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Comment by 271529

This is one of the new mounts added in 3.1.

It is obtainable only by fishing in Northrend Pools and according to GM comments it has a very, very low drop rate.

It will be Normal Land mount speed(60% increase) while both on land and in water making it 10% faster than the Druid's Aquatic Form while swimming. Coupled with the Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole you can swim with the fishes and hold your breath forever!

While it might be useful for getting around while fishing, you cannot fish while mounted on it. It appears to be more useful as a bank mount at this point and should be quite effective at blocking mailboxes or popular NPCs.

Comment by 303838

According to several players that have caught it and posted on El's Anglin, the swim speed increase is only 60%

EDIT: This screenshot of the tool tip confirms that it is a 60% swim speed increase, 0% land speed increase

Comment by 303838

This mount currently has the same model as the TCG riding turtle as well as the various Kalu'ak turtle riders

EDIT: Comment now seems redundant as we have screen shot confirmation that it does in fact, have a different colour scheme (Blue and green). As far as i can tell, the actual MODEL itself is still the same

Comment by 303838

As main tank, i plan to use this in EVERY OS that we do, just so the rest of the raid has to wait for me to catch up and witness the awesomeness of my mount

Comment by 159525

consider the fact your speed in water is normally reduced to 66%, a 130% increase is accurate, as it removes the speed decrease from swimming naturally, plus 60% speed increase, total 126, close enough.

Comment by Grehan

Actually, I've been on the test realm to find that an epic ground mount does not have a speed increase while swimming. If it has any sort of speed increase at all, know that it was so small that I didn't notice a difference from normal swim speed.

Therefore, this mount is still perfectly useful in the water. It will move faster than any other mount or form in the water, spare a druid in aquatic form using the speed glyph. Woo, fishing!

And, of course, you can get underwater breath in a number of ways to match the druids'. I use a Deepdive Helmet . You could also get the Kalu'ak Fishing Pole. For that matter, just carry around a few potions.

Comment by Camthra

Tie some together.... with back hair.

Comment by Boarwood

The old model, in conjunction with Carrot on a Stick.

(Edited because of questioning in regard to the carrot)

Comment by Heimdallen

The name of the achievement for this (Turtles all the way down) is, most surely, a reference to the lecture once given by a well known scientist, some say it was Bertrand Russel, on astronomy. When he described how the earth is a sphere and orbits around the sun and the sun around the center of the galaxy, a little old woman stood up and said "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise". The scientist then asked "What's the tortoise standing on?" and the woman replied "You're very clever, young man, very clever! But it's turtles all the way down!".

Quoted from "A Brief History of Time", by Stephen Hawking. I remembered the story as it was so amusing to me when I read it years ago, and when I saw the name of the achievement and what it was for, it seemed it could be no coincidence and there must be an astronomy or cosmology buff at Blizz who liked the story also. I had to go pull out the book and find the part about that. =] Too funny! The World of Warcraft is clearly Turtles All the Way Down!

Comment by 350413

You do not need to be a high level fisherman to get this mount. I started with a fishing skill of 0 this afternoon and only fished Northrend pools. I got mostly junk, but got my turtle as I hit 143 fishing.

Comment by 232756

This mount ONLY drops from Schools of any kind of fish in Northrend. Don't bother wasting your time fishing in random bodies of water. If you aren't fishing in a school, you WILL not get this mount. I must of fished nearly 1000 fish, and then i decided to start fishing from school, and i got it probably 15 casts in.

Comment by rolled64

Just a note, this is NOT a 60% mount on land. It moves at normal running speed on land, and gives you a 60% increase to your speed in the water.

Edit: The speed increase was actually buffed in 2016. Now it, along with every other water mount increases swim speed to a total of 135% normal speed, which is a much better improvement.

Swim speed without mount = 67% of running speed on land
Swim speed with any kind of water mount = 135% of running speed on land

Previous swim speed with turtle was 67% *1.6 = approx 107% of running speed (when it was 60% increase).

Comment by 49893

I've spent about three days fishing up this mount, finally got it on my 1350th cast (or so).

Here's my advice to prospective fishers:

1) Go to a region that has a low active fisher population, but a high concentration of easy-to-find fishing nodes. Recommendations include Crystalsong Forest (Glassfin Minnow schools), The Frozen Sea south of Borean Tundra (Deep Sea Monsterbelly and Moonglow Cuttlefish schools), and the lakes in Howling Fjord (Fangtooth Herring and the occasional Glacial Salmon schools). I hear other fishermen have good success in Sholazar Basin as well (Nettlefish schools).

1a) If you're trying to get the "One That Didn't Get Away" achievement, fish in Howling Fjord for a good shot at a Dark Herring. I caught *three* of these while fishing for this mount.

2) Make sure you're more or less alone. Some of these areas can support 1-2 other fishermen fishing from the same set of node spawns (Frozen Sea, Howling Fjord), whereas others can be ruined by having one other person around (Crystalsong).

3) Don't expect to make a *ton* of money doing this. You can make some, but you'll likely tank the market for your fish if you sell too many too fast.

4) Have lots of patience. As I said, it took me over a thousand casts to get my mount. Don't do it all in one sitting, space it out over a period of days. I spent a few hours each day, spaced out over the course of the day, for about 3 days to get my mount.

Good luck everyone.

Comment by 193955

Got this mount today, given poor luck the drop came after about a fair amount of fish (well over the thousand mark, probably two).

It appears to have no "mount special" as of 18/4/09 Patch 3.1 (pre third restart) using mount special or the space bar seems to reset the animation cycle. Hopefully they give it one and it doesn't turn in to another hippogryph with no landing animation. Rider animation is also fixed and the mount will sway independent of the rider. (exhibited on a Tauren)

Patch 3.2 introduced a /mountspecial action to the mount.

The turtle will now jump and hide inside it's shell for a few seconds and then pop back out with another jump.

Edit: Thanks Pipolla

Comment by silverreno

contrary to what some people are saying, the drop rate to the turtle can indeed have a very miserable drop rate. i have been farming literally over 30 hours ( i have no life). i have so far fished up 8 dark herrings, and like 4000+ fish, and no turtle as of yet. this can have a completely HORRIBLE drop rate. those people who get it in 2 casts are merely lucky. do NOT count on getting this in 200 casts like so many people are posting. this is a huge farm. you MIGHT get it fast, but dont count on it.

Comment by MattimusPrime

That's why the best way to fish for this mount is not to be 100% focused on getting it. I used it as an excuse to fish up a ton of food that I otherwise couldn't muster up the drive to do. Now my guild bank is fully stocked with AP, Spellpower, and Haste Rating food.

I've also got a ton of Black Jelly for myself.

You'll burn yourself out farming specifically for this mount. Set aside a couple hours here and there to farm up lots of foodstuffs for you and your guild/friends, and the time will go by a little bit faster since you won't be constantly disappointed when you fish up food... but rather, pleasantly surprised when you finally get your turtle!

It spoils the Sea Turtle to think of it as a grueling ordeal.

Comment by 56614

Yes, a pool is slang for "school of fish."

Comment by Kraan

Picked this up tonight after fishing every night since Wednesday 22nd April (patch) on EU realms. To dispell some common misconceptions, the item is a blue drop and enters your backpack straight away like anything else you'd fish up. There is no prompt to bind on pickup, this is an urban myth. The Achievement "Turtles All The Way Down" is granted as soon as the item enters your bags.

Tried fishing in the Frozen Sea outside Borean Tundra for the first couple of nights in various pools of fish along the coast and got nothing. Moved on to Howling Fjord for the next few nights and did a few coastline circuits of pools there, still got nothing. Finally fished the sucker up out of a pool of Dragonfin Angelfish in the river splitting Dragonblight and Grizzly Hills. The winning pool was around 10, 55 but please remember that it is an RNG from fishing pools so don't expect to fish it up there just because I did.

It's such a beautiful looking mount, the giant eyes set it apart from the generic tigers and bears you see around Dalaran. Love it to bits!

Comment by tarunloko

While playing an alt after hours of fishing i came across this
made me sad :(

Comment by Cocomatona

We should all understand by now that this mount gives no land speed bonus, but there seem to be a lot of conflicting reports of just how fast this turtle is in the water. I got one on live and have tested it against aquatic form. All of these numbers have been confirmed through use of the speed readout on the map of the addon Carbonite.

All math considers normal running speed to be 100%.

In the water this mount increases swim speed by 60%. Normal swim speed is approximately 66.66% (two thirds) of normal run speed.
66.66 (normal swim speed) * 1.6 (speed multiplier from the turtle) = 106.656
What this means is that in the water the turtle will move at about 107% of normal running speed.

Now let's look at the boost from a druid's Aquatic Form. Unglyphed aquatic form increases swim speed by 50%.
66.66 * 1.5 = 99.99
So a druid in aquatic form is moving at about 100% of normal run speed.
With the Glyph of Aquatic Form the form's swim speed bonus increases to 100%.
66.66 * 2 = 133.32
So druids with this glyph swim at 133% of normal running speed.

In the end this very rare mount offers a very small advantage over unglyphed aquatic form and is a rather large downgrade from glyphed aquatic form.

Comment by 310680

You'll get the achievement as soon as you "fish up" the item, not after you click on it to learn the spell. Its nice that the achievement banner comes up because after fishing for a long amount of time, I was worried that it would drop into my bag and I wouldn't notice. Don't worry, when you get it, you can't miss it!

Comment by 340759

If you're in a raiding guild progressing in Ulduar (or any other place for that matter) I can very much recommend fishing only Glacial Salmon, Nettlefish and Musselback Sculpin while grinding this cute guy. So far I've gotten fish sufficient to about 250 Fish Feasts, and I'm suspecting there will be a lot more to come before I finally get to ride my future favorite mount in Dalaran.

Bottom line: As the droprate is very low, and most people will need some "X"k casts to catch a turtle, you might aswell do something good for your guildmates along the way by focusing on these three kinds of fish.

Adrana, Agamaggan EU

Comment by sdkphoenix

As of 3.1.2 she now walks backwards normally and when you jump while standing still she pops into her shell and pops back out a couple seconds later.

Comment by 301079

There is something dreadfully horrible about this turtle, and it is the fact that it's shell has been crushed in on both sides to make room for the riders legs.

Comment by Zada

My personal 5 cents for catching this mount and rare catches in general:

Get Bejeweled addon (or maybe even Peggle), and play it while you fish! Just set your Ambience and Music volume down, and Effects volume up and you'll hear when you catch something (if no one else is fishing near you). Makes fishing a lot more painless. :) Listening to music while fishing makes it also more comfortable.

Just remember, all you can do is keep fishing... You will catch it eventually. ;)

-Cecil, Chamber of Aspects EU

Comment by 391609

i got this drop in the lake that's in borean tundra. i was like 200 something leveling up my fishing with a level one fishing pole and no bobber.

to be honest it's changed my life. before i was a loner, but only two days after riding this mount around dalaran (cuz that's its only worth) girls started climbing all over me and i won the powerball. great mount.

first paragraph is true.

Comment by Toldry

Zombie Boys likes them.

Comment by 415423

Just got it last night....took a few days and alot of fishing. The best lake seems to be the one in BT....Has about 10 pools and no one's usually there....well atleast on my server. Good Luck Everyone!

Comment by darkwiz787

It's ALWAYs funny to see a DK/Smaman Waterwalking with one of these mounts. Ruins the purpose lol.

Comment by 357072

Actually, if the druid has Glyph of Aquatic Form, they're 40% faster. :P

Comment by Ateo

I've managed to catch four of these so far (on four different toons) and am now working on my fifth. All were caught while leveling fishing from around 250.

The first one took about 1200 casts; the second took 5 (!); the third took about 850, and the fourth took 1300. The fifth is going slowly: over 2000 casts and counting.

In my opinion, the most plentiful source of fishing pools in which to catch one of these mounts is the Moonglow Cuttlefish and Deep Sea Monsterbelly pools in the Frozen Sea south of Unu'pe. I generally see 5-6 pools when I arrive, and by the time I've fished them out 3 to 4 more have appeared.

Apart from days when Monsterbelly Appetite is the Dalaran fishing daily, the area is completely deserted. There are no mobs in the water and the risk of ganking is low to nil, so even a lower-level character can fish in peace.

The mount is a beaut, practical in certain situations, and relatively rare (I've only seen one other turtle so far on my realm, although naturally these mounts don't see much use in everyday play).

My one disappointment is that you can't fish from it. Maybe that gross oversight will be remedied sometime in the future. :)

Comment by 451044

I once was swimming on my honeymoon in Barbados and got attacked by a sea turtle. For this I will never obtain this mount. Sea turtles are truly evil creatures.

Comment by 485330

Ive noticed that with my particle and other graphics settings down, it is really difficult to see the fish pools. That being said, if you are having trouble seeing right where the pools are, try turning up your particle settings to max, and turn down other things if needed temporarily. Helps a ton!

Otherwise, been trying my luck with this guy for a cumulitive 6-8 hours now. Atm im flying back and forth between Moa'ki Harbor and the little lake just north of it. I dont really reccommend this area, there are not enough pools to keep going but I needed this type of fish.

I would however reccommend the big lake in Scholazar Basin in the northwestern corner. There are 5-6 pools in that lake, only annoying part is sometimes dodging the hydras, but I could loop nonstop for a solid few hours without seeing a single other player. (I think most people hang out at the River's Heart lake)

Comment by 241152

Druid aquatic form speed: 100% (same as run speed)
Druid w/ glyph aquatic form speed: 135%

Turtle's land speed: 100% (same as run speed)
Turtle's water speed: 160% (same as normal mount on land)

Comment by Unlocky

Edit: this post was written ~8 years ago. Since then, Cataclysm hit Azeroth and pandas are brewing beer on every continent. On top of that, the World of Warcraft's timelime was briefly rewritten and now the Legion is on our doorsteps again.
But the basics are still the same; you always ALWAYS fish in a school of fish to catch the Sea Turtle. Just be sure it's in areas made available in Wrath of the Lich King and beyond.

**On a sidenote, you can now farm for the Darkmoon Darkwater Skate. But the turtle is better since you won't get dismounted if you press Spacebar at the water surface. Same speed aswell**

Today I was finally rewarded for my persistence. I wish I could say that I got my Sea Turtle in my very first school of fish or somehing similar bullsh*t, but I can't.

Just a quick roundup since people are still confused:
1. Patch 3.3 introduced; no junk from northrend pools, you can now fish any pool successfully with skill 1.
2. Although you think you look absolutely fabu' astonishing in your fishing outfit (Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat, Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole etc) there is no need for +fishing skills anymore, hence Patch 3.3
3. Ofcourse, if you do fancy the looks, by all means wear them.
4. There is no way that you can increase the drop chance of the turtle, it will always remain the same. You are not guaranteed a drop after a fixed number of catches, the RNG doesn't work that way - basicly each throw with your fishing line is your first, if you want to look at it that way.
5. The mount is still in the game.
6. YES! really, it actually still is in the game, you're just unlucky or impatient.
7. They removed the BoP warning a couple of patches ago, but its still very important to always have free bag slots, trust me. You will loose the last bit of sanity if you somehow accidently move out of range from loot window, are getting ganked or you close loot window by mistake while nervously trying to make a free bag slot.
8. Disregard any comments that claims they caught the turtle after 50 casts or in school number 4. It can happend for you, sure, but don't count on it.
9. Crusader Aura does not work with this mount.

What I do want to tell you is how I prepared myself for getting this very unique mount.
I choose 3 places to fish:

Musselback Sculpins from Lake Kum'uya

Deep Sea monsterbellys/Moonglow cuttlefish from Frozen Pools

Nettlefish from Sholozar Basin

Christmas vacation is long this year, so I figured I'd hit it.
As a standard rule I always assume that I have the worst possible starting point, so I disregarded every yarn from people that claim they caught a turtle in their third school of fish, caught it after 20 min or "lol didn't know it even existed when I fished for the first time!" or some similar sh*t.
Don't get me wrong, it happends, but even if all the posters that claims "one time hit wonders" on these pages are not lying, its still an incredible small amount of people out of nearly 12 million WoW players.

Basicly, I knew this was going to take alot of hours so why not optimize my time?
I choose the above places since Musselback Sculpins and Nettlefish are ingredients for Fish Feasts. I didn't make the feasts, I just sold the fishes and made quite an amount of gold from it.
The Deep Sea Monsterbellys are ingredients for Gigantic Feast but thats not the reason I choose this place since they practically don't sell on AH, atleast not on my server. I choose this place because from time to time I experienced other people fishing at Lake Kum'uya and Sholozar Basin so I moved to Frozen Pools because schools of fish are abundant here, basicly there are always schools ready to grab.

I began fishing the 18th december and what I basicly did was to "reserve" ingame time for fishing. I always made sure to have some kind of beverage in reach, favorite music and an alive guild chat, although you also have to watch your bobber, dont forget :D
Some days I fished 1 hour, another day 4 hours and again another day I fished for 3 hours. These hours were either straight or divided during the day; 30 min here, 50 min there etc.
Some days I had no problems fishing for 2 hours straight, but other days I welcomed breaks where I either did som irl stuff and came back after some time or simply did a random heroic instance with guildies. The new LFG tool is awsome because when you are done you get ported back at your fishing spot, perfect.

Today, 26th december, I started at Lake Kum'uya and had been fishing for ~20 min when 2 other players came. I was hoping they would bugger off quickly but they kept fishing so I used Blan B which was Frozen Pools.
I made my usual route 2 times among the icebergs when I settled down on a Moonglow cuttlefish school of fish and behold! - landed the Sea Turtle

Basicly I dont bring up any new facts, I just wanted to tell you my approach for farming the turtle.
The comments that suggest you kind of "romantice" it and leave behind the desire of the turtle while throwing your line for the 3956th time and merely see it as a joyfull way of raising your fishing skill, getting mats for Fish Feasts, earning gold, see the world and think of the turtle as a bonus, is either heavily sedated on anti-depressive drugs or, in my opinion, embellishing their own tedious farm story which only leads to false expectations.

As you can see my journey for the turtle was all but an adventure of fortune, I worked hard for that little bugger and you should expect to do so too.
Its all about luck and in my opinion you have to force your luck and fish continuously. But remember Blizzard's own words; take everything with moderation - even WoW ;-)

Good luck fishing to you all!, I sincerely hope you will use less time than I did.

Comment by 473422

It seems that since Patch 3.3.3, the Sea Turtle has its own unique sound effects! I might never stop jumping while riding on it.

Comment by 367622

Not sure if it was like this before but I logged on this morning and mounted up, it seems she makes a little squeak and pop when you /mountspecial her!

May have been there all along but I never noticed it until just now :)

edit: It seems with 3.3.3 they did add a sound effect to her special 'move'. Now why couldn't they replace the mount up sound from a kodo to an actual turtle :(

Comment by 670034

If you're after the Sea Turtle I suggest you do One That Didn't Get Away on the same time, the Sea Turtles chanse to be caught is the same in any Northrend pool, so I suggest you go fish in Fangtooth Herring schools in Howling Fjord. It makes the fishing less boring when you know you have the chanse of catching two rares (Dark Herring and Sea Turtle).

This is how caught my Sea Turtle, I was actually only after the Dark Herring for the meta-achievement as the Sea Turtle is not needed. But.. who says no to a awesome ridable turtle that can hide inside its' shell?

Even if you don't want the title, I suggest you fish in Fangtooth Herring schools if you ever change your mind.

I wish you best of luck and don't give up, be patient!

Comment by 327095

Just fished this up in the lake just south of Nordrassil on my 5th cast. Needless to say you don't have to fish in Northrend to catch the Sea Turtle!

Comment by Alan3002

From what I have tested the Sea Turtle is NOT as fast as the Abyssal Seahorse.

Tested using Speed Macro:
/script x=GetUnitSpeed("player") DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(format("Speed: %d yds/sec, %.1f kph, %.1f mph, %d%% normal run speed",x,x*3600/1093.6133,x*45/22,x/7*100))

Results:
Abyssal Seahorse:
25 yrds/sec, 85.5 kph, 53.1 mph, 371% normal run speed.

Sea Turtle:
18 yrds/sec, 62.2 kph, 38.6 mph, 269% normal run speed.

Tested with Master Riding in the Abyssal Depths.

Comment by Rimwalker

Despite what the achievement says, this guy is possible to catch in the new Cata zones. Just got one from a Mountain Trout school in Hyjal, about 3 casts.

Comment by 732527

Confirmed on 23/12/2010 that you CAN fish this up in pools in Cataclysm zones. I fished this baby up in a pool in Twilight Highlands.

Comment by 239638

This is now going to be available in Cataclysm pools, specifically those in Hyjal, Deepholm, Uldum, and Twilight Highlands.

Comment by 765310

stop posting unuseful comments like "got it today in boran tundra after **** casts"
who cares?
its totally random, the only thing that u must fishing in pools, thats all

Comment by Stealthed

Can the turtle be caught from Pool of Fire?

I'll be testing this myself, will report back if I get it to drop

EDIT: About 200 Volatile Fire caught from Pools of Fire, no turtle yet. I'll report later when I get some more Volatiles and maybe a turtle ;)
EDIT2: 300+ Volatile Fires caught, no turtle yet.
EDIT3: About 400 Volatile Fires caught, nothing yet.. apart from the Volatile Fire of course :)

Comment by Aylie

I can confirm it can be fished while in a raid group. I have just fished one while sitting out for one boss, but still in a raid group.

Comment by squee666

This mount is affected by the Guild 10% mount speed perk. Though tooltip says otherwise.

Comment by Aerozia

got mine in Howling fjord, while fishing for the dark herring...
... never got the dark herring, but fished up the turtle instead! so i gave up on the herring.

best advice, dont fish for the turtle, fish for something else.
the dark herring, Cata fish to cook for guildies, ect. or glassfin minnows to make water walking pots. fish for any other reason than for the turtle.

Comment by ssdisfaster

Got confirmation from GM: only drops from fishing schools.

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/4745/wowscrnshot103111001005.jpg

Comment by 898191

Just a little adv: if you make your way up to Vermillion in Twilight Highlands to try for a bit, I found a nifty little hiding spot! in the south east pool, next to the little bitty one (the pool is pinned on the map); anyways, for one, if you stand at the edge of the bank, to the left in front pf a little hill, you will never aggro even when the bad guys all start running around...buuuut, the tree in that pool is hollowed out if you walk around it... just stand in the hollow spot and you'll never be spotted. there is tall grass, but its easy to find your bobber. happy hunting... been fishing at the pools and lakes all around a couple hours now, about 30 skill-up points and nothing yet :( im getting impatient! BLAH!

Comment by daduu

Can be fished from Shipwreck Debris pools that can be found on Darkmoon Island.

Comment by lurlene

You can fish up the sea turtle off the shores of Darkmoon Island.

Comment by SylviaDragon

Got this during the second week of the new darkmoon fair. I just ran loops around the island. On the first day of official farming I got this mount in almost exactly three hours. Took 115 casts. (180 if you count the week I was fishing there but didn’t know the mount dropped.) I would say this is a great farming spot. All the pools of wreckage only have 1-2 items in them but they spawn all around the island and every time you empty one out a new one will spawn.

Pros:
fast respawn and lots of pools. I was looting 10-15 crates every ten min depending on my luck (more wreckage pools= more chances of looting the mount)

no mobs that will attack you

any lvl can do this

you don’t need lk or cata (I only have Burning Crusade at the moment.)

there are tons of cata profession items, potions, flasks and random level foodstuff in the crates that you can use or sell. I made 3k in about an hour or so of fishing the first time I did it and that was after donating the flasks and food to my guild bank. So its a nice safe money maker for low lvls and a nice lil bonus to make the farm rewarding no matter what.

Both the pools and open water also have a chance to drop a pet sea pony in a bubble that you can only get at the fair.

cons:
the fair is a once a month thing and only lasts a week.

only 1-2 items per node

no flying mounts allowed in the zone. have to use 100%

expect 1-5 other players to be farming these for the cata items. Some of them will probably try and ninja a pool you already cast into but if you just politely ask them not to and let them know you won’t try and ninja the pools they cast into they usually stop.

Quick reminder: you should only need lvl one fishing and a fishing pole to fish in any water in darkmoon and no matter your fishing level as long as your cast lands in a pool you are going to receive pool associated loot.

Hope this helps! Happy fishing.
SylviaDragon 70 Ne hunter
Arygos.

Comment by Thomx

Before I say anything, please note that this WILL take you a long time to get unless you're insanely lucky (like a lot of previous commenters were).

There is no easy spot to fish for this mount.
There is no fishing pool that has a higher drop rate than anywhere else; all eligible fishing pools have the same drop rate.

The only thing to do is fish in pools as much as you can. Do whatever works best for you, as you're gonna want to get comfortable when you're fishing for hours and hours. Every time you reel something in from a pool, you have the same chance at getting the Sea Turtle, so you're just gonna have to keep at it.

Given these facts, the only way to "speed up" (so to speak) the process is to find a place that has pools very close together that respawn quickly.

Personally, I found that Bittertide Lake in Sholazar Basin (the northwestern lake) makes a very, very nice place to get a constant stream of pools coming your way. If you keep making circles around the lake, the pools will respawn by the time you make a full circle, and you'll never be more than a few seconds in the air (or on the ground) without finding the next pool again. Please keep in mind that, given this convenience, you will STILL be fishing for hours and hours, depending on your luck.

You may want to fish elsewhere, though.
Going for schools of Fangtooth Herring in Howling Fjord will have you shooting two birds with one stone, as you have a chance to fish up a Dark Herring, which meets criteria for One That Didn't Get Away, or you may want to fish in some Cataclysm pools either for more useful fish or the chance at fishing Volatiles (which you'll get a lot of while trying for this mount).

Either way you go, it's all about making sure you're going to be comfortable, because you're going to be at it a looong time.

All that said, I got this sucker earlier this morning and it is one incredibly rewarding feeling. :)

Comment by 932480

I got the mount after about 500 casts. Here's my advice to those looking to catch this mount:

1) Be patient, it will take time. I found that it helped to stick to a certain number of casts per day and then move on to something else. I did at least 50 a day, but never did more than 100 a day.

2) If you haven't gotten "One That Didn't Get Away" then start with the Fangtooth Herring Schools in Howling Fjord. There are a lot of them and you catch the dark herring while you look for the turtle.

3) If you have gotten "One That Didn't Get Away" or don't care about it then try the lake in Borean Tundra west of where you get the D.E.H.T.A. quests. There are multiple pools there that spawn pretty quickly.

4) Don't sell every fish you catch on the auction house. You'll flood the market and probably won't be able to sell them all. If you really want to sell them all on the auction house then sell them a few at a time.

5) Don't expect to get rich quick doing this, and don't expect to get the mount right away, the drop rate is less than 1%

6) You do NOT need lures or a lot of equipment that increases your fishing. I only had a fishing rod that gave me +5.

7) Leave the sound effects on (turn off all other sound) so you can hear when you have a fish and then read a book or put on a movie or something while you fish. This will make it much less tedious.

Hope this helps

Comment by 943632

this mount............. "shudders at grind"

Comment by Ballybog

I can in fact confirm that this can be caught at the Darkmoon Fair! Today, I was fishing with an alt, and was going for the shipwreck debris. Much to my surprise, it came up with a crate in the loot window! I had always figured that if I ever did catch one, it would be fishing nodes in Northrend or something. I spent quite a bit of time with my main trying to catch one, but instead got one quickly with an alt, and a half hour after I somehow caught the sea pony companion! So, the time to get one can vary, as others have pointed out, and it's possible to get one from the shipwreck debris of Darkmoon. Good luck and hopefully you get it!

Comment by 728696

Just looted this from a wreckage pool in Darkmoon Faire.

Comment by 946693

i was fishing in grizzly hills for about 3 hours got my fishing to 148 i got the Dark Herring then i get back on WoW and tell my brother about it and we go over to crystal song and we find a pond with lots of schools he casts his pole in maybe 4 times and pulls out the Sea Turtle i was pretty jealous considering how rare it is then about 15 mins later i fished up mine and we raced turtles my advice is to just keep fishing me and my brother got really lucky on it and i hope you all get the mount eventually

Comment by 920140

Farm for the achievement Like Shooting Fish In A Barrel and try not to focus too much on getting the mount. The drop rate of 0,03% as stated in Wowhead will turn you away. Some people claimed 10 minutes fishing, but don't rely on it. Focus on the mission. I plan on doing the same on extremely boring days.

As most fisherman do, grab your favorite snacks, your favorite beverage, and prepare to sit by the shore for hours. Enjoy the trip. Have fun. Leave the wristwatch behind, it will be meaningless .

Comment by Underpantss

I saw some guys with This Sea Turtle.. So i asked about it and they told me they got theirs in fishing schools in Udum. So i went to Uldum and around the 70 cast i got it! i started with Fishing lvl 0 and got it around fishing lvl 65 so lvl doesn't matter! :)

Comment by 520382

Fished up out of a Glassfin Minnow Pool below Dalaran

Shadowsong 7:15 pm Server time March 3, 2012

I am soooo happy!

Comment by 520382

Unbelievable just got this mount on another toon. 2 mounts 2 toons in 2 days? maybe a 12 hour spawn?

Shadowsong Server 03/04/2012 7:45am server time Fishing Glassfin Minnow pools in the river under Dalaran

Comment by 961446

I just fished the turtle up today in Hyjal, Shrine of the Goldrinn, coordinates 29:33. I came upon a shallow pool and did a few quests around it, then noticed a new fishing node. No other players were around to have fished it before me/respawn, so it just oddly appeared. The node was not there when I first arrived. I was not using a bobber of any kind.

Comment by Stok3d

Just got this baby last night in Twighlight Highlands. Why not make some gold while looking for the turtle as the Highland Guppy & Deepsea Sagefish currently sell for the most on my server.

Over the past week I was just a bit shy of 2000x casts entirely in this area and the mount actually dropped out of a Highland Guppy node around 8pm server time on a Sunday.

gl to everyone else trying to fish it up. Hopefully my strategy will prove profitable to you.

Comment by Lianne

Just fished this up on Darkmoon Island whilst randomly fishing. Crazy thing is that I'm only level 70 because I don't have any of the expansions yet (besides BC because it's now free). Was so surprised! Had to make an account to comment about this. If I can figure out how to load a screenshot I will XD

Comment by Fist

JUST (03/07/2012, 11:48AM server time, Borean Tundra; Aurelion) fished it at the Darkmoon Island (4.3) pier, from the Shipwreck Debris.

So not only "regular" CATA zones count.

Good luck, all ya Salties-To-Be! :)

Edit: Why the down-rate? It's a valid information regarding this achievement in the newest patch, confirming an additional, new contents and the rare loot!

Comment by deathshades

Fished this up 5 minutes ago on darkmoon island from "shipwreck debris" as a lvl 19 rogue with 20 fishing skill. took about 5 minutes of fishing. sucks that i cant use it :(

Comment by 955551

I wanted this mount so I trained for fishing and started leveling in the zones where I could get this mount. Figured I could knock out fishing leveling this way and hopefully get a mount. All day I spent fishing, no mount. Did get a sea pony though.

Girlfriend gets home and hears about my frustration with no turtle, she trains fishing and is all "Okay, I feel lucky!"

Within the first 10 pools and tada, A Sea Turtle.

So yup, luck! Don't kill yourself. Just go randomly.
*mentally pew pews her*

Comment by Deathnugget

I found something strange today, using this script:

/script x=GetUnitSpeed("player") DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(format("Speed: %d yds/sec, %.1f kph, %.1f mph, %d%% normal run speed",x,x*3600/1093.6133,x*45/22,x/7*100))

When I am using the guild perk of Mount Up without Crusader Aura my turtle moves at 110% normal run speed
When I activate Crusader Aura, my turtle moves at 120% normal run speed.

So It does seem to be slightly affected by Crusader Aura on land.

Comment by Simplink

I got it after fishing 120 Fathom Eels from the pools and also got the Sea Turtle from the pool of Fathom Eels, good way to farm money while farming for this mount.

Comment by 962971

I just absolutey LOVE hearing from all you peeps who catch this stuff with .01 and .02 drop rates in just a couple casts... I guess I'm the guy who makes everything average out, cause after about 12,000 casts, I still dont have one! at a drop rate of .03 it is 1 in about 3,500, so for all you jerkwads who caught one on your 50'th cast that means some other person has to make an extra 3,450 casts to get it, well, obviously Blizz has decided I get to be the lucky shmuck

Comment by 385727

I fished this bad boy up in Twilight Highlands 2 days ago after months and months of consistant fishing. I was told I would have a better cahnace of fishing him up in Uldum so that is where I began my quest. After a while I dicided that farming mats for the Seafood Magnifique (Fathom Eel, Lavascale Catfish & Highland Guppy) would be benificial to do alongside just fishing with the hopes of the mount dropping. While Uldum is a great place to fish eels aHnd lavascales you must fish the guppies up in TH. low and behold after gathering my daily 100 eels and lavascales, I went to Twilight highlands and bam, there he popped! Good luck to all, who venture to catch this guy. The gold you make along the way makes this a truely worthy achieve to pursue!

Comment by Malutor

Do you guys know if it can be just fished in Darkmoon Fairy water? (i don't mean wrecks)

Comment by 965095

Fished this in Darkmoon Isle Shipwreck Debris. There might be bigger change to get it from there than 0.03% as several last comments say the same.

Comment by 966696

Just fished this guy up in Uldum. Stopped at the first school I saw and got him on my 3rd cast.

Comment by Mondoblasto

Kept doing Dalaran fishing dailies, especially Ghostfish, but no luck; just tried another day. I finally got it yesterday at Darkmoon Island. I was trying to fish up some free health potions when she came up with a crate! Just deliriously happy that she's mine now :D

Comment by 977412

Ok .... I have fished Ks and Ks of fish in northrend pools without any results. I can't say how many. I'll still be trying to get it and put updates on this comment containing numbers of Approx cast and locations ... Starting back to 0

09/04/2012 - fished Apprx. 20 schools at Uldum ... will still be trying there ... Lots of schools + You fish a lot of volatile water = 15 Gold each on AH
10/04/2012 - fished Apprx. 100 schools at Uldum ... got Tome of Polymorph: Turtle ... A book about turtles ... good one Blizz = 500g on AH
12/04/2012 - fished Apprx. 60 schools at Uldum ... Fished Fathom Eel schools only = Minimum 60g/stack on AH, Made 1k gold ... No mount

**** Oh BTW I gave up on that lol

Comment by 642965

Fished up from a Fathom Eel Swarm in Tol Barad.

Comment by Kryyn

Just got this with 54 Fishing level. And fished up a rare fish. And got the crab out of a fishing bag. Lucky day.

Comment by Pernis

For those who are wondering, the difference between the drop rate in Grizzly Hills is significantly larger (p<.005) that the rest. While this could be a coincidence, GH seems like your best bet if you're only trying to farm this/level up. Obviously, if you want money too, you should fish in Cata zones and sell the fish.

Comment by 901926

Finally nabbed this fantastic mount last night in Uldum after approximately 1000 casts. Totally worth it :D

Comment by 986293

Finally got this after farming for weeks. I fished out of pools in Howling Fjord ~3500 times, Sholozar ~1100 times, and then Uldum ~300 times and it dropped! My suggestion: start in Uldum!

Comment by 900142

I got it today after about 40 mins with maxed fishing and a 100+ lure at borean tundra.

I never knew that if you press spacebar when you are stationary she hides in her shell for a little bit, its pretty cute.

Comment by Insight54

Started leveling fishing got to around 500 in Uldum when finally I fished it up at the coast of Uldum in a pool, took over 1000 fish caught but very glad I got it.

even feel cooler for fishing it up in Uldum where it is the lowest % drop!

Comment by 989794

Believe it or not, I caught this mount on Darkmoon Island. Didn't put much time to farming, it must have just been luck. I spent about an hour to two a day fishing up the wreckage around the island. The drops out of the crates are very good money makers as well!

Comment by Entilzha2161

It could just be luck but Darkmoon Island looks like a good spot for this, I got the turtle on 2 diff. toons during this faire alone. Either way the contents of those chests are worth a ton of gold so if you're farming this mount and don't want to waste your time if it doesn't drop, DMF is the way to go.

Comment by 991829

I just got this mount today. I also pieced together something others might find useful, but first let me tell you how i got the mount. I spent a total of 8 days fishing, 6-8 hours a day, in northrend, uldum, twilight highlands and deepholm. About 5 days in i read on a post somewhere and if you track the quest, it may help farm it out, so i did. It did'nt seem to help. At the same time i was farming the turtle, the guild i was in was also working on the seafood magnifique achievement, the guildmaster requested everyone to go fishing in pools, great i thought..two birds with one stone. Earlier today, me and the guildmaster had an arguement, i left the guild..went fishing and 3 pools later, got the mount.
So here's my theory. Guild achievements requiring fish, take priority, will make you catch fish. Personal achievements come second in the database as far as priority is concerned. So if you're in a guild that still needs you to catch fish, you're gonna be catching fish. I could be wrong, however that's the way it happened with me.

Comment by Texxi

Finally got her after 18 hours of fishing. ( ~ 3-4k fish )

And all I can say is that I HIGHLY recommend "The Frozen Sea"
(It's about there https://www.wowhead.com/cata/maps?data=3537:825580 )

The times you need to move between the schools is VERY low ( 5 - at max. 20 seconds )
and you'll always have around 5-6 schools.
Also you'll never be attacked by anything and you'll be alone, I promise! So really NOTHING will disturb you while farming this beauty.

Good luck you all!

Comment by Guy19

Guess what dinner's going to be for the next 6 years... Glacial Salmon.

Comment by Chaoticflame

I finally did it! I'm so, so happy! After trying off and on, off and on for most of Wrath AND Cata, and finally most recently, fishing every single pool I pass by, I have finally caught my little Sea Turtle!

I was so excited. I was fishing off of Scalawag Island while looking for one of the last few rares I need for Frostbitten, drop my line in one of the Manta Ray pools, pull up something blue...No....No, that can't be right, no way....Loot and DING! Sure enough, it was my Sea Turtle! I almost jumped out of my chair, haha. And between what Rarity has counted and as far as I can guess, it only took me about 3-5k casts. Wow, so glad it didn't take me into the 10k+ range. xD I would've cried. Now to just get my bug mount and sprite darter....

Screenies:
http://imgur.com/a/z3ng8

Comment by 961718

I wasn't even aware of this mount when I got it. Got it while farming for fathom eels in Tol Barad near the docks of Rustberg Village.

Comment by LTTP

Got mine :)
Started at 1 fishing, was at 278 when I got my turtle in Uldum (also not leveling after every fish + not upgrading my fishing skill for a while) so i'll say around 400-500 in the fish pools.

Way faster then I though it would be!

Stick in the Uldum for sure!

Comment by am19v

WOOT! I finallllly got my turtle! Crystalsong Forrest in a Glassfin Minnow school.
I have been fishing pools in Twilight Highlands, Uldum and Borean Tundra every night, 3-4 hrs. a night for 9 days now.
Moved on to Crystalsong Forrest this morning to get mats for Elixir of Water Walking and YAY a sea turtle.

Total casts of all locations between 2500 - 3200.
Cords: 33.7, 47.1
Realm: Blackrock.
6:51am server time.
fishing skill: 525 + 100 (Glow Worm) + fishing pole, hat, fishing line, etc. buffs

Good luck to all! Hope you get a Sea Turtle too!

Comment by 992022

I for one am puzzled by the physiology of this mount. It looks more like a sea tortoise than a sea turtle (which has long front flippers).

That said, I do appreciate the giddyap in aqua, not to mention its great animation/sound when you 'jump' it!

Comment by heartcrash

So I decided this afternoon that I was going to set out to get this cute little devil. I very rarely fish and had taken a fairly long break from fishing altogether. I was sitting at 225ish when I started today at around 3pm. I began fishing for the turtle in Grizzly Hills and after about an hour I decided to head to Uldum. After 100 eels, I headed to Tol Barad. After another 100 fish there, I went to Twilight Highlands. Around 100 fish into TH at around 9pm, I got it <3 Ended with 435 fishing. I was using weather beaten fishing hat, the lure that it puts on your fishing pole, and just a plain vendor stat-less fishing rod.

Comment by Dillioney

I am not usually blessed by the RNG but last night I had a double whammy of luck.

I am levelling my fishing and I am at about 350. I did the Stormwind daily and in the bag was the Sandcrawler pet....excellent...

My lucky evening continued as I fished in Uldum, the water near the city where the dam is and after about half an hour I got my sea turtle. Just goes to show how random it is, I have only been concentrating on my fishing for a week, an hour or so a night....

Hope you all get yours soon he is a very cool mount...

Comment by skyline33

Farmed for ages in Uldum as it was said to be the best. Got enough food for tanking raids for till Panda land hits! but no mount :( a few days later I was doing rep with Oracles again and decided to fish in any random pool (nettlefish) that popped up. Got it in my 3rd pool 2nd cast.

Total fished up: 5194
Fishing skill: 555

It is total RNG, I guess this kinda makes up of 50 raggy kills and no hammer :S This guy is totally worth every second spent fishing!

Comment by Warlaur

Just finally got this on Dawnbringer, 2:18am server in Twilight Highlands out of a school of Deepsea Sage at 73:2, 79:1.

It only took me about 3 years or so to get this puppy. Hoorah!

Comment by 998724

Hi guys, 5 minutes ago i was researching on this website. To find more details about this creature.

I have 75 + 25 in fishing skill, and in my first catch. I find it in Sholozar basin. I am putting a screenshot on this website too.
You don't need a highly fishing skill to catch this nice lady, - thanks and good hunt!

Comment by 1001106

HEY! Guess what I did? I got this mount last September on my very first cast ever in northrend! And I didnt even know the mount existed!

Comment by Poorshot

I skilled up fishing, trying to get this mount. Was fishing skill lvl 1, skilled all the way up to 525. IN 1 DAY. I was unlucky. I caught around 10.000 fishes before I got it.
The moral in this is; - Never give up. You'll always get what ur trying to get, It'll just take some time, and the more time you spend trying to get it. The happier you'll be when you get it!

Comment by GingaDensetsu

The fishing pools in Grizzy Hills often drops 2 different fish/items each time you fish. Any one knows if this doubles the drop chance for any item (including sea turtle)?

Comment by piraka810

Got this baby on darkmoon island from one of the piles of wreckage.

Comment by 1010122

i have spent 22 hours so far and still no mount. if anyone has any info that would be helpfull plz do tell

Comment by LoanzTheHunter

Just got this took about 200 over all tries, I was actaully doing the Dalaran fishing daily in Sholoazar Basin and I fished it up.

Comment by Kinbuzz

I just got this, in a Blackbelly Mudfish pool in Uldum. I don't want to say how many fish I caught and how much time I spent, but what I did with my time was listening to music, and something else. What I did was: After every catch I made, I made a /roll 1-100, and picked a favorite number (mine was 8). I wanted to see how many times I could get the number 8 up until I got the turtle.

The only reason I'm saying this is because it certainly made it a lot more fun for myself. I hope you will get it fast!

Comment by Sodomice

OK, I fished for hours on my main to get it. And got it on my alt while fishing a node of shipwreck debris on Darkmoon Isle.

Interesting fact I: My fishing skill was an astonishing 20. No more, no less.

Interesting fact II: While being a 74 Druid, in an act of sheir bloodlust, killed a few lvl 20 allies who were competing me on the nodes. Where I normally give them leniancy, I think it's Blizz way of telling me that being cruel to lowbies can be rewarding...

Comment by aceyaface

This has to be the best mount you can get, i even got it while fishing in darkmoon faire when i was level 7!

Comment by Kemaria

The little hunter nodded off in the warm sunshine, awakening with a jerk when her fishing rod suddenly shook in her hands. With the skill born of much practice, she set the hook and landed her catch - this time, a slippery Fathom Eel - and added it to the bag of fish and eels next to her. It would be eel stew for dinner tonight, and she thought with a sinking heart that eel would be present in some form for the next several meals. Sighing, she cast out her line again, and once more tried not to doze.

The little hunter had been fishing for a small stretch every day for weeks. Now, about 2000 casts later, she was skilled enough that it was becoming a problem to deal with all the seafood. She was fishing solely from pools - the main types of fish she caught were Fathom eels from the Uldum coasts, Highland Guppies from the river and lakes in Twilight Highlands, and Albino Cavefish from the icy waters in the cavernous depths of Deepholm. Sure, there were the auction halls, but that meant wheedling the auctioneers into accepting baskets of fish and proving that they were fresh caught that day. Especially the Silvermoon City auctioneers. Ithillan in particular was quite fussy. “So much fish!” he’d complain. “Why do you always bring us so much fish to sell? You are out of control, hunter!”

That left giving fish to her spirit cat, guildmates, and even strangers, but there was only so much they could eat, and so the little hunter was left with perplexing and ever-increasing piles of fish. She was quickly gaining an unsettling reputation as the “fish elf,” the one who always asking people in slightly desperate tones if they wanted any fish. She feared she was starting to smell permanently of fish, too, no matter how many baths she took, and her dreams were filled with bobbers, lures, and tangled fishing lines. Every night when she showed up to an inn with her bags stuffed with reeking seafood, innkeepers looked askance at her. So far, none had actually turned her away, although Velandra was clearly reaching the end of her tolerance.

The rod jerked again, and the little hunter set the hook and landed the catch without paying attention… but then realized the line had been heavier this time. There was a flopping Fathom Eel on the sand, and… there was also a small, unwinking turtle, gazing at her with bewildered accusation for the sudden change in his surroundings.

Catching her breath in shock, the little hunter was stunned motionless for a moment. It was hard to believe. At last! After all those casts! All those fish! Then, gathering her wits, she knelt beside him and removed the hook which had gotten painlessly caught in the edge of his shell. Once free, she caressed his head with a gentle hand which shook slightly from excitement. Smiling from ear to ear, she soothed him and assured him that he was safe, but he grumpily pulled his head and legs into his shell and sulked on the sands. Her spirit cat, already rather uncomfortably sated with fish the little hunter had pressed upon him during the previous hour, paid the new arrival no mind, and continued to snooze next to her as the tip of his tail twitched in his dreams.

There was magic about the turtle, a spell which the little hunter learned. The small turtle became a large one, big enough to ride on, who eyed her with wearied dignity and a Look which clearly said, “Oh, very well. You may ride me, but unlike your other mounts, I go at my own pace.”

~~~~~

Other adventures of the little hunter:

Comment by 803172

Got it today in howling fjord, while doing Kalu'ak fishing derby :)

Comment by Stephanstella

Just got mine at 329 fishing skill lvl, fished it up from a Highland Guppy pool in the Twilight Highlands.

Comment by Hoboonaparkbench

Been fishing for this mount off and on since the mount was implemented in Wrath of the Lich King and have done close to, if not more than, 5,000 casts inside fish schools. Log on today to try a bit more and head to Twilight Highlands since guppies sell the most on my server and 2 schools in some punkass kid starts standing on my lure with a mammoth and informs me the turtle is his and that I should get lost.

I stay regardless and the kid finally dismounts but starts following me, forcing me to split schools with him but after 4 more schools I see the blue in the loot window and just bust out laughing as I get the achievement toast with the punk kid standing next to me; all he had to say was "..." as I said "Later, b****" and flew away.

That made the wait totally worth it.

Comment by 986504

Just get mine from Hawling Fjord. Coords 80.75
The way hes hiding inside of shell is great. Very funny. My favorite mount from now.

Comment by Angolavoom

Got this mount after my 2nd cast while fishing for Highland Guppies. Caught it in Twilight Highlands just north of Victor's Point. Coordinates at 42:54 to be exact with a fishing skill of 515.

Comment by 962260

Took me 5 hours to get it, Also the data points on these maps are not accurate.

Comment by 1024241

I just got this mount today! I fished mainly in blackbelly mudfish pools inland of Uldum, but actually received the sea turtle from a Fathom Eel pool on the cost of Uldum. I dont know if thats of any significance.

Took me around 1200 fish to catch this awesome mount. Good luck farming it :)

Comment by Athenielle

Was surprised to get this today in Uldum while fishing for Fathom Eel's. It was to my knowledge that it could only be fished up in Northrend, but that prooved me wrong right there :)

1369th cast and catch :)

Comment by Allakhazam

I got my sea turtle after 4-5 throws ! I must have been very lucky.

Comment by Allakhazam

What does it mean by any "fishing pool"?
Just anywhere?
(The achievement for fishing this mount up."

Comment by Allakhazam

Using the addon SpeedFu, here are (as of 3.1) some speed values.

Comparison
Unmounted: 100%
Epic Mount: 200%
Swimming: 67.5% (unmounted or mounted)

Sea Turtle
On land: 100%
In water: 108%

It's slower in water than a glyphed (and propably unglyphed as well) Druid Aquatic Form. However, the cool factor is through the roof ;)

Comment by Allakhazam

I just fished this up in a Fangtooth Herring school on the Cauldros Isle, the Island above Utgarde Keep. I had been there for maybe 45 minutes trying to catch the rare fish "Dark Herring" but caught the turtle, which was a nice surprise. But I have to say that I spent my entire morning fishing in other areas like Borean Tundra and Grizzly Hills before I came to Howling Fjord. I probably fished a total of 2 1/2 hours before fishing the turtle up, so maybe the amount of time you put into fishing is a factor.

Comment by Specoli

Just received on WotLK Classic on Grobb. Was fishing in the pools in the Frozen Sea off the Coast of Borean Tundra, around the glaciers at about 80, 65.

It took 873 casts.
I was 449 fishing with 165+ fishing from (Arcanite Fishing Pole + Sharpened Fish Hook, Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat, Nat Pagle's Extreme Anglin' Boots with fishing enchant on gloves and some drinks of Captain Rumsey). Some say it matters, some say it doesn't but just sharing what I used.

Good luck everyone!

Comment by juronimo

release of wotlk was packed so I went to fish n try n make a little gold. but I could only fish pools since I was lvl 145. this popped up on my lootfeed, about 5 minutes into wotlk classic release. took a snippet of it, lucky that I didn't lose it. some guy in Org about half n hour into the release was like "no way in hell you already got that"

Comment by Pepino

Can confirm this drops in WoW Classic as intended.
Got mine after 6-8h of fishing. My favourite spot is directly south of Unu'Pe (the Kalu'ak village in Borean Tundra) - theres two big ice bergs surrounded by some small icy patches. There should be three Fish Swarms in the area. Each one that you finish up WILL RESPAWN IMMEDIATELY in the area. Potions of Waterwalking help immensely.

My Guildmates are mad - Droconio if you read this: HAHAHAHAHAHA

Comment by Danhausen

just got it at location on the guide map in howling
225 fishing skill
lvl 79
basic fishing pole
fish attractor on
in a fishing pool of fangtooth
took me around 150 min
on grobulus ally
sorry bad english not my first language

Comment by allcoast

WOTLK Classic: Sholazar Basin
10/13/2022 at 12:32 server
loc 39.25, 40.90

Comment by Djeinera

I think I'm the worst fisherman worldwide. Got this turtle after 18 hours farming from Glacial Salmon Pools in the Grizzly Hills (nearly 2800 casts)

Comment by Infers

Earlier today I have gotten Sea Turtle out of the Nettlefish School in Sholazar Basin, it took many many casts but I have finally caught it after almost 2 weeks of ocasionally fishing when I was bored.
Here's a screenshot:
https://imgur.com/a/fhXYKUp

I made a small video montage just for the fun of it, hope you like it! (based on the "Cosmic Wings: The Journey" from D3 franchise)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVr0JVquMeE

Comment by Strath

Spent about 10 hours farming this without a lure, no luck.
Put on a +100 fish attractor and got it within half an hour.

Probably just rng but....

Comment by towlkzi

Just dropped and out of habbit i just pressed the fishing spell, so my turtle is gone till i catch it again. Care with the auto loot guys.

Comment by Religion

I actually leveled my fishing for this mount. I started trying at 225 fishing after getting Nats Lucky Fishing pole, with a few +100 bobber, and a bunch of +75 bobbers. It took me about 400-500 casts. Got my fishing up to 295 when I got it to drop. I was too worried about missclicking my fishing that I ended up just mouse clicking the cast and bobbers. I guess I wasn’t super lucky as I had hoped, took me around 6 hours total of fishing it. Most of the time I was fishing it at the 6 glaciers south of Unu'pe. The pools were plentiful.

Comment by Levitha

Just got it today in Sholozar Bazin in a Nettlefish school after a total 4881 fishes caught. About 3881 oh these caught in pools.

Skilled from about 300-450 while fishing in pools and after about 1000 fishes after i got to max skill i got it.

Used +100 lure most of the time.

Comment by LifeWillEnd

Just got this today after 7761 casts in pools (Frozen Sea)

Comment by AstonishinglyUni

Took me 2600 casts into Fangtooth Herring pools to get the Dark herring while searching for this mount. Went to icy area in Borean Tundra, had it in additional 200 casts.

Comment by Fenva

Just got it after 97 casts in Howling Fjord while fishing for Dark Herring :)

Comment by movezig1

Just got mine last night. Took about a week farming for a total of 15 hours or so. I just put on some shows and watched them while I farmed. I highly recommend sholazar basin. I fished the river and lake with the hydras that its connected to. I found that those fish sell for the most (this is an underrated gold farm btw). I also found that I get way more Pygmy Suckerfish in that zone. It has to be out of the schools of fish, that I can confirm.

Comment by Pinkbite

Confirm that you can obtain it on 29 lvl Wotlk
10814 fish caught Howling Fjord
https://prnt.sc/2A4qT2YQTl6r

Comment by Nyimayad

After 20 casts the odds of having it is about 1%.

5% after 102 (34 minutes)
10% after 210 (1h 10)
20% after 446 (2h 30)
50% after1385 (7h 40)
80% after 3218 (17h 50)
90% after 4604 (25h 30)
95% after 5989 (33h 15)
99% after 9208 (51h 10)
99,9% after 13812 casts (76h 44)
99,99% after 18416 casts (100h)

Considering the number, one hour a day with you movie on a side and you should be fine.at most after a few week.
At worst, you will have made quite some more gold.

Good luck with the fishing session.

Comment by Dave2114

Finally after 10706 fish caught!
seen several people with 3k-6k, I can say that i would have lost it if it wasn't for the BOP fishing Weakaura, phew.

Comment by bandagegirl

i received this when my fishing skill reached 149 (i started from 0 fishing in Northrend)

Comment by solestoned

If you're like me you will be immensely disappointed to fish this up and find that it no longer makes the squeaky sound from doing the shell retreat animation. Boooo blizzard....

Comment by Lacrosseguy108

about 15 years later and here i am still no turtle. legend has it.... some poor guy was fishing in borean tundra. he had full bags and fished up the sea turtle from a pool. he was excited when he seen it, soo excited infact he moved and the loot window closed before he could loot it. so the sea turtle was lost forever. yeahh 14 year old me back in original wrath i caught the sea turtle and had full bags. i went to open my bags to delete something so i could loot it and accidentally moved which closed the loot window and the sea turtle mount was gone. i still remember the exact spot i was in too. i made a ticket and a GM told me that because i didnt loot it into my bags they couldnt replace it for me. lesson learned never have full bags when theres a chance to get a rare item... im pretty sure im the only person in the existance of the game to lose this mount this way. ive made posts over the years about it too so maybe someone remembers it lol

Comment by Zanienn

I guess I didn't post my stats. I was trying to get back and find it, my apologies. I caught this mount on my warrior after 3k casts. I did 2k or so in Howling Fjord. After I caught 2 Dark Herring back-to-back, I moved over to fishing in the ocean over by the ice bergs by Unu'pe. Fly there, go a little south-east. Take Water walking potions (lots), and come up with a rotation there. By the time you get back to the start, pools will have re-spawned. It's really a great area to farm the mount.

Comment by Kayzie

After more than 2.8k casts, i finally caught it!
Things i learnt:
1. Auto loot is fine, you must click Okay when the BoP window pops up.
2. Use the same mouse click to catch and cast every time, that small window of time for your mouse to move over to the cast button at action bar avoid you from accidentally screw up the BoP window.
3. It is very risky to use keyboard press to cast and mouse click to catch, as habit will form and you will cast catch quicker and quicker that cause high risk of cancelling the BoP window.
4. Patience. Some ppl found it below 1k casts (lucky ass!), some took 5/6k casts, i took about 2.8k casts.
5. I've tried a few fishing spots, The frozen sea (South of Tuskarr village of Unu'pe) is definitely the best spot, pools of fish spawns quickly as you go on a fishing rotation around ice bergs.
5. I committed fully for the first few days after my work (2-3 hrs/day) spending my entire night fishing, it gets so boring that i then decide to only do fishing after dun runs.
6. Pygsmy suckerfish sells for good price, at least there's something in the end of the day.
7. Good luck!

Comment by MalifunstA

I received x2 'Sea Turtle' over 2 consecutive days on the same toon (yeah I messed up and cast over the loot window and lost the 1st one).
Turtle 1: 1,212 casts
Turtle 2: 643 casts
I did the circuit around the 2 major ice burgs in Borean Tundra circa location (30, 67).

Only fish in the schools of fish!
Use water walking to keep the speed (Elixir of Water Walking)
I used Double Right Click to cast and single Right click to look
Do not use hot keys for auto cast or you WILL mess up a drop like I did.... I cannot stress this part enough. When you have been fishing for a few hours and on auto pilot, it is too easy to not realise the Turtle dropped and you cast over the loot window.
It is ok to lose a second per cast/loot to GUARANTEE LOOTING THE TURTLE WHEN IT DROPS

Comment by Nadsack

Caught this yesterday in Sholazar Basin.
Went to do the Ghostfish quest, first pool I came to after using Wormhole I caught the Ghostfish first cast. Was about to hs to Dal and thought I should finish off the pool for feast mats. Next cast I caught it!
At over 7k fish (and other things) caught, it was about time in my opinion!
Good luck to all still after this mount!

Comment by Muffdaddy

Currently at 25,682 fish caught only from pools. No turtle. Posting this here so one day I might be able to comment again when it happens

Comment by slappylives

Hard to tell how many casts/pools/hours.... but I would estimate 3-4 hours of fishing in pools for me. Found him at "Rivers Heart" in a school of Nettlefish. Good luck everyone.

Comment by Rangefear

Has anyone got this from Lake Kum'uya?

Comment by Tablechair

I opened up this comment section to get an idea of how long it took for others to fish it up. Couple of throws later.. BAM! "Looting Sea Turtle will bind it to you"
Took me about 5.5k throws. Mostly fishing from Fangtooth pools in Howling Fjord and Musselback pools in Borean Tundra, the latter is where it dropped for me.

Comment by Cyprus69

Got mine today, Roughly ~4100 pools fished in total, bulk of it was fished directly south of Unu'Pe (the Kalu'ak village in Borean Tundra).

Comment by Arddy24

It's December 2023 and I'm on WOTLK Classic.

Just want to post that this is still very possible to get and I followed one of the posts suggesting Deepsea Monster Belly pools. Note -
- I only fished pools
- I had 0 fishing skills, and maxed it at 75 (didn't go back to upgrade fishing)
- Fishing rod with no lures used
- I've seen a level 1 toon have this mount in Orgrimmar. It IS a Bind-On-Pick-Up, therefore this toon had its level 80 friend fly him around Northrend to fish it out themselves.
- Took about 150-200 catches to land it.
- Same speed as run speed
- It's 100% speed in water

Make sure you have space in your inventory after all the catches, to pick it up!

Good luck, and Happy fishing!

Comment by mindxakep

Yes it still exist in the game in 2024 - got it in Crystalsong Forest in 274 tries *happy-noices*

Comment by Muzzaqt

Will probably get a lot of hate for this, but damn I'm lucky

https://imgur.com/a/62vYDnD

Comment by jfoobar

Got mine in about two hours of fishing pools. I find that fishing for Nettlefish in Sholozar is probably the best way to have a pretty constant selection of pools to fish from. Fish the pools in River's Heart, then head north up the river that leads to the large lake to the north (between Glimmering Pillar and The Maker's Perch on your map), fishing all the pools in that lake, and then reverse back down to River's Heart. The river that connects them will also have several pools that spawn. If you are 80, you shouldn't draw aggro from anything while fishing but if you are lower, you may have to contend with aggro from the hydras in the large lake a bit in places.

Either way, the best way to get this as soon as possible is to maximize the number of pools you fish in per hour.

Comment by Yapyzzer

Been using WoWhead for 15+ years and this made me make an account.....do not give up on this thing, I don't know how many casts I'm in but it's alot and finally just got it.Fished out of Lake Kum'uya In Borean Tundra with 525 fishing +30 fishing pole and a 150 fishing lure, good luck everyone!

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Sea Turtle

Item Level 80
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Requires Apprentice Riding
Use: Teaches you how to summon a Sea Turtle mount. This mount can't move very quickly on land, but she's a great swimmer.
Summons and dismisses a rideable Sea Turtle. This mount can't move very quickly on land, but she's a great swimmer.

Due to her calm and steady nature, swim speed is not affected by effects that increase or decrease mount speed.

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This item can be fished in Grizzly Hills (38), Howling Fjord (34), Twilight Highlands (29), Borean Tundra (23), Dragonblight (20), Sholazar Basin (13), Tol Barad Peninsula (11), Uldum (11), Crystalsong Forest (5), Deepholm (2), and Mount Hyjal (2).

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