This page summarises how to catch Baby Crocolisk. For a more detailed guide, see Outland Daily Fishing Quests.
About Baby Crocolisk
- Quest fish (cannot be caught while in a raid group).
Catching Baby Crocolisk
Commentary: Can be caught from any part of Stormwind City, including water around the Valley of Heroes and the Moonwell in the Park. Ironforge is not listed in the quest description - for more evidence, see this discussion.
Detailed Guide: Outland Daily Fishing Quests - Walkthrough for all the level 70 daily fishing quests, with rewards.
Quest: Crocolisks in the City from Old Man Barlo, near Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest. This is one of several possible daily fishing quests from Old Man Barlo. The fish can only be caught with this quest.
Related Achievement: Old Man Barlowned: Complete each of Old Man Barlo's 5 Outland Daily Fishing Quests. For a full walkthrough, read Outland Daily Fishing Quests.
History: 2.4: Baby Crocolisk first caught.
| Water | No-junk skill | Areas | Catch Rate * | Commonly caught fish | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % of Catch | Source | |||||
| Open Water - Inland | 75 | Quest only. | ||||
- [*] % of Catch is the approximate proportion of all catches in this area/water, that are the named fish.
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Learn More
- Fishing Achievements - Introduction to fishing-related personal achievements.
- 2.4 Changes - Patch 2.4's changes to fishing, including daily quests and Isle of Quel'Danas.
- Outland Daily Fishing Quests - Walkthrough for all the level 70 daily fishing quests, with rewards.
Below are anglers' comments about Baby Crocolisk.
Crocolisks ... has anyone completed the set?
Leonie, March 2009:
I don't think I have missed the Crocs in the City quest perhaps more than once or twice since it was added to the game, but I am having rotten luck getting all 4 beasties. I've had Toothy twice and Muckbreath once on my main, and Muckbreath again on an alt.
Has anyone managed to get all four? Do you get many duplicates? (Deleting that second Toothy felt so awful ...)
setsuko, March 2009:
2 muckbreaths on the same char. during TBC. Nothing since Wrath and I do the dailies on 2 characters :|
llie, March 2009:
I got Muckbreath and Toothy one right after the other when the dailies first came out. Haven't gotten any since and I have also only missed it probably once or twice. It seems to me from what I see and read that Muckbreath and Toothy are the most common out of the four.
Faela, March 2009:
I've only missed a handful since they came out and the only croc I have is Snarly... but I've got him twice. My boyfriend started doing them way after me and he has Toothy and Chuck, and got a duplicate Toothy as well. Duplicates are even worse than getting nothing >_<
NiceBloke, March 2009:
I haven't been as constant with the fishing dailies since Wrath came out - but I try to head over when I hear its a "Crocs Day"
I have 3 out of the 4 with Mucky still to be found. Never had a duplicate.
Surely somebody here must have all 4
GormanGhaste, March 2009:
I've missed very few, and I have Chuck and Toothy, with no duplicates.
Bonamassa, March 2009:
i have snarly and toothy, snarly is from tbc, toothy i got during wotlk... dont do the dailies everyday anymore, just once or twice a week. soo busy fishing for coins now and fishing for the fishfeast.
i also had tyo delete a snarly one, and it hurts ;(
Sugar, March 2009:
I actually managed to catch all four before wrath came out with no duplicates. Guess I got lucky with it, I don't know anyone else with all of them. ^^
Nemari, March 2009:
My hunter Nemrodia has all 4 of them. My paladin Meigra got her third crocodile monday evening. But my main character, Nemari, has only one, which she got more than once :(.
Nearly every day I go to Shattrath to check the fishing daily.
Petre, March 2009:
This thread is too depressing. I wish I could delete it out of the RSS feed >.<
/shakefist@Barlozdirnats, March 2009:
Petre wrote:
This thread is too depressing. I wish I could delete it out of the RSS feed >.<
/shakefist@BarloI can confirm that I have exactly 0 crocolisk pets, nada, not one, none.....
I can confirm I have done dailies since before WOTLK every day.
I can confirm that Old Man Barlo loves my fishing ability, but doesn't like me.
I can confirm that the old codger is going to get rapped on the head with a very large and mean fishing pole if he doesn't start coughing up a pet soon.
I can confirm that .................. nuf saidSpleen, March 2009:
I too have the complete set. Chuck was my first, then Snarly, then Muckbreath. All three were before Wrath. I finally received Toothy sometimes after hitting 80. Now if only I were so lucky with One That Didn't get Away, then I'd have Salty.
Kiingy, March 2009:
zdirnats wrote:
Petre wrote:
This thread is too depressing. I wish I could delete it out of the RSS feed >.<
/shakefist@BarloI can confirm that I have exactly 0 crocolisk pets, nada, not one, none.....
I can confirm I have done dailies since before WOTLK every day.
I can confirm that Old Man Barlo loves my fishing ability, but doesn't like me.
I can confirm that the old codger is going to get rapped on the head with a very large and mean fishing pole if he doesn't start coughing up a pet soon.
I can confirm that .................. nuf saidUgh... same story here mate : /
RNG is against us ...Azaguth, March 2009:
ditto.
Except for the "since before WOTLK". More like "since 2 weeks after WOTLK release", which was about when I hit 70.Wotcherscamp, March 2009:
I got Chuck on my very first fishing daily. I got Snarly about a month later on the same day that I got the Turtle Polymorph book. I then managed to get FOUR Muckbreaths from the SAME bag...when I tried looting it, it wouldn't work so I contacted a GM. Sadly, he told me that it was a glitch and replaced my bag with a non-glitched bag. What really sucked is that I didn't get a single Muckbreath. Since then I've been working really hard to get the other two (they're so adorable).
nebalee, March 2009:
Got Toothy and Muckbreath in the first week on two successive days after the quests were added. Nothing since then :-/
Speedsteel, March 2009:
Toothy and Muckbreath here. I've missed quite a few dailies since they came out, and I only got them both recently.
Thay, March 2009:
I've only gotten 2 chuck's. :(
I'm half hoping they add them to on of the Northrend dailies, or at least make it do you can get them from any of the Lv70 dailies, as I have seen the Crock daily only about 2-3 times in the last month. :(madmuddi, March 2009:
Got Muckbreath this week. Seems a long time since i got Snarly and Chuck.
Just Toothy to go i guess?
Qyn, March 2009:
I've done every croc daily since they put the dailies in the game and haven't received a single croc yet on my main (Qyn). However I have an alt shaman who started out at 1 fishing and only ever did the croc daily and now is 3/4 crocs. It's pretty frustrating since Qyn is also my pet collector (currently sitting at 79 pets).
increased drop rate for croc minipets?
GormanGhaste, August 2009:
On warcraftpets.com, the news section suggests an undocumented 3.2 change is an increased drop rate of the croc minipets. Has anyone had better luck?
Leny, August 2009:
I saw a comment on warcraftpets.com that said "I just got toothy and the person in front of me just got muckbreath"
Sjiulk, August 2009:
Indeed, I've had 100% drop rates for these pets. Crocs in the City has been the daily for three days in a row; on my druid I got a Chuck and 2 Snarlies, and a Toothy on my shaman. Being honest, it kind of takes the fun out of it. :( But I guess Blizz wants people to get the pet achievements.
KHSebastian, August 2009:
Yeah, I got a Chuck yesterday. So did my friend, and another friend got a Snarly.
nonameform, August 2009:
Got Muckbreath 2 minutes ago.
GormanGhaste, August 2009:
Takes the fun out of it? I've been doing the croc quest every time it's come up since 2.4 came out. Pretty sure I've wrung all the Fun out of it already. I'll just be relieved to not have to use the shatt portal every day, once I get the last 2 crocs on my main.
Gladlyn, August 2009:
I have done it every time it has come up on 3 toons since it started. I have gotten 4 buckets, 3 of which were the same one on the same toon. I think the drop rate always stunk.
Gladlyn
KHSebastian, August 2009:
Yes it takes the fun out of it.... I wanted the bucket pets because they were unique. The entire server wasn't running around with Bucket pets. I wanted to be one of the few to get them all... But no, now everyone and their mother will have all of them...
GormanGhaste, August 2009:
well I would hope their mother will have all of them--how would you feel if you were missing some of your babies? :) I can tell you my hunter pet, Krikey, is pretty upset!
Gladlyn, August 2009:
I disagree, as many times as I have done it I believe I should have been able to get more than one bucket each on 2 toons. I have put in the time and I should have gotten the drop.
Glad
Usagija, August 2009:
I hope this is true! For 2 weeks the dailies have been shrimpin and felblood fillet primarily, with the other non-crocolisk daily thrown in occasionally. Not a single crocolisk in the city and i've been dying for ANY baby crocolisk pet!
Huenninjarin, August 2009:
The croc pets have not been a 100% drop for me since 3.2. The daily has come up twice since then. My warrior and hunter, who both had 3/4 pets before the patch, have not gotten another croc from the reward bag. However my priest and mage who had never gotten a croc both got one from each daily.
Edit: Druid got a second (soulbound of course) Toothy bucket, no croc for hunter. So the drop rate has been increased substantially anyway.
GormanGhaste, August 2009:
Consolidated post-3.2 data for me and my spouse:
attempts: 10
baby crocs: 5
non-duplicate crocs: 29 Aug: alt got new pet (now have all 4 crocs btwn both my toons), spouse got a duplicate pet and a new one
10 Aug: duplicate pet
18 Aug: no pet
21 Aug: duplicate pet
31 Aug: no pet
5 Sep: no pet, spouse no petCromllem, August 2009:
I'm having problems with that daily, I never seem to get it, altough I've been doing the fishing dailies since begin july.
Renetta, August 2009:
Glad they did it. I hope they will nerf the turtle/crawler too eventually. It's harsh to see people running around having done less than a quarter of my catches and have both and for all I know I may well be trying without luck until they nerf things down to something sane.
Or if they finally implement the progressive luck algorithm for rare fish drops as well... that'd work too.
I had Chuck for a long while but no other croc yet. Still waiting for the daily to pop here.
Suzi, August 2009:
I've been doing this quest on my main since it was first implemented and I got my first Croc pet (Snarly) after the patch. Another friend got his first Croc pet (Toothy) and someone else tried to his first but it wasn't his lucky day.
I'm sorry for everyone who feels that an increased droprate takes the fun out of it but as a pet collector it really made my day to finally get one.
Thalen, August 2009:
Got one on both my toons today (first time it's come up since patch day). Another fisher in my guild got it on 3 of his 4, so it doesn't appear to be 100%, but still very high.
I don't mind the upped drop rate, since the quest is so random. Sometimes you go weeks without seeing the thing, and then a very small chance at the pet makes it annoying.
Rayak, August 2009:
I love that everyone can get one now! I don't feel the need to be special and have pets that everyone else doesn't have. Yes, I want *all* the pets out there, but I don't really care if everyone else ALSO has *all* of the pets out there. Doesn't bother me in the least. :D
Usagija, August 2009:
I was a little disappointed at how easy it was to get. I have gone back to fishing (after hiatus of despair) for 3 weeks and the Crocolisks in the City daily hasn't shown up until today, and I won Toothy. Too easy!
Leieia, August 2009:
Chiming in to say the drop rate was 100% for my fishing partner and me. He got Toothy; I got Muckbreath.
Baby Crocolisk Daily - Not restricted to SW
Cornuthaum, April 2008:
It is apparently possible to catch the Baby Crocolisk from The Forlorn Cavern in Ironforge.
I was bored (4am and I couldn't sleep), so I decided to go level the fishing skill of my Hunter some more (who, through luck and divine providence had gotten my 2nd Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat from the Crocolisk daily quest a week before).
To my surprise, the first catch I made in the Forlorn Cavern turned out to be the baby crocolisk, me not being aware that I had actually accepted the quest two days ago with my Hunter (but forgot to do it, thanks to frustration overwhelming me).
However, I am aware of the old adage 'Screen or it didn't happen!'.
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/641/ifcrocoliskfullxy7.jpg - full screenshot, interface, timestamp and whatnot
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/8402/ifcrocolisksmallur8.jpg - just the chatlog.
Question: The question is whether all racial capitols are viable places to go croc'ing to (provided, of course, that they have fisheable plots of water) or not.
I apologize beforehands should this information have come up earlier, but alas, it's 04.41 and I think my brain is currently oozing out of my left ear.
edit: As luck would have it, the daily quest reset brought about another round of Baby Crocolisk anglin', and since I follow the school of 'I do it because I can', I went and tested if I could catch it from Ironforge once more.
And yes, I could
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/1648/wowscrnshot041508045954kw6.jpg - Same location, same fishing pole (Seth's Graphite Fishing Pole, no fishing line, fishing hat bait), different fishing skill (375 as opposed to 240-ish)
el, April 2008:
That's new to me. Thank you.
The question of whether it can be found in other capitals is indeed an important one. And if it can be found in all capitals (at least those with fishable water), where else does it appear?
Calabar, April 2008:
I got the Crocs in the City quest today, so I decided to test this out. I grabbed the quest with my druid and headed over to Darnassus. He still needs some fishing skill, so I figured this was a good chance for him to get in some practice.
Shadowfang pulled in 75 successful catches within Darnassus without a baby croc showing its sharp little teeth. I then headed over to Stormwind and caught my baby croc on the third cast. So whatever this glitch is, Darnassus does not seem to be a part of it.
Balazar, April 2008:
I'm not quite sure I'd count it out just yet - I've gone more than 150 catches in Stormwind before pulling the croc.
Gwydaine, April 2008:
Well I have 2 375 fishing nuts and did the quests on both one morning. then I thought I would try something. I got on my 70 Pally with fishing skill of only 157 got the quest and went to SW. I was surprised I could complete it on him as well. Of course this got me me started and now I have 2 fishing fools at 375 and one at 353 and getting closer to max
Woolwort, May 2008:
I got the same this past week. The best part of this is that not everyone knows it. The canals in SW are packed when this mission is available. The cave in IF is usually deserted.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v498/jedi550/croc.jpg
Tsathoggua, June 2008:
Next time this is the daily and I get the chance to do it, I'll head to the Undercity to see if it is possible there. Will let you know. If it IS possible in Undercity, I'll give Thunder Bluff a try as well. Will aim to not give up before 200 casts, each location.
EDIT: Tried the Undercity [the least likely Horde city, since it has a few "exclusive" fishing catches, plus is not on the same continent as Orgrimmar]. Two hunred catches, a stack of sickly fish, three "old teamster's skulls," and no croc. Next will try Thunder Bluff [same continent, no "exclusive" catches].
EDIT again: Thunder Bluff, 200 casts, again no croc. Then headed to Orgrimmar and caught it on the second cast [grins]. So far, it looks unlikely that the Horde can fish it up in multiple capitals, unlike the Alliance.
ThunderfistCor, September 2008:
Out of curiosity, I fished in the little pool right outside the Mystic Ward...sure enough, 4 or 5 casts in, I had a Baby Crocolisk on the line.
http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/5309/wowscrnshot090508164830hg5.jpgwyrmsmom, November 2008:
Just got to 70 and am enjoying flight around the outlands. I got this quest today and, having read this, went and threw in a line in the wading pool in the mystic ward in IF, where I tend to hang out. Much to my surprise, I got one on my first cast. This was great for me since I still tend to get lost in Stormwind, being a dwarfish person. :)
Cozmic, November 2008:
I thought I had read something a few weeks back about this so I tried the daily in IF. First catch I got the baby crocolisk.
Vicromano, November 2008:
Yesterday was the Croc fishing quest on Kilrogg, I went right to IF and the very first cast was the baby crocolisk. ;o)
Tezuix, November 2008:
since patch 2.4.3 i think i was they made it so the daily fishing fish (except shrimps) were caught first catch and every catch if not looted
so next time the quest comes up i will test all the capital cities (other than IF SW and org) (horde and allience)
Increase in Baby Crocolisk drop?
timbo666, June 2009:
I have been doing the Shattrath fishing daily Crocolisks in the City for quite a while, only because I'm a pet collector. I've gotten the silver fishing line, but I never got any pets. Now for the last 3 times the fishing daily was Crocs in the City I got a different croc pet! Am I the only one to have received 3 pets in a row?? This just struck me as very odd.. I've done it so many times and nothing and now 3 times in a row? Does anyone know of any news that they increased the drop chance on them, or that after doing it for so many times you just get the pets, or what? I've heard through the grapevine that the chance on the turtle mount has been increased, but I've heard no such thing about the daily pets. (Btw, I have not received the Strand Crawler yet in Dal, which is also a part of my daily routine)
I find it hard to believe that this is random. Please share your knowledge, any comments welcome!
Keirelle, June 2009:
I read somewhere (can't remember where though) that the drop rate might be increased. However, I have been doing the fishing dailies every day for weeks and it's been a very long time since shadowsong has even had the crocs quest, and I still have yet to get even a single croc. :(
el, June 2009:
Back on 9 April, Bornakk said they, "would like to change it [the croc' drop rate] in the future, there is just no ETA."
Renetta, June 2009:
I'm not sure about this. I certainly hadn't gotten any recently, also not today.
mikado, June 2009:
Not experiencing any increase in drop rates. This quest has popped up about 14 times in the last three months on my server and I have not seen a bucket on either of my two characters who do the daily.
Kamaria, June 2009:
They may have, I just got Snarly this morning.
KHSebastian, June 2009:
I hope so... I've done Crocs in the City every chance I get for the last year, since I hit 70... Still no pet. Only things I've yet to get from Fishing, are the minipets from the dailies, and the Turtle, which I'm working on.
LinkyKeram, July 2009:
I wish i could confirm this, but sadly i can not.. Ive ben doing the "Crocolisk in the city" every day ive ben able to log on and posibly check it, and done it at around 5-6 times the last month.
No crocolisk drop, and mostly just junk. Unless blizzard have actually posted it on a patch (or upcoming ones) i doubt its increased.purus, July 2009:
I just read a comment on Wowhead claiming to have got a croc pet from one of the other outland fishing dailies. Can anyone confirm this? I'm going to assume it's bs for now.
Thalen, July 2009:
It may be true, but I'm with you on the BS assumption. Wowhead doesn't show the pet dropping from the other bag, so unless there's been a VERY recent change, or no one is using their client much any more, I'd have to assume the poster was mistaken.
nonameform, July 2009:
So far I got just one croc from the fishing bag and I must say I haven't seen that daily on my server for about two weeks in a row already. Interesting thing: the day I got my first and only croc, the guildie of mine got his first croc too, so I thought that there was an increase in drop rate or the bag was somewhat bugged. Next day I did the same daily, but there was no croc, so it seems drop rate still remains the same and we both just got lucky.
Baby Crocolisk
lacota, October 2008:
I was just fishing for old Ironjaw in IF. I had the quest, lo and behold, my first catch! I get the baby crocolisk.
anyone else seen this?
el, October 2008:
The Baby Crocolisk has always been caught in Ironforge. The "first catch" for daily quest fish was introduced in patch 3.0.2, and seems to be the case for all the single-fish daily quests.
Mysidia, October 2008:
that stupid baby croc and mr. pinchy i will never get them /sigh
Alaylith, November 2008:
el wrote:
The Baby Crocolisk has always been caught in Ironforge.
Huh, what? oO You get the crocolisk in IF, too?
In the quest it says the crocs are in the canals of SW and I always was in SW for that. O_OAnd the first catch I noticed as well, thought I was lucky the first two times. ^^
Utopia, November 2008:
Alaylith wrote:
el wrote:
The Baby Crocolisk has always been caught in Ironforge.
Huh, what? oO You get the crocolisk in IF, too?
In the quest it says the crocs are in the canals of SW and I always was in SW for that. O_O
And the first catch I noticed as well, thought I was lucky the first two times. ^^I always thought it was just in SW too Oo
Next time I get the q,I will head to IF then; maybe i can get Old Ironjaw while I'm there :)
Baby Crocolisk daily in other cities
emma, April 2008:
A while back I read a thread here about the possibility of catching the Baby Crocolisk quest item in cities that aren't specified in the quest log (like Stormwind). I just thought I'd mention that I did 50 casts in Undercity today without getting the item (I did have the quest). It's not definitive of course, but I've never had to go more than 30 casts to get it in Orgrimmar. I'll give it another go next time it's the daily, or maybe try Thunder Bluff.
Tsathoggua, June 2008:
emma wrote:
I just thought I'd mention that I did 50 casts in Undercity today without getting the item
http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/baby-crocolisk-daily-not-restricted-to-sw#post-984
Did a 200 cast test of each Undercity and Thunder Bluff, and came up empty. Well, I did catch three "Old Teamster's Skull"s, so not exactly empty, but no crocs. Second cast in Orgrimmar, on the other hand [although I have had one 32 cast capture of the croc in Orgrimmar].Kahless, June 2008:
IIRC it was only Ironforge that was reported as also having the Croc.
Someone tried it in Darnasus and never caught one there either.It doesn't make sense to me that Org would be the croc city for Horde. It should be Undercity.
Orgrimmar is analogous to Ironforge.
Undercity is analogous to Stormwind and has the sewers and canals to make it believable.Tsathoggua, June 2008:
I realize that only Ironforge was reported as confirmed, however considering the usual Alliance/Horde player character ratio, I thought it to be worthwhile to see if similar was true Horde-side.
We cannot know unless we look.
Croc no longer found in Ironforge?
Purplepenquin, July 2008:
Has anyone caught the croc in Ironforge lately? I was able to do it all the time before, but the last couple days it hasn't been happening. I get an action like a "getaway", but with no message.
Is it just random numbers being random or has this lil' glitch been fixed?
el, July 2008:
I caught the Baby Crocolisk a few days ago in Ironforge, so it is still possible.
Balazar, July 2008:
I have yet to try it in IronForge, I must admit I tend to always go for Stormwind.
But I get my first Croc pet as a reward the other night!
Purplepenquin, August 2008:
Due to your feedback, I kept trying. It was still acting the same way I described for the first couple attempts, but then one day it behaved normally and ever since I've been able to again catch the croc in Ironforge. Which resulted in me getting an Old Ironjaw as well :)
Fishing in WotLK
nonameform, July 2009:
Looking back at how fishing skill had serious impact on your chance to catch something, I question why Blizzard has included BoP one hour lures that grant you +100 skill (Glow Worm). Sure they might be very useful for leveling your fishing, but when you're at 450 skill you might as well want to vendor them. At least I did so with some of my lures, but then I decided to save them, in case Blizzard makes them normal lures some time in the future and I will be able to sell them at AH/transfer them to my alts.
In vanilla WoW days you had to have maximum fishing skill and had to use best fishing gear and lures available, so you could fish in Bay of Storms for money. In TBC you had to be well geared too to be able to catch fishes in Terokkar's lakes. Now in WotLK you need a maximum skill and a 75 lure to be able to catch all fishes you need for Fish Feast. Zones that require you to have more than 525 skill don't actually provide better fishes. How many of you actually made more than one Gigantic Feast?
I only need to win STV Extravaganza now for my title (got as close as 39 fishes so far) and I'm wondering what I will do after that. Sure it might be fun for some people to win the contest twice for both the trinket and the pole, but I don't feel like doing it twice and making it harder for other people to get the title. Compared to the Undying title I have, Salty requires much more work and patience, as losing the contest several weeks in a row when you thought that you are about to win it, is really sad. Well, at least I can spend the rest of the contest time to fish for money and possible rare catches (got only one High Test Eternium Fishing Line so far, so saving it for an Arcanite Fishing Pole I hope to win someday).
Overall fishing in WotLK seems uninteresting. Yes, I can make money by selling Fish Feast, as I have about 1k+ Northern Spices on my main char, but I want some excitement from the profession. I got all possible achievements, except for the one mentioned above and I want more. Maybe some really hard stuff like catching all those fishes, that got away. That would keep me busy for some time or catching 100k fishes, which isn't hard, but sure takes more time to get, than 1k for the title. I still have to see fishing rings and some of the rarer TBC fishing drops, such as crocs (make it an achievement too, come on), but all in all every time I think about fishing in WotLK, I get excited and then in a second I tell myself "Wait, there is nothing interesting to do actually."
I'm not an angler, just a fisherman, a sissy by someone's standards as I didn't bother to level my fishing skill to maximum until WotLK arrived, but after that it became a way to pass time in game without mindless killing or farming reputation or whatever.
nonameform, August 2009:
I wonder what makes people fish in a school that's already being fished from? In the last few months I've met several people who preferred to fish from "my" school while there were other schools around. While I do understand that sort of behavior during Extravaganza (only before winner is announced), I don't understand what makes people think that it's OK to share a school with someone. If I see someone fishing in a school, I just leave it to them and move to the next one. If there are no schools, I just wait for a new spawn and go to it.
For me fishing from "someone's" school is as disgraceful as collecting herb/ore while someone fights a mob near it. I've even seen people from my own faction doing that sort of things to me, which is a real shame. I think of them as of spoiled kids, who just believe that everything belongs to them and that it's OK to make other people do half of the job for you. I bet they belong to the same group of people who never tips.
Today while farming mats for 60 fish feasts for my guild, I've met three people who just couldn't resist the urge to fish from the same schools as I did, even though there were schools 10-15 yards away from it. With all those new people getting into the fishing, I certainly find it less enjoyable to fish with every passing day. Even though my Badapples list consists mostly of people who ninja loot, play their class poorly or just plain stupid people, it grows longer because I've started adding people who didn't tip or did something disgraceful in my opinion. I just wish Blizzard never bothered to make any changes to fishing at all. Compared to TBC, I see people fishing much more now, which actually makes it less exciting for me. Might as well just go to fish in Azeroth for all the rare fishes, just to be less annoyed of how crowded some pools are.
Hordriss, August 2009:
Sad to say, I agree with the above poster - I'm also pretty much giving up on fishing in Northrend due to the sheer number of 'fishing griefers' (standing/mounting on bobbers, fishing from 'claimed' schools, etc.). I appreciate that Blizz want more people to fish, but for me, they're taken most of the fun out of it. And as for the ever-present gankers and gangs on mammoths at the Extravaganza... that's the only achievement missing from my title but even that isn't enough to motivate me to go back there.
Crockolisk quest - Mystic Pool in Ironforge.
wyrmsmom, May 2009:
As of today, there appears to be no productive fishing in the Mystic Pool in Ironforge. I've caught many a crockolisk here - even got one that got me a pet (Toothy) - but today I had to fish in the Forlorn Cavern to catch anything. There seem to be no fish available in the Mystic Pool at this time.
Delauney, May 2009:
I noticed a few days back that I couldn't fish from that pool anymore. Sort of a shame, as I rather enjoyed people watching while fishing.
