This pages summarises the fish that can be caught in The Barrens. Parts of this zone vary (for example, contain different fish or have different skill requirements), so be sure to scan the whole page before casting a line.
About The Barrens
- Skill: 75 to fish without junk. Specific areas within this zone have different skill requirements (read below).
- Recommended Level: 10-20.
- Territory: Horde.
The Barrens
Detailed mapping of hard to find areas within the zone is shown below.
Notes: The Barrens contains 2 unusual areas of water - the 3 oases, and the Slude Fen. Slightly different fish can be caught in each area.
Skill: 75 to fish without junk. Specific areas within this zone have different skill requirements (read below).
| Water | Fish | Catch Rate * | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| % of Catch | Source | |||
| Floating Debris Pool | Tightly Sealed Trunk | 60% | Sample: 157. | - |
| Rumsey Rum Light | 20% | Sample: 157. | 1-3 items per catch. | |
| Stranglekelp | 20% | Sample: 157. | 1-3 items per catch. | |
| Lesser Oily Blackmouth School - Coastal | Oily Blackmouth | 80% | Sample: 205. | - |
| Rumsey Rum Light | 5% | Sample: 205. | 1-3 items per catch. | |
| Stranglekelp | 5% | Sample: 205. | 1-3 items per catch. | |
| Tightly Sealed Trunk | 5% | Sample: 205. | - | |
| Open Water - Coastal | Raw Rainbow Fin Albacore | 50% | Via Thottbot. | - |
| Raw Slitherskin Mackerel | 30% | Via Thottbot. | - | |
| Oily Blackmouth | 15% | Via Thottbot. | - | |
| Dented Crate | <1% | Via Thottbot. | - | |
| <1% | Via Thottbot. | - | ||
| Small Chest | <1% | Via Thottbot. | - | |
| Open Water - Inland | Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper | 60% | Via Thottbot. | - |
| Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish | 25% | Via Thottbot. | - | |
| Raw Brilliant Smallfish | 15% | Via Thottbot. | - | |
| 17-32 Pound Catfish | <1% | Via Thottbot. | - | |
| Lesser Healing Potion | <1% | Via Thottbot. | - | |
| Lesser Mana Potion | <1% | Via Thottbot. | - | |
| Bloated Mud Snapper | Infrequent catch. | - | ||
| The 1 Ring | Infrequent catch. | - | ||
- [*] % of Catch is the approximate proportion of all catches in this area/water, that are the named fish.
The Barrens (The Sludge Fen)
Notes: The Sludge Fen is on the far northern side of The Barrens, between Orgrimmar and the entrance to Ashenvale.
| Water | Fish | Catch Rate * | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| % of Catch | Source | |||
| Open Water - Inland | Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper | 35% | Via Thottbot. | - |
| Old Wagonwheel | 20% | Via Thottbot. | - | |
| Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish | 15% | Via Thottbot. | - | |
| Acidic Slime | 10% | Via Thottbot. | - | |
| Oil Covered Fish | 10% | Via Thottbot. | - | |
| Raw Brilliant Smallfish | 10% | Via Thottbot. | - | |
| Broken Wine Bottle | Infrequent catch. | - | ||
- [*] % of Catch is the approximate proportion of all catches in this area/water, that are the named fish.
The Barrens (Oasis)
Notes: The Barrens contain three oasis - The Forgotten Pools, Lushwater Oasis, and The Stagnant Oasis. Deviate Fish can be caught from these. For more detail, read the Catching Deviate Fish topic.
Skill: 100 to fish without junk.
| Water | Fish | Catch Rate * | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| % of Catch | Source | |||
| Open Water - Inland | Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper | 40% | Sample: 1364. | - |
| Deviate Fish | 30% | Sample: 1364. | - | |
| Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish | 16% | Sample: 1364. | - | |
| Raw Brilliant Smallfish | 13% | Sample: 1364. | - | |
| 17-32 Pound Catfish | <1% | Via Thottbot. | - | |
| Deviate Scale | <1% | Sample: 1364. | - | |
| Lesser Healing Potion | <1% | Via Thottbot. | - | |
| Lesser Mana Potion | <1% | Via Thottbot. | - | |
| Bloated Mud Snapper | Infrequent catch. | - | ||
| The 1 Ring | Infrequent catch. | - | ||
| School of Deviate Fish - Inland | Deviate Fish | 90% | Sample: 221. | - |
| Rumsey Rum Light | 3% | Sample: 221. | 1-3 items per catch. | |
| Stranglekelp | 3% | Sample: 221. | 1-3 items per catch. | |
| Tightly Sealed Trunk | 3% | Sample: 221. | - | |
- [*] % of Catch is the approximate proportion of all catches in this area/water, that are the named fish.
Detailed Mapping
Other Tomes
- WoWWiki (recommended for travel and background information)
- Thottbot
- Wowhead
- Allakhazam
Learn More
- Valuable Fish - Details the most valuable fish, and how to catch them.
- Pools and Wreckage - Describes how to fish pools such as schools or floating debris, where to find pools, and how to efficiently fish them.
- Catching Deviate Fish - How to catch Deviate Fish, which may be cooked to make Savory Deviate Delight.
Below are anglers' comments about The Barrens.
Deviate Scales in The Barrens
Yohaun, May 2008:
Leveling up a new toon in a new guild and of course leveling up my fishing as fast as I can. I'm lvl 26 so I decided to just get to 225 by stocking up our guild on Deviate Fish as much as I can (after all, I *am* the Guild Fisherman in my new guild, and it's a lot of lowbies, so this will make the game more fun for them).
I got about a 1% drop rate of Deviate Scales in the Lushwater Oasis. I know that the page here on The Barrens says (in one part) that there are "other" things caught part of the time, but seeing how I NEVER pulled up anything else "random" (everything else was an actual fish of some sort) I thought this was odd. And it's not mentioned on the page here.
So fishing in The Barrens can help out Leatherworkers a little too in making those nice Deviate Gloves and Belts, which they're usually making around the same levels that you find yourself running about The Barrens a lot.
Oh, and the 2 I caught were NOT from pools.
el, May 2008:
Thanks Yohaun. It was listed on the detailed page, but missing from the Fish Finder.
Barrens Fishing Skill
el, August 2009:
I noticed that between skill 75 and 100 I was still catching some junk in the Lushwater Oasis, in The Barrens. The last junk catch was at skill 94. I think the skill required to fish without junk is 100.
It was always hard to confirm these low-level skill requirements, and it's been harder since patch 3.1. I wonder if this was always different, or a recent change? And whether some of the other similar zones (currently listed at 75 skill) are slightly higher?
