Pre WOTLK, i played a warlock, and basically completed every fishing achievement, got every rare item, and had total maxxed out fishing.
I rerolled death knight for wrath of the lich king, and basically i've been avoiding fishing for months, because the thought of going for those rare drops, mr. pinchy, trying the fishing contest again, it was just too daunting for me, I couldn't bear the thought of going through it all again. I trained fishing in december after levelling, and fished up old crafty in orgrimaar by using the crocolisk in the city quest trick, but apart from that i hadn't even picked up my rod.
This sunday - i had nothing to do, so i took a deep breath, and thought to myself - i'll make a start. I started fishing in ironforge trying for old ironjaw - got 200 fishing and nothing. Looked at the time and saw it was an hour till the fishing competition - and thought to myself - i may as well go and see if i can get myself some boots or a hat.
I got to stranglethorn vale, and had a quick look for a pool of junk to get the find fish book since it makes it easier - found one, got the book, set my hearthstone in booty bay and got started. I have NEVER been so lucky with tastyfish schools. As the contest started, i had 4 pools around me right at the start, every catch was a tastyfish, and within 20 minutes, i had my 40 fish, hearthstoned, and won the competition with 215 fishing.
Now - i was pretty happy at this point, having completed what i thought would be the toughest hurdle on my first attempt. I went to nat pagle, took and completed the artisan fishing quest, and then went back to ironforge expecting to max out fishing while getting ironjaw. 10 casts later - ironjaw was in my inventory.
Realising there wasn't much more I could do, i went and levelled fishing a little bit in stormwind, to see if i could get a 1 ring. This was the only point that I was unlucky - i got to 315 fishing, no ring. But i wasn't that bothered - there was no related achievement so it didn't really matter.
I went to bed on sunday happy, not much more to say than that.
Monday night i was busy with my guild in Naxxramas, finally got 'The undying' title in naxxramas and my new 310% speed mount. Didn't really have time to do any fishing, but i decided that since i had tuesday free i would try to do some more constructive fishing.
Tuesday - I started dalaran coin fishing. With 315 fishing. I had to go down into underbelly and get underbelly elixirs quite regularly, which was a royal pain. I probably spent 3 hours in total, but by 1am i had every single coin - i got the three achievements in a row, didn't even have to wait long for my last gold coin.
Wednesday morning - I decided to go and fish some highland schools in the morning before work. Third pool i fished in - first cast - was a Mr. Pinchy. First use gave me a magical crawdad pet. I went to work happy, and when i came home from work - I decided to try for 'The one that didn't get away', it being the only hard fishing achievement i had left.
I spent maybe, 20 minutes in total fishing in pools of herring before i got the dark herring - at this point i was in utter disbelief. I spent the rest of the night cleaning up all the easy fishing achievements, and now i'm just missing one daily quest for Old Man barlowned before i get my salty title. I managed to catch up with my old fishing main in just 4 days of fishing, with minimal effort.
Has anyone else ever been incredibly lucky like this? I just had to share it because i'm honestly still in disbelief. Here's my armory, you can check the date of the achievements: http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-achievements.xml?r=Jaedenar&n=Zimm
