Fishing

“Catch fish, from shrimp up to shark as your skill grows. Now and then something truly big takes the line.”

Every skill uses the same XP table: 951,207,314 XP for level 99. Past 99 the XP keeps counting.

How it works

Pick a fishing spot from the list (you can pick any you have the level for). Every key press or click is one try at it. A try that works gives you one of what you picked, straight into your bank, plus the XP below. Nothing is random about what you get (some food can double it, and rare finds roll separately): only whether the try lands.

Your chance per try is the same for every fishing spot: 30% at level 1, plus 0.5% for every level after that, plus your rod's bonus, up to 100%. With no tool that is 79% at level 99. With an Abyssal Rod (+35 points) every try lands as soon as you can wield it (level 80).

What you can gather

Level	Resource	XP each
1	Raw Shrimp	18
10	Raw Trout	92
25	Raw Salmon	130
35	Raw Tuna	150
40	Raw Lobster	166
60	Raw Swordfish	184
62	Raw Monkfish	192
80	Raw Shark	202

Tools

A tool sits in its own slot in your skilling loadout and only works for Fishing. Its XP bonus multiplies every bit of Fishing XP you earn; its success bonus adds straight to your chance.

Tool	Fishing level	XP bonus	Success bonus	Chance at 99
Bronze Rod	1	+5%	+7	86%
Iron Rod	15	+10%	+12	91%
Steel Rod	30	+15%	+18	97%
Mithril Rod	55	+20%	+24	100%
Adamant Rod	70	+22%	+27	100%
Rune Rod	80	+25%	+30	100%
Abyssal Rod	80	+30%	+35	100%

Angler's Potion and the Super Angler's Potion raise the level used for your chance only (never your XP, what you can pick, or pet odds), up to 99.

Fly fishing: with the option on in the spot picker, at Raw Trout and Raw Salmon spots each try gets +10% catch chance while you have Feather in the bank. A catch uses one; a miss uses nothing.

Rare finds

Rolled on every success, each on its own (and, with the Agility perk Sharp Eyes, on some misses too). Gear and food with a rare find bonus raise these odds (a +10% bonus makes a 1/200 find a 1/182 one).

Find	Chance per success	Where
Old Mossback	1/50,000	Anywhere
Seaweed	2.5%	Anywhere (side catch)
Oyster	1/400	Raw Tuna, Raw Lobster, Raw Swordfish, Raw Monkfish, Raw Shark (side catch)
Fish Roe	1.67%	Raw Trout, Raw Salmon (side catch)
Caviar	1/120	Raw Swordfish, Raw Monkfish, Raw Shark (side catch)

Pet

Baby Kraken is rolled on every success, at 1 in (30,000,000 − 25 × your level): 1/29,997,525 even at level 99, so it's normal to get there without one. Rare find bonuses raise the odds a little.

With a Fishbowl (Seaweed) in your bank, every catch also has a 1% chance to turn the bowl into one of the three pet fish you don't own yet, picked at random (see Pets).

Fastest XP

The most XP per input at every level, worked out from the numbers above. With the best tool you can wield at that level (its XP bonus included).

Levels	Best	XP per input
1–9	Raw Shrimp	7–7.7
10–24	Raw Trout	40.1–54.1
25–34	Raw Salmon	77.2–96.4
35–39	Raw Tuna	112.1–115.6
40–59	Raw Lobster	128.9–165.3
60–61	Raw Swordfish	184.4–185.5
62–79	Raw Monkfish	194.7–224.9
80–99	Raw Shark	262.6