Free-to-play Fishing training

There are several ways to train Fishing in free-to-play. Depending on the desired goals of the player, they can choose between methods favouring experience rates or profit. If you choose to go with making a profit, be sure to sell your catch at the Grand Exchange and not a General store in order to maximize your profits. Keep in mind, since the Grand Exchange acts as an in-game stock market, that means the prices are always changing. You can find the latest prices on the Grand Exchange here.

Fishing raw shrimps and raw anchovies with a small fishing net at a net fishing location is the fastest way to train fishing at level 1 with experience rates of 1,500–3,000 experience per hour. The small net fishing spot is the only possible fishing location at level 1. Players must reach level 15 Fishing before there is a chance for them to receive a raw anchovy while fishing, which will increase their experience rates to around 7,500 experience per hour. To achieve the most optimal experience rates, players would want to drop the caught fish, instead of banking. Alternatively, the raw fish can be cooked for small amounts of Cooking experience. If planning on banking the fish, players should fish at Al Kharid, due to its proximity to a bank, however there is an aggressive level 14 scorpion that occasionally wanders near the southern fishing spots. Another spot to bank the fish is south of the bank in Draynor Village, next to the willow trees, though beware of aggressive level 7 Dark Wizards. For players that don't want to have to deal with combat, and want to sell the fish, the fishing spot South-West of Port Sarim is ideal as it is a somewhat short run away from Gerrant's Fishy Business.

Fishing raw sardine and raw herring with a fishing rod and bait at a bait fishing location is the fastest way to train fishing until level 20 with experience rate of 3,000-8,000 experience per hour (when herring is unlocked it is 8,000). The small net fishing spot is the ideal place to fish. Players who reach level 20 fishing can move to fishing trout for faster experience per hour.

Fishing raw trout and raw salmon with a fly fishing rod and feathers at a fly fishing location before dropping the caught fish offers the fastest way to train Fishing to 99 in free-to-play. At level 20, players can expect to achieve around 13k XP/hour while dropfishing due to only catching raw trout. At level 30, there is a chance to receive raw salmon while fishing, which will increase their experience rates to around 25k XP/hour while dropfishing.

Fly fishing can be done in Lumbridge quickly reached via canoe or cowbell amulet, and in Barbarian Village quickly reached via canoe or skull sceptre. Each catch consumes a feather which results in around 600 feathers consumed from levels 20–40 and 225,000 feathers from 20–99.

Players can train both Fishing and Cooking by cooking the fish near their fishing spot before dropping the fish or only dropping the burnt fish if banking. The most convenient location to do this is by using the permanent fire in Barbarian Village next to the fishing spot. If fishing in Lumbridge, players can instead bring an axe and tinderbox to build their own fire. The nearby Barfy Bill can store an axe but if one is needed, a bronze axe spawns in the stump north at Groats' farm.

• Method #1: Fly fish at Barbarian Village, cook at Barbarian Village permanent fire, bank cooked fish at Ferox Enclave (57 Woodcutting needed for waka canoe, canoe from Barbarian Village to Ferox Enclave for banking, and canoe back to Barbarian Village to fish): ~18k Fishing XP/hour & ~24k Cooking XP/hour

• Method #2: Fly fish at Barbarian Village or Lumbridge, bank raw fish at Ferox Enclave (57 Woodcutting needed for waka canoe, canoe from Barbarian Village or Lumbridge to Ferox Enclave for banking, and canoe back to Barbarian Village or Lumbridge to fish): ~26k Fishing XP/hour

• Method #3: Fly fish at Barbarian Village, cook at Barbarian Village permanent fire, drop cooked fish: ~23.5k Fishing XP/hour & ~31k Cooking XP/hour.

Fish can be caught using tick manipulation by collecting snow spawned by reindeer hat or snow globe (requires having completed a Christmas event), by using a needle on leather (or vice versa) with thread in the inventory while holding space or another key to clear the Make-X interface which will also effectively delay the skilling timer by a slightly slower four ticks (but doesn't require a Christmas event), or by eating their cooked versions, resulting in significantly higher experience rates at the cost of increased intensity.

The AFK experience rates shown in the table below include the time spent dropping the fish thus the actual rates vary depending on how fast the fish are dropped.

level	XP/h (AFK)	XP/h (3-tick)
20	13,000	23,000
30	25,000	45,000
40	30,000	53,000
50	34,000	61,000
60	37,000	68,000
70	41,000	75,000
80	44,000	81,000
90	47,000	87,000
99	50,000	93,000

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Raw shrimps are sold for 24. Raw anchovies are sold for 25. Drop the cheaper fish you catch, banking only the other. Expect to catch between 150 and 280 fish an hour between levels 15 and 39.

• Catching 150-280 shrimp an hour has a profit range of 3,600 to 6,720.
• Catching 150-280 anchovies an hour has a profit range of 3,750 to 7,000.

The best place to catch them is Draynor Village, but if under combat level 15 one of the Dark wizards may attack.

For the full guide on catching lobsters, see here.

Fish raw lobsters at Musa Point. Players can expect to make 15,400 and 12,600 Fishing experience per hour. To bank the caught raw lobsters, use the boat to travel to Port Sarim, costing 30 coins one way. In Port Sarim, use the Bank Deposit Box next to the Salvaging station to deposit the raw lobsters. If you have completed both The Corsair Curse and Dragon Slayer I, you can also use the Corsair Cove Resource Area to avoid paying the fare back and forth to use the deposit box.

For the full guide on catching tuna/swordfish, see here.

Fish at the harpoon spot at Musa Point. Players can expect to make 21,021 and 17,160 Fishing experience per hour.

Alternatives:

• Less walking and coins, more experience per hour: Sell fish at the Karamja General Store.
• More total experience and clicks, less walking and coins: Cook the fish after caught.
  • An axe can be wielded to save an inventory slot.
  • Logs can be obtained from trees near the charter ship.
  • A tinderbox can be brought or purchased at the Karamja General Store for 1 coin.
  • Depending on the amount, trading burnt fish at the Karamja General Store (0 coins) can be quicker than dropping them one at a time.

After the completion of Below Ice Mountain, players can fish in the Ruins of Camdozaal. This is generally slower to train Fishing than fishing for trout and salmon (even when dropping Camdozaal fish) but this method will also help train both Cooking and Prayer. In other words, this training method is only recommended if you plan on training Prayer.

It requires 7 Fishing and 7 Cooking to fish and prepare guppy. Having 33 Fishing and 33 Cooking are needed to fish and prepare tetra, which provide the most prayer experience among the free-to-play fish. Tetra stop ruining at Cooking level 61. However, players can stop ruining tetra around level 54 Cooking if they purchase the Preparation buff from Ramarno's Shard Exchange for 2500 Barronite shards. Purchasing the Fishing and Preparation buffs from Ramarno's shard exchange slightly increases the experience rates for lower Fishing and Cooking levels respectively.

1. Use a small fishing net to catch fish in the fishing spot nearby. A small fishing net is provided in the space north of the preparation table and altar.
2. Prepare these fish at the preparation table using a knife. You'll gain Cooking experience. A knife lies on the floor nearby the table.
3. Offer the prepared fish at the altar for Prayer experience.

Experience rates per hour are 5,600 Fishing, 7,400 Cooking, and 2,400 Prayer or less when offering all fish types (only possible at Level 61+ cooking, when tetra stop ruining) with decent efficiency.

Fish		Fishing		Cooking		Prayer
		Level	Exp	Level	Exp	Level	Exp
	Guppy	7	8	7	12	1	4
	Cavefish	20	16	20	23	1	7
	Tetra	33	24	33	31	1	10

Depending on the method, Fishing uses one or two types of items; divided into tools and consumables. Consumables are used up at the rate of one item for each fish caught and are stackable, while the tools are non-stackable and reusable.

Method	Tools		Bait
Net fishing		Small fishing net	N/A
Bait fishing		Fishing rod		Fishing bait
Fly fishing		Fly fishing rod		Feather
Lobster pots		Lobster pot	N/A
Harpooning		Harpoon	N/A

Fish			Fishing		Cooking		Caught with	Heals	GE Price
			Level	Exp	Level	Exp			Raw	Cooked
		Shrimp (cooked)	1	10	1	30	Net	3	24	22
		Sardine (cooked)	5	20	1	40	Bait	4	25	13
		Herring (cooked)	10	30	5	50	Bait	5	73	25
		Anchovies (cooked)	15	40	1	30	Net	1	25	37
		Trout (cooked)	20	50	15	70	Fly	7	32	16
		Pike (cooked)	25	60	20	80	Bait	8	79	46
		Salmon (cooked)	30	70	25	90	Fly	9	29	28
		Tuna (cooked)	35	80	30	100	Harpoon	10	51	48
		Lobster (cooked)	40	90	40	120	Lobster pot	12	110	96
		Swordfish (cooked)	50	100	45	140	Harpoon	14	193	201