Tips and Tricks of Fishing
- Listen to music to avoid becoming bored or tired.
- Talk to your clan/friend chat, it may not seem like it at the time, but time will fly by.
- Do homework, clean house, or read a book
- Fish with friends.
- If you start to get tired of fishing, try playing a fishing minigame, or go on a farming run (members only)
- Experience doesn't always matter, if needed cut the xp per hour just to have a little bit more fun.
Beginning: Just like any other skill, the beginning can be slow and tiring. There are three different routes you can take to become a Master Fishermen (level 99).
- Experience
- Money
- Both
Non-members:
Non-members fish: Fish/lvl req/ xp per
Crayfish: / 1 /10
Shrimp: / 1 /10
Sardine: / 5 /20
Herring: / 10 /30
Anchovies: / 15 /40
Trout: / 20 /50
Pike: / 25 /60
Salmon: / 30 /70
Tuna: / 35 /80
Lobster: / 40 /90
Swordfish: / 50 /100
Experience:
Level 1-10:
Shrimp (small fishing net) or crayfish. You can find Shrimp at: Karamja dock or
Draynor Village. Crayfish is at Lumbridge West of Sinclair Mansion. Fish until you reach level 10.
Level 10-20:
Bait and fishing rod, fish at Karamja dock or Draynor Village. Get as about 200 bait and a fishing rod (can both be bought at the GE). Go to Draynor village and start fishing and banking the fish.
Level 20-99:
Fly fishing: Grab as much feather as you can afford and a fly fishing rod. Go to barb village (south of Edgeville, west of Varrock) and fish there. This is the 2nd fastest experience in the game, fastest in non-members.
Money:
Level 1-10:
Small fishing net. Shrimp, once you have a small fishing net, you are ready to fish for shrimp, it may be a little slow at first but it will speed up. Best fishing place would be Draynor Village (north of Lumbridge). Fish until you are level 10.
Level 10-20:
Bait and fishing rod, fish at Karamja dock or Draynor Village. Get as about 200 bait and a fishing rod (can both be bought at the GE). Go to Draynor village and start fishing and banking the fish.
Level 20-40:
Fly fishing: Grab as much feather as you can afford and a fly fishing rod. Go to barb village (south of edgeville, west of varrock) and fish there. This is the 2nd fastest experience in the game, fastest in non-members.
Level 40-50 or 99:
Cage Fishing: This is probably the most caught fish in the game. Fish at Karamja docks, to get to Karamja, you need 30 coins to ride the boat there. You can stay on this island forever, if you want to leave, you need 30 coins to get back on the boat, or just use home teleport. Once you have a full load go to stile, he will note all of your lobsters for you (cooked or non cooked). You can do this all the way to 99, because its more steady then Swordfish.
Level 50-99:
Harpoon fishing: Congrats, you now have the ability to fish the highest level fish in non-members. Its the same as Cage fishing (above). Only bad thing is, you will catch tuna along with swordfish. I do not recommend this way, but it'll provide you with more coins per hour.
Balance:
This will give you best of both worlds.
Level 1-10:
Shrimp (small fishing net) or crayfish. You can find Shrimp at: Karamja dock or
Draynor Village. Crayfish is at Lumbridge West of Sinclair Mansion. Fish until you reach level 10.
Level 10-20:
Bait and fishing rod, fish at Karamja dock or Draynor Village. Get as about 200 bait and a fishing rod (can both be bought at the GE). Go to Draynor village and start fishing and banking the fish.
Level 20-85:
Fly fishing: Grab as much feather as you can afford and a fly fishing rod. Go to barb village (south of Edgeville, west of Varrock) and fish there. This is the 2nd fastest experience in the game, fastest in non-members.
Level 85-99:
Cage Fishing: This is probably the most caught fish in the game. Fish at Karamja docks, to get to Karamja, you need 30 coins to ride the boat there. You can stay on this island forever, if you want to leave, you need 30 coins to get back on the boat, or just use home teleport. Once you have a full load go to stile, he will note all of your lobsters for you (cooked or non cooked). You can do this all the way to 99, because its more steady then Swordfish.
Harpooning:
Congrats, you now have the ability to fish the highest level fish in non-members. Its the same as Cage fishing (above). Only bad thing is, you will catch tuna along with swordfish. I do not recommend this way.
Members:
Members fish: Fish/lvl req/ xp per
Karambwanji: / 5 /105
Mackerel: / 16 /20
Cod: / 23 /45
Slimy eel: / 28 /65
Frog spawn: / 33 /75
Cave eel: / 38 /80
Rainbow fish: / 38 /80
Bass: / 46 /100
Lava eel: / 53 /60
Monkfish: / 62 /120
Karambwan: / 65 /105
Shark: / 76 /110
Baron shark: / 76 /110
Sea turtle: / 79 /38
Manta ray: / 81 /46
Cavefish: / 85 /300
Rocktail: / 90 /380
Tiger shark: / 95 /n/a
Level 1-10:
Shrimp (small fishing net) or crayfish. You can find Shrimp at: Karamja dock or
Draynor Village. Crayfish is at Lumbridge West of Sinclair Mansion. Fish until you reach level 10.
Experience:
Level 10-20:
Bait and fishing rod, fish at Karamja dock or Draynor Village. Get as about 200 bait and a fishing rod (can both be bought at the GE). Go to Draynor village and start fishing and banking the fish.
Level 20-48:
Fly fish at shilo village or south of edgeville. You'll quite a bit of feathers so stock up at least 10k.
Level 48-99:
Barbarian Fishing. You will need a heavy rod (talk to otto north of fishing guild, near barb outpost), 5 feathers, and a knife. fish in the spots there (only place for leaping trout, leaping salmon, and leaping sturgeon). Once you have 5 fish, use the knife on them, then use the cuttoffs and eggs as bait, continue doing this until you have a full inventory of eggs, when you get a full invenotry of eggs drops your cutoffs. Continue this until 99.
WARNING: You will need at least 15 strength and 15 agility to fish these, but you will get a little bit of strength and agility xp per fish.
OR once you reach level 85 you can fish cave fish, its less experience per hour, but will gain more profit.
Money:
Since the beginning on most is the same i'll skip.
Level 40-62
Cage fishing: Fish lobsters at catherby or karamja docks.
OR
Once you get to 38 you can fish rainbow fish at any fly fishing spot.
Level 62-76:
This is only if you have completed swan song, if you have enough do the above step until 68 fishing, at 68 fishing, go to the fishing guild and fish lobsters or swordfish until 76.
If you have completed swan song, then head on over with a small net and fish until you reach 76.
Level 76-85:
The best place to fish sharks would be the fishing guild (level 68 required), since you already have that, start fishing sharks (use a barb-tipped harpoon). This can be a tedious task, its very helpful if you have friends to talk to.
Level 85-90:
Cavefish
You are almost half way to 99! Grab a fishing rod and bait and go to the living rock cavern (under falador mines). Watch out as you can be attacked, so make sure you are in a crowed world. Along with money, you'll be getting quite a bit of experience also (300xp per).
Level 90-99:
RocktailYou can now fish Rocktail, these are the best fish in the game at the moment, you need living rock bait. They are in the same place as cavefish, which is in the living rock cavern. continue doing this until you have as much money as you want.
Balance:
You should begin the same as all other skills.
If you have access to Shilo village, fly fish there until 68 fishing. Once you which 68 fishing, fish lobsters to 80, and if you have completed the quest "swan song" you can fish monks to 85, at 85, fish cavefish to 90, at 90 do rocktail til 99.
If you don't have access to either one, look here.
Level 20-40:
For speed to higher levels, go with trout and salmon (fly fishing.) It'll be your best best.
Level 40-68:
Go to catherby, and begin fishing lobsters here, fish until level 62 here (if you have completed swan song) if you haven't stay here. If you have, fish monkfish until 85 fishing.
Level 68-80:
This takes into account that you haven't completed swan song, since you now have access to the fishing guild, instead of catherby fish at the fishing guild, the bank is closer, which means more experience/money per hour.
Level 80-85:
You can either go the more xp less money route, lobsters to 85. The less xp more money route is swordfish until 85, if you don't care about the xp then fish sharks from 80 to 85.
Level 85-90:
Go to the living rock cavern with bait and fish cavefish, they are pretty easy to catch, but beware of the living rock creatures to attack you.
Level 90-99:
This is the best of all worlds, best money, and great xp per hour. all you need is a fishing rod and living rock bait. Head to living rock cavern and begin fishing (similar to cavefish).