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Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza Guide
(Booty Bay fishing competition or tournament)
“Ahoy there ma’ harties! This be the Guide to get ya the fishies you be needing for contest!”
When: Sunday, 14:00 to 16:00 - PST for US realms, CET for EU realms, and Australian EST for Oceanic realms.
Where: Northern Stranglethorn and The Cape of Stranglethorn
Requires: Fishing skill 1 (Requires 225+ if you want rare fish and less junk caught!)
Preparation for the Contest: Make sure you level your Fishing Skill to at least 225. You can do this in less than a few hours in your major city (Orgrimmar or Stormwind). Make sure you have plenty of Lure’s (can be bought from a fishing vendor, next to a fishing trainer. Ask a Guard if you are not sure!)
Tip: Make sure you put the ‘Fishing’ ability on your action bar. You may need to re-cast very quickly to get your bobber in the pool’s! (I have it keybinded to ‘1’)
Getting to the Contest: If you haven’t been to booty bay, this is what you need to do.
Horde: You will need to go from Orgrimmar south towards ‘Ratchet’ (10 minute’s on Mount). South East of ‘The Crossroads’. Get the boat at Ratchet and that will take you straight to Booty Bay! Simple!
Alliance: I am afraid it is a bit more tricky for you. Starting at Stormwind, you will need to travel South down to Booty Bay. (This may take some time, so do it at least an hour before the contest). Watch out for mobs! Example route given below...
This is a map of The Cape of Stranglethorn, Eastern Kingdoms. (Booty Bay - Starting Point)
- The Green cross is Booty Bay, This is where your Hearthstone should be set to before the contest begins and is also the place to hand in Rare Fish and 1st, 2nd and 3rd place Prizes.
- The Blue line is the Route you will be swimming from Booty Bay to the place you are going to fish before the contest begins (This is the safest route to avoid mobs) watch out for the pirates!
- The Red line is where you will be fishing. (you will need to run up and down that route looking for pools to spawn) Make sure you run right on the edge of the beach. (to avoid mobs)
So its 13:45 realm time and you are about to begin the contest in 15 minutes. You should find a nice pool across the red line (map above) and sit there and wait until 14:00. (note: don’t fish until exactly 14:00 or you won’t get any of the fish you need and waste a pool). Just before 14:00 make sure you have your pole equipped and lures attached!
The Fishing itself is simple! this is what will happen.
1: Wait for ‘Riggle Bassbait’ to yell, "Let the fishing tournament begin!" That happens at (or sometimes just before) 14:00, and can be heard across the zone. You do not need to be in Booty Bay.
2: Fish the Pool’s which spawn on the Route you will be taking. That simple folks!
(Don’t panic if you can’t see any pools, just keep running up and down the route I showed you in the picture above and you will see pools, sometimes might take a while for them to spawn) **Take note, don’t be put off if there is loads of people there. A lot of them will be on different server’s, so if they win before you, it won’t matter. Also, you got to be ruthless! don’t think “ahw, this guy has been waiting at this same place for this pool... he can have it. i will find a different one.” NO! you got to get in their and ninja that pool! steal every pool you can find!
3: Once you have caught the 40 fish or rare fish you need, make sure to Hearthstone back to Booty Bay to save you time!
You have two options to approaching this contest.
- To win 1st, 2nd or 3rd place in the Contest, you need to catch 40 ‘Speckled Tastyfish’ and hand it in before anyone else. (or after 1st or 2nd place winner) (rewards at bottom of this guide)
- You can Fish for ‘Rare Fish’... Brownell’s Blue Striped Racer, Dezian Queenfish and Keefer’s Anglefish can be taken to Fishbot 5000 and exchanged for fishing gear described in the rewards section at the bottom of this guide. Fishbot 5000 stands next to Riggle Bassbait in the centre of Booty Bay. (They both have blue question marks above their head’s)
Note: If you are going for 1st, 2nd or 3rd place in this contest, you will have to be as quick as possible, as it’s a competition.
Note: If you are going for the Rare Fish, then there is no panic at all! they can be handed in from 14:00 till 17:00 and any amount of them can be handed in by as many player’s. (But you only have from 14:00 till 16:00 to catch a rare fish!)
Rewards:
Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza - World Event - World of Warcraft
Made this because a friend wanted help and I can’t Sunday because i am doing the Contest myself for another Character. If you have problems with this guide then post below. And/or if you want to suggest adding anything to this guide, post below! Hope this helps you, and good luck fishing folks!
For the more experienced players... here is some posts by players.
"Okay since I am blind (somewhat literally speaking) I tried to use the button macro that put your fish count on your hotbar if you wanted to view it there instead of looking in the inventory.
#showtooltip Speckled Tastyfish
Put that in a macro and stick it on your hotbar. But, like I said, with poor vision and the fact I like my hotbar small, I could not see the count. So I wanted to make a TellMeWhen counter for this. Took me a bit to figure it out, but I wanted to share in case others wanted something similar (simply use TMWs import feature to include the following trackers you want):
Keefer's Angelfish:
^1^T^SStackMinEnabled^B ^SType^Sitem ^SOnlyInBags^B ^SStackMin^N1 ^SName^S19805 ^SStackMax^N40 ^SEnableStacks^B ^SEnabled^B ^t^N61501^S~`~| ^Sicon^^
Speckled Tastyfish:
^1^T^SStackMinEnabled^B ^SType^Sitem ^SOnlyInBags^B ^SStackMin^N1 ^SName^S19807 ^SStackMaxEnabled^B ^SEnableStacks^B ^SEnabled^B ^SStackMax^N40 ^t^N61501^S~`~| ^Sicon^^
If you want to test this with fish prior to the tournament, change the number 19805 or 19807 to the item number of the fish you want to track (Raw Rainbow Fin Albacore is 6361, for example)." - Mangoes
(Booty Bay fishing competition or tournament)
“Ahoy there ma’ harties! This be the Guide to get ya the fishies you be needing for contest!”
When: Sunday, 14:00 to 16:00 - PST for US realms, CET for EU realms, and Australian EST for Oceanic realms.
Where: Northern Stranglethorn and The Cape of Stranglethorn
Requires: Fishing skill 1 (Requires 225+ if you want rare fish and less junk caught!)
Preparation for the Contest: Make sure you level your Fishing Skill to at least 225. You can do this in less than a few hours in your major city (Orgrimmar or Stormwind). Make sure you have plenty of Lure’s (can be bought from a fishing vendor, next to a fishing trainer. Ask a Guard if you are not sure!)
Tip: Make sure you put the ‘Fishing’ ability on your action bar. You may need to re-cast very quickly to get your bobber in the pool’s! (I have it keybinded to ‘1’)
Getting to the Contest: If you haven’t been to booty bay, this is what you need to do.
Horde: You will need to go from Orgrimmar south towards ‘Ratchet’ (10 minute’s on Mount). South East of ‘The Crossroads’. Get the boat at Ratchet and that will take you straight to Booty Bay! Simple!
Alliance: I am afraid it is a bit more tricky for you. Starting at Stormwind, you will need to travel South down to Booty Bay. (This may take some time, so do it at least an hour before the contest). Watch out for mobs! Example route given below...
This is a map of The Cape of Stranglethorn, Eastern Kingdoms. (Booty Bay - Starting Point)
- The Green cross is Booty Bay, This is where your Hearthstone should be set to before the contest begins and is also the place to hand in Rare Fish and 1st, 2nd and 3rd place Prizes.
- The Blue line is the Route you will be swimming from Booty Bay to the place you are going to fish before the contest begins (This is the safest route to avoid mobs) watch out for the pirates!
- The Red line is where you will be fishing. (you will need to run up and down that route looking for pools to spawn) Make sure you run right on the edge of the beach. (to avoid mobs)
So its 13:45 realm time and you are about to begin the contest in 15 minutes. You should find a nice pool across the red line (map above) and sit there and wait until 14:00. (note: don’t fish until exactly 14:00 or you won’t get any of the fish you need and waste a pool). Just before 14:00 make sure you have your pole equipped and lures attached!
The Fishing itself is simple! this is what will happen.
1: Wait for ‘Riggle Bassbait’ to yell, "Let the fishing tournament begin!" That happens at (or sometimes just before) 14:00, and can be heard across the zone. You do not need to be in Booty Bay.
2: Fish the Pool’s which spawn on the Route you will be taking. That simple folks!
(Don’t panic if you can’t see any pools, just keep running up and down the route I showed you in the picture above and you will see pools, sometimes might take a while for them to spawn) **Take note, don’t be put off if there is loads of people there. A lot of them will be on different server’s, so if they win before you, it won’t matter. Also, you got to be ruthless! don’t think “ahw, this guy has been waiting at this same place for this pool... he can have it. i will find a different one.” NO! you got to get in their and ninja that pool! steal every pool you can find!
3: Once you have caught the 40 fish or rare fish you need, make sure to Hearthstone back to Booty Bay to save you time!
You have two options to approaching this contest.
- To win 1st, 2nd or 3rd place in the Contest, you need to catch 40 ‘Speckled Tastyfish’ and hand it in before anyone else. (or after 1st or 2nd place winner) (rewards at bottom of this guide)
- You can Fish for ‘Rare Fish’... Brownell’s Blue Striped Racer, Dezian Queenfish and Keefer’s Anglefish can be taken to Fishbot 5000 and exchanged for fishing gear described in the rewards section at the bottom of this guide. Fishbot 5000 stands next to Riggle Bassbait in the centre of Booty Bay. (They both have blue question marks above their head’s)
Note: If you are going for 1st, 2nd or 3rd place in this contest, you will have to be as quick as possible, as it’s a competition.
Note: If you are going for the Rare Fish, then there is no panic at all! they can be handed in from 14:00 till 17:00 and any amount of them can be handed in by as many player’s. (But you only have from 14:00 till 16:00 to catch a rare fish!)
Rewards:
Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza - World Event - World of Warcraft
Made this because a friend wanted help and I can’t Sunday because i am doing the Contest myself for another Character. If you have problems with this guide then post below. And/or if you want to suggest adding anything to this guide, post below! Hope this helps you, and good luck fishing folks!
For the more experienced players... here is some posts by players.
"Okay since I am blind (somewhat literally speaking) I tried to use the button macro that put your fish count on your hotbar if you wanted to view it there instead of looking in the inventory.
#showtooltip Speckled Tastyfish
Put that in a macro and stick it on your hotbar. But, like I said, with poor vision and the fact I like my hotbar small, I could not see the count. So I wanted to make a TellMeWhen counter for this. Took me a bit to figure it out, but I wanted to share in case others wanted something similar (simply use TMWs import feature to include the following trackers you want):
Keefer's Angelfish:
^1^T^SStackMinEnabled^B ^SType^Sitem ^SOnlyInBags^B ^SStackMin^N1 ^SName^S19805 ^SStackMax^N40 ^SEnableStacks^B ^SEnabled^B ^t^N61501^S~`~| ^Sicon^^
Speckled Tastyfish:
^1^T^SStackMinEnabled^B ^SType^Sitem ^SOnlyInBags^B ^SStackMin^N1 ^SName^S19807 ^SStackMaxEnabled^B ^SEnableStacks^B ^SEnabled^B ^SStackMax^N40 ^t^N61501^S~`~| ^Sicon^^
If you want to test this with fish prior to the tournament, change the number 19805 or 19807 to the item number of the fish you want to track (Raw Rainbow Fin Albacore is 6361, for example)." - Mangoes
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