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[Fishing] Herring Seeks Your Life!

  1. Bhavani <Angler>, 3 years ago:

    So, I logged on today after class with my first priority being to get the Dalaran cooking daily out of the way. I usually head out to Howling Fjord to collect any required Chilled Meats, as the drop rate isn't bad and there generally isn't a lot of competition. On the way, I collect any herbs I see and fish a few nodes. I happened to spot a Fangtooth Herring node and thought to myself ' I'll just fish this node real quick before I go on my merry way.' Imagine my surprise when, lo and behold, I received Dark Herring along with a normal Fangtooth Herring after less than 5 casts! Here are my total stats, plus around 100 casts that occured before I uploaded Fishing Buddy:

    Howling Fjord
    Bonescale Salmon (44%) - 125
    Fangtooth Herring (29%) - 83
    Glacial Salmon (12%) - 36
    Pygmy Suckerfish (7%) - 22
    Crystalline Water (2%) - 8
    Reinforced Crate (1%) - 4
    Dark Herring (0%) - 1

    Total Casts: 279

  2. Kalahdune <Angler>, 3 years ago:

    lvl 73 Orc Hunter on Kilrogg. Got one on 6 Feb in a pool of herring near the bridge leading south from Gjalerbron. About half-way between the coast and the lake.

  3. Sixtyeight <Angler>, 2 years ago:

    Hi all, caught Dark Herring today and this is how it went:

    - 399 fish caught before catching Dark Herring.
    - I had 450 base fishing + 28 rod + 100 lure.
    - Fished in Howling Fjord, and tried the subzones Cauldros Isle/Lake Cauldros, Daggercap Bay and Caldemere Lake
    - Caught the fish from a Fangtooth Herring Pool in Caldemere Lake.
    - I started fishing at 8 am, and caught it at 12:30pm approx.

  4. Speedsteel <Salty>, 2 years ago:

    I got it in some 70 catches a while back. Around Caudron Isle in the pools. I was like "Woah! Are you serious?!?" And just a few days after I had gotten the huge lobster for The One That Didn't Get Away...

  5. Lukin <Salty>, 2 years ago:

    Got Herring on 4th day today and got Salty Achievement aswell!!

  6. Tengarth <Angler>, 2 years ago:

    Caught Dark Herring on 5th day (approx. 2hrs per day). Just the extravaganza to go before Salty!

    Caught Herring in Fangtooth Herring School in Caldemere Lake. All data in Howling Fjord is in Caldemere Lake (Fishing Buddy sees some of the edges as Howling Fjord and not Caldemere). The lake is perfect because you can go in a counter-clockwise circle around the lake hitting each school. By the time you come all the way back around more pools have respawned. I was able to consistently hit 6-7 schools per circle. There are only 4-5 mobs at the beginning of the circle around the lake which most of the time can be avoided. There are no other mobs once you get past those (majority of lake).

    Caldemere Lake:
    Fangtooth Herring (161:51.9%)
    Pygmy Suckerfish (116:37.4%)
    Reinforced Crate (14:4.5%)
    Crystallized Water (7:2.3%)
    Glacial Salmon (7:2.3%)
    Bonescale Snapper (5:1.6%)

    Howling Fjord (actually edges of Caldemere Lake):
    Fangtooth Herring (238:52.1%)
    Pygmy Suckerfish (183:40.0%)
    Bonescale Snapper (16:3.5%)
    Reinforced Crate (5:1.1%)
    Crystallized Water (11:2.4%)
    Glacial Salmon (3:0.7%)
    Dark Herring (1:0.2%)

  7. Tythor <Salty>, 2 years ago:

    The herring seems to blow the rest of the rare fish outa the water in terms of the RNG.

    After about 400 or so catches I pulled up this baby to gain me some Saltyness

    <img src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c223/Tombus/th_Salty.jpg" border="0" alt="Salty" >

  8. Aoie <Angler>, 9 months ago:

    I got incredibly lucky with this one and caught it in just minutes. Howling Fjord, Caldemere Lake, Fangtooth Herring pool, 635 effective skill.

    Fangtooth Herring (8:47%)
    Pygmy Suckerfish (4:23%)
    Bonescale Snapper (3:18%)
    Glacial Salmon (1:6%)
    Dark Herring (1:6%)

    Total casts: 17

    Don't hate me....this just proves there's hope!

    I hope I am just as lucky getting my last achievement for Salty....Master Angler.

    Good luck to you all!

  9. Conchas <Angler>, 8 months ago:

    Don't HATE me... it's not my fault!!

    I'm a NOOB playing first ever toon. Absolutely determined to catch Sea Turtle Mount. After a total of probably about 3 hours (sorry... don't have the add to keep stats... is it a download?) fishing Fangtooth Herring schools on the south shore of Winter's Breath Lake, I caught Dark Herring.

    Went to bed happy last night.

    Came home from work this afternoon ( 6/7/11 ) went to the same area ( I still want that D*#N Turtle... )and on less than 15 casts into 2 pools, I caught 3 more.

    Phenominal luck... or a glitch? I do play on a private server, sooooo...... I don't know.

    I do know that there are very few on the server who have caught it, so I'm wondering if maybe the first one is still the 1/10,000 shot, but glitched if you have one already. At the time that I caught the other 3, the first was in my Bank Vault.

    If I catch any more while on my personal quest to land Turtle, I'll post again here.

  10. Aninja <Angler>, 8 months ago:

    lol worst necro post ever

  11. FishermanLemi <Angler>, 8 months ago:

    Hey guys new member here.. iv been WoW fishing for neally 2 weeks now and i love it.. un like real life fishing i catch things.. and i seem to be rlly lucky.. iv caught sea turtle mount.. iv won the straglethorn fishing tornament on my first try and got the awsome rod which im so proud of.. i make sure i keep it equipped every bg till the gates open lol.. oh and im makeing so much money off it.. iv been catching Volatile Fires from the lava in mount hijal.. iv been making TUNS... iv never been this rich.. cos i dnt hav any other professions.. any way iv been looking up this site so much iv decided to become a member cos iv found all ur tips and stuff so usefull.. so thanks guys! oh ya and Nat Pagle and me have the same first name :D lol... so ya.. catch u later.. no pun intended.

    Lemi - Dreadmaul

  12. Chocrit <Salty>, 5 months ago:

    Hi all, thought I'd share my story about Winter's Breath Lake.

    A year ago, when I was lvl 20-something, I started fishing on the WotLK 10-day trail, and got my fishing skill up to 450. After setting my hearth to Dalaran and fishing at Winter's Breath for a week, I caught the Sea Turtle, which is somewhere between 1/2000 and 1/5000 (0.05 - 0.02%) chance. It took just under 2000 casts to catch it, and I've been showing off ever since.

    AFTER all that, I found out about the Dark Herring, and just recently I found out that catching it gives me [One That Didn't Get Away], so I've been going after it. I spent 2 days fishing in open water at Winter's Breath Lake (now level 72) and this time, recorded my results:

    Bonescale Snapper ---- 638 (53.88%)
    Fangtooth Herring ------ 259 (21.87%)
    Glacial Salmon ---------- 269 (22.72%)
    Pygmy Suckerfish * ---- 126 (10.64% Alongside other fish)
    Crystallized Water ------ x 9 (0.76%)
    Reinforced Crate ------- x 9 (0.76%)
    Dark Herring ------------- NONE (supposedly 0.05% or 1/2000)

    TOTAL SO FAR: 1184 (100%)

    I know I haven't caught 2000 fish yet, but when I think about the 2000-some I caught last year, that makes me wish I had caught it already...

    Also, noticed something odd. These totals are made up of 3 separate fishing trips, in which the first trip was "normal" according to this site and WoWHead (in terms of likeliness of catching fish), but suddenly, the next two trips gave me significantly more Glacial Salmon and less Fangtooth Herring - they almost evened out, even though Herring have a higher chance of being caught.

    Anyways, I cut it off there, since I'm now fishing from Fangtooth Herring Schools only, in hopes of better odds, and I didn't want to mess up the data I have so far by mixing open water results with school fishing results.

    I don't feel too upset though. Tried the Kalu'ak Fishing Derby today for the first time... and won. THANKS, EL! Now this damn Dark Herring (or any rare fish I suppose) is the only thing separating me from being SALTY CHOCRIT!

    WISH ME LUCK, GENTS!

    Update/Edit: Over the last two days I caught approx 400 fish from Fangtooth Herring Schools and just caught the Dark Herring at last. He might seek my life, but he sure took his time. I am now Salty Chocrit.

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