fishing equipment.

Fishing Area	Fishing Level	Fibers	Quantity	Chance
Shallow Pond	1	Aqueous Grass	1-10	1.25%
		Water Weeds	1-3	5 Rarity
Lazy River	20	Aqueous Grass	1-10	1.25%
		Water Weeds	1-10	5 Rarity
		River Vines	1-3	10 Rarity
Still Lake	50	Aqueous Grass	1-5	0.042%
		Water Weeds	1-5	4.23%
		River Vines	1-5	5 Rarity
		Violet Ribbons	1-3	10 Rarity
Open Ocean	65	Aqueous Grass	1-5	0.026%
		Water Weeds	1-5	0.026%
		River Vines	1-5	0.026%
		Violet Ribbons	1-5	5 Rarity
		White Reeds	1-3	10 Rarity
Stormy Seas	85	Aqueous Grass	1-5	0.045%
		Water Weeds	1-5	0.045%
		River Vines	1-5	0.045%
		Violet Ribbons	1-5	1.18%
		White Reeds	1-5	5 Rarity
		Ancient Kelp	1-3	20 Rarity

Fishing Stats

There are various stats that can be gained through levels and equipment that affect fishing.

Effective Fishing Level

Effective fishing level is the combination of the players fishing and mastery level and the fishing stats on equipment. It affects various secondary stats:

• Chance of finding and gathering from a node
• Rarity of resources
• Quantity of resources in a node
• Chance to preserve bait

Bait Preservation

Bait preservation comes from both effective fishing level and the enchantment of the same name which comes enchanted by default on the Fisherman's Bucket Hat. It determines the chance that a bait is used on an action and is capped at 50%.

Bait preservation is reduced by Deadliest Catch but cannot go lower than 0%.

Bait Power

Increases the chance and speed of finding nodes, and the size of nodes found. Chance is capped at 100% and speed is capped at 1 second.

Reel Power

Increases the chance and speed of gathering resources. Chance is capped at 100% and speed is capped at 1 second.

Bonus Rarity

Some nodes require a certain bonus rarity to start appearing. Rare resources require a rarity higher than the node. Nodes and resources have a cap where bonus rarity above will not provide additional drop frequency.

Bonus Rarity must be above the minimum rarity for resources to appear. Resources not listed here require no bonus rarity to collect.

Zone	Resource	Min. Rarity
Shallow Pond	Raw Magnetic Minnow	1
Lazy River	Rotten Driftwood	5
	Raw Tigerfish	15
	Sturdy Driftwood	5
	Aquamarine	50
Still Lake	Rotten Driftwood	10
	Sturdy Driftwood	10
	Raw Tigerfish	25
	Raw Slippery Eel	25
	Raw Ancient Lobster	25
	Aquamarine	50
Open Ocean	Mystical Driftwood	15
	Raw Huge Tuna	25
	Raw Megalodon	25
	Aquamarine	30
	Raw Tentacle Meat	100
Stormy Seas	Raw Great White Shark	10
	Raw Megalodon	25
	Aquamarine	30
	Mystical Driftwood	35
	Raw Tentacle Meat	75

Enchantments

List of useful Enchantments.

Scroll	Slot	Level	Silver Amount	Rune Amount	Runes	Effect per scroll
Scroll of Naturalist	Gloves, Boots	49	600	60	Air, Water, Nature, Cosmic	Increase your chance to gain chests as well as convert standard chests to their greater variants while gathering by 20%.
Scroll of Fishing	Gloves, Boots	55	700	60	Earth, Water, Mind	Increases fish catch chance by 2.5%.
Scroll of Prolonging	Gloves, Boots	58	700	60	Nature, Mind	Gain a 20% chance to not consume a buff stack (resulting in 25% more uses from a buff on average).
Scroll of Enlightenment	Gloves, Boots	73	900	70	Air, Water, Chaos, Mind	Gain 1 more essence per action where essence is acquired.
Scroll of Gathering	Ring, Necklace	64	800	70	Earth, Fire, Water, Mind, Cosmic	Gain a 10% chance to find an extra resource while gathering. There is a 15% chance that a nature rune is consumed when it procs. Attempts to pull the rune from your stockpile then ammo pouch if none found.
Scroll of Wealth	Ring, Necklace	37	500	50	Nature, Mind, Cosmic	Automatically sells gathering and production items for 20% of their vendor price. Does not affect Crafting or stack with Scholar.
Scroll of the Scholar	Ring, Necklace	88	1300	110	Chaos, Mind, Cosmic	Increases experience gained from gathering and production by 20% but destroys the item in process. Does not affect Crafting or stack with Wealth. Only active for mastery experience, when a skill is at level 99.
Scroll of Haste	Ring, Necklace	94	2000	200	Air, Chaos, Mind, Cosmic	Increases non-combat action speed by 4%. Caps at halving action time. Stacks with Empowered Haste.
Scroll of Archaeology	Tacklebox, Fishing Set, Pickaxe, Hatchet, Mining Set, Foraging Set	41	500	50	Earth, Water, Nature	Gives access to a secondary drop table while gathering with rewards and chances heavily scaling on enchantment strength. The best finds are only found in the hardest to reach zones!
Scroll of Pungent Bait	Tacklebox, Fishing Set	14	200	30	Water, Nature	Increases bait power by 3.
Scroll of Reinforced Line	Tacklebox, Fishing Set	23	300	40	Earth, Water	Increases reel power by 3.
Scroll of Fishing Magnetism	Tacklebox, Fishing Set	33	400	40	Earth, Water, Cosmic	Increases bonus rarity by 2 and decreases both bait and reel power by the same amount. Increases chance to find known rare nodes.
Scroll of Bait Preservation	Tacklebox, Fishing Set	47	600	60	Earth, Water, Chaos	Increases chance to preserve bait by 4%.
Scroll of the Fiber Finder	Tacklebox, Fishing Set	50	600	60	Earth, Water, Mind	Increases chance to find aquatic fibers by 25%.
Scroll of Oil Spill	Tacklebox, Fishing Set	69	800	70	Earth, Water, Death	Gives a 8% chance to try and extract fish oil from a fish based on the fish's size. There is a chance that fish oil may not be created if the fish is too small.
Scroll of Deadliest Catch	Tacklebox, Fishing Set	71	900	70	Earth, Water, Blood	Increases bonuses from using bait by 5% but decreases bait preservation chance by 5%. Increases chance to find known rare resources.

Change Log

Date	History
12 September 2019	The fishing skill was released
11 November 2021	Major rework, node system, new gear, etc

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