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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.wowhead.com/wotlk/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 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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Fishing Achievements Guide - Wrath of the Lich King Classic Fishing Profession Overview Kalu'ak Fishing Derby - Wrath of the Lich King Classic

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