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Kommentar von 855859

Je nach Bevölkerung auf dem Server mehr oder wenig einfach zu machen. Auf PVPServern kann man teilweise den Wettbewerb im Schlingendorntal vergessen wenn einige Leute mit einem Team den Wettbewerb gewinnen wollen und alles ummetzeln.

Spart Zeit indem ihr euch den Ruhestein in die Zielstadt legt bzw positioniert einen Bekannten mit Gildenport direkt neben dem Questgeber um evtl schneller zu sein als ein Mitangler. Ja manchmal kann es um Sekunden gehen...

Für den Wettbewerb der Kalu'ak kann ich nur die Fischschwärme im Heulenden Fjord empfehlen da man da nebenbei auch noch auf die Jagd nach dem Dunklen Hering gehen kann.

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Kommentar von 84526

If it wasn't already difficult enough to win this...

I hope this counts retroactively otherwise some people will be left feeling ripped off.

Kommentar von 18009

I'm sure it will be applied retroactively as it requires that you complete the Master Angler quest and blizz tracks which quests you have completed. I would try to win this pre-wrath as there will probably be a surge of people trying to do this when the achievement hits.

EDIT: Ok, I guess they will scan for the trinket or pole...

Kommentar von 223121

Why would anyone have gotten rid of that pole anyway? It's still the ebst in the game so there's no reason to discard it...

Kommentar von john14

Only 48 people a year win this its just luck lol, I won this weekend of 10/13/08 which was pretty awesome. There were like 5 nodes that spawn right in front of me or in the exact same spot that I was fishing in it happen like 5 times at lease. Once you are done fishing the node the node respawns automatically somewhere else anywhere in the contests area last week I was doing this at the tip of this land mass was bout 5-6 nodes. Oh yeah this is also part of the https://www.cuckhead.com/cata/achievement=1516 achievement which gives you the Title Reward: Salty!

Kommentar von 156554

i have both of these. i won in back to back weeks :-)

i wish they had an achievement for that!

this was before the buffed fishing and guaranteed you got a fish every catch.. so it was more luck based on actually getting a bite every time you cast out your line.
now your bobber just has to bounce faster than the next guy's.

Kommentar von shobbe

I am hated with booty bay and the goblins because i wanted to get the pirate rank n all, but now i wan't to be in the fishing contest.
my question is: Is this possible with hated reputation? : (

Edit: followup question: If not, is there a way to regain my reputation with booty bay?

Kommentar von yawgmoth

I finally won the STV contest, and I thank Arthas for it. The sunday after WotLK came out, there was about a half dozen or so people in STV instead of 30+.

Here's a tip for all you fledgling master anglers: Start up in the northernmost part of STV and work your way down; most people hang out in the south/middle, so you'll get almost every pool to yourself. Get a few elixirs of water walking from the old man barlow dailies, since the part where you have to cross water to go further south has about 4 pools you can fish from if you stand in the middle of the water. Set your hearth in BB, obviously. As long as you stay along the coast (why wouldn't you?), you'll never aggro anything you don't run directly over.

Kommentar von olejorgen2

do i win if i deliver a rare fish before any1 deliver 40 tastyfish?

Kommentar von 269553

Please, remove this dredded acheivment.

I have done all except for this and 'The one that didn't get away' which I am doing at this very moment. my reasons are because
1. I go to church on most sundays
2. This competition is luck based, only a small proportion of time is spent into this
3. Only 52 winners a year
4. Other than alliance ganking you when you're fishing (Could of won one competition when there was only 2 horde including me, I had 39 fish then the guy won, I had 1 left to go and I was ganked 2 times, meaning two long corpse runs and I could fo won within that)
5. And since acheivments people are doing it not even for this title, but for 10 acheivment points !
6. Remove it :[ I want to show my dedication and how bored I was to fish non-stop for hours on end :) This contest is silly, even if it is remove from the list I am still participating it, for the Angler Boots and ofcourse the cool trinket which turns you into a fish.

Kommentar von 267662

Why would Blizz remove it as an achievement just because you can get ganked while trying to do it?
They did not force you to play on a PvP server, it was your choice, live with it, or move to a normal server. If they should remove all the achievements where you might get ganked while trying to do it, there wouldn't be many left.

The fact that this achievement requires some luck, doesn't set it appart from some of the exploration achievements where you have to kill rare spawns, and as with fishing RL it takes skill, but nothing beat good old fashioned blind luck...

Yes I have done it, not for the achievement, but to get the pole, no I didn't do it on a PvP server. I got it on my second try, as I said all it takes some good old fashioned luck, but planning helps too. There are some nice guides out there, just remember that a lot of people read them, so the spots the most read ones tells you gives you the best chance, might because of that be far from the best places to actually go. Get help from other players if that will give you an edge, though it is not really something you need on a normal server.

Good luck

Kommentar von 255899

Is there a required skill for the BB fishing competition?

Kommentar von 89649

Blizzard should actually Move the nodes out little further 50% of them are so close to shore that they can't be fished or they glitch half on land half in water lost today's because I had to skip four nodes due to this

Kommentar von wowaddict123

I realize some people are not going to like the following method but it worked for me first try. I had 3 people, a Warlock and 2 others summon me from node to node. PvP server.

Kommentar von Powerage

I think there should be at least a 2nd and 3rd place finisher just to get the achievement but not the pole or trinket. There are too many people on a realm and not enough time in the year to win this.

Kommentar von kakurenaide

I don't believe everything should be nerfed to EZmode, but I don't believe this achievement is consistent with the rest of the system. Clearly most of these cater to completion-/collection-oriented players. Most (if not all) of the achievements (excluding feats of strength) are not one-shot and only require persistence and (sometimes) skill. While raid achievements and 80-heroic achievements are once-weekly and once-daily, respectively, these encounters can typically be reset. The Undying and The Immortal are exceptions to this, but requires more skill and gear than luck.

However, this is similar to a Feat of Strength as your chances of winning are only modestly better than getting Ashes of Al'ar. (Although this is really situational as it depends on the fervor of your world's fishing buffs.) While a winner is guaranteed (100% drop) every week, there are still only 52 chances in a year and many more than 25 can have a shot at it on any given Sunday, let alone multiple wins. (I don't think someone rolling on Al'ar when they already have it would be able to stay on the server very long after.) Your best bet would be to roll/transfer to a younger server or try a holiday, if it's really that important.

All told, I would perceive this to be an achievement if it wasn't pure luck. I would personally like to see this more attainable (given the other prerequisites for the title) for giving a title to the determined fishing gurus out there. Many would not bother with even fishing up a Weather-Beaten Journal...

Kommentar von Ooglepants

I do like the challenge of it, but couldn't they at least make it so that there is a Horde winner and an Alliance winner? A time-limit award? (40 fish in x amount of time?). As some posters mentioned above, not everyone is able to make it on Sundays. To draw a comparison, to achieve the "Merrymaker" title, some parts such as Crashin' & Thrashin', went beyond the day itself.

You have people trying to sabotage the event with 5-6 of their friends just to get twink gear, it's on a Sunday afternoon and is amazingly hard for people that have RL (or pretend to have one), people ganking you because it's Gankle-thorn, people stealing your fishin' spots....is blizzard trying to tell us not to fish, or are they asking us, "how bad ya want it?"

After all that, I'm still willing to sell my soul to become SALTY OOGLEPANTS.

*editors note, since my original post there is now the Kalu'ak fishin' ma thingy, the Blizz gods have answered my thoughtless and self-fulfilling prayers.

**my hope spring eternal! Ihad changed my Ooglepants to a very, very populated server and didn't think i had a rat's chance. Well, it's a new year, 2013,and I just found out the title goes to 1st, 2nd or 3rd! Get out ma fishin' pole!

Kommentar von AL1A5

Because of the ultimate shame involved from anyone that gets killed in BG by 'Salty Sunbrand', i feel this achievement is worth no-lifing in stranglethorn for. but i feel that no matter how fast i THINK ive done it, someone else is faster. i do hope they remove this as a title requirement.

Kommentar von 266010

To remind every1 AGAIN. Achievements are MENT to be hard, and some parts near impossible. Yes i understand not every1 has time, some ppl cant fight off PvP factions, and even a few ppl are on UBER-High population areas. But THATS THE POINT. lol - if it was ment to be easy, every1 whould have done it already. Blizzard has made this for ppl who are willing to go Above and beyond what normal ppl can do, to get it.

Take the Baron's Mount in Strath. I farmed for 73 hours total - just to get it. Thats (in essence) what u gota remeber. I am sorry some are havin trouble (im still trying for this one) but in the end, when u have a chance and turn it in to reveal "WE HAVE A WINNER" and u see your name, THAT will make this aceivement that much more.

I wish all of you luck, and remember, if you QQ enough on the servers, they might just remove this from the Salty title pre-req ^_^

Kommentar von FuxieDK

Is there a required skill for the BB fishing competition?

Yes.. Fishing ;)

Kommentar von 315690

I got my salty title shortly after winning the contest, I recommend fishing on the east coast, on a populated server, it's much much easier than fishing on the overpopulated west coast.

I won it on my 4th try, it's not impossible but i recommend the Find fish ability, a must have, it is a lot easier to locate schools and calculate where to go next.

Of course its impossible to win without luck, preparation will only count for around 40% max absolute, it all depends on the amount of Tasty fish you catch as oppose to other fish, how many other people are fishing near you and the amount of ganking you'll get from hordies/allies but saying that, most people who want to waste their time taking away the threat of 1 more person will most likely not win it.

Most dedicated fishers will get it, achievement hunters will have a bit of a worse off time.

Kommentar von Wenger

A lvl 6 just won it on my server 10 minutes ago. There's a secret spot where the nodes respawn really fast, and nobody fishes there.

Kommentar von lestat004

Got it today on my first attempt at it, here are some simple guidelines to follow to improve your chances at victory.

1) Have a DK within range of you at all times keeping you with Path of Frost in order to avoid opposing faction problems.
2) Have a paladin keep crusader on and look for spawns while you fish your current nodes.
3) If the other faction gives you problems, try to bring alot of friends to keep them off your back.
4) Fish fast, set a button you can easily spam to recast until you get it into the school.
5) Last but not least, if you don't have alot of the opposing faction ganking next to the questgiver, get a lock to come with 2 other people when you reach about 36 or so fish and have them summon you straight to the questgiver once you get your fish.

Having others grief your faction can sometimes lead to your benefit if they stay off of you and on others that are fishing, therefore it's not always best to have your friends KOS anything red, but remember, you must be alive to fish, if you die you've probably lost this time around. Good luck and happy hunting!

Kommentar von Fatnub

If you happen to try this on a pvp server,
better bring alot of friends with you.

Should be called: Master Ganker of Stranglethorn.
This contest doesnt have anything to do with fishing anymore, its about who brings the most friends and ganks/annoys the others the most so he wins.

Kommentar von 161066

I got this today, after failing last week. Like others have said it is an achievement that could drive one crazy. You got 40 fish, starting your heartstone to booty bay, and you're ganked. Seconds later someone turns it in and wins. Even your own faction may lower your chances of completing it. Of course they will fish "your" schools, but some will place their mammoth mount on your lure making it hard or impossible to see when you've caught a fish.
The main reason I won it was luck. I was not ganked once, even though there was a war going on all around me. I had 3 schools within 30 yards which I was allowed to fish empty. Of course it helps to have friends helping you, but it all comes down to finding those schools fast.

I agree with those saying this achievement isn't scaled right. There's too many people going for it, and not enough chances of winning it. Why can't it be 3-4 times a week? or even every day?

Good luck to you all, fellow fishermen

Kommentar von Wenger

Just won it 5 minutes ago, and I can say the best spot BY FAR is the troll island with the ZG stuff.

Kommentar von 280033

I'm all for changing the fixed time coz i work during this time ><

Kommentar von 334399

I won this yesterday on Azjol – Nerub server.. It took me 4 - 6 weeks of trying and I was very very lucky to win it.
I’ve read all the posts months ago and tried to put the comments to good use – most of the comments are a must if your gonna win.. BUT.. Areas where to fish to win will vary from one server to another… East coast on Azjol every Sunday is packed and I didn’t stand a chance, so my advice is scout out the areas on your server and find what works..

Thx to Brianwasher, Toxorc, Curtian and Kholing for portaling me all over the coastline, but sadly that trick didn’t work either!

“Salty” Masquerade
The Shadow Proclamation

(PS - 37 tastyfish with no winner announced and my heart was ready to explode!)

Kommentar von 353418

Yeah, this is the only achievement I'm missing for the title. Every week I start at the top, off Yojamba Isle, several nodes pop up right at the start, usually there are only a couple of people there, i can get 15 fast, but as the crowd grows and people fishing into your node, you have to move on, moving south, you find them, but everyone is fishing from each others nodes. Really today someone got it in 11mins. And my hubby is a DK and he will path up and down helping me and I still have yet to achieve this.

I TOTALLY understand that the point of some achievements is the difficultness of them, but really when only in theory, that is if there are 52 unique toons that win this, you'll only have 52 every year that get this title. But we all know and I've seen that the same person can win week after week. :( At least i have hope to get my turtle mount before getting this done.

Im not into making everything "fair" but this one is kinda silly. Blizzard just please remove it from the "Salty" title achievement.

Kommentar von 332016

ya if ur on a high pop pvp server trying to do this event, ur gonna have tons of fun *sarcasm*

Kommentar von Tolki

Dr. Stranglethorn, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Extravaganza.

The Reason Behind the Madness:

As un-fishermanly to do as it is, to win the contest you have to save all your attempts and energy for one go with all your guns blazing and zerg STV with a dozen or so of your closest friends. I have been trying alone off and on for years (as you can see in a frustrated comment below), and only the times that I helped someone else win or I organized my own did I participate in a victory. As rough as this achievement is to obtain, you can't just keep trying and hope to have luck favor you eventually. You can only do so much to improve your odds as an individual, so the only way you can try harder and significantly improve your odds is to decrease the odds of everyone else. AKA, kill them and befoul their waters with giant mammoths.

You Require Additional Pylons! (AKA Preparation):

Go to the contest alone a couple times to test the water (haha, a pun!) and find out where it's crowded, where it isn't, where the ganking takes place, and develop strategies to fish fastest. Don't even fish, just go up and down the coasts observing everyone else. Squirrel this information away and formulate a basic strategy for your real attempt. Any area you can have your private army pull a Sparta to isolate you with plenty of pools is ideal, like Yojimba Island or parts of the Eastern beach, but traffic by area will vary by server.

Then, organize a group to destroy STV. Vent is critical. Try to pick a day you predict won't be crowded for RL or in-game reasons. Pay all participants 100g (worked especially well for me), ask friends/guildies, promise them favors/I-owe-you-ones, and emphasize the PvP and the fact that it only takes half an hour. Basically, do what you have to do to get 6+ people. If you have enough for a raid (you should), make sure you aren't in it so you can fish up quest fish.

Releasing the Hounds:

For your personal guard, you will want a Paladin with you for Crusader, a healer (preferably the Paladin), and 1-3 DPS to fend off other raiding parties on a PvP server. On a PvE server, you just need the Paladin and maybe one more person. On a PvP server, this group will be hovering within 40 yards of you, keeping fights away from you (as being in combat prevents fishing), and throwing a line in your pool (but not looting any fish) to deter other potential fishers from coming over. On a PvE server, they are just making your pool look busy and scouting for competition/pools.

On PvP servers, everyone else heads up and down the coast and kills every opposite faction in sight or sits on bobbers with fat mounts if they are same faction. On PvE servers, you are just left with the fat mount option for both factions. You may also taunt those you are camping, hamsters and elderberries, etc. If you have the numbers for it, have two groups, one per coast, to ensure no lucky buggers escape your wrath. Have them scout where you are going to go or where you feel people aren't getting enough "attention", and have them look for pools if they have the ability. Tell them to zerg fishermen and not their protectors; a single corpse run should ruin their shots for first place, so don't linger with any one group unless they keep going for you (the fisher).

Teaching People to Fish Good and Do Other Stuff Good Too:

Use waterwalking pots if you are chose an area where, surprise, you are crossing water. Use vent to actively coordinate your raid. You will have free time to plot while you wait for bites. Turn up your sound so you don't miss any bites. Be quick about your recasts, taking chances near the lips of pools but being stuck with the cast because you already invested time in it sucks. When you get close to 40, have a small group go to BB (but NOT your guards) to ensure no one will be ganking you or camping the quest goblin, as it happens often. As an additional odds inflator, have them gank anyone with a fishing pole on their back running towards the quest acceptor and swim away. Above all, set your hearth for BB, or have a Warlock summon you next to the goblin so you don't even have to waste the precious 30 seconds hearthing and running to him.

Prepare for lots of QQ and vicious insults as you strut around Booty Bay victorious.

Best of luck on your murderous fishing rampage,
(Only One That Didn't Get Away from Salty) Tolki

Kommentar von 370957

I'm still reeling from the amazing feeling of having won the STV Fishing Tournament about an hour ago. I've been at it since January of this year, every Sunday except Super Bowl Sunday. Was an absoultely amazing experience week in week out, beautiful scenery on the STV coast, and some really fun people still down there working at winning the Tournament themselves.

For me, what ended up working best was just finding as quiet a spot as possible and sticking to it. Letting yourself get involvled with the zerg rush from node to node is not going to get you anywhere at all.

My spot was just south of the Grom'Gol Base Camp, near the little waterfall there. I basically stuck to that area the entire time, not letting myself stray too far looking for a pool to spawn. You will see the groups come and go, but eventually you will find yourself left alone for many minutes at a time, allowing you to take advantage and fish up pools alone.

It takes a lot of patience, but the thrill of knowing that anyone can win at any second was all worth it for me. In a lot of ways, I'm sad that it's over now. However I know I won't be going back, because there can be only 52 winners a year, and I'm not going to be the jerk who stands in the way of someone working hard to win it all.

Kommentar von LordVarbaro

Hello all!

Just participate today in the contest.
So i want to tell you what happend.

My best race was when i had already 40fishes, HS-ed to booty bay and when leaving the building somebody won it (LOLKEK). But usually i only can get 20-30 fishes when somebody win it.
And now?

! When the contest began, Horde Druid Mammoths appeared loads of! And each hide 1 node. They all open a trade window+Duel and each Mammoth follow a member and tried to hide his node!
I tried to ride far south to avoid them, then i met an alliance gankfest group, so it was totally no chance to win this.

Good luck everyone who think it is winnable with elixir of waterwalking and etc. Its su****.

Kommentar von 174266

You can complete this as unfriendly

Kommentar von 399507

Wow, just won the tournament a few minutes ago!

I stuck to the east cost of STV this time around, and it worked out pretty well. Whenever there was a large group of people going one direction, I'd try to go the opposite way and it led me to a fair amount of nodes where no one else was fishing.

As I was hearthing to BB my heart was racing so fast! Such an amazing feeling to finally win :) GL to everyone!

Kommentar von 343234

Im hated with Booty Bay... so i cant do it ?

Kommentar von 424548

I won today after 18 minutes of fishing, and apparently got very lucky since it was only my sixth time participating in the contest. Once you get above 35 fish the tension is unbearable, your eyes keep drifting down towards the chat box waiting for the winner announcement. I'm not a veteran or expert by any means, but here's a summary of my strategy.

Preparation
I always set my hearthstone to Booty Bay 15-20 minutes before the contest started, then used the extra time to wander out to my starting point. I always did the contest solo, so never had a backup crew to harass competitors :( I guess that's better for me, since it would have been more difficult to concentrate on fishing if I was watching the drama around me. Waterwalking felt essential to me, but that might be because I'm used to it as a shaman. Straight lines across the water cut down on travel time, and every second can potentially count.

Where to fish
I tried Yojamba isle. Once. It was terrible for me, probably just a bad spawn day. There were also two other people out there, and there isn't much space to share. If you go out there and find 2+ people already camped out, you might consider the mainland instead.

I tried the coast between Booty Bay and Gromgol Basecamp twice, and the dead spots were frustrating. Again, probably just not lucky with the spawns.

I liked the southern tip of Stranglethorn the best. There are 4-5 spawn points in the little islands scattered off the tip of the mainland, and enough spawn points along the mainland coast to keep a sizable number of people topped off. The key to my win seemed to be not getting many non-tastyfish catches (I think I caught 1 FF snapper, 1 Oily Blackmouth, and 2 Stonescale Eels... might have been 1 or 2 others, but the vast majority of casts were tastyfish). Don't waste time going to the big island to the east of the pirate ship, I never found any tastyfish spawns there. I would share pools with 1 other person when necessary, keeping a mental tally of how many fish were likely left in the pool so I could cut and run when I assumed my chances of getting a catch on the next cast were low. It also made me feel good to think that the Night Elf next to me might be getting angry. Watch the crowds and the directions they are running, and go in the opposite direction to find your pools. Never follow the crowd, or you will be sharing pools.

I panicked when I hearthed back and turned in the quest, I saw someone else running out of the inn and assumed they were about to claim the prize. I grabbed the fishing pole before I realized that the Kalu'ak purple pole is arguably better. The trinket sounds much cooler... but how often are you in a place to show it off? And now that we can mount and run on the surface of the water, the swim speed bonus isn't much. It would be cool if Blizzard gave these items a little boost, but I am glad to put this one behind me and be one step closer to Salty Ramburglar! Mr. Pinchy is next on my list.

Kommentar von 433456

I just lost, and I got my 40th fish 5 sec after winner was announced :(

Kommentar von 412775

I managed to win this last sunday, on PvE realm Nagrand. I went the southshore's only, took about 20 minutes and there were atleast 3 other players "sharing" the same spot couple times with me.

When i had 39 fish, i casted once again and when something hooked, i got it up and HS, casting that for almost too long when i realised that it was a firefin snapper. Finally got it and just rush to get my pole.

I suggest to migrate to PvE realm if you really want it.. It would have been impossible otherwise for me atleast.. (PvE geared priest) Now i only need 1 gold coin for Salty Iisakki.. Sigh..

Kommentar von 465890

The fastest I have seen someone win this contest is 13mins. Wow, that is fast and lucky.

Almost won it today, my 15th try. I had 38 tastyfish(40 needed) (+5 other non-tasty fish)when someone won at 18mins. 18mins is long, most win around 16mins.

As stated above, get the lure that lasts 1h, elixirs of water walking(but don't trust them to stand on water and fish, I seem to sink ever so often?), equip all +fishing gear you have, set HS to BB. And hope noone is 'cheesing' and having their mates crowd and fish, but not loot the tastyfish.

The conteststart will be yelled, in red txt. Pay attention around 13:59, seen it start then, you'll need all the secs you can get to do this.

Ahwell, next time...

Kommentar von 386343

I have won this today during Halloween and it was first try since they ever released the event. Due to the fact that most players were busy getting Hallowed title there were not more than 30 players trying this.
Most important for this is to be extremely lucky. I won it in 15 minutes and looted 47 times. Also got one rare. My tactic was simple, SPEED. I used Nitro Boots + Crusader Aura and Aura mastery. I even had time to switch from west zone to the east when i saw competition coming from the north and i didn't even use Hearthstone to get back to the quest giver since it was still on cooldown. Autoloot helps a lot too. I didn't use FishingBuddy.
Anyway this whole event is about having luck and getting the 40 fish within 20 minutes maximum. Keep trying and keep it fair. Good luck!

Kommentar von 465890

Looks like Next (big)patch(3.3), we'll get 2 chances a week

Read the following on mmo-champion.com:

"Master Angler of Azeroth"

'Win the Booty Bay fishing contest or the Kalu'ak Fishing Derby'

'A new fishing contest is available, the Kalu'ak Fishing Derby (Every Wednesday) - "The Kalu'ak hold a fishing derby every few days in Northrend. Be the first to catch a Blacktip Shark and win respect with the Kalu'ak, and an amazing prize!" '

Still...would be cool to win it 'the normal way', the Booty Bay fishing contest, I've had 37-38 tasty fish when someone has won last trys now, maybe my turn is soon

Kommentar von Kennie

With the new addition of the Kalukar Fishing Derby you now have 2 chances to do this each week.

Honestly i think they should add a new achievement for having won both, for the really great anglers.

Maybe with a titel reward like Master Angler "Name".

Kommentar von 47621

I JUST finished this today. I still can't believe it. I didn't even plan on actually trying, just getting a feel for what I would need to do in order to win. However, I was doing so well, that I decided to push it and try. It paid off!

Here's what tips I can give:

- Set your hearthstone at the Booty Bay inn before 2pm
- Start out in Northern STV (get there before 2pm)
- Work your way south, but try not to get below the "mouth" to Booty Bay on the map.
- Never, EVER fishing in a pool that already has 2 people. You'll just waste precious time.
- If you find a pool that's not being fished out of, stay until you fish it dry or someone else comes along and fishes from it too.
- If you go and fish from a pool that already has one person on it, don't get greedy. You don't know how many they have already fished up, don't try to catch more than 2 fish from it. Also, be ready to mount up, even if you're still fishing. If they "empty" the pool, move.
- Once you get your 40th fish, hearth. Don't cheer. Don't laugh. Use your hearthstone, and turn in the fish.

Above all, you have to understand that luck plays a HUGE part of this. You might need several casts to land in the pool, while Little Suzzie can do it in under 3 casts. Or maybe you'll catch a snapper or seaweed rather than a tasty fish.

Just have fun, and hope your casts land where you need them :)

Kommentar von Runawaynow

Last weekend I finally won the contest after 4 years of on and off hope and discouragement. I started at the north-east point of this path and had to help PvP for about a minute with a guildie halfway down the coast. I then proceeded to catch only 5 non-tastyfish along my route and had 40 fish after a grand total of 17 minutes. Needless to say, the first ally toon to arrive in Booty Bay- a whole minute later- decided attacking me was the best way to show his or her disgruntlement at losing by such a small margin. I probably wouldn't have done the same, but to each his own death.

If nothing else, this just shows anything is possible. I won solo, with 590 fishing skill, on a PvP server, in addition to helping a friend PvP when I happened to cross paths with him.

Oh and a few tips from my personal point of view:

Bind "Fishing" to a key, preferably one you can quickly and easily hit repeatedly until the bobber lands within the pool. Even FishingBuddy with double right-click is slower than one bound key/click.
I would say Water Walking is hax but as Elixir of Water Walking is essentially the same for other classes, I'll just say, you should be walking on water at all times.
I've never fished in the west and north-west sections of STV since the possibility of running into other players while running across water from island to island is so low in the southern shores.
Fishing skill definitely helps... to what extent I have no idea. But if you let your +100 fishing buff stay inactive during a cast, the chance of catching a tastyfish seems to drop quite a bit.
Obviously, hearth to Booty Bay. If you waste the few minutes running there, you might as well be running to the nearest tissue box to dry your soon-to-be tears from losing due to a simple mistake.
And finally, if you've already won the contest, maybe even twice because you're pro like that, stop coming and removing the excitement for everyone else. No one cares if you've won twice, thrice, or fifteen times. But they will care that you stole the win from that many other people.

Good luck to everyone still hoping to get this :D

Edit: As you can see, Cataclysm ruined my map :(

Kommentar von 488223

Dont even try this if you are hated with Booty Bay. Took me 20 minutes to get the fish and 16 minutes to try and hand the quest in, really annoying when you die time and time again just to hooked web

Kommentar von 370882

Well, I just got this achievement today on the 29th of November 2009 in (Turtlepower - Frostmane) after 5 weeks of trying with two of my friends, and here's my favourite personal tips which I believe will help make your life easier...

First, make sure you have your Fishing cast button key-binded to a quick reaction key. This will make the spamming easier.
Second, start off just to the north of Booty Bay, near the Bloodsail Camp, around the bridge. This makes progression to the north much easier from this point on, and its an awesome starting spot as 4 schools of Tastyfish can spawn there right when he yells out.
Third, set your Hearthstone with time to Booty Bay, and practise the short handing in route to the guy who grants you the Achievement.
Fourth, don't hesitate to re-cast if you are unsure if the bobber landed inside the pool circle. Its better to guarantee that a fish you want might be caught than to greedily pass on a cast, which might in the end be valuable time to your achievement overall
Happy Fishing and best of luck,
Turtlepower!

PS: Can be quite frustrating to lose by 1 or 2 fish, but that's just part of the game.

Kommentar von Maritova

I just won the STV fishing contest today, and by all rights I have no idea how it happened.

* This was only my second attempt (and the first was several months ago).
* I was attacked by a crocolisk partway through, and fumbled for several seconds before I found the spell to kill him.
* 11 of my casts were just outside the edges of the Tastyfish pools and were wasted.
* My latency was constantly in the red (~1000ms).

The only explanation (though it makes it even stranger) was that there seemed to be almost no one else competing today. Yojamba Isle and all the surrounding area was completed deserted. I was fully expecting to be racing someone from the Booty Bay hearth to the turn-in, but no one seemed to be there either. Was it just the Thanksgiving weekend? Are people doing the STV contest less and less (looking forward to 3.3's Kalu'ak contest)? Or (considering that I got the Sea Turtle this past week) have I been infused with some unholy sort of luck? D:

Kommentar von 64784

Well after many countless attempts to win this I finally have did it! My best advice is keep trying, soon there will be an added contest, but you still get this reward! I have the best poles in game now and as a side note also fished the queenfish and got to put great line on the Arcanite pole. Happy fishing!

Kommentar von slythwolf

Nice to see the achievement has been updated to include the Kalu'ak Fishing Derby. 2 chances a week is still not a lot, but it's better than it was!

Kommentar von 469022

Last week i won the Kalu'ak Fishing Derby and i would like to share my experience.

I've been hunting this achievement for at least 5 months. I did all the preparation mentioned here and in other various sites, but i had no luck with Booty Bay fishing contest. The reason was that the place was small, always full of people, and there was too much pvp activity. My best catch before a winner was announced, was 33/40 fishes and my worst only 20/40 fishes. Also there were always players of both factions covering the quest giver, so even if you had 40/40 fishes, it was impossible to turn in the quest without attacking an opposing faction player. So, after about 7-8 attempts i stopped doing the contest.

When new patch went live i decided to participate on the Kalu'ak Fishing Derby. Having done all the other fishing achievements, i knew the best places of pools in Northend and how fast they re-spawn. By far the best place with pools and really nice re-spawn time, is the place around Skorn in Howling Fjord. This was the place that i fished the turtle and the dark herring. But i didn't go there to try my luck, because i knew that this place is well known by most of the players hunting fishing achievements, and it would be full.

So i tried the second best place with fishing pools which is Sholazar Basin. The best place in there, with many pools and good re-spawn time is the lake at (38,38), but again it didn't go fish there because it had many people. So i picked an empty spot at The Lost lands at (68,42) and made the route as seen on the map. Around these pins there is at least one pool assuming that no other has fished recently.

I managed to catch the shark, on my 5th attempt on the contest, and on my 15th cast, which was the 4th pool that i fished in, and it was around (58,55). The time from the beginning of the event until turn in, was 6:30-7 mins. So if you are the lucky one, you won't need more than 4-5 pools. Also make sure your hearthstone is not at CD. On my last cast, i found out that mine had 2 more mins on CD. I hot-keyed the Kirin Tor ring while i was attempting my last cast, and to my surprise a few seconds later i got the shark. I teleport to Dalaran, mount on my chopper and run like hell to the quest giver. At that time i see another player there, but as it turned out he was just curious of the new quest giver.

The preparation i did is the usual:

PVP gear/fully buffed just in case a player from the opposing faction attacks you.
Hot-key all the necessary things you need (fishing pole, flying mount, ground mount, water walking potions, hearthstone, Kirin Tor ring, Potions for extra fishing skill),
As a Paladin i had Crusader Aura on.
When you land near a fishing pool, try to land on ground instead of water, because the water walking potion isn't working all the times. Also try to be on the side where you can see the fishing pool better.
Wear headphones to listen the sounds better.
Make sure that your hearthstone/Kirin Tor Ring is NOT on CD.
Disable addons. This way the Dalaran loading screen will be quicker.
Make sure you have decided which reward you want from the quest giver at Dalaran.
Success (?)

I hope all these helps you winning the Kalu'ak fishing derby, and the Salty title.

Kommentar von Devate

So just as a side note to Tolki's post, some of the strategies he suggests using can be considered griefing/harassment on a PvE server. Feel free to use them if you wish, but know that some people may report you for it.

Kommentar von 447938

Seeing "We have a winner!" pop up as I was casting my line into a Tastyfish school with 39 fish in my inventory may be the most frustrating experience I've ever had.

Kommentar von Gwennae

I've tried it today for the first time and won it! Here is what I did :

1) I had a paladin friend with me with crusader aura.

2) I had him looking for the next pool(s) while I was finishing my pool.

3) I had a pvp-priest friend of mine killing alliance in Booty Bay who dared to get near the npc.

Note : The realm I'm on has 95% horde so that really wasn't an issue, me beeing horde too. But still... :P

4) If someone is beeing an asshat and start fishing in your school, stay fishing but don't finish the last one. Go to the next pool before the pool is "out of fishes".

5) PUT YOUR HEARTSTONE IN BOOTY BAY! I can't stress that enough. You don't wanna forget this too, I've heard people thinking they've put it there in advance, had 40 fish and ended up in Dalaran.

6) Get water walking elixirs.

7) I was fishing @ the pirate mobs and the island west of Booty Bay. A lot of pools there and they also spawn near that big island and the boats, most people stay on the shore. :s

Kommentar von 630773

I just solo won the STV contest and earned the Salty title.

Time: 14 Minutes

Trash Fish: 5

Areas: Wild Shore, Crystal Shore

This was my second attempt, the previous week I tried fishing the west coast above Grom'Gol. There was too much competition, and I only caught 28 fish before the winner was announced, at the 15 minute mark. This week I had free reign on the wild and crystal shore. There was an abundance of pools, and the area was free of competition. It was close though, two other fisherman arrived seconds behind me, trying to claim the prize.

Kommentar von Diodor

If i ever get to meet inventor of this achievement im gonna stab him in the eye with a spoon.
Im doing this last 6 months or so, just the Kaluak cuz STV is impossible on my server to do without being some CL in some guild and having 20 ppl around you. I finally got the damn fish today before realm announced the winner, was supper happy... instant HSed... but then what..... wait 20 sec for Dalaran screen to load.... no i don't have !@#$ computer/internet/200 addons .... then i mounted up and i couldnt see any NPC/players cuz of Dalaran lag... run to the quest giver waiting for 5 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec.... "annonce: randomluckyass is the winner"... bang ... 2 sec after i saw damn NPC. I was so pissed like never before. I'we seen idiots with 300 caught fishies win this, i'm over 11k on my statistics and still cant win this. Plus alliance inn is few yards closer then the horde/neutral in Dalaran......

Kommentar von AleAle

won the kalu'ak derby today, at the 3rd attemp, in the big lake at borean tundra in 8/9 min.
I fished the Shark out of pools (cause were finished after 6/7).

Kommentar von Saltlick7

Won the Kalu'ak contest today fishing from the Fangtooth Herring pools in Howling Fjord. Thought it was important to note; I was fishing with a competitor in the same pool. The contest had been going for a few minutes, and she reeled in her cast before me causing the pool to disappear. I was about to mount up and move on but my bobber twitched so I reeled it in, and BAM blacktip shark. The lesson here is that it seems to only matter where your cast LANDS, not where you reel it in. If your cast landed in a pool, don't give up on it. A few tips for the Kalu'ak Derby:

Set your HS to the neutral inn in the middle of Dal, at least if your Horde. Dash out the door, mount up and hook around the corners thru the square to the fountain. You might not think every second matters, but I won this contest 2 seconds before someone else came up to the Elder. Every little bit counts.

Use Glowworms, Gloves with enchants on them, anything you can to buff your skill. As above, every little bit counts.

Don't wait for the contest to start, prepare yourself ahead of time. Get to your location 10 minutes early, scout it out to see where the pools are nearby, clear out any mobs you think might give you trouble. Be ready to start right away.

If someone else is casting in a pool near you, go ahead and jump in with them. The pools can be hard to come by, and it's a competion after all.

Don't bother with clear water; while you can catch the Shark anywhere, you're much more likely to find it in a pool of fish than open water.

Best of luck to all my fellow anglers out there. Now if only Mr Pinchy would show his face.

Kommentar von Mazzic

Did this yesterday, after around 10 failed attempts normally missing by a couple of fish.

Well nothing new to report, had HS in Booty Bay, took 5 water walking elixirs.

As a protection warrior I wore high resilience almost full PVP gear as STV is horde gank land on my server. Didn't die once, also used healing pot once. Had feet rocket boots enchant to help get around that little bit faster also.

Used a macro to switch between weapon and shield and fishing rod, had to kill about 6 horde during the contest.

A rouge friend was taking out nearby enemy fisherman who looked like threatening as well as scouting new pools.

Got to 40 fish and hand in around 45 seconds before the next person showed up.

Kommentar von 702032

Just won on my first try in a year in a half! Fished on the right side of the intrance to booty bay (when your leaving Booty Bay) and stayed on that coast line the entire time. Had a few people come and sit on my bobbers but they left pretty quick. Just make sure you have water walking potions and move when there are too many people around dont try and fish a pond where there is someone else just move on! GL

Kommentar von Tsunayoshi

Since I imagine no one on my server looks on WoWHead and this can't really hurt me, I confirmed today that the pools spawn in Northern Stranglethorn. However, the fishing tournament guy's yells don't reach you. Watch the pools like a hawk for the Tastyfish ones to spawn and remember to set your hearth (could have won today but forgot to do that part ;-;).

Kommentar von gamerunknown

Liquid detail set to fair, particle density to good and one is good to go if, like me, one is playing on a toaster.

No guarantee one will actually win the damn thing though.

Kommentar von 765345

Got this achievment today (after 3 months of fishing @ saturadays)

WowGasm'ed!

Kommentar von 772194

I finally won Booty Bay fishing contest yesterday!

After reading all the comments and guides I would like to share one very important tip with the community:
- thing that helped me win was the fact that you need to be 100% sure your fishing bobber landed safely into Tastyfish school.

What that means is you don't have time to cast bobber on the edge of the school and "maybe" fish for Tastyfish. In earlier attempts I was in such a hurry and didn't look (camera maxed out) so I was fishing outside the school which resulted in too many "junk fish" and too few Tastyfish ;-)

Kommentar von 731121

Do yourself a favor and listen to these posters.

I won the contest today, about 10 seconds ahead of 5 other people showing up. The difference: they all flew while I hearthed. Unless you're fishing in BB itself, even with your flying mount, it's faster to hearth.

Set your hearth to the barkeep @ BB. Test your hearth (make sure to give yourself enough time to come off hearth cooldown before the contest!), and get a feel for the orientation you'll be in when you've hearthed (hardest part of this whole thing is finding the entrance door again....if you're like me and don't go to BB except to fish ><). Note your "escape" plan from the bar and how to get to the quest turn-in (~30 yards?).

Kommentar von 780394

I won the Booty Bay fishing contest today, on my first attempt. Unlike some previous posts I've read here, I didn't use a support team or any fancy techniques. I simply flew from pool to pool and fished. I didn't go any further than just around the corner from Booty Bay, and had a short flight back to hand in my catch. It took me about 20 minutes. Another player was about 5 seconds behind me, and several more within about 30 seconds to a minute thereafter. I had an effective fishing skill of 650 (525 base +100 for Aquadynamic Fish Detector and +25 for Nat's Lucky Fishing Pole). However, I don't know that skill level means much since all contest fish are caught from pools anyway.

I chose the Hook of the Master Angler as my reward, which turns me into a fish and allows me to breath underwater. Lots of fun, but basically just a prestige/vanity item.

The bottom line is, ignore the posts suggesting the need for a carefully designed strategy and multi-player support team. You should probably set your hearth to Booty Bay, if you plan to fish further away than I did from the turn-in location. Aside from that, just go fish and have fun. Otherwise, you're taking the whole thing too seriously, and won't be able to enjoy yourself. Also, even if you don't win, you still have a chance to catch some rare fish and exchange them for enchanted fishing gear. After I won today, I fished the remainder of the two hours and caught three rares. This netted me two Lucky Fishing Hats (+5) and a High-Test Eternium Fishing Line (+5).

If you're after the Accomplished Angler meta-achievement, then you'll need to win either this contest or the Kalu'ak one. Don't be discouraged if you don't get it on the first try. The "Salty" title is meant to be relatively difficult to attain, and limited to dedicated fisherman with limitless persistence. I've invested dozens of hours and thousands of fish caught to make painstakingly slow progress toward becoming Salty.

Best of luck to all of you, and happy angling!

Kommentar von gryphox

I just won the Stranglethorn tournament. If you have a highly competitive server like I do and are having trouble winning, here are some tips which will almost gaurantee your victory:

1) Download FishingBuddy addon and enable double-click to cast. This will allow you to re-cast your line before even looting your previous pull. When the bobber moves, simply double-click and both happen simultaneously. Also, set up a keybind (R, T, or something simple) or put a Cast button in the center of the screen for you to click if you have Dominoes or an addon like that. The purpose of this is to further save time, as the only time double-click casting saves you times is when you are looting/recasting. So you'll double-click, then R, R, R until you hit again. Always double-click to loot, and when the pool vanishes with your cast in the water, mount up and continue.

2) The measurements of tastyfish pools seem to be different from any other pool in the game. The radius is smaller. When you attempt to fish when your bobber lands towards the outskirts of the animation, the success rate for pulling a tastyfish is smaller. However, I have never missed a pull of tastyfish when the cast was more towards the center of the pool. The "gauranteed tastyfish radius" appears to be about 4/5ths to 3/4ths of the normal pool size. You will save much time by recasting until you're within that radius. On average, you will recast about 5 times; you can easily fit in 2 casts/second using the technique above. So your average casting time will be 2.5 seconds. A single missed pull will waste about 15 seconds.

3) If you are on a pvp server, bring 4 friends. If you don't have friends, go in front of Stormwind or Ogrimmar and offer everyone there X gold to help you out for 20 minutes with the fishing tourney and Y gold if you win. Why in front of SW or Orge? These are the pvp people.

Have 1 person be your wingman, right by you at all times. Have another be your scout, nearby but further away to call out incoming and intercept away from you. Have the other 2 be your offense, one for alliance and one for horde. Ask your group if anyone has a mammoth or other very large mount. One person who does will be your offense for your same faction; If you're alliance, he will stand in the pools of all the fishers he can. Your other offense will be tieing up the opposite faction's fishers as much as possible. If there is a group of 2 or more harassing you, you can always pull back reinforcements for defense as needed, but start out as described.

It is of vital importance to drill home to point of spreading out their efforts. Tieing up a few fishermen does nothing because it is almost always one noone noticed who wins. Tell them to check every coast and the islands. Update them on your progress between casts to help them pace themselves.

When you are at 32ish fish, tell one of your offense to go to the Booty Bay questgiver and, when you say, "now" (when you are hearthing back), disrupt anyone of the opposite faction there by any means necessary.

4) Fish in the area just north of the Gurubashi Arena (where the river meets the sea). This area has several extremely close pools so your travel time will be minimized. You will often see 4 or 5 on your minimap if you have the ability to find fish (which helps a lot). Also, people tend to stay away from there for 2 reasons. It's in the "middle of everything" and therefore must be highly populated (couldn't be further from the truth) and it's near the territory line between northern and southern stranglethorn (which scares some people for a variety of irrational reasons).

5) When you retrieve your 40th fish:
a) Hearth
b) Speed burst (use a potion or if you're an engineer use nitro boosts. I'm a mage so I macroed nitro + invis to run to the questgiver max speed and untouched).
c) Spam a pre-created macro which targets Riggle Bassbait, interacts with him, goes through the dialogue and item selection, and completes the quest. It is important to include /targetting him in your macro because often people of your faction will be blocking him with mammoth mounts and that is your only way of interacting with him.

6) Gratz.

Kommentar von Edz0r

I was literally 5 seconds from winning the Booty Bay fishing contest today, everything went fly and got my fish pretty quick. Was a couple of feet from the goblinguy and poof, somebody else got it. Sucking fhit!

Kommentar von Teenka

Funny thing happened to me today. Attempted to win the kaluak competition and got the turtle out of the second pool xD
Didn't win the contest though. I guess I will have to wait for that one.

Kommentar von AngusMacBeer

All I can say is the key is persistence. I've been doing the Kalu'ak derby every week for over a year. About 5 months ago I caught the shark but was slow on the turn-in. Today I got it again, and I was about 10 seconds AHEAD of the next-closest person. I used my kirin-tor ring to get to runweaver square, ran outside, mounted, and FLEW over the building and down to Elder Clearwater. Every little bit helped.

Kommentar von abudavid

I won the derby :D ..... i got the Blacktip Shark on my 24th catch in "Imperial Manta Ray" pool.

Kommentar von Dreadmight

Guildie of mine was competing for this along with a bunch of other people today- however, he was in a different phase from me and couldn't see the schools of tastyfish (or the paladin that was chain killing me for a bit, causing me to lose by 6 fish). Does anyone know what causes this?

Kommentar von 837005

I tried the Kaluak Derby two times. On the first time someone won it in 5 mins. On the other time I fished the whole hour without anyone getting the shark... So I found this rare item fishing kinda bad and gave up.

Then I found STV Fishing Extravaganza is the way to go for my achieve. On the first time when I caught the 36th tastyfish there was a winner already. On the second time I started from the northern STV horde base and flied south. I always had a pool (put find fish on) when not I just skipped the alliance/horde mate and flied over to the next pool and won the race!

Summary: set HS to Booty Bay, use any speed up / potions when completing the quest, find a good coast, always fly to the next pool, put a hotkey on fishing, set auto-loot on and have some luck with fishing timers and with bobber dropping into pools. :)

That's all. When I finished the quest there were about 5-6 ppl behind me after seconds.

Kommentar von Dragon007

Won this on my first try.

Strongly recommend doing it on an American holiday. Hardly anyone was there to compete with me! :)

Kommentar von Roguewan

Finally got this today, after about two years of casually trying. This is the worst achievement in the game, and it has made me rage so bad. People are complete asshats, even the ones from your own faction. I always wanted to win this "fair and square", but apparently that didn't work out too well for me.

So I joined the dark side and had two friends come along, one to just find pools for me, and the other was completely ruining it for all other people, i.e camping people from the same faction's pools, and attacking hordes to interrupt them.

Funny part though, was that I disconnected just a few seconds before the contest started, and came back online about three minutes later, and yet I managed to win - thanks to my mean friends.

If you really want to win this and you're struggling - bring a few friends, it's not worth the trouble trying to solo it week after week.

Good luck.

Kommentar von Zakaste

Won this yesterday as a level 75 feral druid, Horde side, after about 5-6 weeks of trying. I thought I would share some of my thoughts and strategy.

I'm on a medium population PvP server, and I didn't bring anyone with me. Flying solo, so to speak. After reading El's guide and all of the (extremely helpful) comments here, I decided to modify my tactics, as the "Christopher Columbus" (go out and see what's there) technique to getting this achievement was getting me nowhere.

At 1:30 PM I had already arrived in Booty Bay and set my hearth there. I then flew to Yojamba Isle in Northern Stranglethorn. My equipment was a Bone Fishing Pole (with Spun Truesilver Fishing Line attached) and a stylish Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat. At 1:59 I popped an elixir of Water Walking and activated my Fishing Hat Lure (+75). Exactly no pools spawned around me when Bassbait kicked it off with a yell. Not auspicious. I then started to trace the coastline south from the extreme NW of Stranglethorn, with Find Fish active. Once I spotted a node, I would skim the water to it in Swift Flight Form, shift, and start fishing.

I had Autoloot on, and any casts that looked as if the bobber was even questionable (on the periphery of the Tastyfish school), I recast rather than risk catching trash. If I didn't land the bobber in the school by my 3rd cast, I changed positioning. This is where the elixirs become crucial.

I doubled back very briefly, saw that nothing had respawned, then made a conscious decision to just keep going south to Grom'Gol. Even with the inevitable bycatch from the schools, I managed to get 10 Tastyfish every 5 minutes (along with 4 Firefin Snapper, 2 Oily Blackmouth, 3 Stonescale Eels, 2 Stranglekelp, and a Raw Rainbow Fin Albacore). Got 40 in 20 minutes, spent the longest 10 second hearth of my life with my hands shaking from the adrenaline dump, got lost twice trying to get out of the tavern, finally stumbled to Riggle and turned my stacks in for the fishing pole. I then sat back stunned, not believing that I'd actually won it. And then I cracked a beer or four.

Some tips that I think helped:

1. Starting in NW Stranglethorn. Even without schools around Yojamba Isle, it's isolated and you have a long involuted stretch of coast to search. I actually had 40 fish before reaching Grom'Gol.

2. I think Elixirs of Water Walking (or a similar class ability) are critical to winning. They're cheap, free if you do fishing dailies (Marcia Chase never gives me less than 3 at a time), and allow you to shave valuable seconds off positioning for a proper school cast. If you're restricted to the shore, you will waste time, having limited options on where to stand.

3. Fly low. If you shift too high above a school and even take a single point of falling damage, you lose your elixir buff and waste time floundering in the water.

4. Move. Just move. If you're having trouble finding schools, head to unexplored territory rather than areas you've covered. Keep yourself on the clock. The contest is almost always won within 20 minutes, give or take 3-5. That works out to about 2 Tastyfish a minute, give or take. Always be casting.

5. Decide what reward you want ahead of time, know where it sits on the menu to click it. The turn-in is NOT the place to have second thoughts ("I wonder how I would look as a fish . . .") and get burned.

6. Set your hearth to Booty Bay. Memorize how to get out of the tavern and to Riggle for the turn-in. It sounds silly, but your heart will be leaping out of your chest when you have 40 fish, and you will be freaking out, thinking that someone is directly ahead of you and going to beat you by a quarter second. Don't make this a self-fulfilling prophecy.

7. Be patient. Don't get frustrated. Luck is a large part of this contest, although your strategy can tip the odds in your favor. If you don't win, troubleshoot and decide what you're going to do differently next week, if anything.

Happy angling to all!

(Soon to be) Salty Zakaste

Kommentar von deathager

Kalu'ak Fishing Derby short info :

Duration : 1 hour
Location : Northrend
Time : Each Saturday, 14:00-15:00 server time
Objective : Catch Blacktip Shark
How to : Once the derby begins you should fish along shores, pools, rivers all over northrend fishing School of Fish.
Complete : {Map} Return to Dalaran to Elder Clearwater near daily fishing quest giver Marcia Chase.

Note : It can be caught ouside school of fish, but with a lower drop chance.

There is not always a winner !

Some usefull info :

It can be fished with any fishing skill (req. 1 skill)
It can be fished at any school of fish in northrend.
Even if you dont win you get a Bag of fishing treasures for catching the shark.

Good Luck !

Kommentar von Zarac

Something really weird happened today. I was fishing for Kaluak and a Warrior came in the same pool that I was. On the second catch our bobble was almost at the same place, and we both caught the shark at the same time, I freaked out when he started to cast hearthstone, my teleport was 2s late and he won, for 2s =)

So, in short, it is possible to catch 2 sharks from the same pool at the same time!

Kommentar von 863103

I got this achivement on the 04/09/2011 and it was the 3 achivement from salty so i was pretty damn happy about winning this!(:.

Well i started out just east of Westfall up by the islands and went over to the mainland where the trolls are.
When it started I got about 8 pools for myself and i started fishing. I finished in 18 minutes so i got quite lucky. This was the third time i was in this competition and i knew where to fish and I talked to other anglers that won where they fished tips and tricks.

To make it easier for you other anglers:

Try to team up with a friend of yours to go around and gank people from the other faction. Also if you are going against people from the same faction, your buddy can also fish from their pools.

If you are in a highlevel guild you can have one standing on the shore just east of booty bay to have them summon you if you don't do well where you are fishing.

Always have heartstone in Booty bay before the contest.

If you loose you can always ask the other angler that won where what he did and he will probably give you some necessary information(be friendly, it worked for me atleast)

Other anglers i wish you the best luck.

Sorry for my bad English.
// Incesterar

Kommentar von 884744

I know people hate the comments where some jerk comes along and says "hey, i got it on my first try"... well, I won this on my first try

and in my haste to click "complete" before the other guy flying up to me could get it, i clicked the trinket rather than the pole. so, i'm not a bragger, i'm an idiot. (though, advice I've seen was pretty good - i did this on the last weekend day of Brewfest, hardly ANYONE around!)

Kommentar von Icytroll

I just won the Stranglethorn fishing contest on Darksorrow EU 20 minutes ago. Me and a guildmate agreed to have a little intern competition during it, but because he got killed a lot by a rogue, he decided to help me out and annoy other people in the region. Friends <3. Also, Northern Stranglethorn can be recommended. Almost everyone is fishing on the Cape, atleast on my server.

Kommentar von Marmen

Honestly, @#$%, this achievement. I cant believe they require it for Salty.

The day I made my Warrior alt I set out to get Salty and didnt know much about the competitions. After spending all my time to make him the 'Master Angler' getting him Nats Lucky Pole and every other achievement I could find. Then I get to 73 and decided I should start participating in the Fishing tourneys to get the achievement as its the only one I have left for Salty.(besides Lurker Below which Iam getting a guildy to help me with since Iam only 73)

Then I find out that they are only held on Saturdays and Sundays. >.>

I go to school Monday through Friday and work Friday through Monday. So my weekends are NEVER open. I havnt had one off in 6 months and theres no way I can take one off as I need the money for school and gas. So this weekend my car breaks down and I have to take 3 days off work to fix it. I manage to get it fixed the second day and decide I should go participate since I have the weekend off now.

I researched them, found the best places to fish, set my hearths did everything in my power. Come Saturday someone wins the Ka'ulak in 7 minutes and Sunday someone just won the Booty Bay in 13 mins. This is outrageous Blizzard requires this for the title. I did everything else I could and spent all my time and effort trying to get it and even took a weekend off work to try and got smashed before I even got started.

I really hope they decide to Change this come Mists or something because I feel extremely discouraged to play now that the one title I had been fighting for more then any other is completely unobtainable for me. They need to change it up during the week or something so people with different schedules can participate. Thats whats raid groups do to optimize their playing time, they should consider it with this, since not everybody has 2:00pm in the middle of the @#$%ing weekend to dedicate to fishing in WoW for 5 minutes while someone else smashes you because of RNG. >.>

-Definitely NOT Salty Bonesnshield

Kommentar von Dreadmight

Earned this achievement today, with the help of two guild mates. Much as I don't like to say it, this is one of those achievements that encourages rude behavior for success- my guildmates drove off any opposing faction players while protecting me from being attacked by them, then found players of the same faction and fished from their pools.

Kommentar von 965937

Did this in my first try around a month ago. I was aiming for "Salty" and was missing this achievement and since the Northrend competition is way worse I decided to give it a shot.

What I did is install "Fishing Buddy", get auto loot on, go to the northern part of STV where the trolls are and start fishing. Be sure to get a lure a minute before the event starts so you don't have any downtimes.

Important tip: If your bobber lands near the pool and you aren't sure if you're going to catch the fish it's better to recast although you will sometimes rage how blind your character is !

Make sure to have your hearthstone set to Booty Bay. Happy fishing !

Kommentar von Tinil

I think it should be noted, at least for horde (i'm not sure of alliance), that if you have the zandalari questline in STV, you can be phased out of the fishing. So check and make sure you can see the regular schools of fish along the coastline before you attempt the tournament. If you cannot, chances are you are phased and will not be able to see the tastyfish schools. I learned this the hard way -_-

Kommentar von Gnolp

You receive loot: .
Changed Channel:
Joined Channel:
Changed Channel:
has earned the achievement !

Except... I'm not Finaljls. Was not happy.

Kommentar von Yerbury

I won the Booty Bay fishing contest today, on my second attempt. As others have said, make sure you do the following in order to maximize your chances:-

1. Set your hearthstone to Booty Bay. Do a test run ~1 hour before the competition starts, so that you are familiar with your positioning in relation to the doorway when you hearth into the inn.

2. Riggle Bassbait is located outside the inn, next to the fishing trainer. If you don't have his whereabouts pinned down, you will waste valuable time looking for him. Immediately after I handed the tastyfish in, three players arrived (5-10 seconds behind me). Knowing exactly where you are going makes all the difference.

3. When selecting an area, I'd advise trying out Wild Shore. I started on the western edge and worked my way east. Despite more than 20 horde and (presumably) a healthy number of alliance in the area, I saw no one until I was fishing my final school, and I never had to leave the area or double back on myself.

4. Don't give up! Even with the large number of competitors, it still took me 19 minutes. Keep your eye on your bobber rather than the text box, and remain calm.

Good luck!

Kommentar von 141059

please remove this from the salty achievement!

Kommentar von jprich

I won today ( stranglethorn competition ) after who knows how many attempts.
Ive been trying seriously since Cataclysm came out and the competition thinned out about a month ago.
The contest would go longer and longer.
I won today by sticking around the sundering ( the outer edge of the big whirlpool between northern and the cape ).
Pools just kept popping up from everyone in other areas.
Hope this helps! Good luck!

Kommentar von sirrayiv

I have won this thing multiple times without the help of anyone else. Here is my advice:

Set your hearth to Booty Bay.
Arrive early and scout out the area - many times you can find people waiting by the shore ahead of time. I use the time 5 minutes before the start of the tourney, to scout things out, and then I look for a quiet place to fish.
Carry Water-walking potions on you.
Don't waste your time doing anything, BUT fishing. - This one is the key, as some people will stop to attack someone else if they try to fish out of the same pool. If this happens, just ignore the person, and keep fishing.
Learn where the pools seem to spawn in abundant supply. The last time I won this tournement, I started NW of bootybay along the coast, and eventually ended up by the 3 pirate ships on the SouthEastern shore.
Turn your !@#$ in quick. Once you get back to the quest giver, if you are the first person, you will be asked to select your choice of reward. If you take too long on this, someone else might walk up and win the tourney up from under your nose. So identify what item you want ahead of time, and make sure you select it quickly once the menu appears.

You don't need high level fishing to improve your odds....you just need to be able to get your casts inside of the pools quickly....so practice your range. And if you find you still can't seem to win...I suppose that you could always hire a bunch of mercanaries to grief everyone else while you fish.

Kommentar von THRobinson

When stuff like this appears and says 'between 2-4pm' ... is that your time? or realm time?

Kommentar von Rimischonie

just won it 10minutes ago on my first attempt, its a shame that the ring is not available in SCT fishing event. so then i have too wait for the next weekend to try to cover it.

Had used follow tipps and hints:

Waterwalking pot
Spotting fishspots (the ability)
1x Sprint pot for the delivering
Heartstone to Booty Bay
Addon FishingBuddy
Recast often to land your pin in the spot. if its not in the spot stop wasting your time and recast
Ask a guild m8 to stay near the questgiver for massport(use it as long as its available)

Some performance hints:

10minutes before the beginning i just flew around and tryed to cover some fishing spots
3minutes before the beginning i closed wow to clean up my ram and closed every useless background programm (to prevent long loading times)
then just logged in only with wow open and flew to the big waterwhirl between SCT and northern STV

How it goes:
i and a guild m8 were racing for it and he started on the right side where the ruins are but thats wrong because most users are trying to fish in the SCT. so you have enough space between the waterwhirl. just fish around waterwhirl, when all spots are gone just go abit down to the arena or to grom'gol fish there 1-2spots and just move again to the waterwhirl. this took me around 15minutes to collect all 40fish and had nearly 1.30minutes left till the others came in.

Just keep in mind think over it what you want to take, otherwise someone else will get the winning stuff before you.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Here is a guide I made after I wont the contest:

http://www.$%^&*!@#$%^&*!@#$%^&.com/professions/fishing/master-angler-of-stranglethorn/

Edited, Sep 26th 2009 3:23pm by Thali

Kommentar von dietdelre

There's no announcement on Wrath classic servers, you have to watch the clock. Don't start fishing until it's 5:00pm server time, not local time. Save your casts as each pool is valuable and you don't want to waste them. If you're on a huge server like me, expect to get the fish in the first 5 minutes or you'll most likely lose that week. I got super lucky today, was sharing pools with a few other horde AND ally. you want to maximize your casts and this can be difficult if a lot of people share the same route/if you encounter PVP.
On medium-smaller servers you could keep fishing until 15 minutes.
OR on any size server have someone else stationed by the fountain in Dal, and they can tell you if someone has won the contest or not.

My Route:
Started in the river that is located in the east of Dragonblight.
Went east into the delta at Grizzy hills and fished my way to Venture bay.
Caught the Blacktip shark in an Imperial Manta Ray school near the ships. (caught at 5:05pm)

Good luck!

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