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 requirements to play Fish Flingers or any particular useful items as they are all provided. Having a low or a high fishing level does not bring any serious advantages or disadvantages, 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. That means that if players are late, they will have to wait up to 85 minutes (1 hour and 25 minutes) to enter 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.

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


 * 1) Total Fish Caught: X
 * 2) Total Weight: Y
 * 3) Heavist fish: Z
 * 4) Awards: A (Its value has yet to be determined)
 * 5) Medals: B (Its value has yet to be determined)
 * 6) Perfect Tackle Found: C (Its value has yet to be determined)
 * 7) Perfomance Bonus: (Average Rating) D

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

Awards
Awards are given for the following achievements: Awards offer bonus score to your total.
 * 1) Heaviest fish caught
 * 2) Most fish caught
 * 3) Heaviest catch total

Medals
Medals are given for the following achievements: Certain amounts of medals are required to buy tackle boxes.
 * 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

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. This 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.



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).

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 pun by Jagex 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 is a reference to "I'm gonna eat you little fishy", said by The Cat on Red Dwarf.
 * On the day of this D&D's release, some players were unable to see what they were saying in clanchats. This has yet to be fixed.
 * 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 fly 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.