Wizard101 Beginner Fishing Guide

New to fishing? Here’s some helpful information
to get you started!

Not new, but having a hard time finding a certain Fish? If so, check out our guide to W101 Fish Locations!

Wizard101 Fish Location Guide

Grab a Lure and Get Started!

To get started, talk to Lucky Hookline in the Wizard City Commons and grab his quest “A river runs through it“. He’ll walk you through the basics of fishing and grant your first Fishing Quest! You must be a Level 7 and higher to speak to Lucky.

Getting his quest will also grant your first Lure, the Lesser Frost Lure. This Lure, as you may have guessed, is great for catching Ice School fish. That’s convenient, because the quest requires you to catch two Ice School fish. Note: Fishing lures cost 0 energy to cast. They only cost energy when you try to catch a fish!

Your first quest will have you attempting to catch a “Frost Dekoi” and an “Icecuda”. Both of these fish can be caught from behind Prospector Zeke in the WC Commons.

So run on over to Zeke and get started!

Fishing Basics

Catching One

• Whenever you’re near an area with fish, a Fishing Interface Icon will show up. You can click that icon to bring up your Fishing Menu, where you’ll be able to select Fishing Spells.
• You’ll see shadows of fish in the water. Your goal is to cast a lure in front of that fish. If you cast your lure behind the fish, or too far in any direction, it won’t see the Lure.
• Fish have schools and lures have schools. A Fire fish is more likely to bite a Fire lure, etc.
• When you are ready to cast, open your Fishing Menu and click a lure to cast it.
• If your Lure goes somewhere you don’t want, click “Cancel Spell” and recast it. It costs zero energy to cast a lure, so don’t worry about having to cast a lot.
• Once a fish nibbles your lure, it will bob a little bit. You must wait until the lure goes completely under water and click Space Bar quickly one time to hook the fish. If you’re lucky, you’ll catch that fish and find out what it is!
• You can buy “Fishing Luck” elixirs in the crowns shop to improve your Luck and make it more likely to catch fish.
• Different areas have different fish, you’ll have to explore to find out where to catch certain types!

Inventory & Angler’s Tome

• You can find your fishing info in your Backpack, after your Housing items. It will show an inventory of the fish you currently have, and provide a link to your Fishing Tome.
• Your Fishing Tome holds a record of every fish you’ve ever caught, along with your biggest and smallest fish records.

Fishing Quests

• Quest 1: A River Runs Through it, given by Lucky Hookline in WC Commons.
  • Quest Goals: Catch a Frost Dekoi and an Icecuda.
• Quest 2: Fishful Thinking, given by Lucky Hookline in WC Commons.
  • Quest Goals: Catch a Sharkspeare, a Mechanical Armorhead, a Catfish, a Garrfish, a Fish Sandwich, a Mainstream Dekoi, and a Bone Fish.
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• Quest 3: Ol’ Fishing Buddy, given by Haarek Silverscale in GH Northguard.
  • Quest Goals: Catch a Bearracuda and a Todd Pole.
  • Quest Rewards: Learn the Slow Fish Spell.

Advanced Fishing!

Once you complete you first quest, you’ll go back to Lucky Hookline for the next quest “Fishful Thinking“. This will send you all over the spiral, hunting for different types of fish. You’ll need more lures, and some other helpful fishing spells to make this easier. Lucky sells those also.

Fishing Utility Spells

Along with Lures, Lucky sells a few spells to make your life easier.

Level Up!

Just like Gardening, as you catch fish you get XP. As you level up in Fishing, you gain access to stronger Fishing Spells. Here are some that we have found!

Rank 5 Lures from Haarek Silverscale in Northguard – Grizzleheim:

Utility Spells from Frode Silverscale in Northguard – Grizzleheim:

Fishing Luck

We haven’t quite figured out how the fishing luck works just yet. However, you can see the percentage of luck you gain from each piece of gear! To see this, just hover over the fish on the status bar while in fishing mode.

Okay, but why would I want to fish?

To Show Off

There are new aquariums available in the Crowns Shop and as crafting recipes from Frode Silverscale and Eudora Tangletree. You can put your trophy fish into these aquariums in your home, and show off your most rare catches! Look how impressed Jon is:

To Craft With

Fish are required in the recipes for craftable Teleport Tapestries. Frode Silverscale is already offering crafting recipes that require certain Fish in them also. Here’s one example, a Rank 10 Pet Snack that gives 10XP:

Crab Louie

2 Scorpions 2 Dragon Eel 7 Scales

 For more information about crafting visit our Crafting Guide.

For Loot

First, you can sell your fish for gold at the fishing vendors. It’s not a huge amount – 150 gold for most fish from Wizard city – but getting a fish you didn’t want is not a total waste.

There’s also a chance for you to catch “other” things when fishing. Sometimes you’ll reel in a treasure chest:

There does not seem to be a “location” for chests. Any fish you attempt to catch has a chance to be a treasure chest, from what we can tell. They give rewards which seem to be loosely based on the level of the area you’re in. Chests caught in higher level worlds tend to give gear for higher levels. (Thanks to Morgrim Shadowfist in the comments.) After the Test Realm update, Heather Shadowslinger received a Spinyfish Pet (DNA 61) from a chest in the Wizard City Pond. We’ll add more as we find out more about treasure chests.

Comments

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Happy Fishing!