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Comment by jjanchan

Ancient Black Barracuda is a Rare fish that can be fished up in the coastal waters of all Legion zones, using the bait Ravenous Fly.

Ravenous Fly, in turn, can be obtained by using Decayed Whale Blubber. When used, it attracts these flies, which can be looted.

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 Neuport

Must be in the Great Sea to catch this fish

Comment by 839416

VERY IMPORTANT

While you can catch the bait fish (Decayed Whale Blubber & Message in a Beer Bottle) on the coast or out at sea, once you attach the bait to your rod you MUST fish in the GREAT SEA!

Do not attempt to fish with your bait attached if you caught the bait on the coast where you caught it at. Make sure you go out far enough where the location switches to Great Sea. After going through multiple Axefish Lures and Ravenous Flys trying to catch their corresponding rares and catching nothing I tried my luck further out and caught 4 of the rare Ancient Black Barracudas my first time. So make sure you don't waste your lure and go out to the Great Sea. This is only relevant for the Coastal Legion Waters rare fish.

Edit: It seems from replies that the fish can be caught in inland pools. But from mine and other experience the catch rate is MUCH higher in the Great Sea. Why waste your lure just go out there and increase your chances greatly.

Comment by 65023

You can fish this from a Black Barracuda School.

Comment by mychatposts

You can throw Ancient Black Barracuda back in the water for +5 fishing skill. Says so on the tooltip. This does not work in your garrison pond. I forgot I had one in my bag and threw it back in at my garrison pond and got nothing. Throwing back may not work in waters out of Broken Isles. I do not plan to find out. Throw it back where you caught it.

Comment by Jiliya

As soon as you have the lure: A good spot for undisturbed and comfortable Ocean Fishing is the small rock island east of Azuregale Bay (Suramar). Since the spot does not have coordinates (or none that are shown on my map), go here: 84,71 and look roughly east to see it. You can swim there, it's not far. There's only some peaceful Lion Seals flapping about. Happy fishing!

Comment by SweetRamona

Remember to level fishing first! If you haven't learned Legion fishing yet, you won't get the 5 skill points. Learn from me, who didn't know she forgot to level her Legion professions until she threw it back into the water for nothing... >.<

Comment by butterflycrying

I just got the Ravenous Fly and went to Shipwreck Cove in High Mountain. I ran out to where my mini-map said "Great Sea" instead of "Shipwreck Cove", put the fly on and proceeded to capture at a rate of 50%.

Comment by SargonStarblade

Just in case anyone was wondering.

If you save up all the rare fish you collected while trying to get your Underlight Angler, like me, don't it won't work. The text is not changed once you get the Underlight Angler.

It still says:

Use: Toss the fish back into the water, increasing Fishing skill by 5, up to a max of 800.

Only new rare fish will say:

Use: Toss the fish back into the water, granting 50 Artifact Power to your fishing artifact.

Comment by Elnorr

Caught under the effect from Ravenous Fly on open water on the coast of suramar.
You have 5 minutes when you click the bait. Must be in the Great Sea, you can use Anglers Fishing Raft when you have it or waterwalking.

Comment by hunterlife14

if you dont have the anglers raft. vengeance's point, broken shore a 41.6, 12.7 is in the great sea, no hostile npcs there and very quite.

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 = "133795" local countBags = GetItemCount(id) local countTotal = GetItemCount(id, true) print(GetItemInfo(id)..":", countBags, "(bags)", (countTotal - countBags), "(bank)")

Ravenous Fly: 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 Vithiron

As of 8.0.1, tossing the fish back into the ocean gives no skill increase with legion fishing (and most likely no other fishing either).

Edit: Fixed with the last hotfix.

Comment by cadred

All hail Wartdog. I immediately went out to the great sea after getting my fly (took me over an hour to get the blubber). Caught 3 ancient in the first 3 casts, 6 within 2 minutes, and a total of 9. Why waste your time running between pools? Of course you need a fishing raft, but most fishermen have those already.

Comment by ArticSkoll

following the comments i went out to sea and stopped at the rock island at 61.90 / 50.47 where the seals are faced my toon toward suramar and in about 12 casts i got about 7 of the ancient barracudas one right after another then 3 or so nothing casts

Comment by Voglin

I've used 5 lures (maybe 4 in the Great Sea) and I've gotten nothing.

I can't figure out how to get the lure buff.

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Ancient Black Barracuda

Item Level 40
Binds when picked up

Use: Toss the fish back into the water, increasing your Legion Fishing skill by 5, up to a max of 100.
Requires Level 39
"Outside of the notorious whale shark, this is one of the largest fish in the seas of Azeroth."

Max Stack: 1000

Sell Price: 10

Fishing Locations

This item can be fished in Suramar (63), Val'sharah (21), Azsuna (18), Stormheim (16), Highmountain (9), and Dalaran Sewers (2).

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