Fishing for the new Runescapian

Fish are a great source of healing for Runescapians of all sizes and levels, and thus a good skill to start to build early on in order to increase your independence from other players and their possessions or hand-outs.

In playing with my secondary, brand new character, I've noticed that it's probably a good idea to work on your Combat Level a bit first, since the first two fishing spots for Level 1 fisherpeople have aggressive monsters close enough to the fishing holes that you'll get attacked if you're too low of a combat level. I'd suggest Combat Lvl 8 or 10 for safety.

Please refer back to my entry about Battling Safely - Your First Opponents if you need to do some Combat training, that entry will give info about finding opponents that you'll get a lot of advancement out of without using up much healing, since you probably don't have a lot at this point.

The two places a Level 1 Fisherperson can start are:

1. South of Draynor Village
2. In Al Kahrid

Personally, I recommend #1 because it's close to a bank, its aggressive mobs are lower level, and you don't have to pay a toll to get through any gates on the way to Draynor Village, unlike going from Lumbridge to Al Kahrid.

Draynor Fishing Area

On the Free-to-Player worlds, Draynor fishing area is teeming with activity, day and night. Fortunately fishing is one of the skills that you can build while sharing space with many other players, unlike mining and woodcutting.

Players around you will be not only fishing, but also chopping willows, making campfires (sometimes long lines of them), and killing the level 7 Dark Wizards that roam around the area. Some people will even be singing lyrics to songs as they chop, fish and kill.

In areas with aggressive mobs, it's always a good idea to bring along one or two pieces of healing so you can survive a surprise attack. Especially at low levels, 10 hit points is not very many!!

So, get the small net you were given in Tutorial Island (or go to Port Sarim fishing shop for another one, bring 25 coins and buy other fishing poles while you're there), and do some fishing! And when your inventory is full of shrimp, use one of the campfires around and cook them up. This way you can drop all the burnt ones and only pack the cooked ones into your bank account.

Raw fish of all kinds can be sold at the Port Sarim Fishing Shop, but cooked fish can only be sold to other players or to regular shops.

Note that raw sardines sell really well at the Port Sarim Fishing Shop compared to the other low-level fish you can catch. However, you should only sell 10-15 sardines to a single store on a single world in order to get a good pay rate, as the value goes down quickly. This is where "world-hopping" is great - log out, and log back in in another world that has a different shop with none of the sardines you sold in the last world!

Questions or comments, feel free to leave them!