Vanilla Wow Fishing And Cooking Guide

This Fishing and Cooking leveling guide will show you the easiest way to level Cooking and Fishing together to 300. Since leveling your fishing takes a long time it's best to level these professions together. If you only want to level Cooking, visit my Cooking leveling guide.

If you only want to level Fishing, you can skill up your fishing from 1 to 300 in any fishable water in the level 1-60 zones. This means you can stand in Orgrimmar all day long and get skillups on your fishing at the same rate as you would in a higher-level zone.

Playing WoW Classic?

Visit my Classic WoW Fishing and Cooking leveling guide 1-300 if you are looking for the Classic WoW guide. Profession skills are split between expansions in the latest World of Warcraft expansion, you'll have a separate skill bar for each expansion, and you can level them separately. This guide is for the "Vanilla" Fishing and Cooking skills in Shadowlands.

Buying recipes

Go to Booty Bay and buy Recipe: Mithril Head Trout and Recipe: Filet of Redgill from Kelsey Yance. He is in the large building at the end of the ship dock in Booty Bay. Enter the building and make an immediate left.

You will also need to buy Recipe: Baked Salmon from these NPCs below:

Alliance: Go to Feralas and find Vivianna. She is on the very north end of the Feathermoon Stronghold.
Horde: Sold by Sheendra Tallgrass in Feralas at Camp Mojache.

Leveling Fishing to 75

Fishing (75-165) and Cooking (1-100)

Shadowlands BUG: Fishing in any old capital city gives Shadowlands fishing skill right now. You can use Ashenvale / Redride Mountains as an alternative until the bug is fixed. The drop rate is a bit different there, so I recommend cooking your Raw Brilliant Smallfish before you leave. You might have to catch more of them in Mulgore \ Elwyn Forest to reach Cooking 50.

Western Plaguelands (165-225)

Go to Western Plaguelands. Fish in any inland open water from fishing skill 165 to 225.

You will catch about 60 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish, and about 60 Raw Mithril Head Trout.

Cooking

100 - 175
Learn the recipe Recipe: Bristle Whisker Catfish, and cook all your Bristle Whisker Catfish. Your cooking skill must reach at least 175.
If you did not reach 175, learn the cooking recipes you bought previously and farm a few meat/egg to reach cooking 175.

Eastern Plaguelands (225-275)

Travel to Eastern Plaguelands and fish in any inland open water. You will catch about 35 Raw Redgill, 10 Raw Mithril Head Trout, and a combined total of 25 Raw Nightfin Snapper and/or Raw Sunscale Salmon.

Cooking

175 - 225
Learn the recipe Recipe: Mithril Head Trout, and cook all your Mithril Head Trout. Your cooking skill should rise to above 225.

225 - 250
Learn Recipe: Filet of Redgill, and cook all your fish. Your cooking skill must reach at least 250.

Blasted Lands (275-300)

Go to Blasted Lands and fish in the lake at the Tainted Forest until you reach Fishing 300. You will probably catch enough Raw Whitescale Salmon to reach Cooking 300 as well.

Cooking

275 - 300
Learn Recipe: Baked Salmon and cook Baked Salmon until your cooking skill reaches 300.
Cook all your Raw Sunscale Salmon and Raw Nightfin Snapper if you are not at 275 yet.

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I use Zygor's guide for leveling, and I highly recommend it.

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