Fishing Guide

Contents

Introduction
Equipment
Fish
Fishing Spots
Locations
The Fishing Guild
Barbarian Fishing
The Trawler Minigame
Other Details

Introduction

Fishing is one of the 3 main resource skills. It allows you to harvest food needed for fights and quests easily. There are hundreds of fishing spots dotted around RuneScape, with different fish available at each one. Fish is generally used in priority to other foods because you can eat them in one bite, and you dont have to go through a lot of complex preperation stages, as you have to do with others.

Equipment

There are several pieces of Equipment used in fishing, with each used for a different fish, or group of fishes. Most of these pieces of Equipment are available to buy from any of many fishing shops around the seaside towns and villages of RuneScape. Fishing shops are marked by a symbol.

This table shows all the Equipment used in fishing, and what they catch.

Object	Fishes	Bait
Small Net	Shrimps Anchovies Karambwanji Frogspawn	None
Fishing Rod	Sardines Herring Cave Eel Slimy Eel Pike	Bait Slimy Eel (Land of the Goblins quest)
Fly Fishing Rod	Trout Salmon Rainbow Fish	Feathers Tropical Feathers
Big Net	Cod Mackeral Oysters Bass Caskets Seaweed Leather Boots Leather Gloves	None
Harpoon	Tuna Swordfish Shark	None
Lobster Pot	Lobsters	None
Karambwan Vessel	Karambwan	Karambwanji
Oily Rod	Lava Eel Anything that a Fishing Rod can catch	Bait
Barbarian Rod	Leaping Trout Leaping Salmon Leaping Sturgeon	Feathers Bait Caviar Roe Fish Parts

Fish

There are many types of fish in RuneScape, some of which require quite a lot of skill to catch.

Here is a table showing all the fish that you can catch, and the levels required to catch them.

Fish	Level	Equipment Needed	Experience	Members only ?
Shrimps	1	Small Net	10	No
Sardines	5	Fishing Rod	20	No
Karambwanji	5	Small Net	5	Yes
Herring/td>	10	Fishing Rod	30	No
Anchovies	15	Small Net	40	No
Caskets	16	Big Net	10	Yes
Mackerel	16	Big Net	20	Yes
Oyster	16	Big Net	10	Yes
Trout	20	Fly Fishing Rod	50	No
Cod	23	Big Net	45	Yes
Pike	25	Fishing Rod	60	No
Slimy Eel	28	Fishing Rod	65	Yes
Salmon	30	Fly Fishing Rod	70	No
Frogspawn	33	Small Net	75	Yes
Tuna	35	Harpoon	80	No
Cave Eel	38	Fishing Rod	80	Yes
Rainbow Fish	38	Fishing Rod (with tropical feathers)	80	Yes
Lobster	40	Lobster Pot	90	No
Bass	48	Big Net	100	Yes
Leaping Trout	48	Barbarian Rod	50	Yes
Swordfish	50	Harpoon	100	No
Leaping Salmon	58	Barbarian Rod	70	Yes
Monkfish	62	Small Net	120	Yes
Karambwan	65	Karambwan Vessel	105	Yes
Leaping Sturgeon	70	Barbarian Rod	80	Yes
Shark	76	Harpoon	110	Yes
Sea Turtle	79	Fishing Trawler Minigame	38	Yes
Manta Ray	81	Fishing Trawler Minigame	46	Yes

Fishing Spots

There are small fishing spots all over RuneScape. There are different fish in each one that, so long as you have the right level and Equipment, you can catch. Fishing spots are marked on the minimap with a symbol.

This is what a fishing spot looks like:

You can distinguish it from the rest of the water by the blue spray of water rising from the surface.

Sometimes you may find that, even though you have the right Equipment and the right level to catch a fish, when you click on the fishing spot with the option that you want, it will not let you catch anything. This is because even though they use the same tools to catch, some fish live in different areas.

This will explain what you may find in each fishing spot:

Fishing Options	Fish
Net/Bait	Shrimps Anchovies Sardines Herring
Bait	Slimy Eel Cave Eel or Lava Eel or Leaping Trout Leaping Salmon Leaping Sturgeon
Net	Monkfish or Karambwanji
Lure/Bait	Pike Trout Salmon
Cage/Harpoon	Lobsters Tuna Swordfish
Net/Harpoon	Oysters Bass Cod Mackerel Caskets Sharks

Locations

There are several large sea ports with a lot of fishing spots that you can fish in.

Here is a list of all the main fishing areas and the fish available at them.

Location	Fishing Spots
Lumbridge Swamp	Net/Bait
Draynor Village	Net/Bait
Catherby	Net/Harpoon Cage/Harpoon
Musa Point	Cage/Harpoon
Northern Karamja	Net
Central Karamja	Net
Brimhaven	Vessel Fishing Spot
Lumbridge	Bait/Lure
Piscatoris Fishing Colony	Net
Shilo Village	Bait/Lure
Barbarian Village	Bait/Lure
Eastern Wilderness	Cage/Harpoon
Rimmington	Net/Bait
Cage/Harpoon	Net/Bait
Burgh de Rott	Cage/Harpoon Net/Harpoon
Fishing Guild	Cage/Harpoon Net/Harpoon
Baxtorian Falls	Bait

The Fishing Guild

At lv 68 Fishing, you can enter the Fishing Guild. There, it has a bank right next to the fishing spots. For more information visit the Fishing Guild guide.

Barbarian Fishing

If you take up training with Otto the barbarian, next to the Baxtorian Falls, then he will teach you several new ways of fishing.

The first new way of fishing you will learn is catching the few fish strong enough to battle against the forces of the rushing water of the falls. As the water is so fast, and the fish so strong, you cannot use an ordinary rod.


Otto will give you a Barbarian Rod, which is much stronger and thicker than an ordinary rod. This also means it needs more skill to use. Because of the more skill needed, you get Strength and Agility experience as well.

Because these fish need all the food they can get, it means you can use a much wider range of bait than usual. You can use the normal bait, as well as feathers, but also, if you use a knife on the fish you catch, then you can extract the Roe, Caviar, or simply use the chopped up fish parts as bait. This means that you can keep fishing without need to keep replenishing your stocks of bait.

This shows what fish you can catch at what level.

Fish	Fishing Level	Strength and Agility Level	Fishing Experience	Strength and Agility Experience
Leaping Trout	48	15	50	5
Leaping Salmon	58	30	70	6
Leaping Sturgeon	70	45	80	7

Otto will also teach you to fish with your hands, using your fingers to catch the fish. This requires an amount of strength, to pull against the fish.

This shows the requirements to do this:

Fish	Fishing Level	Strength Level	Fishing Experience	Strength Experience
Tuna	55	35	80	8
Swordfish	70	50	100	10
Shark	90	76	110	11

The Trawler Minigame

This minigame is a team game that you can get large catches of fish with. It is a safe minigame, there is nothing to kill you there.

Murphy, the trawlerman of Port Khazard, owns a ship with which he can catch many more the amount of fish than people can usually catch with small nets and rods. You, and a team of friends have to help him repair his ship as it sails around the sea. If you dont repair it fast enough, then the ship will sink!, and you will be left stranded by the waters just off Port Sarim.

Using this minigame you can obtain the 2 rarest types of fish, Sea Turtles and Manta Rays. There is no other way of catching these fish.

For more info on this minigame, click here.

Other Details

Cape of Acheivement
When you reach level 99 in a Fishing, you will be able to wear the Fishing Skillcape. When you wear this, it shows to everyone around you that you are a master fisher. While wearing it, it also boosts your level to 100/99. You can also do a cape emote to show off your fishing prowess.

Barbtail Harpoons
While hunting, you may end up catching the Barbtail Kebbit. If you use the barb from its tail on a log, you will craft it into a barbtail harpoon. This acts just like a normal harpoon, but you can wield it, therefore saving a spot in your inventory.

Random Events
While fishing you may find some strange goings on occuring.

Whirlpool

The fishing spot you are fishing at may suddenly turn into a whirlpool. If this happens, back off, or you may find your Equipment being sucked into the whirlpool.

Big Fish

While fishing a huge fish may leap out the water and eat your Equipment. Dont worry, as it will spit it out nearby.

River Troll


At any point while fishing you may disturb a river troll, which can leap out the water and attack you. You may want to fight it, or run away.

Guide made by: Deathslayer