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	Item needed	Acquiring/Recipe
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	Catchable Fish	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 chances for catching a fish are as follows

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

Enchantments

Enchantments can be used to benefit Fishing.

Scroll	Slot	Level	Silver Amount	Rune Amount	Runes	Effect per scroll
Scroll of Wealth	Ring, Necklace	37	500	50	Nature, Mind, Cosmic	Automatically sell resources for 20% more gold than their vendor value.
Scroll of Naturalist	Gloves, Boots	49	600	60	Air, Water, Nature, Cosmic	Increases the chance to find chests by 20% while gathering.
Scroll of Fishing	Gloves, Boots	55	700	60	Earth, Water, Mind	Increases the fish catch chance by 5%.
Scroll of Gathering	Ring, Necklace	64	800	70	Earth, Fire, Water, Mind, Cosmic	Gain a 10% chance to find an extra resource while gathering.
Scroll of the Scholar	Ring, Necklace	88	1000	90	Chaos, Mind, Cosmic	Gain 20% more experience, but no items. This does not apply to combat, farming, or crafting.
Scroll of Haste	Ring, Necklace	94	1100	100	Air, Chaos, Mind, Cosmic	Increases action speed by 4%.