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Comment by Lazey

Captain Oathmyt is the host of the Hallowfall Fishing Derby, so she will only be available on Saturdays while the event is active for 24 hours.
/way #2215 44.22 61.59 Captain OathmytShe's a trainer for Khaz Algar Fishing, the Mereldar Derby Mark vendor, and gives the quests for the Hallowfall Fishing Derby that will reward 25x Mereldar Derby Mark when turned in.

Every Saturday, Captain Oathmyt offers players one of these five quests that will reward 25x Mereldar Derby Mark for completing and turning it in that day:

Hallowfall Fishing Derby
Hallowfall Fishing Derby
Hallowfall Fishing Derby
Hallowfall Fishing Derby
Hallowfall Fishing Derby

This means, for the completion of a quest you should focus on getting the three required ones by fishing in the zones & pools mentioned in the following table or your Fishing Journal (when the character caught one of them before), but it's not urgent to turn in the quest, you have the full Saturday to do that.

Fish	Mouseover for Zone(s) and Pools	Flagged Hidden QuestID
Arathor Hammerfish	Arathor Hammerfish
Awoken Coelacanth	Awoken Coelacanth
Bismuth Bitterling	Bismuth Bitterling
Bloody Perch	Bloody Perch
Crystalline Sturgeon	Crystalline Sturgeon
Cursed Ghoulfish	Cursed Ghoulfish
Dilly-Dally Dace	Dilly-Dally Dace
Dornish Pike	Dornish Pike
Goldengill Trout	Goldengill Trout
Kaheti Slum Shark	Kaheti Slum Shark
Nibbling Minnow	Nibbling Minnow
Pale Huskfish	Pale Huskfish
Queen's Lurefish	Queen's Lurefish
Quiet River Bass	Quiet River Bass
Regal Dottyback	Regal Dottyback
Roaring Anglerseeker	Roaring Anglerseeker
Sanguine Dogfish	Sanguine Dogfish
Specular Rainbowfish	Specular Rainbowfish
Spiked Sea Raven	Spiked Sea Raven
Whispering Stargazer	Whispering Stargazer

Tied to the Hallowfall Fishing Derby event, we have the The Derby Dash achievement with the Kah, Legend of the Deep reward... something you can use the remaining time of your Derby Dasher on when you got all the required Trophy Fish for your Fishing Derby quest.
Basically, you travel around and try to catch every fish once and turn in your Derby Quest (at least once) while the buff is active.
While most catches are straight forward, Awoken Coelacanth not only needs a very high Fishing skill, but also some preparation. Please read the comments there, it would only bloat this one more and they did a good job explaining it.
There's no guarantee that they will never change that, but right now, activities for this achievement don't have to happen in a single attempt on the same day. The progress will not reset, so you can continue with some missing fish on another Saturday.

One of the major reasons to do the Fishing Derby is to acquire the special Mereldar Derby Mark currency that is required to purchase items from Captain Oathmyt.

Ensemble: Cerulean Dredger
Dasher's Trophy Fish
Fallen Dalaran Defender

Mereldar Artisan's Shoulderbag
Dasher's Violet Rucksack
Keen-eye 'Noculars
Algari Seekerthread

Recipe: Melted Candlebar
Recipe: Rockslide Shake
Recipe: Pep-In-Your-Step
Hallowfall Harvester's Pitchfork

Item	Cost(Mereldar Derby Mark)	Comments
Angler's Guide	31 Silver 25 Copper
500
250
50	can also be fished directly
Frenzied Hat of the Crimson Seas	100
50
50
50
10	can also be fished directly
Algari Anglerthread	10	can also be fished directly
Recipe: Ghoulfish Delight	10
10
10
10
50	can also be fished directly
Soaked Journal Entry	5	can also be fished directly

One week before Early Access, we finally saw a reward for the Fishing Derby quests, your character will now get 25x Mereldar Derby Mark. The quest will be shared to all character of your Warband, so you can only get this once per week.
For every unique fish caught with the Derby Dasher buff active, you will also receive 1x Mereldar Derby Mark, so up to 20 per week.
While the actual currency Mereldar Derby Mark can only be acquired on Saturdays, Careless Dasher's Treasure can be fished in Khaz Algar waters all the time and then be turned into the currency. But don't use them immediately, keep in mind that you can put them into your Warband bank to use them on characters without the currency to unlock the currency transfer (e.g. for recipe purchases).

Fishing Derby quests are shared between characters of your Warband, but that is not happening for Derby Dasher. This buff will only be applied to the first character accepting the quest. This is pointless because it is mandatory to get credit for Trophy Fish, loot currency on unique catches, and progress on the achievement.
During Beta and on the second weekend on Retail, some characters never got the Derby Dasher buff, which excluded them from the event. This seems to be fixed by now.
Originally, abandoning the Fishing Derby quest revealed a probably unintended way to use an army of alts to get more of the currency or ignore the 60-minute timer for the achievement. With the Derby Marks for unique catches being character-specific, you could accept the quest on one character, go for as many unique fishes to collect up to 20 Derby Marks. Then you abandonded the quest, switched to your next character, rinse, and repeat. This has been fixed, only your first character accepting the quest will get the buff!

Comment by Roguezs

In general, you only get ONE CHANCE at this quest per week per account and you have an exact 1 hour time window to complete this quest. Disbanding or and picking it back up or logging over to an alt does not work. The quest has a 1 hour time indicator and you get a buff called Derby Dasher.

For each unique fish out of the 20 available you catch out of the while this buff is up you gain 1x Mereldar Derby Mark, and if you caught all 20 (in 1 week or spanning over multiple weeks) you get the achievement The Derby Dash and the mount Kah, Legend of the Deep. For completing the quest you gain 25x Mereldar Derby Mark.

For this week (other weeks below):

Crystalline Sturgeon - Glimmerpool
Isle of Dorne / Ringing Deeps

Specular Rainbowfish - Glimmerpool

Isle of Dorne / Ringing Deeps
Get Specular Rainbowfish Lure beforehand

]Sanguine Dogfish - Blood in the Water

Hallowfall
Get 10x Bloody Perch beforehand

General tips and notes:

This week can be fairly easy, or fairly difficult, depending on whether you want to spend gold / time on Lures/Fishes. I recommend going for Bloody Perch first as it drops from a highly contended pool Blood in the Water. If you get enough fishing/perception (say 300+ and 200+ respecively) you'll have a high chance to just fish it from these pools. Alternatively you can toss in 10x Bloody Perch and fish in open waters DO NOT MOVE AS THIS REMOVES THE BUFF Bloody Chum.

Specular Rainbowfish is quite rare even with high fishing and perception. They can be fished from Glimmerpool which is most abundant along the coast of Isle of Dorne in my experience. I would definitely recommend using a Specular Rainbowfish Lure beforehand as this greatly increases your chances to catch this fish from Glimmerpool.

You'll most likely find Crystalline Sturgeon from Glimmerpool when fishing for Specular Rainbowfish, they're quite common. They can also be fished from open waters, but your best bet is always the pools.

Fish and how to find them for other weeks (click the quest):

Happy fishing!

Comment by ProdromusHarv

Upon accepting the quest you receive the Derby Dash Buff.
You can ONLY get the trophy fish credit while having the Derby Dash buff, even if you still have the quest.
You can only get the Derby Dash buff once per character, per week.
The quest itself it marked as daily, not weekly, so if you complete it Saturday and grab it again Sunday, you can't complete as you don't get the Derby Dash buff again for that week.

I hope this clears up some confusion for people.

Comment by rhinoloupe

Once you've caught the required fish, there is no rush to return to the NPC; you can turn in the quest after the 1-hour buff has expired. This means you can maximise farming Derby Marks until the very end of the buff.

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Hallowfall Fishing Derby

Catch these Trophy Fish before the Derby Dasher buff expires: Crystalline Sturgeon, Specular Rainbowfish, Sanguine Dogfish.

	Catch a Trophy Crystalline Sturgeon (1)
	Catch a Trophy Specular Rainbowfish (1)
	Catch a Trophy Sanguine Dogfish (1)

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Life is always on the edge here, $p. Nerubians, kobyss, hunger--there's always something ready to kill you. So we need to find times to relax, and challenge ourselves at something other than survival. Like fishing. My dad always spent Saturdays fishing, when I was growing up. He'd say, "Take some time for yourself, or you can't be effective for others." So every Saturday, I challenge people to the Hallowfall Fishing Derby. You have one hour to catch trophy fish. See what you can bring me!

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You will receive:

	Mereldar Derby Mark

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(83532))

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