El's Extreme Anglin' - World of Warcraft Fishing Guide // Fish Finder // Dire Maul

This pages summarises the fish that can be caught in Dire Maul.

Dire Maul

• Open Water Skill: 425 to fish open water without junk. Pools can be fished effectively with skill 1.
• Notes: Fish can be caught in the Hydraspawn pool in the Warpwood Quarter. No-junk skill not confirmed. Thanks Moonraker.
• History: 4.0.3: First catch reported (but Dire Maul might have contained fish before the Cataclysm).

Comments about Dire Maul

Below are readers' comments about "Dire Maul":

Scholomance

1. Moth, December 2010:

   Just tried to fish for Bloated Salmon but it seems that something changed in the zone, since I only could get the usual Western Plaguelands catch (Raw Mithril Head Trout, etc.) in the water around scholomance. Could it be that the zone Scholomance doesn't exist anymore in fishing terms?

2. el, December 2010:

   The entry for Scholomance refers to water inside the dungeon itself. Pre-Cataclysm there was a small area of water around one of the bosses that could be fished (I forget which, probably one of the final bosses). This dungeon (along with Stratholme and Molten Core) hasn't been re-checked yet, but all the other dungeons I checked had no changes to their fish catch, even where the waters around the outside of dungeon had changed. If anyone wants to check these unchecked locations, it would be appreciated.

3. Ashnagarr, December 2010:

   Yeah, its still possible after patch 4.0.3a to fish in the rooms of two bosses (end of the instance, go down the stairs and head right to the "Ravenier"-room or go straigt to the room of one of the Barovs, there are pools of water in both rooms where you can fish in).

   However, it seems that the "Plated Armorfish" can't be catched there anymore (or I just had really bad luck).

   I catched the following today while trying to get the "Plated Armorfish":
   26x Raw Redgill
   1x 18 Pound Salmon
   3x Major Healing Potion
   12x Lightning Eel
   77x Raw Whitescale Salmon
   63x Raw Sunscale Salmon

   172 catches and no Plated Armorfish, although its chance is somewhere between 5% and 35%

1. Druidmoon, December 2010:

   Ashnagarr wrote:

   However, it seems that the "Plated Armorfish" can't be catched there anymore (or I just had really bad luck).
   I catched the following today while trying to get the "Plated Armorfish":
   26x Raw Redgill
   1x 18 Pound Salmon
   3x Major Healing Potion
   12x Lightning Eel
   77x Raw Whitescale Salmon
   63x Raw Sunscale Salmon
   172 catches and no Plated Armorfish, although its chance is somewhere between 5% and 35%

   What time were you fishing just to be sure?

   Highest catch rate 00:00-06:00. Rarely caught 12:00-18:00.

2. Druidmoon, December 2010:

   el wrote:

   This dungeon (along with Stratholme and Molten Core) hasn't been re-checked yet, but all the other dungeons I checked had no changes to their fish catch, even where the waters around the outside of dungeon had changed. If anyone wants to check these unchecked locations, it would be appreciated.

   Went to check this evening;

   Location: The Molten Core
   Type: Lava
   Fishing Skill: 485
   Total Casts: 200

   Old Skull (junk) 121 - 60.5%
   Coal 74 - 37.0%
   Essence of Fire 5 - 2.5%

   So no change here. Off to check Stratholme.

3. el, December 2010:

   Thanks for all the checks and data.

   I'm surprised about the Plated Armorfish. When I last looked at this there was a small (~5%) chance of a catch between 12:00-18:00. However that was a few years ago - nobody was bothered about catching the fish until just recently - so it might have changed, or you may have been unlucky. You should have no trouble catching it at other times.

4. Druidmoon, December 2010:

   Location: Stratholme - The Gauntlet, Ziggurat of Baroness Anastari
   Type: Green Pool
   Fishing Skill: 493
   Total Casts: 225
   Server Time: 22:00 - 23:15

   90 Whitescale Salmon - 40.0%
   32 Ligntning Eel - 14.2%
   32 Nightfin Snapper - 14.2%
   31 Plated Armorfish - 13.8%
   27 Sunscale Salmon - 12.0%
   8 Redgill - 3.6%
   3 Superior Mana Potion - 1.3%
   2 Major Healing Potion - 0.9%

   Much as expected.

5. Druidmoon, December 2010:

   Location: Dire Maul - Warpwood Quarter, Hydraspawn Pool
   Type: Hydraspawn Pool
   Fishing Skill: 485
   Server Time: 23:15 - 00:00
   Total Casts: 100

   44 Whitescale Salmon - 44.0%
   16 Sunscale Salmon - 16.0%
   15 Nightfin Snapper - 15.0%
   13 Plated Armorfish - 13.0%
   6 Redgill - 6.0%
   5 Ligntning Eel - 5.0%
   1 Superior Mana Potion - 1.0%

   Did not see any other data for Dire Maul to compare. Same catches as Stratholme/ Scholomance.

6. Druidmoon, December 2010:

   Location: Scholomance - Vault of the Ravenian
   Type: Pool of water
   Fishing Skill: 493
   Server Time: 23:15 - 01:10
   Total Casts: 326

   121 Whitescale Salmon - 37.1%
   92 Nightfin Snapper - 28.2%
   83 Plated Armorfish - 25.5%
   21 Redgill - 6.4%
   5 Ligntning Eel - 1.5%
   2 Sunscale Salmon - 0.6%
   1 Elegant Circlet of the Owl 0.3%
   1 15 Pound Salmon 0.3%

   Notes: Caught 7 Plated Armorfish before 00:00.

7. el, December 2010:

   Great work Moonraker. I wonder when fish started appearing in Dire Maul?

8. Druidmoon, December 2010:

   el wrote:

   Great work Moonraker. I wonder when fish started appearing in Dire Maul?

   No idea I'm afraid. I was visiting the new sub-zone of The Steam Pools and decided to just pop in and try the pool as I was passing. No sure what other fishable parts there may be.

   As a word of advice the Crescent Key is no longer in your key bag but the Dire Maul East back door still requires it. In fact you can get out using the torch on the wall (not obvious) and you can't enter in that way as it requires the key , which you don't have and I killed Pusillin twice to try and get it. It was in loot window but did not go to key bag. I think it is either removed for some reason or a bug. Just a pain.

9. plinky, May 2011:

   You can still catch the Plated Armorfish in Scholomance in the Barov Family Crypt at the end of the instance. I guess I was lucky because I hooked it in less than 10 casts.

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