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Comment by 29050

New in patch 2.3, these are located in the waters around Karazhan. They cook into Skullfish Soup, a caster buff food that gives 20 spell critical strike rating & spirit for 30 min.

Comment by 60456

After fishing for 20 minutes in Zul'Aman I got the following catches:

- 36 Barbed Gill Trouts (50%)
- 20 Crescent-Tail Skullfish (28%)
- 10 Bloodfin Catfish (14%)
- 5 Lightning Eel (8%)

I fished in the waters up to the left and right when you just enter the instance. (See screenshot)

Oh, and watch out for the patrolling elite mobs. ;)

Comment by 84821

First ten minutes of fishing at Deadwind Pass! with 495 Fishing Skill (375+100+20)

18 Barbed Gill Trouts (45%)
8 Crescent-Tail Skullfish (20%)
7 Bloodfin Catfish (17.5%)
7 Lightning Eel (17.5%)

What's interesting is the next ten minutes of fishing at the same spot, same conditions, except this time at 470 Fishing Skill (375+75+20):

29 Barbed Gill Trouts (78%)
3 Crescent-Tail Skullfish (8%)
5 Bloodfin Catfish (14%)
0 Lightning Eel (0%)

Diminishing returns? Who knows.

The only other note is that no schools of Crescent-Tail Skullfish appear anywhere along the body of water here.

Comment by 64423

What is the minimum skill to catch these fishes?

Comment by 46602

After fishing only for 10 mins at low 381 skill (256+100+25) got:
9xBloodfin catfish
8xCrescent-Tail Skullfish
3xLightning eel
Also was some "Your fish gone away" but not many. So u can try earn some money via fishing not only at top skill level ;) GL

Comment by 239112

Think the drop rate for these are higher at night than at day. Fished for them outside Kara around 9pm, and got plenty of them. Probably 10 out of 40 or something. Next day i got 2 out of 35, and that was at 1pm.

Comment by 329116

second cast at the very top of map outside all the way north got mine just needed it for cooking achievement so it took me longer getting there then catching the fish

Comment by 65960

I can confirm that all the waters outside of ZA only drop very low level fish, none of the skullfish, eels, or catfish. None of the waters anywhere outside the instance have these higher level fishes. You must fish these inside the actual instance, not the area around it. And to enter ZA, you must be in a raid group, which requires two members at least to enter, if you can find a guildy agreeable to helping out.

If you're solo, Deadwind Pass is your only option.

edit: proofread before posting, why don'cha?

Comment by Arenikus

21/27/2009 Just doning Outland Gourmet the first two catches are Crescent-Tail Skullfish & Bloodfin Catfish that it... im done on those ...

Comment by 264424

Nodes are currently bugged...I have a ticket in with the GM. November 29th 2010

You cannot seem to fish from the pools.

Comment by elcius

These can still be fished from the waters around kara, I had some bad luck trying to catch one of these for The Limnologist.
36x Trouts
4x Eels
14x Catfish
1x Skullfish

Lucky too, I was just about to take the 15 minute flight to ZA.

Comment by 718377

In front of Kara / 24 th fish for me

Comment by 257126

There's a long chain of quests leading to getting the key to Karazhan starting in Shattrath (Archmage Alturus). The second quest, Arcane Disturbances (Arcane Disturbances) takes you into 2 separate cellars underneath the destroyed town next to the gates of Karazhan. One of these cellars leads to a cave which contains an Underground Pool from which you can quickly and easily fish up many skullfish. (The pool is used for taking one of the water readings for the quest, but you don't need the quest to get to the fishing pond -- you just wouldn't know it was there without the quest.)

Here's how to get there: Get to the Archmage at the gates of Karazhan (Archmage Alturus). Face back into the town and walk back 20-30 yards into the town where there's a narrow side street on your right. Go up that about 20-30 yards and you find yourself between 2 houses burned to the ground (as opposed to the other houses that are just falling apart). Each of these burned-out houses has a ramp in their main floor going down into their cellars, but you want the one on your right. Down the ramp there's a landing then ramp then landing then steep ramp that looks like a drop but is still walkable both down and up . (Warning, the landings have alcoves with a mob waiting for you on each side as well as the mob you can see in the middle, so hug a wall going down to avoid over-pulling if you're level 68-70.)

The steep ramp takes you into a cave with a path that corkscrews downwards. Follow the path (kill more mobs) and about halfway down you come to a largish blue pond with 2-4 mobs on your side of it. But on the far side of the pond on the left is a rock shelf you can walk/swim to where no mobs spawn at all and you can fish in peace. I fished for 20-30 minutes and ended up with about a dozen skullfish as well as the other types Elcius mentions above. It's really strangely peaceful down there, a bit like fishing in Ironforge but without a sea of other people's bobbers splashing to contend with.

To leave, just hearth or walk back the way you came in.

Comment by curlupanddie

Just wanted to add that I fished up 3 skullfish within 5 tries at 42,29

Comment by Ploute

I highly suggest fishing for these out of the small lake at the south end of the zone. In the 17 casts I did I got:

10 Barbed Gill Trout
3 Lightning Eels
3 Bloodfin Catfish
1 Crescent-Tail Skullfish

So it's fully confirmed that the time restrictions mentioned above have been removed. You can fish them all up anytime you wish.

Don't forget to keep at least 1 for your Cooking Achievements!

*Cross posted to Crescent-Tail Skullfish, Bloodfin Catfish and Lightning Eels, since all are needed and fished from same spot*

Comment by 575542

No one made a joke about his fancy moustache?

Comment by 906188

I fished near Karazhan in Deadwind Pass between 7:30-8:30 pm server time on a Monday. I was able to get 16 Lightning Eel along with 103 Barbed Gill Trout, 41 Bloodfin Catfish, and 43 Crescent-Tail Skullfish. Hope this helps someone.

Comment by 331797

I went down in to the "masters celler" Karazhan/Deadwind Pass, I fished for 20 mins this morning, I am maxed at fishing and added a lure for the heck of it. In the 20 mins I caught:
10 lightening eel
36 barbed gill trout
15 crescent-tail skullfish
12 bloodfin catfish

Comment by 738189

As of 4.3 with 525 fishing, Nat's Lucky Fishing Pole, Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat, and lure activated in the pond right outside Karazan I caught:

x4 Bloodfin Catfish
x1 Barbed Gill Trout
x1 Lightning Eel

Before I got my Skullfish. Mileage may vary.

Comment by 484883

As of 7/25/2012 I fished up the following just outside of Kara in Deadwind Pass:

9x Barbed Gill Trout
7x Bloodfin Catfish
1x Lightning Eel
1x Crescent-Tail Skullfish

525 Fishing, Arcanite Rod w/ Eternium Line.

Comment by DELchunkz

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I was able to fish this needed fish for the following Skullfish Soup to work at my finishing of the The Outland Gourmet.

Fishing Skill was: 525
Items used were: Seth's Graphite Fishing Pole, Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat and Captain Rumsey's Lager

Comment by LoboMDQ

After try and try in Deadwind Pass and in the pools down the burned houses I fished mine in Zul'Aman.

Comment by snow4life

Got this fish on my first cast in Deadwind Pass.

Comment by addekallstrom

Still drops, 7th cast at 45.46 58.85

Comment by skydiasta

I don't think its available in Zul'aman. I was just there and fished my Cataclysm fishing skill from 0 to 75 (max) - and did not get a single Crescent-Tail Skullfish

Comment by skydiasta

Your fishing skill have to be over 115 for it to drop in Deadwind pass

Comment by xLunacyx

Zul'Aman seems to drop cata fish now.

Comment by BrunoHV

Deadwing Pass 47, 62 On Sept-1-2021

Took 2 days and dozens of casts.

Comment by deffinitive

Had over 140 classic fishing and took over 20 casts to get this fish, the other one (Bloodfin Catfish) got caught on first cast in Deadwind Pass

Comment by bokactesla91

As of current patch, I got mine dropped at 103 skill (98 + 5).

Comment by duckiesgogrr

Got on my 21st cast 51, 70 in deadwind pass

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Crescent-Tail Skullfish

Item Level 11

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Max Stack: 1000

Sell Price: 8

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This item can be fished in Deadwind Pass (58) and Zul'Aman .

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