Musselback Sculpin - El's Extreme Anglin'

This page summarises how to catch Musselback Sculpin.

About Musselback Sculpin

Value (uncooked):
- Vendor: 8c
- Auction: 2g (prices vary)
Cooking:
Cooking:
- Fish Feast:
  - Requires level 70 to eat. Party feast. Restores 22500 health and 19200 mana over 30 seconds.
  - Buff: 80 Attack Power, 46 Spell Power, 40 Stamina, for 60 minutes.
  - Auction value: 11g (prices vary)
  - Recipe: Recipe: Fish Feast. Sold by Derek Odds (Alliance), Mera Mistrunner, and Misensi (Horde), for 5 Dalaran Cooking Award. Binds when picked up. Requires Cooking 450.
  - Ingredients: 2 Glacial Salmon, 2 Musselback Sculpin, 2 Nettlefish and Northern Spices.
- Grilled Sculpin:
  - Requires level 70 to eat. Restores 22500 health and 19200 mana over 30 seconds.
  - Buff: 60 Attack Power, 40 Stamina, for 60 minutes.
  - Auction value: 2g (prices vary)
  - Recipe: Taught by Northrend cooking trainers. Requires Cooking 350.
  - Ingredients: Musselback Sculpin.
- Poached Northern Sculpin:
  - Requires level 70 to eat. Restores 22500 health and 19200 mana over 30 seconds.
  - Buff: 80 Attack Power, 40 Stamina, for 60 minutes.
  - Auction value: 5g (prices vary)
  - Recipe: Recipe: Poached Northern Sculpin. Sold by Derek Odds (Alliance), Mera Mistrunner, and Misensi (Horde), for 3 Dalaran Cooking Award. Binds when picked up. Requires Cooking 400.
  - Ingredients: Musselback Sculpin and Northern Spices.

Catching Musselback Sculpin

Detailed mapping of hard to find areas is shown below.

Commentary: The most efficient way to catch only Musselback Sculpin is to fish Musselback Sculpin School. These pools are found in Borean Tundra. The best strategy is to run round Lake Kum'uya (north-east of Warsong Hold), where many pools appear. Individual pools also appear in remote locations in Borean Tundra, including inside 2 large caves (Magmoth and Gammoth). Anglers can fly into these caves (just drop down into the water from above), but must ride out again - so fishing those Musselback Sculpin Schools takes more time.

History:

Wrath of the Lich King: First caught.
3.0.8: Now used to cook Fish Feast.
3.1: Caught in Wintergrasp and Zul'Drak.

Where to catch Musselback Sculpin
Water	No-junk skill	Areas	Catch Rate *		Commonly caught fish
Water	No-junk skill	Areas	% of Catch	Source	Commonly caught fish
Musselback Sculpin School - Inland	475	Borean Tundra	90%	Sample: 1045.	Musselback Sculpin
Open Water - Inland	475	Zul'Drak	22%	Sample: 326.	Bonescale Snapper Dragonfin Angelfish Musselback Sculpin
Open Water - Inland	525	Wintergrasp	32%	Sample: 371.	Giant Darkwater Clam Glacial Salmon Musselback Sculpin Nettlefish
Open Water - Inland and Unnamed Coastal	475	Borean Tundra Dragonblight	22%	Sample: 326.	Bonescale Snapper Dragonfin Angelfish Musselback Sculpin

[*] % of Catch is the approximate proportion of all catches in this area/water, that are the named fish.

Detailed Mapping

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Valuable Fish - Details the most valuable fish, and how to catch them.
Wrath of the Lich King - Fishing changes in Wrath of the Lich King, the second expansion to World of Warcraft.
3.1 Changes - Patch 3.1's changes to fishing, including new fishing poles and Wintergrasp.