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Comment by 851416

Possible reference to Decoy Octopus from the first Metal Gear Solid...?

Comment by Barhah

A mimic octopus is actually a real animal. There are some pretty far-out videos of them on YouTube, though there's a handy identification guide here that might be of some help for the budding young angler trying to snag one of these in Pandaria: http://xkcd.com/928/

Comment by lunamoonraker

Introduced onto MoP Beta in patch 5.0.3 (15851), this quest fish can be caught in those zones where fish type have been split into sea and freshwater, namely;

coastal The Jade Forest, Krasarang Wilds and Valley of the Four Winds (very small part). The drop rate is approximately 2% in open water. Basically where you fish up Reef Octopus.

Unclear whether they will also drop from Reef Octopus Swarm pools. Other zones will most likely also be split this way in future patches.

They are Unique and can only be turned in once per day (one of each of the three types), meaning if you catch another after you have handed in the quest in a day, you will have to wait for the daily reset to hand in the next.

See El's Extreme Anglin' for further detail.

Comment by dakyras

Just fished one up from open water sea in Jade Forrest.

Comment by MyPetsAreEpic

One of the tree items that can be fished up and starts a quest for Nat Pagle: Flying Tiger Gourami, Mimic Octopus or Spinefish Alpha.

Comment by clarky1976

I was levelling my fishing whilst farming giant mantis shrimp when i caught mine on the coast of Krasarang Wilds 63.49

Comment by ildios

I can confirm that it can be caught again once you have handed it in that day you will get a message "You have completed that daily quest today." if you try to start the quest again.

Comment by ScoobyDew79

Fished one of these up at Angler's Wharf in Krasarang Wilds.

Comment by Synit

There are 3 Daily Fish, as the name implies they can only be turned in once daily. It is however possible to catch one of them again after you turned it in, even on the same day. If you already turned it in you will get the message: "You have completed that daily quest today"

Flying Tiger Gourami - Can be cought in open freshwater areas in Krasarang Wilds and Valley of the Four Winds. (Good spot is Dojani River, just north of Anglers Wharf) (Coordinates are 64:28 in Krasaran Wilds)

Mimic Octopus - Can be caught in the salt water areas where you can catch Reef Octopus. (A good spot is Anglers Wharf - Just fish from the boat Nat Pagle is sitting in.) (Coordinates are 68:44 in Krasaran Wilds)

Spinefish Alpha - Can be caught at Inkgill Mere in Kun-Lai Summit. (If you have done the quests you will have waterwalking on while fishing) (Coordinates are 72:87 in Kun-Lai Summit)

All 3 of them can also be caught from schools of fish in the suggested areas.

Be patient even with the increased dropchance, they can still take a while to catch.

All of them gives the following upon turn in:

1 Lesser Charm of Good Fortune
350 Rep with The Anglers
600 Rep with Nat Pagle

Edit: Changes to reflect the changes to reputation.
Edit 2: Changes to rewards of quest since patch 6.0. (No longer offers valor points upon completion of the quest)

Comment by Zatine

Just caught one on the southern shore of Shan'ze Dao (northern most island) in Townlong Steppes. Was not from a pool...was in open water.

Comment by lphomiej

This might be what your fishing expedition could look like if you go looking for this guy.

640 skill (600+40 pole)
Coast of Jade Forest
1 hour, 13 minutes

Redbelly Mandarin x 28
Giant Mantis Shrimp x 33
Golden Carp x 116
Jade Lungfish x 19
Reef Octopus x 28
Junk x 37

No Mimic Octopus yet. However, keep in mind it is a drop rate... so you could get it on the first cast or the 2000'th cast.

Comment by JuRogue

Just caught one right next to Saurok "boss" on Windward Isle, in open sea

Comment by 1042496

Over approximately 1,000 casts, I am currently seeing a drop rate of ~1% on this, as well as the Flying Tiger Gourami, and Alpha Spinefish.

Comment by 721550

pick up Mimic Octopus random 1st cast, for daily. have not seen any others since launch.

Comment by Taoma

Note that this fish is UNIQUE, meaning you can have only one in your inventory/bank. You can, however, catch one, turn in the quest to Nat Pagle and then catch one more to turn in the next day.

Comment by Zivy

These things have the weirdest rate for catching. For me, normally it takes about 20 to get one. The other day, fished for a Mimic Octopus, took around 10 to 20 casts to get. Turn it in, grab the other quests, for the hell of it, I cast at Anglers Wharf, sure enough first cast, it drops.

Today, well over 50 to 75 ish casts, none as of yet. Still working on it.

Comment by Sasmina

I can confirm that Mimic Octopus can be caught at the Angler's Wharf in Krarasang Wilds.

I had a nice chat with another guy fishing, so time just flew by. We were standing right next to Nat Pagle, and it took me around 1 ½ hour to catch the bugger :)

Was the last one I needed for the Pandarian Angler angler achievement.

Good luck everyone :)

- Sas

Comment by 368129

Used to gain reputation with Nat Pagle

The reputation is used to purchase:

Nat's Hat (Exalted / Best Friend)

Friendship Levels

Stranger: 0-8400
Acquaintance: 8400-16800
Buddy: 16800-25200
Friend: 25200-33600
Good Friend: 33600-42000
Best Friend: 42000-42999

How to gain Reputation:
Standing with Nat Pagle is gained by catching daily fish. Mimic Octopus and Flying Tiger Gourami have a 1% droprate. Spinefish Alpha on the other-hand has a 2% droprate. Just like real life, Best Friend status takes 84 fish hand-ins. This means it will take between 28 and 84 days depending on how many of the three fish you turn in each day. The daily fish cannot be caught from pools, only open water.

Once you have catch a daily fish you should stop fishing its water until you have delivered it to Nat Pagle. Each daily fish is unique, so you cannot catch another while you have the first in your inventory. You can however move to a new location and catch your next fish before handing all three in. Once a daily fish has been turned in, you may fish it up again, although you will not be able to hand the new fish in until the following day. This allows you to catch three fish hand them in, catch the three fish again so for the following day all you have to do is hand them in. This is useful if you have other things planed or you got lucky with today's catch and had some spare time.

Rewards for each hand-in:
1 x Lesser Charm of Good Fortune
5 x Valor Points
350 x The Anglers Reutation
500 x Nat Pagle Reutation

The Daily Fish:

Mimic Octopus - Caught from any of Pandaria's open coastal waters. Anglers Wharf is a good spot, after competing dailies or handing another daily fish.

Water Areas No-Junk Skill
Coastal Dread Wastes, The Jade Forest, Krasarang Wilds, Kun-Lai Summit, Townlong Steppes, Valley of the Four Winds 700

Flying Tiger Gourami - Caught from all areas of inland open water in Pandaria, except waters near Sha-touched lands (where Spinefish Alpha are caught).

Water	Areas	No-Junk Skill
Inland	The Jade Forest	650
Inland	Krasarang Wilds, Valley of the Four Winds	700
Inland	Townlong Steppes	725
Inland	Kun-Lai Summit, The Veiled Stair	750
Inland	Vale of Eternal Blossoms	825

Spinefish Alpha - Caught from inland open water near Sha-touched lands, primarily in southern Kun-Lai Summit and inland Dread Wastes. Also possible to catch from The Jade Forest's Widow's Wail cave and small areas of (coastal) water around Townlong Steppes' Niuzao Temple.

Water Areas No-Junk Skill
Costal Townlong Steppes (Niuzao) 625*
Inland Dread Wastes, The Jade Forest (Widow's Wail), Kun-Lai Summit (Sha-Touched) 625*

* Spinefish infested water has unavoidable grey items, Scoured Fishbones and Desecrated Carcass. You can however catch Spinefish Alpha with any of the unavoidable greys. Fishing skill below 625 in these areas will cause "Failed Casts" and produce any of the 8 common junk items (Driftwood, Empty Clam, Sickly Fish, Tangled Fishing Line, Tattered Cloth, Torn Sail, Weeds and Withered Kelp) and 5 uncommon junk items (Empty Rum Bottle, Old Boot, Rock, Tree Branch and Water Snail). If you have the required "No-Junk" skill you will not catch any of the 13 junk items.

It may take sometime to see each fish, with a 1% drop rate, after fishing 200 fish there is only a 86.6% chance that you will have seen the daily fish. Just be patient and keep fishing. I have personally caught both the Spinefish Alpha and Mimic Octopus on the fist catch. I have also personally spent 5 hours fishing for Spinefish Alpha until I finally got it, I actually started to think it was removed from the area I was in.

Useful Macro:
/use Anglers Fishing Raft
/cast Fishing
/use Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat
/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
This macro will maintain your Anglers Fishing Raft and lure from your Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat while fishing with one click.

Comment by Avessar

I have found that you can catch one these three fish, accept the quest and while the quest item is still in your inventory you are able to catch another.

Comment by 304193

Synit - When you referred to the spinefish alpha, can you tell me the name of the quest you are talking about water walking for?

Spinefish Alpha - Can be caught at Inkgill Mere in Kun-Lai Summit. (If you have done the quests you will have waterwalking on while fishing) (Coordinates are 72:87 in Kun-Lai Summit)

Is that the temporary water walking from a quest here, water walking from shaman/dk, or something else?

Comment by Niinami

I can tell you for a fact that Mimic Octopus is much harder to get than the other fishes. I've been getting Spinefish Alpha and Flying Tiger Gourami in about 10-20 minutes but it takes at least 1-3 hours before fishing up the Mimic Octopus.

Comment by 445261

These can be fished up while in a raid.

I sacrificed my time/sanity for Science! and tried to fish one up while waiting for raid to start tonight. I actually got lucky and caught one rather quickly. You can also accept the quest and turn it in while in raid, so you can basically do this entire quest while in a raid group. But in case you were wondering, you can definitely catch Mimic Octopus and the other 2 Nat rep fish while you're in a raid group.

Comment by Muxtarr

I just caught this Octopus from my 12th catch in Jade Forest (62,42 - at the empty building with docks). Good luck guys!

Comment by Druegar

Its eye reminds me of hypnotoad.

Comment by 1049989

I just started the second char for Nats friendship. Found couple of places and i hope that may help. While doing with the first char. spent in fact waste too many hours flying all around the pandaria. Those 3 spot is the fastest way that i found.

While doing this dailies i use heat-treated spinning lure on kaluak pole, a glove with gatherer, fishing hat and anglers spear when its off cd.

Mimic Otopus: Farm very close to Nat. It takes about 25mins to catch 2 of that fish. Even with +100 lure you wont get any grey junks there. Just make sure your fishing skill is more than 710.

Flying Tiger Gourami:Valley of the four Winds 57:68 on a very small island on the river. 25mins for catch 1 fish, fly to Nat, turn in and fly back for fish the second. Same like mimic octopus, if you dont have +150 lure you can use a +100 without catching any greys.

Spinefish Alpha:66:61 dread wastes on a rock at Lake of stars. Spending 15mins to catch 1 spinefish, fly to nat, turn in, fly back and fish second one. Unfortunately you need +150 lure here. With even +100 lure about %20 catches are grey junks. but with 150 bonus i never saw a junk. If you see many greys it means you are gonna spent a lot more time to find the rare fish.

While doing these dailies i catch 4-5 stacks of golden carp, 2 stacks of mimic octopus, a stack of krasang paddlefish and spinefish, half stack of emperor salmon and 2-3 crates.

Comment by 799954

It looks like as a patch 5.1 (which hits yesterday) I was able to catch that octopus in Reef Octopus Swarm.

Look at fishing bobber, its clearly inside fishing pool.

No idea about 2 other fish for Nat Pagle reputation.

I was able to catch Spinefish alpha in a spinefish pool today

i caught this fish in a Giant Mantis Shrimp Swarm. Also had the Ancient Pandaren Fishing Charm equipped. It did get fished up along with a Giant Mantis Shrimp. Not sure if they always get caught in pairs or the charm worked?

So, meanwhile i read something more about fishing in 5.1 and here it is:

Since patch 5.1, the fish can also be caught from pools - typically the pools found in the same areas of open water, what means that:

Mimic Octopus - can be fished in any Pandaria open coastal waters -> can be fished in Reef Octopus Swarm and Giant Mantis Shrimp Swarm

Spinefish Alpha - can be caught from areas of open water near Sha-infested land -> Spinefish Pools

Flying Tiger Gourami - may be caught from all areas of inland open water in Pandaria, except waters near Sha-touched lands -> all inland fishing pools like Krasarang Paddlefish or Emperor Salmon schools.

All credits go to Elsanglin.

Comment by Banndayd

The map above is not all inclusive of all the spots where Mimic Octopi are. I caught two today, from swarms, none from where spots are on the map. The furthest away is 30,78 which is on the Isle of Chi-Ji in the Krasarang Wilds. I have been fishing swarms lately which, in my imagination, seem to be working.

Comment by 1072421

man this is hard to get but worth it !

Comment by drewb6969

Just fished up a mimic octopus at 39/70 coords in a reef octopus pool.

Comment by hmrhead

So I believe I have found a relatively painless and somewhat profitable way to farm up the three daily fish. Improvement suggestions are welcome. This is just how I've done it for the past three days. It's taken less than an hour to get them all, and I've made some fairly decent money on my server doing it.

1. Go to the lake just north of Grookin Hill in Jade Forest. Lots of Jade Lungfish schools here. Fish those up until you get the Flying Tiger Gourami. Stop fishing freshwater.

2. From there, fly west into the summit and fish the Sha touched waters around Inkgill Mere. Fish in the Spinefish schools until you get Spinefish Alpha. Stop fishing sha touched waters.

3. From there, fly east across Jade Forest until you reach coastal waters. Fish any school of fish you see on the coast while heading south. Sometime before you reach the Anglers location, you should fish up a Mimic Octopus. If you dont get it before you get to the Anglers, just keep going. I've never had to make an entire loop around Pandaria to get it done.

It should probably be noted that I am at 600 fishing and I use the following equipment.

Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat
Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole
Glow Worm

Today's run of this route got me all three fish in less than an hour. And between vendor trash and items sold on the auction house from sealed crates as well as fish I wasn't going to use, a little over 700 gold.

Happy fishing everyone!

Edited because I fail at formatting.

Comment by dollhobbs

caught 79 fish by nats boat and no mimic octopus 26 each mantis and reef octo's and the rest carp.

Comment by 689737

This has to be one of the worst Rep grinds in the game at this point. Usually takes anywhere from 1-3 hours to get all three fish.

Comment by Aquifel

Coming in 5.2:

The chance to fish up Flying Tiger Gourami, Spinefish Alpha and Mimic Octopus has been increased.
Reputation gains from bringing rare Pandarian fish for Nat Pagle to examine has been increased.

Improvements on both ends :D.

Comment by val7x

Just fished up mimic octopus at 60.3, 42.1 Exodar- US

Comment by Emsarrev

Got one after the patch in about 20 casts, Flying Tiger Gourami in 16 casts, and it only took me 8 casts to catch a Spinefish Alpha! Really liking the changes they made. Rep for each quest buffed from 550 to 660 with guild perk. (So from 500 to 600 without any rep buffs).

Comment by JulesPeace

Since 5.2 Droprate is 5%.

Comment by combatboots7

Don't want to waste time fishing if you don't have to?
/run if IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(31446) ~= 1 then print("Go catch a Mimic Octopus.") end
You'll get a message if you haven't yet turned Mimic Octopus in for the day.

Comment by Minnophous

At least as of 5.2, these can be fished in pools.

Comment by Syn6661

This can in fact be caught off the shores of the Isle of Giants. Caught one today after about 15 minutes of fishing.

Comment by Bahthalend

anyone know if you can get these off the isle of thunder? I assume so because you catch the same stuff as any other place on the continent but I'd like to be sure.

Comment by imthewalrus37

Fished up in a Giant Mantis Shrimp pool.

Comment by Szokhee

To verify the increased drop chance from pools I have collected my catch/cast statistics for 2 weeks of fishing.
I was ONLY finshing from POOLS and always in the same ZONE and AREA.

Fishing location:

Mimic Octopus
Zone / Area: Krasarang Wilds - (South beach areas) Narsong Trench & Sandy Shallows & Kre Krak
Pool types: Giant Mantis Shrimp & Reef Octopus

Flying Tiger Gourami
Zone / Area: Krasarang Wilds - Krasarang River
Pool types: Emperor Salmon & Krasarang Paddlefish

Spinefish Alpha
Zone / Area: Kun-Lai Summit - Inkgill Mere
Pool types: Spinefish

Catch Statistics:

Fish / Week 1	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5	Day 6	Day 7
Spinefish Alpha	15	41	33	6	13	50	8
Flying Tiger Gourami	1	80	8	3	7	1	74
*Mimic Octopus*	4	7	7	3	5	63	3

Fish / Week 2	Day 8	Day 9	Day 10	Day 11	Day 12	Day 13	Day 14
Spinefish Alpha	7	40	1	96	4	1	25
Flying Tiger Gourami	15	41	18	21	6	54	3
*Mimic Octopus*	8	62	16	26	15	33	14

Breakdown per type

Mimic Octopus
Min. casts: 3
Max. casts: 63
Avg. casts: ~19

Flying Tiger Gourami
Min. casts: 1
Max. casts: 80
Avg. casts: ~24

Spinefish Alpha
Min. casts: 1
Max. casts: 96
Avg. casts: ~24

In overall the drop chance for me during this 2 weeks was roughly 4-5% so it really seems so that the increased 5% drop chance after patch 5.2 is valid for pools too (I guess the drop chance for pools and open water is the same).

Comment by 1014697

I've found that it is just as easy to fish off the pier next to Nat to get the mimic octopus as I typically catch one with in 15 casts just from the pier itself. And if you are doing these every day for the rep for Nat I've found that the best place to catch the flying tiger is in the veiled stair tunnel. There are plenty of tiger schools & since you are already at the Inkgill Mere to get the spinefish alpha fish this is just a short turn around from there to fish up & you don't really have to fly out of your way anyplace else to get them. And since you will have the spinefish alpha & the flying tiger then when you turn them in you can fish off the pier next to Nat for the mimic octopus. All in one stop vs flying in circles.

Comment by 1128957

So I followed Synit's instructions as he said. I went to Angler's Wharf in Krasarang Wilds and tried fishing for the Mimic Octopus just outside the Wharf on a rock. I cast the line two times and got nothing, so I started thinking 'Why don't I try fishing from the Reef Octopus Pools for the guild fishing achievement?'. So I went and flew around to find some pools and I didn't find any so I decided that was just a waste of time. So I went back to the Angler's Wharf, stood on the dock of it, cast the lure and got the Mimic Octopus in my first cast.

After that I went to the Dojani River just north of the Wharf for the Flying Tiger Gourami, just like Synit suggested. Doesn't really matter where you are, I got it in my second cast again.
I caught the Flying Tiger Gourami fish once before while fishing for the Golden Carp in a river in the Jade Forest for the Order of the Cloud Serpent daily.

I guess I was lucky at the other 2 fishes because it took a few casts before finally getting the Spinefish Alpha fish. I caught it once before at Inkgill Mere in Kun-Lai Summit when I was fishing for the Brawler's Guild quest item. There were a lot of pools up now aswell so I just fished in those and got it in about 28 casts.

My fishing level was 600+110. I used the Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole (30+ fishing when equipped), the Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat which you can obtain from the daily fishing quest rewards in Orgrimmar/Stromwind or Dalaran (5+ fishing when equipped & 75+ fishing lure every 10 minutes - the lure lasts for 10 minuts aswell) and the Nat Pagle's Extreme Anglin' Boots obtained from the Booty Bay fishing contest (5+ fishing).

I hope this helps. Good luck fishin'! :)

Comment by valaraukarsbane

'Even in death, the strange creature continues to change color to blend in.' On earth (as opposed to Azeroth), many octopuses, squid, and nautiluses are capable of changing colour. The mimic octopus is named not for its ability to change colour but for its ability to take on the shapes of other species.

Comment by kingthorin

I got sick of not being able to remember if I'd done a Nat Pagle turnin for a given day so I put together this macro:

#showtooltip Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole

/run for k, v in pairs({ SpineFish = 31444, Mimic = 31446, Gourami = 31443}) do print(format("%s: %s", k, IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(v) and "\124cff00ff00Yes\124r" or "\124cffff0000No\124r")) end

Obviously showing your fishing pole isn't required, but I wanted things to be obvious for me. If you so choose simply use the part starting at /run.

Comment by dustdog

None of these posts seem to mention it as far as I can tell, but for those paranoid, you can get the Mimic Octopus to show up in the loot window when you catch Golden Carps (and Giant Mantis Shrimp as has been noted) in the sea as well.

Comment by LuckyGhoul

Fished one up today off the north coast of the Timeless Isle, by where the ship spawns.

Comment by Duendelstein

5.4 Update: Caught this in a Giant Mantis Shrimp Pool today. Can verify it was in the pool because it was the last cast that depleted that particular pool. It's mentioned on the Reef Octopus page that the Giant Mantis Shrimp and Reef Octopus appear to share spawns with each other; apparently they share the Mimic Octopus, too.

Comment by 165964

I do not know when it was implemented, but as of now Ben of the Booming Voice who is just outside Halfhill market gives a hint everyday as to where lots of fish may be caught quickly. He will direct you to an area with a lot of crowded pools of fish. And I get Nat Pagle quests within a few catches every time. It will only drop the one quest that is dedicated to that fish/pool though but still better than the endless grind hoping for a rare fish to drop.

Comment by 131064

Ok, so now all 3 Nat Pagle fish are supposed to be able to be gotten in Timeless Isle.

Mimic Octopus on the West coast (by Horde camp for me, not sure if Alliance is same)
Flying Tiger Gourami up in the Ruby Pool

Does anyone know the location to fish up the Spinefish Alpha on Timeless Isle?

Comment by Drangedd

Got mine to drop at the Isle of Reckoning very quick, took only about 30 casts.
Time to fly from the north pole to the south it seems.....

Comment by ricangsxrdude

The guide according to Szokhee is 100% accurate. These farming spots are dropping the fish anywhere from 1--6 mins per area as off today.

Comment by racoonattack

In case anyone else was wondering, these can be caught alongside a Sealed Crate if you are fishing from a pool. I, personally, was fishing out of a Reef Octopus pool when I fished it up.

Comment by Azrilar

When donated to Nat Pagle he will say:

"Is that a mimic octopus? A buddy of mine caught one of these off the coast of Zandalar a few years back. He barely made it back alive, actually. Pesky trolls, but great fishing!

Anyhow, they aren't as rare as you might think because they use camouflage to hide amongst rocks and plants; only a very skilled fisherman has any hope of catching this elusive, and delicious, morsel."

Comment by Monomatapa

These can be fished up multiple times a day, but you can't start the quest before the next day. Great if you don't have much time the next day.

Comment by 1141200

I came across a trick maybe. I had fished up one of these Pagle fish and in the span of a few minutes fished up another. I really didn't want to lose it and as I have auto loot on and knew I couldn't have two in my bags at the same time I kept clicking it's icon. What happened is it went straight into my mailbox and a note from the Postmaster. Like when you are raiding and have run out of room sometimes the Postmaster is kind to you and sends you the epic items later. Kinda nice as fishing is so meh. Good Luck all.

Comment by 1073095

Maybe it's just bad luck, but I can't seem to get this guy when it's raining. More than 60 reef octopi later, and no mimic. Does it have a decreased drop chance in the rain?

Comment by Dreamslave

Went through twelve Bright Baubles and still no Octopus (fishing from the Anglers Wharf). That's over two hours of fishing for ONE daily item for ONE day. And they said they increased the chance to fish this item up in 5.2? Yea, they lied.

Comment by 1365227

I fished a Mimic Octopus just a few minutes ago in the Timeless Isle. Near that fisherman guy.

Comment by HazelNutty

I have a sneaking suspicion that the drop rate of this and the other Nat Pagle rep fish has been quietly increased once again sometime around 6.0.2. For about five days now I've caught all three fish every day in less than 15 casts (from pools, for reference) compared to 30-70 casts it used to average. I'm either extremely lucky or something (good!) is up.

Comment by aslaja

This fish drops also from the Giant Mantis Shrimp Schools, I got mine in Sri-La Village.

Comment by Martika

Something FISHY* is going on post WoD. It seems like the 'daily fishing spot' each day is Sri La Village (AKA octopus central) *EVERY* day now, in addition to wherever it's supposed to be. Also, I just fished up a mimic octopus and I got a message saying "You can't loot that right now," which makes no sense because I don't have one in my inventory and it shouldn't even come UP as fishable if you already have one. Seriously glitchy situation unfolding.

* - wakka wakka.

Comment by Pegea

About 40 catches total, yuck.

Most from pools, cleared 8-9 Octopus pools, and even a shrimp one when desperate, then found another octopus pool where it dropped.

Comment by cmacord

Pool is NOT required to catch these. I have caught all my WoD 6.x Mimics standing on the dock by Nat off the shore of Krasarang Wilds.

Comment by jenymac207

I haven't seen it posted here yet but these CAN be turned in even after you have gained Nat Pagle as a follower.

Comment by Goth237

I fished the Mimic Octopus from The Timeless Isle.

Comment by 1310391

The drop rate for these rare fish has definitely increased, idk when. i caught the mimic, and flying tiger rares within 1 cast in pools, the spinefish took about 15 with no pool

Comment by nikaetd14

I had no problem catching Mimic Octopus while standing on Nats boat. Just be patient. Took me about an hour to fish all 3 Rares for turn in. 😊

Comment by vindurza

here's a silly tip when chasing these guys they appear like regular fish in there pools where the shrimp look like eels hopefully this helps a little in hunting

Comment by sqtyork

I found a spot just east of HalfHill (68.6 51.5) where I usually have good luck fishing for Flying Tiger Gourami. I boosted my fishing to 910 with a pole and a hat. I started catching saltwater fish, and then caught a Mimic Octopus.
I believe that anyplace you are catching saltwater fish, it might be possible to catch these too.

Comment by addekallstrom

I have been doing this every day for the past 2 weeks or so, always fishing just next to Nat Pagle. I'm currently around halfway through Friend.
My current catch rate is as follows:
Total: 423
Golden Carp: 227 (53.7%)
Reef Octopus: 100 (23.6%)
Giant Mantis Shrimp: 86 (20.3%)
Mimic Octopus: 14 (3.3%)
Sealed Crate: 10 (2.4%)

Granted my sample size of only 14 catches are small, I still must say that I've noticed a very big variance in catch rate: 2 or 3 days I've got a catch within 3 casts, and on 2 days I've spent over 100 casts (I wrote this post during my 14th catch, which took me exactly 115 casts). In the end, the number evens out, and after all, this is only based on rng, but I guess what I want to say is to just hang in there. Or, idk, go outside and ride your bike. Your call.

Comment by Alleenaz

Anyone still searching for this, it can drop from using the Secret Fish Goggles . I just picked it up trying to get it in Isle of Thunder.

Comment by dreamturtle

I managed to get Mimic Octopus while waiting for Nalak at Isle of Thunder and having Secret Fish Goggles buff (for Secret Fish and Where to Find Them). I suppose other fishes for Nat Pagle reputation should be obtainable this way too.

Comment by Elladaryn

Many years after finishing the Nat Pagle reputation, I can confirm Mimic Octopus can be droped by the Secret Fish Goggles.

Comment by UnderFire

I finished Nat Pagle Rep during WoD. But you can indeed fish this up out of Hyper-Compressed Ocean.

Comment by ChazyChezz

Drop chances are terrible, some days it can be fished in few casts, some in 20+. Today more than 50 and nothing...everything from Reef Octopus school

Comment by Solsken1418

confirmed catch at the Jade Forest 23.85, 24.09 from a pool of Giant Mantis Shrimp Swarm. 8 casts.

Comment by Xuper

it's per day. I got second mimic and tried to click and I got warning :

You have completed that daily quest today

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Mimic Octopus

Item Level 1
Binds when picked up
Unique
This Item Begins a Quest

Requires Fishing (1)
"Even in death, this strange creature continues changing color to blend in with its environment."

Dropped by: Krakkanon

Drop Chance: 6.50%

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This item can be fished in Krasarang Wilds (206), The Jade Forest (90), Dread Wastes (28), Isle of Thunder (28), Kun-Lai Summit (24), Townlong Steppes (16), Isle of Giants (13), Valley of the Four Winds (10), and Timeless Isle (6).

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