Fisherman/Gathering

Gathering information for the profession fisherman.

General
Fisherman resource spawns are schools of fish found in lakes, seas and rivers. Higher profession level unlocks new types of schools (which in turn have new types of fish), as well as better fishing rods with greater range.

Experience
The experience for each resource is 10 + (minimum level/2). You only gain experience when you actually catch a fish; failed fishing attempts result in no experience.

The fishes listed below are not the ones displayed in the profession panel. Those are all the fishes you can obtain from each type of school, ordered from most frequent to least frequent.

Gathering Time
The gathering time depends on the type of resource spawn.

Amounts
Fishing always yields one fish, except in the case of a failure ( or there is 5 yellow stars or 5 red stars due to multiplier). Once a fisherman reaches lv. 20 in the profession, they may encounter resource protectors that drop bags of fish. The type of fish caught varies.

See the talk page for the discussion on which fish drops in a given area, and participate in the Fishing Research study.

Locations
See also Fishing locations

Contest Snappers
Contest Snappers are only found at the pool at Sufokia [15,25]. They can only be fished using Fishing Rod for Snappers. The Snappers themselves are mostly useless (The only things you can do with them are sell for 1 kama each or feed to a Mount), but the fishing rod has an almost 100% success rate and the supply is nearly endless, so this is a very good place for early fishermen who don't mind losing out on a few gudgeons.

Unfortunately, you can only fish for contest snappers at the Schwimming Pool until level 20. That fishing rod can also be used to catch Small Sea Fish there.