Here's a simple cooking guide which allows players to become master cookers only by using fish products.

If you want to become a skilled fisherman and don't know what to do with all the fish you catch, you can simply send it all to an alt for leveling cooking or sell as a "ultra-fast cooking skill-up pack".

Since to become a master fisherman it doesn't matter what you fish but for how long, I hope the information I've collected can help you sort out how much and what types of fish you can get to increase your own or someone else's cooking skill.



To simplify the guide, I have not included any recipes aquired by questing or looting, nor I have mentioned more than two fishing zones for each faction.
The only raw products which can't be catched while fishing are to fill the gap between skill points 160-175 and for the artisan cooking quest. Wherever it's possible I've added more than one recipe to choose from for maximum use of all the fish you catch.


Apprentice Cooking

1- 35:
Simple Bread (35 Simple Flour, 35 Mild Spices) <cooking supplies> vendor recipe


35 - 50:
Brilliant Smallfish (15-20 Raw Brilliant Smallfish)
<Fishing supplies> vendor recipe; Fishing zones: Any capital city

Slitherskin Mackerel (15-20 Raw Slitherskin Mackerels)
<Fishing supplies> vendor recipe; Fishing zones: Teldrassil, Darkshore, Durator, the Barrens



Journeyman Cooking

50 - 90:
Longjaw Mud Snapper (40 Longjaw Mud Snappers)
<Fishing supplies> vendor recipe; Fishing zones: Any capital city

Rainbow Fin Albacore (40 Rainbow Fin Albacores)
<Fishing supplies>/ <Fisherman> vendor recipe; Fishing zones: Darkshore, Wetlands, the Barrens, Silverpine Forest


90 - 100:
Smoked Sagefish (10 Raw Sagefish, 10 Mild Spices)
<Cooking supplies> vendor recipe; Fishing zones: Ashenvale, Hillsbrad Foothills


100 - 125:
Bristle Whisker Catfish (40 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish)
<Fishing / Cooking supplies> vendor recipe; Fishing zones: Ashenvale, Hillsbrad Foothills


Expert Cooking

125 - 160:
Bristle Whisker Catfish (30-45 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish)
<Fishing / Cooking supplies> vendor recipe; Fishing zones: Ashenvale, Hillsbrad Foothills


160 - 175:
Goblin Deviled Clams (20-25 Tangy Clam Meat, 20-25 Hot Spices)
<Cooking Trainer> recipe; Loot from: level 20-30 turtles and murlocs


175 - 190:
Rockscale Cod (15 Raw Rockscale Cods)
<Fishing supplies> vendor recipe; Fishing zones: Dustwallow Marsh, Stranglethorn Vale


190 - 225:
Mithril Head Trout (35-40 Raw Mithril Head Trouts)
<Fishing supplies> vendor recipe; Fishing zones: Arathi Highlands, Feralas, Dustwallow Marsh, Stranglethorn Vale

Sagefish Delight (35-40 Raw Greater Sagefish, 35-40 Hot Spices)
<Cooking supplies> vendor recipe; Fishing zones: Stranglethorn Vale, Alterac Mountains


225:
Clamlette Surprise quest:
12 Giant Eggs – Loot from most level 42-55 vultures and owlkins
10 Zesty Clam Meat – Loot from most level 40-55 marine NPCs, mainly in Azshara
20 Alterac Swiss – Sold by <Cheese Vendors>



Artisan Cooking

225 - 250:
Fillet of Redgill (25 Raw Redgills)
Kelsey Yance <Cook> recipe (Booty Bay); Fishing zones: Feralas, Western Plaguelands

Cooked Glossy Mightfish (25 Raw Glossy Mightfish, 25 Soothing Spices)
Kelsey Yance <Cook> recipe (Booty Bay); Fishing zones: Azshara, Tanaris

Spotted Yellowtail (25 Raw Spotted Yellowtail)
Gikkix <Fisherman> recipe (Steamwheedle Port); Fishing zones: Azshara, Feralas


250 - 275:
Poached Sunscale Salmon (25 Raw Sunscale Salmon)
Gikkix <Fisherman> recipe (Steamwheedle Port); Fishing zones: The Hinterlands, Feralas (can’t be fished during the night)

Nightfin Soup (25 Raw Nightfin Snappers, 25 Refreshing Spring Water)
Gikkix <Fisherman> recipe (Steamwheedle Port); Fishing zones: The Hinterlands, Feralas (can’t be fished during the day)


275 - 300:
Mightfish Steak (25 Large Raw Mightfish, 25 Hot Spices, 25 Soothing Spices)
Feralas <Trade suppliers>recipe; Fishing zones: The Bay of Storms in Azshara

Baked Salmon (25 Raw Whitescale Salmon, 25 Soothing Spices)
Feralas <Trade suppliers>recipe; Fishing zones: Eastern Plaguelands, Winterspring






I will add later additional information for Master Cooking (skill 300-375).
Hope you find the guide useful!

Good luck! :)

That actually helped, GJ :D

thanks for this solid guide :) gave me a good overview where to go!

Great guide! Also getting the whole 300-375 can be found at this one site, since all the keylogger stuff im not going to post the web address since people will just go crazy paranoid.

the site can be found by going to wow wiki, searching fishing then scrolling all the way down and clicking on the fishing/cooking guide from The Noob School website. ;)

Wonderful!

I was just wondering about such a guide this morning, as this char just hit 60.
And is getting her Fishing leveled, and I hoped I could do Cooking at the same time..
And with Fishies :D

Thanks a ton!

Since when is bread a fish? :)

You could just as well use brilliant small fish from level 1. No need to make bread.

And the full guide on where to fish and how to cook it from the powerleveling guides:
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=13121383&pageNo=1&sid=1#5

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Q u o t e:
Since when is bread a fish? :)

You could just as well use brilliant small fish from level 1. No need to make bread.

And the full guide on where to fish and how to cook it from the powerleveling guides:
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=13121383&pageNo=1&sid=1#5

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Getting the ingredients for the bread takes about 3 seconds, catching 40 small fish takes about 8-10 minutes. And if that disturbs you so much you can always imagine the bread is shaped in the form of a fish. :)


Regarding the powerleveling guide, I was not aware of it, however, mine is oriented for players who wish to become master fishermen and don't know what to do with all the fish.
If someone wants to start both cooking and fishing from zero, then they might find the other guide more useful.

I can only claim that my guide requires as less raw fish as possible, minimizing the time you'll spend fishing. According to my roguh calculations a player who reaches 300 skill points in fishing can supply at least two more players with products enough for them to become artisan cooks. Whether they will be your alts, friends or players who've paid you - that's up to you! ;)

It was just that your heading is "Fish-only".

And then your guide start with something that isn't a fish :)

And if you are not fishing yourself, you are getting the fish from AH.
So you might as well buy an extra 35 fish :)
Sure, the bread mats are proably cheaper and always available.

If you are fishing you will get plenty of smallfish and then there is no need for doing the bread.

Also you might want to include the original guide tip on getting the Zesty Clam meat:
For the clam meat go to Steamwheedle Port in Tanaris and kill the Turtles. They will drop Big Mouth Clams at a good rate, which contain Zesty Clam Meat.
The guide also have directions to the Cheese vendors that are easiest to access.

GJ :) Could you please add required and no get aways skill level to the fishing zones?

Until / if he does,you can get the required/getaways skill info from http://www.elsanglin.com/.

Nice guide.


Got to have your bread made, the old fish fingers would look a bit boring without their bread crumbs lol.

Great guide, deserve a bump ...

reported! for sticky :>
had to search 18 pages before I found it :(

Excellent, thank you. I actually thought about levelling my latest characters' Cooking mostly wish fish, so this is a nice find.

LF apprentice fisher, who is already master cook. You fish. I buy for good gold. I cook