Yeah, only 52 drops per year, and many people try to win at least twice.
#3 should be two different reasons though since the fishing tourney and Mr. Pinchy are only related because they both require fishing skill.
Well, that and the fishing tourney gear helps, but is not required, to catch el Senor Pinchy.
I fish because i love collecting rare and unusal items and mini-pets to brag about to my guildies :)
I fish to relax after a long raid and have a chat with my friends.
I fish because of the food buffs some of the consumables give, my guild loves me for them, I'm the Guild Fisherman.
Im 100% into Twinking so fishing just happens with the STV Fishing Contest. I can honestly say that it has definately grown on me though. It is pretty relaxing and now love to do it.
Getting Mr. Pinchy is next on my list of things to fish.
When my boyfriend at the time and I got together, WoW had just finished the beta and released. I wasn't a gamer and wasn't interested in playing WoW. But one day, my bf asked me if I would level up his fishing. So he parked me in Darnassus with a fishing pole and I fished there for 4 hours. I was hooked.
He got me my own account even though I asked him not to. I'm fond of saying that my relationship with WoW lasted longer than that relationship. I have two BT/MH raider characters as a pally tank and a shadow priest which is time-consuming and demanding.
But I still try to sneak away to fish because
1. I can handle guild officer stuff and chat without killing a group in an instance.
2. I enjoy gathering cooking materials
3. I enjoy the surprise element of a catch.
4. It's not about GCDs or how much haste rating you have. Its simplicity is something that most people write off as boring. It's a meditation of my "surroundings", a time and place where all your focus is on the bobber and the basic joy of a catch.
5. Unlike RL fishing, WoW fishing is not at all demanding; it's free of extraneous factors like timing of the tides, stabbing hooks in fingers, and tangled lines.
6. If you miss a bob, there are very little consequences, unlike raiding :)
I've been playing WoW for 3 years now and I started fishing about 6 months in, I firstly started because it was relaxing and i wanted to max out everything possible on my skills page (which i have accomplished) but after the expansion i was the only person in the guild who had the max fishing skill so a couple people in my guild hired me to fish for them, it worked out nicely at 15g a stack for what ever they wanted, i was able to save up the 5000g for my epic flyer and now i farm primal waters over the elemental plateau.
When I first started wow, fishing was the only secondary skill I didn't level, because in my ignorance, I thought it was a mini-game that required quick reflexes.
The lure of a magical crawdad pet was what finally convinced me to take up fishing.
I wish I had leveled it from the beginning, as it's a great source of hunter pet food, and an easy way to level cooking.
I fished throughout my 60s to save up for a flying mount, and then to start saving for an epic flyer.
I love the new fishing hat from the fishing daily!
One of these days, I will win the fishing contest--not for the pole (don't really need the extra +15), but for the trinket!
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