El's Extreme Anglin' - World of Warcraft Fishing Guide // Fish Finder // Coilfang Reservoir

This pages summarises the fish that can be caught in Coilfang Reservoir.

Coilfang Reservoir

Notes: Fish can be caught in The Underbog and Serpentshrine Cavern. Catches are the same as Zangarmarsh, with the exception of the "Strange Pool" in Serpentshrine Cavern. The Strange Pool is fished to summon The Lurker Below, one of the dungeon's bosses.

Skill Required: 305 to cast, 400 to stop fish getting away.

Related Achievement: The Lurker Above: Fish up the Lurker Below in Serpentshrine Cavern. The Lurker Below is a boss found in the Strange Pool. You do not need to kill the boss, just catch it. Serpentshrine Cavern is intended to 25 people at level 70. This will be challenging to complete alone - some strategies can be found here, and in this discussion. This excellent video shows how to reach the Lurker alone (thanks Zemalf).

The catch rate is the approximate proportion of all catches from the water/pool type that are the named fish.

Other Tomes

• WoWWiki (recommended for travel and background information)

Learn More

• Pools and Wreckage - This chapter will help you fish among schools and floating debris.
• The Burning Crusade - Fishing changes in the first expansion.
• Fishing Achievements - Introduction to fishing-related personal achievements.

Comments

These remarks have been written about this subject by El's readers in the forums. Hopefully you will find them useful.

Topic: Soloing the Lurker

1. By Spleen, on 12 September 2008:

   First, i hope no one has posted this strategy yet. I checked around and didn't see anything like it.

   I was able to "solo" the Lurker Achievement on the beta servers. It's not all that hard, it just takes some planning. Here's what you need:

   Minimum:
   A way to walk on water
   A way to avoid falling damage (slow fall, pally bubble, blink, etc.)
   300(?) fishing skill

   Method 1:
   4-9 other players (not sure exactly)

   Method 2:
   1 other player
   some way to kill yourself

   The first obstacle is getting past the waterfall entrance. In method 1, the waterfall entrance opens up the way it normally would, by having a minimum number of raid members, which is either a total of 5 or 10 (I forget which).

   In method 2, you only need one other player. Invite this person into a raid group, and they're part is done as long as they don't leave the group; they can go and continue to do whatever they want. Now go up to the waterfall and kill yourself. When you run back as a ghost, you will be able to run through the waterfall. Resurrect on the other side, and go in.

   One other method is to have another raid group open up the waterfall for you, but you still need at least one other person in order to form a raid group and enter.

   Once inside, however you did it, go to the ledge between the second elevator and before the first pull. Activate your water walking. Now jump off the ledge and fall to the water. Activate your method for avoiding fall damage. Now you can walk all the way to the Lurker's pool without any of those nasty fish getting in your way!

   Lastly, be sure to remove any gear that you want to avoid taking durability damage. The achievement only requires you to fish him up, but he will instantly aggro you once you do so and very likely kill you.

   http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f165/spleenseer/WoWScrnShot_091208_145320.jpg

   You're now one achievement closer to the Salty title!

2. By Verissi, on 13 September 2008:

   *smacks forehead* I totally forgot about the minimum raid size. Great tips! I'll be doing this very soon :-)

3. By Gummo, on 13 September 2008:

   Good to know this fishing achievement is soloable without killing anything. My pacifist rogue should be able to do it (and thanks for the minimum raid size and how to get around it; I couldn't get in before, and now I know why). I should be able to stealth there and fish.

4. By Swoosh, on 26 September 2008:

   Is this achievement retroactive? I'm not in the beta group.

5. By Cozmic, on 26 September 2008:

   I Solo'd the Lurker a few days ago, it was very easy. I bought the Slow Fall cape from Skyguard rep and used a Water Walking potion from the Fishing daily quests.

   I'm not sure if they changed the minimum raid outside of the instance but I was the only one there with one person in my raid group doing there own thing somewhere else.

   Happy Catch'n

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