Pay-to-play Fishing training

See also: Free-to-play Fishing training.

This guide will show you ways to train Fishing from 1 to 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.

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

First of all, to be level 5, the player will need to catch 37 Shrimps with their net. If they have lost their net, they can either buy a replacement in one of the Fishing Shops or get another one from the Fishing Tutor for free, south of Lumbridge.

After they get level 5, they will need a regular Fishing rod and some Fishing bait. It is suggested fishing with Fishing Bait until level 20. At level 10, you will have the ability to catch Herring so it should go faster. From level 5 to level 20, you will need from 105 to 205 Baits.

Money Making
The Player can't really make much money during these levels, but cooking and using the cooked fish as food could be useful.

Fastest Experience
Fishing trout is the fastest 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 the trout (raw or cooked).

Level 20 to 99
Fly fish for salmon and trout at Shilo Village. Fly fishing is the fastest experience until leaping sturgeon. Shilo Village is especially convenient for fly fishing due to its proximity to a bank. Doing the quest is required, however, in order to use this location at all. A second, less-known spot that actually gives 5-15k more experience per hour than Shilo Village is the river west of the Fishing Guild. The downside to this is that the player cannot bank your fish but instead sell them to Rasolo. Rasolo wanders just north of the area and is usually visible on the mini-map.

Fastest Experience
Continue fly-fishing Trout and Salmon to get to Level 40 Fishing. You will need to catch 478 Trout or 341 Salmon, or a mixture of the two.

Money Making
When you hit 35 Fishing you can fish Tuna. To do this you need a Harpoon and it will take 185 Tuna to get from 35 to 40 Fishing.

Fast Experience
As stated earlier the fastest experience is fly-fishing. It will take you 64,426 Trout or 46,019 Salmon or a mixture of the both to reach level 85.

Money Making
You can now fish Lobster. This is one of the best ways to balance experience and money, you can earn almost double what you can earn fishing trout and salmon, while getting 2/3 as much experience. To catch lobster you need to use a Lobster cage.

Level 62 to 99
At level 62, you can fish for Monkfish. This is recommended to fish instead of sharks as they are caught faster and give more experience (120 experience over shark's 110 experience). They are also better than lobsters or swordfish, catching at around the same speed as lobsters and healing more than swordfish, and selling for more than lobsters (Swordfish, due to being the best f2p food, are valued around 100 gp more). 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 that completion of Swan Song is required.

Level 70 to 99
Barbarian Fishing is one of the fastest methods for gaining XP in the 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 not recommended if you have less than 70 fishing as you will not be able to catch Leaping sturgeon which grants 80XP per catch. (Leaping trout gives 50XP, while Leaping salmon gives 70XP.)

For this method, players will need:


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

Players could also just bring a knife and a little bit of bait to start. When the leaping fish are cut into offcuts, 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.

Level 76 to 99
Sharks one of the best ways to make money fishing in the game. Though this is the slowest fish to catch, it produces coins per inventory. Level 90 fishing is recommended to catch sharks somewhat efficiently. Sharks give 110 Experience per catch and give the second-highest experience per fish, behind monkfish. The most efficent place to fish sharks is the Fishing Guild Getting 99 fishing by catching sharks from 76 will grant over 140 million coins.