Fisherman

General Information

Fisherman is a gathering profession focused on fishing fish.
Unlike the other gathering professions, there are only two fisherman Destiny Board nodes: The Fisherman node and the Fishing Specialist node.
A higher level in the Fisherman node will unlock higher tier Fishing Rods and Fisherman Gathering Gear.

To catch fish players have to complete a mini-game described on the fishing page in detail.
Players can catch fish in all the waters in Albion and in every zone where there is water, but the tier of the fish will differ from map to map.

Each level in the Fisherman Destiny Board node increases item power for all fisherman gear by 0.5, increases fishing speed by 0.16, and increases fishing yield by 0.16%.

Each level in the Fishing Specialist Destiny Board node increases item power for all fisherman gear by 2.5, increases fishing speed by 0.33, and increases fishing yield by 0.33%.

Equipping a Fishing Rod will allow players to catch fish of all tiers that are up to +1 of the fishing rod's tier. For example, equipping a tier 5 fishing rod will allow players to catch tier 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 fish.
As of patch 9 (April 1st 2020) food now offers gathering yield for fishing.

Fishing is a gathering skill that was added to the game with the Lancelot patch. Players can try to catch fish in any body of water in the game. Higher tier zones allow players to catch higher tier fish. To start fishing and catch fish a player must equip a fishing rod, stand close to a body of water and throw out the fishing lure.

Depending on the zone the player is in, either freshwater fish or saltwater fish can be caught. The mouse icon will change to a fishing bob icon if fish can be caught in the water you are trying to fish in. Waters also contain school of fish. Fishing inside the circle of the school of fish yields fish more frequently and is an indicator if the waters have recently been overfished or not.

Fishing has a chance to give seaweed as a bonus in areas that have not yet been exhausted - the chance for this bonus increases with the tier of the fishing spot
Food that gives a bonus to gathering yield also applies that same bonus to fishing yield
Fisherman Armor and Avalonian Fishing Rods apply their fishing yield bonuses to T1 fish and seaweed - previously these only applied to T2 fish up to a maximum defined by the item
Destiny Board fishing speed and fishing yield bonuses apply to all tiers (previously only 3-8)

How to fish

Mechanics

After finding a suitable body of water, a player can throw out a lure, if he has a fishing rod in his inventory:

After waiting for a short amount of time (fish bite speed), the fishing bob will move up and down, signaling that a fish bit the hook and can be reeled in.

By pressing and releasing the left-mouse button the player will try to reel the fish in. The mini-game is a game of balance, trying to keep the fishing bob inside the green UI-field. If the fishing bob moves too far to the left or to the right into the red area the fishing attempt will fail. During the left-mouse button press the fishing bob will move to the right and the fish icon on the blue bar will move forward. Releasing the left-mouse-button will promt the fishing bob to automatically move to the left. Once the white fish icon arrives at the yellow end of the blue bar ( >> ) the fish or other loot will be caught and added to the player inventory. Fish are caught best by pressing and releasing the left-mouse-button, depending on guessing the future position and speed of the fishing bob icon.

Once you get a feel for it, reeling in a fish should take no more than a minute or two. If you are fighting with the fish for longer than that, it could be you have hooked a log or rock. It could also be that your client's frames-per-second ( type the command "/fps" in chat to see it ) is below 30. If this is the case, try turning down your graphics settings or contact support for assistance.

When you start reeling a fish and it doesn't move at all, then that fish is most likely a log or a stone so you can just stop the process and move to another fishing spot.

Note: when you get a log or stone that means that small spot you're fishing in no longer has fish, you will either need to wait a bit or move to another spot to find fish.

Where to catch fish

Fish can be caught all over Albion. But there are two different types of water in the world of Albion. Freshwater and saltwater. All rivers, lakes, ponds and other similar bodies of water that can be found inland are considered freshwater. Saltwater can only be found in zones that border the ocean. A quick way to determine whether a body of water is fresh- or saltwater is by finding a pool of fish - the saltwater fish jump out of the water, and the freshwater fish swim underneath the surface in a circle. For a list of the different catchable fish, use this table. Saltwater zones, especially higher-tier zones are rarer than freshwater zones. In the table below you can find a list of zones that have saltwater borders.

Saltwater also has a different color on the minimap than freshwater. See this image as an example:

Fishing Gear

Players have to use a fishing rod to catch fish. But players can also equip fishing gear to increase their fishing yield. Fishing gear has special passive skills that increase the fishing yield the longer a player equips the gear. Higher item quality fishing rods provide higher bonuses to the fishing speed.

A detailed list of all fishing rods and their fishing speed bonuses can be found on the Fishing Rod item page.
A detailed list of all item stats of the fishing gear can be found on the Fishing Gear item page.

Bait & Fishing Yield

Players can use bait to increase the bite speed of fish. Bait can be crafted from earthworms at a cook. Earthworms are found when harvesting crops during farming.

T1 Simple Fish Bait: 10 charges which increases bite speed of fish by 50%. (Requires 1 earthworm to craft.)

T3 Fancy Fish Bait: 10 charges which increases bite speed of fish by 125%. (Requires 5 earthworm to craft.)

T5 Special Fish Bait: 10 charges which increases bite speed of fish by 250%. (Requires 25 earthworm to craft.)

Players can also use Seaweed Salad to increase the fishing speed for 30 minutes.

Catch & Fishing Loot

Different locations offer different things that a player can catch. The two types of fish that can be caught are freshwater fish and saltwater fish. Occasionally and very rarely treasures can be found as well. The tier of fish that can be caught depends on the tier of the zone. To catch fish of a certain tier a player must be wearing a minimum fishing rod of the tier below it. Ex: A tier 6 fish can be caught with a tier 5 rod.

A list of all types of fish that can be caught can be found in the table below.

Common Fish

List of Common Fish
Tier	Name	Type	Rarity	Zone Level
1	Common Rudd	Freshwater	Common	T 2-3
2	Striped Carp	Freshwater	Common	T 2-4
3	Albion Perch	Freshwater	Common	T 3-5
4	Bluescale Pike	Freshwater	Common	T 4-6
5	Spotted Trout	Freshwater	Common	T 5-7
6	Brightscale Zander	Freshwater	Common	T 6-8
7	Danglemouth Catfish	Freshwater	Common	T 7-8
8	River Sturgeon	Freshwater	Common	T 8
1	Common Herring	Saltwater	Common	T 2-3
2	Striped Mackerel	Saltwater	Common	T 2-4
3	Flatshore Plaice	Saltwater	Common	T 3-5
4	Bluescale Cod	Saltwater	Common	T 4-6
5	Spotted Wolffish	Saltwater	Common	T 5-7
6	Strongfin Salmon	Saltwater	Common	T 6-8
7	Bluefin Tuna	Saltwater	Common	T 7-8
8	Steelscale Swordfish	Saltwater	Common	T 8

Rare Fish

List of Rare Fish
Tier	Fish Name	Type	Rarity	Zone level	Biome
3	Greenriver Eel	Freshwater	Rare	T 2-8	Forest
5	Redspring Eel	Freshwater	Rare	T 3-8	Forest
7	Deadwater Eel	Freshwater	Rare	T 5-8	Forest
3	Stonestream Lurcher	Freshwater	Rare	T 2-8	Highland
5	Rushwater Lurcher	Freshwater	Rare	T 3-8	Highland
7	Thunderfall Lurcher	Freshwater	Rare	T 5-8	Highland
3	Greenmoor Clam	Freshwater	Rare	T 2-8	Swamp
5	Murkwater Clam	Freshwater	Rare	T 3-8	Swamp
7	Blackbog Clam	Freshwater	Rare	T 5-8	Swamp
3	Upland Coldeye	Freshwater	Rare	T 2-8	Mountain
5	Mountain Blindeye	Freshwater	Rare	T 3-8	Mountain
7	Frostpeak Deadeye	Freshwater	Rare	T 5-8	Mountain
3	Lowriver Crab	Freshwater	Rare	T 2-8	Steppe
5	Drybrook Crab	Freshwater	Rare	T 3-8	Steppe
7	Dusthole Crab	Freshwater	Rare	T 5-8	Steppe
3	Shallowshore Squid	Saltwater	Rare	T 1-8	Ocean
5	Midwater Octopus	Saltwater	Rare	T 3-8	Ocean
7	Deepwater Kraken	Saltwater	Rare	T 5-8	Ocean
8	Shark	Saltwater	Rare	T2 (Cross Towns) or T5-T8 (Outlands only)	Ocean
3	Whitefog Snapper	Water	Rare	T 2-5	Roads of Avalon
5	Clearhaze Snapper	Water	Rare	T 3-7	Roads of Avalon
7	Puremist Snapper	Water	Rare	T 5-8	Roads of Avalon

Other Loot

The tier of the zone you are fishing in determines the blackmarket loot up available. Runes and Tome of Insight can be also retrieved, but they are extremely rare.

Other Loot
Tier	Name	Type	Rarity	Zone
1	Seaweed	Cooking Ingredient	Common
	Arcane Stone Sigil	Decoration		Caerleon/Island
	Autumn Tree	Decoration		Caerleon/Island
	Barrel with Candle	Decoration	Common	Caerleon/Island
	Broken Scholar Statue	Decoration		Caerleon/Island
	Bunting Portal	Decoration		Caerleon/Island
	Candelabra	Decoration		Caerleon/Island
	Clothes Line	Decoration	Common	Caerleon/Island
	Corner Lantern	Decoration		Caerleon/Island
	Fire Bowl	Decoration		Caerleon/Island
	Fire Bowl with Pedestal	Decoration		Caerleon/Island
	Fish Line	Decoration	Common	Caerleon/Island
	Flower Vase	Decoration	Common	Caerleon/Island
	Fruit Tree	Decoration		Caerleon/Island
	Haystack	Decoration	Common	Caerleon/Island
	Haystack and Cart	Decoration	Common	Caerleon/Island
	Hunting Sculpture	Decoration		Caerleon/Island
	Nature Stone Sigil	Decoration		Caerleon/Island
	Scholar Statue	Decoration		Caerleon/Island
	Simple Lantern	Decoration		Caerleon/Island
	Small Nature Stone Sigil	Decoration		Caerleon/Island
	Small Sword Sculpture	Decoration		Caerleon/Island
	Small valorous Stone Sigil	Decoration		Caerleon/Island
	Stone Well	Decoration		Caerleon/Island
	Summer Tree	Decoration		Caerleon/Island
	Sword and Shield Sculpture	Decoration		Caerleon/Island
	Tree Stump Pumpkins	Decoration	Common	Caerleon/Island
	Wooden Entrance	Decoration		Caerleon/Island
	Wooden Sign	Decoration	Common	Caerleon/Island

List of cooking and alchemy recipes that use fishing loot

Fish can be consumed directly for various bonuses and fishing fame. Fame gained through eating fish is always half the value compared to catching a fish, with the values shown in the table including premium bonus. Fish can also be chopped up at the butcher into fish chops. Fish chops are used in a variety of high tier cooking recipes.

Elsa's Item Stats & Skills Spreadsheet has a table of the details (should converted and duplicated here at some point)

Consuming Fish Bonuses
Tier	Name	Bonus	Bonus Amount	Fame when consumed	Chopped Fish
1	Common Rudd	Health Regen	30%	7	1
1	Common Herring	Health Regen	30%	7	1
2	Striped Carp	Health Regen	53%	15	2
2	Striped Mackarel	Health Regen	53%	15	2
3	Albion Perch	Health Regen	75%	22	3
3	Flatshore Plaice	Health Regen	75%	22	3
3	Greenriver Eel	Cooldown Reduction	3,5%	75	10
3	Stonestream Lurcher	Healing Received	3,5%	75	10
3	Upland Coldeye	CC Resistance	11,3%	75	10
3	Lowriver Crab	Energy Cost Reducion	3,5%	75	10
3	Greenmoor Clam	Energy Regen	5,3%	75	10
3	Shallowshore Squid	Crafting Quality&Speed	16	75	10
4	Bluescale Pike	Health Regen	113%	30	4
4	Bluescale Cod	Health Regen	113%	30	4
5	Spotted Trout	Health Regen	150%	45	6
5	Spotted Wolffish	Health Regen	150%	45	6
5	Redspring Eel	Cooldown Reduction	6.7%	150	20
5	Rushwater Lurcher	Healing Received	6,7%	150	20
5	Mountain Blindeye	CC Resistance	22,5%	150	20
5	Drybrook Crab	Energy Cost Reduction	6,7%	150	20
5	Murkwater Clam	Energy Regen	10%	150	20
5	Midwater Octopus	Crafting Quality&Speed	33	150	20
6	Brightscale Zander	Health Regen	188%	60	8
6	Strongfin Salmon	Health Regen	188%	60	8
7	Danglemouth Catfish	Health Regen	225%	75	10
7	Bluefin Tuna	Health Regen	225%	75	10
7	Deadwater Eel	Cooldown Reduction	9,5%	225	30
7	Thunderfall Lurcher	Healing Received	9,5%	225	30
7	Frostpeak Deadeye	CC Resistance	33,8%	225	30
7	Dusthole Crab	Energy Cost Reduction	9,5%	225	30
7	Blackbog Clam	Energy Regen	18,9	225	30
7	Deepwater Kraken	Crafting Quality&Speed	49	225	30
8	River Sturgeon	CC Duration	10%	210	14
8	Steelscale Swordfish	CC Duration	10%	210	14
8	Shark	n/a	n/a	n/a	200

Screenshots of Fishing Gear

Below are screenshots of the different tiers of fishing gear. If you want to make them look nicer or add the female versions, please feel free to do so.

Wearing the fishing gear increases the numbers of fish, decoration and seaweed caught.