Vanilla Fishing and Cooking Guide: 1- 300 (WoW Classic Leveling)

Welcome to our WoW Vanilla Cooking and Fishing Leveling Guide! This guide works for vanilla-era, SOM, and hardcore servers. 

Cooking goes really well with fishing. That’s why many people level it up at the same time. Some people don’t like fishing, but I actually really like it. I have it on all my characters, it’s very chill and relaxing. 

If you already have max cooking, and just want to level fishing, you don’t have to follow this guide. You can go to any low-level pool of water and fish until you are at max level. 

When fishing, be sure to always have a fishing lure attached. It will help a lot.

Total mats needed for 1-300 fishing and cooking

Fishing and cooking guide WoW Classic

Start by learning fishing from one of these trainers:

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Start by learning cooking from one of these trainers:

Apprentice fishing and cooking (1 – 75)

Buy Recipe: Brilliant Smallfish and Recipe: Bristle Whisker Catfish from Sewa Mistrunner in Thunder Bluff or Catherine Leland in Stormwind.

Buy Recipe: Longjaw Mud Snapper from Naal Mistrunner in Thunder Bluff or Tharynn Bouden in Goldshire, Elwynn Forest. 

Horde players should go to Stonebull Lake in Mulgore, next to Bloofhood Village, and start fishing.

Alliance players should go to Crystal Lake in Elwynn Forest and start fishing.

You can stay here until you reach fishing 75. At this point, you will be catching Raw Brilliant Smallfish and Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper.

Cook all Raw Brilliant Smallfish until you reach skill level 50. The recipe goes yellow at 45, so you might need to catch a bit more than 50 smallfish.

From 50 to 75, cook Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper.

Go train Journeyman fishing and cooking (75 – 150).

Journeyman fishing and cooking (75 – 150)

Horde players should go back to Thunder Bluff and fish from the pond on the low rise, next to the auctioneers. 

Alliance players should go back to Stormwind City and fish from the canals. 

You can stay here until you reach fishing 150. At this point, you will be catching Raw Brilliant Smallfish, Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper, and Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish.

From 75 to 100, cook Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper. This recipe goes yellow at 90, so you might need to catch a bit more than 25 snappers. 

From 100 to 150, cook Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish. This recipe goes yellow at 140, so you might need to catch a bit more than 50 catfish. 

Go train Expert fishing and cooking (150 – 225).

You can buy the Expert Cookbook from Shandrina in Ashenvale or Wulan in Desolace. You can buy Expert Fishing – The Bass and You from Old Man Heming in Stranglethorn Vale.

Expert fishing and cooking (150 – 225)

From this step on, the route is the same for both alliance and horde players.

Go to Booty Bay in Stranglethorn Vale, find Kelsey Yance, and buy these recipes – Recipe: Filet of Redgill, Recipe: Sagefish Delight, and Recipe: Mithril Head Trout.

Now move to north Stranglethorn Vale, and fish in the river next to the Nesingwary camp. Or if there’s too much competition/PVP going on, you can move to Alterac Mountains and fish in Lordamere Lake – that place is usually peaceful.

You can stay here until you reach fishing 225. At this point, you will be catching Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish, Raw Greater Sagefish, and Raw Mithril Head Trout. 

From 150 to 175, cook Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish. This recipe goes green at 165, so you will need to catch quite more than 25 catfish. 

From 175 to 225, cook Raw Greater Sagefish or Raw Mithril Head Trout. Both of these recipes will go yellow at 215, so you might need to catch a bit more than 50 fish. 

Go train Artisan fishing and cooking (225 – 300).

Artisan fishing and cooking (225 – 300)

To learn Artisan fishing, seek Nat Pagle in Dustwallow Marsh and take the quest Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme. The quest is simple but it requires a lot of traveling around the world.

And don’t forget to train Artisan cooking (225 – 300) once you reach skill level 200. Talk with Dirge Quikcleave in Tanaris, and start the quest Clamlette Surprise.

Deliver these items to him:

• 12x Giant Egg
• 10x Zesty Clam Meat
• 20x Alterac Swiss

While traveling around the world, be sure to go to Tanaris and visit Gikkix in Steemwheedle Port. Buy Recipe: Nightfin Soup and Recipe: Poached Sunscale Salmon from him. 

Feralas will be your last step in the classic portion of the guide. First, buy the Recipe: Baked Salmon from Vivianna if you are an alliance player, or from Sheendra Tallgrass if you are a horde player.

Start by fishing in the lake around Camp Mojache or in the smaller lake south of Dire Maul. You can stay here until you reach fishing 275. At this point, you will be catching Raw Redgill, Poached Sunscale Salmon, and Raw Nightfin Snapper. Nightfin Soup will require some Refreshing Spring Water as well. 

From 225 to 275 cook any combination of these fish. Filet of Redgill will go yellow at 250, the other two recipes will stay orange till 275.

When you reach 275, move to Jademir Lake in north Feralas. Stay here till your reach 300 fishing. You will be catching Raw Whitescale Salmon. Cook 25 salmon to get to 300 cooking.

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Thank you for reading our vanilla cooking and fishing guide! I hope you found the whole experience relaxing and had a lot of fun. You are now able to craft a lot of different consumables.