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{{Fishing}}
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Found in [[Blackrock Depths]].
 
   
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[[Golem Lord Argelmach]] stands in a private room of the [[Manufactory]], guarded by two elite golems. If threatened, Argelmach will draw all living Manufactory technicians and golems to eliminate adventurers. Before taking him down, adventurers would probably find it advantageous to kill all mobs in the Manufactory first to lessen the difficulty of the fight.
 
   
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'''Fishing pools''', or '''Schools of Fish''', are location objects found in different bodies of water in WoW that have a significance to the [[fishing]] [[profession]]. Typically, a higher portion of more desirable items can be fished within a fishing pool. Fishing pool is a more general term; [[School of Fish]] is a fishing pool that contains (primarily) fish. School of Fish can also mean a kind of [[critter]] object in WoW that is not directly fishable (but appears only in fishable waters), and so fishing pool is more specific as regards the fishing profession; School of Fish critter objects are not fishing pools.
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Argelmach holds [[Marshal Windsor]]'s Lost Information, needed in the Alliance Onyxia chain quest. His head is also wanted by the Horde's [[Lotwil Veriatus]].
 
   
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==Fishing==
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Fishing pools are shallow cylindrical regions within fishable water. They designate small regions within fishable water that give better kinds of catches than the surrounding water. Some fish can only be obtained from Fishing pools.
   
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In order to fish a Fishing pool, your bobber must be within the circular area on the surface of the water that defines the boundaries of the fishing pool. Only the top surface has significance for fishing.
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=Quest Objectives=
 
   
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To do this, face the pool, pole in hand. Cast, then if you want to only fish the pool, recast each time you miss. An [[AddOn]] such as Fishing Buddy can make this easier to do.
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==Rise of the Machines (Horde)==
 
   
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If your bobber lands close to the boundary of the pool, it may be unclear if it is within the pool or not. You can often tell from what you catch, but if you are in a hurry you may not want to wait.
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Find and slay Golem Lord Argelmach. Return his head to Lotwil. You will also need to collect 10 Intact Elemental Cores from the Ragereaver Golems and Warbringer Constructs protecting Argelmach. You know this because you are psychic.\
 
   
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Some of the uncertainty is from the 3-D nature of the pool. Depending on the type of pool, it may be partly outlined by fish [[critter]]s swimming within the pool boundaries. These will be under the surface of the pool and from your point of view will appear to be offset toward you on the surface. Also, some of the defining graphics fade in and out, simulating the effects of light on water.
   
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Another visual challenge is that the barrels and crates in a Floating Wreckage pool can somewhat obscure your bobber. Also they are slightly bobbing, and can make your bobber seem to be bobbing prematurely relative to themselves.
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==A Shred of Hope (Alliance)==
 
   
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The [[Fishing skill requirements by zone|fishing skill level required]] to fish a fishing pool is the same as the surrounding water. If the pool spawns on a boundary between fishing zones (there are some that do), the skill level required may be different within the fishing pool depending on where your bobber lands.
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Return Marshal Windsor's Lost Information.
 
   
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Fishing pools are not permanent, but appear and remain until fished out (like [[Vein|mineral nodes]] are [[mining|mined out]]) then respawn at a different location. The respawn rules vary, some types have a delay, some do not.
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Marshal Windsor believes that the information is being held by Golem Lord Argelmach and [[General Angerforge]].
 
   
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*Schools are important [[object]]s for selective farming of [[Alchemy]] or [[Cooking]] ingredients.
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*Some schools must be fished as part of a quest.
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*A {{item|Weather-Beaten Journal}} teaches the [[Find Fish]] [[ability]] for [[Tracking]] fishing pools. It can be looted from fished containers or as a reward from the Fishing Dailys from [[Old Man Barlo]].
   
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==Types==
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=Common Drops=
 
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===Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor schools===
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{| class="darktable"
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!Name
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!Main Catch
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!Coastal or Inland
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!Zones Located
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|-
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|Bloodsail Wreckage
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|{{item|icon=|Mithril Bound Trunk}}
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|align=center|Coastal
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|[[Stranglethorn Vale]]
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|- class="alt"
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|School of Deviate Fish
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|{{item|icon=|Deviate Fish}}
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|align=center|Inland
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|[[The Barrens]]
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|Floating Wreckage
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|{{item|icon=|Mithril Bound Trunk}}
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|align=center|Coastal
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|[[Stranglethorn Vale]]
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|- class="alt"
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|Floating Debris
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|{{item|icon=|Tightly Sealed Trunk}}
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|align=center|Coastal & Inland
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|[[The Barrens]] <br/> [[Darkshore]]<br/>[[Loch Modan]]<br/>[[Silverpine Forest]]<br/>[[Westfall]]
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|-
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|Abundant Firefin Snapper Pool <br/> Firefin Snapper Pool <br/> Sparse Firefin Snapper Pool<br/> Teeming Firefin Snapper Pool
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|{{item|icon=|Firefin Snapper}}
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|align=center|Coastal
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|[[Stranglethorn Vale]]<br/>[[Hillsbrad Foothills]]<br/>[[Wetlands]]<br/>[[Azshara]]<br/>[[Feralas]]<br/>[[Tanaris]]<br/>[[Arathi Highlands]]<br/>[[Desolace]]<br/>[[Dustwallow Marsh]]
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|- class="alt"
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|[[Oil Spill]]
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|{{item|icon=|Firefin Snapper}}
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|align=center|Inland
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|[[Stonetalon Mountains]]
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|-
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|Abundant Oily Blackmouth School<br/>Lesser Oily Blackmouth School<br/>Oily Blackmouth School<br/>Sparse Oily Blackmouth School<br/>Teeming Oily Blackmouth School
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|{{item|icon=|Oily Blackmouth}}
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|align=center|Coastal
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|[[Stranglethorn Vale]]<br/>[[Hillsbrad Foothills]]<br/>[[Wetlands]]<br/>[[Azshara]]<br/>[[Feralas]]<br/>[[Tanaris]]<br/>[[Arathi Highlands]]<br/>[[Desolace]]<br/>[[Dustwallow Marsh]]<br/>[[Westfall]]
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|- class="alt"
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|Patch of Elemental Water
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|{{item|icon=|Elemental Water}}<br/>{{item|icon=|Essence of Water}}<br/>{{item|icon=|Globe of Water}}
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|align=center|Coastal
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|[[Azshara]]
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|-
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|School of Greater Sagefish
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|{{item|icon=|Raw Greater Sagefish}}
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|align=center|Inland
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|[[Stranglethorn Vale]]<br/>[[Alterac Mountains]]
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|- class="alt"
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|School of Sagefish<br/>School of Lesser Sagefish
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|{{item|icon=|Raw Sagefish}}
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|align=center|Inland
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|[[Loch Modan]] <br/>[[Silverpine Forest]]<br/>[[Ashenvale]]<br/>[[Stonetalon Mountains]]<br/>[[Hillsbrad Foothills]]
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|-
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|Schooner Wreckage Pool
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|{{item|icon=|Watertight Trunk}}
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|align=center|Coastal & Inlands
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|[[Ashenvale]]<br/>[[Hillsbrad Foothills]]<br/>[[Stonetalon Mountains]]<br/>[[Wetlands]]
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|- class="alt"
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|Stonetalon Eel Swarm
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|{{item|icon=|Stonescale Eel}}
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|align=center|Coastal
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|[[Azshara]]<br/>[[Feralas]]<br/>[[Stranglethorn Vale]]<br/>[[Tanaris]]
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|-
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|Speckled Tastyfish Pool
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|{{item|icon=|Speckled Tastyfish}}
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|align=center|Coastal
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|[[Stranglethorn Vale]]<sup>†</sup>
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|- class="alt"
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|Waterlogged Wreckage Pool
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|{{item|icon=|Iron Bound Trunk}}
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|align=center|Coastal & Inland
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|[[Alterac Mountains]] <br/>[[Arathi Highlands]]<br/>[[Desolace]]<br/>[[Dustwallow Marsh]]<br/>[[Stranglethorn Vale]]
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|-
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|Muddy Churning Waters
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|{{item|icon=|Zulian Mudskunk}}
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|align=center|n/a
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|[[Zul'Gurub]]
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|}
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<sup>†</sup>Only during the [[Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza]]
   
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===Outland Schools===
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*[http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=11822 Omnicast Boots]
 
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*[http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=11823 Luminary Kilt]
 
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*[http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=11669 Naglering]
 
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*[http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=11819 Second Wind]
 
   
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{| class="darktable"
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[[Category:Instance Characters|Argelmach, Golem Lord]]
 
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!Name
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[[Category:Dark Iron Dwarves|Argelmach, Golem Lord]]
 
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!Main Catch
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[[Category:Instance:Blackrock Depths|Argelmach, Golem Lord]]
 
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!Zones Located
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[[Category:Named Mobs|Argelmach, Golem Lord]]
 
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|Bluefish School
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|{{item|icon=|Icefin Bluefish}}
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|[[Nagrand]]
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|- class="alt"
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|Brackish Mixed School
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|{{item|icon=|Golden Darter}}<br/>{{item|icon=|Spotted Feltail}}
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|[[Terokkar Forest]] <br/> [[Zangarmarsh]]
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|Highland Mixed School
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|{{item|icon=|Golden Darter}}<br/>{{item|icon=|Furious Crawdad}}
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|[[Terokkar Forest]]
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|- class="alt"
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|Mudfish School
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|{{item|icon=|Figluster's Mudfish}}
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|[[Nagrand]]
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|-
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|Pure Water
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|{{item|icon=|Mote of Water}}
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|[[Nagrand]]
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|- class="alt"
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|Steam Pump Flotsam
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|{{item|icon=|Heavy Supply Crate}}<br/>{{item|icon=|Steam Pump Debris}}
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|[[Zangarmarsh]]
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|-
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|Zangarian Sporefish School
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|{{item|icon=|Zangarian Sporefish}}
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|[[Zangarmarsh]]
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|}
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===Northrend Schools===
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{| class="darktable"
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!Name
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!Main Catch
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!Coastal or Inland
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!Zones Located
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|Borean Man O'War School
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|{{item|icon=|Borean Man O' War}}
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|align=center|Coastal
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|[[Borean Tundra]]
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|- class="alt"
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|Deep Sea Monsterbelly School
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|{{item|icon=|Deep Sea Monsterbelly}}
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|align=center|Off Coast
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|[[The Frozen Sea]] <br/> [[Borean Tundra]]
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|Dragonfin Angelfish School
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|{{item|icon=|Dragonfin Angelfish}}
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|align=center|Inland
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|[[Dragonblight]]
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|- class="alt"
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|Fangtooth Herring School
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|{{item|icon=|Fangtooth Herring}}
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|align=center|Inland
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|[[Howling Fjord]]
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|Glacial Salmon School
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|{{item|icon=|Glacial Salmon}}
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|align=center|Inland
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|[[Grizzly Hills]]
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|- class="alt"
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|Glassfin Minnow School
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|{{item|icon=|Glassfin Minnow}}
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|align=center|Inland
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|[[Crystalsong Forest]]
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|-
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|Imperial Manta Ray School
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|{{item|icon=|Imperial Manta Ray}}
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|align=center|Coastal
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|[[Borean Tundra]]<br/>[[Dragonblight]]<br/>[[Grizzly Hills]]
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|- class="alt"
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|Moonglow Cuttlefish School
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|{{item|icon=|Moonglow Cuttlefish}}
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|align=center|Off Coast
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|[[The Frozen Sea]]
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|-
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|Musselback Sculpin School
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|{{item|icon=|Musselback Sculpin}}
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|align=center|Inland
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|[[Borean Tundra]]<br/>[[Dragonblight]]
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|- class="alt"
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|Nettlefish School
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|{{item|icon=|Nettlefish}}
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|align=center|Inland
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|[[Sholazar Basin]]
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|}
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===Cataclysm Areas Schools===
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{| class="darktable"
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!Name
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!Main Catch
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!Coastal or Inland
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!Zones Located
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|}
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===Special Pools===
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There are some pools that, while visible at the water surface, are not used as a fishing resource. These may be used as quest objectives or to summon a boss. These have a slightly different appearance than normal fishing schools. A normal Fishing school will look like a circular outlined darker patch of water. A quest objective pool will look like a speckled surface area.
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*[[School of Red Snapper]] Used for {{questlong|Alliance|6|Red Snapper - Very Tasty!}}
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*School of [[Tasty Reef Fish]] Used for {{questlong|Neutral|69|The Way to His Heart...}}
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*[[Strange Pool]] in [[Serpentshrine Cavern]] within [[Coilfang Reservoir]] in [[Zangarmarsh]] must be fished to summon the boss, [[The Lurker Below]].
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*School of [[Northern Salmon]], an objective of {{questlong|Neutral|75|A Bear of an Appetite}}
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*[[Pool of Blood]], a created pool for the daily quest {{questlong|Neutral|70|Blood Is Thicker}}
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==Achievements==
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The Following Achievements Require Fishing from Pools:
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*{{Achievement|The Old Gnome and the Sea}}
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*{{Achievement|The Scavenger}}
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*{{Achievement|Outland Angler}}
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*{{Achievement|Northrend Angler}}
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*{{Achievement|The Lurker Above}}
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*{{Achievement|Master Angler of Stranglethorn}}
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*{{Achievement|Turtles All the Way Down}}
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Additionally some element of pool fishing is needed to complete these Achievements:
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*{{Achievement|Mr.Pinchy's Magical Crawdad Box}} - Requires fishing up {{item|icon=|Mr. Pinchy}} a rare spawn from Highland Mixed Pools
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== Patch changes ==
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* {{Patched|date=2009-04-16|bluenote=Certain fishing nodes for one of the fishing daily quests should no longer be spawned on land. <ref name="Bornakk">{{ref web
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|url=http://blue.mmo-champion.com/23/16474158165-recent-ingame-fixes--41609.html
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|accessdate=2009-05-24
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|date=2009-04-16
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|title=Recent In-Game Fixes - 4/16/09
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|author=[[Image:Blizz.gif]] [[Bornakk]]}}</ref>}}
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== References ==
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{{reflist}}
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==External links==
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*{{Elink|link=http://www.elsanglin.com/pools_and_wreckage.html |site=El's Extreme Anglin' |icon=elsanglin| desc=Pools and Wreckage}}
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{{Fishing Pools}}
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[[Category:Fish]]
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[[Category:Critters]]
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[[Category:Fishing pools| ]]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fishing Pool}}

Revision as of 21:50, 1 January 2011

Fishing icon WoW Icon update Fishing (Profession)


Fishing pools, or Schools of Fish, are location objects found in different bodies of water in WoW that have a significance to the fishing profession. Typically, a higher portion of more desirable items can be fished within a fishing pool. Fishing pool is a more general term; School of Fish is a fishing pool that contains (primarily) fish. School of Fish can also mean a kind of critter object in WoW that is not directly fishable (but appears only in fishable waters), and so fishing pool is more specific as regards the fishing profession; School of Fish critter objects are not fishing pools.

Fishing

Fishing pools are shallow cylindrical regions within fishable water. They designate small regions within fishable water that give better kinds of catches than the surrounding water. Some fish can only be obtained from Fishing pools.

In order to fish a Fishing pool, your bobber must be within the circular area on the surface of the water that defines the boundaries of the fishing pool. Only the top surface has significance for fishing.

To do this, face the pool, pole in hand. Cast, then if you want to only fish the pool, recast each time you miss. An AddOn such as Fishing Buddy can make this easier to do.

If your bobber lands close to the boundary of the pool, it may be unclear if it is within the pool or not. You can often tell from what you catch, but if you are in a hurry you may not want to wait.

Some of the uncertainty is from the 3-D nature of the pool. Depending on the type of pool, it may be partly outlined by fish critters swimming within the pool boundaries. These will be under the surface of the pool and from your point of view will appear to be offset toward you on the surface. Also, some of the defining graphics fade in and out, simulating the effects of light on water.

Another visual challenge is that the barrels and crates in a Floating Wreckage pool can somewhat obscure your bobber. Also they are slightly bobbing, and can make your bobber seem to be bobbing prematurely relative to themselves.

The fishing skill level required to fish a fishing pool is the same as the surrounding water. If the pool spawns on a boundary between fishing zones (there are some that do), the skill level required may be different within the fishing pool depending on where your bobber lands.

Fishing pools are not permanent, but appear and remain until fished out (like mineral nodes are mined out) then respawn at a different location. The respawn rules vary, some types have a delay, some do not.

Types

Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor schools

Name Main Catch Coastal or Inland Zones Located
Bloodsail Wreckage [Mithril Bound Trunk] Coastal Stranglethorn Vale
School of Deviate Fish [Deviate Fish] Inland The Barrens
Floating Wreckage [Mithril Bound Trunk] Coastal Stranglethorn Vale
Floating Debris [Tightly Sealed Trunk] Coastal & Inland The Barrens
Darkshore
Loch Modan
Silverpine Forest
Westfall
Abundant Firefin Snapper Pool
Firefin Snapper Pool
Sparse Firefin Snapper Pool
Teeming Firefin Snapper Pool
[Firefin Snapper] Coastal Stranglethorn Vale
Hillsbrad Foothills
Wetlands
Azshara
Feralas
Tanaris
Arathi Highlands
Desolace
Dustwallow Marsh
Oil Spill [Firefin Snapper] Inland Stonetalon Mountains
Abundant Oily Blackmouth School
Lesser Oily Blackmouth School
Oily Blackmouth School
Sparse Oily Blackmouth School
Teeming Oily Blackmouth School
[Oily Blackmouth] Coastal Stranglethorn Vale
Hillsbrad Foothills
Wetlands
Azshara
Feralas
Tanaris
Arathi Highlands
Desolace
Dustwallow Marsh
Westfall
Patch of Elemental Water [Elemental Water]
[Essence of Water]
[Globe of Water]
Coastal Azshara
School of Greater Sagefish [Raw Greater Sagefish] Inland Stranglethorn Vale
Alterac Mountains
School of Sagefish
School of Lesser Sagefish
[Raw Sagefish] Inland Loch Modan
Silverpine Forest
Ashenvale
Stonetalon Mountains
Hillsbrad Foothills
Schooner Wreckage Pool [Watertight Trunk] Coastal & Inlands Ashenvale
Hillsbrad Foothills
Stonetalon Mountains
Wetlands
Stonetalon Eel Swarm [Stonescale Eel] Coastal Azshara
Feralas
Stranglethorn Vale
Tanaris
Speckled Tastyfish Pool [Speckled Tastyfish] Coastal Stranglethorn Vale†
Waterlogged Wreckage Pool [Iron Bound Trunk] Coastal & Inland Alterac Mountains
Arathi Highlands
Desolace
Dustwallow Marsh
Stranglethorn Vale
Muddy Churning Waters [Zulian Mudskunk] n/a Zul'Gurub

†Only during the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza

Outland Schools

Name Main Catch Zones Located
Bluefish School [Icefin Bluefish] Nagrand
Brackish Mixed School [Golden Darter]
[Spotted Feltail]
Terokkar Forest
Zangarmarsh
Highland Mixed School [Golden Darter]
[Furious Crawdad]
Terokkar Forest
Mudfish School [Figluster's Mudfish] Nagrand
Pure Water [Mote of Water] Nagrand
Steam Pump Flotsam [Heavy Supply Crate]
[Steam Pump Debris]
Zangarmarsh
Zangarian Sporefish School [Zangarian Sporefish] Zangarmarsh

Northrend Schools

Name Main Catch Coastal or Inland Zones Located
Borean Man O'War School [Borean Man O' War] Coastal Borean Tundra
Deep Sea Monsterbelly School [Deep Sea Monsterbelly] Off Coast The Frozen Sea
Borean Tundra
Dragonfin Angelfish School [Dragonfin Angelfish] Inland Dragonblight
Fangtooth Herring School [Fangtooth Herring] Inland Howling Fjord
Glacial Salmon School [Glacial Salmon] Inland Grizzly Hills
Glassfin Minnow School [Glassfin Minnow] Inland Crystalsong Forest
Imperial Manta Ray School [Imperial Manta Ray] Coastal Borean Tundra
Dragonblight
Grizzly Hills
Moonglow Cuttlefish School [Moonglow Cuttlefish] Off Coast The Frozen Sea
Musselback Sculpin School [Musselback Sculpin] Inland Borean Tundra
Dragonblight
Nettlefish School [Nettlefish] Inland Sholazar Basin


Cataclysm Areas Schools

Name Main Catch Coastal or Inland Zones Located

Special Pools

There are some pools that, while visible at the water surface, are not used as a fishing resource. These may be used as quest objectives or to summon a boss. These have a slightly different appearance than normal fishing schools. A normal Fishing school will look like a circular outlined darker patch of water. A quest objective pool will look like a speckled surface area.

Achievements

The Following Achievements Require Fishing from Pools:

Additionally some element of pool fishing is needed to complete these Achievements:

  • Money achievement Mr.Pinchy's Magical Crawdad Box - Requires fishing up [Mr. Pinchy] a rare spawn from Highland Mixed Pools

Patch changes

  • Template:Patched

References

 

External links