Pay-to-play Fishing training

This guide describes ways to train Fishing from level 1 to level 99. This guide is for members' training.

Useful Summoning familiars
These familiars will fish along side you, with each different familiar being able to catch certain fish as with the best being the granite lobster, catching up to sharks. If possible, it is highly recommended you have one of these familiars out as the fish they catch will be more than enough to pay for the cost of the pouch itself.
 * Granite Crab
 * Ibis
 * Granite Lobster

Sacred Clay
The Sacred clay harpoon, which is a reward for the Stealing Creation activity, can be used to fish Tuna, Swordfish, and Sharks, giving double experience per catch until it degrades after a certain amount of experience is achieved. The sacred clay harpoons' animation takes 50% longer than that of other methods; therefore you can only achieve 2 attempts in the time you could make 3 attempts with an ordinary harpoon or barbarian fishing. If you are using the Sacred Clay harpoon, it is also useful to use either swordfish gloves or shark gloves, depending on which you are fishing. Some may say that it takes too long to get the gloves; however, they have 1000 charges per set of gloves, so they last for quite a while after they are bought. Better fishers might not find so, as they may catch fish fast enough to make the amount of charges per gloves useless. However, most of the time this will not be the case.

NOTE: If you are solely trying to achieve a higher level, do not bother wasting time cooking the fish, because cooking them means a chance of burning them (making them useless), and cooked fish are worth less than raw fish, which, if you sell them in large amounts, can be a great loss, and not to mention that cooking the fish requires time that could have been used to fish. However, some higher level fish (Such as Manta rays and Rocktail) are worth more cooked.

Fishing Urns
Fishing urns will give a significant amount of extra experience if you have them in your inventory.

Using the Decorated Fishing urn will increase your fishing xp/h by about 20%.

Level 1 to 20
Experienced players may have to swap fishing activities often to maintain optimum experience levels.

To achieve level 5, one will need to catch 37 shrimp with their Small Fishing Net. If one has lost their net, they can buy a replacement in one of many Fishing shops.

After reaching level 5, one will need a (regular, not fly) Fishing Rod and some Fishing Bait. It is suggested to fish with fishing bait until level 20. At level 10, one will gain the ability to catch Herring. From level 5 to level 20, one will need from 105 to 205 baits.

Catherby is a good place to train fishing and cooking in tandem, as there is a range, a bank, and multiple fishing spots in close proximity.

Money Making
The player cannot make much money during these levels, but cooking and using the successfully cooked fish as food could prove useful.

Experience
Fishing Trout is the easiest way to achieve level 30 Fishing. To fish these you will need a Fly fishing rod and some Feathers. It will take 178 Trout to achieve level 30, so 178 Feathers would be needed.

Money Making
You will not make much money; however, you can make a little bit of profit by selling (raw and/or cooked) Trout.

Experience
Fly fish for Salmon and Trout at Shilo Village. Fly fishing is the easiest experience until leaping sturgeon. Shilo Village is especially convenient for fly fishing due to its proximity to a bank. The completion of the Shilo Village quest is required, however, in order to use this location. A second, less-known spot that actually gives 5,000 to 15,000 more experience per hour than Shilo Village is the river that's west of the Fishing Guild. The downside to this is that one cannot bank their fish but instead sell them to Rasolo, who wanders just north of the area and is usually visible on the Minimap. The unofficial world for fishing in Shilo Village is world 22.

Money Making
If you are going to do this way to 99, you would be better off stopping at 90, then going to Living Rock Caverns, as it is just a little less experience, but a lot more money. The unofficial worlds for fishing in the Living Rock Cavern are World 84 and 77.

Experience
Continue fly fishing Trout and Salmon to achieve level 40 Fishing. You will need to catch 478 trout or 341 salmon, but most likely a mixture of the two. With fishing urns, you need to catch less.

Money Making
Although you can fish tuna at level 35, they are very slow and you're better off sticking with fly fishing.

Experience
As stated earlier the best experience is fly fishing. It will take you 64,426 Trout or 46,019 Salmon, or a mixture of both to reach level 85 without the use of fishing urns. For money, consider fishing lobster at Catherby.

Money Making
You can now fish Lobster. This is one of the best ways to balance experience and money at these levels. You can earn almost double what you would earn while fishing trout and salmon, while getting two-thirds as much experience. To catch lobster you need to use a lobster pot.

Monkfish
Though trout and salmon are the faster experience, monkfish may be best for those who desire profit. At 120xp each, monkfish give more experience per catch, and are caught much faster than sharks. Raw monkfish are currently worth coins each on the grand exchange. You can make between 25k and 40k experience per hour without urns and about 30k-45k with fishing urns. Monkfish fishing demands less attention than trout/salmon fishing drawing most players to this option for training the skill.

These are great fish to catch, up until 85 when you can fish Cavefish or 90 when you can fish Rocktail. These fish have a higher profit.

The main downside to this method is that one needs to complete the Swan Song quest, which is a Master quest and therefore not easily completable by lower-levelled players.

Level 70 to 99
Barbarian Fishing with a Barbarian rod is one of the fastest methods for gaining Fishing experience in the game. The catch rate for leaping fish (leaping trout, leaping salmon and leaping sturgeon) is exceptionally high, resulting in very quick experience compared to conventional fishing (fishing monkfish, for example). None of the fish that are caught with a Barbarian rod may be cooked or eaten, although they may be cut with a knife into fish offcuts, roe and caviar, all of which may be used as bait to catch more leaping fish. Therefore it is possible to remain at Otto Godblessed's lake infinitely, constantly fishing and cutting the fish up into bait, without any need to bank. The downside is that, unlike conventional fishing methods, you will not be banking the fish you catch, resulting in no profit.

The unofficial world for Barbarian rod fishing is world 116.

An additional advantage to fishing with a Barbarian rod is that the fish grant a small amount of Strength and Agility experience in addition to Fishing experience when caught; furthermore, a small amount of Cooking experience is gained from cutting the fish. 15 Strength and Agility are the minimum requirements to catch leaping fish; catching leaping sturgeon, the best leaping fish, requires 45 Strength and Agility.

An efficient method for fishing with a Barbarian rod is as follows:
 * 1) Bring a knife, Barbarian rod, and 25 feathers or fishing bait to the fishing spots at Otto Godblessed's lake.
 * 2) Catch 25 leaping fish using the feathers or fishing bait.
 * 3) Cut the fish into fish offcuts, roe and caviar.
 * 4) Because some leaping fish (notably leaping trout) may give nothing when cut, you will most likely have a few open inventory spaces. Fill these by catching fish with the fish offcuts; once your inventory is full again, drop the offcuts.
 * 5) Resume fishing. You will automatically use the roe, then the caviar, as bait, which essentially replaces a full inventory of bait with a full inventory of fish.
 * 6) Repeat from step 3 as desired.

Rather than cutting their fish into bait, some players prefer to drop the fish, preferably using mouse keys. Alternatively, players may bank using the deposit box at Barbarian Assault.

Barbarian Fishing/High Level Alchemy method
A very effective, albeit somewhat costly way of gaining fishing experience without paying much attention utilising Barbarian fishing is by casting High Level Alchemy on the fish while catching them, eliminating the need to drop fish. If done correctly, fishing isn't slowed down and you get additional magic experience. With the right setup, no extra mouse movements are needed. This method requires that you are on the normal spellbook.

To start, you need the Barbarian rod, a stack of bait, nature runes, and a fire staff equipped. Go into the Spellbook tab and hide all spell categories except the miscellaneous spells. Then change it so Combat Spells are first. Therefore, if you were to place your cursor on the High Level Alchemy spell icon and click, you would be alching an item in the 1st inventory spot.

Now, go into Runescape's graphics options and change your screen sizing to resizable mode. On your browser's menu, go to View, Zoom, then 50% (for Internet Explorer, may be a bit different for other browsers). This should allow you to shrink your game window much smaller than normal. Leave the height tall, but shrink the width until the High Alchemy icon overlaps the fishing spot. This may require a slight rotation of the camera.

You should have a finger on the left mouse button (or 5 key if using MouseKeys), and fingers on F1 and F4. Begin fishing, and open the Spellbook tab. Click the left side of the High Alchemy icon, and when the fish appears in your inventory, alch it. Now, you will need to close the inventory by pressing F1 and click the fishing spot before the Spellbook comes back up. If successful, the orange sparks should appear above your head as your character recasts the line. If you try to alchemize too fast and click the fishing spot, the Spellbook won't come up; just press F4 and being the cycle again.

This method can potentially give you 65k+ fishing experience an hour as well as 60k+ magic experience. However, you will lose the price of a nature rune minus the High Level Alchemy value of the fish, which is on average 30gp (as the three values are 15, 30 and 45 gp respectively). At 1000 alchs an hour, you will have a net gain of approximately -170,000 coins/hr, including the price of bait. This isn't a terrible loss for the experience gained.

With the addition of the Decorated fishing urn, players can earn an additional 10-15k xp per hour with this method, totalling to 75k - 80k xp per hour. Players should bring as many Urns as desired depending on the length of time they want to fish. It takes approxiamtly 8-10 minutes to fill an urn which grants 1900 xp once full.

Level 76
Sharks deserve some small mention as one of the most popular money making fish to catch. Despite this, sharks are a very poor training method, giving about half the xp/hr of comparable methods such as monkfish or cavefish (only 20k/hour), with a negligible increase in profit. Fishing sharks is not recommended.

Level 85 to 90
At level 85 fishing, players can catch Cavefish. This way is a good alternative, as cavefish are profitable and gain good experience. Cavefish give 300 experience per catch, and can be caught using regular fishing bait and a regular fishing rod. World 84 and World 77 are the unofficial worlds for Fishing in Living Rock Caverns. Beware: Fishing in the Living Rock Caverns can be dangerous, so do not bring anything you're not willing to lose.

Level 90 to 99
Rocktail fishing is one of the best ways of gaining experience. One can gain roughly 48,000 experience per hour depending on the fishing level you are and if fishing urns are present. Rocktails grant 380 experience per catch, the highest experience per fish in-game.They can be caught in the Living Rock Caverns. This is only recommended if you are a reasonably high-level player and are able to withstand (level-120 and 140) enemies attacking you such as Living rock protector and Living rock striker; although they are weak and very inaccurate, they can be annoying.



For this method of fishing, players need the following: Tips:
 * Fishing Rod
 * A supply of Living minerals (which can be bought or mined from defeated Living Rock NPCs).
 * Food for healing; there is no proper bank, just a deposit box. At least lobster and above just in case Guthans does not heal or you do not have Guthans. However, bring no more than 5 pieces as they do not hit high often. An Enhanced Excalibur, Saradomin Godsword, or the Soul Split curse also allow the player to stay as long as they want.


 * When fishing here, make sure you are in a safe spot by trapping the monsters in order to fish without having to kill the enemy and make it spawn next to you.
 * Sticking to the west side of the cave will help you immensely because most rocktail-baiting spots are located there
 * Fish in World 84, as many other players are here, and you will hardly ever get attacked. This is not recommended on an old/laggy computer, as it can "lag" you to death, meaning you're lagging too much and aren't able to run from the monster's attacks. It's safe to bring an item such as an Ectophial or Teleport Tablet so you can get out quickly if low on Life Points. Another option is to wear a Ring of Life in case you die while being attacked by the Living Rock Strikers and Protectors. If World 84 is too laggy, you may wish to try either of the other unofficial worlds, World 77.
 * The Living Rock creatures are not aggressive unless you run right next to them, so if you can stay at least 1 square away from them, you will be decently safe.
 * You can and should bring Decorated fishing urn while fishing anything as it grants a large amount of additional experience when fishing.

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All levels
The Fish Flingers Distraction and Diversion is a very easy and fast way to gain large amounts of experience. The experience rewards decrease slightly as level increases, but for an experienced player, or a player with assistance in the calls from others can easily gain 15 to 20k experience per game. This is especially true if you work as part of a clan. World 100 is the unofficial world. Fling a fish clan operates there and is very helpful to get all players earning maximum xp per game.