Fish Flingers

Fish Flingers is a members only Distraction and Diversion released to RuneScape on 23 March 2010. It features the Fishing skill. There are no level or quest requirements to play Fish Flingers, or any required items as they are all provided. Having a low or a high fishing level does not bring any serious advantages or disadvantages to the activity itself, though you will receive more Fishing xp if you have a higher level.

Introduction
To the north of the Fishing Guild is a peaceful island named Isla Anglerine, to which many species of rare fish flock. Why they do so is unknown, but it makes the island a paradise for budding fishermen. Discovering this, representatives of the Fishing Guild have arranged for regular fishing competitions to be held there, in which those with a love of angling can prove their skill in a race to land the most and the heaviest catches.

Requirements
There are no requirements to enter a Fish Flingers competition, so long as a player's competition entry ticket is in their inventory. Everyone gets ten entry tickets per week, but more can sometimes be found during a competition.

Where to start Fish Flingers: Talk to the fishermen who regularly appear on Catherby's beach, and both inside and outside of the Fishing Guild, 5 minutes before the competition time.

A competition is run every 90 minutes (1 hour and 30 minutes) and players have 5 minutes to enter the waiting room on Isla Anglerine, the timer resets as soon as a new game starts. That means that if players are late, they will have to wait up to 85 minutes (1 hour and 25 minutes) to enter the waiting room for a new contest. The event happens at approximately the same time on every world, so players must wait the full time to enter the competition again after finishing. In addition, players can participate in at least 10 competitions a week, depending on whether or not they find any extra tickets during a competition.

Competition Times
To get the compeition time while ingame, you can ask one of the Fishermen at either the Fishing Guild or Catherby beach. The competition happens once every 90 minutes, and will reset itself at every system update so that the next competition is 90 minutes away. Because of this, there is no real schedule of the times that the competitions occur at. However, after a system reset, since the times are constant, one can calculate the times of the next competitions exactly until the next system update/reset.

5 minutes before the Fisherman says the competition will start, you can be teleported to the island to talk by talking to the Fisherman.

Score
To get your score several criteria is taken into account:


 * Total Fish Caught: x
 * Total Weight: y
 * Heaviest fish: z
 * Number of awards: A (6000 for 3 / 2000 for 1 - verification needed for two awards)
 * Medals: B (1000 score for junior angler - different scores for different medals might be possible - verification needed)
 * Perfect Tackle Found: C (2500 for 3 / 7000 for 5/9000 for 6 - testing for different numbers is needed)
 * Perfomance Bonus: D (Average Rating)

This is your score: (10x + y + 10z + A + B + C) * (1 + (D/100))

Types of fish
There are six species of fish that can be caught: The location of the fish differs from competition to competition.
 * Bass
 * Cod
 * Herring
 * Pike
 * Salmon
 * Trout

Awards
Awards are given for the following achievements: Awards offer bonus points to your total score, making it more likely that you will be one of the top scoring players.
 * Heaviest fish caught
 * Most fish caught
 * Heaviest catch total

Medals
Medals are given for the following achievements:
 * 1) Junior Angler - Find the perfect tackle for three species
 * 2) Master Angler - Find the perfect tackle for all six species
 * 3) Efficient Fisher - Obtain an average catch rating of 80% or higher
 * 4) Heavy Catch - At least 80% of fish caught being of the heaviest species

Medals offer bonus points to your total score. Certain numbers of medals are also required to buy tackle boxes.

Strategies
In the Fish Flingers activity, there are 4 locations, (river, lake, dock and beach) each of which you can find different fish. The point of this activity is to fish with the most efficiency (up to 100%). You can achieve this by mixing and matching bait, hooks, and weights. Each of these choices account for one third of the total rating when chosen correctly. The correct mix varies each time you play.

The winner is the player with the most score points. Check for scoring above. It appears that more points equate to more skill experience.

Tips
For fishing in "Fish Flingers", one of the most important things is to keep your rating high and smooth. The same combination of perfect tackle is never used for two different fish in the same competition. If one fish has a perfect tackle of Shrimp, a Large Hook, and Range 1, none of these, bait, hook or range, will be used for another perfect tackle of the same competition.

Rewards
The winner and the next four highest scorers are stood on the podium. They can stay until they decide to get down (be careful with dropping items on the podium as it is impossible to get back up unless you use telekinetic grab).

You can talk to the Fisherman's wife for information on Rewards and to know your Competition History, she is located in front of the Fishing Guild.

Fishing experience
You automatically gain some Fishing experience after the competition is over. (Additional information needed for formula)

Tokens
You get a certain amount of tokens depending on your total score. (Additional information needed for formula)

In exchange for medals and/or tokens you can buy either raw fish (it would appear that one can only recieve fish that they can catch at their fishing level.) or a tackle box. A tackle box is used to store fishing equipment (Fishing rod, harpoon, etc.), fishing bait (fishing bait, feather, etc.) and other items (Fist of Guthix Fishing gloves, cooking gauntlets). Presumably tackle boxes can be upgraded once you've purchased the first to hold more items.

Music
Some music tracks will be unlocked during the D&D, all of which are on the island.


 * Stillwater, in the waiting area.
 * Saltwater, on the docks.
 * Freshwater, around the lake.

Trivia

 * The name of the D/D is a play on the words 'fish fingers' (a type of food, also known as fishsticks).
 * In the Knowledge Base, a caption for one of the pictures is "I'm gonna catch you little fishy." This might be a reference to "I'm gonna eat you little fishy", said by The Cat on Red Dwarf.
 * On the day of release, the Fishing Guild was updated and the entrance changed. Also players must be 68 Fishing not only to enter the guild, but also to talk to the Fishing Master, who has been moved inside the guild
 * This is the second time in a fishing activity where you can see the fish come out of the water, preceded by Barbarian Fishing.
 * The "Flingers" in Fish Flingers refers to the way the fish in this D&D are "flung" out of the water.
 * On the day of the release, if you were resting or performing an emote while the lobby closed then you would stay in the lobby.