Ryan Galiotto

In WoW you can choose fishing as a secondary gathering profession in addition to your 2 primary professions. Fishing allows you to improve your hunting skills and lets you fish the various forms of aquatic life beneath the waters in WoW.

Through fishing you are able to find food and a range of other items. Hunter can use food to feed their pets and some items can be cooked to better their effects. Through fishing you can also find treasure chests and at times reagents which are useful for Alchemy.

If you have a character that is level 5 or above you’re able to fish. The first thing you need to do is get trained by your races fishing trainer. You’ll find this trainer at your races beginning fish pond.

Other trainers are scattered throughout WoW but to begin with you’ll need to go to the following locations:

Humans begin Fishing at Goldshire, Taurens near Bloodhoof Village, Gnomes to the North of Brownall Village, Dwarves also start just north of Brownall Village. The location where Orc’s and Trolls start out is just south of Sen’jin in the Sea, and the Undead begin in the lake east of Brill.

Night Elves can choose between 3 different fishing starting spots, the lake to the south of Dolenaar, the sea close to Rut’Theran Village, and the waters around Darnassus.

High level characters that are just starting out with fishing are able to start anywhere they please.

You might find it useful to grow your characters fishing ability in line with your character leveling. In other words, space out the fishing skill leveling across different levels. One tip that has worked well for some players is to max your fishing ability out at 150 for level 10, you’ll then be a powerful fighter with the fishing pole.

Fishing is an easy and useful profession to learn, all it requires is some patience. Once you have a high fishing skill however you will be able to fish the waters of Azshara and get massive payouts in short periods of time. Taking the time to master this profession usually pay’s off big time.