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评论来自 18009

The only listed fish with actual fished data is Old Ironjaw with just 0.1% fished rate...

评论来自 ArgentSun

The title is a reference-pun to the fishing quest The One That Got Away.

评论来自 Cramerpriest

Does Anyone know if Mr. Pinchy count towards this achievement? I have noticed that on wowwiki it does but it is missing here.

评论来自 tmptfate

As the title says, you must "catch" the fish. Buying it off AH or having it in inventory will not be good enough to get the acheivement.

评论来自 196807

You can complete this achievement in the low level starting areas (the level 1-10 ones) by fishing in any inland lakes at Mulgore, Durotar, Elywynn Forest, Dun Morogh, Tirisfal Glades, Azuremyst Isle, Eversong Woods (except unnamed inland areas) and Teldrassil.

The fish to catch for these areas is the 15 Pound Mud Snapper and can be completed at level 5 (minimum level to learn Fishing) without risk of being killed by the enemy faction.

However, the fishing rate of any of these off-hands is approximately 1 in 2000 according to El's Anglin forums. This makes this achievement much harder than Old Crafty or Old Ironjaw, and hence the recommendation to do it in a safe low level starting zone instead of any of the other higher level off-hands in contested zones (unless you are on a PvE server).

评论来自 231672

Currently in bay of storms working on this - 3 hours 20 mins worth of bait into it - 768 catches - no drop yet...

El did the number crunching and figured it to be 1/10000 that any of these fish drops. On the upside, you're odds of catching one of these fish is slightly better than winning $100 playing Powerball (1/11927.18 chance to win $100 in powerball).

On the down side, Leeroy Jenkins and his guild had 3,300 times better chance of survival in the UBRS whelps than you do of catching this fish... and they failed...

This one's gonna take a while...

*EDIT* Yah I totally gave up - other areas have to have a better drop rate. Good luck to anyone still in BOS.

*SECOND EDIT* FYI in HF I am 5 episodes of 24, 4 episodes of American Idol, 1 episode of Lie to Me, the entire 3 hour long Gandhi, all told... 13 hours 30 minutes worth of bait into it and still no Dark Herring... ugh.

*FINAL EDIT* Got it. Was on last night getting ready to log to scrim CS with some friends, caught him and started yelling at the top of my lungs on vent. "I GOT IT! EXPLETIVE FINALLY!" All told, almost 15 hours of bait, and 5 days solid of doing nothing but fishing while I was on WoW. Good luck to everyone else still doing this. It's worth it in the end.

Salty Ohashi <CounterTerroristUnit>
Dentarg Alliance

评论来自 224221

103 Pound Mightfish - Bay of Storms in Azshara
15 Pound Mud Snapper - Inland lakes in starting areas
29 Pound Salmon - ?
52 Pound Redgill - ?
Baby Coralshell Turtle - Northrend
Steelscale Crushfish - Hilsbrad Foothills?
113 Pound Swordfish - Northrend
22 Pound Lobster - ?
32 Pound Catfish - Desolace
68 Pound Grouper - Ferelas
Rockhide Strongfish - Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza

Note: These locations are places they have been caught they may also be found in additional areas.

评论来自 rem120

I got lucky and pulled out a 15 Pound Mud Snapper at Crystal Lake near Goldshire after approximately 300 casts over 2 hours.

评论来自 52224

Caught the 15 Pound Mud Snapper at Stillwhisper Pond in Eversong Woods at 352 casts.

评论来自 88730

Crystal lake, 15lb Mud Snapper, about 1300 casts. Easily the most time consuming of the Salty prerequisites.

评论来自 36018

Azhara isn't best place to do this achivmient cause there are 6 kind type of fish - so the % is less than in start zones where only 2 types of fish u can catch.

评论来自 jaxsonbateman

Assuming that the RNG rolls a 2000 sided virtual die, having only 2 types of fish doesn't necessarily mean that getting the rare fish is much easier. It simply means that those 2 fish occupy a higher range of numbers; basically, from 2 to 2000, with 1 being the rare fish (assuming that the 1 in 2000 drop rate is the same across all rares).

As such, Ashzara is the best place to do it, because 2 different rares makes it 2 in 2000, or 1 in 1000 - much greater odds. However, until enough information is collected on accurate droprates of these rares, we can't be certain which ones are the easiest and which ones are the most difficult.

Edit: after reading the forums at ElsAnglin (http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/one-that-didnt-get-away-achievement) it seems that Bay Of Storms isn't the best place to fish, and that the two drops there are rarer than others. Stonebull Lake is the popular choice atm. However, I'd like to point out that the logic of "less drop variety = higher chance at fish" is still flawed as Blizzard is always in control of the drop rates, the real manipulator of how rare something is or is not.

评论来自 68432

Note to fishers in Azshara use a lure when fishing.
I have 375 skill +5 from boots, + 37 from weap and +2 from gloves enchant. I got fish got away messages with all my gear equipped at some catches. I really hope that was not one of the rares.

评论来自 Sunwind

is there a greater chance of catching rares by fishing in a school?

评论来自 ra248

I feel awful bad, I was doing Stranglethorn Extravaganza, and everything was on auto-loot, and suddenly I fish in one of the pools and this achievement randomly pops up, fishing skill like 170, only fished like 2 hrs total ever. Good luck! (BTW i got the rockhide strongfish), and 1 thing, dont go actively searching for this achievement, do other ones and this will come in time!

评论来自 10019

Looks to me like they removed the unknown, suspected WotLK rare fish Baby Coralshell Turtle and 113 Pound Swordfish. But Dark Herring, is that new? I'd still suggest Stonebull Lake for any Horde that wants to try their luck at this early. And for Alliance, I'm assuming Elwynn if you don't want to make the trip? I'm on Lothar US-PVE, so feel free to come keep me company at Stonebull!

评论来自 olisc

Stonebull Lake

183 Catches
107 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
77 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
1 Minor Healing Pot
1 10 Pound Mud Snapper

1 15 Pound Mud Snapper

DONT GIVE UP GUYS!

评论来自 17299

Why isn't 17 Pound Catfish listed as one of the rare catches? :|

评论来自 240952

Hi Guys,

this is my first post on this site, thanks for this site its great! Anyways, I think after patch 3.03 they may actually have boosted the drop rates of some if not all of them.

Last night i caught the Mudsnapper (15LB) within 220 casts. I caught many 12LB's.

i was fishing outside of SW in the crystal lake i think thats probably the best place to go and the easiest catch.

The reason why isay they must have boosted the drop rate could because there were a few oother guys fishing there too and we all got the drop within 5mins of each other. We all started about the same time too.

Try crystal lake if your alliance and stonebull if your horde, those are probably the best and easiest places to go.

I know the math isnt exactly science but a number of guildies have caught this achievement since 3.03. And they tried a lot before 3.03 too....

评论来自 Hartge

I fished in the frozen lake outside of IF in Dun Morogh, caught myself a 15 lb Mud Snapper in 912 casts.

评论来自 85074

i doubt the drop was increased. i've gotten over 5000 catches now in stonebull lake with no 15punder yet.

评论来自 230008

Just caught a Steelscale Crushfish in Wetlands, while waiting for the boat to theramore.

so to confirm Steelscale Crushfish is a possible drop from Wetlands coastal waters, good luck to all of you out there that are going for this.

*edit for spelling*

评论来自 239542

Caught a 15 pound Mud Snapper. Along the way I caught 310 other fish and 8 smaller pound mud snappers. Fished in the Stormwind starting zone.

评论来自 143888

I've spent 3 hours two days ago in ashzara after around half a dozen hooks and not a single offhand i moved to Bloodhoof village.

My count in Bloodhoof is now well over 6000 casts with no luck
The RNG really doesn't seem to be in my favor. =((
May pick things up tomorrow if i fish for much longer i think my brains might turn into sushi soon =(

I hope people are having better luck then I

-Niria Shu'halo US PvE

评论来自 103093

Similar situation here, I spent hours in Azshara, but when I went down to Bloodhoof I got one within 10 minutes. I realise I'm one of the incredibly lucky, but for what it's worth, my vote goes to the starting areas.

评论来自 82795

I would not be surprised if Blizzard removed this achievement from the overall Accomplished Angler achievement. It is very similar to the Old Crafty or Old Ironjaw, in that it is nothing but dumb luck whether you get the drop or not.

Mr. Pinchy is decently low drop rate but nothing like these other fish. I personally have casted over 2,000 lines and have yet to get this achievement. I have been fishing in the Crystal Lake outside Goldshire.

If anyone suggests something better, I would love to hear it, otherwise you get to stand around waiting for the RNG to bless you for this one.

评论来自 Cyst

This is what I got when fishing for 15 Pound Mud Snapper, for the achievement:

Fishing at Stonebull Lake in Mulgore at Loc: 44.3, 61.1 (Just in front of the Fishing Trainer, Uthan Stillwater)

Skill: 375+27 (402)

670 casts:

Brilliant Smallfish - 411 caught: 61.3% drop rate
Longjaw Mud Snapper - 250 caught: 37.3% drop rate
10 Pound Mud Snapper - 5 caught: 0.7% drop rate
12 Pound Mud Snapper - 1 caught: 0.1% drop rate
Minor Healing Potion - 1 caught: 0.1% drop rate
Minor Mana Potion - 1 caught: 0.1% drop rate
15 Pound Mud Snapper - 1 caught: 0.1% drop rate

Note that the drop rates are far from exact, since I didn't have a massive amount of casts.

(Thanks to El's Extreme Anglin' for pointing me towards Stonebull Lake)

评论来自 Teshiruu

Baby Coralshell has been removed and replaced with Dark Herring. Can anyone confirm if it comes from Fangtooth Herring Schools?

评论来自 63239

I just fished up a Dark Herring on 11/17/08 from the lake just south of Fort Wildervar, *NOT* from a pool of fish just from the lake itself with a +100 lure.

评论来自 250217

Caught the Dark Herring in Howling Fjord from a Glacial Salmon node.

评论来自 250338

A few minutes ago, I just fished up the Dark Herring, so I now have my "One That Didn't Get Away" achievement! I was fishing in Valgarde (mostly in open water; fishing in schools only when they spawned next to me), and he was my 266th catch/250th cast (not including the less than 5 "Your fish got away!"s). I fished him from a Fangtooth Herring school. Fishing skill is maxed at 450 (and +20 from my pole), and I was not using lures.

The catch breakdown is as follows:

Bonescale Snapper - 108 (40%)
Fangtooth Herring - 95 (35%)
Glacial Salmon - 39 (14%)
Pygmy Suckerfish - 16 (5%)
Crystallized Water - 5 (1%)
Reinforced Crate - 2 (<1%)
Dark Herring - 1 (<1%)

It technically took 250 casts, as the Pygmy Suckerfish is looted alongside other fish.

Best of luck to everyone!

Now, all I need to do is manage to finally win the Extravaganza, and I shall be Salty Pwnica! :)

评论来自 32578

It should be noted that this achievement requires only one out of the ten to complete. I went on for days thinking I had to get every one of them on the list. Guess I should read more often.

评论来自 Starkie

I just caught a 22 Pound Catfish in Southshore and was so excited for about 3 seconds, before realizing it doesn't count towards the achievement.

Not rare enough?

评论来自 258654

Don’t fish in Elwyn for this achievement....after wasting half the night here’s what I found....

•Chance to Catch 15 Pound Mud Snapper: 1 in 12, 009 (8.327 x10 ^ -8)
•Total Playing Time Required (Average): 2.302 days (based on my average of 215 casts per hour)
•You’re twice more likely to die in a car accident than catch it on your first cast
•Don’t worry, after you manage to catch it you still have 99.9911% of your life left

Try Valgarde in Northrend...even though the amount of data collected is small, the chances look to be at least 30-50 times better....

评论来自 cavitycaulk

I started off at Stonebull Lake in Mulgore, 395 casts later I was bored so I went to sleep. The next day I decided to try for the Dark Herring and went to Howling Fjord. 75 casts in the Fangtooth Herring schools around Winter's Breath Lake and I caught one just a little down the river at 46,24.

评论来自 229345

Just caught a 15 pound mud snapper on my 194th cast in Mulgore. I don't know if I just got really lucky but it seems like the drop rates of rare fish are a lot higher in starting zones.

评论来自 182649

According to a reknown french WoW DB you can also fish the 68 Pound Grouper in Azshara, the French db site records very well fishing locations.

It changes the counter to 3 possible rare fishable in Azshara, I will go fish there and eventually edit in this post my results but that's not really what you are looking for but JudgeHype datas may help you even English users by "hardcoding" the item ID into the sample url below. Hope it helps.

Source used JudgeHype

//EDIT: Ok I finally got the 15 Pound Mud Snapper after 16 catchs in Shadowglen the Night Elf starter zone. Reason I left Azshara was a loot table too big and after 400 tries I had only looted a small pound Lobster. So I looked up on JudgeHype the droprate of smaller pound, I did notice the 15 Pound Mud Snapper at 0.56% on this page and the 12 Pound Mud Snapper at 2.05% on this page, both are in Night Elf starter zone so I started fishing here, the 2th catch was a 12 Pound version and to the 16th catch in Shadowglen I got the 15 Pound version. So my theory, the best location to fish for this achievement a rare from is the location which has the SMALLEST loot table, higher pounds fish seems more difficult to me to cacth like a few of them in azshara were recently added to a loot table that is already well filled, the 15 Pound Mud Snapper is here since more than a year on low level areas and seems the best fish to catch for this achievement, but certainly not fishing in Azshara or Northrend.

评论来自 Starkie

I was just here leveling my cooking, in hopes that maybe I'd get lucky and get a rare along the way to knock that achievement out, and all be damned if this didn't make me the most frustrated ever.

I had 260 fishing, plus the Aquadynamic Fish Attractor (+100) and Strong Fishing Pole (+5) making 365.

I would catch about 1-2, and then I would lose about 6 in a row, and then catch another 1-2, rinse and repeat.

I sucked it up to get enough for my cooking, but then departed.

Screw it, I'm going to the starting area, even if the chances of the drop are better because there are 2 different ones, the fact that im missing so much negates that.

I would definitely wait to try this achievement here until you have 375 fishing or more.

评论来自 274623

Out of 102 casts at Mirror Lake in Elwynn Forest, I got the following:
56 Raw Brilliant Smallfish (54.9%)
40 Raw Longjaw Mud Snappers (39.2%)
1 Minor Healing Potion (0.01%)
1 12-Pound Mud Snapper (0.01%)
1 15- Pound Mud Snapper (0.01%)

I also was able to skill up decently in Fishing, so it's a fairly peaceful area (read: could also be boring) place to try to get this achievement done.

Good luck to everyone!

评论来自 284558

This is a story about how incredibly time consuming this achivement can be.

I started out after finishing my other achivements thinking this might take a while, ironjaw took me close to 2000 casts back before 3.0 patch, so I thought i knew what i was getting into.

I spent 6500 casts in mulgore and eversong woods, catching around 80 mud snappers at 10 or 12 pounds, but no 15 pound one.

So WOTLK came along and I had other things to do, and put this aside for a while. But I took it up again a couple of days ago, thinking the dark herring was a sure thing!

So far I have spent over 3000 casts at various locations in HF, about half of them in herring pools, and I have yet to see what I'm looking for.

As I type this I'm 50 fish from breaking the magic number of 10 THOUSAND catches for this achivement, which at an average of 15 seconds per catch means over 41 HOURS of time spent fishing only for this achivement.

Let this be a warning for others not favoured by the RNG. This could take a while!

评论来自 285153

I did a ton of reading everywhere I could before I attempted this achievement, and decided on Stonebull Lake. I went there, and tried exactly 2000 attempts, got nothing, and gave up.

The other night I went back, determined, fished 61 attempts, and got my 15 Pounder.

From what I've gathered, that place has the best drop rate, 1/2000. The others range up to 1/7000. Approx.

Go to Stonebull. It'll come up eventually.

评论来自 285473

After reading several comments I decided to try to catch the 15 Pound Mud Snapper for this achievement in Shadowglen, Teldrassil.

Fishing skill 478
113 Casts

Raw Brilliant Smallfish: 74 (65.5%)
Raw Longjaw Mudsnapper: 37 (32.7%)
Minor Mana Potion: 1 (0.9%)
15 Pound Mud Snapper: 1 (0.9%%)

I probably got extremely lucky, but I would still recommend going here as Alliance as there is no horde around, and others have posted lots of success stories in this area.

I will also mention that the exact fishing hole I caught the 15 Pound Mud Snapper was located directly at 57.5, 38.

Good luck everyone :)

评论来自 Boothby

- Brightwater Lake in Tirisfal Glades = 500 casts there for 15 pound mud snapper, no luck
- Howling Fjord = 1000 casts for a Dark Herring, no luck
- Gave up for a week
- Stonebull Lake in Mulgore = 1000 casts there for 15 pounder, no luck either
- Stillwhisper Pond in Eversong Woods = 300 casts or so and TA DA, I finally got it.

Best advice I have, don't give up. I was pulling my hair out on this one but eventually got it.

评论来自 259240

Shadowglen seems like a good place to go.

347 casts
Brilliant Smallfish- 209 (60.2%)
Longjaw Mudsnapper- 113 (37.8%)
10 lb Mud Snapper- 3 (0.9%)
12 lb Mud Snapper- 1 (0.3%)
15 lb Mud Snapper- 1 (0.3%)
Minor Healing Potion- 1 (0.3%)
Practice Sword- 1 (0.3%)

评论来自 290415

Fishing at Crystal Lake, Elwynn Forest, to land my 15 Pound Mud Snapper:

Raw Brilliant Smallfish: 267
Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper: 160
10 Pound Mud Snapper: 5
12 Pound Mud Snapper: 2
Minor Healing Potion: 1
Minor Mana Potion: 1
Simple Dagger: 1

Good Luck!

评论来自 235545

I fished in Fort Wildervar for the Dark Herring . After 3k casts and a broken spirit i said screw it "no herring" I then thought i would try the 15 pound mud snapper after reading detailed co ordinates on thottbot. Exactly 66 casts later i landed the 15 pound mud snapper completing the achievement.

location: Crystal Lake
using addon: Simplecoords
exact fishing spot : 46.5. 64.9

from now on ill be giving /salutes to those who go by "Salty".. there tough achievements

评论来自 15042

The way I got this achievement was almost too incredible to be true, I realize after reading comments here. I was tired of buying suckerfish for oils or oils already made so I figured I should just fish em myself. I took up fishing and went to Iceflow Lake.
I prepared my newbie pole with a shiny bauble and placed my first bobber. After a few seconds it splashed and I pulled up a 15 pound Mud Snapper - my first fish ever! At first I thought it was a "first fish" achievement. How wrong I was...
On the other hand, I have been looking for a Time-Lost Protodrake for days, and not even a corpse.
Oh, the power of random!

评论来自 282311

After about 250 or so casts in Howling Fjord I decided to try my luck at Stonebull Lake.

640 Brilliant Smallfish (59.20 %)
421 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper (38.95 %)
10 10 Pound Mud Snapper (0.9251 %)
4 12 Pound Mud Snapper (0.3700 %)
2 Minor Health Potions (0.1850 %)
2 Minor Mana Potions (0.1850 %)
1 Recipe: Swiftness Potion (0.09251%)
1 15 Pound Mud Snapper (0.09251%)

1081 Total Casts

Good luck!

评论来自 59529

Unbelievably, I went to level my fishing from 250 to 300 - I read this whole thread before going, I figured I might as well have a (low) chance of completing this achievement while levelling. Went to Dun Morogh, ready to sit in for a session. I've not fished in the areas where it is possible to catch one of these fish since I was really low level fishing - I sorta figured I'd never have the patience to see this, if I'm honest. 70 catches in...unbelievable. Very lucky obviously. Funny thing is, I also caught Old Ironjaw within my first 300 attempts ^_^

评论来自 293408

I started off outside of undercity to catch the 15 pound mud snapper but after about 600 casts and reading posts here about stonebull lake i decided to move. 267 casts at stonebull and i caught my snapper. :)

评论来自 40804

After 3 days of intermittent casting in Mulgore, these are my numbers:

1515 Total hauls

1478 Brilliant Smallfish and Longjaw Mud Snappers (97.56%)
8 Minor Mana Potions (0.53%)
2 Minor Healing Potions (0.13%)
13 10 Pound Mud Snappers (0.86%)
8 12 Pound Mud Snappers (0.53%)
2 Bloated Smallfish (0.13%)
1 Warrior's Bracers (0.07%)
1 Burnt Leather Boots (0.07%)
1 Burnt Leather Bracers (0.07%)
1 15 Pound Mud Snapper (0.07% or 1 in 1428)

Looks like 1/2000 is a pretty good estimate.

评论来自 197078

I am at about 3,000 casts of trying to do this achievement. I have mostly been trying for the Dark Herring in the pools in Howling Fjord, though I have tried for several hours in the starting zone waters. While catching various fish to help level my daughter's cooking, I discovered that the river in Hillsbrad yields only mud snappers and catfish. So this got me thinking that this might be the most efficient place to fish for a rare fish, since both mud snapper and catfish can throw rares and you do not have to chase pools around. Of course, this assumes that the rare has a chance to pop in the place of the normal fish, rather than just having a fixed chance to drop.

评论来自 wowaddict123

Ive spent about 4700 catches specifically fishing for one of these rare fish and finally caught a 15 pound mudsnapper in Stonebull lake on the 44th catch. Hello Salty! Good Luck everyone!

评论来自 Bantu

caught about 1500 fish in howling fjord, no dark herring.
now i went to stonebull lake and finally got it. 141 total:
Brilliant Smallfish (92 : 65.2%)
Longjaw Mud Snapper (43 : 30.5%)
10 Pound Mud Snapper (2 : 1.4%)
Minor Healing Potion (1 : 0.7%)
Minor Mana Potion (1 : 0.7%)
12 Pount Mud Snapper (1 : 0.7%)
15 Pound Mud Snapper (1 : 0.7%)

gl

评论来自 153798

Started off fishing in Moonglade, since I'm a Druid I thought that would be a nice serene and convenient spot. But ~600 fish later and no dice on the 52 Pound Redgill I went to Stonebull Lake on recommendation of the comments here.

236 fish later:

146 Raw Brilliant Smallfish - 61.86%
86 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper - 36.44%
2 10 Pound Mud Snapper - 0.85%
1 Minor Mana Potion - 0.42%
1 15 Pound Mud Snapper - 0.42%

Obviously the percentages are off because I stopped after I got what I wanted (I'm a poor scientist), but this worked for me, got the whole thing behind me in about an hour and fifteen minutes.

Clearly Lady Luck was on my side for this excursion, but I'd recommend it.

评论来自 fibulator

This is what I got when fishing for 15 Pound Mud Snapper, for the achievement:

Fishing at Stonebull Lake in Mulgore at Loc: 44.3, 61.1 (Just in front of the Fishing Trainer, Uthan Stillwater)

I went there at skill 89, I got the 15 pound Mud Snapper the cast after I caught my 100th fish. It was also the same cast I got skill 100. So I think that was 12 casts. I was using absolutely no buffs whatsoever.

I fee sorry for those who spent 41 hours fishing the same spot for this.

评论来自 302913

As a horde hunter went to Teldrassil, Night Elf starting area, Shadowglen and there are 2 pools there next to each other and fished out of them. Has the smallest loot table increasing the chances of looting the rare fish

bout 30 casts later caught 15 Pound Mud Snapper

easy mode! very quite and good luck :D

Trixyy, 80 troll hunter,
Jubie'Thos

评论来自 245415

Went to Shadowglen in Teldrassil as some of you suggested, and caught one of the fishes in less then 40 casts, so try here aswell. May the force be with you.

评论来自 tbone844

Stonebull Lake
Skill 570 Kalu'ak Fishing pole /w Eternium Thread, Weather Beaten hat, Nat's Anglin' Boots
Coords 46.50 Mulgore, Jan 15, 2009 11:41am EST

570 Casts in one sitting
185 Brilliant Smallfish
108 Longjaws
3 10lb Mud Snapper
2 Minor Mana pots
2 12lb Mud Snapper
(1) 15 POUND MUD SNAPPER 0.3%

Salty Phileasfogg on Altar of Storms

ps, surfed the net while fishing, and forced myself to think about giving up, then bam, caught it :)

评论来自 295956

887 tries later (In Mulgore) here are the stats:

Raw Brilliant Smallfish: 548
Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper: 320
12 Pound Mud Snapper: 6
10 Pound Mud Snapper: 7
Minor Mana Potion: 4
Journeyman's Belt: 1
Fine Scimitar: 1

No rare fish. Will edit this when I catch it. If, I catch it.

评论来自 263080

Wow mibor, I'm sorry to hear. I went to Stillwhisper Lake in eversong woods and got the 15 pound on my third cast. I must be one of the luckiest anglers out there. :>

It weights up my effort for the coin master though, after I had the 52 first coins I spent an additional 4 hours and 1252 casts to get my last one. Only the crawdad box left to go and I'm "Salty Silep"!

评论来自 177291

They seem to have buffed the drop rate of dark herring.

After > 3,000 casts for it last week i popped over to try at lunch time having read a comment that someone caught two in less than a hundred casts since patch hit.

within 5 casts I had one in my bags and a salty title before my name. Anecdotal evidence but I am pretty convinced. Could be random being random but I doubt it.

评论来自 308671

I caught the Steelscale Crushfish on a single cast from the ferry from Wetlands to Howling Fjord. My fishing is still less than 200, and after reading the pain people go through for this achievement I feel very, very lucky. It has made me want to pursue the Salty now!

评论来自 158000

If you were not randomly lucky in the Eastern Kingdoms or Kalimdor, just take my advice and fish in pools of herring in Howling Fjord. My guildy and I both got the Dark Herring on the same day. Sure, you will end up with about 500 herrings and 300 suckerfish, but you will also fish out quite a few crates with cloth, ore or leather. We are the first "Salty" in the guild and among the few on our server. Grab a snack and good fishing!

评论来自 290663

104 casts was what I needed to get this achievement done. I got it in Shadowglen in Teldrassil, one of the small lakes that are next to eachother. 15 pound mud snapper was the fish I caught at that place.

评论来自 syth

Since this achievement only requires catching any ONE of the listed fish it is considerably easier than the Crafty or Ironjaw achievements. Odds of getting any one of these fish are about 1:200.

评论来自 110916

Currently fishing in Crystal Lake, Elwynn Forest.

So far I've caught the following:

- Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper - 43
- Raw Brilliant Smallfish - 59
- 10 Pound Mud Snapper - 1
- 12 Pound Mud Snapper - 1
- Minor Mana Potion - 1

I'll update later on if I get lucky..

评论来自 305786

After spending many hours in Shadowglen fishing, I gave up, figuring I would go back to this one. Yesterday 1/31/09, on the pier in Daggercap Bay, fishing maxed with no lure, after 6 casts, I pulled a Dark Herring from open water. I have been fishing sporadically everywhere I land where there is water for the last 3 weeks, so I really don't know how many casts in total it has taken to land this achievement, but I can say it is far more than the Sewer Rat...

评论来自 Nikotine

Ok first off, I would HIGHLY recommend going for the Dark Herring.

I spent about 2 hours fishing Elwynn Forest at Crystal Lake, 5 hours at Stonebull Lake in Mulgore and 3 hours fishing Bay of Storms in Azshara; got about 15x10 lb Mud Snappers, 8x12 lb Mud Snappers and zero 15 lb Mud Snappers. After reading about this fish a bit more and the possible increased drop rate I decided to try it out. I went to Howling Fjord to fish in the lake above Skorn. On my second cast in a pool of Fangtooth Herring I got the Dark Herring. Extreme luck? Yes. Extreme Anglin'? You bet.

GL and happy fishing. :)

~Salty Nikotine

评论来自 Hezar

1444 casts later i finally got 15 pound mud snapper from stonebull lake.

stats are as follows:

Stonebull Lake

Brilliant Smallfish 843 : 58,4%
Longjaw Mud Snapper 562 : 38,9%
10 pound Mud Snapper 17 : 1,2%
12 pound Mud Snapper 10 : 0,7%
Minor Mana Potion 6 : 0,7%
Minor Healing Potion 2 : 0,1%
15 pound Mud Snapper 1 : 0,1%
Fine Scimitar 1 : 0,1%
Warrior's Shield 1 : 0,1%
Cadet's Bow 1 : 0,1%

gave up fishing dark herring at 1900 casts at howling fjord and 246 casts at grizzly hills. this was the only achievement left to get for my salty title and it was well worth it. all i can say is that patience pays off. im sure im a bit lucky to pull this achievement off with these amounts of casts since i know people who are well over 10k casts and still lack rare fish. Good luck with this achievement, with persistence you shall overcome this :)

Salty Hezar

评论来自 ilostmahbucket

Data* from the first 20 pages of El's One that didn't get away thread. Hats off to El and all the other Extreme Anglers who posted their data to make this data crunch possible! My own attempt: 1/1550 in Shadowglen.

Summary:
Shadowglen: 0.104%
Crystal Lake: 0.047%
Stonebull Lake: 0.076%
Howling Fjord: 0.022%

Conclusion: There is only one thing more boring than this achievement: crunching all this data. May the luck of the Random Number Generator be with you.

Calculations:
Shadowglen: 37 successful catches of 15 Pound Mudsnapper/35607 total catches= 0.104%
35607 total catches by 46 people-25364 total catches of 37 successful people=10243 total catches of 9 people who were unsuccessful
Crystal Lake: 8 successful catches of 15 Pound Mudsnapper//16904 total catches=0.047%
16904 total catches by 15 people-5264 total catches of 8 successful people=11640 total catches of 7 people who were unsuccessful
Stonebull Lake: 27 successful catches of 15 Pound Mudsnapper/35616 total catches=0.076%
35616 total catches by 34 people-26067 total catches of 27 successful people=9549 total catches of 7 people who were unsuccessful
Howling Fjord: 6 successful catches of Dark Herring/26820 total catches=0.022%
26820 total catches by 13 people-6895 total catches of 6 successful people=19925 total catches of 7 people who were unsuccessful

*Data was only taken from people who posted specific numbers on their success/failure for these four areas. Data was taken from El's Extreme Anglin thread: http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/one-that-didnt-get-away-achievement/
Goto page 20 or 21 to see a summary of the data.
Note: 15 Pound Mudsnapper is not bind on pickup, it is auto-lootable. Dark Herring is bind on pickup.

评论来自 298210

This was mind numbing brutally long. Especially to go back to for the Salty title.

I got it at Stone Cairn Lake in Elywynn Forest.

843 casts

513 Brilliant Small Fish (60.9%)
312 Long Jaw Mud Snapper (37.0%)
6 10lb Mud Snapper (.7%)
4 12lb Mud Snapper (.5%)
3 Minor mana potion (.4%)
2 Minor healing potion (.2%)
1 Cadet's Long Bow (.1%)
1 Notched Sword of Power (.1%)
1 15lb Mud Snapper

评论来自 318324

I've been fishing in Shadowglen today... after 50 catches I got a 10 Pound Mud Snapper, after 75 catches I got a 12 Pound Mud Snapper, then around 200 catches I got another 10 Pound Mud Snapper ... 350+ catches and counting now and still no 15 Pounder :(

评论来自 Kinka

And the quest is a pun to the ancient fisherman's adage of the same name (The one that got away). The saying comes from a hodge-podge collection of ideas, though the basic idea is that all fishermen are prone to telling stories of how big the fish they caught are.

Naturally, to a person so apt to stretch the truth beyond reasonable limits, one gesticulates a Schrodinger's Cat effect applies to fishermen, meaning that if you hook a fish and it gets away, 100% of the fish that are not seen and measured must be assumed to be both record breaking size, and minuscule to the point of absurdity. Since fishermen usually want the biggest possible, fish hooked that get away are always massive.

The effect is even illustrated in the quest linked above...Old Man Barlow is convinced that the Mudfish he hooked all those years ago was the "world's largest" until he actually saw it and then he was rather disappointed with its size. The fish listed in this achievement are the largest of their class, thus being the one that did not get away.

While all this might be very common knowledge, no post has yet to mention that this achievement AND quest are references to real world sayings far older than Warcraft.

It's like saying something is a reference to the movie Pride and Prejudice...the book was first.

评论来自 165016

DAY 1
I made a bit research on this case, and decided to start with Goldshire, caught about 60 fish there, and gave up... and made an ENORMOUS(Literally) research and decided that the lake below Camp Winterhoof(Howling Fjord) would be pretty good for this one... Caught around 350-400, then gave up...
Didn't try for 4 days.
DAY 5
I'm at this lake again, im a little hopeful, too... 700 catches... Nothing... Damn this thing sucks...
Didn't try for 2 weeks...
DAY 19
Oh God, its Sunday! Let's try our luck in the tournament... Yay I won, im lucky today... One That Didn't Get Away is the only remaining achievement... I said, *Why not?*, came to the lake again... Caught 50 fish, and thought that i should go on in Goldshire... Then I saw one and only one school there, and heard ppl getting their ahievements this way *Oh, i was just about to give up, but the fish came out of the last school!*, always thought that this is stupid... But couldn't take myself from trying this like everyone else... Ironic, yes, but that LAST school gave me the fish, ppl were quite surprised upon seeing STV acihevement and this one in 1 hour together... But who cares, im too damn SALTY now...

评论来自 Madsen

I went to Stonebull Lake after reading this page. After a total of about 650 fish i got the 15 pound mud snapper.
Not a "i finally got it" post, just more info for people who read to estimate a good average.

评论来自 67471

Theres something about One That Didn't Get Away achievement.

103 Pound Mightfish

Caught from:
- Azshara (Bay of Storms, Hetaera's Clutch and Scalebeard's Cave only)

Minimum skill to cast: 330
Minimum skill to avoid get aways: 425
Catch Rate: <1%
Caught from:
- Azshara (Bay of Storms, Hetaera's Clutch and Scalebeard's Cave only)

Minimum skill to cast: 330
Minimum skill to avoid get aways: 425
Catch Rate: <1%

32 Pound Catfish

Caught from:
- The Barrens
- The Wailing Caverns
- Blackfathom Deeps
- Silverpine Forest
- Undercity
- Bloodmyst Isle (except unnamed inland areas and The Foul Pool)
- Darnassus
- The Deadmines
- Ghostlands (except Southern Lakes)
- Ironforge
- Orgrimmar
- Stormwind City
- Thunder Bluff
- Westfall
- Darkshore
- Loch Modan

Minimum skill to cast: 1
Minimum skill to avoid get aways: 75
Catch rate: <1%

- Ashenvale
- Duskwood
- Hillsbrad Foothills
- Redridge Mountains
- Stonetalon Mountains (except Blackwolf River and Cragpool Lake)
- Wetlands

Minimum skill to cast: 55
Minimum skill to avoid get aways: 150
Catch rate: <1%

- Alterac Mountains
- Arathi Highlands
- Desolace
- Dustwallow Marsh
- Scarlet Monastery
- Stranglethorn Vale
- Swamp of Sorrows
- Thousand Needles

Minimum skill to cast: 130
Minimum skill to avoid get aways: 225
Catch rate: <1%

68 Pound Grouper

Caught from:
- Azshara (except Bay of Storms area)
- Feralas
- The Hinterlands
- Stranglethorn Vale (Jaguero Isle only)
- Tanaris

Minimum skill to cast: 205
Minimum skill to avoid get aways: 300
Catch rate: <1%

Rockhide Strongfish

Notes: Can only be caught during the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza.

Time: Sundays 14:00-16:00 only.

Commentary: Ultra-rare catch from Schools of Tastyfish during the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza. Unlike the other rare fish, there is no quest involved - just equip the fish as a weapon. The Rockhide Strongfish is the rarest of all contest fish - estimated at less than 1 in 1000 catches. Most anglers will never catch it.

Minimum skill to cast: 130
Minimum skill to avoid get aways: 225
Catch rate: Infrequent catch.

15 Pound Mud Snapper

Caught from:
- Azuremyst Isle (Ammen Vale Lakes)
- Dun Morogh
- Durotar
- Elwynn Forest
- Eversong Woods (except unnamed inland areas)
- Mulgore
- Teldrassil
- Trisfal Glades

Minimum skill to cast: 1
Minimum skill to avoid get aways: 25~
Catch rate: <1%

29 Pound Salmon

Caught from:
- Burning Steppes
- Eastern Plaguelands
- Feralas (Jademir Lake only)
- Scholomance
- Silithus
- Stratholme
- Winterspring
- Zul'Gurub

Minimum skill to cast: 330
Minimum skill to avoid get aways: 425
Catch rate: <1%

52 Pound Redgill

Caught from:
- Azshara
- Felwood
- Feralas (except Jademir Lake)
- The Hinterlands
- Maraudon
- Moonglade
- The Temple of Atal'Hakkar
- Un'Goro Crater (except Fire Plume Ridge)
- Western Plaguelands

Minimum skill to cast: 205
Minimum skill to avoid get aways: 300
Catch rate: <1%

Dark Herring

Caught from:
- Howling Fjord (Fangtooth Herring School)
- Grizzly Hills

Minimum skill to cast: 380
Minimum skill to avoid get aways: 475
Catch rate: <1%

Steelscale Crushfish

Caught from:
- Ashenvale
- Hillsbrad Foothills
- Wetlands

Minimum skill to cast: 55
Minimum skill to avoid get aways: 150
Catch rate: <1%

Source

评论来自 325511

Following someone's advice on this thread I went to NE starting area to fish pond there. Had Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat on and using Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole (skill 450 (+35)/450) I got 15 Pound Mud Snapper within the first 40 or so casts. Very surprised how quick this was. Maybe just luck. Don't know if skill relative to zone fished has anything to do with it, but for sure each cast was quicker in newbie zone on avg than in Northrend fishing spots. This is my first post--tried to add screenshot of the event--not sure it attached or not. Good luck getting your rare fish!

评论来自 326461

First time i tried i decided to go to Teldrassil. i got 15 Pound Mud Snapper as the 20th catch.

I might have been lucky, but maybe it is worth to try and fish there first.

评论来自 Mysteeq

Someone should actually take the Blizzard employee who thought up this out and shoot him. ... The least that could have been done was to make a better drop rate on the Achievement. ... there is perseverence, and then there is sheer torture, and Blizzard have taken it beyond in the absolutely awful drop rate for this. .... 15,534 ... four weeks, and counting ... is mild
Following Day ...
Another 2,000+ fish later ... and STILL NO Rare. ... Tried in Darnassus, Tried in the NE Starting Area ... nothing nothing nothing nothing. Just completely WASTED hours.

评论来自 Biftard

I read up on this achievement on wowhead, flew to Valgarde in Howling Fjord, found the first Fangtooth Herring School right next to the Grand Master Fishing Trainer, and cast out a line. I was prepared to stick it out here for a few hours today as a start, and at least walk away with a decent amount of valuable fish to auction off. I fished up a Dark Herring ON MY FIRST !@&#ING CAST! This is by far the luckiest I've even been.

While I'm sure none of you bums will get as lucky as me, I'd still recommend fishing in or around this area for this achievement as you can actually net a few hundred gold per hour by auctioning the fish you catch.

评论来自 setsuko

I would highly recommend going to Howling Fjord for this one. I spent a good deal of time fishing from Stonebull Lake and got nothing.

Fishing in Howling Fjord at least makes a good bit of gold. Today's catch for me was as follows:

40 bonescale snapper
48 fangtooth herring
21 glacial salmon
3 crates
2 crystallized water
1 dark herring

I fished in pools every once in a while but mostly in open water. I got the dark herring in open water, north of UK on Cauldros Isle. This is of course not my total data for fishing in HF. I went there off and on for the past couple of days. I'd say it took me about 500 casts total if not a little less.

评论来自 Koror

Very nice post but you managed to come off as a bit smug. BTW "gesticulates" means to make or use gestures, esp. in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech, or to express by gesturing.

评论来自 331563

Just made a cast in a Fangtooth Herring school in Howling Fjord. Caught a Fangtooth Herring. Second cast? Dark Herring. Decided to continue fishing in another Fangtooth Herring pool nearby. First cast in the second pool? Another Dark Herring.

3 casts, 2 Dark Herrings.

66%? Probably not quite, but worth considering if you're looking to fish for the achievement...

评论来自 177291

In patch 3.1 catching old crafty, mr. pinchy, and presumably old ironjaw though that is not yet on prt version will give you this achievement.

Ptr version also mentions a "baby coralshell turtle" being added to this. Maybe a rare drop from frozen sea? That is pure speculation, no one knows where that drops from yet.

this change will make the achievement much much easier. Which is welcome, it took me 4,000 casts to get this by catching a dark herring, it was the last achievement I needed for the salty title. Almost turned me off fishing and I wouldn't wish to see others inflicted with that. Mr. pinchy is an easy catch (by comparison). If the fishing daily bug is not fixed old crafty is even easier.

I had old crafty, old ironjaw and furious crawdad achievements before I managed this one so it is definately much easier after next patch.

评论来自 110508

Fished in Mulgore and took about 300 casts or so for the 15 pounder. Would recommend low level zone over Azshara.

评论来自 purus

Dun Morogh - 690 casts
Elwynn Forest - 285
Teldrassil - 70
Howling Fjord - 45

After all those casts in starter zones, I almost puked when my Dark Herring came up after only 45 in the Howling Fjord. Fished only in Fangtooth Herring schools.

评论来自 Brendensmall

Close to 2000 unsuccessful casts in mulgore.
21 casts and caught mr pinchy but had bad wish luck.
Decided to try what everyone else was doin and try for the dark herring, so i could at least make some money while wasting time........

1 freakin cast :} screen shot woohoo

评论来自 Tommy85

After reading the above posts I've decided to head into Teldrassil for the 15 Pound Mud Snapper.

I've started fishing around 1 o'clock in the evening but had to finish it at 2:15 because of a sudden realm shut down. At 11:30 I've started to fish again and didn't cancel until 13:45 - so after 2 and a half hours of staring into Lake Al'Ameth, I emerged victorious :-)

Total of 457 fish:

Brilliant Smallfish (275 : 60,2%)
Longjaw Mud Snapper (177 : 38,7%)
10 Pound Mud Snapper (3 : 0,7%)
12 Pound Mud Snapper (1 : 0,2%)
15 Pound Mud Snapper (1 : 0,2%)

Now only the Stranglethorn Extravaganza stands between me and Salty Thibble :-)

Happy fishing!

评论来自 335561

Finally caught the 15 Pound Mud Snapper after a grand total of 1586 casts. I first started fishing for it at Crystal Lake in Elwynn Forest since it was the closest to a city. After 1094 casts and reading about how people are catching it in under 500 casts at Teldrassil, I made my way to Shadowglen (the Night Elf starting zone). After 492 casts in Shadowglen, I got him. Here's my report:

Crystal Lake: 1094 casts
Brilliant Smallfish - 647
Longjaw Mud Snapper - 427
10 Pound Mud Snapper - 12
12 Pound Mud Snapper - 4
Minor Healing Potion - 3
Minor Mana Potion - 1

Shadowglen: 492 casts
Brilliant Smallfish - 292
Longjaw Mud Snapper - 188
10 Pound Mud Snapper - 5
Minor Mana Potion - 2
12 Pound Mud Snapper - 1
Burnt Cloak - 1
Plans: Copper Chain Vest - 1
Minor Healing Potion - 1
15 Pound Mud Snapper - 1

Whoever is planning to go for this achievement, I highly suggest fishing somewhere at Teldrassil. Either fish at Shadowglen where I was or judging from Tommy85's post, Lake Al'Ameth is fine also. Good luck to all.

评论来自 jooles

I was reading the posts above today and noticed that the people who caught the Dark Herring quickly had a high proportion of Fangtooth Herring catches so I presume were mostly fishing in pools. I set off to test this theory and 60 Fangtooth Herring catches later (pool fishing only, so a few crates also) I got my Dark Herring.

Most interesting of all was that when the Herring arrived it *replaced* the fangtooth herring therefore if this is a rare replacement for a Fangtooth Herring rather than an additional drop and you fish in open water with a 20% Fangtooth Herring droprate you will need to cast 5 times as many times for the same chance of success as pool fishing.

Go my fellow worm danglers and prove me wrong or right.

评论来自 Pirwzy

The achievement is best earned the toughest way possible. Go for the 103 Pound Mightfish.

But don't expect to get it in the first couple weeks or even the first month (or two, maybe). So far for me (2922 casts in Bay of Storms):

1260 Darkclaw Lobster, 43%
492 Winter Squid, 16%
392 Stonescale Eel, 13%
319 Big Mouth Clam, 10%
304 Large Raw Mightfish, 10%
94 Raw Spotted Yellowtail, 3%
28 Reinforced Locked Chest, less than 1%
11 Heavy Crate, less than 0.1%
5 7 Pound Lobster, less than 0.1%
4 15 Pound Lobster, less than 0.1%
3 Essence of Water, less than 0.1%
2 12 Pound Lobster, less than 0.1%
2 9 Pound Lobster, less than 0.1%

Almost three thousand catches, and still not a single special-weight Mightfish of the four possibilities. Talk about rare! Just remember, if you see that 22 Pound Lobster, don't loot it, just recast. You wanna save the achievement for the rarest one.

评论来自 338347

Hey just caught the dark herring and posted something that might help...if u click on the fangtooth herring in list my post is there...valgarde in howling fjord is where to get it i believe and posted exactly where i think u should go ..hope it helps...just click on the dark herring from list and u will see it there. Got it from my second school in a specific location.

评论来自 tinytifa

The RNG gods must love me because I fished in 2 herring schools at the lake SW of camp winterhoof for a total of about 6 casts before I got dark herring.

评论来自 325757

Maybe he meant postulates or maybe hypothesises, who knows, but I like gesticulates :)

评论来自 339051

In Howling fjord, Near camp winterhoof in the lake there, there are Fangtooth Herring schools, if you fish from these you have a much higher chance to catch the fish Dark Herring, I caught it in about 100 casts, and my friend caught it in about 50. It is a much higher drop rate than any other fish for the achievement, I assume you can catch it in open water there, but the schools give a much higher chance

评论来自 54899

I'm up to about 1500 casts at crystal lake in Elwynn. I haven't been keeping exact track of what I've gotten but I know there have been at least 15 10 pound, and about 10 12 pounds. No 15 yet =/

I hate this achievement.

评论来自 344356

I definately recommend anyone going for this achievement goes for the Dark Herring. I got mine after only 15 casts (in herring pools).

评论来自 milzus

17 Fangooth Herring
9 Pygmy Suckerfish
1 Crystallized Water
1 Dark Herring

total 19 casts

评论来自 242393

I have fished (unsuccessfully) all over Azeroth looking for any fish to get this achievement. I finally decided to try fishing for dark herring. I fished pools only for about 80-100 casts then just stood where I was and fished. After another 20-30ish casts I hooked a dark herring! WOOT! This came out of the lake around Camp Winterhoof, normal water (not from a pool) and I was using bright baubles as my lure.

Hope this helps someone out there...don't give up, you'll hook it when you least expect to!

Amy :-D

评论来自 78626

You can not buy a rare fish off the auction house and get credit for the achievement, you must fish and catch it yourself.

Bought a Dark Herring off the auction house for 200g and didn't get credit.

Edit: Hmm, thought this comment was a little more informative and helpful than the "I'm at 800 casts and still no rare fish" or "Got mine on my first try!" ones, but I guess not.

评论来自 Palooh

Found Dark Herring after 63 casts from Fangtooth Herring School in Howling Fjord.

Good luck with it ;)

评论来自 jadrianz

Shadowglen
96 Raw Long Jaw Mudsnappers
119 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
2 10lb Mud Snappers
2 12lb Mud Snappers
and finally the 15lb Mud Snapper!

评论来自 142732

I completely endorse what Nikotine said here.

After the WotLK xpac, anyone who fishes in the old world is doing themself a disservice.

I caught my Dark Herring in the Lake north of Skorn in Howling Fjord.

If you have the fishing skill to do it, and are 70+, fish the Fangtooth Herring schools in NR.

It is much more convenient to fish in your own backyard, rather than trekking to most of the other places mentioned.

Bay of Storms and Stonebull Lake, no thanks.

I spent 1500 casts in Stonebull Lake before switching to the Lake north of Skorn, where I caught the Dark Herring
as well as hundreds of gold worth of other stuff.

There, you will catch one of four things:

Glacial Salmon (if you miss the pool)
Bonescale Snapper (if you miss the pool)
Fangtooth Herring (in the pool)
Pygmy Suckerfish (in the pool)
oh, and Dark Herring (in the pool) :)

Happy fishing, Dark Herring will take your life!

评论来自 167977

My stats :)

Unsuccessful areas:

Stonebull Lake in Mulgore: ~ 1200 casts, 7x 10 pounds, 4x 12 pounds, ~ 4-5 hours of fishig.

Stillwhisper pond in Eversong woods: ~ 750-800 casts, 4x 10 pounds, 3x 12 pounds, 4 hours of fishing.

Crystal Lake in Elwyn Forest: ~ 700 casts, 2x 10 pounds, 4x 12 pounds, ~ from 7:30 to 11: 48... still no 15 pound one.

Success at last:

Shadowglen in Teldrassil: within a few hundred catches, i got him. ~1 hour of fishing. :)

pic:
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/2104/wowscrnshot042009123312.jpg

评论来自 354223

All I can say is that I am seriously not looking forward this grind...

评论来自 12634

Finished this today with 8000 fish and other things caught, of wich atleast 6000 was fishing for the herring. Finally Salty!

评论来自 355113

Caught the dark herring yesterday although i was mainly going for the turtle mount but I was pretty pleased with the herring too :) Took about 2 hours. Didn't get the turtle though :S well maybe someday...

评论来自 Kilzon

Caught the Dark Herring in Howling Fjord tonight after about 20 mins of fishing schools.

评论来自 353096

Caught The Dark Herring In Howling Fjord Tonight

TOTALS:

412 Fish In All
214 Fangtooth Herring
173 Pygmy Suckerfish
12 Crystallized Water
12 Reinforced Crates
1 Dark Herring

评论来自 269361

I caught the Dark Herring 2 mins ago from the pools in the lake below Camp Winterhoof on 22th cast (lucky me ^^). GL to all anglers ... now i have a new title ... SALTY Sheicutzu :)

评论来自 shammertime

This took me:

2 casts
1 Fangtooth Herring
1 Pygmy Suckerfish
1 Dark Herring

:)

评论来自 308651

2 episodes of Weeds made this achievment happen :)

Got out of "the lake north of Skorn" with these numbers:

83 Fangtooth Herring
67 Pygmy Suckerfish
3 Crystallized Water
3 Reinforced Crates
1 Dark Herring

Awesome!

评论来自 212244

After 30 minutes fishing INSIDE the herring pools in the lake north of Skorn, I fished the dark herring.

Note that fishing there, you have a chance to fish the turtle too. 2-in-1.

Good luck.

评论来自 Rikeni

An hour ago, as a level 51 with something like 260, 270 fishing (with a +25 fishing pole), I caught the 22-pound lobster in Azshara in the Bay while I was fishing for lobsters to level up my cooking. I didn't have a lure or anything; I didn't even know this was an achievement. I'd been fishing for maybe 10, 15 minutes... maybe like 50 casts or so. Heck, I didn't even have my 1000 Fish achievement yet when I caught it.

Just wanted to offer an alternative perspective on the skill/level you need to have in order to get a shot at this. After reading though this whole page of comments, I only now realize the freakish luck that my catch must have been....

评论来自 304970

k...so...this has to have been nerfed or something... i got 3 dark herrings within 15minutes, either i am one lucky dude (which makes no sense considering how many times i've run stratholme for rivindere's mount and killed about a zillion whelps for a whelpling pet) or this should be a lot easier. btw if you need proof i have the screen shots :P

评论来自 Syninara

Day 1 (today)
After reading so much about this, i decided to give it a try. And after
61 herrings
3 crates
3 crystallized waters
I got the Dark herring. I can only advise all of you that are about to go for this to go for the herring. Simply because u got a chance on the mount too (which i didn't get, boo:( )

GL to all of ya :)

评论来自 329540

^

I did what Syninara did, by going to the pools inside Skorn...

3 Fangtooth Herring
3 Pygmy Suckerfish
1 Dark Herring

Mind you; I did spend almost a week fishing all over the place in Howling Fjord, a couple hours a day.

GL

评论来自 naturerealm

Okay, first, I will admit that I am very very lucky, but here's my stats for completing this achievement.

1. Went after the 15 pound mud snapper at Stonebull Lake in Mulgore
2. Catches:
a. minor mana potion - 1
b. raw longjaw mud snapper - 33
c. raw brilliant smallfish - 45
d. 12 pound mud snapper - 2
e. 15 pound mud snapper - 1
3. Total casts 82
4. Total fishing time 24 minutes

评论来自 Dallanon

Over 1500 casts in Howling Fijord waters, in general....and about 12 casts in Skorn and bingo - Dark Herring.

Must be something to do with the area.

Good luck future Salties!

评论来自 Arcan

I flew to Howling Fjord, landed north of Skorn at the only pool I could see.
On the third catch in that pool I got it.

评论来自 366341

thougt it would need some hours to fish any of these. but after 67 casts tada Dark Herring. quite easy don´t understand your probs >.>

评论来自 BHLimbslicer

I was building up rep with Thunderbluff by questing in Bloodhoof Village and Camp Narache, and was to go to Thunder Bluff, but stopped on the way to fish in Stonebull Lake, Mulgore. Ony about the 10th to 15th cast I caught a 15 Pound Mud Snapper, and was very excited as that was the last achievement I needed for the meta-achievement; Accomplished Angler.

评论来自 367644

Just got this achievement yesterday.

Went to the Lake north of Skorn in HF and fished only in the schools around the lake. It took me 20mins all up, flying around the lake included. Going for the Dark Herring is definitely the way to go!

Good Luck!

评论来自 371974

Just fished up the Dark Herring on my second cast from a Fangtooth Herring school at 45,18 (Howling Fjord).

Must be karma.

评论来自 377237

can i complete this one in Orgrimmar?

评论来自 247370

What are everyone thoughts on being able to fish one up in Wintergrasp? Or the turtle mount? Since Wintergrasp has the valuable fish, and can be used for Fish Feast, I am trying there, but no luck.

评论来自 blankira

This is definitely the hardest achievement to attain for the 'Salty' title..

评论来自 391772

50 minutes of fishing, about 120 Herrings. Like the above posters i stuck to the pools of Fanged Tooth Herrings. Dark Herring is now mine.

Thanks for the info. above.

评论来自 Arkke

Just finished this achievement. I went for the Dark Herring, and flew loops around Skorn like many others have, picking off Fangtooth Herring schools.

Only took me about 113 casts to fish the Dark Herring up, for a total of about 45 minutes of fishing. Not an unreasonable amount of time to spend on this achievement, and those who still need to raise their cooking can use the extra stacks of Herring when everything is said and done. On top of all that, you also have a chance of fishing up the Sea Turtle.

IMO, Dark Herring is the way to go for anyone doing this achievement. It just seems like a no-brainer.

评论来自 420811

I got my sea Turtle after The 12th try fishing for the dark herring :) very happy still no dark herring though :, i had 370 fishing, Charecter leodahunter realm SH(eu) have fun! good luck!

评论来自 306645

i dont know about the dark herring...will take yer advice. But, as for the sea turtle, i heard that you could get it in Grizzly Hills, in Glacier Salmon pools. And, in fact, i got one.....first cast right to the center of the pool.

评论来自 Jazzism

I'm tryin for this too. 2 hours of going at it and I get 5 - 10 Pound Mudsnapper https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=6292 and a Pellet Gun - https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=8182.

Just can't help but have a laugh at the ironic luck.

评论来自 392150

Omg, I've fished up about 800 fish and I haven't get the dark herring or the mount.... So can you anymore fish up those two in Howlig fjord?

Fishing in Skörn, and my fishing skill is 450

评论来自 Drakkash

well this was easier than expected!

5 Fangtooth Herring Schools in the skorn area and the dark herring was mine..

评论来自 rabidstoat

I will now count myself as luckiest fisherman ever. I got this on my fourth cast ever in the Tauren starting area. I had no idea it was a hard-to-get achievement until just now, a week later, when I curiously looked it up. I had figured it was one of those things like the 15-pound catfish.

评论来自 94196

Brilliant Smallfish (1721 : 59.7%)
Longjaw Mud Snapper (1108 : 38.4%)
10 Pound Mud Snapper (20 : 0.7%)
12 Pound Mud Snapper (11 : 0.4%)
Minor Mana Potion (9 : 0.3%)
Minor Healing Potion (7 : 0.2%)
Bloated Smallfish (5 : 0.2%)
Small Red Pouch (1 : 0.0%)
Cadet's Bow (1: 0.0%)

In Shadowglen, Teldrassil... Still no 15 Pound :((((

评论来自 all4atlantis

I got this last night on my hunter lvl 80 with fishing skill at 443 with a 5%+ Fishing hat and the 30% Jeweled fishing pole.

its not a 5%+ fishing hat, its a +5 fishing hat. not percentage based. same with the pole, its +30 fishing, not +30% fishing.

评论来自 453428

This was the last achievement I needed for the Accomplished Angler . I headed out to Howling Fjord to try for the Dark Herring. I flew back and forth from Winter's Breath Lake and the lake at Fort Wildervar, running around each one only casting in the Fangtooth Herring Schools. I cast over 6,000 times with no luck and got frustrated so I hearthed ran to the SW portal and took myself down by the lake behind Goldshire (Crystal Lake) and started fishing off of the dock. Here's my info:

Raw Brilliant Smallfish: 384
Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper: 283
12 Pound Mud Snapper: 4
10 Pound Mud Snapper: 2
Cadet's Bow: 1
Minor Mana Potion: 1
Small Green Pouch: 1
15 Pound Mud Snapper: 1

评论来自 Firedwarf

As far as I can see, a rare fish will take like 1500 casts on average. Remember this is average, and can be way higher or lower

I use around 25 mins fishing 100 fish, so this means this achievement in average will take 6-7 hours

评论来自 Dens2000

After reading all the comments above and failing to catch mine at Elwynn Forest I went to the recommended location:

Shadowglen in Teldrassil

21st cast!

EDIT: Also I do wonder sometimes if these fish have a "cooldown" once caught. Perhaps that is why some people catch it in 5 casts (as I have known people to do on my realm) and some take hours and thousands of casts. If you think about it, if this was true, a person who is fishing a certain fish, that is on cooldown, would have to fish for hours if the cooldown or spawn time is that long. Then if the cooldown is expired the next person that comes along will have it in no time depending on the loot list probability.

I don't think this is impossible, perhaps you should try fishing early in the morning, that would be the best time IF this is true. Let me know if it is!

评论来自 pekti

Here's my data; hope it helps!

112 x Raw Brilliant Smallfish
62 x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
2x 12 Pound Mud Snapper
1x Journeyman's Cloak
1 x Minor Healing Potion
1x 15 Pound Mud Snapper - winner!
--------------
TOTAL: 179 catches
Location: Stonebull Lake, Mulgore

I've done some fishing out in Howling Fjord for this achievement, but I found the lowbie area to be much easier. Quiet... no moving around for fishing nodes... and I did it all in one sitting in between AB queues. I definitely recommend this location.

Completed at approx 9:25PM. I doubt there's any "cooldown" on rare catches. Just RNG, as usual.

评论来自 bonix

So after reading through these comments I went to lake above skorn with 585 fishing skill. Caught it in 5 casts from my first pool. If that doesn't convince anyone to fish it there then nothing will ;)

评论来自 Wrayn

I've fished in the lakes in Elwynn Forest and the Herring Schools in Howling Fjord for the past 3 days, every single day, for countless hours, fishing beeing the only thing i do besides raiding and 10 daily quests.

I've fished about 3000fish by now and still nothing. I guess i'm one of the not so lucky ones...

评论来自 384933

I must thank the people who suggested the Shadowglen. I got my acheivement this morining after about 300 casts over the course of a few days. Now I have terrible luck and even I was able to get this so, shadowglen is very nice.
Also on the plus side, I was doing this on a new character and was able to level my cooking and fishing to their caps for level 10.

Thanks all again!

评论来自 brat4300

Ok so I read thru a bunch of these posts and at first i was fishing for the Dark Herring for 90 minutes with no success... then i read about going to Shadowglen and decided to try it.... Im sure part of it was luck but I went to the NE Starting area behind the lodge and on my 2nd cast in one of the pool back there I got my 15 pound Mud Snapper.

Good luck fishing guys

评论来自 437409

After fishing for a few days in fangtooth herring pools, I gave up and went to Mulgore to try and catch the 15 lb Mud Snapper since there seems to be better luck with catching that one. I caught thousands of fish, and no rare! Went back to Howling Fjord today, and caught the Dark Herring from fangtooth herring pool after about 30 casts in lake south of Fort Wildervar. This was my last achievement for the salty title! Its all luck! Happy Fishing :)
*Salty Santangelo

评论来自 53121

After 2 hours of fishing for Dark Herring at the lake north of Sk--- whatever, I decided to go to the lake east of Gold Shire. 15 Pound Mud Snapper on first cast.

评论来自 andriell

Hello

Now i did get This Achievement weehoo

I did as many fish in Howling Fjord, in the lakes over skorn and in the lake under Fort Wildervar. I did only fish in Fangtooth Herring School, did take me 1951 fish casts to finally get my Dark Herring

评论来自 464255

I hate this game

I spent over the past couple of days a few hours fishing the schools in Howling Fjord, after reading up a little more I decided to try my luck in Goldshire. Got it on my 4th cast :(

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You have earned the title 'Salty Roweyseven'.

In your face Totem.

评论来自 kurtiffrig

Just wanted to comment on the guy who's fishing in Howling Fiord hoping to catch the sea turtle as well. Sorry to break the bad news, but the sea turtle cannot be fished up in lakes (or any other inland waters). Hence the name "SEA Turtle"

评论来自 481647

mulgore or teldrassil are youre best bets. %^&* HF having to find nodes wastes alot of time.

my results from teld. after fishing HF to death
77x brilliant smallfish
49x mud snapper
2x 12 lb
2x 10 lb
1x simple dagger
1x 15 pound mud snapper

it was worth the trip out there.

评论来自 421349

in next patch, i will try my luck combining the new Fishing Contest with catching the rare fish in Howling Fjord, and for those who dont got the turtle yet (i already had to delete one xD) it even better, since:
- "Fish any pool in Northrend where Pygmy Suckerfish are found during the Fishing Contest" thus being everywhere but Crystalsong (lower droprate)
- Every pool in northernd has a very minimal change of giving you the Sea Turtle
- Dark Hering can be caught from any Fangtooth Herring School

Fangtooth Herring School in 3.3, at a Saturday between 14.00 and 15.00 can give you: a Blacktip Shark, a Sea Turtle and a Dark Hering. 3 fish with 1 stone :P

评论来自 Clossy

I'd say this is completely random. I went many different locations and stood there for 2hours fishing still haven't caught the one of the rare ones.

Imo i would suggest everyone to fish in Northrend for the profit of fish you catch while trying to get the Dark Herring.

I got the Dark Herring in Grizzly Hills on my first level 80.

评论来自 488865

Got the 15 Pound Mud Snapper after 62 casts in shadowglen. I was spending hours in Dun Morogh. While I was there I cast ~600 times without success. I guess a change of pace was what I needed :)

评论来自 98902

This achievement alone is making me hate this game in general. Why would they make an achievement be so stupidly hard to do? I've done every other fishing achievement smoothly and Now this one has consumed about 3 days of solid fishing with no luck.

评论来自 288222

50% Chance of getting any of the fish for the Achievement.
Either you do get it, or you dont. Hence 50/50.

5 hours later, still no rare fish.
Rare fish is rare.

评论来自 98902

This took me longer than catching the sea turtle, Mr.Pinchy, and the Giant Sewer Rat by far.. BUT I finally completed it. Pheeww.... Here are my results.

Stonebull Lake, Mulgore.

-x1638 Raw Brilliant Smallfish.
-x996 Raw Longjaw Mudsnapper.
-x24 10lb Mudsnapper.
-x9 12lb Mudsnapper.
-x9 Minor Mana Potion.
-x7 Minor Healing Potion.
-x1 Bloated Smallfish.
-x1 Journeymans Belt.
-x1 Infantry Bracers.

That's 2686 catches in Stonebull Lake and NO 15lb MUDSNAPPER! GAH!
................................................................
Then I tried Bay of Storms, Azshara...
-x198 Raw Spotted Yellowtail.
-x101 Stonescale Eel.
-x82 Raw Glossy Mightfish.
-x54 Firefin Snapper.
-x46 Raw Rockscale Cod.
-x43 Darkclaw Lobester.
-x26 Winter squid.
-x20 Bigmouth Clam.
-x18 Large Raw Mightfish.
-x3 40lb Grouper.
-x3 Reinforced Locked Chest.
-x1 12lb Lobster.
-x1 7lb lobster.
-x1 Heavy Crate.

That's 597 at Bay of Storms, Azshara.. No Winning fish.
..............................................................................................
Then I went to Shadowglen, Teldrassil. A bit more a pain in the ass to get there since I'm horde, but here are the results.

-x85 Raw Brilliant Smallfish.
-x53 Raw Longjaw Mudsnapper.
-x5 10lb Mudsnapper.
-x2 Minor Mana Potion.
-x1 15lb Mudsnapper!

I DID IT FINALLY! The Shadowglen theory seems to have proven itself for me as well.

- That means i caught my 15lb Mudsnapper on the 3429th catch! D: Glad it's over. GOOD LUCK! :D

评论来自 514382

good for me i got the dark herring from fjord like in 5 to 10 min, i hope everyone else gets as lucky as me

评论来自 384933

I'm very aware of RNG and all that but I must say I am now a firm and total beleiver of Shadowglen having a good drop rate. I have this acheivement on 3 different characters all managed to get it from there within about... 2-3 hours. Maybe i was just extremely lucky I dont know but after spending nearly a whole day in Ewlynn i moved to Shadowglen and got it there within 2 hours or so. Then on another char did the same (since i was leveling fishing anyway) and got it again.

Again, I'm well aware of RNG, maybe it just felt like giving me a break (I bet the turtle or rat takes me donkeys!).

评论来自 536280

I have to say that I am another believer of the Shadowglen method. I started in the waters around Bloodhoof village and nearly 600 casts later still no 15 pounder. I came out to Shadowglen and in 9 casts I had my 15 pounder and the Salty title! I know, I know...someone is going to say something about how drops in WOW are random, RNG, blahblahblah. I decided on Shadowglen based on someone's serious number crunching posted on El's Anglin site (http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/one-that-didnt-get-away-achievement/page/20). I know that people who get the fish are more likely to post, therefore skewing the drop rates, but it worked for me and I would suggest to at least give it a chance (even if you are Horde...it wasn't that hard to get out here).

评论来自 274168

I was one of the few unlucky to have problems with the achievement. Was the last one for my title so felt I really wanted it done. Some guildies had caught the 15 Pound Mud Snapper on the 8th cast. So I started out 9.30 on the Monday morning fishing only at Stonebull Lake (Mulgore) til 13.25 where I felt I had to take a break and at 15.00 I started to fish again - did some fishing again at Stonebull Lake for a hour + something, can't remember. After a while I headed towards to Iceflow Lake (Dun Morogh) fished there from approx 16.00 something to 18.00 where I took a break on two hours to see a movie.

Came back around 20.00 and started to fish again. Fished still at Dun Morogh til like 23.45 something - I had small afks at this point and missed alot of catches as I was boored to death. Headed towards to Crystal Lake in Elwynn Forest, did some sleepy fishing til approx 00.30 where I almost were asleep so fell asleep and woke up 9.00 and fished til 9.30 and BAM! I GOT IT! I had actually planned to fish all day again so can't be more happy while I write this! Well here is my list thou. Just another list for people to compare with others, the catch really is random - trust me.

Stonebull Lake: total 1400.
Raw Brilliant Smallfish: 830. 59%
Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper: 544. 38%
10 Pound Mud Snapper: 13. 0%
Minor Healing Potion: 5. 0%
12 Pound Mud Snapper: 5. 0%
Bloated Smallfish: 1. 0%
Practise Sword: 1. 0%
Minor Mana Potion: 1. 0%
Simple Dagger: 1. 0%

Iceflow Lake: total 607.
Raw Brilliant Smallfish: 353. 58%
Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper: 243. 40%
10 Pound Mud Snapper: 5. 0% (Actually caught two in a row once.)
12 Pound Mud Snapper: 2. 0%
Minor Mana Potion: 2. 0%
Bloated Smallfish: 1. 0%
Minor Healing Potion: 1. 0%

Crystal Lake: total of 315.
Raw Brilliant Smallfish: 197. 62%
Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper: 111. 35%
10 Pound Mud Snapper: 3. 0%
Minor Healing Potion: 1. 0%
Minor Mana Potion: 1. 0%
12 Pound Mud Snapper: 1. 0%
15 Pound Mud Snapper: 1. 0%

Of course the 0% is approx of 0.1% chance.

Anyway, good luck to you all!

评论来自 538792

You're so not gonna like me... 33rd cast in the Fangtooth Herring Schools at Winter's Breath Lake
Got a Dark Herring.

Would have rathered the turtle mount tbh

评论来自 540669

450+25 skill. Seth's Graphite Fishing Pole
I wish you all luck. I caught my Dark Herring after only 29 casts. All I did was circle Winter's Breath Lake. The night before I caught my Mr Pinchy after about 600 casts over the course of several days about two hours at a time.

评论来自 emcee

i hate my life

im almost up to 14,000 fish and other things caught, i'd say 80% of all of it is from either fishing for the IF rare fish, the turtle mount, or the dark herring in howling fjord, and i still don't have any of the 3. and if it wasnt for the crocs bug, im sure i wouldnt have the orgrimmar rare fish either.

been fishing for the dark herring for at least 3 hours a day for the past week

评论来自 Hourglass

I'm thinking of giving the Shadowglen area a try.

As Horde, going to the night elf starting zone obviously has it's issues. Elixir of Water Walking eliminates the need to take the boat from Auberdine (you can mount up and run from the northern "point" of the Darkshore coastline) so actually getting there isn't a problem. But since Blizzard seems intent on requiring you to run into/through major enemy cities for holiday meta Achievements every other holiday, maybe with the upcoming Lunar Festival I'll give it a try. I have to visit the Elder in Darn and Dolanar anyway, so while I'm there...

评论来自 436718

I suggest to anyone who wants this achievement to participate in the STV fishing contest. I caught the Rockhide Strongfish in about 15 casts into Tastyfish pools. I also was not even trying to complete this achievement at the time that i got it.

评论来自 MrPink

I have been trying to get this achievment since I first started fishing at lvl 10 over a year ago. Since then I have managed to aquire all of the other achievments needed for the "Salty" title except for Master angler of Azeroth I really started the grind for "The one that didnt get away" once I got all other achievments. At that point I had 6,000+ fish and other things caught, I now have exactly 20,010 fish and other things caught. And I still do not have this achievment. It is very frustrating and I hope you all have better luck than I am having. And i have also used all of the info above to help me find good locations to no avail.

I finally got my Dark Herring from the lake north of Skorn. 21,463 fish and other things caught.

评论来自 GreasyMcNasty

Just wondering if anybody has got a rare catch in Wintergrasp?

I go there quite often to skill up and get fish feast ingredients and would like to know if I even have a chance.

评论来自 Alacrity

I'd recommend Bay of Storms, if only because you can make a non-zero amount of gold for your time.

For example, you can fish up clams, which can yield various pearls. The golden pearls are very valuable, especially if you're lucky enough to have access to enchanting recipe for +30 Spellpower. Likewise, Winter Squid can sell very well.

Your mileage may vary, but if you're going to throw away some time for the achievement, you may as well try to get some gold out of it.

评论来自 dopfeldecker

I fished for the 15 Pound Mud Snapper in Mulgore's Stonebull Lake for about an hour, and this is what I got:

212 Fishing Casts

Reading the previous comments of people trying to catch this fish, I guess I was pretty lucky.

评论来自 367622

2-5 hours every day/second day for 3 weeks and I finally got this as of 10 minutes ago. My usual route around the two northern lakes in Howling Fjord has paid up and the Dark Herring is finally mine.

Now all I need is my Sea Turtle mount and I'll be as happy as Larry.

Daellon - Khaz'Goroth

评论来自 D1RE

Finally caught the 15 pound mud snapper in the lake next to Goldshire. I figure I've got around 800 throws for this one and around 2000 for the dark herring. Funny thing is I hate fishing with a passion, I've hated it since vanilla. Still, I figured the title was awesome so I got all the achievements needed.

Salty Shagina - Grim Batol, EU

评论来自 568368

I've been fishing for the Dark Herring and the turtle mount for weeks now. The Fangtooth Herring pools in Howling Fjord. Finally, I caught the Dark Herring. Fish Caught: 5,500 exactly. It was also within couple hours after the Tuesday morning maintenance.

Fizzcrank server.
Deceptress.

评论来自 569393

My gloating numbers:

39 Fangtooth Herring
1 Cystallized Water
1 Bonescale Snapper
1 Reinforced Crate
1 Dark Herring

Total Casts 43

TOTAL RNG, I know, but I was excited. :)

评论来自 495579

Been fishing for days trying to catch the Dark herring but no signs of it spawning so I tried to go after the Mud snapper and after the 9th cast I got the achievement in Mulgore. Fishing skill full with epic pole. Hope this helps! :)

评论来自 xMelchx

4000+ casts for the dark herring
3000+ casts in the bay of storms
over 40 hours of fishing so far and nothing yet.

shadowglen: 115 casts and got my lol

评论来自 miketsesh

after 3 days of fishing, 3600 casts, and no luck with the dark herring in grizzly hills, i moved to shadowglen and got the 15lb'er on my 603rd cast in just a few hours.

评论来自 Todzilla

About 250 or so casts in the lake on the dock behind Goldshire, right next to the NPC's fishing with no fish nodes at all.

My thoughts were that if you are in nodes every time you are more likely to catch those fish more often than the one you really want. It paid off in just over an hour's time for my Rogue. I also won the Fishing Derby today playing it for the first time in about ten minutes!

Now believe it or not, all I have to do is finish my Old Man Barlow achievement for SALTY. So maybe two more days or so to pass the SALT.

评论来自 donutball

So here's my agonizing journey to fishing my way to Salty by catching the Dark Herring and testing my luck on getting the Turtle mount.

FYI I'm fishing only in the fangtooth herring pools.

DAY 1 : spent around 4 hours fishing in the lakes in Howling Fjord.
DAY 2 : spent around 6 hours combined fishing in the lakes in Howling Fjord.
DAY 3 : spent around 4 hours fishing in the lakes in Howling Fjord.

It seems like I too have fallen into the group of people that spend an insane amount of time fishing with no results. The day I run out of things to watch while fishing is the day I'll give up. lol.
I'll continue to update in case anyone else is feeling discouraged. I'm going through the same thing. =)

Edit: Since the last time I posted I've been alternating between Elwynn Forest and Howling Fjord for the achievement. I caught the 15 pound Mud Snapper right in the pool next to Goldshire, by the blacksmithing structure. I'm glad I decided to switch for a bit and just test my luck. Now I'm back to fishing just in the Howling Fjord for the dark herring and turtle mount

评论来自 189828

Thought I would add my experience with this achievement. Got it fishing in Elwynn at the various lakes there. Tried other locations like Howling Fjord beforehand but decided to work on it in the lowbie zones for safety and not having to move around so I could do other things while working on this one.

Total Casts in Elwynn: 2185
Mud Snapper: 831
Brilliant Smallfish: 1299
10 pounders: 24
12 pounders: 9
Assorted Pots and Junk: 21
15 pounder: 1

Real funny aspect of course is after spending more hours than I want to think about working on this in Elwynn I have since returned to Howling Fjord to work on Turtles All the Way Down due to the compact grouping of the pools there. Having done about 600 Casts there I just caught 2 Dark Herrings in about an hour, no turtle yet though. Long story short good luck on these achievements to all of you guys working on them.

评论来自 164958

Just got my 15 Pound Mud Snapper in Mulgore's Stonebull Lake and this is the data i collected:

Total Casts: 326
- 193x Raw Brilliant Smallfish
- 129x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
- 2x 10 Pound Mud Snapper
- 1x Minor Mana Potion
- 1x Minor Healing Potion

评论来自 stormysky

Got the Dark Herring in less than a dozen casts at Cauldros Lake in Howling Fjord. Happy Hunting!

评论来自 174898

Just got the 15 Pound Mudsnapper 2 minutes ago in Mulgore after 16 throws. I've been to Teldrasil for a couple of hours, hunted the Herring for about 5 hours. But now I thought I'd try my luck in Mulgore since there's been some comments about it beeing the easiest spot. And from what I can tell, it is.

评论来自 379363

After six hours and 1285 casts in Muglore the 15 Pound Mud Snapper is mine. I was getting between 180-200 casts and hour. Max fishing with the hat and 100 fishing one hour long lure. My advice is to just fish for that one hour once or twice a day when you have nothing else to do. You'll get it eventually. ^.^

评论来自 Bubonic

Until you get the Turtle Mount, it's probably best to try for this in Northrend- why not try for two achievements at once? After that, though, the best place might be Azshara, simply because the fish can sell for so much on the AH. Darkclaw Lobster, Summer Bass, Winter Squid etc. are some of the only ways to level cooking to 300. They don't always sell quickly, but I got 30-40 gold per stack on my server- much better than the 3-4 gold for a stack of Fangtooth Herring. At least while you're sitting there getting nowhere on the achievement, you can tell yourself that you're actually gold farming.

评论来自 TaurenKing

Got this after 86 casts in the lake just north of Skorn..Just keep circling the lake....Dark Herring

评论来自 kayoon

Got this after 7 grueling hours of Fishing, Was getting really frustrated but kept with it. I went to Shadowglen in Teldrassil.

669- Raw Brilliant Small Fish
466- Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
3- minor healing
2- minor mana
1- malachite
10- 10 pound mud snapper
4- 12 pound mud snapper (hate these first one i got i was like woot i got it... NOT!)
1- 15 pound mud snapper

Good luck for others trying to get this.

评论来自 613711

FINALLY caught a Dark Herring at the East side of Winter's Breath Lake in Howling Fjord. Spent 3 days flying around that lake, and after at least 1000+ casts, I GOT IT =)

评论来自 doodlehacker

The One That Didn't Get Away

Justa' Fishin' In Aldrassil, Teldrassil, Mon!
1127 59.22% Raw Brilliant Fish
745 39.15% Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
13 .68% 10 Pound Mud Snapper
5 .26% 12 Pound Mud Snapper
5 .26% Minor Mana Potion
4 .21% Minor Health Potion
2 .11% Bloated Smallfish (Malchite)
1 .05% Low-Level Gun

1 .05% 15 Pound Mud Snapper
==================
1903 99.99% Casts >>

Includin' Da Time Spenda Get Da Dark Herring/Sea Turtle!
1127 48.20% Raw Brilliant Fish
745 31.86% Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
435 18.61% Fangtooth Herring (Including other stuff)
13 .56% 10 Pound Mud Snapper
5 .21% 12 Pound Mud Snapper
5 .21% Minor Mana Potion
4 .17% Minor Health Potion
2 .09% Bloated Smallfish (Malchite)
1 .04% Low-Level Gun

1 .04% 15 Pound Mud Snapper
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~2338 99.99% Casts >>

My results, I would think, are of average results. Neither lucky, nor nightmere'ish.

So, when you finally decide to get this 15 Pound Mud Snapper, realising it is the best drop rate of all the fish
in the achievment list, dropping with the best rates in ALDRASSIL, TELDRASSIL:

EXPECT TO FISH AT LEAST 2,000 TIMES.

You could get lucky, or rng() may decide to bust'a'cap in yo ***.

But, it is entirely worth it.

评论来自 xanthax

I got my 15 pound mudsnapper after 345 casts at Stonebull Lake. I stood on the roots of the knocked over tree and fished for a few hours.

评论来自 193720

If you kill a resto drood in full wrathfull using Dark Herring, does that make you a Knight who formely said Ni! Because that does qualify as Cutting down the mightiest tree in a forest with a herring?

评论来自 502983

I was attempting this today in howling fjord, within 30 mins i caught the turtle, now I'm worried that I'll catch that again rather than the dark herring seems this is the worst grind.

评论来自 Staks

Shadowglen

932 total
Brilliant Smallfish: 520
Longjaw Mud Snapper: 394
10 Pound Mud Snapper: 8
Minor Healing Potion: 3
12 Pound Mud Snapper: 3
Minor Mana Potion: 2
Bloated Smallfish: 1
15 Pound Mud Snapper: ! 1 ! 0.1%

As others have mentioned. This feels much harder to get than Crafty and Iron Jaw

Good Luck

评论来自 ixupi

I went for the 15 Pound Mud Snapper.
Location: Stonebull Lake in Mulgore 44.3, 61.1
Time: 7 hours 25 min
Attempts: 891 casts

475x Raw Brilliant Smallfish
399x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
2x 10 Pound Mud Snapper
8x 12 Pound Mud Snapper
2x Minor Healing Potion
1x Minor Mana Potion
1x Pioneer Belt
1x Practice Sword
1x Malachite
1x 15 Pound Mud Snapper

评论来自 Extattic

I caught the 15 Pound Mud Snapper today!

Fishing at Stonebull Lake in Mulgore at Loc: 44.3, 61.1 (Just in front of the Fishing Trainer, Uthan Stillwater)

Skill: 450+125 (575)

2065 casts:

Brilliant Smallfish - 1242 caught: 60.1% drop rate
Longjaw Mud Snapper - 766 caught: 37.1% drop rate
10 Pound Mud Snapper - 20 caught: 1.0% drop rate
12 Pound Mud Snapper - 14 caught: 0.7% drop rate
Minor Healing Potion - 6 caught: 0.3% drop rate
Minor Mana Potion - 11 caught: 0.5% drop rate
Journeyman's Boots - 1 caught: 0.0% drop rate
Warrior's Cloak - 1 caught: 0.0% drop rate
Bloated Smallfish - 1 caught: 0.0% drop rate
Malachite - 1 caught: 0.0% drop rate
Long Bo Staff - 1 caught: 0.0% drop rate
15 Pound Mud Snapper - 1 caught: 0.0% drop rate

Good luck everyone!

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没跑掉的鱼

抓住下列稀有鱼类中的一条。

达成条件 – 需要1的10

	103磅重的大鱼（1）
	22磅重的龙虾（1）
	32磅重的鲶鱼（1）
	68磅重的石斑鱼（1）
	石皮大鱼（1）

	15磅重的泥鳅（1）
	29磅重的鲑鱼（1）
	52磅重的红鳃鱼（1）
	黑暗鲱鱼（1）
	钢鳞鱼（1）

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Fishing Achievements Guide - Wrath of the Lich King Classic Fishing Profession Overview

没跑掉的鱼

达成条件 – 需要1的10

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