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. There is debate on wheither it is worth the time playing stealing creations to get this harpoon. This harpoon is good for approximately 23,000 (11,500 base, 11,500 bonus) experience and can not be stacked in a players bank. A player can only reasonably plan on getting one per game. Each game can last 20 minutes with no guarantee that enough points will be earned to purchase one. This makes stealing creations worth roughly 35,000 fishing experience or less in worst case scenarios. This number obviously rises with faster turn around times of stealing creations but only to roughly 70,000 experience given a 10 minute game. This makes some players that have fairly high fishing levels feel that a Sacred clay harpoon is not worth their time as they can get the same or higher experience rates from normal fishing. Still given the these facts there is still a significant boost from using a Sacred clay harpoon and players that do particapte in stealing creations may want to consider using their clay to make harpoons as the initial investment has been made and they do provide a decent bonus that stacks with Fishing gloves.

Fishing Gloves (Fist of Guthix)
Players may also use swordfish or shark gloves while fishing. These gloves provide an extra 100 experience when fishing their respective fish. This bonus will stack with the sacred clay harpoon providing 300 or 320 experience for both items catching the correct fish. As with the Sacred clay harpoon is debate on wheither or not the time it takes to get a pair of gloves is worth the additional bonus. The gloves only have 1000 charges on them which if a player has a fairly high fishing level they may find time spent fishing outweighs the time to get a pair.

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%. These items do stack in a players bank and the most that a player needs in their bag at any one time is two. While the ready urns have an unlimited stack amount, a player can only have 10 full urns combined between their banks and bags. There is no advantage to holding onto several so it's recommended that once a urn is full that a player sends it away as soon as their bag is full to make room or when a fishing point changes.

Power fishing
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.

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 crayfish with their Crayfish cage. If one has lost their cage, they can buy a replacement in one of many Fishing shops.

The best spot to fish Crayfish is at a pond near Fred the farmer's ranch, you can sell the raw fish in the general store, making a small profit.

Alternately, you may catch shrimp with a small fishing net in the eastern part of the swamp south of Lumbridge, which give the same exp.

After reaching level 5, one will need a regular Fishing Rod (Fly fishing rod won't work) 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.

The best place to do this, is at Draynor village, as is it near the bank. You can also train cooking there with the fish you catch, players often burn willow logs nearby.

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.

For Free players, the best spot is at Gunnarsgrunn, this place is usually crowded, means you can talk to people there while you train fishing.

You can chose to drop or bank, if you bank, you must keep in mind that you'll reduce your xp/hr rates.

For Members, the best spot is nearby Rasolo, south of baxtorian falls. You can fish and sell to rasolo, although it gives no profit.

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

At levels 35 you can fish tuna, but it's not recommended.

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
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.

Level 62 to 99
The Fish Flingers Distraction and Diversion is a very easy and fast way to gain large amounts of experience past level 62 fishing. The experience rewards decrease slightly as level increases, but an experienced solo player or a player with assistance in the calls from others (easier if playing in a clan) can gain up to 16.6k to 20k experience per game, translating to a total of 66 to 80k exp/hr. To max out experience, 40,000 points must be gained in the game, any excess of which does not improve experience further. While it is possible to do Fish Flingers at level 61 or below, the experience rates are at 40k exp/hr or less, making it relatively inefficient to do so. World 89 is the unofficial Fish Flingers world.

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 indefinitely, cutting the fish up into bait as you catch it, removing any need to bank. Alternatively you can drop the fish, however this would require that you bring large amounts of your own stackable bait (fishing bait or feathers).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.

Due to the lack of a nearby bank or shop to free your inventory of fish, there are four main techniques to train with barbarian fishing, each is discussed in detail in the following subsections. For added experience while using any of the fishing techniques however, you will need a charged Ring of Duelling, a charged Games Necklace, and decorated fishing urns (the amount depends on how long you plan on fishing). Bring your ring of duelling and games necklace, (both worn) and around 4-8 decorated fishing urns. When an urn becomes full, teleport it away. Once all of your urns have been sent away, teleport to Castlewars with your ring of duelling, withdraw more urns and then use your games necklace to teleport to the barbarian outpost and continue fishing. Using a ring of duelling and a games necklace allows you to wear both pieces of jewellery and does not require you to deposit the games necklace at barbarian assault if, for instance, you used a glory amulet and games necklace combination.

Barbarian Fishing - Banking Method
This is the only of the four methods that yields a profit while barbarian fishing and is the slowest in terms of experience per hour. There are two main ways to bank your catch and many different variations.

The first way is to use the deposit box at the barbarian assault minigame, just to the east of the barbarian outpost games necklace teleport location. You can either use the games necklace teleport to get there, or else run there and back to the lake.

Alternatively you can use a ring of duelling, to teleport to the castlewars bank to deposit the fish and return with a games necklace teleport. This is the fastest method possible while still banking your catch, but there are many possible variations and choices of teleport locations using other jewellery, runes, or teleport tablets etc.

This method is not recommended, but is the only way to make money from fishing leaping trout, salmon and sturgeon.

Barbarian Fishing - Cutting Method
A cost effective and relatively efficient method for fishing with a Barbarian rod is to use a knife and cut each fish to obtain roe, caviar, and fish offcuts, each of which may be used as bait to catch more leaping fish to repeat the process. The main benefit of this method is it saves repetitive dropping, slow bank trips, and only requires 25 (or less) bait to start the process which may be continued indefinitely.

An example of the process is as follows: This technique is faster than banking each inventory, but much slower than using the high alchemy or dropping methods.
 * 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.

Barbarian Fishing - Dropping Method
Still a very effective method, and much less costly than high alching every fish, is to drop the fish you catch. There are two main ways to drop as you fish, the first of which being simply to fish a full inventory and then proceed to drop each fish until you have an empty inventory and repeat the process. Due to the slow nature of dropping an entire inventory however, the second dropping technique is much preferred for speed.

Fish as normal using either fishing bait or feathers (and preferably with urns) until you have a nearly full inventory. As you continue fishing, right click on any fish and prepare to drop it. As soon as another fish is caught, drop the fish from the right click menu and then quickly drop another, you must then also quickly click on the fishing spot to start fishing again. As before, prepare to drop another fish, once a further fish is caught drop two and quickly click on the fishing spot again. Continue this process of fishing one and dropping two until you have an empty inventory, then relax as you fish normally to a full or almost full inventory and repeat.

This technique takes advantage of actually continuing to fish while you right click and get ready to drop one. If you dropped as normal, the time it takes for you to right click and prepare to drop a fish would be wasted doing nothing. In this way you can consider yourself still to be fishing while you drop one fish, and only stop to drop the second rather than the normal way of dropping a full inventory while you do nothing. This technique only works if you drop the first of the two fish immediately after you catch one. If you drop before, or too late after you catch a fish the benefit is lost and it would be the same as dropping while not fishing.

The only method of fishing at this location any faster is to use the high alchemy method, however the cost is substantial, the effort required exceeds dropping as there is no "down time" to relax, and the gain in experience per hour is minimal compared to this dropping method.

This method can yield between 70k - 75k per hour if you use fishing urns and remain diligent. 55k+ without urns.

Barbarian Fishing - High Alchemy Method
A very effective, 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 cost 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 10k - 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 or World 77, 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.
 * 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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