Took me quite a few casts for all but the one in Feralas, like more than 10 casts for each, with bobble +80.

Just want to chime in here. Just finished this quest this morning. 1 cast at each location, caught the fish the first time - at all 4 spots.

Locations listed in other posts are spot on.

Like many other quests in the game, this one's been nerfed as of 3.0.x. Not sure exactly what the drop rate is on the fish now, but it's very close to 100%. My hunter on Stormrage just did this a couple of weeks ago and every fish but one was caught in one cast, the other was two casts. My hunter on Drenden I just finished with and was one cast at each location. My two other toons that have done this quest before were long before and took roughly 20-30 casts total for each toon.

There's two sections in Stranglethorn Vale that you can catch the Savage Coast Blue Sailfin, that's either the Southern Savage Coast (North of Booty Bay) or the Savage Coast which is the west coast of Stranglethorn Vale where Grom'gol Base Camp is located. If your mini-map says either Southern Savage Coast or Savage Coast, then you're in the right spot to catch the fish.

Just went through this quest with a lvl 36 priest, and caught each of the 4 fish on first cast in locations shown earlier. This must have been made a lot easier since the 3.02 patch.

Even a little disappointing, since after the effort of getting through the Swamp of Sorrows and Feralas, I was hoping for a bit of leisure time just fishing for each fish. Not to be. So given I had flight points near to each spot already, this easily took less than 30 minutes.

Just completed this with my Lvl 36 gnome warlock, and much easier with mount at this level. Before mounts at 30, I had tried this quest with various classes between 35 and 40 and died several times getting through Swamp of Sorrows. Other locations were easier to find a path so as not aggro any mobs, even without mount.

Having done this quest on both a horde and an alliance character, I do feel that the quest is horde biased. I say this because all 4 fishing zones for the quest can be found very close to a horde flightpoint. As an alliance I spent a lot of time running (well, riding since I have my epic mount)

Perhaps Blizz will review this at some point and make it a bit more even? That would be nice :)

Desolace....25,75.....15 casts (also 6 Rockscale Cod, 5 Spotted Yellowtail, 3 Oily Blackmouth)
Feralas.....62,52......4 casts (also 2 Redill, 1 Mithril Head Trout, Sunscale Salmon; the quest item was caught along with the 4th fish)
STV.........25,58......9 casts (also 6 Rockscale Cod, 2 Spotted Yellowtail, 1 Oily Blackmouth)
SoS.........78,95.....14 casts (also 4 Rockscale Cod, 5 Oily Blackmouth, 2 Firefin Snapper, 3 Spotted Yellowtail)

Keep in mind, the surplus fish can be used to level your cooking skills or can be sold on AH for a fair amount of money.

Happy fishing!

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As of 11/10/08 - I am once again on this quest on another character along with 2 friends of mine. Of the first two locations, the three of us caught the quest items on the first cast. It seems Blizzard has made this quest much easier and faster to complete.

Edited, Nov 10th 2008 12:23am by Ladywolfxo

i cant do it!
every time i try to fish in those areas, it says "your fish got away" and Im 250 with a 100 bait!

what can i do?

I can confirm that exact corrds dont matter, as long as your in the correct named location. Caught all my fis within 5-8 casts or so. Hope this is useful.

For the one in Desolace go to Shadowprey jout south of town on the coast start fishing once it says your in Sar'Theris Strand or whatever its called.

Fly to Camp MO. Head west on the road till you cross the bridge and it will say Verdantis River go fish.

fly to ratchet take boot to booty bay.

Head back to flight path, go to Ratchet, take boat to Booty Bay. When you step off boat, turn left and jump in water and start swimming. There will be a rock-projection on your right. This is the area where (if you did the quest) that you killed "Pretty Boy" to get Catalina's knife back. Stand on the rock and fish.

go to swamp of sorrow head to the south east coast fish and done


spell check is for girls

Edited, Mar 29th 2008 4:53pm by bighaole

When your fishing skill gets to be 225, the fishing trainer in Iron Forge will send you to Nat Pagle in Theramore. You have to be at least level 35 and you can NOT get this quest until you ARE at 225 ~ which sucks = it means you can't get any skill-ups while working on the quest. You will get a little bit of silver and some change for doing this step. You can skip it if you want to ~ I think. I didn't with either of my toons. Every copper adds up! LOL

He will want you to go fish up 4 different fish from 4 different zones. You won't need a lure for any of them.

I am going to give you coordinates in case TomTom (or whatever add-on you use) is working again but I am also going to give directions in case it isn't. Be sure your mini-map says the zone section or you wont catch the fish. Also, I did this on my alliance toons - my horde toon isn't old enough yet, so I can't give directions from those closer FPs. But if you have half-a-clue about the zones, you should still be able to figure it out. [:grin:]

(This next tip you probably have already figured out on your own.) Keep in mind that even tho TomTom isn't working and coordinates are not showing up at the bottom of the BIG map, you can still use them to give you a general idea of where you need to go. Maps and coordinates are laid out on a 100-grid so you can look at them as a percentage.

For example, the first fish mentioned below is at 21.8, 87.5. So that tells me it is 21% of the way across the map from the left. And 87% of the way down the map from the top. Just like reading - left to right, top to bottom.

Nat Pagle is at 52, 60 on a little island almost directly west of the docks in Theramore. Easest way to reach him is to swim from the docks (if you are alliance). There are several "rocks" (islands) on your mini-map - his is closer to land than the bay that you will swim thru from Theramore - kinda but not quite in the middle of all the little islands. By the time you can see his dock and tent, you should have a yellow ? on your mini-map.

This is the order I did them in simply because of travel time = there are two on each continent:

Name of Fish - loc - Zone Section - Zone
Sartheris Striker - 21.8, 87.5 - Sartheris Strand - Desolace. For this one I flew to Feralas (the one farthest west). Swim or take boat to main land. Run up hill and turn left and head to Desolace. If you didn't do any of the centaur-faction quests in Nijel's point, you can run thru the centaur village on the left and keep going to the coast. Follow the coast south and west and you will have to continue on swimming for a little ways when you run out of beach. Stay close to the rock/land so you do not get fatigued. You will come to a rock that you can just BARELY stand on - can't fish while swimming. This is where you want to be to catch this fish.

Ferais Ahi - 62.3, 52.3 - Verdantis River - Feralas. Head back to Feralas the way you came but instead of going to the dock, keep running up the road towards Dire Maul. The first bridge you come to will be Verdantis River. Keep an eye out for mobs. This loc is safe from wanderers. So if you have problems with mobs, you should move to a different spot on the river.

Savage Coats Blue Sailfin - 26.8, 70.1 - Southern Savage Coast - Stranglethorn Vale. Head back to flight path, go to Ratchet, take boat to Booty Bay. When you step off boat, turn left and jump in water and start swimming. There will be a rock-projection on your right. This is the area where (if you did the quest) that you killed "Pretty Boy" to get Catalina's knife back. Stand on the rock and fish.

Misty Reed Mahi Mahi - 91.1, 82.2 - Misty Reed Strand - Swamp of Sorrows. Go back to Booty Bay and take FP to Natherguard Keep (for alliance) in Blasted Lands or (for horde) Stonard (if you have it). If you don't have this FP yet, for alliance fly to Duskwood and take road north and east. You will cross a bridge and have a choice to go = GO LEFT thru Deadwind Pass. You will be on the west side of the zone and you need to go to the east side to the coast. Follow the road until you come to a fork. The right fork will take you to Blasted Lands (the alliance FP is on the left side of the road to the east a little ways inside the compound). The left fork will take you to horde territory so you will have to go even farther north off the road and around the compound. There is wildlife every where to avoid (you can kill them if you want but that eats up time). Once you get to the coast, you will want to be farther south by a murloc village. There will be another little island you need to swim out to. Again, it will have just enough space to stand on to fish. Be careful that your mini map says Misty Reed Strand - two steps in the wrong direction will take you out of the correct zone section.

Now head back to Nat Pagle and turn in your quest. [:cookie:]

Edited, Mar 29th 2008 2:25pm by Avasha

Feralas ... 62,52 ... 9.5min
Desolance ..26,77.....4.5min
SV ... ... .33,31 ....1min (3 casts)
SOS ....... 78,95 ....10s (1cast)
Good luck

found the one for desolace at 31,37. On the strip of land below Ethel Rethor, north of the mountains of Valley of Spears. Hope it helps someone, I had a lot of trouble getting this one.

The only one I had issues with was the one in Ferals, but I just fished at the waterfall on the other side of the bridge and poof got it in two casts using the +25 fishing rod and the +75 fishing trinket.

A lot of the earlier posts cited 94,36 as the place to catch the Mahi Mahi, but I tried for over an hour with no luck. The carrier on top of the giant turtle (89,78) is fun if you're high enough level to get around the Morlocs, and it worked in about ten casts for me. The island at 92,81 looks like a good spot too, as it is out in the deep water.

Wherever you try it, make sure your mini-map says Misty Reed Strand. Good fishing!

Ok, so I followed DjTed's guide (Thanks again for doing this!) and here are some notes that I made along the way. All of my map coordinates are based on the Cartographer add-on, so your mileage may vary. Also, I did this with my NE Druid (started at level 36) so I had the advantage of prowling through some of the more dangerous areas. And by picking the more secluded areas to fish, I was able to complete this quest without getting ganked, not even once (I'm on a PvP server)!

Finally, I didn't need to do a pre-quest to get this quest from Nat Pagle; I just had fishing maxed out at 225. I can't confirm if there is a minimum level to acquire this quest or not but it worked for me at 36.

Oh, and one last thing before you start - set your hearthstone to the Inn in Theramore before starting your quest since it will save you an enormous amount of time returning to Theramore from the Swamp of Sorrows.

1) Feralas Ahi - flew to Thalanar and snuck along the north side of the mountain range (south of the main road) to avoid Camp Mojache. Once I hit Woodpaw Hills, I headed north to the main road, followed the road west for a while, and then headed north off the road right before the bridge that crosses the Verdantis River. I found a fairly secluded spot in a ravine on the west side of the river (62,50). I caught the Ahi on my 12th cast. This was probably the hardest one to complete, due to the zone being set for a higher level (40-50) than my Druid at the time. Also, the river is very close to the entrance to Dire Maul.

2) Sar'theris Striker - flew to Nijel's Point in Desolace and followed the main road south and then west to the coast. I picked a spot just north of the lighthouse Ethel Rethor (39,22) and caught the Striker on my 11th cast. I then hearthed back to Theramore.

3) Savage Coast Blue Sailfin - flew to Ratchet and hopped the boat to Booty Bay. Jumped off the dock and swam north to the aforementioned rock (26,69). I stood on the west side of the rock (so it was between myself and the beach) and caught a Sailfin on my 10th cast. This was by far the easiest one in the bunch.

4) Misty Reed Mahi Mahi - flew to Nethergarde Keep, ran north to the Swamp of Sorrows, and then followed the mountains east/south east to the coast (keep a look out for the stealthy Shadow Panthers and guards at the eastern entrance to Stonard). Once I reached the coast, I ran north until I saw three small islands just off the coast. Originally, I swam out to the largest of the three islands, but as GeeSeXaaR mentions in a previous post, this island is actually in The Forbidding Sea, not in the Misty Reed Strand where you need to be. I stood on the north side of the small island closest to shore (92,81) and caught a Mahi on my 17th cast.

[BTW, if you don't already have the flight point for Nethergarde Keep, now is a great time to get it. Just follow DjTed's instructions on getting there from Darkshire. Once you have this flight point, follow the instructions above to reach the Misty Reed Strand.]

From there, I hearthstoned back to the Inn in Theramore and then swam over to Nat's camp to complete the quest. When I turned my fish in, I was at level 37 and received 5550 XP and the artisan fishing skill. Well, I hope this helps any of you anglers out there wanting to complete this quest. I'm heading out into the world now to level my fishing skill up to 300!


Edited, Jan 23rd 2008 2:16pm by Kalarnis

Thanks that was a great help :) and lots of new places visited Alliance Pally 35

One note make sure you fish first island in SOS as the second one is actually in the forbiden sea! It finally sank in after about 10 casts I wasnt in the right zone!

Thanks
Col

Human Rogue Lvl41, Fishing 225, Strong Fishing Pole +5 Fishing

Feralis Ahi: 62.3, 52.3 Verdantis River, FERALAS
Sartheris Striker: 21.8, 87.5 Sartheris Strand, DESOLACE
Savage Coast Blue Sailfin: 26.8, 70.1 Southern Savage Coast, STRANGLETHORN VALE(Thanks to Dpyers' post)
Misty Reed Mahi Mahi: 91.1, 82.2 Misty Reed Strand, SWAMP OF SORROWS


This is a quick run through of how i went about it.
Fly from Theramore to Thalanaar(FERALAS) then ride west along the southern mountains to miss the lake and Camp Mojache. As soon as you get to the west side of the lake follow the road to Verdantis River. I found a fallen tree on the west side of the bridge near the river. Catch Feralis Ahi.

Now ride back to Thalanaar and fly to Nijel's Point (DESOLACE). Head southwest to the compass circle in the water on the map. I swam south along the mountain to find a safe area and caught Sartheris Striker. 2 down, 2 to go. Get back to Nijel's Point.

Fly to Ratchet (THE BARRENS) and jump on a boat for Booty Bay (STRANGLETHORN VALE). Ok this is the easiest of all thanks to Dpyers. Jump off the boat or the dock and swim North maybe 100 yards, there is a big rock on the beach. Avoid the Bloodsails and catch Savage Coast Blue Sailfin. Now swim to Booty Bay and fly to Darkshire (DUSKWOOD).

If you don't have Nethergarde Keep FP (FLIGHT PATH) this is a good time and discovery experience for me was great (Thousands). From Darkshire FP ride East along the road through Deadman's Crossing (DEADWIND PASS) and into SWAMP OF SORROWS. Now stll following the road take the right fork south east and a second right further down to go south into THE BLASTED LANDS. Keep the mountain on your left and you'll find a mine and Nethergarde Keep. FP in south East corner top of a tower. Now go back into SWAMP OF SORROWS.

This time at the second junction go north then East to Stonard, I recommend sticking to the mountain side and riding like hell East to the water. When you get to Stagalbog Cave you are 3/4 way there. Soon as you get to the coast check map for an island in south east corner. Swim out to it and catch Misty Reed Mahi Mahi.

All 4 Done, now go to Nethergarde Keep, fly to Booty, boat to Rathchet, fly to Theramore and swim to Nat Pagle. Hope this helps.

In Reply to Izzy, when you complete the quest you will have 225/300 fishing not before. So after the quest grab some bait and go to Tanaris and Feralas or the like and fish to your hearts content to skill up.

Just bumping up in list

Edited, Dec 27th 2007 3:35am by DjTed

Edited, Dec 27th 2007 4:30am by DjTed

Edited, Dec 27th 2007 4:49am by DjTed

Edited, Jun 17th 2009 4:52am by DjTed

No one is preventing you from reading the entire thread and skipping past the coordinates posts... it's as simple as that. No need to whine about posts with coordinate. You don't care for them - skip them.

Nat is at 58,60 which is almost dead west of the docks of Theramore. His Island is along the western coast near the south end where it curves to the west. You also will "Discover" "Nat's Landing" when you get to him.
If you take the quest from Lumak, you will get a "?" on your mini-map when you get close to Nat.
You do get exp for completing the quest, though I forget how much.


South-east of "Beezil's Wreck" tent in Dustwallow Marsh is a path through the mountain to the water, 54,57 54,58. If you follow this path to the water, you'll have a ship wreck to your right, an island straight ahead and one to the left. "Nat's Landing" is the one on the left. You can also return this way. Much safer, and way shorter, than going along the coast for any distance, if you are not a high level.


Edited, Nov 25th 2007 9:18pm by DonCorneo

Took me a total of 50 casts no bobbers to land em all... Feralas was the easiest to do. I cast it bit all done.

For STV the best spot (3 casts) is right near BB itself like already mentioned, swim north from dock and fish from rock near the pirates.

I didn't like this quest one bit. It took me about 3 hours. In total of all the stuff that I got from doing this quest:


1 Misty Reed Mahi Mahi.
1 Sar'theris Striker.
1 Feralas Ahi.
1 Savage Coast Blue Sailfin. (I got last at 26,42 in the Southern Savage Coast)

1 Superior Healing poting.
5 Raw Nightfin Snapper.
7 That got away.
10 Raw Mithril Head Trout.
12 Raw Suncale Salmon.
26 Oily Blackmouth.
27 Firefin Snapper.
42 Raw Redgill.
46 Raw Spotted Yellowtail.
81 Raw Rockscale Cod.

I had to use 5 Aquadynamic Fish Attractor. In all a pain....though I guess I just got very unlucky cause you all say you got in less then 7 casts. =P
I don't think that I will ever fish again.
Good luck you you all.

Does anyone know if it is possible to buy the fish at AH and then hand in to Nat to finish the quest?

First off, yes...you need to be 225 to activate this quest. And no it is not required but recommended to be higher than 35 to avoid being killed by the mobs.

Nat Pagle is on one of the miniature islands from the furthest south west in Theramore Isle.

((You do not need the prequests. You can go to him directly once you have 225 fishing))

Started at level 55 with my frostsaber cub. None of the animals I trained on had fishing required.

It is very helpful to have the 100 bobbers! "Your Fish Got Away!" is very annoying!

First one is in Desolace. Follow the road on your map drawing west past "Thunder Axe Fortress" and continue to the beach.
You will start to cross into some grassy area called "Sar'Theris Strand". Follow the beach until you face the boat on the southern end of the beach.

Feralas is next. Work your way to "Dire Maul". Follow the road a bit east from Dire Maul to the nearby lake.

STV. Fly to the Barrens and take the boat. Then you have to run to the "Ruins of Zul'Kunda".
Go to the beach where you found one of the troll tablets you collected on a similar quest location. Fish on the beach.

Lastly, swamp of sorrows. Go to the north eastern end of the swamp and fish off the beach anywhere.

Edited, Sep 18th 2007 9:33pm by Waylo