Fishing

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This page is about the skill. For the enchantment, see Fishing (Enchantment).

Fishing UI

Fishing is a gathering skill that allows players to catch raw fish. These fish can then be cooked using the cooking skill.

General

Fishing was reworked and released in the v0.10.0 update, it received a massive overhaul and was the first gathering skill in Idlescape that used the node system.

Gathering with a node system increases the amount of gathering areas without increasing the amount of zones, the player starts fishing in a zone and

Nodes are found by the player while fishing and are dependent on the effective fishing level and bait power stats, higher numbers in those stats gives increased node find chance and decreased find speed.

The caught fish can be cooked with the cooking skill to offer hitpoint replenishment while fighting and various buffs for out of combat actions. There are a lot of different recipes that can be used for different benefits, more information can be found on the cooking page

Players have a small chance of obtaining either Sunken Treasures or Ancient Treasures. These can be opened for gold and sometimes gems.

Ancient treasures have a rare chance of dropping fishing gear such as Ancient Harpoon, Ancient Fishing Net and Ancient Fishing Rod which are used to craft Idlescape's first legendary item Ocean's Embrace

Sunken treasures have a rare chance of dropping Modified Diving Gloves or a Forgotten Soul.

Equipment

After the rework, equipment were changed drastically, meaning you no longer need a special type of gear to fish in an area, but rather having enough stats to actually being able to find nodes. Fishing level requirements for zones still exist and are on about the same level as before.

Equipment	Level	Slot		Fishing Level	Bait Power	Reel Power	Bonus Rarity
				(+Augment Bonus)
Novice Tacklebox	N/A	Tacklebox	1	3 (+0.5)	15 (+1)	5 (+1)	0 (+0.5)
Basic Tacklebox	10		2	6 (+1)	20 (+1.5)	10 (+2)	3 (+1)
Advanced Tacklebox	30		3	9 (+1.5)	25 (+2.5)	15 (+3)	6 (+1.5)
Pro Tacklebox	40		4	12 (+2)	30 (+3.5)	20 (+4)	10 (+2)
Supreme Tacklebox	50		5	15 (+2.5)	35 (+4.5)	25 (+5)	15 (+3.5)
Ocean's Embrace	80		8	40 (+5)	100 (+7)	100 (+7.5)	60 (+6)
Fisherman's Bucket Hat	N/A	Helm	3	0 (+0.5)	0 (+0.5)	0 (+0.5)	0 (+0.5)
Fisherman's Smock	N/A	Body	3	0 (+1)	0 (+1)	0 (+1)	0 (+1)
Fisherman's Waders	N/A	Legs	3	0 (+1)	0 (+1)	0 (+1)	0 (+1)

Bait

Bait can be used by moving it into the tacklebox. A tacklebox equipment does not need to be equipped.

Bait	Source	Fishing Level	Bait Power	Reel Power	Bonus Rarity
Earthworm Bait	Game Shop	N/A	N/A	5	5
Fat Nightcrawler Bait	Mining	1	15	10	5
Glowbug Bait	Foraging	1	10	15	5
Shrimp Tail Bait	Crafting (Raw Shrimp)	1	20	5	5
Fish Guts Bait	Crafting (Various Fish)	2	25	5	10
Smelly Meat Bait	Combat	2	10	20	10
Hardened Hook Bait	Crafting (Adamantite Bar)	3	N/A	35	20
Alluring Lure Bait	Crafting (Adamantite, Gold Bar)	3	30	N/A	20
Writhing Tentacle Bait	Crafting (Writhing Tentacle Bait)	5	-30	-30	60
Mysterious Bait	Bird's Nest, Mysterious Seed	?	?	?	?

Areas

Bonus Rarity must be above the minimum rarity for zones to appear and a further 10~25 rarity for rare resources to drop.

Nodes without a minimum rarity can appear at any rarity threshold.

It is possible to get both type of fishing chests  Sunken Treasure Ancient Treasure from all zones.

Level	Zone	Recommended Gear	Min. Rarity	Node	Possible Loot
1	Shallow Pond	Novice Tacklebox	N/A	Drifting Around
			Oop, All Shrimp!
			Small Schools of Fish
			The Shallow Pond
20	Lazy River	Basic Tacklebox	25	ANGY Bois
			N/A	Migrating Schools
			The Lazy River
50	Still Lake	Advanced Tacklebox, Fisherman's hat or smock or waders	30	Big Catch!
			N/A	Cage Match
			The Still Lake
			75	Yedyod’s Cave
65	Open Ocean	Pro Tacklebox/Supreme Tacklebox, Fisherman's hat, smock and waders	50	Almost Jurassic
			N/A	Carefree Day
			75	Ghost Ship
			100	Is that a tentacle?
			50	Playtester’s Paradise
			N/A	Sharks Ate All The Tuna
			25	Shipwreck Bay
			N/A	The Open Ocean
85	Stormy Seas	Supreme Tacklebox/Ocean's Embrace, Fisherman's hat, smock and waders	75	Endless Vortex
			N/A	Eye of the Storm
			100	INFO’s Stand
			N/A	The Stormy Seas
			50	World’s End
			Rare Encounter	Ascended
			Common Encounter	Swordfish

The Stormy Seas is a dangerous location. While fishing there, a Swordfish or Ascended will occasionally spawn and attack the player. This fight cannot be escaped from, and losing will lock the player out of the location for 15 minutes.

Fishing Stats

There are various stats that can gained through levels and equipment that affect fishing.

Effective Fishing Level

Effective fishing level is the combination of the players fishing and mastery level and the fishing stats on equipment. It affects various secondary stats:

• Chance of finding and gathering from a node
• Rarity of resources
• Quantity of resources in a node
• Chance to preserve bait

Bait Preservation

Bait preservation comes from both effective fishing level and the enchantment of the same name which comes enchanted by default on the Fisherman's Bucket Hat. It determines the chance that a bait is used on an action and is capped at 50%.

Bait preservation is reduced by Deadliest Catch but cannot go lower than 0%.

Bait Power

Increases the chance and speed of finding nodes, and the size of nodes found. Chance is capped at 100% and speed is capped at 1 second.

Reel Power

Increases the chance and speed of gathering resources. Chance is capped at 100% and speed is capped at 1 second.

Bonus Rarity

Some nodes require a certain bonus rarity to start appearing. Rare resources require a rarity higher than the node. Nodes and resources have a cap where bonus rarity above will not provide additional drop frequency.

Bonus Rarity must be above the minimum rarity for resources to appear. Resources not listed here require no bonus rarity to collect.

Zone	Resource	Min. Rarity
Shallow Pond	Raw Magnetic Minnow	1
Lazy River	Rotten Driftwood	5
	Raw Tigerfish	15
	Sturdy Driftwood	25
	Aquamarine	50
Still Lake	Rotten Driftwood	10
	Sturdy Driftwood	10
	Raw Tigerfish	25
	Raw Slippery Eel	25
	Raw Ancient Lobster	25
	Aquamarine	50
Open Ocean	Mystical Driftwood	15
	Raw Huge Tuna	25
	Raw Megalodon	25
	Aquamarine	30
	Raw Tentacle Meat	100
Stormy Seas	Raw Great White Shark	10
	Raw Megalodon	25
	Aquamarine	30
	Mystical Driftwood	35
	Raw Tentacle Meat	75

Enchantments

List of useful Enchantments.

Scroll	Slot	Level	Silver Amount	Rune Amount	Runes	Effect per scroll
Scroll of Naturalist	Gloves, Boots	49	600	60	Air, Water, Nature, Cosmic	Increase your chance to gain chests while gathering by 20%.
Scroll of Fishing	Gloves, Boots	55	700	60	Earth, Water, Mind	Increase fish catch chance by 2.5%.
Scroll of Prolonging	Gloves, Boots	58	700	60	Nature, Mind	Gain 10% more buff stacks from consumables.
Scroll of Enlightenment	Gloves, Boots	73	900	70	Air, Water, Chaos, Mind	Gain 1 more essence per action where essence is acquired.
Scroll of Gathering	Ring, Necklace	64	800	70	Earth, Fire, Water, Mind, Cosmic	Gain a 10% chance to find an extra resource.
Scroll of Wealth	Ring, Necklace	37	500	50	Nature, Mind, Cosmic	Automatically sell resources for 20% more gold than their normal value.
Scroll of the Scholar	Ring, Necklace	88	1000	90	Chaos, Mind, Cosmic	Gain 20% more experience, but NO items. This does not apply to combat, farming, or crafting.
Scroll of Haste	Ring, Necklace	94	1100	100	Air, Chaos, Mind, Cosmic	Increases non-combat action speed by 4%.
Scroll of Pungent Bait	Tacklebox	14	200	30	Nature, Water	Increase bait power by 3.
Scroll of Reinforced Line	Tacklebox	23	300	40	Water, Earth	Increase reel power by 3.
Scroll of Fishing Magnetism	Tacklebox	33	400	40	Cosmic, Water, Earth	Increase bonus rarity by 2 and decreases bait and reel power by the same amount. Increases chance to find known rare nodes.
Scroll of Bait Preservation	Tacklebox	47	600	60	Chaos, Water, Earth	Increases chance to preserve bait by 4%.
Scroll of Oil Spill	Tacklebox	69	800	70	Death, Water, Earth	Adds a 5% chance to try and extract fish oil from a fish based on the fish's size. There is a chance that fish oil may not be created if the fish is too small.
Scroll of Deadliest Catch	Tacklebox	71	900	70	Blood, Water, Earth	Increases bonuses from bait by 5% but decreases chance of bait preservation by 5%. Increases chance to find known rare resources.

Change Log

Date	History
12 September 2019	The fishing skill was released
11 November 2021	Major rework, node system, new gear, etc

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