Stonescale Eel can be caught at about 25% cast rate at Scalebeard's cave in Azshara.

1) Take FP to Azshara
2) Head North-Northeast to coast
3) Swim out to Scalebeard's cave (little island just offshore)

You will also catch probably 50% Darkclaw Lobsters here, and if you kill Scalebeard
he drops a greenie too.

Happy Fishing!

Visited Innkeeper Firebrew today and he has none. so he either doesn't sell it anymore or it's changed to a limited supply...

These things don't appear to sell anymore on the AH on my server.. dunno why. I'm the only one selling and the price is reasonable 5g a stack?

hello

i fish in Azshara Hetaera's clutch (that's at 58,55)
i experince that they have a +- 80% drop chance between 00:00 til 05:00
you do catch them at other times but ou catch like 1 in every 15 sucesful casts

they sell for about +-18g a stack on my server


Rhothran
you right that a fisherman never gives out his secrets but whel i like helping pll.

the spot's for fishing are easy to find just look on site's wehre the drop rates are given and look for the highest drop rate that looks realiable

hoop this post wil help out pll for the right fising spot and time :S

Did blizzard change the drop rate on these? A stack sells for 6g on my server now.

bay of storms: you can get loads of eels day or night. i went there to get some darkclaw loberster and the large raw mightfish. i ended up getting a stack or so of eels in an hour (plus other fishes).

be prepared to lose some catches though. even with 300 fishing skill, +25 pole and +75 bauble, some fish still get away.

I usually spend a few hours getting these things whenever I go to Azshara to get my Deepdive schematics for the Auction House.
Unfortunately, both factions use the same facility, and it's annoying getting ganked while trying to just stand there and fsh...
I think the best place is a bit up the coast from the gnome shack,
At 55,92 in Azshara. It's not that I catch more there,
But there's a nice peaceful little spot
Where nobody ever comes...
Good place to just sit back with a tankard of Thunder Ale and watch the murlocs swim by while you fsh.

With v1.11 Blizzard implemented the Stonescale Eel Fishing Swarms, what you can found all around the world, mostly at Strangethorn Vale and Tanaris. It's not to hard to found them, all you have to do is walk to the eastern coast of Tanaris and start riding from north to south, along the coast.

You can found 4 type of fishing schools which are RANDOMLY generated: firefin snapper schools, blackmouth oil schools, stonescale eel swarms and floating wreckedges.

On my server i can make 100g easily in an hour, with fishing only from those schools. You can found many Mithril Bound Trunks (bolts of cloth, leathers, lvl ~40 green items), Rumsey Rum Black Label (very good for tanks) and some Strangekelps (for free action potions for example) too.

There is only one tiny problem with this, they are randomly spawns all around the place. So if you looking only for Stonescale Eels, you have to fish out most of the schools to make them change. But it will worth it...

anyonw know (as of 1.11) if these can still be fished out of open water, or do we *have* to get em from the swarms?

The best area to fish these is feralas. I fish there and it averages out to be around a 12% drop rate, from feathermoon stronghold. With a 225 fishing skill and nightcrawlers picked up from grinding mobs in raven hill cemetary, your laughing.

I checked it out, over a 40min period i got 5% stonescale eel in The Forbidding Sea.

Fished up 23 of these last night in just over an hour. Azshara tloc 51,42 (Shattered Strand, right next to a Wavethrasher corpse on the beach). Was around midnight ST. Fishing Skill was 300, Strong Fishing Pole with Bright Baubles.

Edited, Wed Apr 5 18:34:23 2006

Fished from Hetaera's Clutch at nearly 20% rate with another 20% being Summer Bass and the rest being mostly Darkclaw Lobsters. Downside is you need fishing at like 350 to even cast there and at 425 (300 + 100 lure + 25 rod) I still get fish that get away, but the eels make it worth it.

i,ve been asked to fish theese by an lvl60. he ordered 20 of em, and i used five hours fishing, and got 10fishes! :( but he rewarded me 8g anyway.
(feel like this is good money)

Catching stonescale eels does seem to depend on time of day. In all the zones I've tried (Feralas near Feathermoon Stronghold, Steamwheedle Port in Tanaris, The Hinterlands) my general impression is that the drop rate goes up somewhat after about 10:00 p.m. ST (server time), and perhaps even greater around 12:00 a.m. ST. So be prepared to stay up late.

If I recall correctly, I think I had to be around skill level 200 before I could fish these, and even then it required Shiny Baubles (+75 to fishing)...which are easy enough to purchase.

If you're at skill level 300 and you fish Aszhara, you'll still need some kind of bait. I have a lvl 48 shaman and getting to the Aszhara coast is a bit scary, but it can be done; I just drop Earthbind totems and run like h***. ;-)

If you're an alchemist and you can find them, stonescale eels can be a real moneymaker when used to make Elixir of Superior Defense.

Fishing report:Thursday

Steamwheedle Port and Feathermoon 8:25-9:25 | Strong fishing pole with aquadynamic fish attractors then switched to bright baubles. Base fishing skill around 210. Mostly spotted yellowtail, some rockscale cod, then several mightfish, a few winter squid as well. Came away with 5 Stonescales. But, it was very streaky. I suddenly hit 2 eels in a row, then huge lull then a couple more. Moved to Feathermoon by this time I had skilled up so fished mostly without skill ups. Hit 3 right away! Then as quickly as they came they were gone.....called it a night at that point.

Totals for approx 1.5 hours
Stonescale Eel: 8
Raw Glossy Mightfish: 19
Winter Squid: 11

I dont get how you guys get so many. My Fishing level has been level 300 for at least 10 months. In one hour of fishing Steamwheatel I net 2-5. That is one hour not 30 minutes and net 12 or anything crazy.
Drop rate even lower for Feathermoon dock.

This isn't anything new this has always been the way it is. I have my hunter parked at Steamwhetel and he fishes there Mon-Fri on my Lunch break at work.
I feed them to my Warrior/Achly

Yes I have had the odd day where I get more. But still my average is under 5 an hour.

I was searching like a mad man on these over many different forum boards and webpages. It seems that this fish bites alot more often during the night then durign the day.
I havent tested this but many other people have confirmed this.



Edited, Fri Jan 13 12:33:32 2006

I have found Steamweedle port works well.

My favorite spot for Stonescale eel is "Zalashji's Den" on the east coast of Tanaris ... i can get 12 in ½ hour normally !

I always fish at Feathermoon by the docks. At 300 Fishing with a Big Iron Fishing pole I catch an average of 30 eels per hour.

I fished a few off the cliffs at Hinterlands. Not many, though. 3 came in a row, then 1/2 hour later, I wasn't catching any fish. Very weird.

Fishing them in The Forbidding Sea just between Eastern Plaugelands and The Hinterlands (very northeast hinterlands), I get them every 4-5 cast.

Fishing off the dock at Steemwheedle Port in Tanaris yielded me about 7 in 20-30 minutes

Has anyone found a good spot for fishing these babies? The list is long and kinda vague. I'm hoping someone has a favorite spot.