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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).

Catches in The Barrens (also see box below)
WaterFishCatch Rate *Notes
% of CatchSource
Floating Debris PoolTightly Sealed Trunk60%Sample: 157.-
Rumsey Rum Light20%Sample: 157.1-3 items per catch.
Stranglekelp20%Sample: 157.1-3 items per catch.
Lesser Oily Blackmouth School - CoastalOily Blackmouth80%Sample: 205.-
Rumsey Rum Light5%Sample: 205.1-3 items per catch.
Stranglekelp5%Sample: 205.1-3 items per catch.
Tightly Sealed Trunk5%Sample: 205.-
Open Water - CoastalRaw Rainbow Fin Albacore50%Via Thottbot.-
Raw Slitherskin Mackerel30%Via Thottbot.-
Oily Blackmouth15%Via Thottbot.-
Dented Crate<1%Via Thottbot.-
Message in a Bottle<1%Via Thottbot.-
Small Chest<1%Via Thottbot.-
Open Water - InlandRaw Longjaw Mud Snapper60%Via Thottbot.-
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish25%Via Thottbot.-
Raw Brilliant Smallfish15%Via Thottbot.-
17-32 Pound Catfish<1%Via Thottbot.-
Lesser Healing Potion<1%Via Thottbot.-
Lesser Mana Potion<1%Via Thottbot.-
Bloated Mud SnapperInfrequent catch.-
The 1 RingInfrequent catch.-
Armor and weapons may rarely be caught from inland open water. These are not shown in the table.

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.

Catches in The Barrens (The Sludge Fen)
WaterFishCatch Rate *Notes
% of CatchSource
Open Water - InlandRaw Longjaw Mud Snapper35%Via Thottbot.-
Old Wagonwheel20%Via Thottbot.-
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish15%Via Thottbot.-
Acidic Slime10%Via Thottbot.-
Oil Covered Fish10%Via Thottbot.-
Raw Brilliant Smallfish10%Via Thottbot.-
Broken Wine BottleInfrequent catch.-

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.

Catches in The Barrens (Oasis) (also see box below)
WaterFishCatch Rate *Notes
% of CatchSource
Open Water - InlandRaw Longjaw Mud Snapper40%Sample: 1364.-
Deviate Fish30%Sample: 1364.-
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish16%Sample: 1364.-
Raw Brilliant Smallfish13%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 SnapperInfrequent catch.-
The 1 RingInfrequent catch.-
School of Deviate Fish - InlandDeviate Fish90%Sample: 221.-
Rumsey Rum Light3%Sample: 221.1-3 items per catch.
Stranglekelp3%Sample: 221.1-3 items per catch.
Tightly Sealed Trunk3%Sample: 221.-
Armor and weapons may rarely be caught from inland open water. These are not shown in the table.

Detailed Mapping

Map: Oasis in the Barrens.

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Below are anglers' comments about The Barrens.

Deviate Scales in The Barrens

  1. 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.

  2. el, May 2008:

    Thanks Yohaun. It was listed on the detailed page, but missing from the Fish Finder.

Barrens Fishing Skill

  1. 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?

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