Fishing

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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

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 cooked with the cooking skill to offer hitpoint replenishment while fighting and various buffs for out of combat actions. There are a lot of different recipes that can be used for different benefits, more information can be found on the cooking page

Players have a small chance of obtaining either sunken treasures or ancient treasures. These can be opened for gold and sometimes gems.

Ancient treasures have a rare chance of dropping fishing gear such as Ancient Harpoon, Ancient Net and Ancient Rod which are used to craft Idlescape's first legendary item Ocean's Embrace

Sunken treasures have a rare chance of dropping Modified Diving Gloves or a Forgotten Soul.

Equipment

After the rework, equipment were changed drastically, meaning you no longer need a special type of gear to fish in an area, but rather having enough stats to actually being able to find nodes. Fishing level requirements for zones still exist and are on about the same level as before.

Zone	Item(s) needed		Example
Shallow Pond		Low tier fishing gear	Novice Tacklebox
Lazy River		Low/mid tier fishing gear	Basic Tacklebox
Still Lake		Mix tier fishing gear	Advanced Tacklebox, Fisherman's hat or smock or waders
Open Ocean		High tier fishing gear	Pro Tacklebox/Supreme Tacklebox, Fisherman's hat, smock and waders
Stormy Seas		High/end game tier fishing gear	Supreme Tacklebox/Ocean's Embrace, Fisherman's hat, smock and waders

Areas

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

A higher effective fishing level will increase the chance to catch the higher tier fish in the zone.

Zone	Level Req.	Item(s) needed	Catchable Fish		Base Exp/hour
					Level 50	Level 60	Level 70	Level 80	Level 90	Level 99
Shallow Pond	1	Fishing Net		Raw Shrimp Raw Anchovy	3,805	4,438	4,779	4,819	4,855	4,883
Lazy River	20	Fly Fishing Rod Feathers		Raw Trout Raw Salmon	12,420	15,167	17,922	20,685	21,818	21,853
Still Lake	40	Cage		Raw Lobster	11,700	16,200	20,700	25,200	29,700	33,768
Open Ocean	50	Harpoon		Raw Tuna Raw Shark	9,720	15,817	21,926	28,045	34,173	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:

$catchChance=min\left(1,max\left(0.2,0.2+{\frac {FishingLvl-LvlRequired}{80}}+EnchantPower\right)\right)\times 100\%$

Fish Type Chance

Frequency of catching low and high tier fish.

$lowFrequency=100+EffFishingLvl$

$highFrequency=50+EffFishingLvl$

Chance to catch high tier fish.

$highCatchChance={\frac {highFrequency}{lowFrequency+highFrequency}}\times 100\%$

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

The fishing skill was released on September 12, 2019.

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