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This page summarises how to catch Mr. Pinchy. For a more detailed guide, see Catching Furious Crawdad and Mr. Pinchy.

Mr. Pinchy

About Mr. Pinchy

Usage: Mr. Pinchy can be used three times, with a 2 day "cooldown" between uses. Known results of using Mr. Pinchy are one of:

  • Benevolent Mr. Pinchy: Summons a non-elite guardian which assists you in battle. 10 minute duration.
  • Gift box with 5 Super Healing Potions and 5 Super Mana Potions.
  • Magical Crawdad Box containing a Magical Crawdad non-combat pet.
  • Mr. Pinchy's Blessing: Health increased by 500. This effect persists through death and is considered a flask. 2 hour duration.
  • Furious Mr. Pinchy: Non-elite attacks you and your party. Corpse cannot be looted.

Vendor Value: 20s.

Catching Mr. Pinchy

Detailed mapping of hard to find areas is shown below.

Notes: Binds when picked up. Areas with Highland Mixed Schools require a flying mount or (Druid) flight ability to reach (unless you are summoned). There are 10 confirmed pool locations in Blackwind Lake (near Skettis), 4 in Lake Ere'Noru (above Allerian Stronghold), and 3 in Lake Jorune (above Stonebreaker Hold). There are no pools in Silmyr Lake.

Detailed Guide: Catching Furious Crawdad and Mr. Pinchy - How to catch Furious Crawdad, and Mr. Pinchy, who may grant you a rare Magical Crawdad pet.

Commentary: Around 1 in 500 catches from Highland Mixed Schools are Mr. Pinchy, but this is very variable. Since each Highland Mixed School contains an average of just three catches, expect to fish over 150 pools. You may need to catch several Mr. Pinchys before gaining the rare Magical Crawdad Box (with Magical Crawdad non-combat pet). Highland Mixed Schools are very commonly fished, yet there are only 17 possible spawning locations, and each typically respawns 60-65 minutes after it was last fished (emptied). So if other people have been fishing within the previous hour (very likely), you may struggle to find any Highland Mixed Schools. Pools around Blackwind Lake are patrolled by elite giants, however these can be avoided by simply flying away when the giant approaches. Those able to walk on water (Priests and Shamen) can fish while standing in the lake, and so avoid most monsters completely.

Where to catch Mr. Pinchy
Water/pool typeMinimum skillAreasCatch RateCommonly caught fish
To castTo avoid get aways% of CatchSource
Highland Mixed School - Inland405500<1%Sample: 1060.

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

Detailed Mapping

Map: Map showing the location of the three elevated lakes.

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Comments

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

Topic: Mr. Pinchy is the Devil!

  1. By Regirumm, on 25 January 2008:

    Every weekend I go out to Sketis and the other two lakes and mass produce over 300 Crawdads . I've been doing this for over two months. My total is getting near 2000 crawdads, and still no Mr. Pinchy. My fishing is 505, so he isn't getting away. Anyone who has caught him please add input.

  2. By Hy, on 26 January 2008:

    You have to really like fishing. Or you can try to be zen about it. But working numbers will only give you statistical probabilities.

  3. By Balazar, on 26 January 2008:

    Just keep on fishing. You may have run into a bad luck streak - such things happen.

    I've caught 943 Crawdads, and 2 Mr. Pinchy's, which seems to be about average.

  4. By el, on 26 January 2008:

    Indeed; you are simply unlucky. WoW is rather unforgiving about very rare drops/catches. I've gone for over 1000 catches, only to get two Mr. Pinchy from the same pool. I guess the process is random, when it perhaps shouldn't be so random: Ideally the chance of catching it should increase the more you try, then there would be a better correlation between effort and result.

  5. By Hiltje, on 27 January 2008:

    I have a friend who caught Mr. Pinchy and received TWO pets out of her three chances. Random drops are indeed very strange things!

Topic: Mr: Pinchy after getting Magical Crawdad

  1. By Gihelle, on 16 March 2008:

    So, I'm doing my hourly clean on Highland Mixed schools and fished my third Pinchy.

    Simple and short question: is it worth to get after getting a Magical Crawdad box? Only one of five wishes would actually interest me (healing/mana pots, which I turn into Injectors on my Engineering alt). My bank is bloated too, so I won't have enough space to keep it as a token of fishing pride.

    Any ideas?

  2. By heraklen, on 17 March 2008:

    Me for sure wont fish for more Mr Pinchy whenever I get the pet.
    (I'm using my 2'nd Mr Pinchy , 4th wish )

    Only reason to continue is if you want to get Stam-food for your guild or sell it , otherwise I think you should leave the pools alone so someone else might get lucky :-)

Topic: I did it! I did it!

  1. By Longhunter, on 01 April 2008:

    I caught Mr. Pinchy last night SWEET! For weeks trying I got him and right before this jerk cow whirlwinds me, then kills me :( But I got Mr. Pinchy!

    I have not used him yet. I will wait till this weekend I don't want to loss him if I die.

    Longhunter

  2. By Petre, on 01 April 2008:

    I was tanking Prince in karazhan about two months after BC came, before people really new about mr. Pinchy. I went to click on a potion and accidentally summoned Angry Mr. Pinchy, who proceeded to own one of my fellow priests who wasn't pay attention to her own health!

    It was the most glorious wipe ever.

  3. By Balazar, on 02 April 2008:

    Heh, that makes me want to save my next Mr. Pinchy for a dungeon run!

  4. By Longhunter, on 02 April 2008:

    lawl i think i just peed myself reading that post! thats great last night i used Mr.P in SSC and he gave me a health buff like a flask sad to becuse i had to rebuff my self

  5. By Calabar, on 02 April 2008:

    Mr. Pinchy has a wicked sense of humor. I have two 70 characters with high enough fishing to try for him. One finally caught Mr. Pinchy. Three wishes later no pet. My second character finally caught Mr. Pinchy. Three wishes later no pet. My first character caught a second Mr. Pinchy. His second wish gave him his pet. Woot! But then so did his third wish. And of course it’s BoP so he had to let it go since two pets would do him no good. My second character is very jealous. She has yet to catch a second Mr. Pinchy.

Topic: Bug with Mr. Pinchy

  1. By Teisemanden, on 06 April 2008:

    Hey fellow anglers.

    So, i was just doing a little bit of 'fun fishing'. you know: nothing to do, look for some highland mixed school. and dang, i catch Mr. Pinchy. I press the name in the check and it says:

    1 charge.

    and i look in the inventory and it says:

    3 charges...

    has this happend to others? and if so, are blizzard aware?
    damn i was scared that they nerfed Mr. pinchy

  2. By Petre, on 07 April 2008:

    I don't think I understand 'press the name in the check'. Could you be more specific about which frame you were clicking or hovering over to get this 'error'?

  3. By Oberweiss, on 07 April 2008:

    I'm fairly certain that this is a bug. A similar issue exists with mana oils (their tooltip while in the bank will say "1 charge," but when you put it in your bags it will say the actual number of charges).

  4. By Longhunter, on 09 April 2008:

    i won Mr P and waited the CD and got him again soooo now what do i do with extra to bad they are bop or they would sell for a ton on the ah

  5. By Petre, on 10 April 2008:

    Making the BoE would eliminate the need for people to learn to fish to get the pet, and therefore remove it's current 'status symbol' status.
    Regardless, Mr. Pinchy does have some useful abilities, check out the Mr. Pinchy page here on El's for more info on what he can do for you.

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