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

This page lists all zones/areas within Northrend where fish can be caught. It shows the skill required to fish, and the fish that may be caught there. Many of these fish can only be caught from certain types of water/pool within the area, so read about the fish in detail before trying to catch it.

Northrend

**: Quest-only fish and infrequent catches not shown.

??: Skill unknown.

Below are anglers' comments about Northrend.

Biggest concentration of pools for turtle mount?

1. fredje222, April 2009:

   So the new turtle mount will be fishable from any pool in northrend, completly random...
   Like evry good fisher i'm gonna fish like hell till i get it :p but i was wondering where the biggest concentration of pools is for fishing it...

   So what do you think?

2. el, April 2009:

   I suspect the biggest (closest) concentration is in the Frozen Sea, just south of Borean Tundra. Sholazar Basin also has a lot of pools, fairly close together. Both are higher skill areas, which will tend to reduce the number of people fishing.

   Of course there are locations such as Lake Kum'uya (near Warsong Hold in Borean Tundra) where pools generally respawn fast enough to allow one angler to go round and round the same lake. So you might not need a huge concentration. Likewise, it is reasonably effective to fly round the coast of Northrend, or along the rivers of Grizzly Hills.

   There are other things to consider, such as who else is fishing, the value of the normal fish you are (mostly) catching, and whether you can (mentally) survive fishing the same handful of pools for days. Personally (over 6,000 pool catches so far - and no turtle), I have to keep on moving to new areas, just to break up the boredom...

3. fredje222, April 2009:

   tbh, i'm kinda glad you have 6000 catches and still no turtle
   how harder to catch, how cooler it will be to have :p

   thanks for the good idea's, seems their are enough good spots and moving around will be needed idd if i dont wanna go crazy :p

1. InfectedZombie, April 2009:

   i have the turtle mount from the tcg, he probably wont see the light of day once i fish this up!

2. heathisrael, April 2009:

   "Barely outpaces Hook of the Master Angler"

   Umm, not sure about that. The hook is 25% swim speed bonus correct? And the mount is 60%. Not to mention that you have to wait 30 seconds after equipping the trinket to use it so the mount is WAY better imo.

   The thing i'm curious about is what happens when you leave the water? can the turtle go on land or do you auto dismount??

   If it can't get out of the water, the mount will simply suck...just like the trinket sucks when you hit air bubbles (it knocks you out of form whenever you hit an air bubble).

   hopefully it'll give you 60% riding speed in AND out of water (so it'll behave like a lvl 30 mount out of water).

3. Dethwolf, April 2009:

   hmm yes offshore is probably best place to fish..until everyone reads our posts lol

4. fredje222, April 2009:

   meh, most of you are us servers anyway :p

5. Secretsauce, April 2009:

   So, brace yourself for the hate..... I just fished up the turtle mount. I went into sholazar to do the fishing daily (ghostfish), saw a nettlefish pool, 5 casts later.... TURTLE.

   One, this mount is not nearly as big as I thought it was. Two, I'm a little disappointed because I thought it was going to be a challenge. That said, I'm moving slowly through Dalaran on a cool new mount!

6. Azaguth, April 2009:

   I hate you.

   No, honestly, grats!

   Too bad my server JUST came up.

7. Boothby, April 2009:

   I fished mine up about an hour ago in the little lake by Westwind Refugee Camp. That area has a pretty good concentration of pools and rarely anyone there.

8. Nonzor, April 2009:

   Woot! I just fished up the turtle mount in Borean Tundra from an Imperial Manta Ray school. (I spent over an hour fishing in The Frozen Sea and had a bag of cuttlefish and monsterbelly, so was just fooling around looking for other pools.) Of course I mounted immediately - and was pleased to see that while riding underwater I didn't get a breath bar ... I wonder if that will change?

   Happy casting!

9. Secretsauce, April 2009:

   So..... is the drop on the turtle mount abnormally high for some reason? If all of us got one this quickly, and it took El 6000 casts to get nothing, maybe something is wrong in the coding.

10. Batter, April 2009:

    Fished up my turtle mount about a half hour ago in Borean fishing for Musselback Sculpin at around the 350 catch mark. I was shocked (and pretty pumped) that it dropped so soon!

    Good luck everyone!

11. el, April 2009:

    Congratulations and thanks for the reports. Keep in mind that random loot is random. So many people are trying to catch the Sea Turtle, it is inevitable a few people will be lucky.

12. shuuya, April 2009:

    I got my sexy turtle from Glassfin Minnow pools in Crystalsong Forest. I love this thing. :D

13. samboda, April 2009:

    Secretsauce wrote:

    So..... is the drop on the turtle mount abnormally high for some reason? If all of us got one this quickly, and it took El 6000 casts to get nothing, maybe something is wrong in the coding.

    It's a random drop with a low drop %, some will get it after a few catches, others after thousands, and others will never get it. And dont forget that this is a site about wow fishing so u will see other ppl posting that they got the turtle.

14. Meraxes, April 2009:

    Glacial Salmon pools in Grizzly were going to be my place. The salmon sells well and is used for fish feasts. Might as well do something productive while trying for the turtle.

15. Suran, April 2009:

    Got my turtle after 127 Salmons in Grizzly Hills.

16. Dethwolf, April 2009:

    Hmmm none of the turtles so far from what I see here and on the wow forums were from the frozen sea so far.........I figured the pools where u can see the giant turtle boat is the LOGICAL place to catch turtle mount

    Sigh 450 casts last night...I'll try to fishfor an hour or so tonight out there again

17. fredje222, April 2009:

    fishing next to warsong hold, going fine, lots of pools

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sparkly pools on the coast?

1. pomegranite, June 2009:

   I haven't been able to find this--which may be my own doofusiliouness--but I can't find any reference to the sparkly pools on the coast of Northrend. I'm on Grizzly Hills in particular. The pools looks bubbly & sparkly, and are a few yards off the coast. Are they merely cosmetic or do they contribute anything to fishing itself?

   Thanks a lot to anyone who doesn't think my question is too dumb to answer... I've been playing for a few years very casually (read: infrequently) and am not always up on everything.

2. el, June 2009:

   School of Northern Salmon - they're quest-only.

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