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Comment by Sangre

These can generally only be caught only during the night (9pm - 9am server time)

Comment by Sangre

A good place (H) to catch these is from the river that runs directly through Camp Mojache

Comment by 31850

from WoWwiki
http://www.wowwiki.com/Fishing

There are 4 separate intervals of fishing times. These intervals are 6am-12pm, 12pm-6pm, 6pm-12am, and 12am-6am. During this time the drop rates of certain fish varies, for example, Sunscale Salmon and Nightfin Snapper. According to experimentation, the cycle appears to be the following:

* 6am-12pm - Nightfin and Sunscale
* 12pm-6pm - Sunscale only
* 6pm-12am - Nightfin and Sunscale
* 12am-6am - Nightfin only

Nightfin Snapper has the highest drop rate from 12am-6am, but is never found between 12pm-6pm. On the other hand, Sunscale Salmon is never found between 12am-6am, but drops quite well from 12pm-6pm.

Comment by 84063

Of course, the drop rate for nightfin inscreases at night, as the drop rate for sunscale increases in the day. However, it is unfair to say that anything NEVER drops at a certain time. I caught a sunscale salmon at 3 AM this morning.

Comment by Korasoff

Favorite place to fish those: Moonglade after midnight. Quiet place (little ganking if you're on a PvP server) and a high droprate: I sometimes get a stack of 20 per 15 minutes of fishing.

Comment by 71609

Fishing in Moonglade @ 46 , 68 for 30 min
Server Time : 7:30 - 8:00pm
Skill Lvl 246 to 265
Nat Pagle +25 pole & +75 Lure (Bright baubles)

Redgill : 55 ~ 52.8%
Sunscale Salmon : 17 ~ 16.3%
Nightfin Snapper : 13 ~ 12.5%
Mithril Head Trout : 10 ~ 9.6%
Oily Blackmouth : 8 ~ 7.7%
37lb Redgill : 1 ~ 0.9%

Comment by popeguilty

Why are they so valuable?

Comment by 288074

I get a good drop rate for them fishing in Azshara at Lake Mennar.
Over half the time I was pulling out Nightfin Snapper, with some Regill and some Oily Blackmouth too.

Comment by synistrad

i really like this kind of stuff like nocturnal and diurnal stuff , make wow abit more realistic ;D

Comment by 306541

Did this rate change? At 10:30 PM servertime, I'm pulling up both Sunscale Salmon and Nightfin, and neither of them in abundence. Admittedly, I'm fishing in the Feralas river through Morach, but... Ehh.

Comment by Winnson

What's the nearest FP to the fishies? Feathermoon?

Comment by 699483

Patch 4.0.3 situation.
Flew to Chillwind Point and went directly north to the waterway. Server time was 1AM. Cast from a tiny spot of shore. With Fishing skill 200 I could catch Redgill but I also caught weeds. So I used the gnomish fishing lure that grants +100 fishing skill for 10 minutes. There were no schools of any kind. I used two such lures for 20 minutes of fishing, any more would have been too boring.

38 redgill
29 nightfin snapper
11 lesser fish (mithril head trout and oily blackmouths)
no trash items

So I caught 2 redgill per minute and 3 nightfins every 2 minutes.
I raised Fishing skill 1 point about every 5 catches.
If you are skilling up cooking the redgill are only slightly less useful than the nightfins. When nightfins are orange the redgill are yellow. If you are at cooking skill 250 and looking to get up to 300, I recommend you cook the redgill first though they are yellow, and then cook the nightfins. The redgill green at 262 but you'll still get points out of them. 20 minutes worth of fishing took me from 259 to 289 in cooking skill.

Comment by stuartthompson

Caught one in the lake just east of Crown Guard Tower in Eastern Plaguelands. Patch 4.0.6. Took ten casts.

4 Regill
4 Mithril Head Trout
1 Oily Blackmouth
1 Nightfin Snapper

If you're going for The Limnologist, might be worth coming here for both Nighfin Snapper and Mithril Head Trout.

Comment by cptspalding

For those still at a lower level, you can catch these in the Verdantis River in Feralas level 30-40.

Caught mostly Redgill however about 20% of my catch was the nightfin.

Comment by 829749

Caught after 7 casts in Blasted Lands, just NW of Sunveil Excursion in The Tainted Forest.

Catches:
3 Plated Armorfish
2 Whitescale Salmon
1 Redgill
1 Nightfin Snapper

at 8:45 EST, 5:45 server.

Hth! :-)

Comment by 632142

I tried Moonglade several times. I went to Winterspring, to Frostfire: Hot Springs. I caught Raw Sunscale Salmon, Raw Nightfin Snapper, Plated Armor, Raw Whitescale Salmon, and Lightning Eel. I got there about 9:41pm server time and fished till 9:45pm and caught 15 fish. I hope that this helps.

Comment by fireboy

As of 7/17/11, Patch 4.2 I was unable to catch Nightfin Snapper in the large lake in lower Blasted Lands as shown in the map. All the fish coming from it no matter where I was were 'salt water' fish. I moved up to the lake at the top of the waterfall across from the Sunveil Excursion (just north of the words on the map) and caught one on my first cast at 9:40PM server.

Be careful and make sure you go to the north side of the lake since Sunviel Excursion will flag you for PvP.

YMMV.

Comment by 778405

8/15/2011 - 8pm realm at the location described by fireboy.
3 Sunscale Salmon
15 Whitescale Salmon
4 Plated Armorfish
4 Lightning Eel
1 Nightfin Snapper

Happy fishing!

Comment by 802681

the broken halls in swamp of sorrows!
You can catch these anytime of the day or night..I fish a lot in these waters inside on the way to the dungeon. standing right on the steps.

swim across after u go down under the doorway and stand all along the steps or the ledge in the water next to the steps, get a lot of redgill, sunscale salmon as well.

Comment by 926429

I've found the best place in Moonglade for high drop rate of Raw Redgill, Raw Nightfin Snapper and Raw Sunscale Salmon is the little 'pond' in southern Moonglade next to the flight path (44,66). 90% of casts gave me 1 of those fish.

Note: This was at 11am server time.

Comment by rchutto

Caught at 7:50 am in Lake Elune'ara, Winterspring, in open water.

Comment by caltoro

You can catch this fish : 18:00-24:00 ~50%
24:00-06:00 ~99%

my fishing log(18:27)
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Comment by lucetak

I was unable to catch this fish at several wowhead locations during the afternoon (12:00-18:00 server time). Recommend using the tips from El's Extreme Anglin because they have more detailed/accurate info. and you won't need to read 30 comments to figure out where to go: http://www.elsanglin.com/limnologist.html

Comment by Chedori

Caught the Raw Nightfin Snapper while fishing in The Tainted Forest, Blastedlands at 11:50am

Comment by 992607

i went with what ellelouise said about fishing near the flightpath in moonglade. got the fish on my second cast.

Comment by FaustasTheMad

50+ casts in Moonglade and no luck, then went to Felwood 49.25, 3 casts and got it

Comment by BinaryMuffin

As of 7/18/12...

Pole Equipped: Strong Fishing Pole (+5)
Lure Equipped: Aquadynamic Fish Attractor (+100)
Current Fishing Level: 135 (+105)

I went fishing around Moonglade in the various Greater Sagefish Schools for 30 minutes and fished up the following:

Iron Bound Trunk x6
- 9 Silver, 27 Copper
- Thick Leather x4
- Heavy Leather x4
- Mana Potion x2
- Greater Healing Potion x3
- Bolt of Mageweave x1
- Tigerbane (Green Weapon Drop)
- Bolt of Silk x2
- Weather-Beaten Journal

Raw Greater Sagefish x35
Raw Sunscale Salmon x11
Oily Blackmouth x5
Lightning Eel x3
Raw Redgill x14
Raw Mithril Head Trout x1
Stranglekelp x3

Sickly Fish x2
Tattered Cloth x3
Weeds x2
Driftwood x4
Tangled Fishing Line x2
Rumsey Rum Black Label x1

Pretty good luck with the Sunscale Salmon, I'll try again when it's 6pm server time to see what the Nightfin Snappers are like.

Comment by Allakhazam

When the sun dial turns to night, you can catch Nightfins in greater quantities.

You CAN catch these during the day.

Fish are not based on zones or areas. The catch rate is the same as drop rates for items. You have to be in an area where they CAN be caught and have sufficient skill to fish there.

I won't give up any information on where, when or how I collect these fish, but I will say I catch about better than 40 per hour.

Comment by Allakhazam

I'm not sure about that, you saying fish aren't limited by zone or area. To the best of my knowledge, I have never fished a lobster, mightfish or squid out of a river or lake. The reverse is also true, I've never caught Nightfins or Sunscales out on the open sea.

And sure, there's a chance of it happening, just like there's a chance of the Sun going supernova, that's not what we're talking about here tho.. we're talking about catching the fish reliably. I wouldn't advise anyone to "just start fishing" because you may not actually catch what you want in the quantities you want if you do.

-Nah-

Comment by Allakhazam

Nightfin CAN be caught in the morning time because i've caught 4 this morning in Twin Colloassas (sp)

Also caught raw sunscale fish oily black mouth and a crap load of redgill fish, and some mithril fisi too.

Comment by Allakhazam

Was fishing for about 50 min. in the river right next to bloodvenom post in Felwood.

Caught 100 fishes.

53 raw Redgill
14 Raw Sunscale Salmon
14 raw nightfin Snapper
10 raw mithril head trout
9 oily Black mouth.

The time was between 22.00 and 23.00
So Sunscale salmon and Nightfin Snappers dosen't seem to care much about the time of the day.

QueenAnita

Comment by Allakhazam

have been decreased alot the drop rates? i cant cach they like before :(

Comment by Allakhazam

Are there schools of these fish anywhere? I fished a stack of them in WPL but they had a drop rate of about 10%.

Comment by Allakhazam

I'm in fishing in the lake at Moonglade at 11:35 PM and my nightfin drop rate is about 30%.

Comment by Allakhazam

I found the best place to catch these is the river just north of Fire Plume Ridge in Un'Goro Crater. About 30% of the fish I caught there were Nightfin. Majority was Raw Redgill, with some Mithril Head Trout and Blackmouth mixed in. Anywhere else I tried I could only manage about 5% rate of Nightfin.

Comment by Allakhazam

People like Kempion crack me up.. go you!

The biggest problem with 40+ per hour is having the mental stamina to sit there for an hour.. I know I fish for 5 minutes and I'm already bored to tears. If I ever sit there for a full hour I will report how many I caught.

Anyways... I don't have a need to hide information from everyone so the places I can catch these reliably (meaning 1 in every 3-4 casts on average) is

Verdantis River in Feralas
Skulk Rock (the river that runs by it) in Hinterlands

I've tried Azshara and I've tried Un'Goro but I just can't seem to get the same drop rates there. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. 300 skill.

-Nah-

Comment by Allakhazam

The lake outside Quel'Danil Lodge in the Hinterlands.

Details:
5:15am-6:05am server
260-ish fishing skill
+75 Bright Bauble applied

Comment by Allakhazam

For those of us lower level players looking for this fish - be carefull about the area north of the twin colosus - I was there this morning and told I was too low level to fish here (my fishing is at 245). I caught some of these fish in the Hinterlands with no attractors except for Big Iron pole. Anyway, the area north of the twin colosus is crawling with level 61, 62 and 63 dragonkin elites.

Comment by Allakhazam

Here is a picture of where I fished, what I caught, how many, and what the server time was, etc.

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/7730/fish2tb7.jpg

Comment by Allakhazam

When I go looking for these, I fish in EPL outside Stratholme (while waiting for my group) or in the Thorondil River.

It requires bait at 300, and my catch ratio isn't very good, but the other fish I catch are level 45 fish and can be passed to high level hunters with cats and bears. I figure it's worth it.

Comment by Allakhazam

weird i did the fishing quest and i got like 20 in under 30 mins in feralas

what sucked was that it took me that time to get the quest fish :(

Comment by Allakhazam

If you follow the Southfury River north of Orgimmar, the borders of Ashenvale and Azshara come together. Swim up north along the river and find a spot on the east side. This is Azshara, and you'll catch these fish there. You will not catch any along the west Ashenvale side of the river though. The great thing about this location is that there are no mobs or enemy players around at all. Peaceful and quiet.

Comment by Allakhazam

You can catch them day and night,i normally fish them in EPL, and get about 10 in 20 minutes, there are the common fish for that place

Comment by Allakhazam

I've been trying at Verdantis river for 20 minutes and haven't caught a single one? I'm moving on to the next spot.

Flew to Azshara, went down to the river and got it on 3rd cast.
Fishing Level = 361

Edited, Nov 7th 2007 2:55am by princessysabel

Comment by Allakhazam

I get these in moonglade. Oily blackmouth is also useful. Toss the red gill.

Comment by Allakhazam

It doesnt have to be night if you go to the top of twin colossals you can fish them out, need over a 265 skill at least though, needed a fish attractor to catch them

Comment by Allakhazam

I fished for these dang things for three hours and couldn't get even one.
I tried Moonglade, Lake Elune'ara, Western Plaguelands, and Camp Mojache from the above list.
Thottbot.com even had those zones listed and the worst fishing percent was like 10%
The way I was fishing it is more like .01%
So if anybody gets one somewhere I would really appreciate a post on where to fish em up.

Comment by Allakhazam

got six in 30 mins in azshara 'lake mennar'

Comment by Allakhazam

I caught about 50 of these between 04:30 and 05:30 server time in Lake Mennar in Azshara. I caught 14 when fishing for an hour at 22:30-23:30 server time, so it seems they are more active between the 00:00-06:00 time frame.

Happy fishing!

Comment by Allakhazam

We are able to catch these fish as soon as the server clock shows it's nighttime (moon symbol) until 6:00am. The areas are castable at lvl 180 however difficult to successfully catch them without a lure.

In relation to being horde, my favorite location to fish these is right on the river beside the Feralas fp in Camp Mojache. Easy enough. =)

Comment by Allakhazam

seemed to catch these about 1/4 of the time in the lakes in hinterlands

Comment by Allakhazam

This fish has been quite elusive of late. I was able to catch 7 prior to server maint. this morning. When Icecrown came back up, I was able to catch 10 more within approximately 2 hours. (Had tried several times over the past week or so and never caught one). Now, I have fished another 2+ hours and not a single nightfin to be had at Verdantis River. Logged another of my characters in and fished about 20 minutes in Moonglade area with no luck either.

This fish is just plain BROKE or someone hates casters a whole lot! I miss my Nightfin Soup :(

***EDIT*** Fish for these at night time ... have been able to catch them then!

Edited, Wed Mar 2 00:51:42 2005

Comment by Allakhazam

No idea what you are all on about. The best place to catch these is from the Verdantis River in Feralas. You can catch them during the day, but the drop rate is higher at night. I dont use a Lure, my skill is 300, plus 25 on my rod.

Comment by Allakhazam

Fishing in WPL near Andorhal I have just caught 30 in 30 minutes with standard rod and no lures (lvl 300 in fishing).

drop rate sucks if you want to sell but for the Soup it is priceless.

Comment by Allakhazam

I get these in Alterac valley ^^

Comment by Allakhazam

Cooking recipe for this fish is sold by Gikkix (follow the link for details) in Tanaris for 2g.

Edited, Feb 10th 2007 1:58pm by Oborozukuyo

Comment by Allakhazam

Location: Northern edge of Darrowmere lake

Time: 00:50 - 01:50
Skill: 249-267 +75+5

Total catch: 144 fishies
Redgill: 74 - 52%
Nightfin snapper: 42 - 29%
Mithril head trout: 15 - 10%
Oily Blackmouth: 13 - 9%

Edited, Aug 7th 2006 at 6:20am EDT by Barskejens

Comment by Allakhazam

I like to fish in the pond right next to where you fly in.

Comment by Allakhazam

Yep, I just found that one out last night.

Anywhere where you catch the sunscale salmon during the day, you can catch the nightfins at night.

And Camp Mojache is also about a 1/4 catch.

Comment by Allakhazam

You can only catch these at night, around 7PM server time. If you fish in the day, you only catch sunscale.

Comment by Allakhazam

Verdantis river is south of Dire Maul, slightly to the southeast.

In 10 mins I caught:

7 Raw Nightfin Snappers
1 Raw Mithril Head Trout
2 Oily Blackmouths
16 Raw Redgills

I had 215 in fishing skill and used a +100 lure (the aquadynamic fish attractor).
It was 02.00 at night.

/Nialla
lvl 61 druid

Comment by Allakhazam

I fished from 8:10 - 8:40pm server time and caught 6 nightfins and 5 suncsales. This was at Lake Mennar in Azshura.

Comment by Vortica

Raw Night Fin Snapper Farming in 2019

Welcome back to Classic WoW!

If you are looking for the famed Night Fins here is current data on a 1hr fishing session.

Location: Quel' Danil Lodge - Hinterlands
Server Time: 10pm-12am (Night time)

Catch Total: 145
Raw Redgill: 80 ~ 55%
Raw Night Fin: 21 ~ 14%
Raw Mitheril Head Trout: 16 ~ 11%
Raw Sunscale Salmon: 14 ~ 10%
Oily Blackmouth: 14 ~ 10%

Fishing Skill: 196
Lures: Aquadynamic Fish Attractors (+100 skill)

Time to catch may vary depending on your fishing skill level and lures you choose to use.

Happy Fishing!

Comment by swordstrike

I fished for 3 hours between 3AM and 6AM server time, and I got the following fish.

142 Raw Nightfin Snapper (27.4%)
271 Raw Redgill (52.3%)
50 Oily Blackmouth (9.7%)
52 Raw Mithril Head Trout (10.2%)
1 Greater Mana Potion (0.2%)
1 Raw Sunscale Salmon (0.2%)
1 49 Pound Redgill (0.2%)

I was 300 fishing skill base, using a Nat Pagle's Extreme Angler FC-5000 fishing rod (+25) and Bright Baubles (+75)

This was on the Classic server Faerlina.

Comment by teeek

fished for ~1.5-2hrs in feralas (the river through camp mojache) at 1:30 AM server time

60 Raw Nightfin Snapper (~26%)
116 Raw Redgill (~51%)
27 Raw Mithril Head Trout (~12%)
23 Oily Blackmouth (~10%)
1 Superior Healing Potion (~.5%)
1 45 Pound Redgill (~.5%)

starting at approx 175 fishing skill using:
Nat Pagle's Extreme Angler FC-5000 (+25)
Aquadynamic Fish Attractor (+100)

Comment by bipolargirl

These can be fished up and used to cook Nightfin Soup. The recipe can be purchased from Gikkix in Tanaris.

Comment by Topshelf

Fished for 1 hour on the northern edge of Darrowmere Lake just NW of Scholomance, here are the results.

300 skill +20 no lures, time is 0310 - 0410 server.

106 Redgill
64 Nightfin Snapper
16 Mithril Head Trout
13 Oily Blackmouth

That is just over a 30% drop rate with virtually no risk, unless of course, you are on a PVP server.

Good Hunting/Fishing

Comment by Hermenus

My report from WoW Classic - 14-Oct-2019
Location: Un'Goro river
Target: Catch 100 nightfins
Time: 03:00-05:00 am, 1h 45min spent

100 Nightfin - 31.45%
150 Redgill - 47.17%
39 Oily Blackmouth - 12.26%
26 Mithril Head Trout - 8.18%
1 Greater Mana Potion - 0.31%
1 Superior Healing Potion - 0.31%
1 random green - 0.31%

Total 318 casts. I did watch youtube videos during this so it can be done faster, I missed some catches. Could prolly save about 10 min.

Comment by Echoic

WoW Classic
Location: Winterspring - Frostfire Hot Springs (29,36)
Time: 12:30-1:30 am

42 Nightfin - 36.8%
41 Whitescale Salmon - 36%
27 Plated Armorfish - 23.7%
3 Redgill - 2.6%
1 Superior Mana Potion - 1%

Seems to be the best place for Nightfins for me so far

Comment by velegorz

Location: Camp Mojache - Feralas
Server Time: 5:35AM-5:55am (Night time), 10/29/2019

Catch Total: 60
Raw Redgill: 24 - 40%
Raw Night Fin: 23 ~ 38%
Raw Mitheril Head Trout: 9 ~ 15%
Oily Blackmouth: 4 ~ 7%

Fishing Skill: at beginning -225, at the end 235
Lures: Bright Baubles (+75 skill)

Happy Fishing!

Comment by Brozarius

Fishing in Moonglade, between 0:30 and 1:30 > 30% Nightfins

40 Raw Nightfin Snappers and 92 assorted (mostly Raw Redgill), that makes 30%

Comment by Swoll

Zone: Moonglade
Server time: 0:30-1:30
Loot:
76 Redgill
65 Nightfin
23 Oily Blackmouth
19 Mithril Head Trout

Comment by kk60

Feralas - Verdantis River (62, 52):
1.5h between 2:30am - 4am server

51 Nightfin
86 misc fish
2 greens

skill lvl: 225 (barely) + Bright Baubles lure (so that i can actually fish 'em.

Comment by CombatWomb4t

Lake Mennar in Azshara (41,79), tested at both 08:00-09:00 server and 11:30-00:30 server.

Probably around 10-15% in the morning, higher rates approaching midnight, probably up to 30-40% of casts pulled up a Nightfin after midnight.

300 Fishing + Big Iron (+20) - NO LURE REQUIRED (adding Bright Babules or Fish Attractor didn't seem to change the drop rate).

on US-Rattlegore

edit: pulled up a lot of Sunscale Salmon/Redgill/Mithril Head Trout/Oily Blackmouths as well

Comment by Blommanqt

Azshara@LAKE MENNAR
Between 00:30-01.30AM

Catched with ~250 Fishing skill + Bright Baubles + Nat Pagle's Extreme Angler FC-5000

Resaults:
90 Raw Redgill
20 Raw Mithril Head Trout
22 Oily Blackmouth
57 Raw Nightfin Snapper

Comment by alejandro676

Been fishing these a couple nights in a row now in Western plaguelands with the extreme angler and bright baubles. So at 400 skill.
Been getting 1/min on average.

In 30min i got 93 fish in total. 30 were nightfin snappers and 6 were Oily Blackmouth

Comment by Hakkal

I got an 11-12% drop rate for these in Feralas from 7:00am - 9:00am EST over 1,000 casts. It was roughly the same for the Raw Sunscale Salmon too. So, if you're lookin' for both, Camp Mojache is a decent place to go.

Comment by pwowrogue

At 3:30pm server time (Pacific) Ive just spent 40 minutes casting in WPL and not even 1 nightfin snapper was caught. I, also, am of 400 skill using the Extreme Angler and bright baubles. How disappointing! It must not be a good time for Nightfin Snappers!

Comment by n0fail

Location: Western Plaguelands Coords: 30, 67
Server Time: 2:30am-3:30am (Night time)

Catch Total: 193
Raw Redgill: 85 ~ 44%
Raw Night Fin: 61 ~ 31%
Oily Blackmouth: 22 ~ 11%
Raw Mitheril Head Trout: 21 ~ 11%

Fishing Skill: 300
Pole: Nat Pagle's Extreme Angler FC-5000 (+25 skill)
Lures: Aquadynamic Fish Attractors (+100 skill)

Comment by kevb70

Started at 1:50am. Rate of 175 catches/hr. Got my 80th nightfin by 3:15 (32.8%), 160th by 4:30 (34.6%). The percentages are too similar I think it rules out 3am being a peak time to fish. That's approximately a stack of 20 every 18.5 minutes or 65 nightfin per hour.

Comment by LiquidSilver

Got two samples for you all here. Note that in the first sample, Aquadynamic Fish Attractor are used.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
First Sample:
Location: Lake Elune'ara - Moonglade
Server Time: 1:44 am - 2:44 am (Night time)
Catch Total: 192
Fishing Skill: 425
Lures: Aquadynamic Fish Attractor (+100 skill)

Raw Redgill: 91 ~ 47.4%
Raw Nightfin Snapper: 57 ~ 29.7%
Oily Blackmouth: 16 ~ 8.3%
Raw Mithril Head Trout: 26 ~ 13.5%
37 Pound Redgill: 2 ~ 1%

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Second Sample:
Location: Lake Elune'ara - Moonglade
Server Time: 4:31 am - 5:31 am (Night time)
Catch Total: 181
Fishing Skill: 325
Lures: None

Raw Redgill: 91 ~ 50.3%
Raw Nightfin Snapper: 53 ~ 29.3%
Oily Blackmouth: 18 ~ 9.9%
Raw Mithril Head Trout: 17 ~ 9.4%

Comment by Bhootam

Took 34 minutes to fish up 2 stacks of Raw Nightfin Snapper at Lake Elune'ara in Moonglade. For the first stack, I used a Aquadynamic Fish Attractor, for the second I didn't - didn't notice any change in the catch rate.

I also fished up:

47x Raw Redgill
18x Raw Mithril Headed Trout
9x Oily Blackmouth
1x 37 Pound Redgill

This was at about 3AM server time on Grobbulus and is about a 34.7% catch rate for Raw Nightfin Snapper. I used a Nat Pagle Extreme Angler and I started with 276 fishing and ended up with 288 fishing.

Comment by Kanetsidohi

The same day I completed two sesions of fishing of about 30 minutes each, at Lake Elune'ara in Moonglade, using Bright Baubles

During my first attempt I didn't know some fish show up only at certain hours of the day but after learning about it, I made a second trip

First sesion ended at 18:00 hours, I got a big bunch of assorted fishes including Lightning Eel but any Raw Nightfin Snapper at all

Second sesion started at 20:30 hours, and the result follows:
42 Raw Redgill
11 Raw Mithril Head Trout
11 Raw Sunscale Salmon
9 Raw Nightfin Snapper
8 Oily Blackmouth
2 Greater Mana Potion

Considering both sesions, my skill at fishing went from 225 to 243

Good place for fishing as is completely safe, once you learn the flight path, and cooking Filet of Redgill for my pet, allowed me to easily reach 300 at cooking

Update: I made a third 30 minutes fishing trip at the same location, using the same lure
I started fishing at 00:20 hours, and the results are as follows:
36 Raw Redgill
27 Raw Nightfin Snapper
12 Oily Blackmouth
9 Raw Mithril Head Trout
2 Greater Mana Potion
1 37 Pound Redgill

So it seems the time of day to get Raw Nightfin Snapper is inconvenient but important

My skill at fishing is now 255

Comment by Xerastrasza

Fishing statistics for The Twin Colossals lake

After 200 fish caught these were the relative catch percentages

Raw Redgill - 92 - 46%
Raw Nightfin Snapper - 53 - 26.5%
Oily Blackmouth - 30 - 15%
Raw Mithril Head Trout - 23 - 11.5%
42 Pound Redgill - 1 - 0.5%
Greater Mana Potion - 1 - 0.5%

The two hundred fish took roughly 45 minutes to catch so that would mean roughly -

63x Raw Nightfin Snapper p/h

Following information is relative to Remulos-Alliance

At 83s per Nightfin, that is roughly 52g an hour
All other fish caught were collectively worth about 5g on the AH

Comment by Metsu962

Minimum Fishing Level: 205
Avoid 'Fish Got Away': 300

Comment by Metsu962

Minimum Fishing Skill: 205
Avoid 'Fish Got Away': 300

Comment by AstraMoon

Raw Nightfin Snapper Farming/Fishing Skill Leveling in June 2021 after (second) TBC launch!

Location: Camp Mojache, Feralas (the river-stream right at the camp)
Server Time: 10:45 (AM) - 12:00 (PM) (noon)

Catch Total: 258 ~ 100.00 %

Raw Redgill: 144 ~ 55.81 %
Raw Nightfin Snapper: 36 ~ 13.95 %
Oily Blackmouth: 27 ~ 10.47 %
Raw Mithril Head Trout: 26 ~ 10.08 %
Raw Sunscale Salmon: 23 ~ 8.91 %
+ 1 random Greater Mana Potion. (~ 0.39 %)

Fishing Skill: 225 (up to 274) (I was leveling to 300, but stopped to make this calculation, since it's the swap in catch-chance at noon)
Equipment/Rod: Big Iron Fishing Pole (+20)
Lures: Bright Baubles (+75)

Time to catch may vary depending on your fishing skill level and lures you choose to use.

Happy Fishing! <3

Comment by AstraMoon

Raw Redgill: 144 ~ 55.81 %
Raw Nightfin Snapper: 36 ~ 13.95 %
Oily Blackmouth: 27 ~ 10.47 %
Raw Mithril Head Trout: 26 ~ 10.08 %
Raw Sunscale Salmon: 23 ~ 8.91 %
+ 1 random Greater Mana Potion. (~ 0.39 %)

Comment by FallinaTrollbane

While fishing for Raw Nightfin Snapper at Lake Mennar in Azshara, right at midnight, skill 240 +75 lure, +20 pole:

in 20 minutes, I got:

Raw Nightfin Snapper - 23
Raw Redgill - 39
Oily Blackmouth - 11
Raw Sunscale Snapper - 2
Raw Mithril Head Trout - 7
Greater Mana Potion - 1

Comment by blkdeath75

Thought I was smarter than everyone catching these in Moonglade during Phase 2 of SoD...Annnnd the recipe is 250 cooking to cook em. Have some for phase 3 I guess :(

Comment by WhozCraig

These things literally paid for epic mounts on multiple toons, both in Vanilla and Classic. Their soup sells ridiculously well on Horde-side due to the lack of BoW (no pally ez-mode mana regen). Surprisingly, it also sells solid on Alliance-side, though not as impressively as Horde.

In P3+ of SoD I *strongly* suggest getting cooking capped, a strong pole and 75+ lure, fishing up 400+ of these, making a ton of soup, and trickling it in to the AH in 4x 5-packsat a time. Depending on the realm and timing, you can fetch 60+s each (3g+/stack). Believe me: it adds up fast.

Comment by rhinoloupe

Can fish in open water consistently with as low as 150 fishing skill. Easy money.

150 skill if using Aquadynamic Fish Attractor
175 skill if using Bright Baubles

If skill is under 250 (with buffs), you will fail most catches.

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Raw Nightfin Snapper

Item Level 45

Requires Level 35
Use: Restores 874.8 health over 27 sec. Must remain seated while eating.

Max Stack: 20

Sell Price: 10

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This item can be fished in Western Plaguelands (189), Moonglade (143), Feralas (86), The Hinterlands (60), Un'Goro Crater (31), Felwood (26), Azshara (21), Deadwind Pass (18), Winterspring (11), Eastern Plaguelands (6), Silithus (3), Alterac Valley , Ashenvale , Maraudon , and Zul'Gurub .

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