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[Fishing] Dark herring.. how i got it in 1hr..

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  1. pukeman <Salty>, 10 months ago:

    hey all, New here.. Thought i would share My results on catching the Illusive dark herring in 1hr.

    If this has been covered, then i apologise.

    I fished at Cauldrous Isle, Just north of utgarde keep in HF. the re spawn rates are quite fast if you keep moving around the edge of the island. Fished Fangtooth herring schools in a clockwise route around the island, if nobody else is there you will get constant re spawns. at lvl 450 fishing i didn't even need to use Lures.

    After 1hour i had

    107 fangtooth herring
    22 bonescale snapper
    11 Crystalized water
    8 reinforced Crates
    7 pygmy sucker
    7 Glacial Salmon
    & 1 Dark Herring

    Hope that helps anyone who still needs the Achieve.

  2. Renetta <Salty>, 10 months ago:

    I'm at about 1500 catches without luck in that location with that strategy. I'm inclined to say that <200 catches is just insanely lucky. I haven't observed any advantage from fishing from pools yet. Lets see where I end up catching it. Did 2500 in shadowglen before I gave up and moved for dark herring. At least that fish has some value. But 4000+ catches is rather mental for the achievement... and it's my last one to get salty.

  3. pukeman <Salty>, 10 months ago:

    Trust me.. It worked for me.. Maybe i just have a horseshoe stuck somewhere.. but It was about an hour. Pickled Fangtooth seems to sell well on the AH also.

    Good luck!

  4. Renetta <Salty>, 10 months ago:

    Well I could use some luck. Added another 800 catches to the tally without luck. I'm going to take a break now because I had enough.

  5. Isa <Salty>, 10 months ago:

    I keep trying to catch the bastard, mainly because I want to do something brain-deadish after another day of thinking hard at uni ;)

    I got the little whelplings and firefly pets in the same brain-dead fashion after all...

  6. Adys <Salty>, 10 months ago:

    Took me about 350 casts in schools as well. I am very strongly believing that the dark herring is a rare drop from fangtooth herring themselves, and that it's definitely worth fishing in schools.

    On that note, it's my new year's gift :D http://devcub.com/~adys/salty.jpg

  7. Renetta <Salty>, 10 months ago:

    I don't know. I did 3300 casts for the dark herring without luck. My guess is that about 1000 of these were school catches. In any case grats!

  8. Renetta <Salty>, 10 months ago:

    Another thing. Catching from herring pools the only things I have ever seen are fangtooth herrings, reinforced crates and crystalized water. I've done a lot of catches. I'm very sure that if someone fishes up a pygmy fish or a snapper or salmon the bobber didn't count as being inside the pool and it was an actual non-pool catch.

  9. dvanci <Angler>, 10 months ago:

    I would like to make a correction to some of your posts. Autoloot DOES effect catching rare fish...to a point. I had autoloot on when i caught old crafty. I got the achievement HOWEVER I did not get the fish. It would not let me loot it with the message (you cannot loot this at this time, I had this happen twice before i realized the error. I turned autoloot off and Immediately caught him again and THIS time I was able to loot him. I am not sure if this will happen with all rare fish, but it does happen with old crafty.

  10. Norrinir <Salty>, 10 months ago:

    Strange, I caught 90% of BoP items with auto-loot on, including Sewer Rat, Old Crafty and Ironjaw. And yes, I was able to loot in normally.

  11. dvanci <Angler>, 10 months ago:

    Well I guess it could have just been a "bug" in my situation then...who knows....lol

  12. spixie <Salty>, 10 months ago:

    Got my dark herring today after about 26 catches by fishing in a herring school in Howling Fjord.

  13. Violette <Angler>, 9 months ago:

    After about 6hrs of fishing over 3 days I fished up 171 Fangtooth Herring, 43 Pygmy Suckerfish, 296 Bonescale Snapper, and 115 Glacial Salmon, I finally fished up my Dark Herring of the jetty at Valgarde! Hurrah!!

  14. Sibrea <Angler>, 7 months ago:

    Hi, i followed advice, and got my Dark Herring less than one hour at isle. Previously, i have tryed anywhere else at Fjord, without luck, but in isle it was less than hour wich where nice .)
    and for autoloot, i allways use it, and i have catched Old Ironjaw, Mr.pinchy, Giant sewer rat, well,
    all but Stranglethorn fishing extravagasanza and old crafty :) those are next on list.
    But thanks for good advice .)

  15. ollan1 <Salty>, 7 months ago:

    I had 32 normal herrings in my bag.. took me about 30 minutes to get it.

  16. drgryphon <Angler>, 7 months ago:

    I fished in the same kinds of areas as everyone else around the Fjord, varied it a bit when pools seemed to disappear. Fished only in pools and finally got the guy after 251 regular herrings. I guess it took me about 5 hours because I was flying around so much looking for pools.

  17. Havelock <Angler>, 7 months ago:

    I don't know if it's a bug or not, but this evening i decided to fish some fangtooth schools while looking for my turtle mount. About 15 minutes in, I fish up a Dark Herring, which gave me the acheivement. Happily, I continued fishing; amazingly, not more that 3 pools later, I fish up Dark Herring again! What are the odds?! I apologize to those of you who are having trouble with this one, I'm usually not nearly this lucky.

  18. Arithin <Salty>, 7 months ago:

    I caught my Dark Herring fishing in and out of pools at the Valgarde dock (when pools were up I fished in them; when not, I just fished in non-pool water). The Dark Herring was fish #5777. Grats to all of you with more luck then me. :)

  19. powerman <Angler>, 7 months ago:

    Ok I know this will piss people off but here goes....

    I would consider myself a mildly enthused fisherman, I just recently picked up fishing and started leveling it in the hopes of money and achievements.
    I would consider myself pretty unlucky because level from 1 - 400 fishing I only fished in ironforge and never saw old ironjaw. I then partook in an adventure to teldrassil where I caught the seemingly easy 15 pound mud snapper seeing as it has the most common drop rate there for the One that didnt get away achievement.
    After that I went to northrend and this is the part where people will be angry and I know this was extremely rare and all luck on my part.
    I was fishing for northrend angler and just found my first fangtooth herring school and low and behold the first fish out of the school [Dark Herring].
    I recieved tons of hate-mail from guild, friends, and generally any and everyone on the server.

    Posting this to let people know you can get it on your first cast or 5,000,000th it just depends how hard or little you want to try :)

  20. Faela <Salty>, 7 months ago:

    I just caught a Dark Herring after about 30 casts at Winter's Breath Lake in my hunt for the turtle mount... the crazy thing is, I already have the One That Didn't Get Away achievement for the 15lb Mud Snapper, which I got in 15 casts at Crystal Lake. Yet after thousands of casts I still don't have Old Ironjaw. Go figure.

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