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Comment by 46419

I went off to Scaret Monastery to fish these - the top pool in the Chapel Gardens (Cathedral wing) is perfect; quiet in an instance with my actual drop rate around 72-75% (with the rest being Bristle Whisker Catfish).

Comment by Kaynos

You can fish TONS of them in Desolace also with a similar 75% drop rate.

Comment by 167977

I ve found a place in Stranglethorn vale, where u can fish this: 35.5 24.4. Surrounded by murlocs.

Comment by 172331

You can use these fish for a cooking recipe bought in booty bay. The recipe requires 175 cooking skill. Its a nice and easy way to level your cooking and fishing at the same time.

Comment by 152717

I fished these on Janeiro's Point in STV at about 23.5,70 with a really good drop rate. Some raw bristle whisker catfish also dropped.

Comment by 284953

Wowhead is reporting a 65% drop rate for this fish in Thousand Needles, when most guides and players say Desolace is best. Can anyone verify this?

Comment by 290733

In Arathi Got only 52% drop ...

Comment by 240345

I went to Stranglethorn Wale and the point 41,19 to fish and got this fish VERY often.

Comment by MagnusGL

It seems like the droprate increases with fishing skill. Can someone verify this?
And can someone tell me what level you have to be to get around 80% droprate, instead of all the tattered cloth, driftwood, old boots, rocks and the all so famous weeds.

Edit: added links, corrected typos.

Edit2: You can even get water snails. >.>
Edit3: And you can get an empty rum bottle. Is there no end to this god-damned junk?

Comment by 263921

you are very correct, and nicely posted

Comment by 24542

Desolace worked really well for me (at the "pond" at 60.4, 20.7), about 75% of the casts resulted in a Raw Mithril Head Trout. At about 220 fishing skill, you won't be pulling out any grey items anymore.

Comment by 341539

Dustwallow seems to be very good for fishing these up too. Hit the first pond I came to (north of the tower close to town, sorry I don't have coords), and 90% of what I fished up was the trout, the rest was the Bristle Whisker. Hope this helps.

Comment by Crystallyne

I like to level up my fishing and cooking together, and use the fish as my primary food as well, for recovering health. At level 25, it was time to replace my food, and Mithril Head Trout was the way to go. Except that the zones where Trout is caught is generally mid-30s level!

After reading the comments here, I decided to try Arathi Highlands. Standing at one of the pools outside of Stromgarde Keep, I was able to fish without worrying about mobs attacking me. My fishing skill was high enough I didn't catch any junk. In the time I spent there, I got the following:

93 Raw Mithril Head Trout
60 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
1 Greater Healing Potion (That was... random... heheh)

So that's roughly a 60% catch rate on Trout, if I'm calculating correctly. There may be higher catch rates elsewhere, but at level 25 aggro might be an issue. In Arathi Highlands the most dangerous part is the road to and from Stromgarde Keep, but as an alliance I was never attacked, and made two trips on consecutive days to do my fishing.

Happy Fishing!

Comment by lightshammer

As of Cata release the Arathi Highlands spots only yielded Mud Snapper and Catfish. Fished for over an hour without 1 Mithril Head.

Comment by Jazane

I was getting a lot in Western Plaguelands by that dock in Andorhal (41,76)(Was facing the dock), as I shaman I had Water Walk and was sitting in the middle of the stream casting my line at the dock, had about a 76% drop rate, rest of it was catfish, my fishing skill is only 210

I caught exactly 100 fish and this is what I got:

Raw Mithril Head Trout (76)
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish (23)
19 Pound Catfish (1)

Comment by 751169

Western plaguelands 1st cast - 41:76

Comment by 778141

Just repeating what was said, outside Brackenwall Village in Dustwallow Marsh, in the pond to the South is a good spot with a drop rate no lower than the other places imo. I guess it would be around 65% or more. You will catch a majority of Raw Mithril Head Trouts and the rest will be Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish.

Comment by stuartthompson

Fished one up just south of Andorhal, WP in 4.0.6. First cast.

Comment by 625564

Desolace pools near the gelkis village (41.60, 79.80) i've been hiiting mithril head about 70% and raw bristlewhisker catfish the other 30%

Comment by 927115

Taking Jazane's advice, I fished right off of the Andorhal dock (Death Knight using Path of Frost to stand in the river) and out of 100 casts I got;

62 Raw Mithril Head Trout
36 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
a 19 Pound Catfish and 1 Greater Healing Potion.

Fishing skill was 351 when I started, I also got 24 pts in fishing as well while gathering the Raw Mithril Head Trout. Thanks for the advice. =)

Comment by THRobinson

Alterac Mountains - 88, 72

Comment by Allakhazam

Swam to Shadowprey from Zoram'gar Strand as a naked, petless hunter. It took two deaths to the bloody Makrura on the way, but when I got to Shadowprey, I stuck around to throw 100 lines to see the droprate for the trout. As follow, I cought

71 Mithril Head Trout
27 Bristle Whisker Catfish
1 19 Pound Catfish, and
1 22 Pound Catfish

Done at level 24, and a fishing skill at 225(+5)

Edited, May 9th 2008 1:15pm by Leaumonde

Comment by Allakhazam

One of the best locations to fish for Raw Mithril Head Trout is the inner bodies of water in Dustwallow Marsh. 2/3 droprate. If you want to level cooking to 225 and skill up fishing at the same time, go fishing for trout and cook them afterwards.

Comment by Allakhazam

Pools outside Stromgarde in Arathi gave me a 68.3% droprate, at 29.54

Comment by Allakhazam

where can i learn to cook this ? plz answer

Comment by Allakhazam

List of vendors of this recipe is listed here.

By the way, required cooking skill for this recipe is 175.

Comment by Allakhazam

Fished many from the molo in shadowprey village desolace.

Comment by WebGremlin

The sweet waters of Dustwallow Marsh is indeed a good place to fish. For the duration of one lure I got 21 Trouts and 12 Bristle Whisker Catfish. There's a lake just north of Theramore, the main road passes through it so it's a safe spot (for Alliance). Also it's close to Gadgetzan, so you can level cooking to 225 and then it's only a short travel to do the cooking quest there. The cooking recipe for the trouts can be bought in IF and for the catfish in SW.

Comment by Lorgroth

Shadowprey Village in Desolance.
Lot's of mithrilhead, few bristle whisker catfish

Comment by Rehnstir

Just went to Dustwallow. It took me approximately 10 mins to fish up 3 Catfish and 12 Trouts. It really is a great place to fish these.

Comment by soberga

Droprate was 63% just outside Brackenwall Willage in Dustwallow Marsh.
Data while ranking from 150-225 (346 catches):

Raw Mithril Head Trout: 63% (218 catches)
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish: 36.1% (125 catches)
Other items: 0.9% (3 catches)

Comment by jfoobar

Duskwallow inland water is definitely the easy answer to get these at a reasonably low level. If you want to fish some up at an even lower level (mid to high 20s), you can fish the pools inside the cave at Splithoof Crag in Thousand Needles. This is the cave that at least Horde players need to go into to get the Cloven Hoof to complete The Sacred Flame. Catch rate is greater than 50% for mithril head trout in the pool right in front of where you get the Cloven Hoof and mobs are only in the 25-27 range.

Comment by Metsu962

Minimum Fishing Level: 130
Avoid 'Fish Got Away': 225

Comment by Metsu962

Minimum Fishing Skill: 130
Avoid 'Fish Got Away': 225

Comment by Behraghast

So, after reading these really old comments, I ran my level 27 gnome mage out to Dustwallow Marsh and tried the first little pond on the road headed out of Theramore.
With an effective fishing skill of 230(level capped at 225 for now and have a +5 heavy fishing rod) and 100 casts I came out with...
60 Raw Mithril Headed Trout
38 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
1 19 Pound Catfish(which you can apparently equip in your off hand :D )
1 Mana Potion
0 Fish that got away :)

Comment by Peachypie

Spring 2022. I took my squishy lvl 25 priest to Dustwallow Marsh, made my way to 59,36 and hopped on the railing of the wood bridge. The very first body of water once you're outside of Theramore Isle was as far as I needed to go (be sure to avoid the spider that wanders on the left as you approach the bridge if you're way below level for the zone!) I started out at fishing skill 172, and used 3 Aquadynamic Fish Lens on my Blump Family Fishing Pole to avoid any fish getting away. I didn't need to use another after the third lure. After approximately 45 minutes I maxed out at 225.

My net haul:

146 Raw Mithril Head Trout
66 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
1 Mana Potion
1 17 Pound Catfish

Good luck and happy fishing!

Comment by falcon2099

Seems to be roughly 50% catch rate on the little island northwest of Booty Bay @ 23,71

Comment by Dundeel

Best spot I found: Thousand Needles>Shimmering Flats>Tahonda Ruins (South-East 1KN)

You will occasionaly have to kill lvl 32-35 mobs

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Raw Mithril Head Trout

Item Level 35

Requires Level 25
Use: Restores 552 health over 24 sec. Must remain seated while eating.

Max Stack: 20

Sell Price: 4

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This item can be fished in Dustwallow Marsh (29), Western Plaguelands (19), Feralas (15), The Hinterlands (3), Southern Barrens (2), Eastern Plaguelands , Felwood , and Maraudon .

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