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Classic WoW Fishing & Cooking Leveling Guide 1-300

This Classic WoW Fishing and Cooking guide will show you the fastest way to level Fishing and Cooking from 1 to 300.

Since leveling your fishing takes a long time, it's best to level these professions together. You'll discover that it requires a lot of patience and time to build your skill level up to the maximum level. You will have to catch a lot of fish to get from start to finish.

I recommend using Zygor's 1-60 Leveling Guide if you are still leveling your character or you just started a new alt. The guide is in a small window on your main screen in-game, all the detail that you need to complete the quests are included. You’ll never have to switch back to a website, or even the in-game main map to see where you have to go or what’s next.

Playing WotLK Classic?

Use my WotLK Fishing and Cooking Leveling guide instead. There are a lot of changes to trainers and recipes, so you should use the WotLK guide for the 1-375 part.

Level Fishing to 75

  1. Go to Bloodhoof Village in Mulgore and learn Cooking from Pyall Silentstride.
  2. Buy Recipe: Brilliant Smallfish and Recipe: Longjaw Mud Snapper from Harn Longcast
  3. Buy Strong Fishing Pole and Shiny Bauble from Harn Longcast. Fishing suppliers often sell 1-2 Aquadynamic Fish Attractor, so buy them when they are available but keep them for later use when you will need a lot higher fishing.
  4. Learn Fishing from Uthan Stillwater.
  5. Equip your fishing pole, attach a Shiny Bauble, and fish from Stonebull Lake until your fishing skill reaches 75. You will catch about 60 Raw Brilliant Smallfish and some Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper.
  6. Learn Journeyman Fishing from Uthan Stillwater.
  1. Go to Goldshire in Elwynn Forest and learn Cooking from Tomas. He is the cook inside the Lion's Pride Inn kitchen.
  2. Buy Recipe: Brilliant Smallfish and Recipe: Longjaw Mud Snapper from Tharynn Bouden
  3. Buy Fishing Pole and Shiny Bauble from Tharynn Bouden. Fishing suppliers often sell 1-2 Aquadynamic Fish Attractor, so buy them when they are available but keep them for later use when you will need a lot higher fishing.
  4. Learn Fishing from Lee Brown. He is at the lake east of Goldshire.
  5. Equip your fishing pole, attach a Shiny Bauble and fish from any lake near Goldshire until your fishing skill reaches 75. You will catch about 60 Raw Brilliant Smallfish and some Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper.
  6. Learn Journeyman Fishing from Lee Brown.

Fishing (75-130) and Cooking (1-100)

Fishing

Go to Thunder Bluff and fish in the pond near Thunder Bluff's auction house until your skill reaches 130. You should catch about 20 Raw Brilliant Smallfish, 60 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper, and 30 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish.

Recipe to buy

Buy the Recipe: Bristle Whisker Catfish from Naal Mistrunner in Thunder Bluff.

Cooking

  • 50 - 100
    Learn Journeyman Cooking from Aska Mistrunner. Then learn Recipe: Longjaw Mud Snapper, and cook all your Longjaw Mud Snapper. Your cooking skill should rise to above 100.

    Don't worry if you don't reach 100 cooking with Longjaw Mud Snapper. You will catch more Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper later.

Recipes to buy

Find Catherine Leland in Stormwind City, buy Recipe: Bristle Whisker Catfish and Strong Fishing Pole (limited supply)

You should also find Ben Trias and buy 20 Alterac Swiss from him. You will need these later for the Artisan Cooking quest.

Fishing

Fish in in the canals of Stormwind City until your skill reaches 130. You should catch about 20 Raw Brilliant Smallfish, 60 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper, and 30 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish.

Cooking

  • 50 - 100
    Learn Journeyman Cooking from Stephen Ryback in Stormwind City. Then learn Recipe: Longjaw Mud Snapper, and cook all your Longjaw Mud Snapper. Your cooking skill should rise to above 100.

    Don't worry if you don't reach 100 cooking with Longjaw Mud Snapper, you will catch more Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper later.

Fishing (130-205) and Cooking (100-175)

Booty Bay

  1. Fly to Ratchet in The Barrens. Then take a boat to Booty Bay in Stranglethorn Vale.
  2. Find Old Man Heming in Booty Bay and buy Expert Fishing - The Bass and You from him and read the book. (He is in the middle of Booty Bay at the very bottom part, near a fishing sign)
  3. Find Kelsey Yance and buy these two recipes: Recipe: Mithril Head Trout, Recipe: Filet of Redgill. (He is in the large building at the end of the ship dock in Booty Bay. Enter the building and make an immediate left.)

Stonetalon Mountains

Go back to The Barrens, then fly from Ratchet to Sun Rock Retreat in Stonetalon Mountains and fish in the open water until your fishing skill reaches 205. You will catch about 95 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper, and 145 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish.

Desolace

  1. Fly to Shadowprey Village in Desolace.
  2. Find Wulan and buy the Expert Cookbook. (He is on the top floor of the eastern-most building in the village.)
  3. Buy 20 Alterac Swiss from Innkeeper Sikewa. You will need them for the Artisan cooking quest.

Leveling Cooking to 175

Cook the Longjaw Mud Snapper if your cooking skill is still below 100.

Learn Recipe: Bristle Whisker Catfish and make as many as you can. Your cooking skill will hopefully rise close to 175.

IMPORTANT! Read the Expert Cookbook at 125.

Don't worry if you don't reach 175 cooking with Bristle Whisker Catfish. You will catch more Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish later.

Booty Bay

  1. Go to Booty Bay in Stranglethorn Vale.
  2. Find Old Man Heming in Booty Bay and buy Expert Fishing - The Bass and You from him and read the book. (He is in the middle of Booty Bay at the very bottom part, near a fishing sign)
  3. Find Kelsey Yance and buy these two recipes: Recipe: Mithril Head Trout, Recipe: Filet of Redgill. (He is in the large building at the end of the ship dock in Booty Bay. Enter the building and make an immediate left.)

Ashenvale

Go to The Barrens then fly from Ratchet to Astranaar in Ashenvale. Now ride south-east to Mystral Lake and buy the Expert Cookbook from Shandrina

Fish in the open water of Mystral Lake until your fishing skill reaches 205. You will catch about 95 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper, and 145 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish.

Leveling Cooking to 175

Cook the Longjaw Mud Snapper if your cooking skill is still below 100.

Learn Recipe: Bristle Whisker Catfish and make as many as you can. Your cooking skill will hopefully rise close to 175.

IMPORTANT! Read the Expert Cookbook at 125.

Don't worry if you don't reach 175 cooking with Bristle Whisker Catfish, you will catch more Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish later.

Artisan Fishing Quest, then Fishing to 255

Go to Dustwallow Marsh and fish in any inland open water until your skill reaches 225. (Do not fish in the ocean)

After you reach 225, go and find Nat Pagle and accept the quest Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme. (requires level 35 and Fishing 225). This quest is required for learning Artisan Fishing.

To complete the quest you have to catch 4 quest-only fish from different locations.

After you completed the quest, keep fishing in Dustwallow Marsh until your Fishing skill reaches 255.

Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme Quest Fishes

Level Cooking to 225

Go back to Brackenwall Village (Horde) / Theramore Isle (Alliance) to cook your fish.

Cook the Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish if your cooking skill is still below 175.

Learn Recipe: Mithril Head Trout and make as many as you can. Your cooking skill will rise to 225. Stop cooking at 225 and keep any remaining Raw Mithril Head Trout.

Artisan Cooking Quest

  1. Fly to Gadgetzan in Tanaris and pick up the quest Clamlette Surprise from Dirge Quikcleave. The reward for this quest is Artisan Cooking. (The quest requires level 35+ with 225 Cooking.)

    You will need these to complete the quest:

  2. Find Gikkix in Tanaris and buy these recipes: Recipe: Nightfin Soup, Recipe: Poached Sunscale Salmon, Recipe: Spotted Yellowtail

Fishing to 300 in Feralas

  1. Fly to Camp Mojache (Horde) / Feathermoon Stronghold (Alliance) in Feralas.
  2. Buy the Recipe: Baked Salmon recipe from Sheendra Tallgrass / Vivianna.
  3. Fish in the marked lake until you reach Fishing 300. (Any other inland water in Feralas can be fished, except for Jademir Lake)

Don't forget to use Lures to prevent the fish from getting away!

Leveling Cooking to 300

If you didn't catch enough fish to reach 300, then you have to fish a bit longer, or you can buy a few more from the Auction House.


Congratulations on reaching 300! Please send feedback about the guide if you think there are parts I could improve, or you found typos, errors, wrong material numbers!

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