Fishing

Fishing UI

Fishing is a gathering skill that allows players to catch raw fish. These fish can then be cooked using the cooking skill.

General

Four zones are available for aspiring fishers, each offering different fish to be caught. The time required per fishing action is dependent on the player's haste, and can be lowered with the haste enchantment. Each action, the player has a certain chance of successfully catching one of the fishes available at that location. This chance will start at 20% and gradually increase with increasing level, up to a maximum of 100%. Although the theoretical maximum chance in the last area is 81.3%, this can be boosted to 100% using fishing enchantment scrolls.

The caught fish can be cooked to offer hitpoint replenishment while fighting and various buffs for out of combat actions. See cooking for more information.

Players have a small chance of obtaining sunken treasures. These can be opened for gold and sometimes gems. More importantly, these treasures have a rare chance of dropping talismans used in runecrafting, and an even rarer chance of dropping Modified Diving Gloves or a Forgotten Soul.

Equipment

Different equipment is needed to fish in each individual fishing zone. This equipment is created in the crafting menu. All fishing equipment items are permanent which means players only need 1. While fishing in Lazy River a single feather is consumed for each attempted cast. Feathers can be purchased from the general shop, the market, or obtained by killing chickens in the combat zone Farm. It is possible to vault fishing items and still use them for fishing.

Zone		Obtained by
Shallow Pond	Fishing Net	Crafting level 1 150 branches
Lazy River	Fly Fishing Rod	Crafting level 15 200 branches, 100 logs
Lazy River	Feather	Purchased in game shop for 10 gold each
Still Lake	Cage	Crafting level 25 100 iron bars, 200 oak logs
Open Ocean	Harpoon	Crafting level 40 100 iron bars, 200 willow logs

Areas

The xp per hour figures shown below are without any boosts, using only the base equipment.

Zone	Level Req.	Item(s) needed		Base Exp/hour (level 50)	Base Exp/hour (level 80)	Base Exp/hour (level 99)
Shallow Pond	1	Fishing Net	Raw Shrimp Raw Anchovy	3,805	4,819	4,883
Lazy River	20	Fly Fishing Rod Feathers	Raw Trout Raw Salmon	12,420	20,685	21,853
Still Lake	40	Cage	Raw Lobster	11,700	25,200	33,768
Open Ocean	50	Harpoon	Raw Tuna Raw Shark	9,720	28,045	39,718

Theoretical Max Exp

The theoretical maximum xp rate per hour is 143,029, although no fish is obtained this way:

Harpoon fishing at level 99
Prismatic Ring or Prismatic Necklace with 6 haste scrolls (-24% action timer)
Prismatic Ring or Prismatic Necklace with 6 scholar scrolls (+120% xp, but no items gained)
Boots or Gloves (at least adamant) with at least 4 fishing scrolls (+20% catch chance)

The theoretical maximum amount of sharks per hour is 371, for 65,013 xp per hour:

Harpoon fishing at level 99
Prismatic Ring or Prismatic Necklace with 6 haste scrolls (-24% action timer)
Prismatic Ring or Prismatic Necklace with 6 gathering scrolls (+60% chance of an extra resource)
Boots or Gloves (at least adamant) with at least 4 fishing scrolls (+20% catch chance)

Catch Chance

The chance for catching a fish is as follows:

$(100*min(1,max(0.2,0.2+(FishingLvl-LvlRequired)/80)+EnchantPower))$

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.