Fishing

“I almost caught a fish this big! But it, um, got away.”

Vast oceans surround Britannia on all sides, and for centuries men and women have earned their keep fishing the coastal waters. In addition to an endless supply of fish, those skilled in fishing have been known to pull forth treasure, and danger, from the deep.

Training

• 0 - 30: Buy from NPC Fisher
• 30 - 75: Fish in shallow water. Stand on the shore of islands such as Moonglow or Haven and walk around.
• 75 - 100: Fish in deep water. Deep water requires the use of a boat to reach. Get on one and sail around.

Items

The following items can be fished up instead of normal fish.

Fishing Skill: 0%
	Footwear The true horror of fishing, these hordes of footwear will fill your bacpacks up quickly. It is suggested to simply drop them as they just don't make any real gold. Though they are useful if you are planning on starting up a cobblary.
	Normal Fish These come in four colors, their color does not make any difference. They each will give 4 raw fish steaks each when cut with a dagger.
	Highly Peculiar Fish
	Prized Fish Raise your intelligence by 1 for a matter of about 5 seconds.
	Truly Rare Fish
	Wondrous Fish
Fishing Skill: 65%
	Metal and Wood Chests These chests are fished up by the use of a SoS from a Message in a Bottle. They are the only treasure chest that can be taken and used for home storage. These chests will carry a treausre rating of 1 - 3.
	Ancient Chests These chests are fished up by use of the Ancient SoSes. They carry a L4 Fished Up Treasure Chest and are always colored white. Inside these chests will also be a white fishing net that will summon up a large group of sea monsters including the Leviathan.
Fishing Skill: 80%
	Special Fishing Net These can be found as loot on sea serpents or in fished up treasure chests. When used, the net appears to throw out many fishing lines and a set of nasty monsters will spawn, consisting of Water Elementals, Sea Serpents, Deep Sea Serpents and Krakens. Comes in a variety of 11 colors.
	White Pearls Used to make Pendant of the Magi, Arcanist's Wild Staff, Lightweight Shortbow, Spellblade of Defense, Luckblade, and the Adventurer's Machete. These can be sold at a fairly decent cost.
	Big Fish A rare fish that one can use a Taxidermy Kit on to make a nice looking trophy. When caught, a big fish lands at your feet, not in your backpack. Their weight is random, the heavier it is, the more rare. Both weight and fishermans name will be displayed on the trophy, but only if the fish weighed more than 20 stones. Lightest Big Fish: 1 Stone by Tolo Da'Pesca Heaviest Big Fish: 218 Stones by Ifful of the Wakoku Shard.
Fishing Skill: 90%
	Treasure Map You can fish up a level 1 treasure map that is for a land adventure of very easy standards. Most new players can handle the spawns from a level 1 treasure map.
Fishing Skill: 100%
	Message in a Bottle aka: MiB When used it will turn into a waterstained SOS. Or if you're lucky it will turn into an Ancient SOS, which about 1 in 25 does. Each MiB you fish up will also spawn a sea serpent. The serpent will have the bottle on its corpse and you must kill it to retrieve the bottle.

4x4 Fishing

While fishing on a boat or on a pier you can do what is called 4x4 fishing. This is where you target 4 spaces to the NE, SE, SW, and NW of your character while fishing. You can farm each of these locations for quite a while before having to move on again. Remember, you will need to move 12 spaces instead of just 8 to begin fishing again.

See Also

• Boat
• http://guide.uo.com/skill_18.html - Fishing page on UO.com