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(This is a fishing guide I'm working on that I'm going to post on my guild's message board. Its a work in progress, but I'd like some opinions or suggestions, please.)
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Fishing
First of all, let me start off by saying that I think EVERYONE should take up Fishing. It'll give you something to do when you run out of mana or you're injured and have to rest to heal or you're LFG and there's water nearby. (Yes, you CAN fish while sitting. There's just not any animation if you do that)
Why should you take up fishing? Well, its very simple: 1. You can actually eat the fish as is, without having to cook it. A few coppers for one meal is cheap! 2. You can make a small profit by reselling any rusty daggers, fish scales and tattered sandals you catch to vendors (or use the Fish Scales yourself if you can cast Enduring Breath). 3. Go to the Bazaar and look and see how much Blessed Fishing Rods and Saltwater Seaweed sell for. I rest my case.
Getting started.
First of all, go buy a fishing pole and some bait, and find some water. (If you're in Qeynos, make sure you're at the docks, not the Pally and Cleric guild!) Equip the fishing pole, hit the Fishing button (or make one, if you haven't already) and wait.
With low skill, you may lose bait and your fishing pole may break. But both are cheap, so don't give up.
When your skill is high enough, you can catch special zone-specific fish and items. (If you catch a fish and its not "Fresh Fish", then you have a zone-specific fish!)
After your skill hits 50 or so, if you're not evil, head to Butcherblock and hop at the boat. When the boat stops at an island with an NPC named Zachariah Reigh standing on the docks, get off the boat.
On this island are a few shops of interest. One of them carries fishing poles, bait, hooks for making lures, and tackle boxes. Buy as much bait as you feel like using, but make sure you have enough left for a tackle box. (hooks too, if you want, but I never use them)
Fish here until you get bored, run out of money, or hit whatever skill point you're aiming for. Keep any Gunthak Mackerel and Saltwater Seaweed you catch, but sell anything else, if you like. And buy a tackle box before you leave.
Now, what to do with the Gunthak Mackerel and the Saltwater Seaweed....
Well, unless you're a Brewer or know someone who is, sell the Saltwater Seaweed in the Bazaar. Its used to make temper for Freeport human cultural items. As for the Gunthak Mackerel, put them in the bank and go buy a skinning knife in the Bazaar or find someone who will make one for you, unless you can do it yourself. You can combine the Gunthak Mackerel with the skinning knife in the tackle box I told you to buy and you will end up with 5 fishing bait.
There are zone specific fish in a lot of zones, including several of the starting cities, and they all have different uses. Some are used for Brewing and some for Baking. You can even make food out of some of the fish you catch by combining them in the tackle box with a fillet knife (again, player-made), a root (you can forage these or buy them from someone who can), and celandine (bought from an alchemy vendor), but you need VERY high skill to do this. (They all trivial in the 170's to 180's)
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That's what I've got written so far. I need to add more info, and I'm not sure if I should mention the Nightmare and Valor fish or the fishing lures or not. (To me, the lures are a waste of time and the spiderling silks needed to make the silk threads are better used for other things)
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Fishing
First of all, let me start off by saying that I think EVERYONE should take up Fishing. It'll give you something to do when you run out of mana or you're injured and have to rest to heal or you're LFG and there's water nearby. (Yes, you CAN fish while sitting. There's just not any animation if you do that)
Why should you take up fishing? Well, its very simple: 1. You can actually eat the fish as is, without having to cook it. A few coppers for one meal is cheap! 2. You can make a small profit by reselling any rusty daggers, fish scales and tattered sandals you catch to vendors (or use the Fish Scales yourself if you can cast Enduring Breath). 3. Go to the Bazaar and look and see how much Blessed Fishing Rods and Saltwater Seaweed sell for. I rest my case.
Getting started.
First of all, go buy a fishing pole and some bait, and find some water. (If you're in Qeynos, make sure you're at the docks, not the Pally and Cleric guild!) Equip the fishing pole, hit the Fishing button (or make one, if you haven't already) and wait.
With low skill, you may lose bait and your fishing pole may break. But both are cheap, so don't give up.
When your skill is high enough, you can catch special zone-specific fish and items. (If you catch a fish and its not "Fresh Fish", then you have a zone-specific fish!)
After your skill hits 50 or so, if you're not evil, head to Butcherblock and hop at the boat. When the boat stops at an island with an NPC named Zachariah Reigh standing on the docks, get off the boat.
On this island are a few shops of interest. One of them carries fishing poles, bait, hooks for making lures, and tackle boxes. Buy as much bait as you feel like using, but make sure you have enough left for a tackle box. (hooks too, if you want, but I never use them)
Fish here until you get bored, run out of money, or hit whatever skill point you're aiming for. Keep any Gunthak Mackerel and Saltwater Seaweed you catch, but sell anything else, if you like. And buy a tackle box before you leave.
Now, what to do with the Gunthak Mackerel and the Saltwater Seaweed....
Well, unless you're a Brewer or know someone who is, sell the Saltwater Seaweed in the Bazaar. Its used to make temper for Freeport human cultural items. As for the Gunthak Mackerel, put them in the bank and go buy a skinning knife in the Bazaar or find someone who will make one for you, unless you can do it yourself. You can combine the Gunthak Mackerel with the skinning knife in the tackle box I told you to buy and you will end up with 5 fishing bait.
There are zone specific fish in a lot of zones, including several of the starting cities, and they all have different uses. Some are used for Brewing and some for Baking. You can even make food out of some of the fish you catch by combining them in the tackle box with a fillet knife (again, player-made), a root (you can forage these or buy them from someone who can), and celandine (bought from an alchemy vendor), but you need VERY high skill to do this. (They all trivial in the 170's to 180's)
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That's what I've got written so far. I need to add more info, and I'm not sure if I should mention the Nightmare and Valor fish or the fishing lures or not. (To me, the lures are a waste of time and the spiderling silks needed to make the silk threads are better used for other things)
As Faymar already mentioned 
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