Main page/Guides/Skill guides/Fishing

This is the Regular Fishing Guide, the guide for Ironman/ Hardcore Ironman players is found Here.

Introduction

Fishing is a gathering skill which involves catching fish. Caught fish may be cooked through the Cooking skill to create food which may be used to regain health during combat.

Starting Off

To start off fishing you will need to buy the correct fishing equipment, specific to the type of fishing spot (each fishing spot allows you to get a different type of fish) you wish to use. All of the equipment that you may need can be bought from fishing shops. The table below shows which equipment you need to use to catch a certain fish - and also, some info about the fishes.

Fish	Name	Equipment Required	Level Required	Store Price (GP)	Experience Gained
	Raw Shrimps	Small Fishing Net	1	5	49
	Raw Sardine	Fishing Rod + Bait	5	N/A	249
	Raw Herring	Fishing Rod + Bait	10	15	599
	Raw Anchovies	Small fishing net	15	15	155
	Raw Trout	Fly Fishing Rod + Feather	20	20	1,512
	Raw Salmon	Fly Fishing Rod + Feather	20	50	1,050
	Raw Mackerel	Big fishing Net	23	N/A	657
	Raw Cod	Big fishing Net	23	N/A	1,104
	Raw Bass	Big fishing Net	23	120	6,512
	Raw Pike	Fishing Rod + Bait	25	N/A	1,518
	Raw Tuna	Harpoon	35	100	2,881
	Raw Lobster	Cage	40	N/A	4,418
	Raw Swordfish	Harpoon	50	N/A	7,900
	Raw Karambwan	Small fishing net	65	N/A	20,550
	Raw Shark	Harpoon	76	N/A	8,010
	Raw Manta ray	Harpoon	85	N/A	15,515
	Raw Rocktail	Cage	95	N/A	13,852

Fishing Shops

There are two fishing stores in Grinderscape, one in Catherby and the other one in Karamja.

Fishing Areas

There are currently two areas to train up fishing: Catherby and Karamja.

• Catherby

To get to Catherby, talk to the Fishing Master at South Neitznot and ask him to teleport you to Catherby.

The image below shows the map and what you can fish in Catherby.

• Karamja

To get to Karamja, go to the Skill Training Teleports and teleport to Karamja.

The image below shows the map and what you can fish in Karamja.

1-99 Walkthrough

This is the suggested method for 1-99 Fishing:

Fish	Name	Levels	Amount needed
	Shrimps & Anchovies	1-20	44
	Trout & Salmon	20-35	12-14
	Tuna	35-40	6
	Lobster	40-50	15
	Swordfish	50-76	157
	Shark	76-85	240
	Manta ray	85-99	631

Useful Items and Boosts

Picture	Item/Boost	Effect	How to Obtain
N/A	Knowledge Totem	All experience gained will be increased for the next 10 minutes for normal donators and 20 minutes for super donators.	Go to the Donator Zone, in the building to the west of the bank and click on the Defence Totem(Knowledge effect).
N/A	Bonus Experience	All experience gained will be multiplied by 3 until the bonus experience runs out.	Logging in everyday grants 200k Bonus Exp. Every 10th vote streak rewards you with 500k Bonus Exp. Purchace 1m Bonus Exp for 5k premium points.
N/A	Monthly Bonus	All experience gained is multiplied by 1.25	Play during the 1st to the 5th of every month.
	Brawling Gloves (Fishing)	Doubles all fishing experience gained.	Dropped by all Revenants. Dropped by all Avatars. Recieved as a Voting Reward.

The Skill Cape

If you reach level 99 in Fishing, you can talk to the Wise Old Man at home to obtain the Skill cape. He is located at home, in the building north of the bank.

The 99 cape costs 150K Gp and comes with a matching hood. Both the Fishing cape and hood give +9 bonus to all defense stats.

If you reach 350m experience in the Fishing skill you will also unlock the ability to buy the Master Fishing Cape. It is exactly the same as the normal Skill cape. However, you can adjust the trim colour to whatever you like. This cape costs 2.5m Gp.

Trivia

• Everytime when you catch a fish you get 5,000 coins.