Pay-to-play Fishing training

See also: Free-to-play Fishing training.

This guide describes ways to train Fishing from level 1 to level 99. This guide is for members' training.
 * See Pay-to-play Fishing training (short) for a shorter version of this page.

Useful Summoning Familiars

 * Granite Crab
 * Ibis
 * Granite Lobster

Sacred Clay
The Sacred clay harpoon, which is a reward for the Stealing Creation minigame, 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.

NOTE: If you are solely trying to achieve a higher level, don't 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. There are, however, some rare cases in which the cooked fish can be worth more.

Experience
Players may have to swap fishing activities often to maintain optimum experience levels.

To achieve level 5, one will need to catch 37 shrimps with their small fishing net. If one has lost their net, they can buy a replacement in one of many Fishing shops, or get one from the Fishing Tutor for free, who is south of Lumbridge.

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.

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.

Level 20 to 99
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.

Experience
Continue fly fishing trout and salmon to achieve level 40 Fishing. One will need to catch 478 trout or 341 salmon, but most likely a mixture of the two.

Money Making
When one achieves level 35 Fishing, they can now fish tuna. To do this one needs a harpoon and it will take 185 tuna to get from level 35 to level 40 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.

Money Making
One can now fish lobster. This is one of the best ways to balance experience and money. One can earn almost double what they would earn while fishing trout and salmon, while getting two-thirds as much experience. To catch lobster one needs to use a lobster cage.

Level 62 to 99
At level 62, one can fish monkfish. It is recommended to fish instead of sharks, as they are caught faster and give more experience (120 experience vs. 110 experience). They heal more than lobsters and swordfish do; they are caught at around the same speed as lobsters and swordfish; and they sell for versus  and. Monkfish are still slower than fly fishing for salmon and trout or barbarian heavy rod fishing, but they are the most efficient option for those who desire a profit. Note: the completion of the Swan Song quest is required.

Level 70 to 99
Barbarian Fishing is one of the best methods for gaining experience in-game. It is also one of the most annoying if dropping/gutting a full inventory of fish every 5 minutes or so is disliked. This method can be most rewarding if you have the patience to stick with it. Barbarian Fishing is still a very means of raising fishing experience even if you have less than 70 fishing given the very quick rate of catches. (Leaping trout gives 50 experience, while Leaping salmon gives 70 experience.)

For this method, players will need:


 * Barbarian rod.
 * 45 Strength and Agility
 * Must bring either bait or feathers
 * dropping skills are a must
 * Utilize Mouse keys for the best speed

Players could also just bring a knife and a little bit of bait to start. When the leaping fish are cut into off cuts, roe, or caviar they can all be used as bait. This way one could stay there and never run out of bait while gaining a little bit of Cooking experience as well. This is foolish to do, however, as there are far better means of gaining cooking experience where as there are no quicker means of gaining fishing experience, so you can spend that time saved on something more productive later. It's best just to use bait and then dump all caught fish.

Level 76 to 99
Sharks are one of the best ways to make money fishing in the game. Though this is the slowest fish to catch, it produces Granite Lobster coins per inventory. Level 90 fishing is recommended to catch sharks somewhat efficiently. Sharks give 110 Experience per catch and give the fourth-highest experience per fish, behind monkfish, cavefish and rocktail. The most efficent place to fish sharks is the Fishing Guild Getting 99 fishing by catching sharks from 76 will grant exactly 0 coins. However, this method is not recommended for experience, taking 5-6 months to reach 99 fishing.

Level 90 to 99
Rocktail fishing is one of the est ways of gaining experience. One can gain roughly 40,000 experience per hour if their Fishing level is in the high 90s. Rocktails grant 380 experience per catch, the highest experience per fish in-game. This is only recommended if you are a reasonablely high-level player and are able to withstand (level-120, 140 and 200) enemies attacking you such as Living rock protector and Living rock striker; although they are weak and very inaccurate, they can be annoying.

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For this method of fishing, players need -
 * Fishing Rod
 * Food for healing because there is no proper bank; just a deposit box
 * At least 100 Living minerals depending on how long you want to stay


 * Some food at least lobster and above just in case guthans doesn't heal or you don't have guthans, no more than 5 pieces as they don't hit high often
 * If players have a high mining (at least level 80) they can mine the Living Rock NPCs for their living minerals and be able to stay there longer

 Further Notes
 * When fishing here make sure you're in a safe spot by trapping the monsters to help you fish without having to kill the enemy and make it spawn next to you.
 * Also, sticking to the west side of the cave will help you immensely because most rocktail-baiting spots are located there
 * If players have level 93 Cooking they can just cook the fish, making them be able to stay as long as they want or until their living minerals run out.
 * Fish in World 84, as many other players are here, making it is easier to avoid the aggressive NPCs that attack.