Fishing and Cooking 1-375

Below you will find the 1-375 fishing guide. Good luck!

Fishing 1-100 and Cooking 1-110Fish Location Cooking Level to Reach Fishing Level to Reach
Raw Brilliant Smallfish and Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper Crystal Lake, Elwynn Forest or Stillwhisper Pond, Eversong Woods 110 100


You will have to travel to a trainer to learn Journeyman Fishing and Journeyman Cook during this section of the guide (this can be done once you hit 50 or you can wait until you hit 75 for each skill).

Fishing 100-200 and Cooking 110-255Fish Location Cooking Level to Reach Fishing Level to Reach
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish and Raw Mithril Head Trout Water Surrounding Stromgarde Keep, Arathi Highlands 255 200


You'll need a lure to be able to cast here. Stay until you reach 200 fishing and 225 cooking. You'll have more fish than it takes to level up to 225, keep them and save them for after you do the cooking quest and are able to level up past 225.

Cooking Quest to Raise Skill above 225:

Head to Tanaris and accept "Clamlette Surprise" from Dirge Quickcleave, located in the inn in Gadgetzan (you must be level 35 and have 225 cooking). You will have to collect 12 Giant Eggs, 10 Zesty Clam Meat, and 20 Alterac Swiss.

If you are Alliance buy the Alterac Swiss from Truk Wildbeard at Aerie Peak, The Hinterlands (main building with mailbox outside of it, take a right, you will be in a hallway and Truk is at the end of it in a room). If you are Horde buy the Alterac Swiss from Innkeeper Adegwa at Hammerfall, Arathi Highlands (in the inn).

To finish off the rest of the quest you will need to head to The Hinterlands (for both Horde and Alliance). Zesty Clam Meat is found within Big-mouth Clams that drop from the Saltwater Snapjaws (they are around levels 48-50). Giant Eggs can be looted off the the corpses of Owlbeasts (they are around levels 42-45).

The green X shows where the Owlbeasts are located and the red Xs show where the Saltwater Snapjaws are located.



After you have collected the required number of items for the quest return to Dirge and you will be able to increase your cooking skill to 300.

After you have successfully increased your skill cap to 300 use up the extra fish from before and you should be able to skill up to 255 (when the recipe turns gray). If not, no worries, the next area starts with fish that can be cooked at 225.

Fishing 200-300 and Cooking 255 to 295Fish Location Cooking Level to Reach Fishing Level to Reach
Raw Redgill and Raw Sunscale Salmon Darrowmere Lake, Western Plaguelands 295 300


Fish here until you reach 225 (save the fish to cook later), you will now need to do the fishing quest to get your skill cap raised to 300.

Fishing Quest to Raise Skill above 225:

In order to increase your fishing skill cap you must venture to Dustwallow Marsh and get a fishing quest from Nat Pagle (directly west of the end dock at Theramore Isle, across the water). Once you get to Nat accept "Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme (you must be at least level 35 and have 225 fishing). You will have to fish for four different types of fish, once you are done return to Nat and you will now be able to skill up to 300.

Feralas Ahi: Verdantis River, located in central Feralas
Misty Reed Mahi Mahi: Misty Reed Stand, located in the coast of Swamp of Sorrows
Sar'theris Striker: Located in the coast of Desolace
Savage Coast Blue Sailfin: The Savage Coast, located in the north coast of Stranglethorn Vale, from just south of Grom'gol Base Camp and north along the coastline until the zone ends

After you have finished the fishing quest and have successfully increased your skill cap to 300 return to Darrowmere Lake and fish until you reach 300 and cook the fish you have until you reach 295 (the recipe will turn gray).

Fishing 300-350 and Cooking 295-325Fish Location Cooking Level to Reach Fishing Level to Reach
Raw Whitescale Salmon Lake Merldar, Eastern Plaguelands 325 350


For this part of the guide you are going to want as much +fishing as you can get to avoid "get aways". You won't be able to cast at all without the use of lures. If you find you are having a really hard time fishing here you can go back to Darrowmere Lake until your skill is up more, but you won't catch fish to cook for skill ups there. The recipe used in this part of the guide is the one that requires soothing spices so be sure to have them on you before you head out to fish and cook (the recipe will turn gray at 325).

Fishing 350-360 and Cooking 325-340Fish Location Cooking Level to Reach Fishing Level to Reach
Barbed Gill Trout Allerian Stronghold, Terokkar Forest or Stonebreaker Hold, Terokkar Forest 340 360


Make sure you stay in this area until 260 fishing, it will help to have your skill a bit higher for the next areas. If you can use a +100 lure or at the very least a +75 lure.

Fishing 360-370 and Cooking 340-360Fish Location Cooking Level to Reach Fishing Level to Reach
Figluster's Mudfish and Icefin Bluefish Lake Sunspring, Nagrand 360 370


Once again have you lures handy and fish here until you reach 370 fishing and 360 cooking. On a side note, it's perfectly fine if you want to fish here until 375, it might actually make the next part of the guide easier but you won't catch fish to level your cooking to 375 until the next part.

Fishing 370-375 and Cooking 360-375Fish Location Cooking Level to Reach Fishing Level to Reach
Furious Crawdad Blackwind Lake, Terokkar (if you have flying mount) or Lake Ere'Noru, Terokkar 375 375


Finally, your quest to level fishing and cooking up to 375 is almost complete. This part of the guide is a little more tricky than the rest since you will have to find pools of fish. You will need to either take your flying mount to Blackwind Lake or follow a very tricky path up to Lake Ere'Noru. Once you are at the lake look for circular pools of swirling water (this is the only place you will catch the furious crawdads) and once you find one cast and recast until your bobber lands in one of the swirling pools. Keep fishing in the pools until your cooking reaches 375, you can finish off your fishing any where to 375