Fishing 1–300

• Reach level 5
• Train Fishing
• Buy Fishing Pole

Any Fishing trainer of your faction teaches Apprentice Fishing (character level 5); the arrow picks the nearest. Buy a Fishing Pole from a trade goods or fishing vendor and equip it.

• Go to Crystal Lake Elwynn Forest
• Raise Fishing to 50

Fish here until skill 50. Click the bobber when it splashes; every catch can raise the skill.

• Go to The Loch Loch Modan
• Raise Fishing to 50

Fish here until skill 50. Click the bobber when it splashes; every catch can raise the skill.

• Go to Auberdine shore Darkshore
• Raise Fishing to 50

Fish here until skill 50. Click the bobber when it splashes; every catch can raise the skill.

• Go to Durotar coast Durotar
• Raise Fishing to 50

Fish here until skill 50. Click the bobber when it splashes; every catch can raise the skill.

• Go to Barrens oasis The Barrens
• Raise Fishing to 50

Fish here until skill 50. Click the bobber when it splashes; every catch can raise the skill.

• Go to Vile Fin shore Tirisfal Glades
• Raise Fishing to 50

Fish here until skill 50. Click the bobber when it splashes; every catch can raise the skill.

• Reach level 10
• Train Fishing

Journeyman Fishing raises the cap to 150; it needs skill 50 and character level 10. The arrow picks the nearest Fishing trainer of your faction.

• Go to Westfall coast Westfall
• Raise Fishing to 125

Fish the pools and open water here until skill 125. Pools (floating debris, schools of fish) also drop extra loot.

• Go to The Loch Loch Modan
• Raise Fishing to 125

Fish the pools and open water here until skill 125. Pools (floating debris, schools of fish) also drop extra loot.

• Go to Darkshore coast Darkshore
• Raise Fishing to 125

Fish the pools and open water here until skill 125. Pools (floating debris, schools of fish) also drop extra loot.

• Go to Barrens oasis The Barrens
• Raise Fishing to 125

Fish the pools and open water here until skill 125. Pools (floating debris, schools of fish) also drop extra loot.

• Go to Lordamere Lake Silverpine Forest
• Raise Fishing to 125

Fish the pools and open water here until skill 125. Pools (floating debris, schools of fish) also drop extra loot.

• Reach level 20
• Buy and read Expert Fishing - The Bass and You (Expert Fishing)

Expert Fishing (cap 225) is a book, not a trainer rank: Old Man Heming sells Expert Fishing - The Bass and You in Booty Bay, at the south tip of Stranglethorn Vale, to both factions. Buy it and read it; it needs skill 125 and level 20.

• Go to Wetlands coast Wetlands
• Raise Fishing to 225

Fish the pools here until skill 225. If fish keep getting away, fish easier water until your skill catches up.

• Go to Ashenvale waters Ashenvale
• Raise Fishing to 225

Fish the pools here until skill 225. If fish keep getting away, fish easier water until your skill catches up.

• Go to Ashenvale waters Ashenvale
• Raise Fishing to 225

Fish the pools here until skill 225. If fish keep getting away, fish easier water until your skill catches up.

• Go to Hillsbrad coast Hillsbrad Foothills
• Raise Fishing to 225

Fish the pools here until skill 225. If fish keep getting away, fish easier water until your skill catches up.

• Raise Fishing to 225
• Reach level 35
• Accept I Got Nothin' Left! from Grimnur StonebrandGrimnur Stonebrand, Ironforge

Artisan Fishing (cap 300) comes from Nat Pagle in Dustwallow Marsh. The fishing trainer in Ironforge sends you to him; the quest needs skill 225 and level 35.

• Raise Fishing to 225
• Reach level 35
• Accept You Too Good. from LumakLumak, Orgrimmar

Artisan Fishing (cap 300) comes from Nat Pagle in Dustwallow Marsh. The fishing trainer in Orgrimmar sends you to him; the quest needs skill 225 and level 35.

• Turn in I Got Nothin' Left! at Nat PagleAlliance only
• Turn in You Too Good. at Nat PagleHorde only
• Accept Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme from Nat Pagle

Nat Pagle fishes from the shore of a small island off the east coast, south of Theramore.

• Collect Sar'theris Striker from Sar'theris Striker Fishing Location for Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme

Fish in Sar'theris Strand, the north-west coast of Desolace (Slitherblade naga shore) until you catch a Sar'theris Striker; it only bites there.

• Collect Feralas Ahi from Feralas Ahi Fishing Location for Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme

Fish in the Verdantis River in Feralas until you catch a Feralas Ahi; it only bites there.

• Collect Savage Coast Blue Sailfin from Savage Coast Blue Sailfin Fishing Location for Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme

Fish in the Savage Coast, the north-west shore of Stranglethorn Vale until you catch a Savage Coast Blue Sailfin; it only bites there.

• Collect Misty Reed Mahi Mahi from Misty Reed Mahi Mahi Fishing Location for Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme

Fish in the Misty Reed Strand, the south-east shore of Swamp of Sorrows until you catch a Misty Reed Mahi Mahi; it only bites there.

• Turn in Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme at Nat PagleArtisan Fishing

• Go to Booty Bay coast Stranglethorn Vale
• Raise Fishing to 300

Fish the pools along the coast here (eels, snappers, wreckage) until skill 300. Booty Bay sells bait and Nightcrawlers for a small fishing bonus.