Cataclysm Classic Fishing and Cooking Leveling Guide 1-525

Fishing: 150-215 | Cooking: 125-150

1. Horde: Fly to Sun Rock Retreat in Stonetalon Mountains, fish in the small lake there until 215.
   Alliance: Fly to Redridge Mountains, fish in Lake Everstill until 215.

2. You will catch around 35x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper and 70x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish.

3. Cook the Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper. Your cooking skill will rise to about 115.

4. Learn Recipe: Bristle Whisker Catfish and then cook all your fish. Your cooking skill must reach at least 150.

5. Go back to Thunder Bluff / Stormwind City and learn Expert Cooking from Aska Mistrunner / Stephen Ryback.

Fishing: 215-275 | Cooking: 150-175

1. Learn Artisan Fishing from Kah Mistrunner / Arnold Leland in Thunder Bluff / Stormwind City.

2. Go to Dustwallow Marsh and fish from 215 to 275 in any of the small patches of water scattered around in the zone. Do not fish in the ocean or any coastal water!

3. 225 fishing skill is required to stop catching junk here, so you should use a Shiny Bauble until you reach 225.

4. You will catch around 40x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish and 70x Raw Mithril Head Trout.

5. Cook all your Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish. Your cooking skill must reach at least 175. If you did't reach 175 cooking skill, catch more fish. The recipe will be "green", so skills-up very slowly and unreliably.

Cooking: 175-225

1. Go to Rachet, then use the boat there to go to Booty Bay in Stranglethorn Vale.

2. Find Kelsey Yance in Booty Bay. He is in the large building at the end of the ship dock in Booty Bay. Enter the building and make an immediate left.

3. Buy these two recipes: Recipe: Mithril Head Trout, Recipe: Filet of Redgill.

4. Learn Recipe: Mithril Head Trout and start cooking Mithril Head Trout.

5. Your Cooking skill should rise to 200.

6. Learn Artisan Cooking from Mrs. Gant. She's in a building in the bottom level of Booty Bay. Turn left on the small ramp that leads to the bottom level.

7. Learn Master Fishing from Myizz Luckycatch. You can find him right under the big shark in Booty Bay. (close to the Inn)

Fishing: 275-310 | Cooking: 225-250

1. Travel to Feralas and buy Recipe: Baked Salmon from Sheendra Tallgrass / Vivianna.

2. 300 fishing skill is required to stop catching junk here, so you should use a Shiny Bauble until you reach 300.

3. Fish in the marked river until you reach Fishing 310 . The other lakes and rivers have lower level fish so make sure you fish in this one.

   

4. Cook any remaining Mithril Headed Trout.

5. Learn Recipe: Filet of Redgill and make as many as you can.

6. Your cooking skill must reach at least 250.

7. Horde: Visit your cooking trainer Aska Mistrunner in Thunder Bluff
   Alliance: Visit your cooking trainer Craig Nollward in Dustwallow Marsh.

8. Learn Poached Sunscale Salmon and Nightfin Soup from the trainer.

Fishing: 310-330 | Cooking: 250-300

1. Go to Un'Goro Crater and fish in any water until 330.

2. 375 fishing skill is required to stop catching junk here, so you should use Bright Baubles.

3. Make as many Poached Sunscale Salmon and Nightfin Soup as you can. Your cooking skill should rise to about 285.

4. Learn Recipe: Baked Salmon and cook Baked Salmon until Cooking 300. You can sell any remaining Fish at the Auction House.

Fishing: 330-365 | Cooking: 300-350

Fishing to 365

Go to the small lake next to the graveyard outside the eastern exit from Shattrath City, then Fish in Terokkar Forest until fishing skill 365. Keep using Bright Baubles. If you are out of lures, you can buy them from Ernie Packwell in Shattrath City.

You can fish in other places, but don't go to flying-restricted areas or the big lake near Shattrath City because they require a lot higher fishing skill, and you will get more junk!

You should catch at least 15x Golden Darter, 50x Barbed Gill Trout, and 10x Spotted Feltail.

Cooking to 350

1. Buy Recipe: Golden Fish Sticks from Innkeeper Biribi / Rungor.

2. Travel to Cenarion Refuge in Zangarmarsh. Learn Master Cooking from Naka in the inn.

3. Buy Recipe: Feltail Delight from Zurai / Doba (read the "Kurenai Reputation" at the bottom of this section below if you can't talk to Doba)

4. Buy Recipe: Blackened Trout from Gambarinka / Doba.

5. Learn Recipe: Feltail Delight and cook all your fish.

6. Learn Recipe: Blackened Trout and cook Blackened Trout until 320

7. Go back to Cenarion Refuge in Zangarmarsh. Learn Stewed Trout from Naka in the inn and Cook all the remaining Trout as Stewed Trout.

8. Learn Recipe: Golden Fish Sticks, then cook all your Golden Darter. Your cooking skill will be around 350.

Kurenai Reputation

Alliance characters start as 'Unfriendly' with the Kurenai, so you can't buy recipes from Doba if you haven't completed any quests in Zangarmarsh yet.

1. Talk to Ikuti at the Orebor Harborage. Pick up Ango'rosh Encroachment and Daggerfen Deviance from him.
2. Interact with the Wanted Poster near Ikuti and pick up the Wanted: Chieftain Mummaki quest. (if you face him, the poster is to your left)
3. Completing these 3 quests will give you enough reputation to reach Neutral with the Kurenai faction then Doba will sell you his cooking recipes.

Fishing: 365-475 | Cooking: 350-415

Cooking: 415-450

415 - 440

Learn Darkbrew Lager from the the cooknig trainer.

50x Darkbrew Lager - 100x Skin of Dwarven Stout, 50x Jug of Badlands Bourbon

You can buy the Skin of Dwarven Stout and the Jug of Badlands Bourbon from these vendors:

• Innkeeper Firebrew in Ironforge. (Alliance)
• Julia Gallina in Stormwind City. (Alliance)
• Sarah Brady in Dalaran.
• Nixxrax Fillamug in Booty bay.

440 - 450

Learn Blackened Surprise and Illustrious Grand Master Cooking from a cooking trainer.

10x Blackened Surprise - 10x Toughened Flesh

Cooking Daily Quest and Recipes

From this point, every recipe will be purchased with Chef's Award. This currency is rewarded for completing daily cooking quests for Marogg in Orgrimmar and for Robby Flay in Stormwind City.

Once you have enough awards, you can buy recipes from Shazdar in Orgrimmar and Bario Matalli in Stormwind City. One recipe usually costs 3x Chef's Award

You will need to buy the following 3 recipes. The order does not really matter, you will need all of them to reach 525. You can also buy other recipes if you have a lot of Chef's Award, so you can cook your other fishes that you might catch.

• (450) Recipe: Lightly Fried Lurker or Recipe: Lurker Lunch
• (475) Recipe: Pickled Guppy
• (500) Recipe: Delicious Sagefish Tail or Recipe: Baked Rockfish

Fishing: 475-510 | Cooking: 450-500

1. Train Illustrious Cook from the cooking trainer and learn the next rank of Fishing if you didn't already.

2. Go to the Verrall River or lake in Twilight Highlands.

3. Fish inland open water in the Twilight Highlands until you have caught at least 50x Striped Lurker and 25x Highland Guppy.

4. Cooking 450 to 480: Lightly Fried Lurker or Lurker Lunch

5. Cooking 480 to 500: Pickled Guppy

Fishing: 510-525 | Cooking: 500-525

1. Learn Delicious Sagefish Tail or Baked Rockfish.

2. Travel across the Twilight Highlands to find coastal water and fish there. You will catch Murglesnout, Deepsea Sagefish and Algaefin Rockfish.

3. Catch a few fish and then Cook them. Keep fishing until your Cooking skill reaches 525. The last few skill points will come very slowly.

4. 525 fishing skill will take many more catches than 525 cooking. Once you have reached the maximum cooking skill, you can continue to raise your fishing skill anywhere, even in Orgrimmar or Stormwind.

Congratulations on reaching 525! Please send feedback about the guide if you think there are parts I could improve, or you found typos, errors, wrong material numbers!