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Comment by mikeygames

Item is currently bugged and unobtainable on beta, and I imagine live servers too when the expansion goes live, the whispering stargazer fish, should have a use effect to allow you to throw it in to schools in Azj'khaet in order to get the Awoken Coelacanth, I've been reporting it daily for 3-4 weeks.

Comment by PigoWallace

In order to get this fish you need to have the Whispers of the Deep buff.

You get this buff after you throw 10 Whispering Stargazer in Azj-Kahet (any water spot works, do not need to have a school of fish in front of you).

While you throw the fishes you get a stacking buff that turns to Whispers of the Deep after few seconds that you got the 10th stack.

Each stack last 5 minutes and throwing a new fish refresh the duration while adding a stack.
Once the buff turns to Whispers of the Deep the duration cannot be extended anymore (but you can get a new buff if it expires throwing again 10 fishes).

EDIT 1
Suggested skill for Azj-Kahet is 375 (according to the in-game compendium).
In order go over 300 you need lures, food buff (cursed ghoul food from Mereldar weekly fishing derby Hallowfall Fishing Derby gives you 30 skill points and 150 perception) and others buff you can find in order to reach 375+.

In addition, since it's a rare fish, you need to raise perception with flask, throwing fish back to water, the over mentioned food Ghoulfish Delight and a good fishing pool (maybe the TWW ones) with enchants.

Later you can get Algari Weaverline (from Tailoring) in order to have permanent empowerments while you gather Algari Anglerthread and Algari Seekerthread.
See the item page for a good guide in the comments.

EDIT 2
I tested with various level of skill and perception.

With 350+ skill (+48 coming from equipment and Ghoul Fish food buff) and with 475 of perception (from equipment, flask and food), basically I was able to catch the rare fish in 1-2 try with those stats.
Each time I got 1 Awoken Coelacanth, I had to throw 10 Whispering Stargazer to get again the buff, but with these fishing stat I was able to never waste a buff.

I even tested with less stats (mainly when I lost the Ghoul Fish buff) and even with 320+ skill and 325+ perception I was able to not waste the buff (with slightly more tries per catch, but nothing problematic).

With these stat I was able to catch the fishing anywhere in Azj-Kahet.

Comment by sweetdandelie

Tried to get this with fishing skill 98 and it didn't work. I got up to 108 before it disappeared (the buff), so you likely need much higher skill.

Comment by Dusklight

Pulled one from the open waters of the Salien Gutters in Azj-Kahet with relatively low skill - 315 fishing, +15 perception from the Ghoulfish and +45 perception from the Goldengill Trout, no other buffs.

Comment by Dicceyy

THE SPOT
-Entrance to the Delve Tak-Rethan Abyss
- Before you actually go into the delve you have to cross a bridge with fishable water under it, you'll see a clickable rope called Explores' League Rope
- THIS is where I had all my success

My testing
Used 200 Whispering Stargazers
Open Water
5 buffs received 1 Awoken Coelacanth
Secret Spot
15 buffs received 13 Awoken Coelacanth

UPDATED STATS
-750 Whispering Stargazers - looted 71 Awoken Coelacanth

My Stats
300 fishing +28
Fishing skill from
- + 9 Aquadynamic Fish attractor
- +15 Underlight Angler(legion legendary fishing pole)
- +10 Bismuth Bitterling(thrown into water)
Perception From
- +75 Phial of Truesight
- + weaverline (unkown amount)
- +45 Crystalline Sturgeon(thrown in to water)
- +28 Weavercloth Fishing cap
- +15 Cursed Ghoul fish(thrown into water)
- +45 Goldengill Blessing(randomly when i caught one doing this)

Comment by norab7

You don't need 375.

I caught one with much less than the stated requirements. Proof

Base: 197
Skill:
+ 9 Fish Attractor
+ 8 Rod
Perception:
+ 200 Rod
+ 15 Cursed
+ 45 Golden

Used 20 Stargazers, caught it 4 casts into the second buff.

Comment by Beace

With a base skill of 230 I tried for 5 minutes with 9 stacks of Whisper buff, at the Secret spot mentioned by Dicceyy. While I looted a couple of green fishes in these 5 minutes, the rest was grey. Sadly no Awoken Coelacanth, which was the last fish I needed for Derby Dash achievement. I do believe you can get lucky though, even at low skill.

No biggie, I'll get it done next Saturday.

Edit: See below.

Comment by Shamcloth

Gunna squash all these claims for you need all the fishing skill + perception to get this. You don't, I just did the achievement today with 310 skill and 50 perception.

Edit: Did more fishing 9/1/24 with various amounts of buff levels and starting to think it is just rng at this point. No rod (cant turn in luminous pearl which means no weaverline), no crafted or other fishing equipment, just buffs provided by available fish. Max level of buff at 110 perception and 10 fishing and still at times took up to 4 minutes to catch one, other times it was first cast.

Comment by klarabear

fished one up with skill 158, 1x Goldengill blessing buff, Ghoulfish Delight food buff, r3 Bismuth Fisherfriend and r5 Weavercloth Fishing Cap. it's possible! c:

Comment by elicie

Got one today with just 211 skill at the "secret spot". Just the buff from 10x stargazer and 1x cursed fish buff. Not even lure etc.

Comment by Haunted

Caught one today for the Derby Achievement - had 252 + 8 skill and got it straight away from my second cast after applying the buff! Good luck!

Comment by MadaVoid

This fish is EXTREMELY difficult to catch unless you have high fishing skill.

In Week 1, with 130 Khaz Algar Fishing, this was the only fish that eluded me in the entire achievement. I spent 20 mins fishing for it and couldn't catch a single one. My fishing rod was R4.

In Week 2, with 170 Khaz Algar Fishing, I spent 40 mins fishing and still didn't catch a single one. This time, I also wore a R3 fishing cap.

Comment by Adrianft

I managed to fish 4 of these. 4 of them and none have counted towards the achievement. its my only one left. Is there something im missing? i opened a ticket with blizzard cos im sure its a bug but maybe there are others having this issue?

Comment by Nethsa

I'm getting "There aren't any fish here" error text in the secret spot inside the delve, under the bridge at the entrance where the rope is. Can't fish anywhere in that water.

EDIT: As MalenInsekt has pointed out, do not actually enter the delve lol

Comment by Vijunary

Tip & Advice for fellow Anglers!
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I had higher output results with:

- Maximum Applied Stats to the Weaverline
- Maximum Fishing Level
- 10x Use of Whispering Stargazer (This almost guaranteed 9/10 attempts to acquire this fish as it applies a buff directly associated with it for 5 minutes).
- 5minutes worth of added perception

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Were there any conditions?
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Once I had all of the above applied, 9 in 10 attempts to acquire the fish was successful under the associated buff. I did not need to fish in a particular fishing spot, or any at all infact, just clear open water worked for me in all interactions.
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Hope this information gives you an idea of how to acquire it moving if you are having trouble!

Comment by lynhagan

Add in Ghoulfish Delight food for +30 fishing and +150 perception

Comment by Randaddi

Caught one today with 184 fishing skill, had the Ghoulish delight food buff, Bismuth Fisherfriend pole and fishing hat, cursed queenfish, goldengill blessing, and the buff from Whispering Stargazers. One my 3rd stack of buffs fished it up on the 3rd cast.

Comment by nkrypt

196 Fishing + 8 for my Rod, No bonuses - no lures - no extra perception from food/fish/items , just got the stargazer buff and dropped the rod in the water out from of the Delve - first try....
Didnt have the derby buff FML.

Comment by Almosttt

Can we fish this on normal waters? I mean not directly to fishing Pools?

Comment by Xenophile

Caught yesterday at 227 fishing with 0 buffs and Shadowlands rod. Nothing special, random water in AK with the stargazer buff active.

Comment by SpookMcBoo

Attempted today at about 130 fishing ( ended at 140), used 20 Whispering Stargazers at the spot below Tak-Rethan Abyss Delve Entrance and managed about 70 catches all of which were trash items.

Was using a Q5 Bismuth Fisherfriend, Ghoulfish & Nibbling Minnow Perception buff and a Bismuth Bitterling skill buff so somewhere in the region of 140-160 skill at maximum and 280-290 Perception across all attempts.

Either very unlucky or need to get the fishing skill higher. I'll update this later if I try again at a higher skill and it succeeds.

Comment by Rubinova

According to some other comments , min. fishing skill for fishing this boy up is 197. I got him by myself after first cast of hitting 197 fishing skill w/o any other buffs than Whispering Stargazer

Comment by Avanasa

At THE SPOT
fishing lvl 260
goldingill blessing,
sturgeon,
and goulfish buff
Got it on the second cast

Comment by ptarjan

There is a lot of "magic" and "nebulous things" in this comments section. You don't need any special lures or potions.

I got mine with 300 + 8 skill and nothing special but a green +238 peception Bismuth Fisherfriend. It took 5 casts after throwing 10 Whispering Stargazer in and fishing in open water in a random place.

Comment by sarahlogic

I fished by the entrance to the Tak-Rethan Abyss with the following buffs and caught it on my first cast. I'm not sure how much was RNG, but hopefully it helps someone who does not have max skill or tools and wants to go for the achievement.
Whispers of the Deep by throwing in 10 Whispering Stargazer

Fishing skill (262, base 204 skill)
+30 Ghoulfish Delight
+10 Dilly-Dally Dace (throw into the water)
+10 Bismuth Bitterling (throw into the water)
+8 Bismuth Fisherfriend

Perception (total 504)
+186 R2 Bismuth Fisherfriend
+150 Ghoulfish Delight
+95 R2 Phial of Truesight
+45 Crystalline Sturgeon (throw into the water)
+28 R1 Weavercloth Fishing Cap

Side note:
To make Ghoulfish Delight, you can purchase the recipe for 10 Mereldar Derby Mark from Captain Oathmyt; it requires level 35 cooking skill to make and the food is soulbound). You need to filet Cursed Ghoulfish to get the Prepared Ghoulfish by using the Fresh Filet skill in your cooking pane. It was easy enough to level my cooking to 35 after playing for a couple weeks and collecting basic mats.

https://www.wow-professions.com/guides/wow-cooking-leveling-guide

Comment by Seahnjin

Finally fished this guy up in OPEN WATERS for the achievement at 268 fishing skill points. I only had the buffs to skill and Perception you can get by throwing fish back, i.e. Cursed Ghoulfish, Nibbling Minnow and Bismuth Bitterling, and the regular bismuth rod made by my engineering self. I had stocked up 80 Stargazers but actually got it in the first two minutes of buff.

I tried to get a second one from schools of fish, but with no luck. For the past two weeks I tried to get this guy for the achievement with fishing skill below unlocking Azj-Kahet level (225)—with zero success. Only ever got other fish from pools and grey items from open waters. So in my personal experience I can't recommend going for the derby achievement without having Azj-Kahet show up in your fishing log @ 225 skill points. Or maybe I'm just exceptionally unlucky.

Comment by CityzenK716

Just got it in open waters with 220 fishing in Azj-Kahet.

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