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Barbarian Fishing Guide
Even Faster Fishing Experience than Fly Fishing!
By: Digitize♫
| Contents | A character (Digitize422) Barbarian Fishing. |
1.0 [ Introduction ]
Hello there all of you fishers. Have you spent days in Shilo Village Fly fishing, banking all of those pesky Salmon and Trout? Well now I have a better way to get your Fishing up, along with some Agility and Strength experience thrown around in there. Barbarian Fishing, which can be done by the Whirlpool south of the Barbarian Outpost. With very few items required, and not that many skills needed, this is a very nice way to get your Fishing, Agility, and Strength up. The only downside to this method is the lack of profits. Unless you wish to sacrifice speed for money, you won't be making any money.
In short, you will be fishing, and dropping said fish. Yes, you could do it with any fish, but you get fish at a much faster rate here compared to Fly Fishing.
This method can also be used to get some nice Cooking experience by using a knife on the fish, although it slows you down, so unless you want the extra experience, just stick to dropping them.
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2.0 [ Requirements and Recommendations ]
Like I said, there aren't that many things you are going to need before you can get started. But here is a list of what you will need before you begin.
Skill_Requirements | The reason it's needed |
48 Fishing | Needed to fish the lowest level fish (Leaping Trout). |
15 Strength | Needed to fish the lowest level fish (Leaping Trout). |
15 Agility | Needed to fish the lowest level fish (Leaping Trout). |
Skill_Recommendations | The reason it's helpful |
58/70 Fishing | 58 fishing is useful because you can catch Leaping Salmon, and the same for 70, except you can catch Leaping Sturgeons. |
30/45 Strength | 30 Strength is useful because you can catch Leaping Salmon, and the same for 45, except you can catch Leaping Sturgeons. |
30/45 Agility | 30 Agility is useful because you can catch Leaping Salmons, and the same for 45, except you can catch Leaping Sturgeons. |
16/56/74 Summoning | Each of the levels allow you to summon a familiar which will give you an invisible boost to your Fishing level. 16 is for the Granite Crab (+1 boost), 56 is for the Ibis (+3 boost), and 74 is for the Granite Lobster (+4 boost). |
Item_Requirements | The reason it's needed |
Barbarian Fishing Rod | This is needed to catch the fish. It is the only rod that will work here. You can get one by searching the bed in Otto Godblessed's shack. |
Fishing Bait or Feathers | These are needed as starting bait, You can get more as you fish, but you will want to start out with Bait or Feathers. |
Item_Recommendations | The reason it's helpful |
Knife | This is useful because it allows you to cut the fish open (giving a small amount of cooking experience), and giving you a chance of getting some Roe or Caviar, which can be used as bait. |
Games Necklace | This is useful for teleporting to the Barbarian Outpost, which is the quickest way to get to the fishing spot. |
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3.0 [ Preparations ]
Ok, before you begin, you need to complete a very simple task assigned by Otto Godblessed. Talk to him and ask him to train you in the ways of Barbarian Fishing. He will instruct you to get the rod from under his bed. This is as far as you need to go to begin your training.
Now that you have the rod, simply get the items on the list below:
Barbarian Fishing Rod
Fishing Bait or Feathers
Games Necklace
Knife (optional)
Once you have all of those, simply follow the steps below to get to where you need to go and begin Fishing:
| Step 1. Get everything ready at your bank of choice. |  |
| Step 2. Use your Games Necklace to teleport to the Barbarian Outpost. |  |
| Step 3. Run south until you find the Fishing Spots. |  |
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4.0 [ Training ]
Now that you know what skills you should have, and what items you need to have, you are ready to begin.
Method 1 - Fastest Experience
Needs: Barbarian Rod and Bait/Feathers
The process is very simple to get a very nice amount of experience per hour. Simply fish the spot until you have at least 2 fish. Then drop one, and click on the fishing spot really quick. Once you get another one, drop the other fish you had, and simply repeat. I will post a video after I get the guide up and going. This doesn't give you any profit, but it gives the best experience per hour of any fishing method available.
Method 2 - Less bait needed to start
Needs: Barbarian Rod, 25-30 Bait/Feathers, and a Knife
This method is very easy, and it doesn't really require you to have that much bait to start with, but it does require you to bring a knife. About 25-30 should do. Simply fish a whole inventory of fish, then use your knife on the fish and choose to gut them all. You should now have a nice amount of Roe and/or Caviar. This is very nice because both of those can be used as bait, so essentially, you have an endless supply of bait. Cutting the fish can also give Fish Offcuts which can also be used as bait, but are better to be dropped unless you didn't get that many Roe/Caviar. This method is slightly slower than the first one, but it saves you money as you don't need to have that much bait to start with.
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5.0 [ Experience Rates ]
Type of Fish: | Leaping Trout | Leaping Salmon | Leaping Sturgeon |
Fishing Exp: | 50 per fish | 70 per fish | 80 per fish |
Strength Exp: | 5 per fish | 6 per fish | 7 per fish |
Agility Exp: | 5 per fish | 6 per fish | 7 per fish |
Cooking Exp:* | 10 per fish | 10 per fish | 15 per fish |
* You get cooking experience by using a knife on the fish. If you are successful, you will get the cooking experience as well as some Roe (from Trout and Salmon), or Caviar (from Sturgeons).
Here is a chart that I did which shows how much experience I got per hour with the methods above:
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6.0 [ Useful Familiars ]
There are a couple of Familiars that will help increase your experience per hour, as well as give you some more profit, depending on what familiar you pick.
 Granite Crab | This will give you an invisible boost of +1 to your fishing level while it is out. |
 Ibis | This will give you an invisible boost of +3 to your fishing level while it is out. It will also forage Tuna and Swordfish for you, which will give you at least some profit. |
 Granite Lobster | This will give you an invisible boost of +4 to your fishing level while it is out. It will also forage Swordfish and Sharks for you, which will give you at least some profit. |
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7.0 [ Frequently Asked Questions ]
Q: Can I do this at level 3?
A: Sadly for all you skillers our there, no. You need to have 15 Strength, and you gain experience for every fish you catch.
Q: What should I do with the Roe/Caviar?
A: You can do one of five things with it.
1. Use it as bait.
2. Drop it.
3. Bank it (the closest bank is at the Barbarian Outpost).
4. Eat it.
5. Put it in some two-dose potions to get some Herblore exp (I would recommend banking it though and doing that part later).
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8.0 [ Credits ]
Digitize♫: Wrote the guide, and where some pictures came from.
RS Wiki: Images of some items.
Edited by Digitize♫, 21 January 2011 - 11:24 AM.
