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Commento di Finko

I caught one in one of those floating junk piles in Zangarmarsh. Easy 6 gold :)

Commento di 23914

These are pretty rare, but they're not really the point of fishing. They're just there to spice it up a little.

The best way in my experience to fish is while questing, especially in Zangarmarsh. Stay near the coast while travelling, when you see a fishing-pool fish it and then keep moving. If your fishing skill is too low use bait but don't go out just to fish, as you can maximize your time and efforts by questing and fishing at the same time.

Plus, this baby can only be fished up at pools, so it's more beneficial all round.

Commento di 29213

I caught 2 back to back in the waters around Allerian Stronghold.

Commento di 26567

These can be fished up anywhere, not just in pools. I fished some up in the stream around Stonebreaker Hold and also in the lake north of Garadar.

Commento di 4205

Caught one of these from Pure Water school, was kinda disappointed that it replaced mote of water, but it sure was a surprise when I took this to a vendor :=)

Commento di 54473

fished 3 of these up in 1 feltail pool O.o guess im just lucky

-also cought 2 in surounding areas in under five minuites from the first 3

Commento di emit

I wanna know why this fish has an auction house buyout of 20g.... this must be an error in the wowhead auction scanning software, right? right?

Commento di psychuil

Has any family connections to Vedorstrike?

Commento di 124645

I just caught one of these doing my fishing daily in Zangamarsh, almost didn't loot it but then I looked at the name.

Great fish, very amusing. Easy 6g~

Commento di Waasik

Ancient Coin > Goldenscale Vendorsfish!!!

Commento di dustdog

Possibly a throwback to the very very early days when fish were originally very profitable to vendor; this was changed in patch 1.1 I believe; mostly long time beta players benefited from the original prices.

Commento di 63936

The prices on fish were lowered to dissuade players from botting and making a load of money from fishing bots shortly after beta. This fish has such a low drop rate that it's not worth trying to fish for profit this way, but it's a nice surprise, and yes it's pretty funny.

Commento di Einhander696

If this thing vendors for 6g... why would the buyout price be 20g? Profit for the seller, no doubt, but a huge loss for the buyer.

Commento di 318900

Spending time in (pools only) SE Zang, I caught 2 of these vendor fish and 140 sporefish. Not the highest drop rate, but It's gold that can not be denied.

Commento di EyvindM

Fished up from the cozy little lake east of Shattrath, where the graveyard is.

Commento di Evariste93

Sigh, went to take a screeny to send to a friend, and instinctively, i pressed Alt+Z to hide the UI. Lost the bugger because of that...
I want my vendorfish back :(

Commento di hefron

3 hours in Skettis and still no luck. This fish is junk. Does it obtainable when skill doesn't allow failed attempts? Is my fishing skill too high?

Commento di Koori

Trying to catch one for The Limnologist achievement, after no luck in pools of fish or Steam Pump Flotsam, I decided to just fish straight from Serpent Lake for it, caught it about 5 minutes later ... know it's just RNG but that went a lot quicker than the two hours spent looking for pools. ~ K

Commento di Lorath

One tidbit for those fishing for these to get The Limnologist achievement: the fish appears in the loot from barrel of fish reward item from the Shatt cooking daily. I recommend doing the daily along with fishing because as as long as you LOOT the fish from somewhere, it'll count.

Good hunting!

Commento di 2bsemperfi

You can fish these in the "Highland Mixed Schools" @ StoneBreaker Hold, Allerian Stronghold, and Skettis. Just beware of the mobs around the edges. I am a level 73 and My fishing skill is only 170. I was able to catch 3 of these in a matter or 10 minutes. Call it luck!

Commento di 420325

If for some reason you need one of these go to the rivers of Trekkor Forest where the Rivers run down hill into the lakes ...63.6 / 27.6 are the coordinates....pullin em out left an right

Commento di Jmech1986

When i was grinding for the magic crawdad i never did see this fish once, i think it would be safer to not look for it fish up in the terokkar highlands.

Commento di 354046

I was going to be smart and ignore all the unreliable anecdotes in this thread about Steam Pump Flotsam. After all, it's the reporting fallacy at work, I reasoned. Clearly the only people who are posting here are the ones whose experience just happened to match the consensus already, and clearly plenty of people waited a long time to catch it from Steam Pump Flotsam and just didn't bother to post here, right? So instead, I flew around Zangarmarsh fishing from every school I saw, of every type. Steam pump flotsam, brackish mixed, sporefish, whatever. My method paid off in the end. I got a Goldenscale Vendorfish on my 81st catch.

... From Steam Pump Flotsam. Only my 18th catch or less from one of those. So maybe I should have just gone for Steam Pump Flotsam after all. Well, the time wasn't wasted because it's even all that is just a drop in the bucket compared to the progress my guild still needs towards That's a lot of Bait, but still, I feel sort of like I outsmarted myself.

Commento di 672227

wow, after about 6 hours of fishing some in Terokkar (about half hour) and then in Zangarmarsh (mostly in Steam Pump Flotsams), i finally got it from a sporefish pool. I was about to give up, maybe the patch made it harder, or maybe I was really unlucky.

Commento di 814185

I tried and tried all day yesterday, during the day, fishing only from Junk nodes. Woke up early and gave it another shot today before 6am - no luck. I ended up catching it in a pool of Brackish - so dont rule them out while fishing! I was like, aw, what the hell I'll try it.....

Commento di 828843

My fishing buddy has Skettis as the highest droprate of these for me. Fished from Highland Mixed Schools.
Got one today within 40 minutes of fishing in between guild chatting.

Commento di choumai

Got mine in purewater pool above Throne of the Elements of Nagrand, less than 5 and got one.

Commento di Winterstrife

I just got 2 of these from Barile di Pesce

For people looking to complete Limnologo#. your best bet is to do the Shattrath cooking dailies & select Barile di Pesce from the rewards 4% droprate from the barrel may seem low but it beats flying around fishing from pools & staring endless at the bob waiting for a catch.

Commento di 817503

Just fished this up in Sketis, on the border of Terokor and Shadowmoon, while working on Mr. Pinchy. Still no Mr. Pinchy

Commento di Kritwo

Looks like im the unlucky one, got 3x huge spotted feltail, which is to be more rare.
got 5x mr pinchy. still no vendorfish at skettis...

Commento di 310395

Just my additional 2 cents... I spent over 4 hours on this one fish while watching season 2 of dexter before I happened across a Steam Pump Flotsam. Got it on the first cast. Try it! You just might like it!

Commento di 815502

@grabovsky

Just what happened to me, though i top yours,

i caught mr pinchy twice now, but still no vendorfish

And i did get the pet from the first use aswell :( On the other hand, i'm still working on the guild achieve aswell, main reason i even started on the fishing achieves was the guild achieve. But i can tell you, its slow progress all alone. I'm up to 5k catches from pools now. But nothing significant dropped so far, except 2 mr pinchies that is.

Fishing the highland mixed schools btw, perhaps mr pinchy was made more common from those or something.

Commento di 858508

Yeah so does it count if you BUY one on AH or do you have to CATCH one?
Also do you have to keep one of each kind of fish in your inventory or can you sell then as you catch them and still have it count?
Thanks

P.S. caught 3 from pure water school schools. Anybody want one?

Commento di Drakemon

I saw all those comments and was kinda disappointed knowing that i must fish for some hours. I put a film on my PC and doing fishing at the same time. After 10-15 pools of Sporefish School, i got the slick Goldenscale Vendorfish! Gl to all !

Commento di wid1

Just got him today on my 3rd cast after hours trying i gave up months ago i was doing bloody rare and just gave it a go and got him happy days just need wintersquid now :-)

Commento di Rysie

I fished in about 5,000 pools with no luck using my Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole, so i went & bought a regular fishing pole, and got this fish in the first pool, for my Limnologist achievement.

Commento di 863853

YES! The floatsams did work for me. I thought I was never going to get this damn achievement done. It took me 3 or 4 floatsams to get it but it worked. Finally!

Commento di richmon64

What a fish tale this is. Was farming for ore in Nagrand and came across 3 pools of pure water. When I fished the for the mote of water I caught 1 in each pool. 3 Goldenschale vendorfish in 1 sitting. Oh and i am not giving up my fishing spot if it puts out that much...lol

Commento di 884547

Just got mine from a brackish school in zanda lake

Commento di 728696

Spent a lot of time fishing only in junk piles. Ended up getting frustrated looking for them and caught my vendorfish in the third brackenfish pool.

Commento di anywherenotes

Took a while, as hellomynameis suggested I was fishing in Blackwind Lake for a chance at this or Mr Pinchy, got Vendorfish first.

Commento di NFalcon

Fun fact: it's possible to catch two goldenscale vendorfish from the same pool.

It's also possible to catch a stack of goldenscale vendorfish before you see even one huge spotted feltail.

Commento di 933977

To those of you who got it in 10 casts or your first couple of pools I say grats. For those of you who haven't this is just one of the things you have to grind out. I've fished for 2 hours only in pools in zangarmarsh, 2 hours in serpent lake (open water), 2 hours in Nagrand from pools, 2 hours in open water in Nagrand, 2 hours in Torokkar in pools, and 2 hours in open water for 2 weeks straight and I have absolutely nothing to show for it but a bunch of fish that don't sell on ah and barely vendor for anything. The Coin Master was an easier achievement to get >.<

Commento di flaaddmygg

For my first two chars I fished in Highland mixed schools and got one on each on a few casts, I didn't count. I am highly low on patience so not that many. :p
However, on my third char after two hours I couldn't take it anymore. My luck with these must have run out.
And then I thought, why a third? I'm so bored.............

Commento di LordVarbaro

Trying to get it for 2 days, got already 2 Ser Chelotto but still no Cavedano Aureo .
I'm not happy at all.

Commento di venema

this is the last fish i need for the limnoligist achivement and i find it impossible to get with full skill fishing i been fishing in skettis for mr.pinchy and yet still dont have either been here for hours now

Commento di caltoro

You can catch this fish from fishing school "Highland Mixed Schools". in Highland Mixed Schools you have got chance to fish :Ser Chelotto

Commento di dythe

Got mine from a Brackish Mixed School in Terrokar after about an hour+ of fishing in Zangarmarsh, Nagrand, and Terrokar from various pools. This is the same source where I found one originally, before the Limnologist achievement was implemented.

Commento di collide9

I almost have given up chasing this achievement. Realizing that this fish is the last one to catch, there's really no turning back considering the pain that I went through catching the other fishes required for The Limnologist. For all of you who are still trying to catch this almost "uncatchable" fish, just persevere. Here's how I did it:

I flew to Zangarmarsh along Serpent Lake and looked for school of fish. In summary:

11-Sporefish school
01-Brackish Mix school

Yielding:

34-Zangarian Sporefish
04-Mote of water
03-Golden Darter
03-Inscribed Scrollcase
01-Spotted Feltail
01-Enormous Barbed Gill Trout
01-Goldenscale Vendorfish

Do not give up! You can at least hit 12-15 schoolfishes at a time and you will get it. Wishing you the best of luck.

Commento di 955808

Fished this up tonight in a pond right outside Stonebreaker Hold in Terokkar Forest (among the orange-flowered lily pads). I was fishing in open water and not in pools. This popped up after about 30 casts. I realize I was lucky ... but, this information might be encouraging to others. Good luck!

Commento di 964399

I don't really think that there is a special school to pick up the vendorfish. I started fishing all of the pools in Terrokar and Zangarmarsh and found the vendorfish in a darter school.

So if the % of picking up a particular fish is better in schools of fish rather than just any old place then hit all of the schools. I think as long as you are in the right zone where it exists you can find it eventually.

Commento di bobbo101

Finally got this bastard, before I managed to catch it I got:
Astice Furibondo x114
Pesce Rosso x24
Vilcoda Maculato Gigante x1
Portalettere Istoriato x6
Cassa Bizzarra x23
Trota Marmorata Enorme x2
Trota Marmorata x5 (I think I got these when i missed the school)

This ends up in 171 throws before I fished it up, I ONLY fished in "Highland Mixed Schools" around Skettis. This guy took me a while, but i finally got my Limnologist achievement!

Commento di Keeki

Just got mine from the mixed schools... i spent approx 2 hours on this one fish... As soon as i dropped the group i was in BANG, fish. Dont know if it is just coincidence... but if anyone is having trouble and is in a group, try leaving it.

Commento di WolverineDS

I had been fishing for that stupid Cavedano Aureo for a month. To no avail I fished where everyone told me, I even got 5 Ser Chelotto today. So I should have my pet soon. I decided to go do the cooking daily in Lower City. I had done these dailies before, but always took Cassa di Carne. Today I got Barile di Pesce and got my achievement. A hell of a lot easier than all that fishing I had done. While I was waiting for the pools in Skettis to respawn for more Ser Chelotto drops, I went to do Setthek Halls to try for Redini del Signore dei Corvi, I now have him as well. Quite an eventful day. So if you do not have Cavedano Aureo, just do the daily, it could drop first day, but I do not see it taking much time at all. Thanks for all the locations I have found on this forum, keep them coming!

Commento di 531961

Fished up 2 of these within a few mins of each other in Terokkar Forest while fishing pools for guild chevo.

Got them both from the School of Darter pools along the river running north of Bonechewer Ruins.

Commento di Depressionrogue

Got mine with my first catch from bluefish school (Garadar lake @Nagrand)

Commento di ferrishyn

i thought i was never going to catch it, fishing for him in Zang. Followed comments on here, switched poles, stopped fishing in pools, then caught it first cast in the lake above stonebreaker hold.

Commento di 993374

After 2 straight hours of fishing schools of sporefish and brackish mixes, finally pulled one of these up in Zangarmarsh on the east side of Umbrafen lake from a Brackish mixed school. I know it seems like you will never catch it but dont give up!

Commento di 896446

Caught in a Brackfish Mixed School near Twin Spire Ruins in Zangarmarsh. Mastercraft Kal'uak Fishing Pole and Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat, total fishing skill 635. I threw about 50-75 casts into pools in Terrokar and Zangarmarsh before catching this, took me about an hour.

Commento di Gloriosa

This was the last fish i needed for The Limnologist achievement. I tried my luck on the Shattrath Fishing Dailies for it. After about 15 dailies it dropped for me (Pick barrel of fish as a reward)

Commento di 999033

Just fished it now, i would recommend to fish it in nagrand near Garadar or in Elemental Planetau.

Commento di Stashlet

I was absolutely furious with this fish, I moved around from Nagrand to Terrokar, back to Zangamarsh, did the dailies, NOTHING. I had a 5 minute break, went back to Zangamarsh and kept fishing in the pools only, and finally caught it at a Sporefish Pool! About 3 hours later. Don't give up!

Commento di arvidnorse

7/17/2012
Got mine from a "school of darter" in Terokkar at 63.48 NE of Allerian Stronghold. Figured I might as well fish in area and look for Mr Pinchy at same time.

Commento di 832808

I fished for this following comments here and I was very unlucky. Hundreds of casts in the pools gave me nothing, so I tried the cooking daily in Shattrath and after only 2 days I got it in the barrel of fish.

Commento di 484883

As of 7/26/2012 spent about 2 hours fishing in Zangarmarsh in Mixed Schools and Sporefish schools. Decided to try the Flotsam pools and got the fish on the 5th pool. ~2 hours.

Commento di 1018050

I fished up mine from a "Highland Mixed School," from the lake in Skettis, Terokkar Forest. I fished for an hour or so the other day with no luck, came back today for another go and fished 'em up on the fourth cast.

Commento di 858758

Just caught on my mage in Zangarmarsh ( 47.37,46.33) while farming for barbed gill trout. Wasn't looking for it so I wasn't paying attn but caught in under 50 casts.

Commento di Cyleste

Well, after hours of going to all the places everyone listed, I gave up. I went back to farming for Mr. Pinchy at Skettis. Wouldn't you know, on the 3rd pool of Highland Mixed School, I got the fish and the achieve! WORST FISH EVER lol.

Commento di 904819

I Caught the goldenscale vendor fish from Lake Ere'Noru In Tekkorar Forest after 220 casts at 1:30 Servertime (EU).
I have 525 Fishing skill, with the Kaluak +30 Fishing pole and occasionally used a +100 Lure.
I Started fishing from pools, but after a bit of maths found it to be around the same guesstimated time just to sit down a fish open water. I Caught :-
110 Barbed Gill Trout
53 Golden Darters
40 Spotted Feltail
5 Furious Crawdad
2 Enormous Barbed Gill Trout
1 Huge Spotted Feltail
7 Motes of Water
and 1 Mr.Pinchy (Fluke!) This is my 2nd one, the first time took me around 600 Casts.

This took just under two hours, i was watching telly at the same time though.
Dont Give Up it is out there, Good Luck, hope this helps.

Edit:- this works out to be 0.45% Catchrate.

Commento di laurlaur199

If you're having bad luck, I put on a regular old fishing pole and caught one out of the first brackish pool. Maybe it's just RNG, maybe it's not. I'd say its worth trying!

Commento di 1058527

I hate to brag, but I got this on my fourth cast in Terrokar at Lake Jorune above Stonebreaker Hold. I was attempting to fish in a Highland Mix pool, this cast landed just outside of the pool and now all I have left for the achievement is seven more fish.

Commento di Cowina

Just like to confirm that this fish doesn't seem to like the Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole. I fished pools for an hour to no avail. Removed my pole & used the twig you get with no pole equipped. Got the fish 1st try. Lols.

Commento di Danshot

I caught this in Terrokar from a Darter pool using the kaluak fishing pole + the hat.

Commento di mystriamazin

an hour & a half in nodes all over Serpent Lake ... just the twig pole & my weather beaten fishing hat, tooling around out on my Angler's raft & finally caught the dang thing at 61, 41 ... thanks for all the help :) patience pays :P

Commento di lunaistelle

Definetely the best spot is Zangarmarsh's Serpent Lake 54.3, 47.7 marked on Wowhead map.
I got this like five minutes after my friend got this on this spot.
Considering rarity, maybe it was a lucky coincidence, maybe not. ^^

Commento di HedderPilsner

I spent over 3 days straight trying to catch the last few fish I needed for the Limnologist Achievement, and this fish was such a pain in the toosh! Originally I was just trying the pools in Terokkar near Allerian Stronghold and Skettis, hoping maybe I could catch Mr. Pinchy(eventhough I have spent ours on end previously looking for him, with no luck). I tried the lake north of Garadar in Nagrand four different times; fishing out of at least 40 different pure water pools, as well as mudfish and Bluefin schools- and nothing. I tried Zangarmarsh three different times- sporefish and brackish pools, then accidentally found the Elemental Plateau while flying back over to Zangar in one last attempt. I tried 10 different pure water pools before continuing to Zangar. I was originally planning on flying to Umbrafen Lake since I remembered seeing Steampump Flotsam in that area when I was low enough level to be questing there, and the majority of people posting on thott seem to have had luck in those types of pools. Let me tell you, I stopped at "The Lagoon" because I ran into a few sporefish pools there, then a Steampump Flotsam pool popped up. I didn't catch the dern fish in it, but flying over to a sporefish pool on the other side of the lake, another steampump pool popped and I caught the fish on the second cast into it. Now, I just have to wait 4 months for the Winter Squid to be in season and finish the Oceanographer Achievement....

Commento di fehim

Fishing skill : 600+130
Place : Terokkar Forest Lake near Skettis
Mr pincy : got it 190th attemp ( addon counts)
Spend 4 hours however can't get fish and change my mind and made daily quest after got it from barrel of fish which is daily quest reward

Commento di 1134937

I was fishing this fish for about 2 days, and I decided to take a break, and because I miss 3 more fish for this achiv, I thought that I could just switch to one of them. I started fishing Huge Spotted Feltail, and in the description there is the information that it can be fished in Pure water pools. I started fishing this fish, and I saw a Bluefish school in the same area. I started fishing (I don't know why) and the second fish I had pull form the pool was this one. So, I'm starting to think that it's some random thing on this continent...

Commento di 904831

Managed to catch this fish in 34 casts after looking at this page and attempting to farm for the achieve.

I did NOT use a "+" fishing pole or any bait after seeing comments here.

Good luck

Commento di Krakatua

4 hours fishing, got 5-6 of these and no Ser Chelotto

Im starting to lose my sanity!

Commento di Only1p11

After roughly two hours of fishing from Highland Mixed School pools throughout Terokkar Forest (especially in the SE corner) I had Cavedano Aureo and Ser Chelotto both pop about 30 minutes apart from the same pool located near: 58.75 / 60.15.

Good luck everyone.

Commento di Verasuna

Just got mine in a sporefish school after 300 catches across the 3 zones...

Commento di 631299

The Goldenscale Vendorfish was exactly the 100th fish I caught while doing just Highland Mixed Schools.

I got 77 Furious Crawdad, 21 Gold Darter, 1 Enormous Barbed Gill Trout and then the one I wanted.

I was fishing ONLY in Terokkar Forest, ONLY in Highland Mixed Schools. I started with the 3 close to Stonebreaker Hold, then the next 3 close to Allerian Stronghold and after I depleted all school in Skettis, I went back to where I started. When I was about halfway through Skettis' schools on my second trip, I caught it.

I honestly thought it would take more time... but now I believe this is a good place to catch this fish.

Commento di Bodomi

Ahhh this name amuses me everytime I read it, very clever ;3.

Commento di malera

Confirmed what the other comments have said about fishing in terrokar only and in highland mixed schools only.

I've been trying to get this fish on and off for several years now. I had all the others for The Limnologist, except this little bugger. Fishing as mentioned above, I got 2 Mr Pinchy's and 1 Goldenscale Vendorfish in around 100 casts. Vendorfish was caught by Allerian Stronghold, although I was fishing by Stonebreaker and Skettis also.

Good luck!

Commento di Jigs

I got about 300+ casts from Highland Mixed Schools without luck. I decided to move to Zangarmarsh because I wanted a change of scenery and three Alliance had landed to fish as well.

I found the Goldenscale Vendorfish after about 15 minutes in a Sporefish School. Good luck!

Commento di Stompa

Some posts here mention that the Barile di Pesce reward from the cooking daily may contain this fish - but are not specific about where to find this daily. The quests are given by Rokk who can be found towards the north end of the Lower City.

He offers one of four different cooking quests each day; if you are achievement-farming you should do these anyway to complete Kickin' it Up a Notch.

Commento di Neryaf

210 casts in Highland Mixed Schools doing a counter-clockwise lap around Skettis and I have this bad boy finally.

I cannot bring myself to vendor him, so he's going in my already full bank...

Commento di Scoobydeux

I have a hunch about this fish, but not enough data to say conclusively: I think it is more difficult to fish if your skill is much higher than the Burning Crusade skill level (a little over 500; 375 fishing skill + 25 rod + 100 lure). This is based on a small sample, a couple of toons with fishing skill at MoP cap, 600, who have had no luck in a small number of hundreds of casts, and a single new toon who fished the zone at level and caught a few Goldenscale Vendorfish.

Possibly supporting this tentative hypothesis, the fish is a gray item, in other words, maybe a form of trash for the zone - although the fel fish are also gray, and always drop from the fel pools. If it is truly trash as far as the game engine is concerned, too high a skill would mean you won't see it drop.

If you catch one with 600 skill or more, please post a reply to this message and include your effective skill when you caught it.

BTW, if this is true, you can still farm the fish reward from the cooking dailies to complete "catching" this fish.

Update, 2016; It is possible to catch this fish on a toon with über fishing skill. I had one eventually drop on my main, who is maxed out. Took many casts.

Commento di 1380107

Oct 5 2014 coords /way 47.78 35.19 from a spore fish school east side of the island above the the words serpent lake on map in Zangarmarsh

GL! fished many places

Commento di SgtSnyder88

Somewhere in the ballpark of 260 casts in the Skettis/Allerian Stronghold waterways, finally caught it in a Highland Mixed School in Skettis

Seriously there should be an Achievement for this fish alone.

Commento di Mette

Hello Folks,
I got this fish today in a Bluefish school at 31,46 in Nagrad. I have been fishing all over all outland. I have caught about 150 fish (61 Barbed Gills, 32, GOlden Darters, 24 Spotted Feltails 14 Zangian Sporefish, 11 Furious Cowdads, 5 Icefin bluefish, 4 Mudfish and 2 Hugh Spotted Feltails) before catching the one I wanted.
I am lvl 700 in Fishing and used my Canna da Pesca Effimera, that I found earlier today while finishing Pesca miracolosa ;-)

Commento di kynthea

Back before achievements were added to the game, I caught several of these from Darter Schools in Terrokar forest. That was the only place from which I ever got them. For the past couple of years, the Limnologist achievement eluded me as I could not seem to catch the fish again. I went back and fished for several hours in Zangarmarsh (since this site showed it as having the highest droprate). But it was to no avail, so I started heading to Black Temple. While passing through Terrokar, I saw a Darter School and decided to give it a try. On the 2nd cast, I managed to catch it and get the achievement. I had over 700 fishing skill and the pandaran fishing charm (which I know doesn't do anything outside of Pandaria, but it makes me feel lucky). Is anyone else finding they are more common from the Darter Schools?

Commento di Strykerzz

Confirmed that the goldenscale vendorfish can be caught in the Sporefish schools. I only fished in Zangermarsh in the floating debris and sporefish schools. I caught mine only after an hour or so in the sporefish school. I'm in the Warlords expansion so maybe this is a little easier to catch now?

Commento di shovelready

these are still as rare as they have been reported. took me forever to catch mine. i stayed in terrokar forest the whole time and fished mainly in mixed pools. finally got it.

Commento di theroguefurian

Today, 12:30AM Eastern I attempted to obtain the fish to get credit towards The Limnologist achievement from the Barrel of Fish using my Timewarped Badges from the vendor Cupri in Shattrath. I spent about 200 Badges in Barrels before coming across the vendorfish.

I can confirm that it DOES NOT give you credit toward the achievement using this method. Buyer beware!

Commento di Scoobydeux

I had an impression, based on my circumstances, that this fish would not drop if your fishing skill was too high. I had one toon that only needed this fish for Limnologo, but had 600+ fishing skill, and could not seem to catch it (have been trying off and on since MoP), but toons with lower skill (400 ballpark) would fish a little and catch one.

I opened a ticket asking for clarification, and was reassured that it could be caught at any skill level; and El's Anglin' on Wayback confirmed this. So I tried a concerted effort to catch this on that toon. Sure enough, 153 more fish and it finally dropped. So it can be caught even if your skill is very high.

If your skill is low, these can be caught in any fishing pool in Outland at any skill level (drop rate 1%). If your skill is adequate for the zone, you'll have a slightly higher chance of success in open water in Nagrand, Terokkar Forest, or Zangermarsh. Or, restrict your fishing to Banco di Pesci delle Altures to have a chance at Ser Chelotto while you are fishing for this fish.

There are old reports from when WotLK was released that these could be caught in Northrend. This appears to no longer be true.

Commento di Nejosan

You can no longer get progress towards the achievement with Cavedano Aureo that you got out of a Barile di Pesce.

Commento di jameroz

Fished Highland Mixed Schools in Terokkar Forest with 700 fishing and no other bonuses. Ended up with 235 Furious Crawdads, 50 Golden Darters and 3 Mr. Pinchies before getting this fish.

Commento di tanzine

Level 100 alt with 700 fishing and +5 rod.

Fished in Zangarmarsh along north side of lake, mostly open water, and pools as they spawned.

Caught Goldenscale Vendorfish after 161 casts.

Commento di Qamra

163 casts in zangarmarsh 57/35

Weather beaten fishing hat
dragon fishing pole

Commento di Hilaeira

I've been spending the time between pre-patch and Legion working on some of the older fishing achievements. Here's some tips for cutting out some time while working on the rarer fish from Limnologo as well as, Astice Magico di Ser Chelotto. My fishing skill is maxed to 700.

Specifically, the following 3:
Cavedano Aureo
Vilcoda Maculato Gigante
Ser Chelotto

Initially I started out at Serpent Lake in Zangarmarsh just trying to get the last 2 fish I needed for Limnologo. After a couple days, I finally got a single Vilcoda Maculato Gigante, but still no Cavedano Aureo. After further research, I discovered Banco di Pesci delle Alture would be my next stop. I ended up with 5 more Vilcoda Maculato Gigante, the Cavedano Aureo and a Ser Chelotto 30 mins later.

So if you need these 3 items, skip Zangarmarsh and go to straight Blackwind Lake in Skettis. You at least then have a small chance at all 3 items without much moving around.

Commento di Gluck101

Finally, after nearly 1500 casts I got one of these pesky lil blighters today !

Got him from the big "Mr Pinchy" pool in Skettis at about 63,73 in Terokkar forest.

Man, I am pleased this is done. Haunted Herring... no problem. Vendor fish....nightmare.

Got to love RNG

Commento di Matt453

Just got this from Skysong Lake in Nagrand in a Mudfish School.

Commento di mewalela

I just fished up this thing. After 2h farming in every school (sporefish school, brackish mixed school and steam pump flotsam) in Zangarmarsh. I catched it in Sporefish School in The Lagoon.

Commento di Rockface

i caught one finally. Zangarmarsh , The Lagoon , sporefish school.

Commento di DakMonkeyz

Finally got one from Sporefish School at Umbrafen Lake in Zangarmarsh.

Before getting this I fished all around Terokkar Forest and Zangarmarsh, both open water and pools. Here's all the fish/stuff I got before I actually fished up the vendorfish:

109 Barbed Gill Trout
67 Golden Darter
44 Spotted Feltail
25 Zangarian Sporefish
17 Mote of Water
7 Furious Crawdad
11 Fel Iron ore (from crates)
3 Handful of Fel Iron Bolts (from crates)
3 Huge Spotted Feltail
3 Inscribed Scrollcase
1 Enormous Barbed Gill Trout

So it took me about 280-300 casts to get the fish. Best of luck finding it.

PS. I would recommend starting from Zangarmarsh.

Commento di Rethilgoreau

Alright, so I just got this by only fishing Highland Mixed School in Blackwind Lake.

Its a very easy farm because by the time you have made a complete lap around the lake the first school you have started at should have respawned.

took about an hour for me. Your times may vary.

here is a breakdown of my total fish numbers.

Total 95
Furious Crawdad: 63 (66.3%)
Golden Darter: 14 (14.7%)
Mote of Water 11 (11.6%)
Curious Crate: 3 (3.2%)
Inscribed scrollcase: 1 (1.1%)
Enormous Barbed Gill Trout 1 (1.1%)
Huge Spotted Feltail: 1 (1.0%)
Goldenscale Vendorfish: 1 (1.0%)

There were a few extra casts in there that were not counted by my addon due to the lake containing 2 zones (terokk's rest and Blackwind lake) so estimate about 115 casts 0.9-1% droprate.

Happy hunting all.

Commento di Casslynda11

I fished for weeks in all the steam pump flotsams and got nothing, and after reading the comments here went to the lake north of Garadar in Nagrand and got 1 on the 16th cast from open water!

Commento di hunteralixis

Finally after years of trying, I got this today from a Highland mixed school node in Lake Ere' Noru, Terrokar Forest. Total casts today? 37. GL all. Now if only I can find and kill Vorakem Doomspeaker, sigh.

Commento di schneizeru

Getting these from the cooking daily barrel still counts toward the achievement. It was probably bugged for a period, hence why people couldn't get credit.

Commento di bridgetmaryrose

Caught just now in Serpent Lake, Zangarmarsh, slightly SSW of the onshore steam pump.
Fished in Brackish Mixed School and landed it on the 3rd cast. Happy Fishing everyone!

Commento di AnkleShiv

Fished for hours in Terokkar Forest in pools. Fed up, I headed to Serpent lake in Zangarmarsh fished in Sporefish pools and got in on my 8th cast.

Commento di Ravenloft1971

Followed the advice on this forum and caught one in Terokkar in a School of Darter. School was at 61.43 / 40.65. This was my 4th darter school fished this day, and caught it within maybe 10 minutes of fishing with the artifact pole and maxed fishing. These schools seem to be a great place to get them.

Commento di mutecs

Catch this in Zangarmarsh in Banco di Pesci d'Acqua Salmastra .

Commento di Fowlertown83

Hour later I finally fished mine from the lake in Skettis. Just added my experience so there's not just a recent list of "omg did it after x casts in new spot". I have well over 100 casts from different zones and various pools/open areas. My catch was from a pool, if that makes a different to anyone's attempts. Happy hunting. (I played HS in the background whilst farming for mine).

Commento di glegan

Fished in Zangarmarsh and got it within 15 minutes. Was fishing out of the sporefish pools, seen a steam pump flotsam pool and got it on my first cast of that.

Commento di biscitz

Just fished this boii up in a pool of pure water, Nagrand river.

Commento di aviectusG

I was working towards the limnologist achievement and this fish was a B... to catch. After reading all those comments from years ago i finally settled in to only fish in Zangramarsh. After about half an hour fishing only in pools i finally got it! Keep trying and you will get it.

Commento di sarahlogic

Fished from a sporefish school in Serpent Lake relatively quickly (in my experience), near Twin Spire Ruins.

Commento di Lorentary

You can catch this fish from all pools in the Outland zones
This fish is a gray item with a relatively high (BC era) vendor sell price of 6 g

After fishing 2 hours in each zone, I can quite comfortably say that I found no statistically significant difference between the type of pool.
I have not tried fishing in open water; Hoever, the other Wowhead comments lead me to believe that you need a pool.

Commento di Bokadi87

Caught him in Zangarmarsh from a random pool of fish... took around 30 minutes.

Commento di Kokobutt

Caught mine in Zangarmarsh at 77.75, 65.74 from a flotsam supply crate pool.

Commento di thepita

Caught the fish from a brackish mixed school near the west beacon at the twin spire ruins (44.06, 46.44). Took me close to 2 hours to catch it while constantly going from node to node hoping to catch one haha

Commento di BlueOctopus

Caught one from a Pure Water pool in Skysong Lake, Nagrand (Throne of Elements area) in Outland. Second cast. Good luck!

Commento di Legitimus2023

Has anyone fished for this lately? I can't find him as of yet.

Commento di GRiMtox

Fished it in 2024 in a Brakish Mixed School in Zangarmarsh. That &*!@# of a fish took me longer than old crafty and ironjaw.

Commento di Neutralagent

Can be fished up with a Hyper-Compressed Ocean. Got one a few minutes ago on The Wandering Isle.

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Cavedano Aureo

Livello dell’oggetto 27

Massima Pila: 20

Prezzo di vendita: 6

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Questo oggetto può essere pescato a Paludi di Zangar (44), Foresta di Terokk (41), e Nagrand (17).

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