WoW Fishing and Cooking Guide 1-375

his fishing and cooking guide will help you level all the way from 1-375. It will tell you where to fish, what to cook, where to buy recipes, and provide other useful tips. If you are low on gold check out this Gold Guide for the best ways to make lots of gold.

Fishing and cooking are secondary skills that don't take up your two profession spots. You don't have to do fishing and cooking together but it's a good idea because it's easy to level up one another together. If you plan on using cooking a lot it's a good idea to have fishing because a lot of the recipes you will probably want to use require fish derived from fishing. On the other hand, if you are fishing you might as well take on cooking to do something with all the fish you are catching.

If you want to train fishing and cooking then the first step is to go to a major city (or other location with trainers) and train "Apprentice Cook" and "Apprentice Fishing".

Sections:
Fishing Tips
Cooking Tips
What to Do Before you Start Guide
Fishing and Cooking 1-375
Fishing Tips

In order to reduce the number of "get aways" you need to use lures and +fishing items to temporarily raise your fishing skill so that you have a higher fishing level. "Get aways" are not only annoying but also a waste of time since only a successful catch will increase your fishing skill.

Lures: It's extremely important to use lures throughout this guide. In fact there are many spots in this guide (and even in game after you reach 375) that cannot be fished without the use of a lure. 

I recommend using the highest level lure that you can while you use this guide. Lures are commonly found at fishing supply vendors and other trade vendors. To use lures you simply right click one and left click your fishing pole to apply it. Below is a chart of lures.Lure Fishing Level Required +Fishing Amount Where to Find
Shiny Bauble 1 25 Fishing and Trade Supply Vendors
Nightcrawlers 50 50 Fishing and Trade Supply Vendors (also drops of certain undead mobs)
Bright Baubles 100 75 Fishing and Trade Supply Vendors (also found in barrels received as rewards from daily cooking quests)
Aquadynamic Fish Attractor 100 100 Sold in Limited Supply at Fishing and Trade Supply Vendors (also crafted by engineers)


+Fishing Gear: It's also a good idea to use any +fishing gear that you can while you are fishing; however, it's not a requirement. I recommend at least buying a "Strong Fishing Pole" which is equipable after you reach level 10 fishing skill and will increase you fishing by +5. This item is found at many fishing supply vendors.

Leveling: If you have never fished before you might find the following information useful. When you first start fishing you will skill up just about every single successful catch; however, the higher you skill up the more catches it will take to get a single skill up. By the end of the guide you need over ten successful catches just to gain one skill point.

How to Fish: To fish you must equip your fishing pole in your primary weapon spot and then click the "Fishing" button in your spellbook. You may pull the button over to one of your action bars to make it easier and of course you must cast into water.


Cooking Tips

Cooking is fairly simply and the only tip I have is to buy "Flint and Tinder" and a couple stacks of "Simple Wood" from a general goods vendor so that you can make campfires and cook your fish over the fires. This will eliminate the need for you to run into cities and towns to cook your fish. If you've never made a campfire don't worry, it's simple. Just have the "Flint and Tinder" and "Simple Wood" in your inventory and click the "Basic Campfire" button in your spellbook.



What to Do Before you Start the Guide

Clear Your Inventory: You'll need a lot of bag space to hold fish, recipes, skill books, lures, spices, and other items so it's really important to free up a lot of bag space before you head out.

Buy Supplies: Here is a list of items that will be needed or come in handy for this guide. Please keep in mind that the amounts are just estimates and you may need more or less of certain items.Item Amount What it's For Where to Buy
Shiny Bauble 5 To use as a lure from 1-50 Fishing Supply Vendor
Nightcrawlers 10 To use as a lure from 50-100 Fishing Supply Vendor
Bright Baubles 40 To use as a lure from 100 and up Fishing Supply Vendor
Aquadynamic Fish Attractor These are in limited supply on vendors so just buy what they have To use as a lure from 100 and up Fishing Supply Vendor
Fishing Pole 1 To fish with Fishing Supply Vendor
Strong Fishing Pole 1 To fish with after you reach fishing level 10 Fishing Supply Vendor
Soothing Spices 120 To make Baked Salmon Cooking Supply Vendor
Flint and Tinder 1 To make Campfires General Goods Vendor
Simple Wood 40 To make Campfires General Goods Vendor


Buy Recipes and Skillbooks: 

Here is a list of recipes and where you can buy them. Some recipes are sold by several vendors; however, I only listed the most practical ones for you to visit. Make sure you check the list to ensure that you are buying all the recipes that are available from a certain place. For example, there are several items that need to be bought in Booty Bay, make sure you buy them all before you leave.Item What it's For Where to Buy for Alliance Where to Buy for Horde
Recipe: Brilliant Smallfish Cooking Raw Brilliant Smallfish Tharynn Bouden-Goldshire, Elwynn Forest Sewa Mistrunner-Thunderbluff (center area)
Recipe: Longjaw Mud Snapper Cooking Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper Tharynn Bouden-Goldshire, Elwynn Forest Naal Mistrunner-Thunderbluff (center area)
Recipe: Bristle Whisker Catfish Cooking Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish Lindea Rabonne-Southshore, Hillsbrad Foothills (at docks) Naal Mistrunner-Thunderbluff (center area)
Recipe: Mithril Headed Trout Cooking Raw Mithril Head Trout Lindea Rabonne-Southshore, Hillsbrad Foothills (at docks) Kelsey Yance-Booty Bay, Stranglethorn Vale (in The Old Port Authority)
Recipe: Filet of Redgill Cooking Raw Redgill Kelsey Yance-Booty Bay, Stranglethorn Vale (in The Old Port Authority) Kelsey Yance-Booty Bay, Stranglethorn Vale (in The Old Port Authority)
Recipe: Poached Sunscale Salmon Cooking Raw Sunscale Salmon Gikkix-Steamwheedle Port, Tanaris (in a hut) Gikkix-Steamwheedle Port, Tanaris (in a hut)
Recipe: Baked Salmon Cooking Raw Whitescale Salmon Vivianna-Feathermoon Stronghold, Feralas (near innkeeper) Sheendra Tallgrass-Camp Mojache, Feralas (in building across from inn)
Recipe: Blackened Trout Cooking Barbed Gill Trout Doba-Orebor Harborage, Zangarmarsh (must be at least neutral with Kurenai) Gambarinka-Zabra'jin, Zangarmarsh
Recipe: Grilled Mudfish Cooking Figluster's Mudfish Uriku-Telaar, Nagrand (must be at least neutral with Kurenai) Nula the Butcher-Garadar, Nagrand (bottom floor of the building east of the flightmaster)
Recipe: Poached Bluefish Cooking Icefin Bluefish Uriku-Telaar, Nagrand (must be at least neutral with Kurenai) Nula the Butcher-Garadar, Nagrand (bottom floor of the building east of the flightmaster)
Recipe: Spicy Crawdad Cooking Furious Crawdad Innkeeper Biribi-Allerian Stronghold, Terokkar Forest (in the inn) Rungor-Stonebreaker Hold, Terokkar Forest
Master Fishing-The Art of Angling Allows skill to raise to 375 Juno Dufrain-Cenarion Refuge, Zangarmarsh (near lake) Juno Dufrain-Cenarion Refuge, Zangarmarsh (near lake)
Expert Fishing-The Bass and You Allows skill to raise to 225 Old Man Heming-Booty Bay, Stranglethorn Vale (near the ramp that goes into the water) Old Man Heming-Booty Bay, Stranglethorn Vale (near the ramp that goes into the water)
Expert Cookbook Allows skill to raise to 225 Shandrina-Silverwind Refuge, Ashenvale (southwest of Astranaar) Wulan-Shadowprey Village, Desolace
Master Cookbook Allows skill to raise to 375 Naka-Cenarion Refuge, Zangarmarsh Naka-Cenarion Refuge, Zangarmarsh