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Fishing (Alliance)
Grab your fishing pole and some bait because if you don't fish, you're missing out! While you don't necessarily need the bait, it increases your fishing skill when you apply it to your pole. Fishing is a "free" or secondary skill, meaning that you can choose it (cooking and first aid) and still choose two from among the crafting or gathering professions. Many people never bother with this skill because it is time consuming and even boring for some. You are missing out, keep reading and you'll find out why.
Uses
Fishing is useful for many things, it can provide you with many fish to increase your cooking skill, and the more skilled you are, the more interesting things you can catch. It is also useful to catch oily blackmouth, firefin snapper, and stonescale eels, all three are fish that are needed in alchemy potions. You can also end up with trunks full of various crafting supplies like bolts of cloth, leathers and more!
Benefits
Alchemists benefit directly from being able to fish pools of the three fish they need in some of their potions (though they must work on their skill at fishing in order to fish in some of the areas, especially the ones with stonescale eel). Fishing, of course, benefits cooks, but other benefits include the possibility of finding a green item while fishing, fishing out a trunk (which can have bolts of cloth, leathers, gems, and even uncommon or better items inside). You can level your fishing to 300 (though you'll have to leave to train in each level and to complete a quest to get past 225) anywhere you can cast your line, it takes the same number of catches to gain skill in the Stormwind Canals as it does to gain skill in Winterspring. It is only the type of fish and the item quality that goes up as you move to more dangerous fishing locations. You never know what you'll catch!
Drawbacks
Fishing is time consuming and is quite capable of becoming boring rather quickly for some people. You have to cast your line, you get a lengthy timer for each cast and most of the time you don't get a bite until halfway through that timer or you may even have to wait for the very end of the casting bar before you get a bite. If your fishing skill is not quite high enough, you can get the message "Your fish got away!" indefinitely. You will not get skill up in fishing unless you actually catch something. Once you reach a certain point in your skill level, it doesn't matter where you fish, it takes several catches before your skill goes up any (so if you're fishing in an area where "Your fish got away" is the most common message, just remember, if your skill is high enough, you'll still have to catch several of these difficult fish to gain a point in fishing), so you are better off going in a lower-level fishing area where you can catch often. You can always go back once you gain enough skill to catch often. Another drawback is that sometimes (even if you have 300 fishing) you can spending a whole cast without a single bite, it doesn't happen often, but it does happen.
Tips & Suggestions
Time consuming and possibly boring though it may be, stick with it! You'll want to be able to fish the various pools of things around Azeroth when you run into them, whether you are an alchemist or not (you can always sell stacks of the alchemy-related fish for a decent price), especially pools of floating debris. Everytime you run by a lonely pool of floating debris you could be passing up bolts of cloth (including bolts of runecloth depending on the level of the area), really good rum (gives you stamina buffs that can be used with food buffs) and even a nice green item. I once fished [The 1 Ring] out of the Stormwind canals! I get green items more often from the floating debris.
If you see someone else at the pool first, special items or no, it's always polite to go find another pool to fish from (that's kinda like being able to swipe items from a chest someone else has already opened).
Every Sunday at 2PM server time there is a fishing contest in Booty Bay, it is difficult to win and impossible for lower level fishers (you need to have high enough fishing skill to catch every cast and you need to be able to run along the coast without attracting much attention from the various beasts and hateful humanoids nearby). However, the items you can get for winning are pretty nice. I've never won, but I've gathered you can choose from a hat that increases your fishing skill, a fishing pole that also increases your fishing skill (by 35), or a trinket that can transform you into a fish so you can swim fast and breathe under water. Congratulate whoever won, after hearing all the flames from sore losers, they can use a kind tell or two.
Finally, keep your eye out on the fishing vendors, some of them sell limited supplies of nicer fishing poles that increase your skill by 5.
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