Wizard101: Fish School, Location, XP, and Tank Size Guide
Wizard101 released a brand-new feature today in the Test Realm: fishing! With this new activity, you use fish spells to try and catch various kinds of fish in a number of different worlds - Wizard City, Krokotopia, Mooshu, and Grizzleheim.
Other Fishing Guides:
You can do a few things with fish. You can sell them for a small amount of gold, display them in tanks that you buy or craft in your house, or use them for crafting teleport tapestries.
Getting fish can be tricky. Generally, you need to ignore the fish playing with the lure and instead wait until the orb drops completely below the surface, then quickly hit space bar to bring them up! Even if you time it perfectly, you can still lose them, though a Fish Luck Elixir will make things a lot easier on you. I recommend reading Duelist101's guide to it HERE.
Thoughts on Fishing
Besides the Owl-Eyed Pike and Fish Sandwich being ridiculously difficult to get, this seems like a great activity. I'm sure it will have some purposes we don't see yet in-game, and has lots of expansion potential.
I love that Wizard is starting to introduce a number of side activities at lower levels. It'll keep players entertained for long periods of time, and allows even high-level players to work toward something. I'm particularly fond of the new badges I've come by.
These are all obtained through various fishing activities (I compiled them on one page), and I suspect there are more to be found. The Journeyman Angler badge is one for reaching Fishing Rank 6. It will change with your rank, and I believe they go up to ten. I cannot figure out what Master Caster is for, however, I've obtained at least one of every single fish in this guide, so it may be for collecting all of the fish.
What's This Guide For?
You can catch any fish with any lure, but there are two benefits to knowing its class. Number one, you can use that class of lure and supposedly have a better chance of successfully catching the fish you're after. Number two, you can use your spell to reveal all fish schools to see if the fish you want even has a chance of being in that location.
I know I am missing some, so please help me out if you have others! The top left circle indicates a rare fish. The bottom left is the class. The bottom right shows which size fish tank you need for it. Special thanks for updated images to: Katie Roseblossom (1 fish) and Jordan (1 fish). Huge thanks to Alura Silverdust for providing the Silver Streak. Thanks to Sophia Lifecaster for 2 XP amounts.
Fish for Quests
Note: Recommended fishing locations are included. These are where the fish are confirmed to be caught. However, you generally have a chance to catch a fish in any part of its world with the correct school spawn, and with several, they come from every world, but still have a recommended location. Experience listed in "First Catch, All Catches After" format. These fish are sorted by order needed in quests.
Which lure do I use? Look at the school first, and then the rank. You should use that rank of that school lure to try and catch that fish.
Note: Recommended fishing locations are included. These are where the fish are confirmed to be caught. However, you generally have a chance to catch a fish in any part of its world with the correct school spawn, and with several, they come from every world, but still have a recommended location. Experience listed in "First Catch, All Catches After" format. These fish are sorted by order needed in quests.
Which lure do I use? Look at the school first, and then the rank. You should use that rank of that school lure to try and catch that fish.
Example Fish
Location Here First XP, Normal XP [Rank] |
Icecuda
Anywhere 1100 XP, 11 XP [1] |
Frost Dekoi
The Commons, WC 900 XP, 9 XP [1] |
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Fish Sandwich
Cyclops Lane, WC 1300 XP, 13 XP [1] |
Catfish
The Commons, WC 1300 XP, 13 XP [1] |
Sharkspeare
Olde Town, WC 1300 XP, 13 XP [1] |
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Garrrfish
Cyclops Lane, WC 1200 XP, 12 XP [1] |
Mechanical Armorhead
Jade Palace, MS 1100 XP, 11 XP [1] |
Bonefish
Northguard, GH 1100 XP, 11 XP [1] |
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Bear Acuda
Northguard, GH 1700 XP, 17 XP [2] |
Todd Pole
Northguard, GH 1400 XP, 14 XP [1] |
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Other Fish
Note: Recommended fishing locations are included. These are where the fish are confirmed to be caught. However, you generally have a chance to catch a fish in any part of its world with the correct school spawn, and with several, they come from every world, but still have a recommended location. Experience listed in "First Catch, All Catches After" format. These fish are sorted alphabetically.
Which lure do I use? Look at the school first, and then the rank. You should use that rank of that school lure to try and catch that fish.
Which lure do I use? Look at the school first, and then the rank. You should use that rank of that school lure to try and catch that fish.
Nice guide and great pictures.
ReplyDeleteThe look of the Doodlefish made me laugh.
Grape jellyfish and Origami Fish are found in Village Of Sorrow also My friend and I are fishing thier right now and I just got the grape Jelly and He got a Origami Fish.
ReplyDeletegot four warhammerheads, three today :D !
DeleteThe bearded trout is also found in entrance hall in KT, just got my first one from there
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ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know what type of fishes goes in the large whopper aquarium
ReplyDeleteLarge tanks are generally for "winged" fish. You also need to catch a very large type of "winged" fish that qualifies as a Whopper. It will have a "fat fish" symbol.
DeleteLOL It's Fish Not "Fishes"
DeleteHEYYYY
DeleteActually, "fishes" is correct. When you have one, it's a fish. When you have several of that fish, it's fish. But when you have multiple types or species of fish, then it's fishes. To me, that's one of those grammar rules that once you understand, you can break. I'd never use "fishes" myself, even though it's grammatically correct.
DeleteIt'd be nice if you could add a simple key and way to tell how rare those fish are. For example, you said the fish sandwich and owl-eyed pike are incredibly hard to catch- I suppose that could have some sort of red fish symbol of it then.
ReplyDeleteThose are simply the ones that were very tough for ME to catch. Everyone has their own fish that are difficult. The little symbols in the top right are for rarity. Silver crowns are rare and gold crowns are epic.
Deletefish sandwich is easy to get
DeleteYea i am having so much trouble catching the Krokotopian Eel
DeleteI was waiting for a friend to help me in a dungeon in Krok and I see a fishing pond. I decide to catch one fish and I catch a Krokotopian Eel on the first try. I didn't realize how rare it was until now
DeleteDoes anyone know if you can put more than one fish in an aquarium? Also, if KI reads this, I would like to be able to put sunken pirate ships, coral castles, and plants in the aquariums too.
ReplyDeleteJust one fish per aquarium. I suspect they'll add larger aquariums and more decorations in the future.
DeleteIt would also be cool to be able to release them like pets in the underwater houses. If KI reads this maybe a crowns item to allow this? Won't happen otherwise.
DeleteI found two owl-eyed pikes in olde town
ReplyDeleteoh come on!
DeleteI've found them in Cyclopse, Olde Town, the Commons, and Unicorn Way. Oh, and Triton Ave. I was surprised at how easy such a rare fish is to find. I guess they're easy, as long as you aren't looking for them. I haven't found a Lifeacuda in three days, just because I need two more to finish another tank. I also need three more catfish. No luck. But I did get a Cranky Catfish. It's really cute. Looks just like Grumpy Cat.
DeleteThis is great information. Thanks!!
ReplyDeleteMiranda FairyTamer
I found a new fish named sturgeon general, Its school is myth and it is considered an epic fish. I have found this in Entrance Hall
ReplyDeleteSo i drained my max char and my level 33 char trying to get the treant fish in unicorn way and had no luck. But i managed to get 2 owl-eyed pikes. This makes no sense to me and i just wanna craft the regular whopper aquarium. Is there any other way to get the treant fish or maybe buy one?
ReplyDeleteyou are looking at the wrong recipe the treant is for the standard aquarium not the whopper!
Deletenow recipe takes life cuda instead of treant fish
DeleteAll I wanted was four more Lifeacuda, and I caught six Treant Fish in a row. On Unicorn way. Since then, I've averaged about 3-4 a day. I wish there was a way we could trade. Or buy, since we can sell them.
Deleteditto on the buy/sell I need like 200 more frost dekoi in order to make as many fish tanks as I want and I keep running out of energy. we should at least be able to move fish through bank to other characters we own, since fish are basically a new type of reagent (besides decoration properties) and we can do that with those.
Deletelots of fish everywhere
ReplyDeleteI caught Fish and Chips in Mirkholm Keep.
ReplyDeletecan you catch the cat fish anywhere other than the commons because I can only catch the firecuba and would the catfish be considered a rare fish?
ReplyDeleteLike another comment different people different luck I've had no problems getting catfish in the commons. Try chasing all the fish away and waiting for the lake to reset, This has worked for me getting treant fish in unicorn way (and I laughed at first about the energy cost of the summon fish spell lol).
Deletewould anyone considerer the sparkspeare and mechanical armorhead rare because I can't ever catch it.
ReplyDeletetry fishing in the streams it has been easier to catch them for me that way on five of my six characters
Deletethank you.
DeleteI found garrfish and mechanical armorheads in the entrance hall in KT
Deletemechanical armor heads are pretty easy to get in mooshu, sharksphere took me ages though.
DeleteI found Garrrfish in Olde Town first try while looking for Sharkspeare.
ReplyDeleteyou can also catch an Owl-Eyed Pike in old town this is true I caught 5 there before but it is rarely caught there.
ReplyDeletei really love this ty for making this :D dylan wild dust is my wiz if you want to friend
ReplyDeletefishing seems awesome.e
ReplyDeleteis there another place other than Cyclops to find the fish sandwich. I can never catch it.
ReplyDeleteFish should be linked with battle
ReplyDeleteThrowing fish at the monsters as a taunt? of course there's the healing spell cast by the Gobbler polymorph lol.
Deletenope bad idea, you don't use reagents and housing items in battle and fish are used in the same way as those. we want to make good use of fish, not have fishing become the focus of wizard101- in other words it is not Fishing101
DeleteAnother thing to watch is the cancel spell icon in the bottom middle of the screen. It will change to invoke spell when a fish is attracted to your lure. This is more important with the level 5 spells since they have a larger attraction range so the lure is "active" before the fish bites.
ReplyDeleteHELP! ok first, I have a couple fish that I have caught that are not on this list, Not sure how to put them on, Second, How do I get the next quest? I have completed, the quest from the bear in Northguard and then it just all went blank. I looked up how to move forward and it says to talk to lucky, so I went back there and all I can do with him is sell. Any Hints???
ReplyDeleteHey! If you have new fish, take a picture of them from your Angler's Tome and send them to swordroll@gmail.com, please! Thanks!
DeleteThere are currently only two questions. After the bear in Grizzleheim, there aren't any more quests for the time being, but I'm thinking that they plan to expand fishing the future.
Also, when you take a picture from you Angler's Tome, take it of the new fish facing left. Let me know how much experience you got (if you remember) and where you caught it. Thanks again!
DeleteJust comment about the fish you have found here, and if a quest error appears, only way to fix I have found is start over character, or deal with not doing it. has happened to my brother twice, and once happened to me in such that I could not get the quest to go to krokotopia
Deletei caught a garfish and it was the catch of the day
ReplyDeleteWarhammerhead Shark can be found in Triton Avenue as well o:
ReplyDeleteWarhammerhead Shard is also in Virgrind Roughland. Go past the waterfall , between the 2 bridges.
ReplyDeleteEllie
The Jolted Dekoi? HELP!!!! OCD here. Is anyone else having an impossible time catching it?
ReplyDeleteYes, it's a tough one to catch! Try not only the main pond in Kishibe Village, but also go to the one in the back of the location. You might have better luck there.
DeleteThanks! That is exactly where I found it!!!!! Got a comment though. I am down to 3 fish. Expect ( if I don't throw my laptop across the room out of frustration ) to have them sometime in end of lvl 7 or early lvl 8. What then? I go along with your predictions, I think there will be new lures at lvl 10, but, to get there there will need to be a whole heck of alot of new epoc fish released or we will be resorting to fishing the same ones over and over again for exp of 17 to 20? That would take forever and frankly to monotomous to continue. People would lose interest. Your thoughts?
DeleteEllie
My thoughts? Fish when and what you want to fish and don't worry about rank. Anything new will be in reach for a lot of people, particularly anyone who has all but three fish. So if you feel like it, run around and check for epic fish every now and then. Catch some Lifecudas to craft tanks. Get the seasonal fish. But other than that, I wouldn't worry about catching thousands of fish to get to be a higher rank unless you just really want to be ahead of the game at a huge time expense. That's my plan, anyway.
DeleteBest of luck!
Ugh, now i have to catch the cranky fish after seeing it :P
ReplyDeleteThe cranky catfish was not as hard as I thought. Just take the advice to keep clearing the pond and then using the reveal. Fish only the ice. I cleared once and bam there he was !!!!
Deletereally? i had 3 energy left and caught a catfish when i was wonder fishing. A regular catfish, not a cranky catfish.
DeleteI caught one of those by accident while looking for catfish to make raven wood pogostick, was so annoyed I couldent use it in crafting recipe, and couldent trade it to my character that has fish tanks for it
Deletenice page has help me a lot got two more to get and will finish flyn and silverstreak
ReplyDeleteanyone know the school of the birthday fish?
ReplyDeleteIt's a balance fish found in Wizard City. Look for a balance spawn with lots of bubbles that's very large.
DeleteGobbler fish caught in Commons. It is a balance fish and was caught with balance lure....is this the birthday fish or is there another still?
ReplyDeleteNope, that's it! Congratulations!
DeleteThe gobbler fish is by far the easiest to catch! I hadn't logged in in a while. Went directly to Unicorn Way , used the reveal lure. Balance among all those life fishies is easy to spot. Threw the balance lure, caught the Gobbler! Over in less than 5 minutes. Log out .
ReplyDeleteEllie
I found the gobbler fish on Cyclops Lane, when I was trying to get cuddle fish I gave up for gobbler fish because I couldn't get it on Unicorn Way.
ReplyDeleteHi, I was just wondering what world MS stood for.
ReplyDeleteMS means Mooshu. These are some world abbreviations you'll see a lot:
DeleteWC - Wizard City
KT - Krokotopia
MB - Marleybone
MS - Mooshu
DS - Dragonspyre
CL - Celestia
ZF - Zafaria
AV - Avalon
AZ - Azteca
KR/KH - Khrysalis
WY - Wysteria
GH - Grizzleheim
WT - Wintertusk
Thanks for letting me know! :)
DeleteI though Khrysalis was KY ?
Deleteum i caught the Birthday fish Gobbler in Cyclops Lane, so did two other people i talked to so tech it should say anywhere in WC
ReplyDeleteThe birthday fish (the Gobblerfish) is available ALMOST anywhere in Wizard City. Rather than confuse people or leave them to guess, this guide includes a recommended location for fishing each fish. For a lot of the epic ones, that's the only spot. Take rare fish, though. All four rare fish are available anywhere in their world. Some places are just easier than others to find them.
DeleteI caught a Black Catfish, Death fish, commons.. please post other Halloween fish if you catch one. Thanks! Great guide!
ReplyDeleteYea, I got 2 of the black cats in the commons too. Anyone see the others? Been looking NO LUCK :(
ReplyDeleteEllie
LUCK! The vampire fish IS in the stream on Unicorn Way! Just got him. Happy Fishing!!!
ReplyDeleteEllie
Posting here must bring incredible luck! Vampire Squid caught! One , two, three DONE!
ReplyDeleteEllie
Found the devil ray on my loading bar... Looked around and caught everything but I didn't find it
ReplyDeleteI caught the krokotopian eel second try :D i guess i'm just lucky. What i'm really looking for right now is the cranky catfish (aka grumpy cat)
ReplyDeleteIt is the death fish in the commons. I caught it once using death and once with ice. Hope that helps.
Deletegot franken fish, 2 black cats one cranky catfish a whole lot of small fry dekoi and a few whoppers of assorted type, finally crafted 2 fish tanks. took 2 weeks, and all holiday fishes I found in first 2 days ....
ReplyDeleteI wanted to make you aware the new dungeons have fish in them. I caught a rank one keeper fish called a Yakoi in dungeon 1. It is a balance fish. How can I send or post a screenshot? Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI am now testing Disqus, so you should be able to post photos of new fish you locate!
ReplyDeleteI caught a rare super rare fish. Its a a fish called arabo. Im da the only wizard with arabo. Ambrose gave it to me last night at our date. He fucked me well. :-) he also gave me a spell called vincent.
ReplyDeleteeveryone go to the storm school i got lucky to find a owl eyed pike
ReplyDeleteI caught the bonefish in WC.Hope I helped.Sorry for the grammatical mistakes... :)
ReplyDeleteGot new valentine fish---fire fish called the Be mine fish
ReplyDeleteI caught all the Yuletide ones and i caught the frankenfish.
ReplyDeleteAlso, isnt there a friendship fish for Valentine's day? If you catch it, can you show it?
ReplyDeleteHere is the valentine fish :-)
ReplyDeleteWhere did you find it at?
ReplyDeleteBe Mine' The Commons
ReplyDeleteShanrockfish found in the commons Wizard City
ReplyDeleteI have caught many fishes like all of the ones listed: Mistletoe Angler, Yuletoy Fish, Cold cod, Frankenfish, Gobler fish, Be Mine Fish, Shamerockfish, and the unicorn fish. I love fishing in both the game and in real life.
ReplyDeleteCold Cod may have been 'promoted' to being a regular fish -- I'm still catching them (hit a couple in MS just this week) and it's March.
ReplyDeleteI just caught a garrrfish in the Old Towne watering hole
ReplyDelete3 eggshell fish besides the new spring fish. life is a blue shell,black is a black shell, and myth is a yellow shell.
ReplyDeleteApril Fools Fish is the Ol' Boot, balance caught in Ravenwood and Shoshun Village. It may be in other areas as well. Keep reel'n um in!
ReplyDeleteDragonspyre Anatheum has School of Life, Fire, and Ice fish so far... and a Sentinel fish that is level 1 Ice, and has spines on it's back. It bites quick and then gets away, so you have to be much faster than with other fish, to catch it. the Sentinel is the large fish in this multi tank. The smaller fish schools, are Fire, Ice, and Life. ~Elizabeth Dragonweaver
ReplyDeleteFurther addition to this, it is Armored Red Guard, not Sentinel Fish... And these were in the Antheneum... I also caught a Rambo Fish, and Death School of Fish as well, in the Necropolis I think.
ReplyDeleteHi! All of the Dragonspyre fish are actually on a separate guide that is linked at the top of this post. Thanks for the info, though!
ReplyDeleteThanks, I missed that part. you can delete this post if you want.
ReplyDeleteHi. I'm having a tough time finishing even the first fishing quest because most of the fish get away. When I do catch a fish, it's usually not one that I need for the quest. Any tips on how to fish? I don't think it's supposed to be this difficult. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThere are a couple of tricks I'd recommend to you. First and foremost, finish the most basic fishing quest(s), and then venture to other worlds to catch some of these fish you've never gotten before. This will shift your experience up until you hit rank 6. At this point, you'll want to train Reveal Fish School.
ReplyDeleteAs you are looking for fish, this will be your best friend. Clear out the fish that aren't the school you want. Later on, you'll also be able to do this with a spell, or even separate fish by rank with Dragonspyre spells. Fish out all of the school of the fish you need. Sometimes it will be there, and sometimes it won't. Although these tools are available to you, there's some luck involved.
If you mean the early quests, it's honestly just a shot in the dark. Use the locations here and fish in those spots with the correct school of lure, and hope for the best. As you progress, it will get easier.
In terms of actually catching a fish? The fish will approach a lure and your small fishing panel will change from "Recast" to "Evoke." Don't click it yet! The fish will play with the lure, moving back and forth. Once the lure actually goes under the water, that's when you click (or press spacebar, which is faster) to reel the fish in. Playing with sound is a lot of help there, because there's one sound for teasing you with the lure, and one for when he actually pulls it under the water. Try to watch for these cues and fewer fish will get away. Also, again, make sure you're using the school lure of the fish you are trying to catch.
I couldn't help but notice that your picture for the Rune Fish uses the one for the Owl-Eyed Pike fish instead, while there's no other description for the Owl-Eyed Pike fish itself. If this could be changed and fixed, then that would be great, thanks.
ReplyDeleteThe Rune Fish looks correct to me, but you're right, the Owl-Eyed Pike seems to have gone missing!
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