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Comment by jjanchan

Drowned Thistleleaf is an item that will summon a Drowned Thistleleaf, which grants the buff Blessing of the Thistleleaf, increasing your chance to fish up Thorned Flounder.

There are a number of Rare fish in Legion, and items (bait or otherwise) that will help you catch them.
The Rare fish and items to catch them are zone specific (although some are obtainable on any shoreline of the Broken Isles).

Rare Fish

There are 18 rare fish coming in Legion that can be fished up. Each rare fish grants +5 to Fishing skill when used, consuming it in the process.

There are 3 Rare fish per zone, and 3 that can be caught on any coastal waters.
These can be fished up from a Fishing skill of 1, so this can be an effective way to power level Fishing.
Catching one of the rare fish listed below while fishing will grant the achievement A Cast Above the Rest. Catching them all will grant the achievement Bigger Fish to Fry, which is a requirement to get the Underlight Angler Fishing Artifact Weapon.
All Rare fish are Bind on Pickup.
If you are fishing with the Underlight Angler equipped, you will obtain a DIFFERENT version of each rare fish that grants Artifact Power instead of Fishing skill (e.g. you would fish up Coldriver Carp instead of Coldriver Carp)

Note that this does not retroactively apply to rare fish you obtained before getting the Artifact - the only use for these short of maxing fishing skill is vendoring for a decent chunk of change.

The Rare fish in the chart below are marked with a star (*)

Fishing Bait and Items

Some of the items that help you catch Rare fish will spawn and NPC that grants a fishing buff; others contain bait, or spawn NPCs that drop bait.

All fishing bait buffs last for 2 minutes once used (except for Rusty Queenfish Brooch and Ancient Vrykul Ring, which last 5 minutes each).
All buffs last the full duration, except for Moosehorn Hook, which expires as soon as you catch a bait.
Almost all baits can be bought/sold on the Auction House. Use this if you are having trouble with a particular fish!

The exception to this is the Stunned, Angry Shark, which has a 1 minute duration in your inventory.

All baits are Unique, meaning you can only carry one. The further caveat to this is that you WILL NOT catch any bait that is currently in your inventory!

This can be used to your advantage if you are looking for a particular bait in a zone - by having certain baits in your bags, you will ensure you do not catch them again.
If you are wanting to obtain multiples of the same bait, you can put baits on the Auction House, mail them to an alt, or put them into a Guild Bank or Guild Bank Tab that only you have access to. This will allow you to catch the same bait again.

A portable mailbox like MOLL-E (Engineering) or GUMM-E (from the Draenor garrison Engineering Workshop) is a huge boon when doing this out in the field!

It is worthwhile saving some rare fish bait, in order to level Artifact Power on your Underlight Angler if and when you get it.

Items and Rare Fish by Zone

Highmountain	Val'sharah
Item	Used to Obtain	Item	Used to Obtain

Drowned Thistleleaf

Funky Sea Snail (1)	Salmon Lure	Rotten Fishbone (3)	Ancient Mossgill*
Salmon Lure	Ancient Highmountain Salmon*	Nightmare Nightcrawler	Terrorfin*
Frost Worm	Coldriver Carp*	Drowned Thistleleaf (4)	Thorned Flounder*
Swollen Murloc Egg (2)	Mountain Puffer*

Azsuna	Suramar
Item	Used to Obtain	Item	Used to Obtain

Skrog Toenail (5)	Aromatic Murloc Slime	Enchanted Lure	Magic-Eater Frog*
Aromatic Murloc Slime	Leyshimmer Blenny*	Demonic Detritus	Tainted Runescale Koi*
Pearlescent Conch	Nar'thalas Hermit*	Sleeping Murloc (7)	Seerspine Puffer*
Rusty Queenfish Brooch (6)	Ghostly Queenfish*

Stormheim	All Coastal Legion Waters
Item	Used to Obtain	Item	Used to Obtain

Moosehorn Hook (8)	Silverscale Minnow Soggy Drakescale	Message in a Beer Bottle (10)	Axefish Lure
Axefish Lure	Axefish*
Silverscale Minnow	Thundering Stormray*	Stunned, Angry Shark (11)	Seabottom Squid*
Ancient Vrykul Ring (9)	Oodelfjisk*	Decayed Whale Blubber (12)	Ravenous Fly
Soggy Drakescale	Graybelly Lobster*	Ravenous Fly	Ancient Black Barracuda*

Notes:
* Indicates a Rare fish
(1) Funky Sea Snail is an item that will summon a Bitestone Fishbrul that drops a Salmon Lure when killed.
(2) Swollen Murloc Egg is an item that will spawn a Murloc NPC, Swamprock Tadpole, that grants the buff Blessing of the Murlocs, increasing your chance to fish up Mountain Puffer.
(3) Rotten Fishbone is an item that will attract a Druid NPC (Lorlathil Druid) that casts the The Cat's Meow buff on you, increasing your chance to fish up Ancient Mossgill.
(4) Drowned Thistleleaf is an item that will grant the buff Blessing of the Thistleleaf, increasing your chance to fish up Thorned Flounder.
(5) Skrog Toenail is an item that will summon a Salteye Skrog-Hunter that drops a Aromatic Murloc Slime when killed.
(6) Rusty Queenfish Brooch is an item that is required to see Ghostly Queenfish pools in Azsuna.
(7) Using Sleeping Murloc will awaken a Confused Seerspine Murloc, who will run around briefly and drop some Seerspine Puffer into the water.
(8) Moosehorn Hook is an item that increases your chances to catch rare bait in Stormheim, rather than fish.
(9) Ancient Vrykul Ring is an item that is required to see Oodelfjisk pools in Stormheim.
(10) Message in a Beer Bottle contains Axefish Lure when opened.
(11) Using Stunned, Angry Shark will spawn a Landlocked Shark, which will yield Seabottom Squid when killed. Using it on land makes it much less dangerous than in water (hits quite hard).
(12) Decayed Whale Blubber is an item that attracts flies - Ravenous Fly can be looted from these.

Comment by CrazyTurk

Fished up @ River north of Starsong Refuge (68,43)
Catches Nothing at this point

Comment by Kraineth

You can fish this up in Val'Sharah. Using it gives you a buff that allows you to catch Thorned Flounder

Comment by robustrobert

Caught this in a Mossgill Perch School at 72/36 Val'sharah. Had an Arcane Lure on.

Comment by narya

As you plant the thistleleaf into the ground you receive a buff that allows you to catch "Thorned Flounder".

Comment by SirPent666

I personally seen this fished up out of the Mossgill Perch Pools multiple times with the Arcane Lure on and off, but never once fished it up in open water. As always not saying it is not available as i have fished many of the rare baits/fish from open water just this specific one it seemed to have the best drop rate in the pools.This bait is used to catch the Thorned Flounder. Using it will give you a 2min buff like most of the other Legion baits.

Happy Hunting & Fish On!

Comment by Alfa

This can be sold/bought on the AH.

Comment by norezen

Obtained 2 of these in about 5 minutes with arcane lure at 46,70. This area is the waters around Thas'Talah. I was standing at the foot of a wizened ancient (big tree guy) corpse.

Comment by LiriellGarrosh

I caught one of these lures while fishing in open water where Mossgill Perch schools spawn. Used it, caught a couple of the rare fish, and caught another Drowned Thistleleaf lure.

Comment by SomeoneSneaky

These can also be fished up in the Huge Mossgill Perch school that shows up for the fishing world quest.

Comment by Sermor

Can be awarded from Work Order world quests

Comment by Acoleski

I noticed that this gave me a 4 minute buff when every other bait was the usual 2 minute buff.

Comment by AlexL1118

It's marked as "unique", but in fact you can have many of them if you keep them in your mailbox (I guess in bank too, I did not check). It's unique only in your inventory bags, not in all inventories of the current character. I've got one, sent it to one of my alts, and then returned it back to my main character, keeping it in mailbox. And today by occasion my main character got another such item. So now I have two of them on the main character.
Edit: This is good to know if you currently don't have time to fish, so you want to accumulate such items for other day when you have much free time for fishing.

Comment by jasongor

Please make sure you don't have the item in your bank as you won't be able to fish it.

Comment by Ogheria

Started with Arcane lure fishing in the WQ Huge Mossgill Perch pool. Got the Drowned Thistleleaf bait on 2nd cast, planted it where I stood on the bank to get the buff, then pulled out 3 Thorned Flounder, The Rotten Fishbone bait, 3 Black Barracuda, and of course the 10 Huge Mossgill to complete the WQ at /way 43 36, Val'Sharah.

Comment by Tommy39

I noted down some locations of Mossgill Perch School while hunting for rare fish in Val'sharah:

/way Val’sharah 53.2 72.6 Mossgill Perch School
/way Val’sharah 53.3 68.0 Mossgill Perch School
/way Val’sharah 48.9 65.0 Mossgill Perch School
/way Val’sharah 48.3 63.1 Mossgill Perch School
/way Val’sharah 53.7 46.9 Mossgill Perch School
/way Val’sharah 54.9 48.5 Mossgill Perch School
/way Val’sharah 61.4 53.5 Mossgill Perch School
/way Val’sharah 60.9 57.2 Mossgill Perch School
/way Val’sharah 62.6 63.9 Mossgill Perch School
/way Val’sharah 62.8 65.6 Mossgill Perch School
/way Val’sharah 61.5 71.0 Mossgill Perch School
/way Val’sharah 60.9 74.5 Mossgill Perch School
/way Val’sharah 62.2 67.1 Mossgill Perch School
/way Val’sharah 63.4 63.3 Mossgill Perch School
/way Val’sharah 64.7 63.1 Mossgill Perch School
/way Val’sharah 61.6 51.4 Mossgill Perch School
/way Val’sharah 61.3 43.8 Mossgill Perch School
/way Val’sharah 61.0 42.9 Mossgill Perch School
/way Val’sharah 60.2 42.5 Mossgill Perch School
/way Val’sharah 72.6 41.9 Mossgill Perch School
/way Val’sharah 73.6 34.1 Mossgill Perch School

cheers!

Comment by shoxi

This appeared to give 100% drop of Thorned Flounder with every cast in the Hidden Pools where the quest Lost Wisp is.

Comment by UncleJulio

So... uh... is it normal that this particular bait sort of gives me the feels? Poor little fella...

Comment by RiokaR

After returning to the game and trying this, I was frustrated to realise I already had some of the lures in my bank, and as they are unique, I ended up wasting too much time fishing for nothing. This macro will check if you have an item hidden away in your bags or bank.

/run local id = "133708" local countBags = GetItemCount(id) local countTotal = GetItemCount(id, true) print(GetItemInfo(id)..":", countBags, "(bags)", (countTotal - countBags), "(bank)")

Drowned Thistleleaf: 0 (bags) 1 (bank)

You simply need to change the id to the correct item id you are searching for.

Zone	Item Name	Item ID
Azsuna	Skrog Toenail	133701
Azsuna	Aromatic Murloc Slime	133702
Azsuna	Pearlescent Conch	133703
Azsuna	Rusty Queenfish Brooch	133704
Val'sharah	Rotten Fishbone	133705
Val'sharah	Nightmare Nightcrawler	133707
Val'sharah	Drowned Thistleleaf	133708
Highmountain	Funky Sea Snail	133709
Highmountain	Salmon Lure	133710
Highmountain	Swollen Murloc Egg	133711
Highmountain	Frost Worm	133712
Stormheim	Moosehorn Hook	133713
Stormheim	Silverscale Minnow	133714
Stormheim	Ancient Vrykul Ring	133715
Stormheim	Soggy Drakescale	133716
Suramar	Enchanted Lure	133717
Suramar	Sleeping Murloc	133719
Suramar	Demonic Detritus	133720
The Great Sea	Message in a Beer Bottle	133721
The Great Sea	Axefish Lure	133722
The Great Sea	Stunned, Angry Shark	133723
The Great Sea	Decayed Whale Blubber	133724
The Great Sea	Ravenous Fly	133795

Comment by 1lonewolf1

Make sure time has run out on current bait before reapplying.
I tried to reapply buff with one second left and did it not increase time or give any buff.
I learned the hard way to left current buff fully drop off before using your baits.

Comment by Seerd

I went through 5 arcane lures trying to fish this up in Val'Sharah, both in the Mossgill Perch schools and other open water in the interior of the zone. After frustration set in I used the macro from RiokaR above to confirm I didn't have one hiding in my bags or bank from years ago, and then I threw away 5000 gold in the AH to buy one of these. I was able to put it into my bags and fly back down to Val'sharah (so I wasn't hitting a uniqueness problem unless it was a bug). I used this while standing on the bank of the river near Thas'talah (approx 46,69) and then was able to pull up 11 of the Thorned Flounder from fishing in open water (not in a school).

As of the BfA release I STRONGLY recommend patience on this one. Instead of trying to fish for this directly, wait until Keeper Raynae is the Fisherfriend of the day and buy this from them.

Comment by Seeathis

I fished for this thing over 3 hours up near the clear water in the Druid looking ruin, just below the waterfall area. No luck at all. Moved to Shala'nir and landed it on my 3rd cast. It may be RNG or time of day, but I wished I moved sooner. Best of luck.

Comment by skyline33

When i went to use this, the very tiny tip of my toe was in the edge of water.
"Cannot use while swimming"....

Comment by OptikRise

Found mine today at The Hidden Pools in a Mossgill Perch School - did have an Arcane Lure applied. /way 48.63 63.62 The Hidden Pools

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Drowned Thistleleaf

Item Level 15
Unique

Use: Give the thistleleaf sprite a proper resting place.
Requires Level 39
Requires Keeper Raynae - Good Friend
"The waterlogged body of a forest sprite. Useful when fishing in Val'sharah."

Sell Price: 2

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This item can be purchased in Val'sharah (2).

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