Aerial fishing

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Aerial fishing is a hybrid Fishing and Hunter technique requiring 35 Hunter and 43 Fishing. The aerial fishing technique is used to catch several fish species at Lake Molch.

Hunters can get a cormorant's glove and a cormorant, free of charge, from the fishing expert Alry the Angler at Lake Molch. Both hands must be free for aerial fishing, which means no items may be carried in the weapon, shield, or hands slots. It is possible to use skill boosts to receive a cormorant's glove, which will allow players to catch bluegill even if their level(s) drain back to normal.

With a cormorant's glove equipped, and a suitable reward (such as king worms, fish offcuts, or fine fish offcuts) for the cormorant in their inventory, players may send the cormorant out to catch a fish. The cormorant will always return to the player with a fish.

Players must use a cormorant to catch creatures from a fishing pool. The bird swoops down and returns to the player with the catch. Going for a catch while the player's inventory is full will result in a "You don't have enough inventory space to do that" message in the chat, however if the player's inventory becomes full mid-flight the cormorant throws its catch back into the water upon returning.

King worms are used as bait, which can be gathered on the island. When the player starts to catch fish, a knife can be used to obtain stackable fish offcuts, granting Cooking experience; fish offcuts can be used in place of king worms, where the cormorant will take 1 fish offcut every 3 or 4 catches as their reward for gathering the fish. Assuming you are cutting your catches, to approximate the number of total fish caught, multiply with 1.4 the amount of fish offcuts you have left.

Unlike Falconry, a catch is guaranteed each time the bird is sent. Multiple players can catch from the same pool and will see people fishing from all sides of the circular island. If the bird is sent while the pool is moving to a new location, it will still count as successful.

The time between catches varies with the distance between the player and the fishing spot. The shortest wait occurs after targeting a fishing spot within the player's 3x3 reach (i.e. directly adjacent to the player) whereby the Cormorant will be available again on the next tick. It is therefore possible to catch one fish per tick while there are fishing spots close enough to the player.

The following Hunter creatures may be caught using the aerial fishing technique.

Creature		Fishing		Hunter		Cooking
		Level	Exp	Level	Exp	Level	Exp
	Bluegill	43	11.5	35	16.5	1	3.5
	Common tench	56	40	51	45	1	10
	Mottled eel	73	65	68	90	1	20
	Greater siren	91	100	87	130	1	25

The type of fish caught depends on the player's visible Fishing and Hunter levels, which includes boosts. Boosts above 99 are not capped to 99 during the calculations.^[1]

The formula for what type of fish is caught is as follows.

Pick a random number 0 to (X-1) inclusive, where

• If the number is 82+, the player will receive a greater siren if the player meets the level requirements.
• If it's 67+, the player will receive a mottled eel if the player meets the level requirements.
• If it's 52+, the player will receive a common tench if the player meets the level requirements.
• Any other number and the player will receive a bluegill.^[2]
• Small values above the requirements give a very small chance for newly unlocked fish. You can use the Aerial fishing calculator to estimate the catch rate at a given Hunter and Fishing level.
  • It is also of note that due to the calculation used, boosting one's Fishing level has a greater effect on experience gained than the same Hunter boost (assuming the Hunter boost isn't needed to cross the threshold to catch a new kind of fish).

The following items may also be rarely obtained:

• Golden tench: There is a 1/20,000 chance that players may receive this cosmetic equipable fish in place of a regular catch. Players who do not want it can exchange it with Alry the Angler for 100 Molch pearls.
• Clue bottles or Scroll box if the player has completed X Marks the Spot.
• Heron pet, at a rate of 1/636,833.

When fishing within Lake Molch, each catch has a 1/100 to 1/75 chance of giving Molch pearls in addition to the player's catch, which scales based on the player's Fishing and Hunter levels. These can be used to purchase various rewards in Alry the Angler's Angling Accessories including the Angler outfit.

The chance of receiving a pearl is , where . ^[3] Visible Fishing and Hunter boosts are taken into account and are not capped to 99. ^[1] Rada's Blessing does not affect the chances of receiving a Molch pearl.^[4]

With an efficient strategy, a player can reach upwards of 1,600–1,800 fish per hour, and an average pearl yield of 16–24 per hour. It is expected to take 16 to 25 hours to collect enough pearls for the angler's outfit, which is considerably slower and remarkably more attention-demanding than obtaining them through the Fishing Trawler minigame.

Item		# of Molch pearls
	Angler's outfit piece	100
	Pearl fishing rod	100
	Pearl fly fishing rod	120
	Pearl barbarian rod[s 1]	150
	Fish sack	1,000

Below is a list of experience gained per hour, based on levels (provided 1,600 fish are caught per hour).

Level		XP/h +			XP/h (Total)
				Total		Total
43	35	18,400	26,400	44,800	5,600	50,400
56	51	20,088	28,088	48,976	5,985	54,161
73	68	32,856	42,659	75,515	9,870	85,385
85	77	45,200	58,600	103,800	14,234	118,034
91	87	51,649	68,188	119,837	19,155	138,992
99	99	62,593	82,311	144,904	24,978	169,882