Surprise surprise; Jagex has put in a new way to train fishing that is slightly faster than shilo. At Shilo i get about 38k per hour; at baxtorian i'm so far making about 42k per hour. Not a vast improvement, but it is an improvement. Of course, there's a drawback; in shilo you get loads of cooking xp from frying the fish you catch; in this new way you get very little cooking xp. On the plus side, you also get a little agility and strength xp, so its all good.

 

 

 

HOW TO START

 

All you need is about 20 feathers or normal fishing bait, a knife, and a games necklace. If you already have a barbarian fishing rod, bring that too. Teleport to the barbarian outpost, and then walk south to baxtorian falls. if you haven't already, talk to otto to start the barbarian training minigame. Talk to him specifically about fishing, until he tells you about barbarian fishing using heavy tackle, and tells you to get the rod from under his bed. TADA; you now have all the equipment you need to camp and powerfish

 

 

 

FISHING

 

There are fishing spots all around the lake; just pick one and start fishing (this is what your bait/feathers are for). Its surprising how many different kinds of bait will let you fish here. You will catch

 

 

 

Leaping Trout: (48 Fishing, 15 str/agility level required) 50 fishing, 5 agility, 5 str xp

 

Leaping Salmon: (58 Fishing, 30str/agility level required) 70 fishing, 6 agility, 6 str xp

 

Leaping Sturgeon: (70 Fishing, 45 str/agility level required) 90 fishing, 7 agility, 7 str xp

 

 

 

Thanks to Doom1200 for the level requirements \

 

 

 

After you catch a fish, use a knife on them to get cooking xp.

 

If you succeed, you get roe (salmon/trout) or caviar (sturgeon) and one fish offcut(all fish); or you may partially succeed (with salmon or trout) and only get roe. No matter if you succeed or partially succeed, and no matter what fish you use, you will always get 10 cooking xp *unless* you fail, in which case you will get nothing, not even xp. Every part (roe/caviar/offcuts) can be REUSED AS BAIT

 

 

 

In a reverse of classical rs style, you will actually fail to cut higher level fish less. I have never failed to cut a sturgeon; however, i have about an 80% success rate on salmon and a 50% rate on trout. Since im 99 cooking, and i shouldn't really be failing this much, im assuming that your success rate is not closely tied to your cooking level.

 

 

 

Roe and Caviar don't stack; fish offcuts do. Also, if you have offcuts, roe, and caviar in your inventory, you will use offcuts, then roe, then caviar, in that order. For this reason, i would recommend dropping the offcuts. Everytime you catch a fish you will lose one piece of bait; in this way, your inventory will remained balanced until your full on fish and out of bait. This is *much* faster than banking in shilo, if your fast at cutting with your knife, which alone makes it faster; plus, you never need to buy bait.

 

 

 

ZACHHOCKEY2'S YOUTUBE VERSION

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR8gxe2Juuc

 

 

 

ADVANTAGES

 

Fastest way i've found to get fishing xp

 

Adds free, small amounts of agility, strength, and cooking xp

 

Infinite supply of free bait

 

You can help lots of people who are trying to do barbarian training

 

You can bank if you want to: walk to barbarian outpost, gnome stronghold(there's a shortcut if you have 37 agility, northwest of the falls), or just cw ring tele and then games necklace back

 

 

 

DISADVANTAGES

 

Hard to bank, even if you want to

 

Much less cooking xp/money than any other form of fishing

 

 

 

I'm choosing to do this because:

 

I have 99 cooking so i don't care about the xp decrease

 

My strength and agility are both nearly 99; i fish to take a break from agility, so it pleases me to train it while fishing

 

I really am only in it for the xp; don't care about the money :

 

 

 

NOT A WONDERFUL GUIDE: JUST THOUGHT ALL YOU POWERFISHERS WOULD LIKE TO KNOW, SHILO IS OBSOLETE

 

 

 

EDIT:

 

I think there are 3 reasons why this is faster

 

1. If you're fast, the no-banking policy can save you a lot of time.

 

2. The fishing spots are much more stable.

 

3. If you have the reqs, leaping sturgeon are good because they have no shilo counterpart.

 

 

 

Leaping sturgeon are the only truly huge advantantage to this method, so if you can't catch them you might not want to try.

Ya got your Fishing Levels wrong man.

 

 

 

Leaping Trout: 48 Fishing.

 

Leaping Salmon: 58 Fishing.

 

Leaping Sturgeon: 70 Fishing.

 

 

 

Hope that helps! :D Good guide btw.

lol im not saying what levels you need to fish them, just what xp you get for fishing them

 

 

 

but thanks for that, i'll add it 8-)

If you have the Agil for it you can use the shortcut to gnome stronghold and use bank there so it's not so bad.

This may not be very important, but the order for bait including feathers and fish bait is:

 

 

 

Fish bait, feathers, offcuts, roe, caviar.

 

 

 

 

 

Also, you can eat the roe and caviar which may be faster than dropping it if you want to get rid of it. Haven't timed it though.

lol im not saying what levels you need to fish them, just what xp you get for fishing them

 

 

 

but thanks for that, i'll add it 8-)

 

 

 

Oh. When you said 90 Fishing, I assumed you meant Level 90 Fishing. Not EXP. My bad. And no problem. :D

 

Also, you can eat the roe and caviar which may be faster than dropping it if you want to get rid of it. Haven't timed it though.

 

 

 

you don't eat or drop it, you use it as bait

you don't eat or drop it, you use it as bait

Ok, but I always end up with too many of them and fill up with fish unless I drop my other bait first. I'm only 67 fishing so I can't get sturgeon, so I don't get much bait from the fish. Therefore, I need to use storebought bait.

 

 

 

By the way, you can eat one and drop a different one at the same time.

yeah, i guess bait problems might slow you down :cry:

Interesting, I need to try this! \

I still would rather use shilo for the cooking xp, but when people get 99 cooking from the shilo fish, then they should switch over to this method

How do you use the shortcut to the gnome stronghold? It says the ground is to weak....

the shortcut requires lvl 37 agility

I like this guide, and I tryed it, but I think I like having more than 10 cooking exp per fish.

I did this, except I banked using necklace, teleporting to BA, running back down, and getting new necklaces at gnome bank

personally i got 91 fishing off this method... and will likely never do it again lol

nice!! :thumbsup: i'm in the middle of editing a vid for this, because i thought it was a great idea!

A very nice change from regular bait and such. :D I still think that catching fish with your hands is the greatest...not the best xp but boy does it look cool! 8-) I may actually start to seriously train fishing now! :P

I got 37 agility but it still says the ground is to weak... Is there like a quest for it, or do i need a grappling hook? Or am I using the wrong spot?

i don't really know, sorry; all i know is in the agility guide (ingame)->shortcut subsection->lvl 37 gnome stronghold shortcut

 

maybe theres a quest, but i've done every quest except rat catchers...

 

maybe you're at the wrong spot; its a landslide northwest of baxtorian falls

DONE!

 

 

 

LINK TO THE MOVIE GUIDE IS

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR8gxe2Juuc

thx for the vid zach :D

I must be doing somin wrong, i keep running out of bait cos i fail to cut some fish...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What am i doing wrong?

well, you tend to fail a lot on the trout and salmon, if you fishing lvl isn't high enough to catch sturgeon this might not be the best method for you

I got 37 agility but it still says the ground is to weak... Is there like a quest for it, or do i need a grappling hook? Or am I using the wrong spot?

 

 

 

I think you need to have finished grand tree quest to use that shortcut.