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Comment by FuxieDK

Objective of the new fishing derby.

Comment by 255163

Based on the new fishing contest description, these will be found in any pool in Northrend starting on 2pm each Saturday and lasting for an hour. Hey... that's tomorrow!

First one to catch em and get back to Dalaran to the turn in guy wins the contest and earns the newly named combined achievement for STV and NR weekly fishing contests. This is needed for the Salty title Meta.

Comment by 475036

If anyone else wandering as i did - you can catch this fish between 2 and 3 pm Saturday, even after someone won the competition. If you didnt win, you will receive the same bag of fishing treasures as you would for a normal daily.

Comment by 188301

sharks, apparently can hold their breath for 59 minuts

Comment by Jabberwoky

This was just caught by a level 55 with only 75 fishing skill. It was turned in for 150 Kalu'ak rep, 9780 exp, and a Bag of Fishing Treasures. Glow Worm, Solid Gold Coin x4, Recipe: Captain Rumsey's Lager were in the bag.

Comment by wooderino

I was lucky enough to be the first one to catch this during today's Fishing Derby.

This just proves that that although this event is completely based around an RNG, if you're persistent then your chance should come sooner or later. I've been fishing for this every Saturday since the event came out and the vast majority of the time would fish for 45 minutes - 1 hour and never even see the shark, today it showed up in a Nettlefish School in Sholazar at 2:04 PM.

As others have said, location and skill are not a factor. As long as the pools drop the pygmy suckerfish you should be good anywhere in Northrend. I did have 450 fishing with +40 skill from gear, but as other posters have stated above this is entirely unnecessary.

Comment by 180320

Can you be in a raid and still catch the shark? does it count as a quest item or is it classified as something else?

Comment by 249178

Because that inn is an alliance-only inn.

Horde versus Alliance isn't going to make a difference most of the time, but it actually could make a difference. A guy turned in the fish when I was at 9/10 seconds on my Hearth. My PC loads Dalaran pretty fast, so it would have taken me about another 10 seconds to turn it in. Had the guy been Horde, I definitely would have won. So yes, it CAN make a difference, but here's a fun fact, the Horde has won it ~50% of the time on my realm. I'd say being Horde is the least of your worries here, behind your luck and your PC. To illustrate this, here are my catches for a few weeks versus the winner's:

# - Winner : Me
1 - 2 : 18
2 - 4 : 19
3 - 6 : 22
4 - 17 : 28
5 - 22 : 25
6 - 13 : 19
7 - 19 : 30
8 - 17 : 25
9 - 18 : 24
10 - Skipped this week for real life stuff.
11 - Victory!
12 - 14 - 27
13 - ? - 17 (guy logged without giving me an actual count)
14 - ? - 21 ("Not too many...")
15 - Skipped this week 'cause I'm lazy.
16 - Skipped this week too, also from being lazy.
17 - 23 : 30
18 - Skipped.
19 - Skipped.
20 - 2 : 22

Kind of interesting how it worked out too. You'll notice my catches going up because I found a better location (I used Venture Bay originally, but it got invaded by a bunch of people) but I wonder why it's steadily increasing in the number the winner has caught? Oh yeah, it's called luck.

TLDR: STFU about Horde vs. Alliance bias.

EDIT: Updated my stats. Somebody found my spot in week 6, but I think they gave up on it 'cause they couldn't find the other cluster and thought that there were only like 2 pools in the area (even though there's 8-12, I've yet to fish them all before somebody wins).

EDIT2: Another update, and since people seem to be misinformed about this contest, here's some information.

The Blacktip Shark is a rare catch that replaces a Pygmy Suckerfish in your catch. Therefore, more Pygmy Suckerfish equals more chances for a Blacktip. Every type of pool in Northrend save Pool of Blood and Glassfin Minnow has an equal chance of catching a Pygmy Suckerfish per cast. I'm not really sure why it lists Grizzly Hills as a higher chance, but it's been tested and confirmed that the chance for each pool but the two I listed above is the same.

This contest can happen a minute or so earlier than your server time indicates, so be there at least 5 minutes early. Fishing skill has no impact whatsoever on your chances. One recent patch made it so your fish would never get away, but you would get junk fish. The other patch made it so fishing schools never yield junk fish, meaning you can fish in them with level 1 fishing and get the same catches my 450 fishing gets.

There's not really much else to say except that comments like "stick with it and you'll eventually get it" are very false. Luck *!@#s people all the time, just ask Roy Sullivan

EDIT3: Finally won, after 10 weeks of trying. This doesn't prove that sticking with it will make you win, it just proves that if you skip a week, you will surely win. Yep, that must be it. I took the boots, by the way. I've got 6/10 classes to 80 already and 5% isn't going to make that much of a difference anyway. I just like being able to port everywhere (Blessed Medallion of Karabor, Argent Crusader's Tabard, Direbrew's Remote, Runed Signet of the Kirin Tor, Hearthstone, and now the boots!) for convenience.

Comment by 215283

First tourney I tried, I won the competition. Keep in mind that you don't have to be fishing from a school, and your skill doesn't really matter (I had the white fishing rod, I don't even think I had the hat at that point). So just go to the pond underneath Dalaran and hope you get lucky.

Comment by 81639

Well, to make this less of a loss of time I suggest for you Chef's out there to go to Grizzly Hills and fly up and down the stream from Venture Bay to Blue Sky Logging Grounds and fish the Glacial Salmon-schools which are literally everywhere. Those go for a nice 30g per 5 Firecracker Salmon's at my server and I bet the difference ain't that high on other realms. From 30 minutes of fishing along the pools (until I got notified that the contest had been won) I got 82 of them fishies. Selling them for a profit of 480 g or so +/- AH cut's, so go for that and your time wont be completely wasted. Just a heads up. :)

Comment by exdeath202

While it could be pure luck, there is a deleted post here that says that there is something fishy with this tournament and that he knows someone who won two weeks in a row. In my server, the first tournament winner was the guy with the highest achivement points in the realm... isnt that a coincidence and a incredible luck? This very same guy has some very intriguing achivements earned like this one. I wonder if while its pure RNG in most cases, in some others friendship with gamemasters migth be involved.

Comment by Midknite

GM's won't/can't do that. Logs are kept for everything they do and every item given to a player.

Comment by 580425

Caught the Blacktip shark on my 2nd pool and about 8th cast. It was at Kamagua and in the net the farthest north near the icewall. It seemed as if my hearth was like a 20minute cast time lol i was so nervous. I won about 13 minutes after the event started.

I chose the ring, but now i wish i chose the boots =( putting in a ticket with a GM now.

Happy fishing.

Comment by TyrionFarseer

This item has been tagged as no longer available. Was the derby removed?

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This item can be fished in Grizzly Hills (8), Howling Fjord (7), Borean Tundra (4), Dragonblight (4), Sholazar Basin (4), and Crystalsong Forest (2).

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