Pay-to-play Fishing training (2025)

This article is about members' methods of training the Fishing skill. For non-members methods of training Fishing, see Free-to-play Fishing training.

This guide describes the most effective pay-to-play methods to train the Fishing skill. The experience rate estimates in this guide do not incorporate the use of any experience boosting items or bonus experience. They also assume that players do not bank the raw fish that they catch. Banking fish decreases the amount of experience players can gain per hour and, as most raw fish are not very valuable, is usually not worth the time taken from Fishing training. Players using the Evolution of Combat mode can drop raw fish by adding the raw fish to their action bar and pressing the associated keybind to drop the fish. As opposed to dropping items directly from the inventory using their right-click drop option, dropping raw fish via the action bar does not interrupt fishing.

Fishing is a gathering skill which involves catching raw fish at fishing spots. Fishing requires a range of tools such as crayfish cages and fishing rods, most of which are already stored in a player's tool belt when their account is created. Catching some kinds of fish also requires players to use various types of bait, one of which is used up each time that a fish is caught. Leveling up the Fishing skill increases the rate at which players catch fish and gain experience while fishing.

Useful equipment[edit | edit source]

Item		Effect	Slot	Description	Requirements
High priority
	Fishing outfit	+1 to 5% XP		Provides a 1% experience boost per piece of the outfit worn. Wearing a full set will give an extra 1% bonus experience, for 5% bonus experience in total.	None
	Shark outfits	+5% success rate +1 to 5% XP (fishing outfit)		Wearing a full shark, burnt shark, or tiger shark outfit provides the following benefits: Ability to toggle between receiving fish while fishing, or having fish be destroyed as they are caught (right-click Consume options on the head slot item). 5% increased success chance while Fishing. Living rock creatures in the Living Rock Caverns will not be aggressive. Uses fishing outfit bonus experience if owned.	80 20 (None if buying from DXP Token Store)
	Fury shark outfit	+7% success rate +1 to 5% XP (fishing outfit)		Wearing the full Fury shark outfit provides the following benefits: Ability to toggle between receiving fish while fishing, or having fish be destroyed as they are caught (right-click Consume options on the head slot item). 7% increased success chance while Fishing. 10% chance of catching two fish at once while fishing, giving double experience. 60-70% chance of not using bait when a fish is caught. Living rock creatures in the Living Rock Caverns will not be aggressive. Uses fishing outfit bonus experience if owned.	Full shark, burnt shark, and tiger shark outfits
	Fishing urns	+20% XP		When carried in the inventory, these will fill automatically by catching fish, providing a 20% bonus on the experience required to fill them. Cannot be used at the same time as effigies.	2 to 76
	Perfect juju fishing potion	+5% success rate		Grants +5% chance of successfully catching fish.	None
	Granite crab	+1 invisible Fishing level		Grants an invisible +1 Fishing level boost while summoned.	16
	Ibis	+3 invisible Fishing level		Grants an invisible +3 Fishing level boost while summoned.	56
	Granite lobster	+4 invisible Fishing level		Grants an invisible +4 Fishing level boost while summoned.	74
Low priority
	Call of the sea auras	+3 to 15% success rate		Grant 3% to 15% increased chance to successfully catch fish, depending on aura tier. Auras effects last for one hour after they are activated. Players may use 5 or 10 vis wax to extend a call of the sea aura's activation time by 50% or 100% (costing 115,745 coins or 231,490 coins). This effect must be applied before the aura is activated. The aura has a 3 hours cooldown.	None
	Urn enhancer	+25% XP from urns		Increases experience urns give by 25%, consuming a small amount of charges for each urn teleported.	24 Nomad's Elegy
	Fishing accumulators	Additional XP		When carried in the inventory, these will gain charge when failing to catch fish. Can be consumed when full, providing 2,500 experience.	60
	Crystal fishing rod	+5% success rate		Grants +5% chance of successfully catching fish at fishing spots that require the use of a fishing rod. It can be augmented to make use of Invention perks.	93 90 90 90 Plague's End
	Tavia's fishing rod	+10% success rate		Grants +10% chance of successfully catching fish. It can be augmented to make use of Invention perks.	None
	Whopper-baiting scrimshaw(Superior)	Additional XP		Grants 15% (20%) chance chance to attract a big fish while Fishing, granting additional Fishing experience depending on the fish.	70 (normal) 80 (superior)
	Aquarium	+2% XP and convenience		Golden fish eggs can unlock perks at the prawnbroker to fish without the need for baits, and specific decorations can be earned and placed to grant +2% XP to specific fishing spots.	63
	Crystallise	+50% XP		Crystallise requires level 88 Magic and 6 water, fire, chaos and soul runes to cast. Crystallise can be cast on a fishing spot to increase the Fishing experience gained from it by 50% for 30 seconds, but prevents gaining any resources from the fishing spot. Players can cast the spell around 120 times an hour, costing 910,800 in runes.	88 The Light Within
	Light Form	Crystallise grants +87.5% XP		Ancient Curse that enhances the effects of Seren-aligned spells while it is activated, to further increase additional Fishing experience gained from a crystallised fishing spot to 87.5% (up from 50%). At level 99 Prayer, players will need to consume around 53 doses of prayer potion per hour to keep Light Form activated. Use of prayer renewal potions can be used to help regain Prayer points. Additionally, players can use Grace of the Elves to further cut Light Form's cost in half. Summoning a holy scarab will reduce the Prayer drain rate by 50% for 64 minutes.	The Light Within
	Skillchompas	+10% XP		Grant 10% more base experience for each successful action, or 5% of the experience of a successful action when failing to catch a fish. One skillchompa is consumed every action, successful or not.	31 to 71
	Ring of Whispers	+3 invisible Fishing level		Grants an invisible +3 Fishing level while worn.	Sliske's Endgame
	Bait and Switch	Cook fish		Automatically cook all fish caught for 50% of the normal Cooking XP.	99 Icthlarin's Little Helper
	Dwarven fish extractor	+100% XP		In "XP mode", it doubles the experience received per successful catch at the cost of no fish gained. Since it lasts 100 charges, it's recommended to use it at locations that give a lot of experience per catch such as raw wobbegongs, raw sailfishs, or raw rocktails. These do not work during Double XP.	Treasure Hunter reward
	Effigies	Additional XP		Similar to urns, can be filled while gaining Fishing experience. Once filled, grant experience (volatile) or bonus experience (explosive) in a chosen skill, including Fishing. Cannot be used at the same time as urns.	85 or 85 Sins of the Father
	Shark's tooth necklace	+5% XP with sharks		Grants a 5% Fishing boost to base experience when fishing sharks, baron sharks, great white sharks, and wobbegongs.	15 91

Augmented tools[edit | edit source]

Players with level 22 Invention can discover how to create the fishing rod-o-matic. This allows the player to manufacture a fishing rod-o-matic, which can be used to fish at any fishing spot. It also gives the player the ability to create an augmented crystal fishing rod by using an augmentor on a crystal fishing rod. The augmented crystal fishing rod can only be used to fish at fishing spots at which a crystal fishing rod can be used; however, it grants this rod's 5% increased catch rate effect. At the same Invention level players can discover how to make tool gizmos. A tool gizmo may be added to a fishing rod-o-matic, augmented crystal fishing rod or augmented Tavia's fishing rod to give it perks. The following perks may be useful to players training Fishing:

Name	Effect	Number of ranks
Furnace	Has a 5% chance per rank of consuming a gathered resource for an extra 100% XP.	4
Honed	Has a 2% per rank higher chance of successfully gathering items.	6
Wise	When equipped, +1% per rank additional experience, up to 50,000 XP per day.	4

To use an augmented fishing rod’s perks the player must have charges in their charge pack. Use of these tools costs at most 0.31 divine charges from the player’s charge pack per second. Assuming players purchase divine charges from the Grand Exchange to power their charge packs, it would cost 46,385.13 an hour to use an augmented fishing rod. This cost can be reduced by researching charge drain improvements or by adding the efficient perk to the item.

Generic experience boosts[edit | edit source]

Most experience-boosting effects that apply to all skills also apply to Fishing. This includes but is not limited to the following boosts:

Item		Max XP increase	Description
	Clan Avatar XP boost	+6%	Grants a 3-6% experience boost after activating the skilling bonus at the Avatar Control Stone in a Clan Citadel.
	Torstol incense sticks	+2%	Each potency level of torstol incense sticks provides a 0.5% experience boost. The potency level increases every 10 minutes, reaching its maximum at level 4 (+2% experience). Overloading consumes 6 sticks, instantly reaching maximum potency.
	Wise perk	+4%	Grants a 1-4% experience boost (based on perk rank) while wearing or wielding an item augmented with this perk, up to 50,000 additional experience per day.
	Wisdom auras	+2.5%	Grants a 2.5% experience boost for 30 to 90 minutes, depending on the aura's tier.
	Inspire relic powers	+2%	When harnessed, 2% extra experience is earned when training skills relevant to the specific Inspire relic.
	Advanced pulse core	+50%/+10%	Grants a 50% experience boost, exploding after experience equal to a medium prismatic lamp has been accumulated. After exploding, it provides a 2% (stacking up to 5 times for up to 10%) experience boost for 10 minutes.
	Sceptre of enchantment	+4%	Using a charge grants the wielder a 4% experience boost for 24 hours. Nearby players receive a 2% experience boost for 2 hours.
	Coin of enchantment	+2%	Using a charge grants the wielder a 2% experience boost for 24 hours. Nearby players receive a 1% experience boost for 2 hours.
	Rock of Resilience	+4%	Using a charge grants the user a 4% experience boost for 60 minutes. Nearby players receive a 2% experience instead.
	Premier artefact	+10%	Once per day, the premier artefact can be activated to gain a 10% experience boost for 60 minutes.
	Desert pantheon aura	+10%	The Wisdom of Scabaras effect of the Desert pantheon aura gives a 10% experience boost for 1 hour at the cost of 200 charges.

Methods[edit | edit source]

Summary[edit | edit source]

See here to calculate how many raw fish will be obtained during training.

Levels 1-20[edit | edit source]

At level 1 Fishing players should begin catching raw crayfish. Fishing crayfish gives around 11,500 Fishing experience an hour between levels 1 and 20 Fishing. Assuming a player has no previous experience in the Fishing skill, they should be able to achieve these levels in around 23 minutes. Locations to catch crayfish include east of Lumbridge Church and along the northern shore of the lake in Taverley, near Nicholas Angle. No bait is required when catching crayfish.

Levels 20-70[edit | edit source]

At level 20 Fishing players should start training by fly fishing raw trout. At level 30 Fishing players gain the ability to catch raw salmon and will begin to catch a mix of both trout and salmon while fly fishing. This gives between 17,000 and 57,000 Fishing experience per hour, with level 20-70 Fishing. Feathers are the required bait for fly fishing. Up to 1,000 feathers per day can be purchased from many fishing shops for 6 coins each. Vendors also stock 5 feather packs, each containing 2,000 feathers at a cost of 15,000 coins each (7.5 per feather). There are several locations where players can fly fish trout and salmon, including east of Gunnarsgrunn, at the River Lum in Lumbridge, and in Shilo Village (if the Shilo Village quest has been completed). To fly fish, players must use the "lure" option, as opposed to the "bait", on fishing spots found in these locations.

From level 58 Fishing onward players may begin to catch both leaping trout and leaping salmon using barbarian fishing techniques. Catching these fish gives the same amount of Fishing experience per fish caught as catching raw trout and raw salmon. Also, fish are caught at a similar rate using both barbarian fishing techniques and through fly fishing. This means that the two methods give a similar experience rates between levels 58 and 70 Fishing. Barbarian fishing requires level 30 in both Strength and Agility and grants small amounts of Strength and Agility experience for each fish caught. This method also allows the use of bait in place of feathers which works out cheaper when purchasing from the Grand Exchange.

Note: Using strong fishing urns at 70 Fishing can yield up to 70,000 experience an hour.

At level 68, players are granted access to the magnetic minnow fishing spot. This spot is generally used for the best AFK fishing experience with approximately 48,000 experience per hour at level 68.

Levels 66-99+[edit | edit source]

At level 66 Fishing, players gain the ability to catch Ghostly sole (Necromancy! quest required). Found in the City of Um, there is one Ghostly sole spot located at the Reflection Pool on the southern side of the map. This Ghostly sole spot does not change location, or disappear, so players can use this as full "lobby timer AFK" method when paired with Sign of the porter's or the Fury shark outfit's consume option. For players that do not wish to use porter's or don't have the Fury shark outfit unlocked, there is a bank close to the west. Players can also use the 3rd teleport option on the Passing bracelet "City of Um: Reflection Pool" to teleport a few steps from the fishing spot. At Level 99 players can expect between 90,000 to 100,000 base experience.

Levels 70-93[edit | edit source]

At level 70 Fishing, players should continue to train by fly fishing raw trout and salmon if they are able to use the Crystallise spell and Light Form prayer to increase the experience gained from Fishing spots. This gives up to 118,000 experience an hour, with level 99 Fishing. Players wishing to reduce the need for prayer potions could fish at the River Lum and build the nearby god statue and use it as an altar to recharge prayer points. If you use the Crystallise spell every 30 seconds, you can expect a maximum of 11,400 Magic experience per hour on top of the Fishing experience.

Levels 70-72[edit | edit source]

At level 70 players gain the ability to catch leaping sturgeon and should begin training by barbarian fishing leaping trout, leaping salmon and leaping sturgeon if they are unable to use Crystallise and Light Form. This gives around 63,000 experience an hour at level 70 Fishing. Players are also awarded 5, 6 or 7 experience each in both Strength and Agility each time they catch a leaping trout, leaping salmon or leaping sturgeon respectively. Barbarian fishing requires completion of the part of barbarian training which allows players to use a heavy fishing rod. Additionally level 45 Strength and Agility is required in order to catch all three types of fish. Feathers (costing 34) or fishing bait (costing 6) are required to catch these fish. The only location where these fish can be caught is the lake near the hut of Otto Godblessed at the top of Baxtorian Falls.

Levels 72-93[edit | edit source]

At level 72 Fishing players can fish desert sole, catfish, and beltfish from fishing spots in Menaphos' Port District or VIP skilling area. Partial completion of The Jack of Spades quest is required to be able to access Menaphos. Although fishing here is not as fast as fly fishing with Crystallise and doesn't give bonus Strength and Agility experience like Barbarian fishing, the player can gain reputation and the fishing spots are very close to a bank or deposit box (unlocked at tier 2 Ports reputation). The VIP skilling area is unlocked at tier 7 overall reputation: the fishing spots within this area deplete at half the rate of the fishing spots in the port district. At tier 8 reputation within the port district the player's success chance while fishing is increased. Fishing in Menaphos gives at least 85,000 experience an hour, at level 99 Fishing without the reputation effects unlocked.

Levels 92-99+[edit | edit source]

With at least 88, but preferably 92 Fishing for all nodes, players can begin training at the Croesus Front in Senntisten, where colonised guards can be found and fished. While not the fastest experience per hour, if the player owns a full shark outfit (to consume the caught fungal algae and enriched fungal algae) and the upgraded Pontifex shadow ring (for various benefits) this method can be extremely AFK and fairly profitable. Depending on the level of attention paid, and luck with enriched spawns, the player can expect between 120,000 and 200,000 experience per hour at level 99 Fishing with boosts. With the Pontifex Shadow ring either worn or in the bank (requires the player to overcharge the ring with 5000 resonant anima of each Elder God Wars faction), the player will receive an Elder Trove in their inventory every 6 to 12 minutes, which can contain various rewards. Additionally the player will receive Resonant anima of Bik while fishing.

This method is also useful for players, especially ironmen, who are looking to obtain a Pernix's quiver (be aware: you need to wear the fully upgraded Pontifex ring, unless the passive effect is unlocked, when opening the Troves).

Levels 93-94[edit | edit source]

With at least level 93 Fishing players can begin training by Prifddinas Waterfall Fishing. As the waterfall is located within Prifddinas, between the Crwys and Meilyr districts, completion of Plague's End is required to access it. Level 90 Ranged, Agility and Strength are also required to use the grapple shortcut to get to the top of the waterfall. Players will need to bring a mithril grapple and a crossbow in order to use the grapple shortcut, if they have not previously built a hidey-hole at the waterfall. Alternatively, a player may use an enhanced grappling hook from their tool belt.

With level 93 Fishing players can fish at the low-level area to obtain small crystal urchins. At level 95 players can fish at the mid-level area to gain medium crystal urchins. With 97 Fishing players can fish at the high-level area to obtain large crystal urchins.

The crystal urchins that are obtained from fishing at the waterfall can be exchanged for crystal urchin points to spend on rewards at the Prifddinas Waterfall Fishing Shop. With level 99 Fishing, a player can obtain a base rate of around 130,000 experience an hour from fishing at the high-level area. With buffs this can go up to 200,000 experience an hour. Additionally the player will obtain 317 large crystal urchins which would give them 951 crystal urchin points. 3,000 Fishing experience can be purchased for 300 crystal urchin points, so players can gain an additional 9,000 experience an hour, for a total of 139,000 base experience an hour.

Levels 94-99+[edit | edit source]

With level 94 Fishing players can fish at Fishing Frenzy spots at the Deep Sea Fishing Hub. This gives over 285,000 experience an hour at level 99 Fishing. The hub can be accessed by talking to Goomah at the Fishing Guild. Fishing Frenzy grants no fish. It has a streak mechanic where players must continually click on the rapidly moving spots in order to increase and maintain their streak. Streak is increased when experience is gained from the fishing spots and gives an experience bonus while participating in fishing frenzy. 1% experience boost is gained for every 10 streak; up to a maximum of 20% experience boost at 200 streak. The streak will be halved if the player is inactive for 6 seconds, and lost if the player logs out or leaves the area.

While participating in Fishing Frenzy players may encounter NPCs that award fishing experience including: seagulls, seasingers, Captain Deathbeard, fishermen, and pelicans. These can be interacted with to gain a small amount of Fishing experience; up to 1,940 at level 99. It is not advised that players engage in the area's random events, as doing so will cause them to lose their streak. Players may also randomly find helpful items while fishing, including:

• Barrel of bait, granting a 5-10% chance to gain an extra catch for 3 minutes.
• Broken fishing rod, granting a 5-10% bonus catch rate for 3-30 minutes.
• Tangled fishbowl, granting 5% extra fishing experience for 3-30 minutes.
• Fishing notes, grants up to 9,703 experience when used at level 99 Fishing.

Levels 96-99+[edit | edit source]

For a less intensive training method players could continue fishing at Prifddinas waterfall. At level 96 Fishing players may also choose to fish wobbegongs.

Raw wobbegongs are a rare Fishing resource that can be found randomly on Uncharted Isles. Uncharted Isles can be explored from the The Arc region, which requires completion of the Impressing the Locals quest to access. Completion of the Flag Fall miniquest, which allows the player to claim an uncharted isle and return to it, is also required to fish wobbegongs effectively. To find wobbegongs, the player must first gain some chimes from skilling in The Arc so that they can purchase the supplies required to voyage to Uncharted Isles. Supplies can be purchased from Rosie (supplies). When the player finds an Uncharted Isle with wobbegong fishing spots then they can claim the island using a claim island flag. Once an uncharted isle is claimed the player may return to it for the price of 3 supplies per voyage: 5 supplies can be claimed per day for free from the box next to Rosie. Up to 3 wobbegong fishing spots may be present on an Uncharted Isle, if the player opts to go on a long voyage.

Raw wobbegongs can be fished using a fishing rod with level 96 Fishing. Each day the player may catch approximately 100 raw wobbegongs per fishing spot before it is depleted. The daily cap resets at 00:00 UTC. Depleting one wobbegong fishing spot takes around 30 minutes and gives around 68,500 experience. It is recommended to have 99 Cooking to convert the wobbegongs into oil which sells more compared to the raw wobbegong themselves. Purchasing the supplies cost reductions and commodity sell price increases unlocks from the Waiko Reward Shop, in addition to having a claimed island with as many fishing spots as possible, will further increase the viability of searching for wobbegong fishing spots to fish continuously. However, wobbegong spots are fairly rare among other resources, with the chance of two wobbegong nodes being extremely low compared to two alaea or bamboo nodes.

At level 99, fishing wobbegongs gives an experience rate equivalent to around 137,000 Fishing experience an hour. The experience from fishing raw wobbegongs can further be bolstered by completing contracts given by Sojobo (contracts) on Waiko or Hubbub (contracts) on Whale's Maw or via a contract contact on an uncharted isle. Players may complete up to 3 contracts daily, and may purchase upgrades from Boni for a maximum of 7 daily contracts. Doing contracts, however, requires chimes to be able to reroll contracts until satisfactory wobbegong ones are assigned.

Alternative methods of gaining experience[edit | edit source]

Stealing Creation[edit | edit source]

Players can use reward points from the Stealing Creation mini-game to purchase proto-tools and volatile clay tools. These items can be transformed into a selection of skill related tools, including sacred clay harpoons and volatile clay harpoons. These harpoons can be right-clicked to grant Fishing bonus experience (it is not necessary for the harpoons to be wielded to gain bonus experience). Players are advised to play Stealing Creation within a group of players co-operating in non-combat games to deplete all sources of clay available more quickly. Once all the clay available in a game has been depleted the game will end early, allowing players to gain reward points in shorter amounts of time.

Both proto-tools and volatile clay tools cost 20 reward points per tool to purchase. When converting a proto-tool the player can choose which skilling tool it will become, but converting a volatile clay tool creates a random skilling tool. A volatile clay harpoon grants 29,340 Fishing bonus experience, while sacred clay harpoons grant 24,450 Fishing bonus experience. A skilling tool created from a volatile clay tool can be reverted back to the volatile clay tool and then converted again to potentially give a different tool. This may be done up to 10 times (the volatile clay tool is destroyed upon the 10th reversion); each reversion causing the tool formed from the volatile clay tool to have 10% less bonus experience available to be granted. Both sacred clay and volatile harpoons retain their form after being drained of bonus experience, and players can then use 20 reward points to recharge the depleted tools rather than purchasing new tools. Because of this players can maximise the amount of Fishing bonus experience that they obtain from their reward points by initially purchasing a volatile clay tool and then transforming and reverting the skilling tools created until a volatile clay harpoon is obtained. Players can then continue recharging the volatile clay harpoon, claiming 29,340 Fishing bonus experience from it each time they obtain 20 reward points.

Players with at least level 80 in Woodcutting, Hunter, Fishing and Mining will be able to gather clay from all possible locations in a game of Stealing Creation. With these levels players can gather enough clay during a game of Stealing Creation to gain 24 reward points per game that they play. Assuming games of Stealing Creation are completed in around 12 and a half minutes, players can complete 4.8 games of Stealing Creation per hour and earn 115.2 reward points per hour - enabling them to obtain 140,832 Fishing bonus experience an hour.

Divine fishing bubbles[edit | edit source]

Divine locations are items which can be made using the Divination skill. Divine locations can be placed to create a gathering node from which players can harvest raw materials. Players can harvest from a divine location even if they do not have the Divination level required to make it. A placed divine location lasts approximately 30 seconds before disappearing. Players can gain a limited amount of resources from divine locations per day, with the daily limit resetting at 00:00 UTC each day. A player's daily limit of resources depends on their total level, up to a maximum of 250 resources with a total level of 2,500 or more (see the daily limit calculator on the divine location page). The Desert Pantheon aura and 20 or 40 vis wax can be used to increase a player's daily limit by 50% or 100% once per day, costing 462,980 coins or 925,960 coins. Gathering most resources contributes 1 resource towards the daily limit per item received, however some resources contribute more towards the daily limit. For example, each time a raw rocktail is obtained from a divine rocktail bubble counts as 4 resources towards the daily limit.

As players may only create one divine location per day, or 3 after progressing in Hall of Memories, it is beneficial for players to harvest from divine locations as part of a group so that they can gain access to multiple divine locations. When other players harvest from a divine location, the player who placed the location gains the benefit of a 40% chance of receiving additional noted items as they harvest from their divine location. Harvesting a noted resource awards the same experience and contribution to a player's daily limit as harvesting an unnoted resource. Harvesting noted resources allows a player to gain more resources from a single divine location and therefore reduces the number of divine locations that they must use to reach their daily limit of resources. A good place to find other players to harvest divine locations with is Fort Forinthry on World 84, especially around the time of day when the daily limit resets.

Players can gather from divine fishing bubbles if they have the required Fishing level. When gathering from divine fishing bubbles players will gain raw fish. Raw fish are obtained at a rapid rate and grant experience equivalent to that which would be received if the raw fish were caught from a fishing spot. Because of this, harvesting from divine fishing bubbles can award players large amount of Fishing experience in a short amount of time. For example harvesting a full inventory of raw rocktails from a divine rocktail bubble gives 10,640 Fishing experience in around 30 seconds.

To gain the most Fishing experience possible from harvesting divine fishing bubbles, players should harvest from bubbles that give the most experience per resource count used. Players should harvest from the highest level divine fishing bubble available to them until level 30 Fishing. Players with Fishing levels between 30 and 89 should harvest from divine salmon bubbles. Players with level 89 Fishing or higher should harvest from divine cavefish bubbles. Wearing components of the fishing outfit increases the experience gained from harvesting divine fishing bubbles.

Players can increase the amount of experience that they can gain from divine locations by using vis wax to increase their gathering limit. 20 vis wax, costing 462,980 coins, can be used to increase the limit by 50% or 40 vis wax, costing 925,960 coins, can be used to increase the limit by 100%. Additionally players who have unlocked the druid engram and charged it to form an echo in the Memorial to Guthix distraction and diversion can use the Shared Knowledge buff to increase the experience gained from divine locations. While shared knowledge is activated players will gain 25% additional experience from divine locations but will not receive any items.

Name		level	Usage	XP per fish	XP per usage	Fish price	level	Materials
	Divine crayfish bubble	1	1	10	10	520	1	5 × pale energy 20 × raw crayfish
	Divine herring bubble	10	1	30	30	447	11	5 × flickering energy 20 × raw herring
	Divine trout bubble	20	1	50	50	486	20	15 × bright energy 20 × raw trout
	Divine salmon bubble	30	1	70	70	411	30	45 × glowing energy 20 × raw salmon
	Divine lobster bubble	40	2	90	45	305	41	70 × sparkling energy 20 × raw lobster
	Divine swordfish bubble	50	2	100	50	299	53	70 × gleaming energy 20 × raw swordfish
	Divine shark bubble	76	2	110	55	526	79	60 × lustrous energy 20 × raw shark
	Divine cavefish bubble	85	3	300	100	630	89	70 × radiant energy 15 × raw cavefish
	Divine rocktail bubble	90	4	380	95	1,123	91	80 × luminous energy 10 × raw rocktail

Giant Oyster[edit | edit source]

Giant Oyster is a monthly Distraction and Diversion that can be completed by players who have finished the Beneath Cursed Tides quest. Players can return to Tutorial Island by speaking to Wizard Myrtle. Once in the area, fish from the Fishing spot to obtain a sea cucumber. While attempting to fish the sea cucumber the player will gain Fishing experience, dependent on their Fishing level, 30 times. Players can gain up to 6,966 experience per attempt, at level 99 Fishing, giving a total of up to 208,980 experience for using the Fishing spot 30 times. This activity can be completed in approximately 1-2 minutes.

Fishing Contracts[edit | edit source]

With at least 90 Fishing, players can go to the Arc and obtain fishing contracts, requiring players to catch a specific amount of fish (around 35-95) in return for chimes and experience. Players with 90 Fishing will only be assigned to catch raw tarpons, while 91 can be assigned raw seerfish, 93 raw sillagos, and 96 raw wobbegongs. For this reason, players should start contracts with The Whaler so that they will only be assigned fishing contracts.

Waiko contains several fishing spots for tarpons and seerfish, while Whale's Maw's fishing spots contain seerfish and sillago. Whale's Maw also contains a bank deposit which is unlocked by paying 750 chimes at Waiko's reward shop, and it's recommended to fish there to easily deposit the caught fish.

Contracts assigning players to catch sillago should be skipped, as they are significantly uncommon compared to seerfish. Players should aim for seerfish or wobbegong tasks since they are faster to complete. Up to three contracts can be done each day and reset at 00:00 UTC.

Rock Pools[edit | edit source]

While The Beach is active (typically for one; summer month per year) fishing Raw tropical trout at the Rock Pools is a very fast method for Fishing that scales based on the current Fishing level. Catch rates seem to be similar to or slightly faster than harpoon-fishing for tuna and swordfish, but rewards much larger, and increasingly larger, experience per catch. There are also varying chances to receive a variety of rewards, some of which are tradeable and valuable. The main downside is that this is a limited activity, both due to only occurring during a certain time of the year and due to the limiting temperature mechanic of The Beach. Once the temperature gauge reaches 100%, no more fish can be caught, unless under the effect of a Fisherman's Friend cocktail (for non-Ironman players); training during a happy hour; or during weekend heat waves. As of 2024, heat waves last from 12:00 game time on Fridays to 12:00 on Mondays.

Profit is generally lower and less consistent compared to some high-level methods such as fishing Blue blubber jellyfish, however, fishing at the Rock Pools can be done at any level, as well as on free-to-play worlds.

If training with at least two different activities at The Beach for which an advanced cocktail exists, and participating in killing Clawdia each hour, non-Ironman players can obtain enough Fisherman's Friend to continue training with this method indefinitely during weekdays.

Quests for Fishing experience[edit | edit source]

Quest	Members	XP reward	Fishing requirement	Other requirements
Recipe for Disaster: Freeing Pirate Pete		1,000	-	31 Cooking
Tai Bwo Wannai Trio		1,500	5	15 Agility 30 Cooking
Fishing Contest		2,437	10
Heroes' Quest		2,725	53	53 Cooking 25 Herblore 25 Defence (Black Arm gang only) 50 Mining
The Fremennik Trials		2,812	-	40 Crafting 25 Fletching 40 Woodcutting
Land of the Goblins		3,000	36	30 Prayer 36 Agility 36 Thieving 37 Herblore
Beneath Cursed Tides		5,000	-	30 Attack 30 Strength 30 Magic 30 Mining 30 Smithing 30 Woodcutting 30 Firemaking 30 Cooking
Rum Deal		7,000	50	40 Farming 42 Crafting 47 Prayer 42 Slayer
Sea Slug		7,175	-	30 Firemaking
Swan Song		10,000	62	66 Magic 62 Cooking 45 Smithing 42 Firemaking 40 Crafting
Crocodile Tears		35,000	72	73 Hunter 47 Woodcutting 30 Agility
Some Like It Cold		40,000	65	56 Crafting 50 Construction 50 Thieving
Deadliest Catch		70,000	70	3 Herblore 67 Hunter 70 Thieving
Total		187,649

Money-making using the Fishing skill[edit | edit source]

General methods[edit | edit source]

Method	Profit	ROI	Skill	Category	Intensity	Members
Catching sailfish	1,645,000	221.5%	97 85 recommended	Gathering	Low
Catching blue blubber jellyfish	3,455,000	465.2%	91 85 recommended	Gathering	Low
Swarm fishing	2,884,000	inf	92	Collecting	Low

Recurring methods[edit | edit source]