Old Crafty

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Comment by 100873

It is about time someone finally caught him....

Comment by 53267

This is the stuff that makes fishing fun :)
A fish with stats!

Comment by 101814

Caught him about a week or so ago on lightbringer. Rerolled from scratch oon horde and fished him out at about level 15. Seems rarer than i could ever had imagined. they must've just added him because no one seems to have caught him on my server......BTW caught in in northern valley

Comment by 103315

On a lazy weekend in Orgrimmar I found myself putting a few brews back and tossin' a line. It approached that time of day when the sun hit the tree line and every fisherman knows that it's magic hour - the time when legends are made. The mosquitoes were thick and I was weary from the sun's power that day but I decided to cast just one more time before Retiring. The cast was long - a country mile - and I was taking my time reelin it in as I looked back on the day's catch and how good a fish fry sounded for dinner when I noticed something...

there was a swirl of water around my bobber and although it was getting darker by the minute I distinctively knew something was interested and I stopped reeling. Left station less the bobber looked like a beacon of light in a black glassy void and sensing I had perplexed the taker I picked up the reeling - this time fast... very fast. I used figure eights and small jerks to simulate injury and as the lure approached the drop off point near the waterfall - the all too familiar heart-snap and adrenaline rush HIT me as I now had - FISH ON

I struggled to control the getaway - releasing just a bit of slack and giving the beast some time to show me it's mettle. I was surprised at the intensity of this one... it clearly was not the typical snapper or catfish... even the 17 pounder I had caught earlier was a breeze to land compared to this... Yes this was something far more sinister.

the line was taught and my pole looked dangerously angled towards water and I knew I had to act quickly. I stood up and pointed the pole at the waterline and drew my arms up and back using raw force to pull the behemoth up and then compensated on the re-draw with a reeling hand so fast - I think I wore out the bearings of my old Penn. On the repeat motion I finally saw something right beneath the surface... something dark and brutal.. something that seemed like it was aching to get a look at ME! Our eyes met and I felt a chill run down my back as I finally beheld the slick engineered looked of this fish. the dorsal was sharp and the fish was long and lean. I grabbed for my net - a net that was now making me nervous with its now miniscule stature in comparison. I went down into the abyss with it, dying to see this fish out of its element and in mine when, as if God himself had cursed this fish, it looked at me and in a blink of an eye - BIT through my spider-line like it was 2lb test!! With a splash in my face I saw a flicker as this missle accelerated into the deep along with my lure.

I sat there on the now dark water's edge in awe - looking at my frayed line. I picked up my stringer and box and started on the journey home. I knew, however, that this would not be my last encounter with the Crafty God of the Orgrimmar Ponds.

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In my quest to land this fish I present to you the stats:

- started with skill of 55, +5 pole, and lure // Ended at skill of 225, +20 pole and lure
- not once did a fish "get away" so these statistics reflect my experience and although may not be yours, aren't skewed
- I fished every inch of both ponds in Org using multiple casts in same area
- this took around 4 hours although it may be a bit more as I had downed a few during this adventure

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- 317 mudsnappers
- 132 catfish
- 82 sunfish

- 1 17 pound catfish (0.02 %)
- 1 healing potion (0.005 %)
- 1 bloated mudsnapper (0.003 %) (looted 1 shadowgem from it)
- Old Crafty (0.001 %)

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Although you could say the odds are the same for all the rare items above - I actually caught the 17 pounder at fish #45, the healing potion at fish #174, the bloated mudsnapper at fish #312, and The legend at fish #531.

As an footnote (showing that this is only my observed probability - it will most likely not be yours) during the time I spent doing this another person announced they had caught him after only a half a dozen casts... it was a hunter looking to simply feed his pet...

I will divulge that I caught him WITHOUT lure and skill at the time was 225 + 20 for pole but as any true angler, I am not giving away the spot!

Good luck and always remember for true fish masters... trolling is never a bad thing...

(P.S I did NOT practice catch and release...)

Weeoowee (Gnomeragan)

11/25/07

Comment by oogumboogum

I cought him in Org the ot 8her day and whe1n i signed on the next day hes not in my inventory! =*( too crafty

Comment by 96873

I was leveling my alt's fishing beside the fishing trainer in Valley of Honor. Started at 11/75 and caught Old Crafty at 43/75 - Deathwing server.

Using a Shiny Bauble (+25) and a Strong Fishing Pole (+5).

Comment by 100091

got mine today with a +75 lure and a +5 pole.

my skill was at 176

Screen Shot posted

Comment by 107615

I recently started some new alts and had not gotten fishing started on them, even though they were pushing 30. I decided to get my warrior started on fishing, and this guy showed up on the cast that got my fishing to level 15. I so rarely get unusual drops; it's a shame it's on a warrior where it won't do me much good. I mostly post this so players will know that it has very little to do with fishing skill.

Comment by 108054

Rloani downs old crafty:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=3389611627&postId=33892874759&sid=1#0

Comment by 56783

Had the brilliant idea to pimp my alliance bank alt with this little bugger.

Got him to level5 and learned fishing (easy), went on a long journey to Orgrimmar, Valley of Spirits (painful). Then tried to actually catch him. Failed and stopped after about 2000catches. My Auction House business had been on halt for too long already.

Be warned, catching this fish can take weeks if you are unlucky.

Comment by 106622

I fished in the valley of honor from level 1-129. Got him at around 115.

Comment by Eigna

This fish can be caught in Org it seems entirely at random. I threw my line into the water at the Valley of Spirits (no bauble, regular fishing pole, and lvl 125 fishing). He was the very first thing I caught.

Don't go rushing over to this pool with pole in tow hoping to snag this little guy immediately. You just have to be patient or get very lucky. haha

Comment by 113640

Just caught him while levelling fishing on my priest, had him at 25 without any lure but clicked my fishing button out of habit and lost him. I cried :<

Comment by Trenver

Just went to orgrimmar fishing to make a freind some pots and food, and caught this fella. Will upload a picture.

Comment by 63558

what other spoofs can u get from fishing anyone know?

Comment by 121921

Just for everyone's info, yes you can feed Crafty to your pet as a hunter.

Comment by Wong

389 Brilliant Smallfish
506 Bristlewhisker Catfish
1335 Longjaw Mud Snapper
1 Old Crafty

Also, at least a dozen-odd Off-Hand Fish, some Lesser Health and Mana Potions, a +2 healing mace, a white cape, and a white pair of greaves.

Totally worth it... Armory Wong from Ravenholdt for the full effect =P

EDIT: I have Maxed personal Fishing level, and a lot of +Fishing gear, so you can catch him at whatever level.

Comment by 124796

Just caught today.

I got stack of smallfish, catfish and 1½ stack of mudfish.

I fished a healing potion and said something about it being strange getting a potion from fishing then my next catch I got Old Crafty.
I was just levelling fishing in valley of honor, but now I have a permanent souvenir.

Comment by Cryptorchild

I think fish love me. Fishing strictly on the fisherman's dock in Org I got this fish by the time I hit 71 skill. I was also a lucky prick and caught Mr. Pinchy on the 3rd Highland Mixed pool and the Crawdad was the very first wish reward. :D

I needs me some more rare fish to hunt now.

Comment by 128180

146 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
42 Brilliant Smallfish
50 Bristlewhisker Catfish
2 Lesser Healing Potion
1 Lesser Mana Potion
1.5 Hours
1 Old Crafty :D

Comment by 132412

Just wanna say that its posible to get this fish as ally, i just got it today on my priest.

Took me some time in ogri but found a nice spot where i was hard to notice, alittle over 1k fish and i got it.

Sentox // bloodhoof

Comment by Kabby

Tips for ALLIANCE fishing Old Crafty

Fish while /sleeping to look slightly less conspicuous.
Be prepared to click "OK" on a "Looting this item will bind it to you" dialog box. This dialog box appears regardless of whether you're in a group, and if you cast again before clicking OK, you will not loot the fish.
Turn off the display of your title to make your bright red name smaller.
The easiest, most out of the way place to fish from is inside the waterfall in pond in the Valley of Honor. The Valley of Spirits is where Horde get portaled in to Orgrimmar, from Mages or from Shattrath, so the Horde traffic there is considerably higher. Entering from the side entrance will be easier than the front.
Bring some Elixirs of Camouflage. If you don't, you'll likely be troubled by hunters and druids who have track humanoids on. Using this elixir will reduce ganking. Edit: Or, if you are a hunter, you can use Aspect of the Beast (Thanks, Arhippa!)
Have at least 4 empty bag slots; the more you have, the better.
If you are not at max fishing skill, make sure your skill is not capped. You will probably do quite a lot of fish catching, so you may as well get skill points for it.
Be patient! This will quite probably take you a long time, so don't set out to do it one sitting. If gankers are persistent, be prepared to log out and play another character or do something else.

Good luck!

Comment by 106863

Yea I caught the bugger on 4th cast just took up the fishing skill also
Guess I was more crafty then he was.

Comment by VanCleef

The Ironforge equivalent is Old Ironjaw.

Comment by mammothman42

I just caught him in Orgrimmar, but I accidently closed the window before I could loot him.

:(

Comment by 99905

Caught him in Org in the Valley of Spirits while trying to catch my Baby Crocolisk for the fishing Daily. Needless to say i was QUITE suprised, I wouldnt advise farm fishing for this guy though, Youd be better off getting a Azure Whelp to drop

Comment by 135883

I caught him by accident fishing in between AB's. Caught no more than 40 other fish by the time I had him... my fishing skill is 34 :) I guess I am lucky. What good is he anyway?

Comment by ho0ber

I now have TWO Old Craftys! However, there's nothing I can really do with the second one, because I can't even prove to people in game that I have two because you can't enchant off-hands.

Bah!

Comment by 148062

Alliance can get this. Caught mine after pulling up the IF one. There's a nice hidden alcove by the waterfall around 65,25 where you can fish. I got to it by popping invisibility and dropping down the waterfall area by the hunter trainers, but I doubt invisi was really necessary. Gnomes will have to back up against a wall in order to stand here, but the other races can stand in the water and cast wherever. Took me about 40 minutes. Clearly, the 5% extra int let me outsmart him faster than the others. Happy fishing!

Pulled up:

45 longjaw mud snappers
10 bristle whisker catfish
6 brilliant smallfish
and
75 skill points in fishing :)

70 Gnome Mage - Ryokhai - Stonemaul(PVP) - <Simply Outplayed>

Comment by xeyr

Don't auto-loot and chain cast fishing if you're after this fish!

Dropped for me and the "Looting this item will bind it to you" dialog popped up. I'm so used to auto-loot, recast that by the time I realised what had dropped, I'd recast and the bobber was gone :(

Comment by 154228

Last night I was fishing while waiting in a queue for WSG. First I caught a 17 pound catfish, then I caught Old Crafty :D

70 Undead Mage - Racebannon - Mug'Thol - <Start To Pray>

Comment by SolarJet

Just caught him on my belf tankadin Hinoki on Stormscale, probably 3-4th time doing Crocolisks in the city on this char, and caught him on my 8th cast or so

~286 fishing skill, nat pagles extreme angler, no lure

Comment by SolarJet

Just caught him again on my Tauren druid Eltaurito on Stormscale, turns out he wasn't so crafty after all...

lvl 16 fishing skill~ regular fishing pole, Shiny bauble, about 32 casts from lvl 1 skill lol

Comment by 23515

Just got him on my Undead Mage on Stormscale (wth, 3 Stormscale players in a row)
I fail i to see the meaning of this tho.

Comment by 180780

so...I didn't even know these fish existed. I lvled my fishing in Org from about 150-300 pre-bc. I was just doing my fishing daily, hoping for a sweet fishing hat and this guy fell in my lap after about 10 casts or so. 10 casts later, I caught another one. I never knew about these rare fish and now I have 2.

Comment by 174087

While leveling fishing to 225 in Org, caught this guy when I hit 150 skill.

It seems I'm just a step ahead of Good Ol' Crafty.

Comment by CanadianSniper

This was the very first fish I caught with my alt on Blackrock. Fished in Org with a Shiny Bauble and BOOM I caught it. 2(+25)/75 in fishing after that lol.

Comment by Neanor

Got it as a Gnome Mage (Alliance) after about 5.5h fishing. Used Elixir of Camouflage and hided near the waterfall. See screenshot for exact position.

Didn't see any hordies all the time. :)

Comment by 221793

Fished for about 4-5 hours in The Valley of Honor in Orgrimmar catching over 1000 fish (which were vendored). No Old Crafty. Changed position to the Valley of Spirits and withing 50-60 fish I caught him. (Leveled Fishing from 1-296 in the process)

Tried for Old Ironjaw by fishing in the Forlorn Cavern in Ironforge, however still no luck after an hour or two. I also seem to attract some unwanted attention from alliance and got ganked several times by more than one alliance each time. I seem to have really bad luck with these fish - Remember it is both Old Crafty AND Old Ironjaw that will give you the acheivement come Patch 3.0

Comment by 160281

I was fishing on my twink to level it high enough for STV competition, caught it after about 30 reels, sorry to all you who grind for it and haven't gotten him =(

Comment by Karadros

Well now, that's Old Ironjaw and Old Crafty caught in the same night. :)

Comment by Siven

Man, this was a pain. Took around.... 800 casts or so, I'd wager (no mod running). The waterfall wasn't too bad, but I had to switch to the Portal Trainer area.

Basically whenever the horde found me, I'd have to rez, stealth, and switch areas. I preferred the portal area (spirit, whatever, it's the south one) since I didn't have any LOS problems with casts.

I figure I can do the IF one whenever; just needed to get the Org one done before the guards were bumped to 75.

Comment by 75088

As an Alliance Paladin, Here's how i caught Old Crafty.

Get on a horde character and scout the quickest route to the Valley of Honor Waterfall. Just so you know exactly how to get there in case you don't know Ogrimmar very well.

After i determined the fastest path, i got on my mount, enabled Crusader Aura and rode non-stop to waterfall in the Valley of Honor Fishing Pond. The horde guards all gave up along the way. None of them bother you once you get to the waterfall. I did this early in the morning when kids are at school or sleeping.

Fishing is just a bit tricky here then. I've read some folks fishing from the waterfall. I found it difficult to see the bobber while fishing there. I decided on 65, 27 and "slept" behind the rocks there. This is completely out of view from horde unless they are specifically looking for you. Every once in a while, maybe 10% of my casts, would land inside a boulder in the pond where I couldn't click on the bobber, so I recast quickly. I submitted a screenshot of the location i like (if it gets posted)

My first day was unsuccesful. Some horde did discover me. This seems to be way worse at night! During the day, folks leave you alone. Some guys come up and dance with you. Others sit down and fish with you. While others totally want to gank you. I never engaged in contact. I never died. If someone started attacking me, i shut down WOW and came back later. And I was not dead.

Watch out for the low levels. These are the guys that will yell something in the general chat, and a handful of horde will follow shortly. That's when I either played an alt, or got on my horde "scout" (which was alway left by the pond) and waited for everyone to leave, and started back up. Don't be afraid to exit Wow at the first sign of trouble.

I caught Old Crafty on my 2nd day of trying. Yes, this is the utmost of tedious boredom, and not recommened for everyone, but if you are a fishaholic, you'll be doing this.

My casting results:

307 Longjaw Mud Snappers
92 Bristle Whisker Catfishes
82 Brilliant Smallfishes
3 - 19 Pound Catfishes
3 Lesser Mana Potions
2 - 17 Pound Catfishes
1 Veteran Gloves
1 Old Crafty (0.2%)

491 casts to get Old Crafty. Good Luck

Comment by osuracnaes

Many long hours in Orgrimmar, and I finally caught him! Here's my tally:

1485 Longjaw Mud Snappers
489 Bristle Whisker Catfish
413 Brilliant Smallfish
9 17 Pound Catfish
9 Baby Crocolisk (while doing the Fishing daily)
4 Lesser Healing Potions
3 Lesser Mana Potions
1 Bloated Mud Snapper
1 19 Pound Catfish
1 Infantry Tunic of the Bear (wtf?)
1 OLD CRAFTY!

(2,416 casts total... that's .041%)... now off to Ironforge :-/

Comment by Interest

Be careful when you catch this crafty fish, as you will get the usual bind on pickup warning, meaning a recast or moving will close the loot window, making you lose your valuable catch.

Comment by 170203

With patch 3.0.2 and the introduction of an achievement for catching both fish... I highly suspect that Blizzard responded to the constant threat of getting corpse-camped by upping the drop rate drastically on both Old Crafty and Old Ironjaw. I caught both fish in less than 300 casts each on three different characters now, the average being 253.6 total casts.

If you're not one of the lucky ones who can head into enemy territory at five in the morning when the city has 25 total people in it, this (suspected) change is a great thing.

{edit}: Also, a tip for Alliance attempting to catch Old Crafty in the Valley of Spirits instead of the Valley of Honor: go to the very south of the cove. Turn left and hug the wall going north, past the horde cloth quartermaster on the platform. You'll be stopped by a palm tree - with the building to your left and the wall to your right. Yes, there is substantially more traffic here from the portal (you'll hear people mounting above your head, in fact), but the Valley of Honor doesn't have a spot where you are completely unable to be seen unless you're looking at from a certain angle and distance away. And you have to be really searching for it. Best of luck!

Comment by vanzan

For alliance, come in the back way and avoid the guards down to the valley of spirits.. where the priest trainers are. Plenty of cover there and its not exactly the center of town. The water looks too shallow but you can cast there.

Old crafty achieved after
25 Raw longjaw mud snappers
4 Raw bristle whisker catfish
4 Raw brilliant smallfish
1 Fine Loose Hair.. i killed a zebra on the way in :P

Not tried for old ironjaw yet.

skill was 375+40 from rod and line.. not that that matters much as you can likely catch him with fishing 1 in theory.

Comment by 35804

Spent this weekend and about 8 hours total fishing. I am over 2000 fish and one "The 1 Ring" but still have yet to catch this fish. My wife got it in under 300 cast as well as a guild mate doing the fishing daily.

Comment by Hidesato

Achievement earned by Hidesato (Suicidal Tendencies) on 21/10/2008 Horde-Tyrande (EU)

After 611 fishing attempts I completed the achievement!

http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/999/oldcraftyhidesatohv5.jpg

Comment by 227458

How high up does the fishing achievement go to? I'm just about to get my 500 catches one, for the people who've gone over 1000, does it keep going?

Comment by Borgoth

Guildmate of mine just caught this one his first toss. I of course cursed. Then he got another. And another. In total, he caught SEVEN in approximately 15 minutes of time. And I'm still sitting in Orgrimmar hoping one day I'll catch that bugger. Drop chances are amazing, aren't they.

Comment by 233406

I caught him the other day with the Strong Fishing Pole, Flashy Baubles, and 159 fishing skill.

Comment by 233411

Im on Skullcrusher and I caught this after 101 casts. Too bad I didn't get to loot it because my server went down when I went to click the loot icon. Oh well....

Comment by 233441

Took me less then 5 minutes. Friggin' awesome.

Comment by 7093

4000 Casts, nothing yet. For those of you who have gotten it within your first ten casts, consider yourself having saved a lot of time....

Comment by 233599

wow i must be lucky or something, but after 150 casts and 40mins i got 10 of Old Crafty...
i can prove it i took a screenshot http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb232/dustviper1900/WoWScrnShot_102208_211237.jpg

Comment by sark

It took me 94 catches to get Old Crafty. Looks like I have been lucky instead having to spend 4 hours trying to get it.
Sark

Comment by tr0tsky0

There's a bug right now (although maaven says it's not a bug). Get the fishing daily quest "Crocolisks in the City". With the quest active, go and fish in Orgrimmar. Don't loot the baby croc when it pops up. You'll get Old Crafty in minutes.

Comment by Scoutsphere

Just fished up Old Crafty as well as the Baby Crocolisk on my 2nd cast while trying to do the Crocolisks in the City quest. Got the achievement like the rest, but was unable to loot him. Took a screenshot just incase.

Comment by 26327

For Alliance trying to fish up Old Crafty, there is now a very easy way to get to Orgrimmar from Shattrath City.

Today Blizzard started the WLK prelude event with a zombie outbreak. All you have to do is become a zombie and you can take the Orgrimmar portal in Shattrath City. Once there shamble your way to your desired fishing spot. You will die to guards on the way, but once you die you'll be in the heart of Orgrimmar with no zombie debuff, leaving you free to pound your head against the wall until you catch Old Crafty.

(Un)Happy Fishing!

Comment by Rfvcool

fished 3 of them in 20 minutes while doing "crocolosks in the city"
edit: 10 old crafty's in 40 minutes (!)

Comment by 110916

After long hours in Orgrimmar...
2 days of attempts.

I finally caught the bugger after 576 fish.

! Lots of music and patience.
I fished behind the huge tree in Valley of spirits, behind the High priest/priest trainer.

Good luck guys.

P.S. My friend caught the bugger after 34 catches, someone else caught him after 114.

Comment by Ankhie

Today on my server was the baby crocs in sw and org. Before i had remembered I was in raid, I ended up fishing 3 old crafty's, which was out of 50 casts. Going to head to IF if he can drop when this quest is activated for th etime being.

Comment by 234667

I caught Old Crafty after my 7th cast in the Valley of Honor

Comment by Substitute

I don't know if this helps any, but yesterday when I was getting ready for a Mount Hyjal run, I had the fishing daily, and was fishing near the Mage portal area in Org. Of course I was dumbfounded when the Crocolisk wouldn't drop for me, but ... and after 3 hours of trying earlier in the day, Old Crafty drops after 5 casts.

Whats even worse, right before my summon came, a second Old Crafty got hooked on my line.

I don't know if this helps the schematics, or if it can even be viable... but thats how it happened for me.

Comment by 150494

Got one of these before, didnt pay much attention so i sold it but checked on here to see what it was after and saw it was kinda rare.

Was doing fishing daily today and managed to get 3 within a space of 5 minutes...

Was good cause i got the achievement :D

Comment by 40804

I'm fairly convinced they increased the rate of this fish appearing after the last patch. Both me and my guildmate did the fishing daily the other day to catch the baby crocolisks, and both of us got an Old Crafty on our respective first casts.

Extremely extremely lucky or increased drop rate, you be the judge.

Comment by 236422

Waterfall location x 2 days
Died <10 x
Fishing skill 375
Used : Seth's Graphite Fishing Pole, all casts successful.

-747 items caught
I spent a total of over 9 ½ hours and caught the following:

- 459 mudsnappers
- 151 catfish
- 125 sunfish
- 7 (17) pound catfish
- 1 healing potion
- 2 mana potions
- 1 bloated mudsnapper (looted 1 tigerseye from it)
- Old Crafty (0.0013%)

Keep hanging in there, it will take you some time…and even more…and more…but just when you think “I’m out of here”, fish more.

I’m the only one in my guild of 120+ members to catch him.

Bloodwaters (Crushridge)
70 Nightelf hunter
Happy hunting

Comment by oneru

Note for all fishing fans like me who are totally going for Salty Title:

Old Ironjaw and Old Crafty are NOT necessary for the Accomplished Angler !

So you can get Salty without spending days on these fish :-)! Happy fishing!

Comment by 127028

I have caught him 3 times today while trying to catch the baby crocolisk. I must be a lot craftier than he is.

Comment by 222970

This song popped on my playlist while trying to catch this one:

Its gonna take time
A whole lot of precious time
Its gonna take patience and time, ummm
To do it, to do it, to do it, to do it, to do it,

and I just realized there are a whole lotta "I got my mind set on you"s in the song... Talk about irritating.

It took me 271 tries to get Old Crafty and not surprisingly, I fished up too many Longjaw Mud Snappers * (148), Bristle Whisker Catfish * (64) and Brilliant Smallfish * (55). I got 2 Lesser Mana Potions and 1 17 Pound Catfish as well.

Comment by Furydeath

Got him on my 20th cast on my human mage. =)

Comment by 237104

Caught him on my second cast.

Comment by 607

Just ended up getting Old Crafty about an hour after picking up fishing, was near the waterfall in org.

7 Raw Longjaw Mud Snappers
2 Raw Brilliant Smallfish

Level 12 fishing skill.
20th cast or so.

So it doesn't take a lot of time if you're lucky, but like others the waterfall seems to be a good spot to try.

Comment by 19798

I know alot of you are gonna hate me now ;P But i simply need to tell this story. Went fishing in Orgrimmar with my friend tonight. We're both alliance and have gone once before but gave up after ~15 mins due to ganking. Anyway, this second time i got crafty on my first cast!
But - as if that wasn't enough, i got my second crafty - and third - AND FORTH within 14 casts. Beat that ;D

7 casts later i got my 5th :>

Comment by 158480

Confirmed on 10/28, There is currently a bug with the Crocolisk fishing daily which results in you receiving the Croc and Ol' Crafty in the same cast.

It took me one cast, and my guildmates between 5-20 each.

Get him, and your Achievement, while it's easy!

Comment by Cromulon

To those who aren't frequent travelers to Orgrimmar just beware of the grey thing as you run over it, I found out that theres some strange collision to it, so you'll end up getting stuck and nailed by the elite like I did :(

Comment by typheous82

I must be a lucky bastard. Caught Old Crafty after catching:
Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper x 58
Raw Brilliant Smalfish x15
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish x14

Did nothing special. Have max skill and just stood there and fished aimlessly for 30 min.

Comment by 237861

There seem to be a nice bug going atm, if you have the quest "Crocolisks in the City" quest, to fish Baby Crocolisk, the drop chance on Old Crafty is much bigger, destroy the Baby Crocolisk every time you catch it and keep fishing. I caught old crafty on my 7th cast after I figured this out. 2 of my friends caught him on 1st cast with this quest along with the Baby Crocolisk, and guildie got it too on very few casts. :-) Enjoy!

*edit* Didnt read this was already posted, oh well!

Comment by Kelo70

You can catch asmany as you want Ive gotten 4 sofar but they are like 1 out of 800 cast so good luck.

Comment by Assassinman

Over 500 casts before I caught him. But BEWARE of the Confirmation box, I can't stress that enough. After fishing for awhile you'lI tend to want to hurry things up and become fast with clicking the fishing button. I accidently click on fishing again and dropped Old Crafty
:(

Comment by fergotten123

35 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
52 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
124 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper

205th - 19 Pound Catfish
213th - Old Crafty

I got EXTREMELY luck to have gotten him as the 213th fish in my attempts. I wish you all good luck at catching the hard-to-find Old Crafty!

Comment by 176604

i caught this on my first line i accidently let it go cause it wouldnt let me pick it up but the achievment still counted at last i did outsmart old crafty

Comment by 233288

Caught after 233 fish. About .004% Good Luck!

11/2/08

Comment by 5979

got him in orgrimmar at the south west corner of the pond in valley of honor, facing north east. lucked out after ~100 fish, level 170 or so fishing skill.

Comment by 239416

Just got 10 old crafty in 80~ throws trying to to daily in a raid (stupid yes, didnt realise it until then, left, and got croc on first). Lucky would have been 1-2 in 80, but 10? its just plain stupid. Might be a bug if you do it in a raid, although I wont test it myself.

Comment by greven145

I got old ironjaw on cast 997, and am at 894 in ogrimmar and still no crafty. Times like this I wish I was on a non-pvp server

Comment by McEgan

Do not kill yourselves trying to get this fish for the achievement. As of right now it's extremely easy to get via a bug. Get the quest "Crocolisks in the City" (http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=11665) from the fishing daily guy. Go to Orgrimmar and begin casting. You will almost 100% fish up the crocolisk. The catch is that in the same loot as the crocolisk, you will see another fish. This fish has an EXTREMELY high chance of being Old Crafty. If you try to loot it, you will see "This item can not be looted at this time" but the act of trying to loot it will flag you for the achievement. If the fish is not Old Crafty, do not loot the crocolisk or destroy it if you did and fish again. I got mine on the first try using this method and several of my friends got theirs within 5 casts. Hopefully this saved someone a lot of time they could instead put forth into Old Ironjaw, for which there is no easy way.

Comment by Otacon

There is a trick which will help you to catch this fish a lot quicker. It will only work if you can accept fishing quests from Old man Barlo.

Step 1:
Go to Old man Barlo and pick up the daily fishing quest "Crocolisks in the City". You need this quest for this trick to work. If he doesn't give it, wait and check again the other day till you get it.

Step 2:
Go to Orgrimmar and cast your line :) Any of the ponds there will do the trick, choose the one you prefer.

Step 3:
Each time you catch the baby croc, loot it. Then check your inventory and delete it again. Do this everytime till you get Old Crafty.

We found out that Old Crafty has a much higher chance to drop at the same time as the baby croc. A friend of mine got it in 2 casts. I got it in 5.

Good luck to all fishers out there :)

Comment by Phaded

Just got this as alliance. Had the baby crocolisk quest. Took 3 casts (I just recast if it wasn't old crafty) before it appeared.

Comment by Zachu

It's probably just me beeing lucky, but I got 4, yes 4 in under 10 minutes while fishing after the baby crocodil! (Daily fishing quest)

But on the other side, I spent 30min+ fishing for the alliance archivement fish and got none...

Comment by 81283

I have tossed two casts in Orgrimmar the last two weeks.

Last week, I was on "Crocolisks in the city"

I caught Old crafty on the first cast, and also got the crocolisk.

Tonight, when daily reset, the quest "Crocolisks in the city" was up again.

I went to orgrimmar, cast 1 time, caught Old Crafty again, and also got the crocolisk on the first cast.

?

Comment by 241090

Got this today bored fishing on my alt :(
his fishing skill is 8 now and took me 3 minutes to get

Comment by Hybzor

Did almost 975 catches before I finaly saw this fish.
The sad part for me was that I re-threw blobber so fast I didnt see BoP box on screen
(was fishing like 04am in the nigth and was qutie tried)

Anyway. Wacth out for BoP box and dont rush to much, chances are you
will miss it and that sucks when it's quite rare for those how arent
lucky enough to catch it in 1st catch!

*EDIT*
Try do this while you are doing Crocolisks in the City (daily fishing quest)
I did about 25 catchs. Almost got a crock in every catch, but also got 5 Old Crafty.
Makes me regret I ever did those 945 catches at first place :/

Comment by Tarval

In case it's unclear, Alliance players can catch Old Crafty during the 'Crocolisks in the City' quest. I just did, first cast.

Auto-loot was OFF, and I was able to loot both Old Crafty and the Baby Crocolisk.

Comment by 172500

Best way to catch him: Party with someone else and make it a raid. Make sure you have the crocolisk daily and I can almost guaranty you'll catch Crafty within minutes. Better hurry before Blizzard fixes this glitch!

Comment by 241431

today i caught 12 of them in 30 minutes i was extremely ticked off cause i already had one and didn't want one. :(

Comment by Merdento

Got mine in the catch number 2.300, i spent a week trying to get it... im not lucky i guess...

Only thinking about catching the IF one makes me sick...

Comment by 153143

Droprate must be bugged now, or changed, I've caught 3 within 5 minutes of each other while fishing for the crockolisk.

Comment by 242294

Just got him last night. Took about 3 hours hiding behind one of the shacks in the Valley of Spirits, but at least I only got killed by a Horde guy once. Two other horde ppl were cool and just waved when they saw me and walked away.

285 Raw longjaw mud snappers
87 Raw bristle whisker catfish
75 4 Raw brilliant smallfish
2 19 pound catfish
and finally..
1 Old Crafty.

Comment by ThyFlame

Picked up the Crocs in the City quest and then went to Orgrimmar. Caught both him and the Croc on my first catch but couldn't loot him. I got credit for the achievement, though.

Comment by Nimchip

I did the Croc in the City quest as well and was in a raid, he was fished up at about the 16th cast. Before this I spent like 4 hours trying to fish him before I gave up and did other achievements - then I saw I had that daily so I went and tried it again.

Good luck.

Comment by MMOSimca

Confirmed, the Crocolisks in the City daily does bug this drop. I confirmed this by destroying the baby crocolisk each time it dropped and then recasting. By this method I received TWELVE Old Crafties within 10 minutes. Hurry and get this fish before Blizzard fixes it. I bet this works for alliance too.

Comment by 34729

Wow I cought him on the first attempt for daily fishing quest. I got both Baby Crocolisk and Old Crafty at the same time as skilling up to 168 fishing. It then gave the credit for the achievement, prompted for BoP message and then gave me an error message and would not let me loot item.

The point is, I got credit before I looted the item so if you dont care about the actual fish, just auto loot.

Comment by 233551

Did the Croc Daily yesterday (same day of above mentioned posters): no Crafty. Returned and fished for 2 hours straight on two separate occasions: no Crafty. Two Guildies got him within 45 minutes of each other on this date, one on first cast. There is still an element of luck and sheer frustration with this fish, and the first element mentioned I obviously do not have...

Comment by Kaynos

Yesterday i started trying to catch this guy. I was fishing with another guy next to me. Believe it or not he catch the fish 5 times in a 30 minutes period. For me i'm still waiting for it. I start fishing this guy at 297 fishing skill and i'm now at 340, still no crafty.

Comment by 234733

I got credit for it even though I did not loot it. But for some reason I could not loot it, maybe because I caught it with a baby crocolisk. I got it on my first cast after the patch went live and then again a few casts later.

Comment by S3rjiu

Caught it after 15 minutes 302 fishing skill in the valley of honor in Orgrimmar... I wonder why everyone that said that got it in a matter of minutes got bad ratings... he was catch nr. 90 out of the catch 100 fish achievement.

Comment by Askevar

Valley of the Spirits seems to be the place to do it in my opinion - behind the palm tree and rock in the back. Riding in is easy enough as long as you don't get knocked off your mount. Don't make the mistake of trying to sneak in, like I did with my rogue.

My rogue got old crafty on the first cast with a fishing skill of about 10.
My lock with 275 fishing took about 20 casts.
My hunter with 375 fishing took about 4 casts.

During the day/early morning is the time to do it... most of the kiddies are in bed or in school :)

Comment by 61068

Here is a really cheap way for alliance to get old crafty, do it during the wrath gate event when Jaina ports u to Ogrimmar, no horde or guard interruptions :)

Did it with the Croc fishing daily (supposedly increases drop rate significantly), and got it within 20 casts

Comment by Niteniten58

Easiest done for Alliance in conjunction with Fate, Up Againt Your Will
Followed suggestion by splunge, and got The Fishing Diplomat on my first cast and Old Crafty after a while (didn't count).

Comment by 242645

I have been trying to catch old crafty for quite a few days now,total casts :

1354 raw longjaw mudsnapper
578 raw bristle whisker catfish
304 raw brilliant smallfish
1 the 1 ring
3 17 pound catfish
3 19 pound catfish
1 22 pound catfish
3 lesser mana potion
1 low level green item

and 3 times that i didnt get the loot window even though i had clicked the bopper on time

My char is a draenei and i am wondering if there is a glitch behind that similar to the flute of Xavaric,where draenei characters couldnt loot it.I also have old ironjaw at my bank but i dont think thats relevant.

Edit: After picking up the daily quest crocolisk in the city i gave it another shot.Picked up old crafty with 14 casts,i got the achievment but i could not actually loot it since i kept getting the "You can not loot right now message".No biggies,task is done anyway.

Comment by 159754

Easiest way to get this, Done as a NE druid. First quest until you get a quest called "Fate, Up Against Your Will". When you get this quest you will be ported to Orgrimmar. When you enter the portal you will be ported in front of Thrall, "DO NOT" complete the quest. Instead walk out of the Grommash Hold and head east to The Valley Of Honor. When you get there equip your fishing rod and cast. "You will be in an instanced version of Orgrimmar, the only people what will be there are you, thrall and some guards. None of which will attack you.

This took me about 30-45mins and I caught the following.
-Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper x 54
-17 Pound Catfish x 1
-Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish x 16
-Raw Brilliant Smallfish x 17
-Old Crafty x 1

Good luck and have fun :)

P.s- I cant seem to stop most of the text to be the link to the quest >.<

Comment by Gwalchgwyn

Theres a quest chain from dragonblight that leads you to a sweet cinematic of Bolvar dying and you are then doing a few diplomatic quests and you end up getting teleported to your own version of Ogrimmar with friendly guards and no other players :D

Comment by Sourcerer

Hmm, it's unbelievable that such a small pond could hold that much fish:

307x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
100x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
86x Raw Brilliant Smallfish
1x 17 Pound Catfish
1x 19 Pound Catfish
1x Old Crafty

Total casts: 496 (= total fish caught)

Comment by Hamminoid

Can anyone confirm/deny that Old Crafty/Old Ironjaw can be caught below 70? I'm up to 3000 fish and other things caught in Orgrimmar, and after seeing so many 70s get him, I'm wondering if I can even get him before 70. Does anyone know?

Comment by 207014

i finally got this crafty old dude after approx 860 casts behind the mage building in orgrimmar as a BE hunter. now i'm located in the forlorn caverns awaiting my capture of old ironjaw. got ganked the moment i got into position tho.

Comment by 240744

fishing for it with the fishing quest now the one fishing quest I have is, "The One That Got Away" and I haven't seen crafty still ;(

I did see him but I was too quick to re-cast so I lost it :(

Comment by 239630

Be prepared to spend some time fishing, got it on my 664th cast.

Comment by XylanTrueheart

I can confirm if you want to call it that about getting the Crocolisks in the City quest first before going after Old Crafty PLUS Fate, Up Against Your Will quest. I was aleady at 375 fishing skill when I undertook this achievement. I don't have a exact tally but I was able to easily go from 375 fishing to 450 AND get the 25 fish on up to the 1000 Fish achievement and then some. This was spread out over about 6 hours of total time over 2 days worth. At about 1700 fishing casts I was about to give up till I reread here about picking up the Crocolisks in the City quest. I hearthed back to Shattrah picked up the daily fishing quest which by luck was the Crocolisk quest and got a port back to Stormwind to use the Jaina port to Org. I got the Croc on the first cast but didn't loot it. I got the Croc on every cast until the 17th cast, there was Old Crafty along with the Croc. A odd relation, perhaps a shared loot table of sorts. Who knows. I am quite happy to get this little.... fish.

Comment by 258051

Sometimes Miss Fortuna smiles at me.
I was fishing in Orgimmar for my daily fishing quest, crocodilisk.

I spent around 50 minutes to get the crocodile, at that time I was really tired but at the same time very amazed of my luck, I got totally 17, YES 17! old crafty in that time.
Blizzard must have increased the drop rate by ALOT, or I am just insanely "lucky".

True story

Comment by 104028

I caught Old Crafty while completing the quest Fate, Up Against Your Will. Yes, Old Crafty can be caught while in this "fake" Orgrimmar.

Comment by Ferid

After reading another comment suggesting that other fishing dailies might bug Old Crafty as well, I headed to Orgrimmar with Shrimpin' Ain't Easy in my log. After 100 casts, still nothing. The other poster was probably just insanely lucky, guess I'll wait for the croc quest.

Comment by 258051

As Ferid said, it must have bugged out together with quest, Ow well, its a good story atleast :)

Comment by 156137

Caught this on my first try! woot :)

Comment by xavier999

Got him on my 9th catch. I didn't have any of the fishing dailies or anything else special. I was behind a rock just right of the waterfall in the Valley of Honor. For AlliesI can confirm the seems to be a pretty safe location if you can get to it as the rock totally hides you from any Horde on the path. On the way in just watch out for some lvl 75 pats with the "eye" that can see through stealth if you are a druid or rogue.

Comment by RichterLocke

Yep, having Crocs in the City works like a charm indeed. Friend got it in under 10 casts, took me about 35. While under Jaina's amnesty to boot. Awesome stuff indeed.

Comment by 263218

Using the Crocolisks in the City trick still works. When on that quest there are three common catches:

- A low level fish and a baby crocolisk
- Old Crafty and a baby crocolisk
- A low level fish

I caught both a crocolisk and Old Crafty on the sixth cast (with four of the first five coming up with a low level fish and a baby crocolisk).

On a sidenote, you can loot and keep old crafty when you catch him using the Crocolisks in the City trick.

Comment by 190052

Old Crafty seems to be unique, even if not stated, atleast I can not loot the second one I just caught.

"You can't loot that item now"

edit: Ok, GM sais it was just a bug because I looted it together with Baby Crocolisk for fishing daily (or because I was not synced with the Server)

Comment by Shakul

I just caught it twice after another....

Caught it after about an hour of Fishing while leveling from 100 to 225.

Comment by 181511

I'd like to confirm that having in your quest log does indeed affect being able to get Old Crafty.

I fished in Orgrimmar for a long time and had no luck. Today I picked up the Croc quest, went to Org and got a Croc on my first cast. I didn't loot it, and on the second case I got both the Croc and Old Crafty.

Right now (just to test,) I am having a friend come by who also has the quest and needs Crafty. I'll post the results in a few.

Edit: She got it on the second cast as well!

Comment by 266348

Just caught him after about 100 casts....very lucky im guessing, not many people have him apparently haha.

Bllackjack-49 undead rogue server-firetree

Comment by 254059

Did roughly 1200 casts in Org with no luck, got my fishing from 1-325. I started doing my fishing dailies and picked up the croc one. After heading to Org, first fish, Old Crafty + Baby Croc.
/cheer as I click the accept loot.
/cry as it says I can't loot that.
So I destroy my croc and try again thinking its maybe a glitch with the croc. 2nd cast, Old Crafty + Baby Croc. More /crying as it loot errors me again. I turned off auto loot and around 20 casts later I was able to successfully loot the crafty fish.

It wasn't until after those 2 unsuccessful loots that I discovered here about the quest 'trick'.

If anyone else is doing the croc quest and wants old crafty, make sure auto loot is off to prevent this happening.

Comment by fanficbug

Decided to go the hardcore route and completed the "safe" quest before doing this--also didn't get the croc daily.

I must say this was some of the most fun I had fishing for my whole wow career; I had a lot of "hold your breath" moments, most notably when I realized my elixir of camoflage wasn't active and a belf hunter entered the area and started fishing. =) Only got ganked once.

It makes the victory that much sweeter, because every day this week there has been a successful raid on every horde city on my server (Zangarmarsh). It made me feel quite sneaky to come in and fish. =D

Comment by 270387

Make sure to not have the Crocolisks in the City quest while trying to catch him. Apparently there's a current bug that makes you not able to loot Old Crafty if you catch the Baby Crocolisk at the same time. Learned that the hard way twice before a GM told me there were issues with it.

Comment by 172536

Seems to be a bug with catching Old Crafty with the Crocolisks in the City daily. When you catch the Baby Crocolisk close the loot window and continue casting. Make sure you have auto-loot turned off. Within a few catches it is almost guaranteed that you catch Old Crafty. Worked for me on three separate characters. Good luck, hope you catch him before it's fixed!

Comment by azinja

If you get the crocolisk and Old Crafty on the same catch (while on the fishing daily) and have auto looting on, you will automatically loot the crocolisk but you need to confirm the Old Crafty pickup. Therefor it bugs out and says that you "can't loot that right now".

Deleting the crocolisk from your inventory will allow you to loot Old Crafty.

Comment by Marmooset

I thought I had caught him.

Turned out it was just 'Old Crappy'.

...now my tacklebox is a mess!

Comment by 275525

http://img120.imageshack.us/my.php?image=win2aa1.jpg

Never fished once in 3 years of playing WoW.

It's 100% based on luck, no fishing skill involved.

Comment by z3n0mal4

Be aware , i just caught it at same time as baby croc and it bugged and i went fast for opening a GM ticket window and the loot window dissapeared . BLIZZ and their customer support sucks . i've lost many hours trying to get it , and when i do get it it buggs , not my fault , but they cannot help . thanks alot

Comment by 138417

I can corroborate the Crocolisks in the City bug observed above. Over 500 casts with no luck without the quest. Picked up the quest, pulled him up on my 10th or so cast. A very convenient bug.

Comment by Serrah

Something is amiss with this fish. I got three chars which I am fishing on. They do have one thing in common, old crafty has been extremely easy to catch. My salty main got it together with the fishing daily on the first cast, my tauren got it after 16 casts, on the 17th cast he got another one. My third char got it on the 99th fish.

Now I've spent alot time in ironforge fishing after old crafty casting closely to 2k casts without catching him. During the many hours I've spent fishing in IF I've seen one person catch ironjaw while I've seen plenty of people catch old crafty. It might just be coincidence but perhaps they should tweak the catch frequency.

Comment by 50907

Ok, i've done some testing to confirm above comments, and here's what i've found out.

1. When you are on the Crocolisk in the City quest, this fish becomes a 100% droprate from the Orgrimmar pools. I've got Crafty along with the Baby Crocolisk on my first attempt.
2. If you already have the Baby Crocolisk in your bag, you won't be able to pick Crafty up. You can throw away the Croc safely to pick it up, and fish the croc again on your next attempt.
3. Everytime you throw either the croc or Crafty away from your bags, you will get both again on your next attempt.
4. If you have the croc in your bag, you will just fish the usual level 1 junk fishies.

I can confirm the 100% droprate as i've threw both the croc and Crafty away several times to fish them both up again on the next catch.

Comment by 281213

I took my fishing from 1 to about 350 in Orgrimmar, no old crafty, I went to IF and caught Old Ironjaw... easy enough. still no old crafty, I see the daily is "Crocolisks in the city", remembering that I read about that quest being a good way to catch Old Crafty... I turned off auto loot, went to Orgrimmar, and POOF! first catch was old crafty, and a baby crocolisk... sweet deal!

Comment by 136783

Took me like 20 casts but it works

Comment by marc314cel

Accidentally discovered that with the quest Reborn from the Ashes in my quest log all npcs are neutral and no Horde players are present in Orgrimmar, so grabbed the opportunity with both hands.

Did the fishing the hard way. Caugth Old Crafty, december 16 2008, after 497 fishes and 2 lesser healing potions. Counted them meself. Was nice to get the "Looting Old Crafty will bind it to you." question popup.

Comment by 250700

Took me 717 tries to get this but it was really easy while doing the quest http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=13369 i was fishing in valley of honor and my skill was 242 when i got it

Comment by 159126

Old craft was number 219 for me :-) I caught him out of the upper layer of Org by the Mages area.

Comment by MasterLoco

Just got mine in like 10-15 casts while having the croc daily & being in a raid. Then I left the raid to get the crocolisk for the daily and I got it again in the next cast. The person I heard this method from told me you couldn't get the croc while in a raid and it just replaced the croc with old crafty. After getting this twice in 2 casts with the second one being outside the raid and in combination with the croc I very much doubt you even need that raid at all.

Comment by 237874

starting off... i bubbled... mounted... i ran! into orgimar, side entrance, the first few guards get on me, mi amigo charges past, making it past the bridge the first guards get off me, mounting back up i run even further, friend being chaced by the other guards.. but not outran, he makes to to a safe point, so do i, perfect plan at first... only hope it stays this way... after a bit, we make it to the waterfall... equipting my trusty big iron fishing pole, and my lucky fishing hat... i cast... and cast... and cast, drinkin cherry grog by the stack we fish... no luck... its been about 5 hours.... my friend gets bored... he leaves.. im alone! *dun dun duuuunnnn......* stay here about another hour... ok im bored now too.. switch off to another my DK, do a couple duels in goldshire.... my friend leaves... i almost leave...... logging off my DK, i accidently click... selecting my main.. the fisher... "ok why not?" i go on, get up and out of my hiding spot, look around, it looks clear... expecting to drop another 100 lines before i acually go to bed... i drop it in, it lands in a rock?.... but hey i can still click the bobber.. ill leave it... waiting.. waiting... waiting... SPLASH! right click on the SPOT slowly realing it in..., with a flash of light, its old crafty....

aye, i did catch'm in a rock.. thats one crafty fish... but none is to crafty for Xeton, the great fisherman! (server is hellscream)

my fishermans tale, after catching old ironjaw the day before,

____________
my loots:
about 300 mudskipppers
about 150 bristlewisker catfish
and acually only 50 brilliant smallfishies
17 pound catfish x 1
19 pound catfish x 1
OLD CRAFTEH x 1

i used NO lures, only my trusty big iron fishing pole (+20 fish), and about 10 stacks of cherry grog.. ha

lvl 56 pally (ally), if any lowbies are confused the only requirements are: lvl 1 fishing, and a fishing rod, it'll take some determination, and a bubble is always helpfull for getting to the pond :] but this is possible for everyone, of every level and every fishing skill,

where to hide: i hid to the right (looking north AT the waterfall) on the smallest , but still sort of high rock, in the middle, use the rock to the back right to get onto it, be sure to have sound on, if you hear someone walking near you, hide behind the large boulder to your left (looking west, at the oposite side of which you are hiding) its pretty hidden back there, especially if you /sleep when trying to hide. (this is in the eastern pool in org)

good luck all you determined fishers! and belive me, your going to need luck, and determination

Comment by Felyndris

I just got my Old Crafty after..
49 Longjaw Mud Snappers ~51%
23 Brilliant Smallfish ~24%
18 Bristle Whisker Catfish ~20%
1 19 Pound Catfish ~1%
1 Lesser Mana Potion ~1%
....
1 Old Crafty 1.1%

Totaling to 93 fish and items caught in all, and I went from about 196 fishing skill to 209. Took about an hour and a half. Not bad, imo.

Comment by Kendeura

I just fished one up and then about five minutes later I fished him up again. Might this be bugged?
Correction, I fished AGAIN and looted Old Crafty again!

Comment by interloper

Here's what were my cathings in the valley of honor:
7xRaw Longjaw Mud Snapper
2xRaw Brilliant Smallfish
1xRaw Bristle Whisker Catfish
1xOld Crafty

Comment by 138370

Confirmed the Baby Croc trick about 5mins ago. Only hang-up was when I caught them both at once, I looted the croc first and then it told me "You cannot loot that at this time" when I tried to loot Old Crafty. Fished the pair up again and looted Crafty first and then the croc. Took maybe 12 casts or so.

Comment by 290214

My Brother and I are both Lvl 80 Allied. We spent several hours in Orgrimmar fishing for Old Crafty before going to Shatt to pick up the Crocolisks in the City fishing daily from Old Man Barlowe. Once we got the quest we headed immediately back to Orgrimmar. I Fished up both Old Crafty and the Croc on my 2nd cast. My brother fished them both up on his 5th cast.

While your there you may as well make a mad dash for Ragefire Chasm for the achievement.

Comment by Syrei

Just got him tonight about 2 hours after I fished up Old Ironjaw.

Total fished for Old Crafty was:

63 Longjaw Mud Snappers
20 Bristle Whisker Catfish
16 Brilliant Smallfish
1 Lesser Healing Potions
1 Old Crafty
Several dead horde teehee

Don't ask me how long Old Ironjaw took. I got my 1000 fish achievement long before he showed up. Atleast in IF I didn't have to worry about being ganked.

Comment by ychro

Confirmed that the Crocolisks in the City Daily increases your chances of catching old crafty. I have fished for both Old Crafty and Old Iron jaw putting in anywhere from 800-1400 casts per fish with no luck. Today the daily was Crocolisks in the city and I was fortunate enough to have caught Old crafty within 15 casts, just make sure not to loot the crocolisk.

Comment by 238270

i have been fishing this but didnt drop where is the best place for it ?

Comment by Sindern

I'm not sure if this is a hotfix for the crocolisk trick or not, but I just fished him up along with the croc, my auto-loot grabbed the croc right away, then asked if I really wanted to loot Old Crafty since he's BOP. I hit and it gave me the message "You can't loot that now." or something to that effect. Every time I tried to loot it again, it gave me the same error.

I don't know if it would have changed anything if my autoloot hadn't looted the croc before Old Crafty, but destroying the croc, then recasting didn't yield any more Crafties for about 10 minutes so I just looted the croc and figured I'd try again another day.

Comment by 292577

While going for the achievement to fish something up in Orgrimmar, I portalled from Shatt, jumped off the portal building and dropped in a line.

First cast - I got Old Crafty. My fiance, who had been trying for over a week, punched me and it hurt (even though she hits like a girl). But I had Old Crafty to console me.

Comment by 257687

Fished on my main Cercio, got to 3100 fish and gave up.

Fished on my level 24 alt and caught at fish #122.

I hate this fish. =S

Cercio - Nathrezim
Vremedy - Nathrezim

Comment by erogroth

So last night while doing the fishing daily in Org, on my first cast i get both the baby Croc and Old Crafty. I loot the baby Croc with no problems but then when I go to get Old Crafty I start getting a message every time I click on it that says "You can't loot that item now". I opened a ticket with Blizzard but they basically said "Sorry. nothing we can do." Pretty freakin lame! See screenshots below. Of course now I now its a known bug.

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e142/joe2chillo/WoWScrnShot_123108_232637.jpg
http://http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e142/joe2chillo/WoWScrnShot_123108_232648.jpg

Comment by 293768

As alliance, when you go under the waterfall in the Valley of Heroes and there are already any horde fishers nearby, they will spot you (either by seeing you loot fish or maybe see the fishing line sticking out of the window). Just got ganked there and when corpse running back I saw that both my gankers were horde fishers as well.

Deep nighttime and not in weekends still seems the best time to fish there as alliance (without using that Jaina quest).

Comment by wowaddict123

I've caught 2 x Old Crafty in the Valley of Honor in 383 casts. 0.52% drop rate at this point for me. Good Luck.

Comment by AliariaXIII

I was lucky in that it only took me 12 points in fishing (354-366, not sure how many casts this is) to catch this little bastard. I also took advantage of Jaina's portal to Orgrimmar to fish without risk of death, a big help in getting this little guy.

Comment by 209698

Confirming picking up the Crocolisk daily quest still helps get him. Took me about 30 casts but it worked.

Comment by Lausten

Caught this little fellah on 4th January 2009.. I just heard about someone yelling in Trade chat that finally it was the Crocolisk in the city daily, so I went to Shattrath, and yes it was the lovely quest, wich it havent been for months.. I teleported to Theremore, took a flight to Ratchet, mounted up and started running to the backdoor of Orgrimmar, I ran until I lost aggro from guards, started fishing, did a few casts, got the croc, desided to throw it away, and then bang there it was, Old Crafty and the croc in same catch! I looted both and got happy! Then another Alliance showed up, he got his too in a few minutes. Then we agreed to go to Ragefire Chasm for the achivement while we were in Orgrimmar..

Comment by Dougula

Been chasing this fishy off n on since patch 3.0 something, the one just before WoLK's launch that intrduced us to acheivments, an hour here 20 mins there. Finally I talked with the resident fishing expert in my guild - they suggested just outside of the mage trainer hut (aka Darkbriar Lodge) in The Valley of Spirits . From there you will see a formation of 3 rocks - standing on the middle sized rock and casting towards the reeds along teh shoreline right by a palm tree I caught Old Crafty after about 25 casts or so.

Coords for this prime spot were 37:83 almost 37:84

Comment by Gorillaface

To this day I have thrown over 1951 times into the ponds of Orgrimmar without the luck of catching this fish... even with the Baby Croc-quest.

..I'm starting to think it's not ment to be :(

Comment by 172791

I got my Old Ironjaw and Old crafty on same day. Got Old Ironjaw @ Forlorn Cavern after around 200 casts. And got my Old crafty at Valley of Spirits after 93 casts.

Old Ironjaw is not so hard to get on Magtheridon EU since it's like 5% population from allys so didn't meet a single alliance or so :)

For those who are trying to get this achievement GL HF :)

Comment by 232769

The "bug" still works after Tuesday. I caught Old Crafty on 5 level 70+ characters, all except one, had fishing skill 1. I caught him in about 4-5 tries on each character. I did this on my two alliance toons and I have to say for any alliance character... DO this NOW before they patch it.

Comment by 263080

Having the fishing daily quest "Crocolisks in the city" still increases the drop chance on Old Crafty as for 07/01/09.

I'm checking if it increases the droprate on other rare fishes atm.

Comment by arottenmind

Still works, caught old crafty in about 20 casts while on "Crocolisks in the city" quest and "Fate, up against your Will" quest

Comment by 300930

Caught this yesterday while fishing from 12 fishing skill to 100 and something. Was so proud and surprised. I just hope when leveling both character and fishing I have as much luck with my goal of the Giant Sewer Rat.

Comment by Ayrianna

Confirmed that "Crocolisk in the City" still works on January 11th, 2009.

To make it even easier for Alliance, if you have not completed the Wrathgate quest line, and you can get into the phased version of Orgrimmar, you can fish him up without being attacked or bothered at all.

Comment by 302398

I just caught this a few days ago after fishing in orgrimmar for ages. Then I went to IF to catch Old IronJaw, which I thought would take a few days of fishing...I was wrong, after 30 tries of fishing in The Forlorn Cavern I got the old fish and I was like "wohoo, I'm awesome".
Then I started fishing in Orgrimmar again just to get higher skill, then something weird happened...I got 3 more Old Crafty within 4 minutes...
Awesome drop rate? Did they change the drop rate or did I just luck out?

Comment by Lionsprey

If you plan on power leveling fishing do it in orgimmar for a chance to get him

Comment by 177596

Wow this is so easy with what everyone said and i fished him up 5 times, it's silly.

Got a SS To prove it. (Unedited except the profanity in guild)
http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/5051/dumbre9.jpg

Do it before it gets the nerf slap.

Comment by Flaccus

Got it on the 100th fish I ever caught (at skill level 101)

\o/

Comment by arrrgmatey00

was in the valley of spirits (behind the rock and tree) fishing for about 3hrs and nothing. then i got the crocolisk in the city daily and caught him on my 3rd cast. was suspicious of the 'glitch' at first and then tried it out of desperation and it was a joke how easy it was. (jan 15 09)

Comment by 305963

I woke up this morning and i thought 2 my self, im gonna go fishing to day.
i strapped on my boots bought a rod from the closest vendor and went to the trainer to learn how to cast.
Stood in the lake and cast my rod. i was fishing for an hour till i caught my first glimpse of him.

he swam past with great speed and before i knew it he stole my bait. that's when i became obsessed. i had to get that fish.

i started with my skill level of 0 and ended at 212.

i caught 455 fish and then i had him, on the end of my line, me jumping with joy.

all in all i took home

270 Mud Snappers
116 catfish
62 smallfish
2 17 pound catfish
2 19 pound catfish
1 bloated mud snapper
and 1 Bandit bracers of agility

XD

Comment by Mdj71

I started fishing at 250 skill and after little more than 1½ hour i got Old crafty, i continued to train fishing and in the following 30 minutes i got it 2 times more.
I got all 3 in the valley of spirits

Comment by 69259

Confirmed The Crocolisks in the city trick 1/19/2009, Did it as an alliance in 5 casts (probably for the best since a few 80s were eyeing me). Turned the daily in and got one of the crocolisk pets an captain rumsey's lager recipe as well....good day in fishing....

Comment by Bloke182

In Reference to the "Crocolisks in the City" theory, I can't guarantee that it works; as I didn't get him right away, and I could have just gotten lucky.

However, given some of the numbers other people have given, and my general luck, it does seem to help.

I spent about 15 min fishing in Valley of Spirit, and another 15 min fishing in the Valley of Honor, before I caught him.

got me from 304-316 fishing skill

I caught and threw back several Crocolisks, and did NOT catch one on the same cast as Old Crafty. He came by himself.

Not sure if location matters, but I caught him standing on the rocks, facing away from the waterfall.

Comment by 44196

Can anyone confirm that the "Crocs in the City" Exploit no longer works after 3.0.8?

At least 7 of us were fishing in orgrimmar, following the exploit perfectly, each of us caught 200+ fish with no sign of crafty.

Comment by 308872

Yes, I am very (very, very!) sorry to report the same here. I can only guess that they got wind of the bug and fixed it in the patch release. Guess I'm a day late and a dollar short. /cry

Comment by 289337

Caught Old Crafty today.

Had Crocolisks in the City daily fishing quest

6 casts only

L78
Fishing 424 (+30)

Caught at waterfall NE side of Orgrimmar

And just in case it is time based; 3:00am server time

Comment by 64664

This is one of these items that makes a Greed window pop up.
So don't make the mistake as I did to keep hitting the fishing bubble once it's moving and click the fishing button right after it.

If you do this while catching Crafty, the window will just dissapear and you'll have to start all over with you're 1 out of a milion casts to get it again.

Comment by 259529

I dont know if it helps any but my husband (level 200 in fishing) had caught old Crafty and when he showed me where he sat, probably within 5 minutes, I also caught Old Crafty. (lvl 348) Go to the pond where the Fishing trainer/supplier are. Sit on the rocks (coords 71/29) Fish to the right of the dock where the trainer and supplier are. Maybe this will work, maybe it wont for you, but just wanted to tell the information of where my husband and I both caught Old Crafty.

Comment by Merryjayne

no luck here.

8:49am server time:
88 longjaw mudsnapper
29 brilliant smallfish
28 bristle whisker catfish
10 baby crocs (threw first 9 back)
1 19 lb catfish
1 lesser healing pot

*not caught in that order.

This is the third time I've tried while having the baby croc quest since latest patch. I don't think that works anymore. Am thinking that its more of a random time/location respawn than anything else. at least I went from fishing 420 to fishing 445.

... will keep trying though.

Comment by 196599

Took me a total of 89 casts.. and no i'm not a nerd who sat their and counted every single cast... i simply am a nerd who added up my total fish at the end with my computers calculator :D.

Comment by 62725

Where were you fishing? Why am I almost up to 4000 casts now and not getting him ? This is crazy.

Comment by 315132

I've recently tried doing the crocolisk daily trick, and as of 3.0.8, it seems like it no longer works. I sat in Orgrimmar in both fishing areas for a good hour or 2 without looting the croc, and never found Old Crafty.

Comment by Wartongue

no tricks, no bugs, no buffs. Skill 450/450. Got him after 297 tryes in Valley of Honor.

Comment by 193960

picked this up after about 50ish fish one my first time leveling my fishing skill, was well chuffed and my guildies have been trying to get him for much longer and have gotten like 3k+ fish and still no sign of the crafty bugger.

next stop ironforge *gulp*

Comment by JauslinSargeras

This Fish does exist!

So i was just fishing with my buddy Dhatchet on the Sargeras server. We were in the Valley of Spirits, and started behind the rock right behind the Priest Trainer. I was like you know what man screw this, after a warlock attacked us. So i went out into the open where the rocks are at next to the portal room( the steps across the water to the priest trainer room) And sat down there and started fishing. My buddy did the same. A few horde came by thought it was akward, 2 guys at different times from the horde guild Exile attacked us. But other than that most just danced and cheered.

After 3 hours of fishing out in the open, I finally got Old Crafty! i submitted a screenshot but here is a link to my photobucket.

http://i673.photobucket.com/albums/vv100/Fricksta1/OldCrafty.jpg

So fellow wow'ers dont give up... you can conquer the legend!

Jauslin - Alliance Sargeras Server

Comment by ilostmahbucket

2/3/09 Patch 3.0.8
Valley of Spirits
152 Raw Longjaw Mudsnapper
43 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
36 Bristle Whisker Catfish
2 19 lb Catfish
1 17 lb Catfish
1 Old Crafty

1 hour 50 minutes of fishing
Crocalisks in the City trick didn't seem to help me too much.

Comment by 137995

It is just awfull... Blizzard should really do something about this... It is not normal to fish 5-6 hours in enemy territory to try catching a fish...
So... i am at my 1000+ cast for this damn fish... i fished at water fall i fished in valley of spirit... i got 50 levels fishing from 400 to 450 with average catch for level of 13 fishes... For 2 days since level 450 i fish in Orgrimmar without any luck. I will continue fishing since i wanna see how many used hours blizzard makes us waste on such a dumb thing!
BLIZZARD - get your head straight and resolve this drop rate! You can remove "bugs" but you can not increase a drop rate? Shame on you!

Ally for ever! Zhivago - Eonar!

Comment by HigginZ

Verification that of this very moment, you can still catch Old Crafty in the phased Ogrimmar as part of the Retaking of Undercity quest chain. 263 casts.

Comment by 229501

i actualy fished the old crafty.
here stats
266 things and fish
and i fished the old crafty
drop rate for me 0.4%

Comment by 298694

Amazing. After hundreds of tries for Old Ironjaw with no luck in IF, I fish up Old Crafty in Org. Some stats:

During the Retaking of Undercity Chain
Valley of Honor on the rocks just to the right of the docks (71.29)
26 casts(!) Skilled from 342 - 345

I had already fished up the baby croc for Crocolisks in the City in Ironforge, but I kept it in my bags. Odd, that. I think I'll go try for Ironjaw again before going further in the quest chain. I'll let you know if I have any luck. ;)

Good luck, everyone!

Comment by Ward5x5

As of 3.0.8 I can confirm that the Crocolisks in the City exploit no longer works, I did 250 casts in at the waterall in Orgrimmar's Valley of Honor so far with the quest in my log. Caught 7 Baby Crocolisks but not a single Old Crafty.

Comment by 246016

I've pulled a couple hundred fish out of Ogrimmar waters since 3.0.8 and no Crafty. I'm also fishing the instance version of Ogrimmar so it may be that or just bad luck but I'm going to try the other pond for another couple hundred fish then battle my way in and see if I have any better luck in the real ogrimmar...

Comment by bloodtalon

If you are not at max fishing skill, make sure your skill is not capped. You will probably do quite a lot of fish catching, so you may as well get skill points for it.

I'm not clear what you mean by this - If you are using lures or equipment to increase your fishing skill, you can still gain skill ups even if the bonuses put you above the fishing skill cap. Fishing skill ups just become rarer the closer that you get to the cap.

Comment by 238442

Decided to randomly level fishing and got this second cast of the night.

Random is random.

Comment by Mokoena

I'm trying it for 3 days as a Night Elf Death Knight on Frostmane realm.

First day i've been on Valley of Spirits. Took of all my gear, get on the Deathcharger and pushed to the valley. As soons as i get there, used Shadowmeld to lose aggro from the Grunts and waited till the path was clear, then went behind the big hut. Easy to fish here but, as told in another comment above, people can "hear" you fish. So, if they hear you there, you're screwed, due the damn high people movement there (portals).

Second day i went to the Valley of Honor. Mounted and pushed to there, died like 2 times on my way (Damn Lvl 58) and, as soon as i've got into the river, Shadowmelded. Thank God i have really bad luck and when i was Shadowmelded waiting for people to leave so i can run to the waterfall, a 80 Orc Warrior just passed by my side and killed me, lol. Returned to the Drag, then i just ressed on the waterfall and /lied down on the stones in front of it. Nice to fish there too but sometimes people can see you.

The best place i found for myself was the waterfall. I know its hard to see the Bobber when you there, but here's a tip: Go the the Video Menu, then Effects tab and put you Spell Detail on Mininum. You will barely see the waterfall and can fish for life there. It's nice on the stones in front of it too, but i think you will get unseen at the waterfall, unless people are REALLY looking for you.

Leveled my fishing skill from 225 to 270 there and still no fish... Well.. i was thinking on going to Outland only when i reach 300 Fishing, so i think i got a long time to catch this Crafty one :D

Good luck Fishing!

Edit:

And i noticed aswell that... when you're at the stones in front of the waterfall, like 15% of your casts will land in boulders where you cannot click to fish. On the waterfall, not only one cast was unclickable to me... so i think there's the better place! Just put your spell detail on minimun!

Edit 2:

Just got mine!
Got the 1000 Fish Achievement and, 1 catch later, got the Old Crafty, lol.

Heres my catching summary:

76 Bristle Whisker Catfish
180 Longjaw Mud Snapper
56 Brillian Smallfish
3 17 Pound Catfish
1 19 Pound Catfish
3 Lesser Healing Potions
1 Tigerseye (From that Mud Snapper that i just forgot the name)
1 Old Crafty

Comment by Leafbucket

Got Old Crafty as my 40th fish. With a cheep fishing rod and a bubble. (fishing skill 40)
3/12/09

Comment by 306541

I must be ungodly lucky. I managed to fish up Old Ironjaw in IF in about 7 casts. Laughed like a maniac (I'd expected to be there hours), hearthed to Dalaran, and made my way to Org. I managed to get Old Crafty in 13 minutes, with a 3% chance of being fished up, so I guess I was perhaps 30 casts in when I got him. All in less than an hour.

You may hate me now.

Edit - I had 249 fishing with a normal pole, no extras, for Ironjaw. Picked up Crafty at 253 or so.

Comment by 290244

I'd like to take a moment to flagellate Horde. I mean, seriously. I go in to fish Old Crafty wearing a dress and a shirt, unarmed, I'm no threat. And yet - at two separate times - I have a pack of fully armoured 80s waiting for me, and the other I have a 74 (who I'd usually take no problem) hunting me down.

FFS!

Comment by FiuzA

im on safe Orgri, with crocolisks in the city on my questlog fishing for old crafty. When i began i had like 220 fishing skill. Now I have 330 skill and still no sign of him.

What leads me to conclude that the crock daily bug no longer exists. And I even wonder if old crafty is fishable on the "safe" orgri.

Still trying though...

Cheers all

Comment by 337936

Did this on my human warlock, and I disagree with those that say you should run to the waterfall. You lose a lot of time because of the bobber landing out of your line of site. I did it behind the rock and tree in the valley of spirits. Only a couple times did a horde player notice me (usually a priest or someone getting training in one of the buildings).

Comment by 322517

Make sure you don't click your cast button too quickly if you use autoloot, because it will ask you "are you sure you want to loot this?" and if you move or re-cast, old crafty will be gone... Just learned that one the hard way.

Comment by Gundy

Server: Bloodscalp
Player: Helstrom
Level and Class: LVL 78 Blood Elf Retribution Paladin
Start Date/Time: 03.20.09 - 4:00 PM PST
End Date/Time : 03.21.09 - 2.27 AM PST

My original objective was to level my fishing and to get the 1000 Fish achievement. Being in Orgrimmar, I decided to do the Old Crafty Achievement. And what was I thinking, getting myself into this. For almost 11 hours, I fished in both of the ponds and not once did I get that crafty fish until I decided to give up and threw the last cast in. I was even ready to talk to a GM when all of a sudden I caught him. I swear I had a relapse when I saw that BoP box pop up.

This is my final tally of what I fished up:

709 - Raw Longjaw Mud Snappers
284 - Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
189 - Raw Brilliant Smallfish
2 - 17 Pound Catfish
2 - 19 Pound Catfish
1 - 22 Pound Catfish
4 - Lesser Mana Potions
2 - Lesser Healing Potions
1 - The One Ring (really caught my eye there.....)
1 - Bloated Mud Snapper (contained 1 Shadowgem)
1 - Soldier's Belt of the Bear

and the grand finale......

1 - Old Crafty

All I have to say now if that I wish it was a one-handed weapon. Now, dont get me wrong when i say what I am about to say. I love to fish in real life and on WoW, and I had one hell of a time with this quest. I Just want to take Old Crafty and beat him to a senseless pulp. Maybe feed him to an ogre, kill the ogre and take Old Crafty back to feed him to another one. As much trouble he gave me, he deserves it!

My final words for Old Crafty and for anyone willing to take the time finding him are these...

1) Grab a case of beer, your choice.
2) Sit Back and Relax.
3) Pray very hard that you don't end up waiting as long as I did.
4) If all else fails and you give up, try one more time....

With that said and done, I wonder what Old Ironjaw will have in store for me.

Happy Fishing,

Hels
*Do you want a soda? Hmm? Well screw you, I tried!*

Comment by 337267

55 casts and he was MINE! =D Lucky me

Comment by 329455

ALLIANCE
Snoogadie <Seriously>
80 Human Rogue
Lightbringer

Well, I thought I might as well level my fishing and have a crack at the elusive "Old Crafty".

47 - Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
16 - Raw Brilliant Smallfish
11 - Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
1 - 19 Pound Catfish

... and of course, Old Crafty Hhimself.

Just as I thought to myself "Hey, you know your luck is really crappy, right?" Struggling to remember the last time I actually won a Need/Greed roll on an item I wanted and also my 17 runs of Scarlet Monestary to get the damn Tabard.

Just goes to show that anyone's luck will come around; don't give up now!

I was at 39, 84 in the Valley of Spirits. If you go right around the back of one of the houses, there is a palmtree with a chunky base there that easily obscures you (and more importantly, your bright-red name!) from opposing players.

Good luck and good fishing!

Comment by psychuil

I just snuck into OG to try and catch him (ally ftw..).
And got him in less then 10 mins!
Could it be that he's easier for alliance?

Comment by 222853

After two hours I finally caught Old Crafty. Here's how my battle breaks down.

My initial fishing skill was 100 with the +25 fishing pole.
On my 248th cast I finally received a lesser mana potion instead of one of the raw fish and that brought my skill up to 189.
My 297th cast was finally Old Crafty and my fishing skill was 199.
I didn't get anything but him and the one lesser mana potion that was out of the ordinary.
299th cast finally brought me to a 200 fishing skill.

Here's a list of what i caught:
171 raw longjaw mud snappers
73 raw bristlewhisker catfish
53 raw brilliant smallfish
1 lesser mana potion
1 Old Crafty

Comment by 151053

OMG... 1,348 casts later... 713 in the Valley of Honor and 635 in Valley of Spirits... caught him in the Valley of Spirits... total time fishing was 6 hours... what a pain

Comment by 179093

I found a way to avoid being spotted. After reading everything I could on this, I stripped completely naked for my run into Orgrimmar, and headed to the back entrance on my mount. I was naked so that in the event someone spotted me, hopefully they would realize I was just there to fish, and that if they attacked me anyway, I wouldn't have to worry about repairs. My title was turned off to reduce my name, and I ran straight for the Valley of Spirits. I quickly found the building had a back area where one was very well hidden and after shaking the guards, I immediately /sleep to reduce my profile and started casting. For those with coordinates, the location I found was around 38.5, 88.0. It's practically invisible back there and it's not as far as the waterfall in Valley of Honor so I would highly recommend it for Alliance players.

I was extremely lucky as I found the slippery devil after just forty-four casts.

Comment by Redbark

I finally caught Old Crafty as an Alliance character in phased Ogrimmar using the Fate, Up Against Your Will quest. How many casts? 1,306.

Comment by 346114

Old Crafty still drops when phased in Ogrimmar. It just takes a while. I was standing on the shore, facing the rocks, in the Valley of Spirits.

I did not have the Crocolisk quest.

Old Crafty was the 2182nd thing I had fished up in Ogrimmar. It took quite a while.

I also went up 253 fishing lvls.

Comment by quebmb

I know that there is a bit of a debate on whether the baby croc fishing daily still affects the drop rate of old crafty, and there is also some debate on whether or not old crafty can be caught in the 'phased' Org for alliance characters.

As of today (April 7th 2009) I got me my baby croc fishing daily and I am sitting in the Valley of Spirits in the phased Org fishing. Now according to all of the previous exploit reports people generally caught old crafty within a couple casts. I think the most I saw was within the first 20 casts while using the baby croc exploit.

I'm currently up to about 50 casts, and no sign of old crafty as of yet. I'll update if he shows up.

Comment by 347156

I just caught this guy a few days ago. Came on here to see what the % was. Doesn't seem to be very high for some of you.

I decided to make my very first twink, and picked up the fishing skill so I could go after the hat from the STV tourney. So 1 night, I decided to level my fishing from 1, all the way to 150. I didn't even know this fish existed, until I caught him on my 2nd cast. That's right...2 casts. I did nothing special at all, besides the Bauble thing (we all know how bad fishing is at low levels, everything gets away).

It worked out perfectly too, since I'm a twink hunter. 1h axe in 1 hand, and old crafty in the other with his very useful +5 stamina boost.

Comment by Corhen

i cought Old Crafty the cast i looked him up on this verry page!
mabey the luck of the other people wore off on me

Comment by 331395

Here's my totals...

218 Longjaw Mud Snapper
71 Bristle Whisker
63 Brilliant Small
2 Lesser Mana
1 19 Pound Catfish
1 Lesser Healing Potion

Total 356 fish

Comment by 91007

fished him up today 04/11/2009, v3.08. have quest "fate. up against your will" which made it nice and easy with no aggressive mobs. took 458 casts of the line, but i caught him.

Comment by 275398

Have two of these sitting in my bags. Kind of a shame there's no real use for them, they could at least make him used for some kind of fun cosmetic food or something. Oh well, maybe I'll use him for my epic fish-fighting set some day.

Comment by 288365

Today i learned fishing and 10 minutes after that (my first bauble still active), i got this one (at 18 skill). Too bad im not one of those that really wanted the achievment.

Comment by 49781

115x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
280x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
90x Raw Brilliant Smallfish
2x Lesser Healing Potion
1x 17 Pound Catfish
Old Crafty was my 499th catch.

I spent 2.5 hours on my first stakeout in Orgrimmar. The following night, after having logged out in Orgrimmar (since I am Alliance), I caught him within 10 minutes.

My Advice: Don't try to do it in one sitting. Take it 30 minutes or an hour at a time, and then just play an alt for awhile in between sessions. Superstitious maybe, but at the end you'll be less frustrated about the amount of time you spent fishing.

P.S. Elixir of Camouflage is a great idea.

Comment by Ishtori

It looks like you can no longer fish in the phased orgimmar after 3.1.0. I've thrown 3 casts and there has been nothing on the line. It'll act like I caught something, but I'll get nothing out of it.

Comment by 348126

Using the Crocolisk fishing daily no longer appears to work sadly. Guess I was too late for that boat.

Comment by 352766

I don't know how, but I just caught him twice when fishing for only 30 mins in org.

Comment by Specialchef

Today I caught Old Crafty near the fishing trainer after three casts. I also caught Baby Crocolisk during the same cast, so either the bug was re-implemented with 3.1, or I'm just extremely lucky.

Comment by 353305

Got my strong fishing pole, lucky fishing hat, and a +100 lure, fell asleep next to the fishing trainer in Org and started fishing. 7 min and 30 casts later caught old crafty. I thought this was going to be painful like catching Mr. Pinchy...but no way.

Comment by Zcuis

Spent 30min to get Old Crafty.

24 Longjaw Mud Snappers
9 Brisle Whisker Catfish
5 Brilliant Smallfish
1 Old Crafty

Achievements
Old Crafty= Done
Old Ironjaw= Done

Comment by 324925

I had luck, ~10 minutes fishing with 20 casts and got him

3 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
3 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
13 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
1 Old Crafty

Comment by 234545

raw longjaw mud snapper * 780
raw brilliant smallfish * 220
raw bristle whisker catfish * 297
lesser healing potion * 3
lesser mana potion * 1
17lb catfish * 3
19lb catfish * 2
pattern: dark leather tunic * 1

1307 Casts.

This is what i got while fishing for Crafty.

Comment by 218900

Took about 7 hours of fishing in Orgrimmar (over a few sessions) to finally catch, Old Crafty.

I lost track of how many fish I had caught in that time, but I'd estimate 1500+

I caught about 8 potions, 6 greens (including the 1 ring), 10-15 "weighted" fish, and a truckload of the regular catches. In total I was only ganked 1 time, but I did log off a few times to avoid problems.

It was a hell of a tedious achievement, but it does add a sense of satisfaction. Especially considering that I caught, Old Ironjaw on the 2nd cast. :)

Advice:
If you fish near the waterfall, your bobber will go into a wall. Sometimes making it "unclickable." If this happens, quickly recast. I suspect I could have lost an Old Crafty by not being able to click the bobber on more than one occasion.

Comment by Internalrage

Does anyone know if the drop rate was improved recently? I mean significantly too. I got it in the Valley of Spirits on my 17th cast.

Comment by 218900

I would be surprised if the drop rate was changed. Luck works like that. I caught, Old Ironjaw, on my 2nd cast. It took well over 7 hours for, Old Crafty.

Think of it like the lottery. Someone could buy one ticket and win. Most people could spend their entire lives doing nothing but buying lottery tickets every day and not win. Just because that person won the lottery doesn't mean that everyone will be so lucky.

Comment by willdawg01

Anyone know what's up with those two pins around 42.1,9.1?

Comment by AlleyCat67

I guess I was just lucky with mine..... I didn't time it out to the minute like some people did... only took slightly over an hour as an 80 troll mage.

Longjaw Mud Snapper: 159 (59.551%)
Brilliant Smallfish: 42 (15.730%)
Bristle Whisker Catfish: 62 (23.221%)
Bloated Mud Snapper: 1 (0.375%) (contained Shadowgem)
Old Crafty: 1 (0.375%)

Also had 3 casts that came back empty as I did not see the bobber move due to other players running right by my lure. (1.124%)

Total: 267 casts

In addition, skilled my fishing from 225 to 264.

This was done using Seth's Graphite Fishing Pole (+20 fishing buff)

Figured I would get my 1000 Fish achievement but Old Crafty came at 902.

Comment by shadebane

Horde:
Bloodraven - BE Paladin

2150 fish caught and counting. I swear this fish does not exist anymore...

The sad thing is, I know that I probably should have caught him by now as I've clicked to early, or missed clicking on the bobber at least 20-30+ times. I'll update as soon as I get him...

Comment by 353711

You think you had a hard time?

Welcome to my hell.

Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper x1091
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish x 789
Raw Brilliant Smallfish x 354
19 Pound Catfish x 7
17 Pound Catfish x 3
Lesser Mana Potion x 3
The 1 Ring x 1
Lesser Healing Potion x 1
Formula: Enchant Bracer - Lesser Spirit x 1
Old Crafty - Not yet!

I think I am going to cry soon.

Comment by 382229

I caught it in 30min

Get

34 Longjaw Mud Snappers
16 Brisle Whisker Catfish
9 Raw Brilliant Smallfish

and finally

1 Old Crafty

Comment by lilsniff

My living hell:
1st day, 1040 casts in the Valley of Spirits
NO CRAFTY just alot of junk and ONE of that item that contains 1 gem.

Now! 2nd day, 1396 casts
got:
LOADS of , got like around 500 i think..
and some (about 400)
then some (400/500)
and then:
x1
x2

and...

My beloved

Comment by 386340

i just got this.. took Approx 200 tries to get this lil bugger

I was 250 Fishing skill

Fished at Valley of Honor Not facing the water fall but away from it.. (not sure this helps anyone but who knows)

basically you have to wait until you get it

Good Luck

Comment by pezzie

OK, ok, everyone beat me with a dead fish! I am alliance, so sneaking into Org isnt always the easiest. The guards killed me. When I rezd, i managed to get to the pond at the Valley of Spirits. FIRST CAST I got Old Crafty. ....runs and hides...

FireJedi, Doomhammer Realm, Draenei Hunter

Comment by Adarie

This achievement seriously drove me insane.

I was pretty decent at not missing many casts, but occasionally I would miss one that landed in the rocks, or someone else would be fishing and I happen to misclick.

Regardless, my stats after many hours of fishing are:

Valley of Honor 4340 Catches
- Raw Longjaw Mud snapper x 2650
- Bristle Whisker Catfish x 938
- Brilliant Smallfish x 681
- 70 Miscellaneous items

It sucked, and it took a long freaken time...but, that's what I get for catching Old Ironjaw in 5 casts.

Comment by Vortun

I fished next to a tauren, and then I see him get the old crafty achievement, I say grats and keep fishing, later he goes "Lol, just got it again" a bit later he got the 100 fish achievement... Some people are just incredibly lucky

Comment by 400673

***WARNING***

Do NOT assume this will be a "quick" grind of an hour or two.

I was in Org for the midsummer fire quest and thought I would stop by and get Old Crafty while I was there. I have maxed out fishing skill and was fishing from under the waterfall in Valley of Honor. Valley of Spirits doesn't seem to let you fish there anymore.

Results:

5 1/2 hours fishing (no breaks)

1020 fish - total of the three kinds
3 17lbs fish
1 22lbs fish
2 19lbs fish
1 bloated fish (tigereye - big whoop)
2 heal potion
1 mana potion

0 old crafty

ZERO OLD CRAFTY

You may get lucky and get him sooner, good for you. Just don't do like I did and think this would be a matter of fishing for a little bit, it is extremely long and frustrating.

If you have the endurance, go for it, I wish you luck.

I also got Old Ironjaw quickly, within five minutes. And again two casts later. Maybe if you do good on one you are doomed for the other....

Comment by 409668

314 x Raw Longjaw Mudsnapper
117 x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
092 x Raw Brilliant Smallfish
004 x 17 Pound Catfish
001 x Baby Crocolisk
001 x Old Crafty

529 Fish caught. I had a few misses that I didn't bother recording.

Fished on and off all day. I'd camp out when I was discovered and play another toon.

Good luck!

Comment by 428400

This experience has been trying and painful. Over the past 1.5 days I have spent I'd say about 6-8 hours fishing. I fished 1049 fish up Orgrimmar. 1049! the last being old crafty. Here are my stats:

638 Longjaw Mud Snappers
226 Bristle Whisker Catfish
178 Brilliant Smallfish
3 19-Pound Catfish
2 17-Pound Catfish
1 Lesser Healing Potion
1 Old Crafty

On the upside, I went up in skill level from around 330 to 420 and am now a grand master fisherman.

All I can say is, I'm glad its over and Old Crafty is mine!

Comment by 433510

I will not post something poetical, I will cut to the chase.
I did this on my level 44 gnome warlock, which is progressing and aiming to be a 49 twink. This was supposed to be an easy bonus, as I gained this (wrong) impression of this fish by all the "I got it in 402 casts!"-posts. I started by fishing in the Valley of Spirits behind the cabin, but I never felt safe. My experience is that people check here more often. After around 3 days, I decided to spend 10 more wipes and reach the waterfall in Valley of Honor. I fished practically untouched here, except for an idiot named Chundeath, a green-geared death knight which logged at my fishing spot. I don´t know how many hours I spent, but I know how many fish I fished before I got it. Here is my results;

Remarkable catches:
Old Crafty x1
Green Leather Bag x1
Simple Gloves x1
Infantry Gloves x1
22 Pound Catfish x1
Bloated Mudfish x2

Other stuff:
Lesser Healing Potion x A lot.
19 Pound Catfish x A lot.
17 Pound Catfish x A lot.

Fish:
Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper x Loads.
Raw Brilliant Smallfish x Loads.
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish x Loads.

Total Fish:
= 3241 fish (not including items and non-fish drops) before I got Old Crafty.

Don´t expect this in under 1000 fish, you will be disappointed. Outsmart Old Crafty! Good luck, angler!

- Corporal Wat, EU Doomhammer. (In case you have to wowarmory me and check my statistic.)
The fish also looks awesome used with a Tainted Pierce and buccaneer-gear. Yarr!

Comment by 426309

As a Night Elf druid, i was fishing in Orgrimmar for over 10 and a half hour now in a row, still i didn't got Old Crafty....

My fishing skill went from 213 to 432. I was fishing in the spot, what Olfan mentions, though i have found it before i read his comment.

I don't know how much fishes i caught, but i started at 605 total catches and reached about 2700+ total catches last time i checked (I don't know exactly).

The only problem with that spot, which is mediocre, because you are practically invisible for the horde, is that your cast can land in a wall, or you get LoS'd by the two stones (or at least i did fish facing the stones, so i could get a better camera angle on the incoming hordes.)

Got ganked 2 times, and killed 6 hordies (3 honorable). I will update this post as soon as i catch that devil of a fish.

EDIT: Okay, fished for a little more time (about 5 hours) and decided to give up. This fish is not for me.

Comment by Priderage

Caught Old Crafty after three or four days of trying. What's interesting to note is that no confirmation box appeared to confirm looting him.

Comment by CaptainFlameGuy

Just fished in Orgrimmar for this guy, after 9 hours of constant fishing I finally caught it. I even got a horde guy to help me out!

Stats:

140× Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
427× Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
110× Raw Brilliant Smallfish
3× 19 Pound Catfish
2× Bloated Mud Snapper, one contained a Tigerseye, and I accidentally clicked the other one away.
1× 22 Pound Catfish
1× Old Crafty

Now what should I do with all this fish..

Comment by 288572

I decided to level up fishing for the achievements, so I figured doing 1-450 in org would be the best choice because of Old Crafty.

I started getting annoyed from levels 300-400, but on my 2157th cast I nailed him. (Around level 408/450)

It worked out amazingly because in the process I got the 1000 Fish, Grand Master Fisherman, and half of the Fishing Diplomat achievements done.

So if your thinking of speed leveling fishing, go Orgrimmar or Ironforge (For Old Ironjaw if your Alliance) all the way!

Comment by maketho

45 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
13 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
6 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
1 19 Pound Catfish
1 17 Pund Catfish
1 Lesser Healing Potion
1 Lesser Mana Potion
1 Old Crafty :D

Comment by 296147

Caught him on my 69th cast while a Journeyman so anyone can get it.

Comment by tobiashunter

Alliance, level 71.

Got ganked twice. After the 2nd time a few more horde's showed up and waited on my body for me to respawn. Took them 15 min before they left. Hearthstoned out, luckily cause a hunter was apparently tracking humanoids and came to try to hit me (saw before my screen changed).

No old Crafty, Got:

160 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
44 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
23 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
2 17 pound Catfish
1 Scheme: Mechanical Squirrel Box
2 Lesser Health Potions
1 Lesser Mana Potion

I'll try again next monday (my next full morning off)

Comment by anaamika

As Alliance, I had more luck at the Valley of Honor than the Valley of Spirits simply because there were less people around no matter what time of day. Got jumped several times near the portal, during which time I only managed to catch the following:
Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper - 254
Bloated Mud Snapper - 1 (contained Shadowgem)
Raw Brilliant Smallfish - 70
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish - 78
19 Pound Catfish - 2

After that I gave up and headed over to the waterfall in Valley of Honor where I found the perfect fishing spot behind the rocks, but just in front of the waterfall itself. Visibility is really poor unless you tilt your camera angle so you're looking from directly overhead. This way you have quite a view of the pool in front of the falls so you can see incoming Horde (if any) and you also have a great view of your bobber even if it's cast into the rocks as so frequently happens. Just mouse over the rocks and you sometimes find the bobber clickable. If not, simply recast and keep going. In this spot I didn't get jumped even once, and I caught:
Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper - 144
Raw Brilliant Smallfish - 40
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish - 40
17 Pound Catfish - 1
Lesser Mana Potion - 1
Lesser Healing Potion - 1
Old Crafty - 1

Going by the number of nightcrawlers I used in my entire time there, I estimate it took less than 150 minutes to fish him up. By the way, did this as a level 63 balance druid, so getting jumped usually meant getting one-shotted, and also, running over to Valley of Honor meant endless corpse runs because of all the higher level guards between The Drag and there, but it was worth it in the end to be left alone by players once I got there. Only reason I persisted was because I'd just fished up Old Ironjaw right before and wanted the matching pair :) Between these 2 guys, the coins from the Dalaran fountain and the sewer rat, I'd be happy if I never fished again in my life... or until the next Stranglethorn event <sigh>

Good luck to everyone else trying for this!

Comment by 454901

Did it with fishing skill 23 today... that totaly ruined the good feeling i hoped i would have if i catch him one day... Good luck (sorry for mistakes and poor english)

Comment by zsilent

Dropped after about 15mins of fishing for me.
I'm not so lucky on :(

Comment by Superczar

Wow, some of you are lucky, I just got him tonight and it took about 2000 casts all together. :o

Shocked the hell out of me when I saw the green item in the loot window right before the achievement flashed...

Comment by Teloch

I went from 1 - 107 fishing before I got this.
I was level 15, if you are wondering on the level.

Although I'd never use this in my off-hand, it's a nice trophy.

Comment by 458685

Just wanted to set the record straight... The drop rate (bite rate) still effen sux!

Valley of Honour: Orgrimmar

485 Longjaw Mud Snappers (59%)
198 Brisle Whisker Catfish (24%)
123 Brilliant Smallfish (15%)
4 17 Pound Catfish
1 22 Pound Catfish
1 Lesser Mana Potions
1 Bloated Mud Snapper
1 OLD CRAFTY!

I dont think I was ever as happy to click on my hearth stone at that point....
Big shout out to a lowbie BE called Killnao & his guildy mate Sweak who
took care of me for ages.

Comment by m24bm

My catches:
Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper (84 : 59.6%)
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish (34 : 24.1%)
Raw Brilliant Smallfish (21 : 14.9%)
17 Pound Catfish (1 : 0.7%)
Old Crafty (1 : 0.7%)
Total : 141 catches
I was so happy when I caught him so soon, I tried on the Borean Tundra realm and fished for hours with out luck, this only took about an hour.
-- Happy Fishing and Good Luck =)

Comment by pikarya

0/3,943.. Seriously getting annoyed.

Comment by jprich

Fishing in the waterfall in the Valley of Honor.
I have Crocolisks in the City.
I finished the Wraithgate event but do not currently have the quest to go to Orgrimmar with Jiana ( abandoned it ).
Maxed fishing with the purple warlus people fishing pole.

All my casts return empty windows. I dont catch ANYTHING except for the the baby crocolisk every now and then but thats it. No regular fish, no junk, no potions, etc etc.

Got a GM ticket in to see if they locked down fishing from after Wraithgate until you complete the battle for undercity....

Comment by melktart

To all those that posted stats on how many casts they had and fish they fished up before fishing up Old Crafty: was there an addon that you used for that? Or did you just simply keep track manually? Just curious.

Comment by 481853

Logged in at 7 am, finished at 8:17 am.

129 Mudsnapper 58.6%
52 Catfish 23.6%
35 Smallfish 15.9%
2 Mana Potion .009%
1 17 Pound Catfish .004%
1 Old Crafty .004%

220 Total Casts

Starting Fishing Skill: 334
Ending Fishing Skill: 365

Ganked three times. Soulstoned back immediately and resumed fishing without missing a beat each time.

Good luck!

Tsetse
63 Gnome Warlock
Ursin Realm

Comment by psipress

190 -- Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
82 -- Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
53 -- Raw Brilliant Smallfish
2 -- Lesser Healing Potions
1 -- Lesser Mana Potion
1 -- 19 Pound Catifsh
1 -- Old Crafty

I just hung out all afternoon and fished while I watched a movie. It really didnt take that long if you consider only 330 casts. It is VERY boring though.

Comment by 450417

1:00 A.M. - I decide to level my cooking and fishing. Started fishing in the TB pond, then I thought of this achievement and thought eh wtf it's one in a million but i might actually catch this if i level in org.......went to org at 75 fishing, at level 113 guess who showed up :D
I couldn't believe it, I'm assuming I'm very lucky cause I thought he was rare as hell, anyway I'm glad I got him cause leveling fishing is the most mind numbing aspect of this game. I guess I should go level the rest in IF for the other fish huh ;)

btw, I didn't use anything but a strong fishing pole that gives like the +5 fishing or whatever, cause I got some whispers in trade asking what I used for bait. What? c'mon of course I linked it in trade, who wouldn't? :P

Comment by barunedpat

BTW alliance, It is impossible to get this fish while on the quest Fate, up against your will. ALSO note that after abandoning the quest, Orgrimmar will still be "different" and it will not be possible to catch the fish. In other words, you have to complete the quest(line?) to go back and fish in Org.

I found it helped alot using the /lie emotion, cause draeneis kindof stand out :P. Bringing a vendor and perhaps some invisibility pots may also come in handy.
GL!

Comment by 515678

I got him! Finally, after 2 and 1/2 hours of fishing. I never have to fish in Orgrimmar again. Well, unless there's another quest. YAY!

Comment by Argontus

Finally got the elusive one. Took 1h 53m and ~300 casts, stuff that I caught:

Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper x 167 (58.4%)
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish x 67 (23.4%)
Raw Brilliant Smallfish x 47 (16.4%)
19 Pound Catfish x 1 (0.3%)
17 Pound Catfish x 1 (0.3%)
Old Crafty x 1 (0.3%)

+ some other stuff, like potions and random green pants. Started at fishing skill 1, capped at 50 (obviously).

Died 5 or 6 times because of nasty hordies (me being a yummy Gnome). To avoid corpse running try to fish there at night and during quiet hours. Behind the big rocks and waterfall in Valley of Honor (at 66,26) is a nice place to hide away from the ugly ones.

Comment by nuckingfutz

This is driving me crazy. My baby 'lock fished up not one but TWO Old Crafties. One at skill 44 (!) and another at 100-something.

My shadow priest, on the other hand, has her fishing skill COMPLETELY maxed out and has cast over 600 times. No old crafty.

Random catch is definitely very random.

Comment by 492929

I was leveling fishing on an alt today in Org. Hit 26 fishing and up came Crafty.

I have multiple level 80s and have never been able to catch him. Funny how drops work..

Comment by 529044

I'm ally night elf druid so I was nervous about this. I went in the west side bridge, stealthed in cat form. I stayed in the shallows by the Valley of the Spirits. Took off all my gear so it wouldn't break if someone came at me. Then I fished. One guy came up and blew me a kiss after I /cower. The next group poned me. The rest all danced with/flirted with me...prolly because I was a naked female night elf! But I got Old Crafty after about an hour. Good luck!

Comment by 201261

Be willing to spend some time fishing for him I would say it took me about 3 and a half hour to get him with 450+140 for total fishing skill

Comment by 530622

Caught him roughly fifteen minutes after starting to fish specifically for him. My fishing rank was exactly 200 when I caught him. Was using a Strong Fishing Pole and an Aquadynamic Fish Attractor.

Comment by 354123

After one night fishing in Orgrimar i got

99 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
21 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
31 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
2 19 Pound Catfish
1 17 Pound Catfish
0 Old Craftys :(

But i did get a 17 pound Catfish and a 19 Pound Catfish within two casts of each other.

Comment by 549802

Total: 60
Longjaw Mud Snapper (37: 61.7%)
Bristle Whisker Catfish (14: 23.3%)
Brilliant Smallfish (8: 13.3%)
Old Crafty (1: 1.7%)

Comment by jarre13

Well... you could spend several weeks trying to fish this thing up, or do as me!

i have 450 fishing, the rod with 5+ and i bought a lure with 100+, so 555 fishingskill total, took 10 min, i got:
63x
24x
17x
and of course 1 ^^
hapy hunting/fishing

Comment by 550302

Here's a neat tip for alliance doing this in OG: go to Valley of Honor and there to the waterfall.

Now if you just stand somewhere and fish, your fishing bobber will land in rocks very often or it's not visible because of the blooming waterfall. Go to the three big rocks southern in the waterfall area, stand on the right one (seen from waterfall) so you are hidden, turn yourself to the city, and fish.

You can fish through the stone, are not visible, and the bobber will never land where you can't click it. If you don't know what I mean I can post a screenshot.

Don't forget to go naked and it's best if you do the achievement while your fishing skill is not capped. I got from zero to 475 only doing this achievement and fishing dailies.

900 catches in IF until I got the other one, and 700 for this one..

PS: I think that your fishing skill is not relevant for those two, e.g. you could learn fishing and do it, I don't recall the exact skill level I had (you could prolly math it out with ~900 tries and the fishing skill progression. I think I was well under 300 (like 280 or so) when I caught ironjaw.

Comment by 553201

Just caught him tonight, first cast at 65, 26 under the waterfall in Valley of Honor.

Comment by 121318

Caught him in 380 casts in the Valley of Honor under the waterfall. Only spotted once as alliance rogue.

Comment by 557334

Just got him in the Honor pools.

167 Raw longjaw mud snapper's
61 Raw bristle whisker catfish
43 Raw brilliant smallfish
76 Fishing skill points
1 Old crafty

All done with the basic begginers rod and no lures.

Comment by seanj384

Got him in the Valley of Honor in 141 casts. Good luck to everyone!

Comment by 557190

Caught him after a few hours. 391 casts.

227 Longjaw Mud Snapper
104 Bristle Whisker Catfish
56 Brilliant Smallfish
1 19 Pound Catfish
1 17 Pound Catfish
1 Inscribed Leather Pants

Comment by 576224

Caught Old Ironjaw after about 80 casts.
Caught Old Crafty on my 4th cast.

Comment by 575762

24 casts, caught old crafty. discovered there was an achievement for him, (24 is a guess as i didnt plan on it being of any significance) now ill probably spend hours looking for old ironjaw lol

Comment by Mifuyne

Currently on around 5000 (!) casts,
Fishing in the Valley of Honor and Spirits, whichever is safer at the time.
Fished up loads of stuff, and pretty much munching my own feet off from irritation.

5500 casts, no Crafty yet.
Seems some people get lucky, and some don't :<

Finally got it, at 5700 casts.

Comment by 27736

Total: 67

Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper - 42
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish - 16
Raw Brilliant Smallfish - 7
Lesser Healing Potion - 1
Old Crafty - 1

Had a starting skill of 227, ended on 259, guess I was quite lucky.

Good luck!

Comment by Keeks

0.2% chance? That means 1 in every 500 casts one should be caught. I should have at least 3 by now then...

This is kinda rediculous. Over 9 hours in Orgrimmar lately and nothing, nadda, ziltch.

Congrats to those who got this in under 100 and from 1-500. Guess im one of the unlucky ones.

Comment by 117475

Fished in the Valley of Spirits for ~2.5 hours while watching a movie Tuesday night; no luck there.
Moved to the Valley of Honor, on the bank near the waterfall, and fished ~30 minutes before I caught Old Crafty!

My totals:
329x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
126x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
79x Raw Brilliant Smallfish
1x 17lb Catfish
1x Lesser Healing Potion
1x Burnished Girdle
1x Old Crafty!

---
Skill went from ~280 to 345. I used no lure, just a pole with +20 to fishing.

Comment by Melkoshi

This was terrible luck on my end. A guildmate of mine got this fish before 1000 fish achi. :c

I don't have a complete track, but I fished around 5200 fish. Getting the 1 ring TWICE, along with two different patterns and about 5 greens.

Took me like, a week total of just sitting around inbetween dungeon runs.

Comment by rbernet

11 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
3 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
2 Raw Brilliant Smallfish

1 Old Crafty

----------------------

Time spent in Org: less than 10min

Strong Fishing Pole + 100 fishing skill lure

/shrug

Comment by 328349

Caught 570 fish and a 1 Ring before catching Crafty. Not too bad, but kinda boring.

Comment by 549326

Fished him up after 102 Raw Longjaw Mud Snappers, about 130 casts altogether. Lucky me. Best of luck to everyone else trying to catch this crafty fish! :)

Comment by 611271

Fished around 4 hours at Orgrimmar falls, behind the rocks, to hide from horde. Got killed just few times.
In the end caught Old Crafty.

Here is my luck:

Total things fished: 664

x392 - 59%
x149 - 22%
x116 - 17%
x2 - 0.3%
x2 - 0.3%
x1 - 0.15%
x1 (from some fish) - 0.15%
x1 - 0.15%

Comment by 515037

Under the waterfall with the camera overhead. 3 hours, only ganked twice when I first entered and once a few minutes after.

365 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
126 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
119 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
1 Bloated Mud Snapper
3 17 Pound Catfish
1 19 Pound Catfish
1 22 Pound Catfish
2 Lesser Mana Potion
2 Lesser Healing Potion
1 Old Crafty

Comment by Silputin

400x Raw Longjaw Mud Snappers
145x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfishies
115x Raw Brilliant Smallfishies

No sign of Old Crafty. Probably the biggest waste of time ever for some achi points! :E

Comment by 355785

While working my way towards 2 meta achievements (Classic Dungeon Master and Explorer), I decided to stop into Orgrimar for a friendly game of RUNFORMYLIFE!KILLPATSANDHIDE!. Well, needless to say it took me a couple tries to actually get tucked away under that beautiful waterfall in the North East quadrant of Org. At this point, I decided to check Wowhead for any info that might help. As suggested above, I did the following:

-Installed Hazfish and NoBoPWarning;
-Turned off my music (sorry Coheed and Cambria);
-Turned the Sound FX WAY up, and everything else off;
-Grabbed a book of short stories;
-Click, read, click, repeat.

After about an hour of fishing-and one close call of a level 80 spotting me (switched to an alt for an hour or so)-I had the glorious sound occur which was, as always, indicative of me getting an achievement! That's right! I had now officially caught 250 fish!

...Bah.

Kept fishing for a little while longer and eventually came up with Old Crafty!

Comment by dangcrazy

Kamikaze Unholy DK ran through entire city, followed by 3 mobs (outran all), killed by a hunters pet @ waterfall.
Death
Wisp back, wait, drink Elixir of Camouflage (used 2 total)

1hr 6mins
41 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
141 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
60 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
1 Old Crafty + The Fishing Diplomat

:)

The only thing that tops that is that yesterday I won Kalu'ak Fishing Derby.

Comment by 633317

Luck is an odd thing...The first day i went to Orgrimmar with my ally i had no luck and gave up after the 400 cast.On the second day i went there i got Ol`Crafty on the 8th cast. Weird,huh? ;D

Comment by rokeno

Just caught Old Crafty after catching other 62 fishes!

Comment by ThaRealSnowWhite

Not sure how much this will help everyone, but I just fished him up in the Valley of Spirits. I was leveling up my fishing in between queues for random dungeons and to my surprise it just happened. I wasn't really trying for him, although I needed the achievement. My skill is 113, I got him after about 20-30 casts. It appears he really is just a random, lucky catch. Good luck to those that are trying for him!

Comment by Wildboy

10th cast my friend caught him.. 141th cast nothing for me

Comment by 290685

Was fishing for a bit last night. Got on thismorning and got him on my 11th try. I was prepared for more than an hour of wasted time lol. Now I can go catch my Firefin snappers.
Lvl 24 with 170 fishing, strong fishing pole, and Bright Bauble when I caught him.

Comment by 633323

Just fished this guy up an hour ago, after 3 nights and getting ganked a dozen times.
Somewhere between 10-15 hours spent total across the three sessions.

Here's the results of this expedition:
Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper: 1164 (59.026%)
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish: 446 (22.617%)
Raw Brilliant Smallfish: 340 (17.241%)
17 Pound Catfish: 5 (0.254%)
19 Pound Catfish: 2 (0.101%)
22 Pound Catfish: 2 (0.101%)
Lesser Mana Potion: 5 (0.254%)
Lesser Health Potion: 3 (0.152%)
The 1 Ring: 1 (0.051%)
Simple Cord: 1 (0.051%)
Simple Shoes: 1 (0.051%)
Raider's Legguards: 1 (0.051%)
Old Crafty: 1 (0.051%)

Total: 1972 (100%)

Comment by SumthinSimp

Caught this after about 700-800 casts in the waterfall in the Valley of Honour, and I myself am an Alliance player.

I got ganked a few times despite being fairly well hidden. What I did was whenever I got killed, I logged out immediately and logged into a horde character and politely asked the person to stop killing me as I was going for this achievement and wasn't intending on causing any harm. This worked for me because every time I ran back to my corpse and resurrected, they had left me alone. I can't guarantee that this will always work, but it did for me and may just help keep people from camping you a little bit if you're Alliance as well. Bare in mind that there will be people out there who will go out of their way to spoil your day.

I also used some of the tips previously listed on here such as turning on the 'Sound in Background' setting so that you can browse the web whilst waiting for a bite and turning on auto loot (the Bind on Pickup warning didn't come up for me so you no longer need to worry about that, as previously confirmed multiple times)

Remember to be patient and good luck! :)

Comment by 141710

I decided to try for this achievement while waiting around in Orgrimmar.

This is what I managed to fish up while looking for Old Crafty:

Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper x 277
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish x 93
Raw Brilliant Smallfish x 63
17 Pound Catfish x 2
Old Crafty x 1

Comment by 643627

I also tryed the Old Crafty, and actually caught him at last.
As a level 48 night elf druid, it was not easy to get into Orgrimmar, especially because of my not knowing of the backdoor. So after a dozen of dead/release/run for my corpse, I reached the pool near the portals, this was just before I read about not going there because of high density of players. I was able to fish for one or two hours, rather well hidden against the big wall, as far as i could of the portal, time during which 2 level 80 spotted me, /greet ed me, and went away, and then I got killed by another level 80. I tryed another 30 min in the same spot but got killed again, so I decided to change my spot and go in the other pool.
Fifteen d/r/rfmc later, I am fishing in the second pool, but I realise that this is NOT better than the first one, indeed though much less people go that way, there is a lot of people who jump from the cliff and end up on the pool, and often just on your head, and often they kill you right away. Do not try to fish in the falls, it's a mess you cannot see you'r bobber nor click on it (at least with my configuration), and your eyes will soon stop seeing as the effects are blinding.
However, I met a bunch of nice people, who spared me (most of them actually, out of pity, comprehension or because they wouldn't care enough to dismount), and sometimes even fished with me.
I finally caught him after 3-4 hours of fishing, I started 225 and ended up 322, got about 600-700 fish (I did not keep track). I had to go take the Master Fisherman skill, so I used a trick with a friend, since we are under "refer a friend" (I started wow a mounth ago) I summoned him in Orgrimmar, used my hearthstone, did what I had to do, and then he summoned me and used his hearthstone, so I was able do go back without all the dying stuff.
As a last word I would say that fishing as a level 48 might be far easier than as a level 80, people were kind and would spare me, which they wouldn't do if I were level 80.

Comment by dishcloth

I just fished him up! :D

Longjaw Mud Snapper 40 = 65.6%
Bristle Whisker Catfish 13 = 21.3%
Brilliant Smallfish 7 = 11.5%
Old Crafty 1 = 1.6%

Either the droprates been reduced by alot, or i got really lucky!
Either way ill happly take the acheivement! ;)

Comment by Marimalino

Fished for 2 hrs now. Here's the catch

One "The 1 Ring"
232 longjaw mud snappers
183 smallfish
826 catfishes.

still no crafty , But I won't give up!

Comment by 540044

I just catched it....removed auto loot before and I was so exicted I moved and loot window went poof....ffs

Comment by 662019

1500 casts and no crafty yet.
hope he gets tired soon enough..

Comment by Repcak

81 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
34 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
27 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
1 Old Crafty

Fished from 13:30 to 14:50
Without the quest.

Good Luck for the rest.

Comment by Hairband

This is probably the most clever tip I have read for Alliance players who wish to fish Old Crafty without any pesky PVP action.

http://www.wowhead.com/npc=5951#comments

If the link goes away or the comment gets erased, the OP stated that before he completed the "Battle for the Undercity" event (at which time all the horde cities, including Orgrimmar are phased), you can go fish without any other players or even NPC's.

If you don't know what "Battle for the Undercity" is, you just need to complete Veteran of the Wrathgate and at some time you will go to Stormwind and Jaina opens a portal to Undercity. If you port to UC you will do a rather neat event, but if you don't do the event right away, you can fish Old Crafty!

As an alliance player on a PVP server, I really don't know how I'm going to cast 1500 times without getting my butt handed to me.

Comment by 670320

Wohooo, I got it after 391 casts, and now i can finally go to sleep >_<

Comment by Xarlequin

In case nobody have said this before:
This achievement is not possible to complete during the 'Fate, Up against your will' questline. As a matter of fact, you can not catch a single fish at all. The blobber will splash, but when you click it, <fishing> will fade.

Comment by Pashark

129 cast till Crocolisk in the City, then dropped at 3rd cast.
582 total fishing skill.

Comment by 38598

Caught:
700 junk fish
1 pair of gloves
3 19 pound catfish
6 17 pound catfish
5 potions
Old crafty

Logging out after horde has discovered you helps, also gives you a break. Elixir of camouflage definitely kept hunters off my back. Don't give up! Took me about 8 hours including breaks.

Comment by Fose

Can anyone confirm if the daily quest bug still exist or not? ( I know some mentioned that it was fixed but that was in 3.x)

Comment by astralcoffin

Hello, here are results of my fishing session:

Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper 88
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish 30
Raw Brilliant Smallfish 21
Old Crafty 1
total:140
I was fishing in Valley of Honor, facing south, protected by rocks. It took me only 45 minutes.
Old Ironjaw took me about 8 hours.

Comment by 528936

527th cast for me.

Funny thing is, just before I caught it I said, "Why can't I be one of those people that catch something on like their third cast?"

and boom.

Comment by 705409

First cast fishing diplomat second old crafty . valley of spirits by the rock in the back

Comment by Mughragh

3178 fish caught, 2 weeks of basically nothing but fishing unless i am in an instance. Leveled my fishing form 30-450.

The old world shattered...and poor old mug is still sittin on the docks of Org...dreaming of the day Old Crafty is safely tucked away in his bank...

one day old crafty...one day.

Comment by Mofa

Since the shattering there are lvl 85 guards all over Orgrimmar, so very hard to get in even at 80 as an alliance player. Valley of Spirits is still the way to go imo. I hope i can fish it up soon.

Comment by 504114

Did they change this or something?

Fishing with 450 + 75 + 5 (Fishing Hat) = Approximately 50 casts today, and I snagged him.

I'm wondering if they changed his drop rate.

Comment by 709492

After 977 fish, I finally caught him in the Goblin Slums. Figures he'd choose polluted water to show up in.

Comment by 220018

Got it after 5 minutes.
24
5
3
1 .

Comment by 728513

Just for clarity in case people are wondering if the catch rate for Old Crafty has changed since the release of Cataclysm:

133 x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
44 x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
41 x Raw Brilliant Smallfish
2 x 19 Pound Catfish
1 x 22 Pound Catfish
1 x Old Crafty
Grand Total = 222

Comment by 354223

I just caught him. While I can't tell you how many fish I caught before landing this s.o.b., I'll tell you it took me between 80 and 90 minutes. Happy hunting!

Comment by 716013

I just wanted to say that I just caught this little guy. I've been trying since Burning Crusade started... I caught him once but was auto-looting and it got away. Easily 10,000 or more casts... DAYS worth of fishing in Orgrimmar... But he is mine at last...

Definitely don't have auto-loot on or use shift+looting while trying for this little bugger.

Comment by Paah

Got him on my 42th cast in Orgrimmar. Mere few minutes after "Fishing Diplomat".

Comment by ElementalDub

Just caught this guy for the second time in a week.. both times was while I was fishing in the slums for the fishing daily.

Comment by Pjotor

As of current patch I confirm that this shy little bugger can be caught in the new pond in Valley of Wisdom. It took me about two nights and early mornings to fish him up as a lvl 70 Worgen Rogue. If you're going for this achievement as an ally I recommend the following:

Fly to the waterfall in Valley of Wisdom. Keep above the winged patrols that constantly scout Orgrimmar until you're directly above the waterfall.
Wait until there are no flying patrol below you, dismount and drop down into the pond. Stealth/turn invisible if possible (there might be some hordies there as well, although that's fairly uncommon) and head for the giant plant/bush/whatever to the left of the waterfall.
Sit down behind the plant/bush/whatever, activate your own name tag in Interface - Names - My Name to make sure your name tag is completely invisible from behind the plant/bush/whatever. For the untrained eye, you should now be completely invisible!
Fish away! Ganking is inevitable, especially with hunters around, but they usually get bored after 1-2 kills.

Follow this for a minimum amount of ragecaps. I tried fishing on pretty much every spot in Orgrimmar, and this was the only one where I didn't get raped by guards.

Happy fishin', kids! Don't forget to /golfclap at the toilets that will gank you. :)

Oh yeah, almost forgot my...
BOOOOOOOONUS TRICK!
This Winter Veil it's possible to get a MiniZep Controller which summons a tiny toy zeppelin. Use this to scout the pond for hordies every now and then if you don't want to move from your comfortable seat on the plant/bush/whatever.

Comment by tesh617

They must have changed the drop rate on him, while fishing for old crafty/ bloated fishes in orgrimmar, i got old crafty TWICE within 100 catches. That can't be normal. Did they improve the drop rate or am i just really lucky?

Comment by 750498

Maybe they have increased the drop rate. My fishing lvl is 103 and i used the lvl 1 fishing rod with no lure.

I was just travelling org and went past the valley of wisdom and saw these toons fishing, so i join them.

After 3 casts .... I got Old crafty and the achievement and everyone start saying gratz and all.

...and thats why i came to wowhead to check up whats so special about this fish.

...or maybe i'm just lucky lol

Comment by Olehenrich

Seems being on A Staggering Effort fishing daily quest increases your chance of catching him quite dramatically.

Yesterday I had the quest and caught him on the first cast. Today, same daily quest and, again, first cast I catch him...very strange.

Comment by 775097

I created a new character on a friend realm last night.. A level 14 goblin so far.
I figured I'd might as well do the fishing daily while I was in Oggrimar and I got old crafty as my 11th fish in total.

Sorry.

Comment by bobus1964

Has the drop rate changed ?

I lterally spent days trying for this in the past with other toons and nada.
Earlier this month my lvl 40 alt gets it the same day a fellow guildie gets it.

The lvl 40 alt got it again a week later.

Today my lvl 18 banker got it (was trying to get him to 20 and a mount)

And my main still needs it. I think Blizz is trying to gaslight me.

Comment by swirlza

Just caught him today while doing the Toxic Puddlefish daily.... Total suprise!

Comment by 794980

I think I had a glitch two days ago. I was fishing in org (goblin slums) for a daily and within 5 min of starting I had caught old crafty twice. Then wow had a fatal error and shut down. Once I restarted the game I didnt catch him again.

Comment by 726314

After about 8 hours of fishing (with a break to cook some Swedish pancakes) in Orgrimmar I finally fished up Old Crafty.

Stats:

Orgrimmar: Valley of Spirits
Total: 1380 | Skill: 525+45 (570)
Longjaw Mud Snapper (828 : 60.0%)
Bristle Whisker Catfish (301 : 21.8%)
Brilliant Smallfish (232 : 16.8%)
17 Pound Catfish (7 : 0.5%)
Lesser Mana Potion (3 : 0.2%)
19 Pound Catfish (2 : 0.1%)
Lesser Healing Potion (2 : 0.1%)
Edged Bastard Sword of the Whale (1 : 0.1%)
The 1 Ring (1 : 0.1%)
22 Pound Catfish (1 : 0.1%)
Blazing Wand (1 : 0.1%)

Old Crafty (1 : 0.1%)

For Alliance anglers, there is a really safe spot where you won't be attacked by patrolling guards in Valley of Spirits around - the little corner by south of the gate. The water opposite of there isn't deep enough to fish, but this little spot can be fished at and people rarely pass by here. During the 8 hours I stayed here, I only saw 3 hordies - who all kindly left me alone to fish. :D

Comment by 796006

Caught old crafty in the goblin slums. He was my 26th fish caught on a level 22 alt. Was just doing the daily for cheap xp. /facepalm

Comment by 82362

I had fished for this pretty regularly on one character with no luck. Today I was on my mage doing my fishing daily and I got him in my second cast up in the goblin slums. My fishing skill was only 263+20 (from my fishing pole, nat pagle's extreme angler) and I had only made...about 20 casts total in Orgrimmar during this character's fishing training. I just sat there and stared at my screen for a while thinking it was a joke. :T

Comment by pauladin

Now that there's a few years of published catch data in the comments, we can summarize the 16,729 catches:

Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper: 10,126 (60.4%)
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish: 3,624 (21.6%)
Raw Brilliant Smallfish: 2,781 (16.6%)
17 Pound Catfish: 55 (0.33%)
19 Pound Catfish: 30 (0.179%)
22 Pound Catfish: 6 (0.036%)
Bloated Mud Snapper: 5 (0.030%)
Lesser Healing Potion: 25 (0.137%)
Lesser Mana Potion: 24 (0.143%)
All other miscellaneous: 23 (0.137%)
Old Crafty: 32 (0.19%)

Chances of getting Old Crafty: 0.191% ±0.086% (95% confidence interval)

Comment by thisguyyouknow

ALLIANCE:
Found a secluded spot in Orgrimmar, accessable only with a flying mount. Approx 57, 35 at the rocks below the highest waterfall in the Valley of Honor. Few Horde have reason to fly over this part of the city. City guards don't aggro, though some do fly overhead. Fishing is easy here as the river is wide and deep enough to cast successfully. Watch yourself flying to this point as those flying guards will aggro if you get too close. I found it's easiest to fly at maximum altitude over the city and dive down when the coast is clear.
Good luck finding Old Crafty :)

Comment by P0pc0rn

I was looking through the list of achievements on my new main dealing with the horribly glitched horde bg ques.

Needless to say I went through the fishing ones. I remembered I missed fishing which I haven't done for a while... Came to wowhead after glancing at the old crafty achieve and set about to doing it after reading about it's difficulty and getting pretty excited.

About 5 fish after I got the 50 fish achieve BAM old crafty.

Comment by yoi55

I just caught Old Crafty for the second time. The first time took me about 6 hours of straight fishing. This time was during a fishing daily in Orgrimmar...about 3 minutes of work!

Comment by Kjaymz94

I'm Tired of this Motherfu**ing Fish ,
On this motherfu**ing game xD

Comment by damonculbertson

Here we go with the adventure of trying to catch Old Crafty. I fished the pond in the Valley of Honor for aprox. 3.5 hours and came up with the following:
460- Raw Longjaw Mud Snappers
200- Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
160- Raw Brilliant Smallfish
2- Lesser Healing Potions
2- Lesser Mana Potions
1- Bucanneer's Boots of the Whale
1- Tigerseye
1- 10lb Mud Snapper
1- 17lb Catfish
0- Old Crafty

Fouled Yet Again!

Comment by elisimo

Finally! I have tried off and on for about two years to catch Old Crafty. Was near Orgrimmar trying to catch some winter squid. It was approximately 4:30 a.m., so I figured what the heck? Maybe the horde were sleeping, and I wasn't, so might as well give it another try. Used everything already recommended here: flew in, went to the bottom of the tallest waterfall in Valley of Honor. Used an Elixir of Camouflage, removed my Loremaster title, went to sleep - /sleep - and fished. Thankfully, saw very few horde, none saw me. After only:
6 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
36 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper, and
12 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
Old Crafty was finally out-crafted by me!

Comment by 688209

I decided to raise my fishing skill and try to get Old Crafty. So on my second monitor I watched The Simpsons while fishing on my main monitor.

31 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
86 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper, and
23 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
1 Old Crafty

Comment by Aquifel

A lot of people seem to be getting him in the goblin slums lately, thats where i caught him too, along with a toxic puddlefish (part of the orgrimmar fishing daily, no dumping allowed).

EDIT: oh yeah, almost forgot, caught on an alt with 81 fishing skill, so seems to be very little of a lower limit as to required level to catch him.

Comment by Heretic721

Alliance Side
Got Old Crafty last night! It took me two days, and with only two deaths. I fished in the The Valley of Honor on the water fall just after you enter the zone. A couple of tricks you can do is first fish sitting against a wall with your title off. This reduces the size of your visable name, and hides most of you! If you have a second of account go make a Tauren, and have him sit on top of you! Last go buy yourself some Elixir of Camouflage! If you can't be tracked you are pretty much invisible with these tricks.

427 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
138 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
87 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
1 Old Crafty!

Comment by mcwood

I wish they'd make him unique, it's kinda depressing to catch him during my fishing daily when I know other people would much rather have him. I have the original in my bank for nostalgia, but after I've got 4 or 5 others too it upsets me to vendor these.

Comment by 815568

i did it i did it i put on my lucky fishing shirt and sat down for a long haul it only took me about 45 minutes and a about 200 fish

Comment by Elfgar

Caught Ol Crafty and I suggest Captain Rumsey's Lager every time you start to get sober

Caught him for the second time today coor 39.1 / 81.6 Goblin Slums on the lake shore doing the quest "No Dumping Allowed." I had just commented to my friend who was with me that this is where I caught Old Crafty ... was drinking the lager and had my weather beaten hat on and used my Kalu'ak pole 6/4/2012.

Comment by 819224

Best pole to use Crafty's Pole

Comment by 144721

Old Crafty report:
320x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
107x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
84x Raw Brilliant Smallfish
2x Lesser Mana Potion
2x Lesser Healing Potion
1x 17 Pound Catfish
1x OLD CRAFTY :)
Casts Overall:517
Good luck fishing ;).

Comment by 826105

Caught him today without the intention of even catching him..
I was actually just trying to lvl my fishing up.

But my results were:

Fishing lvl 272 + 100

23 Casts total
13x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
3x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
x3 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
x1 Old Crafty

Talk about dumb luck lol..

Comment by 827513

About 350 casts. Got lucky I guess my friend farmed it for a week before he got his. Good luck and keep at it. All about luck!

Comment by 822882

I actually caught 'old crafty' whilst fishing for sandy carp. random as hell :\

Comment by 837231

Hey guys. Started to go for Old crafty and got him at about 300+ casts. Recommended to go to the goblin slums for this Achv. However those with BC go to old man barlow in teko forest and get the daily for 'baby crocolisk' guarantee you will fish old crafty in under 20 casts. I just did (:
This goes for those trying for ironjaw aswell.

Same goes for those trying to do the sea turtle mount. Get the daily "ghostfish' from Marcia in dalaran. Head to sholazar basin. Sea turtle mount under 20 casts.

Fishing lvl 450+ Nats lucky fishing pole + baubles. = 575 fishing lvl total.

Guys if you want to do this the easy way. Get the dailies. Just discard the quest item if you get it before the mount.

Comment by 241082

Fished up Old Crafty three minutes ago.

Items fished in the process:

97x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
37x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
32x Raw Brilliant Smallfish
1x 19 Pound Catfish
1x Lesser Mana Potion

Approximately a half-hour spent at the Goblin Slums pool with 525 + 150 (Heat-Treated Spinning Lure) + 30 (Jeweled Fishing Pole) + 5 (Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat) = 710 Fishing skill. Occasionally 720 with +10 from Captain Rumsey's Lager, but was 710 on catch.

Comment by Alrick

It took me:
191x Longjaw Mud Snapper
70x Bristle Whisker Catfish
65x Brilliant Smallfish
1x Lesser Healing Potion (xD)
and finally: OLD CRAFTY

Comment by 802804

Ive done about 800 casts now as an allaince lvl 29 rogue gnome and i cant get oldcrafty. i lost track of how much of each fish i caught because i keep having to delete fish from my bag if i leave i wont be able to come back tell im 85 because it took me about an hour to get in because i had to death hop or whatever its called ive died about 50 times and caught 5 17 pounders 2 19 pounders a mana potion and 2 lvl 14 green items. Im wondering if im in the wrong place for it . Im between the tree and the waterfall in the valley of wisdom. can someone please tell me another safe place with no guards and were horde payers wont see you this is ridicoulous.

Comment by 857260

Perhaps this is done easier at a lower fishing level when some of the bigger fish are not possible to be caught. I just started a new character and began fishing off the dock next to the trainer in the Valley of Honor.

I caught Old Crafty on the 78th cast, the same one that raised my skill level to 79. Caught primarily junk and Mudjaw Snappers, a few of the catfish and perhaps two smallfish and one lesser healing potion. I was using the regular baubles that are available there as well.

Comment by 860511

Flew into org. at 8:12 am left org. at 8:13 with Old Crafty

Comment by 523969

I've been fishing off and on for Old Crafty for about a week now. I've fished about 1700 fish in total and finally today in the upper waterfall I caught him (56, 36)

Today was the first day I fished upper water fall, for the most part I was fishing in the valley of honor, getting ganked by horde during the day for the last week, finally I tried (56, 36) and about 70 fish later I got him.

Comment by 780102

I fished him up after about 30 min of fishing in the Valley of Honor there by the waterfall! My hubby is so mad! He fished all day once and didn't get a nibble!

Comment by 858129

I've been fishing all day,

First I got the Giant Sewer Rat that only took me about 10 minutes,

then I went and did The Coin Master that took about 2 hours or so

And then that darn fish, I've been fishing none stop for nearly 7 hours with only bathroom brake and so far I have:

Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper x750
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish x 377
Raw Brilliant Smallfish x219
Lesser Mana Potion x4
Lesser Healing Potion x3
17 Pound Catfish x2
19 Pound Catfish x2
Bloated Mud Snapper x1 (contained a Shadowgem)
The 1 Ring x1
Seer's Cuffs x1

Went from Fishing 389 to 525 and still fishing, I've been pool hopping a bit, I dont think it matters but it mostly for just
a change of scenery, my eyes burn and my wrist hurts and I'm really discouraged, especially after I've reached fishing 525, I'm still going to catch it and keep counting my casts, but I sure hope I will get him soon!

Will update with statistics ones I catch him

Comment by Malinq

Just caught one in the goblin slums water, 32th cast

Comment by zylonDK

Just got mine in org, after 152 fishes :P I'm so lucky

Comment by 545453

28 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper

6 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish

2 Raw Brilliant Smallfish

1 Old Crafty

Tip to Alliance Hunters, Rogues, Druids, and Night Elves: Fish in the pool at the top of the waterfall and Stealth when the 3 man flying patrol comes by. It's about every two minutes. If you don't have track humans, just bring some tracking food. I know I got my catch really quickly, but it took me over 4000 casts for Ironjaw, so everything in balance : )

GL

Comment by Vallente

After hours and hours for the dal rat.. I cast 4 times in Org:

Raw Brilliant Smallfish x1
Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper x2
Old Crafty x1

That was fun.. :P

Comment by rightler

Caught today after 27 Casts, top of the waterfall that is at the end of that little river snaking out the top of org

Comment by AkiraD

Fished up at 12:55 PM - Caught both Old Crafty and Old Ironjaw in the same night with max fishing,
+5 fishing to gloves, Bone Fishing Pole, and Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat.

Caught 100 Mud Snappers, 20 Small Fish, and 20 Catfish before getting Crafty.

I fished at the base of the waterfall in Valley of Honor without getting attacked once.
Goodluck Alliance fishermen!

Comment by Moxson

I've caught over 1600 fishs and still no old crafty...

Comment by togaman5000

For those interested in such things, fishing off the dock in the Valley of Honor:

Longjaw Mud Snappers: 796
Bristle Whisker Catfish: 305
Brilliant Smallfish: 251
17 Pound Catfish: 3
19 Pound Catfish: 2
Bloated Mud Snapper: 1
Lesser Healing Potion: 1
Lesser Mana Potion: 1
Old Crafty: 1

Total casts: 1361

Comment by wtfear

For Alliance: This video shows you where exactly to fish and how to get there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRWRe_XF4Pc
I got Old Crafty after 60 catches, woohoo. I hadnt fished there at all so I got the fishing diplomat too. Basically start at the south of Org at the gates, and fly north until you see the waterfall, watch out for flying guards and then fly right down when everything looks clear. You'll always be safe from guards. If a horde bugs you, you could try making a temporary horde character and asking the guy to plzz let you fish there and they probably will. I'm a lock so I had meself soul stoned at all times to make sure I dont have to travel all that distance to get back to my corpse.
I got lucky with just 60 catches. I know for sure Old Ironjaw in Ironforge wont be easy easy, ha. I'll probably have to do something like 600 catches. They always seem to detect if you've been lucky and then reduce your luck factor. Either that or its just random :D. Yea probably that.

Comment by Dsc666

I have many a good memory of this fish. When I first started playing WoW a couple years ago I had a mild obsession with achievements. One day I was looking through and saw The Fishing Diplomat and thought to myself "Piece of cake!" After that I took my level 30something Alliance toon and spent a couple hours corpse running to the fishing spot in Orgrimmar and got the achievement. I was happy with myself but while I was corpse running I was looking at achievements and saw the one for Old Crafty so I thought to myself "Hell, I've gone through this much trouble, I may as well stay until I get him."

I spent a few hours fishing and dying in Orgrimmar trying to get the fish to no avail, but I kept at it, I was determined to get this fish. Throughout the day various Hordies would come fish with me, some would kill me, some would just hang out and watch me, I remember at one point a guy called over a bunch of his guildies to fish with me which was pretty cool. One of the more memorable moments I have was when a rogue sneaked up and one shot me, by the time I got back to my body one of the Hordies fishing with me was dueling the rogue that killed me and was absolutely stomping him in the nuts. At some point I found out that people were talking about me in Trade chat because somebody hopped onto an Ally toon to let me know, so various things like this happened more often for the next couple days.

On the third day I fished for a couple hours with the usual hordies hanging out or killing me, I had garnered quite the audience. Finally, after the many many many grueling hours of corpse running, I caught him! I /y well knowing that nobody would understand me but I was still ecstatic. I started dancing with joy and all of the Hordies hanging out with me started dancing as well, I wish I had gotten a screenshot of it to this day. I bowed and started to Hearth, finally achieving m

Comment by Fiyn

I may get some hate for this, but I got him on the first cast in the sludge pools. I was doing a fishing daily, and BAM! Old Crafty.

Comment by 912398

duration : 2 hours and 35 minutes

437 x 64.45%
134 x 19.76 %
104 x 15.33%
2 x 0.29%
1 x 0.14%+0.03%

total : 678

equipments :

Fishing Skill : 525

Fishing pole :
Nat's Lucky Fishing Pole

Helm (fishing)
Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat

Lure:
Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat

Comment by 896957

I got it in the Goblin Slums pool while I was doing a daily quest on my trial account and caught it in like 10 minutes, then after that I got a Weather-Beaten Journal from the Bag of Shiny Things. Today was my lucky day! (:

Comment by Superju

Wow, Im amazed at the time it took some people to get this.

I just wanted to see if I could get it, and what do you know in 34 casts I get him. I couldn't believe it!

Comment by Njiranna

.. I didn't even know this guy existed. I got the fishing daily Crocolisks in the City so I could get a chance to obtain Chuck's Bucket. While I was only 15 casts in on the 16th i fished this thing up..I decided to look it up and see what kind of drop rate and how often people got him.. My fishing skill is only at 160 so it doesn't seem that anyone needs any certain level. I hope everyone gets this item like they want! Happy Holidays to everyone and have a good new year!

Comment by 852431

Hey that's unfair Fury got an advantage! They can equip a Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole in main hand and this in OH for 5 more skill that other people!111!
Of course, you already knew that was irony. You didn't have to mouseover that spoiler box just for that.

YOU KNEW IT. YOU HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN IT. YOU CANNOT FORGET.

Comment by 639649

Got it in the last hour and my fishing skill was only 48, got it up to 60 because I did the daily-->proof:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/blackrock/Castroll/achievement#169:171

Comment by dimichan

Not sure if it helps anyone - caught him on my lvl 15 rogue doing the daily quest "A Staggering Effort" in Valley of Wisdom. Had fished up the quest objective, the sandy carp, and decided since her fishing was only at 16 or so, to get it up to 25 before stopping. Caught him before hitting 25, and also had the Weather-Beaten Journal in my quest reward bag, like another poster said.

Sadly, my fishing toon is my max level priest, and she's never seen Old Crafty, despite hours of trying.

Comment by Kronzlife

I caught old crafty and old Ironjaw today. Crafty took 5 hours and 625 casts, and ironjaw took 1 hour 45 minutes and 248 casts. Just thought i would trow that out there.

Comment by 677571

I stumbleUpon http://www.wowhead.com/item=43651#. then i came to Old Crafty Then i read this lovely story of this guy http://www.wowhead.com/user=weeoowee only to see he posted one and last lovely story how he fished this fish up only to find out that his create date and log in date are the same and it makes me wonder what ever happened to this guy?

Comment by 767692

Tried to catch him with my Alli it was soo risky and couldn't fish properly because everyone 1 minute a guard would spawn I fished way over beside the Valley of Honor using my ali :D

Comment by 949910

Well, Over 2 days, a total of 850 fish Caught.

Best spot I would say, as an alliance, is in the water fall in the Valley of Wisdom

You will die a few times,
but
You will make some horde friends as well, which was weird lol

Comment by Sollidie

I were on this achievment aswell when i saw a Alliance fishing at the waterfall, i flew down and planted my Muhsroom chair and equipped my fishing gear, as i started fishing i felt a chilling pain in my back i turned around and before it knew i were dead.

Do not trust the alliance if you got the PvP Mark tagg on you...

Comment by Sollidie

RNG has never been on my side so this fish was a pain,

983 x Mudsnappers
538 x Catfish
319 x Sunfish

6 x 17 Pound catfish
3 x 19 Pound catfish
2 x healing potion
2 x Mana potion
1 x OLD CRAFTY! WOOOOH!

Comment by Sereczek

Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper - 1349
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish - 479
Raw Brilliant Smallfish - 368
17 Pound Catfish - 6
19 Pound Catfish - 1
Lesser Mana Potion - 2
Lesser Healing Potion - 2
Gypsy Trousers of Healing - 1
Tigerseye - 1
Bloated Mud Snapper - 1 Inside Tigerseye
Disciple's Gloves - 1
Old Crafty - 1 :D

Total: 2212 catches.

Comment by dreezyman

My try at Old Crafty

443 Fishing Level
Using fishing buddy
Enable wow noise when in background
Auto loot

Gear :
Jeweled Fishing Pole +30 Fishing
Bright Bauble + 75 Fishing

24 Minutes

61 Total casts
Longjaw Mud Snapper - 41 - 67.2%
Bristle Whistle Catfish - 10 - 16.4%
Brilliant Smallfish - 8 - 13.1%
19 Pound Catfish - 1 - 1.6%
Old Crafty -1 - 1.6%

Comment by cheeto2

after two days of trying I finally got it at the coordinates 57.83 29.22 near the waterfall. good luck

Comment by Darillion

Guess I might as well add my stats.

Time Taken to catch:
50 minutes (roughly)

Number of fish caught:
101 x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
30 x Raw Brilliant Smallfish
29 x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
2 x 17 Pound Catfish
1x Old Crafty

Gear Use:
Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat
Bone Fishing Pole
5 x Sharpened Fish Hook

Skill Level:
525 (Without buffs)
660 (With buffs)

Position:
57.5, 34.9

Hope this helps someone.

Comment by Skaoi

Caught on the 463rd catch.

Comment by 971478

My results for Old Crafty (cathed it yesterday, March 29th 2012):

476 x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
187 x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
156 x Raw Brilliant Smallfish
1 x Soldier’s Boots of the Bear (wtf?)
1 x Lesser Healing Potion
2 x 17 Pound Catfish
1 x 19 Pound Catfish
1 x 22 Pound Catfish (wow, now i have a collection)
1 x Old Crafy

826 casts total —> 0.12% chance.

Comment by Alozaps

It appears that not many people who have posted here have had worse luck than I.... over 5000 catches and no Old Crafty. I guess this is what I get for catching the Sea Turtle in 10 minutes...

Edit: FINALLY caught it at roughly 5200 casts. Sheesh. Old Ironjaw better not be this bad.

Comment by Lyandria

Since people post their stats I probably should post mine aswell, can't hurt with more info for each patch/hotfix
Sidenote; I haven't catched it yet, but will continue til I get it.

So far I have gotten this:
Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper - x560
Raw Brilliant Smallfish - x166
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish - x182
19 Pound Catfish - x4
17 Pound Catfish - x4
Lesser Healing Potion - x2
Lesser Mana Potion - x2
Malachite - x1
Hunting Belt - x1
Empty hook - x6

Number of casts: 928

I'm on big realm (outland eu) and I'm alliance so can't fish in orgrimmar 24/7, only between 1:00-9:00 in the night/morning
This is typical farming achievement, and looks like I will be farming this for a long time.
My stats of casts/catches is probably the typical for most people, be ready to farm for this achievement, we're not all luckies.
Although got old ironjaw on 173 casts, and sea turtle on 12 casts, but it's another story, when doing an achievement like these u should count on doing them for a long time.

Comment by 936395

It took me 5 minutes and about 8-10 casts and I got old crafty. Im hoping I get lucky with the turtle...

Comment by 355609

I was able to catch 2 in 15 minutes

Comment by 936762

Took me About 10 min

Fished
4 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
18 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
12 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
and then Old Crafty :)))

Comment by 997569

Hope no one is getting mad at me for saying this, but i caught the fish "Old Crafty" when i just was started playing wow.
My friend who have played wow for a long time, told me if completed some fishing daily quests, i maybe could get a fisherman hat thing. So i started complete some daily quests, and when i was on my 3rd daily quest i caught the old crafty. I didn't know what it was, but i thought it looked cool so i keep'd it in my bank. But i was sooooo close to destroy it, because i didn't know anything about wow. And know i'm all most at lvl 85, and i randomly saw a vid about the Old Crafty. It's first like "really" rare thing so i'm kinda happy :D

Comment by Nepriceputu

I found Old Crafty after 25 min of fishing. Started at lev 125 and finished at 195. No lure, no odd fshing gear. Just a simple .

Comment by Tarmac

Just caught this!

Details:

Skill 92 in Fishing
No lure and basic fishing pole you get from vendor with no +fishing skill on it
Picked up daily fishing quest in Org entitled "No Dumping Allowed"
Went to Goblin pool and caught this on my first cast!

I've submitted a screenshot of where I was standing at the Goblin pool when I caught it. Good luck to all still trying to catch this!

Comment by rmp412

Caught Old Crafty yesterday on my 387th cast. Took almost exactly 2 hours. I fished the first 100 casts in the Valley of Honor pool and then moved over to the Valley of Spirits by the goblins to fish in their pool for the next 187. Was around 500 fishing when I started, maxed it to 525 before I was anywhere near finished. Had a +25 fishing pole and was using +100 lures. I'm not sure the level mattered since I've read on here of people catching Old Crafty with much lower level fishing. It helped to just turn the sound effects up, set the fishing action as number 1 on my keyboard and watch Macgyver while I waited to hear the "kersplush." Only had troubles when the dailies kept fishing in the pool next to me. Just keep at it, he's down there!

Comment by Lhmargentdawn

Just landed my Old Crafty. Been fishing in Orgrimmar all day and not been touched by Horde at all :)

871 casts in all *yawn*

Lhm Heroic Outcasts
EU-Terenas

Comment by 1015810

Fishing at 57,34 in org

232 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
62 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
86 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
4 17 pound Catfish
1 19 pound catfish

and 1 Old Crafty

385 cast + 1 dead ( 1 interrupt from horde kill)

so the chance is 1/385= 0.002597=0.25%

Comment by 1016623

Best fishing spot for Alliance:

In the pond directly south of the plateau in the Valley of Wisdom (with all of the Cata portals) there is a waterfall. I would reccommend flying super high over the city, positioning yourself directly over the spot, then diving down and through the waterfall. You will find yourself in a nice shielded little cave that looks as if one of the designers put it there so you could have a chance at fishing in enemy territory.

Pros:
-There is a small patform behind the waterfall for you to stand on. You don't have to have water walking to fish there.
-You are invisible while standing behind the water flow.
-You cannot be seen from the air.
-You are out of LOS to any other players not also in the cave...(leading to my next point)
-You cannot be ambushed. Since enemy players must enter the cave to attack you, you will see them approach (unless stealthed) and have a chance to mount up and escape before being attacked.
-If you can stealth and find yourself in the pond (not the cave) and facing the waterfall, you can sneak back inside using the small trail to the left.

Cons:
-Slight chance a horde might be able to see your bobber.
-Nearby players with humanoid tracking can tell you are there.
-You have to stay focused. You are in a cave, so there is not much else to look at.

Comment by 846391

Just caught Old Crafty in Valley of Wisdom fishing from the rocks at the botom of the waterfall... took 8 casts with a skill of 257 +5 pole.

Comment by 1020271

So after many hours spent in orgrimar finally got the good ole crafty. i found the perfect spot to fish it up without any flying guards or any horde players. i flew in from north of org. in between the valley of wisdom and valley of honor there is a water fall just above the coordinate point (57.3, 34.9). you can hide under the water fall in between some bushes, of course if doesn't hurt to be /sleep mode. you can spend as many hours as you need in that spot with no traffic.

After:
x183
x79
x51
x1
x1
x1
i got my old crafty

Good Luck to any-buddy that is going for this, hope this helped.

Comment by 1015976

After trying about 400 casts in org, I read people's comments that the Crocolisks in the City daily quest doesn't improve the drop rate anymore, but I decided to give it a shot anyway.

So I took the quest, disabled auto-loot (that way I don't fish the quest item) and tried about 30-50 casts with no luck.

But yesterday, I wanted to do the quest simply to get my last missing crocolisk companion, so I went to org at 45, 47 and after my 2nd cast, I got the achievement along with the quest item. I was stunned :O!

My addon reported 50% drop rate, which is pure luck of course. But I'm not sure at this point if the fishing daily quest still improves the DR.

Btw, after handing in the daily quest, I got my last missing companion Chuck's Bucket as well :) - I guess it was my lucky day.

Good luck guys!

Comment by 1016818

Spent countless hours on different toons tryng for this one. And today for some reason while not even thinking about it on another lower level toon, I was doing the toxic puddlefish daily in the goblin waste pool and got it with my third puddlefish. 7:31 am on Hellscream server

Comment by Hvitur

Got it as Alliance after probably 40 minutes of fishing in the river that leads to the waterfall in the Valley of Honor. I didn't bother with trying to fly into the waterfall like everyone said because the guards kept catching me, so I just stuck with being on top but I hid between two rocks towards the back of the river with levitate on (as I'm a priest). I don't think people really ever go back there so I wasn't noticed. I didn't even see anyone the entire time I was there either.

Comment by kabookiejoe

with achievements being account wide, im gonna play it safe and just fish them up on alliance and horde toons with their respective cities

Comment by Reaperoffire

The Crocolisks In the City tip actually works . I confirmed it today, Got it after my 5th cast. :D

Comment by 768857

Finally caught Old Crafty! It took less than 200 casts, I would say. I also got my Fishing up to 505 from 460. Caught a 19 Pound Catfish and Gypsy Gloves(?) as well.

Comment by Pops715

I just lucked out big time! My Worgen hunter flew in undetected to the top of the waterfall in northern Orgrimmar. I wanted to just get one cast in so I could get the "Fishing Diplomat" achievement. Well, that one cast turned out to be Old Crafty! So I got both achievements at the same time! Naturally I hearthed out of there as quickly as possible and never was detected.

Comment by Jederek

still fishable as 5.0.5 took 401 cast in orgrimmar near the fishing trainer

Comment by vampirewithin

Just got this on my Priest with a skill level of 548 after a total of 19 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper's , 12 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish and 7 Raw Brilliant Smallfish.

Comment by 1046968

Was a chore but, after 1342 casts ding!
Mud snapper =804
Bristle whisker =288
Small fish =249
19 lb catfish =5
17 lb catfish =1
Bloated snapper (shadow gem)=1
Soldiers gauntlets of the eagle...Really!=1
Old crafty =1

Comment by 1054117

FOR ALLIANCE:

Way I am doing it as rogue (dont forget the camo elixir)

I. Fly to Undercity
II. Take blimp to Org
III. Before it lands, if your engineering, jump down and glide (goblin !@#$%^) towards waterfall near sham (horde) trainer, I believe.
----NOTE: If not engineering, just make sure you have glyph of safe fall and sneak around
IV. Hug waterfall
V.Profit

For any non-stealth class, easiest way to do is (Personally from a paladins perspective and priest, dont forget to buy invisibility potion):

I. Fly to Durotar
II. Go in through rear entrance of Org

a) suicide in to the waterfall
b) click on your invisible potion and you'll drop from mount into water.

III. Hug waterfall, it hides you a bit
IV. profit

Comment by Putt3z

Okey, ive been fishing for a while now, 600fishing and around 5000fishes, and not a single f*ing old crafty...

One day we will meet crafty, One day....

Comment by Lezrus

just caught him today on 11/25/2012
i was fishing in the Valley of Honor next to the Great Brown Dragon Turtle for about 5min. so i got bored and moved three steps to the left of the turtle and in 3 casts caught Old Crafty with Nat's Lucky Fishing Pole and 330 Fishing skill. Goodluck to all!

Comment by Miller129

I just fished up Old Crafty today. I was level 17, had a fishing skill of 22, and I didn't have a fishing pole equipped.
The best part about it was that it was an upgrade over my old off-hand weapon. I sure get a lot off strange looks carrying that around.

Comment by NoSmoking

They must have increased the chances for people to fish him up. I have under 200 fishing and fished him up TWICE within 7 days. My wife also (tonight) got him.

Too bad I can't dual wield old craftys =P

Comment by Xreaper

Total 310

Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper 181
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish 65
Raw Brilliant Smallfish 58
17 Pound Catfish 3
Lesser Mana Potion 1
19 pound Catfish 1

OLD CRAFTY 1

2hours 15mins....

Comment by 336173

It's awesome I catch him on 5 casts. But old ironjaw i catched around 3500 casts.

Comment by 1023416

fished the illusive crafty today and wanted to share my exp as alliance:

the best spot seem to be 57.3 , 34.9 - every other place I got discovered and gang-banged by 15-20 hordies.
I went as far as possible into the water where I was still standing and /lie or /sleep to be less noticeable - that spot doesn't have much traffic although some annoying 85 druid discovered me and stated moonfire spam me so I just logged out for 10 mins and when I came back he was gone and I casted away quietly until I got him.
fishing skill is not an issue (I was 600, but after 50 or so you stop catching greys).

--------------------------------------
360 mud snappers
126 whisker catfishes
112 smallfishes
1 19 pounder
1 22 pounder
1 mana potion

1 old crafty!
--------------------------------------

caught it on the 602nd cast it was approximately 0.16% for me...
now giant sewer rat and the god damn vendorfish left for me...
I hope it was useful and I wish good luck to all the crafty hunters!

*edited the gang-bang statistics..

Comment by 1063878

Back at 80, got Old Ironjaw my 8th cast in Stormwind while leveling fishing from 0. Today, a few years later after going horde, got Old Crafty my 1st cast in Org. This and The Fishing Diplomat in same cast. Strange luck!

Comment by ErianHalfDragon

I know people will downrate this comment, but it took me 13 casts to get Old Crafty. I was fishing right next to the Trainer...

Comment by Zaiza

Caught him today, just after getting the Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat from my Daily Quest. Only took one use of it too, it must be lucky!

Comment by 1099484

Caught him twice within 5 minutes.

Comment by 1109789

I started with level one fishing skill and fished up Old Crafty at level 155. I stood next to the fishing trainer on the dock in Orgrimmar in the Valley of Honor at 66,41. I still had the basic fishing pole and no lure. (WoW owed me one...it took me three days to fish up the Sewer Rat in Dalaran.)

Comment by Remirokth

Took me 10 times to fish this up when I was doing daily in Orgrimmar.. But took 8 hours to get Old Ironjaw.

Comment by Jabbathehut

When I was doing my quest for Bag of shiny things I fished this. I think i was pretty lucky!

Comment by 433525

After hours and hours of fishing for old crafty and old ironjaw on my main, i caught old crafty on my alt before id even got the 100 fish achiev :( i caught him by accident, i was fishing off the boardwalk by the trainer n had autoloot on n suddenly the achiev popped up n i thought that was about typical for my luck on my main, i farm n farm for stuff n it takes forever but on an alt it happens without even trying!... i wasnt happy..well...i kinda was lol just typical ey! :(

Comment by 1128190

After looking at all the different posts on here, I count myself lucky that it only took me a few hours to catch Old Crafty. Just for fun, I've put my catches below:

Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper: 434
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish: 151
Raw Brilliant Smallfish: 109
Lesser Mana Potion: 3
17 Pound Catfish: 2
19 Pound Catfish: 1
7th Place Fishing Trophy: 1
Lesser Health Potion: 1
Bright Baubles: 1
Edged Bastard Sword of the Monkey: 1
Old Crafty: 1

and a Partridge in a Pear Tree.

Comment by tyranious

damn i just woke up to check my mail and just tossed a few lines before i went back to sleep and there we go! 10 mins of Fishing and i had old crafty in my bag :D

Comment by Hesper

I'd tried on numerous ocassions over the last few years to get this achievement but always got bored sooner or later and gave up. Today I decided would be the day.

So I equipped my Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole and settled back in my chair for a long farm in the Valley of Honor. I was pleasantly surprised however to get Old Crafty on 6th cast! I like to think of it as a little reward for all the hard achievement farming I've done. :D

Comment by 57strat

I caught old crafty at 10:53 pm server time on US-Ner'zhul. I caught him on my orc dk. Odd part is that the dk is only lvl 100 fishing, and I caught him on first cast in the goblin slums while working on the daily. No fishing gear used whatsoever. I never thought that after all these years I would catch old crafty with a character that is barely a journeyman fisher.

Comment by christiantroy

Took 10 minutes

Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper x24
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish x14
Raw Brilliant Smallfish x9
Old Crafty x1

Comment by Kermis

Don't know if the Drop rate has been increased, just got my second old crafty, will post a screenshot of them.

Comment by snipercartman

Fished him up today finally, was able to keep track of time/cast with Fishing Buddy very helpful addon if you love to fish. In all took me 11 hours 23 mins and 5490 cast exactly. Really worried about Old Ironjaw because I'm horde and can't stand PVP, also i'm on a server where there is about 10 ally to each horde. Here goes nothing....

Comment by Xilph

FINALLY caught my Old Crafty. My brother has been touting this, since he's had 2 Old Crafty's in less than 200 casts, one of which was during his very first fishing daily. Used the Fishing Buddy addon, so I have accurate statistics to report.

Total Time: 8:45
Total casts: 1465
Longjaw Mud Snapper: 839(59.3%)
Bristle Whisker Catfish: 325(23.0%)
Brilliant Smallfish: 240(16.9%)
Lesser Mana Potion: 4(.3%)
17 Pound Catfish: 3(.2%)
Lesser Healing Potion: 2(.1%)
19 Pound Catfish: 1(.1%)
Bloated Mud Snapper: 1(.1%)
Old Crafty: 1(.1%)
Failed attempt: 49

I started at level 1 fishing, hence the failed attempts. Ended at 520 fishing.

Comment by XxSXBxX

Definitely going to attempt to use this little guy for transmog, if possible then I shall name al lcasters on my account "Fishlord <Name>"!

Comment by maely

Alliance toon. Fished him up on my 249th cast. Ironjaw took thousands, however. Now I am 201/201 professions. :)

Good luck.

Comment by 1211416

123 cast
X18
X73
X31
X1
fishing stop top of the Valley of Honor, because i was ALLIANCE

Comment by Nyassae

90 Human Paladin fishing by the waterfall for roughly 3 hours (not consistently) My results were as follows:

total casts 707. GL and happy fishing

Comment by Ragnarakk

After reading these posts, I set down by the waterfall prepared to fish for several hours. Here are my results:

14 Longjaw Mud Snappers
2 Bristle Whisker Catfish
2 Brilliant Sunfish
1 Old Crafty(5%)

I don't know if the drop rate was increased in a patch or I am just really lucky. Good luck fishing!

Comment by hebz

Took me ~380 cast to get it. Was standing at the bottom of the waterfall (57,36) Logged out at ~300 cast and came back the next day and fished until i finally got it.
Have to say that, prior to this, i did hours of fishing in Ogrimmar before Cataclysm.

Comment by Fawnish

So.. reading all the comments I expected this achievement to take a while. Having previously attempted years ago I wanted to give it another shot. I was fishing off of the dock next to the fishing daily guy.

I started at 17:35pm. I got him at 17:41pm. What?

11 x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
4 x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
3 x Raw Brilliant Smallfish
1 x Old Crafty

Eh.. I'm guessing this was boosted?

Pleasantly surprised!

Comment by Ipwnyapapa

Caught Old Crafty tonight on my Lvl 90 Goblin Mage (ipwnyapapa) :) I'm all maxed out on my fishing but I don't think skill lvl matters.
I was pretty excited because it didn't take me many casts at all and from what I was reading it seemed like it was going to take a lot longer.

Fished In Org at The Valley of Honor right on the rocks next to the waterfall.

Got him in 326 casts! Took 1hr & 30min
Used 1 Glow Worm Lure
Used 1 Aquadynamic Fish Attractor Lure
Used 1 Bright Bauble

Casts 326
Catches
201 Mudsnaps
62 Whisker Catfish
59 Brilliant Small Fish
1 Lesser Mana Potion
1 19lb Catfish
1 Bloated Mudsnapper which when I opened, consisted of 1 Shadowgem
& last but not least
1 OLD CRAFTY
:)

Comment by Youngjayhawk

Caught old crafty on my 261st catch!

1 19 lbs catfish
154 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
52 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
53 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
1 Old Crafty

Fished him by the daily fish guy in Org by the docks.

Comment by krbebs

I fished up Old Crafty by the waterfall, next to the quest fisherman.
Here's my tally:
53 - snapper
18 - catfish
12 - smallfish
1 - lesser mana potion
1 - 19lb catfish
1 - old crafty

My character level is 90, but her fishing level was 65 or so, and did not use any lures.
Anyway, thanks to all the people who logged all this prior to my trying, your info was helpful. A thousand
kudos for the folks that had way over several hundred casts.

Comment by Ladinei

I feel so lucky! There is hope for not farming for days. I got Old Craft ofter my 137th try!

Comment by Dakstone

After about 7 hours 1052 casts
616x Raw Longjaw Mud Snappper
266x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
160x Raw Brilliant Smallfish
3x 17-Pound Bristle Whisker Catfish
3x 19-Pound Bristle Whisker Catfish
2x Lesser Health Potions
2x Lesser Mana Potions
1x Blue Leather Bag
1x Bloated Mud Snapper (unopened, and it's gonna stay that way)

Consumed
25x Captain Ramsey's Lager
12x Bright Bobbles
8x Aquadynamic Fish Attractors

All while using Nat Pagle's Extreme Angler FC-5000 and
0x Old Crafty
BUT I WILL GET HIM, ONE DAY!

Comment by 1221639

I fished up Old Crafty in about 3 hours.

Total casts: 730

Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper x443

Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish x155

Raw Brilliant Smallfish x122

Lesser Mana Potion x3

17 Pound Catfish x3

19 Pound Catfish x2

Spellbinder Robe x1

Old Crafty x1

I found a great spot for Alliance to fish in the Valley of Spirits. My coordinates were 26.0, 70.0.

Comment by usmarines5811

Fishing 106... just got him standing in water 38.43, 83.45

Comment by Pyroeis

Hmm got Old Crafty in 15 minutes! Guess I'm lucky. Here's what I caught:

36x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
22 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
11 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
1 Old Crafty

Comment by 843578

As Alliance
1210 casts, few deaths and still nothing

Comment by 264360

1300 casts later and still no Old Crafty. It can be fished by Alliance in Valley of honor correct? Does increasing my fishing past 700 give me a better chance of getting these rare fish?

Comment by Athenas88

After reading some of the comments I had settled into a nice spot for the long haul, much to my surprise after only 30 minutes, 24 Bristle Whisker Catfish, 27 Raw Brilliant Smallfish, 67 Raw Longjaw Muddsnapper and 1 Spellbinder Orb. I had this sneaky fellow tucked up nicely in my bags.

Happy hunting everyone.

Comment by 95alle95

Caught him just beside Lumak with 25 fishing skill, took 22 casts! happy hunting everyone

Comment by 1487589

Caught him on the 107th cast while hiding behind the waterfall in The Valley of Wisdom.

Comment by 1505912

Earned the achievement 07/14/15, went to org to fish up something completely different for the fresh water fishing achievement, got Old Crafty first cast no poles or anything special on me.

Not saying the drop rate changed or anything, I just happened to get really super lucky ^^ Happy hunting!

Comment by Shyru

Finally got him today. Total stats:

735 × Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper - 59.7%
265 × Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish - 21.5%
217 × Raw Brilliant Smallfish - 17.6%
5 x Lesser Mana Potion - .4%
3 x 17 Pound Catfish - .2%
2 x Lesser Healing Potion - .2%
1 × 19 Pound Catfish - .01%
1 × Bloated Mud Snapper (contained 1 Shadowgem) - .01%
1 x Cadet Cloak - .01%
1 x Raider Shortsword of Strength - .01%
1× Old Crafty - .01%

1,232 total casts. Patience pays off. Keep at it! :)

Comment by fancymaltese

After my fishing attempt number 21 I finally got Old Crafty and this was my first attempt ever to try and get it. Was honestly surprised when I got it I thought i was gonna spend hours on my ally pally in orgrimmar trying to fish it while being paranoid of rogues or other horde

Comment by DeGoon01

7 years. Christmas night I finally got him. I danced by Great-father Winter for a while after this. This was one of the best feelings of completion I have had in a long time.

Comment by Tantrevalles

Reminder to Alliance first timers:

If you're not a high enough level to fly, than make sure your toon is completely naked for your corpse-run to your desired fishing spot. Otherwise, if you ran in while wielding your pole, it could very well be rendered unusable by the time you arrived.

I take it for granted you would not even dream of using the embarrassing "insta-pole" option for your fishing achievements, as if you were some slackjawed, backwoods hick too lazy or stupid even to whittle the leaves off of the first fallen tree branch you found behind the outhouse.

Once you begin fishing, you will probably be killed by a Horde player at least once. Don't take it personally. We're at war, after all, and you're trespassing.

For non-flyers, plan to keep your toon ensconced in the ol' fishin' hole for several consecutive days. Give yourself lots of bag space. What poles and lures you may want use actually aren't necessary as long as you're skilled enough to pull up fish instead of trash, so you don't need to waste space on that stuff (unless, like me, you're into the whole I Am A Professional Angler thing).

Have plenty of friendly RP macros handy "wave, dance, cheer, grats" and the like so you can flag your bonhomie and general friendliness quickly on those potentially stressful occasions when the locals get curious about the naked alliance guy in the pool.

Now get to it!

Comment by Winfree

Just go to say how this can be purely RNG dependent.
Total: 58
28 Raw Longjaw Mud Snappers
21 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
8 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
1 Old Ironjaw

Total: 1375
825 Raw Longjaw Mud Snappers
319 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
222 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
2 Lesser Healing Potion
1 Lesser Mana Potion
5 17 Pound Catfish
1 Old Crafty

My total fishing skills was 1145

I tried in various spots from Goblin Slums to Valley of Honor til at last it was Valley of Wisdom that I finally reeled in this bad boy. Now off to catch his twin brother Old Ironjaw..which was caught on the same day after 58 cast woot!

Comment by aredruidsop

Finally got mine today on my lvl 20 druid twink after fishing between queues for a few months.
I would estimate the total number of casts to be from 3000-4000 but i started tracking my catches at the beginning of February. Good luck to everyone else looking for this fish.
Total since February is 1124
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish x251
Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper x680
Raw Brilliant Smallfish x183
Lesser Healing Potion x3
Lesser Mana Potion x1
22 Pound Catfish x1
19 Pound Catfish x2
17 Pound Catfish x2
Seer's Boots x1

Comment by Akarillon

It's time for me to post how much agony I had to go through to get this crafty f***er.

I fished on and off for about 6 years. Probably 3k fish that are uncounted for.
Finally I decided it's time to get this achievement done. I fished non-stop for 8 hours and finally got him!

A total of 1292 attempts.

780x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
273x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
225x Raw Brilliant Smallfish
5x 17 Pound Catfish
3x 19 Pound Catfish
3x Lesser Mana Potion
1x Spellbinder Belt
1x Bloated Mud Snapper containing 1x Malachite
1x Old Crafty

Comment by SanguineCypress

Just caught this sucker after 2,788 casts and about 28 hours of fishing total. Here is what I caught if you all are interested :)

1659 x Mud Snappers
643 x Catfish
459 x Smallfish
4 x Bloated Mud Snapper
3 x 17 Pound Catfish
6 x 19 Pound Catfish
2 x 22 Pound Catfish
4 x Lesser Healing Potion
6 x Lesser Mana Potion
1 x Willow Belt

And of course Old Crafty himself -- Have faith people, and don't believe in yourself; believe in the Old Crafty that believes in you!

Comment by Birkelirk

Fished 300 times. Catched him and a lot of frogs

Comment by thrug

1169 casts today for this guy

Comment by jasiek

Warlords of Draenor 6.2.3
Burning Legion-EU
2016-07-08

There is my trip for this damn bastard:

929x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper - 60.2%
333x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish - 21.6%
264x Raw Brilliant Smallfish - 17.1%
6x 17 Pound Catfish - 0.4%
5x 19 Pound Catfish - 0.3%
3x Lesser Healing Potion - 0.2%
1x Northern Shortsword- 0.1%
1x Lesser Mana Potion - 0.1%
1x Old Crafty - 0.1%

Total: 1543

Fishing skill: 700+185
Helm: Nat's Hat (+lure)
Fishing Pole: Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole

Comment by Rogz

I was cleaning out bags with the new wardrobe system active, and was assuming any gear Uncommon or better was part of the tmog system, but apparently Old Crafty is not in there. So before you vendor everything, make sure you’re hard to get items are in there. Fortunately, I checked a few of my odd ball items, and didn't lose this one.

Comment by TriVenom

It does not appear that this is part of the new 7.0 apperance system, meaning this may not be transmoggable :(

Comment by linglingen

I told my boyfriend, before we went to bed. "Just one sec, just gonna fish in Orgrimmar". He laughed, and said "hah, are you going after that achievement? Don't bother, you're not gonna get it". I got it, after 2 minutes. So he thinks it is nerfed. Is it?

Comment by shippwnyo

So I don't want to sort through almost 500 comments, but the top comments say that "Crocolisks in the city" was patched to keep anyone from getting Old Crafty through their glitch? Judging by the comments I assume by making it impossible to loot anything except crocolisks.

News flash! It just worked for me. During the Crocolisks In the City daily from Old man Barlow I caught old crafty in >20 casts. I had previously been trying for a couple days with over 1k fish per day with no luck, so unless this is dumb luck of one person in happenstance, there it is! -However judging by the fact that they patched it to where no one could loot anything but the crocolisks, it appears they removed or further patched that? cause I can loot normal stuff now with the crocolisks. Just thought I'd leave this here since most of the top rated posts are from like, 2008.

Comment by Turimo

I used to farm this one for hours during BC (i'm alliance) and today got it on 8 try near the cascade

Comment by Alleviates

Got it today with 146 cast in valley of wisdom

Comment by Leedum

Clearly I'm the luckiest fisherperson around...

Oct 17, 2016

Time started: 8.51pm CST
fishing skill: 345
using: Nat's Lucky Fishing Pole
lure: Nightcrawlers... I had 16 when I started so I thought it would be a good time to use them... still have 12 left

Fish/Items caught:
Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper x99
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish x34
Raw Brilliant Smallfish x35
Lesser Mana Potion x1 at cast #66
Old Crafty x1 at cast #170

Time ended: 9.35pm CST
fishing skill: 393

Comment by jahdaj

Date: 12.11.2016.
Time started 17:33 (pm/utc+1) time ended 20:35 (pm/utc+1), at Valley of Wisdom with fishing skill 800 and used Nat's Hat + Jeweled Fishing Pole
Caught:
Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper x 358
Raw Brilliant Smallfish x 110
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish x 141
19 Pound Catfish x 1
17 Pound Catfish x 1
Lesser Healing Potion x 1

...yet still no Old Crafty fished out.

Comment by Neutralny

Got it on my 835th cast

Fishing Rod: Seth's Graphite Fishing Pole

Fish I've caught:
465x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
212x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
150x Raw Brilliant Smallfish
2x 17 Pound Catfish
2x 19 Pound Catfish
2x Lesser Healing Potion
1x Lesser Mana Potion

Comment by Sunstorm07

my heart stopped when i fished up some green gloves...
about 2800 casts until i got him.
i recommend to fish at 61.8 41.5 between the rocks. that's also where i caught him.
i tried fishing in valley of wisdom, only to find out i was standing less than 20 meters away from horde players at an auction house npc.

Comment by Jupie

I think I might have had a lucky run in catching Old Crafty... Since I was in Org trying to catch any of the Rare fish this turned out better than I had hoped. I'd kept a tally of all my catches before getting this item so:

To acquire Old Crafty it took me standing right next to the Orgrimmar Fishing Trainer at (66, 41) starting at Fishing Skill 79.

After getting these:
Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper x 53
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish x 21
Raw Brilliant Smallfish x 13
Lesser Healing Potion x 1

I received Old Crafty

Finished on Fishing Skill 154 on my 68th fishing attempt!

Comment by Haxkers

Got it on my 221th cast. I did it on Trial acc..

Fishing Rod: Fishing Pole

Comment by Miras

Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish x1
Raw Brilliant Smallfish x1
Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper x1
Old Crafty :)

Comment by Tabalta

Today it took my 28 minutes to not only fish up one , but two of them consecutively.

I used my pole along with an , otherwise I was wearing no other fishing gear or using any lures. My fishing skill was 866.

Perhaps I'm just lucky, but it took me just 132 casts to catch, or 00.75% chance.

Comment by asdj1d98sc

Khadgar - Alliance
Legion 7.3.5

After more than 2,000 casts, he's still eluding me. Here's my haul so far:

1,232 - Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
441 - Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
328 - Raw Brilliant Smallfish
9 - 17 Pound Catfish
6 - 19 Pound Catfish
4 - Lesser Mana Potion
4 - Lesser Healing Potion
1 - 22 Pound Catfish

According to some quick math, I am past an 86% probably of having caught him. 13.5% of people will take more than 2,000 casts to catch him.

Comment by Drayline

Argent Dawn . Picked up the Crocolisks In The City quest, figured, its 1 am, fairly quiet.
Scouted around Org from way up high, Valley of Honor was filled with players, beh! Valley of Wisdom, however... I flew down behind the boulders in the waterfall, got stuck, freed myself after a few mins, started fishing. Few priests flying around, no one noticed me. <20 casts and there it was, done! Quest method still works pretty well.

Comment by Kairos01

Caught today after 1095 casts off the dock in Valley of Honour near the bank

Comment by Janaq

Some tips for Alliance players going for the Old Crafty achievement in Orgrimmar:

I came flying from the North - the closest FP to Org is Forest Song in Ashenvale so start there if needed. In Azshara I got to a point between Talrendis Point and the Org Gates on the map and slowly started heading in to avoid the patrols. At max level (110 in Legion) I didn't pull any agro - but then I was careful and took my time.

Eventually I settled on a nice spot just west of the waterfall in The Valley of Wisdom - around 44.2, 43.4 or just under the F in the name on the map. You get a bit of protection from the tree and are pretty much out of the way of patrols etc. I flew in from directly north of that point, there are some patrols up on the terrace but if you watch them for a bit it's easy to find a moment to fly down.

As a Hunter I kept my pets dismissed - didn't want to seem aggressive. For the most part I fished from my Nates Chair and had some fishing gear on including the legendary pole - so people could see I was genuinely fishing for the achievement and not being a &*!@.

Took me a few days of fishing off and on - around 1900 fish in all according to Fishing Buddy.

During that time I had several visits from Horde players who mostly wanted to /wave and even do a bit of fishing with me for a while. Only had one death and that was brought about by another Alliance player who decided to "help" and killed off a low level Horde who was bugging us - and of course brought in dozens of high level Horde. Idiot. Corpse run from Razor Hill takes about 5 mins.

Awesome achievement to get. Good luck with yours.

Comment by HinaCC

I began fishing for Old Crafty yesterday in Orgrimmar and finally caught it today! Here are my stats:

232 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper (60.57%)
83 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish (21.67%)
61 Raw Brilliant Catfish (15.9%)
2 19 Pound Catfish (.522%)
1 17 Pound Catfish (.261%)
1 Shadowgem (.261%)
1 Lesser Mana Potion (.261%)
1 Tangled Bronze Hooks (.261%)
1 Old Crafty (.261%)

Total of: 383 items.

I began by fishing at the top of the waterfall at The Valley of Honor. Then I moved to the bottom of the falls, behind a rock (same place). Once I was spotted (not killed thankfully), I went back to the top of the falls. I spent roughly 3.5 hrs consistently fishing (between yesterday and today). I fished for 10 minutes today (top of the falls) and got Old Crafty.

If you fish at the top of the falls at The Valley of Honor, do /lie right at the waters edge. I was able to hide fairly well using this emote. The only issue I had was the flying guards. They are 110 and non-elite, so it was not an issue for me.

Have fun!

Comment by SinnerTheWarrior

472 attemps for me, 800 fishing skill no lures or anything

Comment by Remaining

got it after 316 attepmts

Comment by solidsnak

I don't know if they made it easier to get but here are my stats.

I was Horde in

Orgrimmar : Valley of Spirits (/way 33.99 34.73)
Total casts : 117
Skill : 300+36
Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper x59
Raw Brilliant Smallfish x16
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish x23
Old Crafty x1

Comment by SirIronpants

The RNG gods love y'all. I pissed them off somewhere along the way. My stats:

747 x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
272 x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
200 x Raw Brilliant Smallfish
4 x Lesser Healing Potion
4 x Lesser Mana Potion
4 x 17 Pound Catfish
3 x 19 Pound Catfish
1 x Curved Dagger
1 x Old Crafty

Location (61, 39) was my preferred fishing hole, behind the waterfall in the Valley of Honor. I died to Horde players twice and received a friendly wave from one during the approximately 4 hours I fished.

Best of luck to those of you seeking this elusive fish! Well, elusive for me anyway. :)

Comment by Embrae

I've just done this achievement second time. My first one was during a daily mission so it took couple of casts but this time it took 1188 casts!

I fished in Valley of Honor. On top of the crates near Lumak. No pole no lure, only Oversized bobber 9 times.

These are what i caught

697 x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
248 x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
227 x Raw Brilliant Smallfish
4 x 19 Pound Catfish
4 x 17 Pound Catfish
4 x Lesser Mana Potion
2 x Lesser Healing Potion
1 x Pattern: White Leather Jerkin
1 x Old Crafty

Put a good music and enjoy fishing, Cheers,,

Comment by retrokid

I got this with my lvl20 warrior.
my fishing was 71.
i dont know whats the big deal

Comment by Darksmasher

A merely lucky try because it took my 1.5 hours to get it.

236x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
76x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
44x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
1x Lesser Healing Potion
1x 22 Pound Catfish
1x Old Crafty

Ofc i wont sell anything, so i can remember what a waste of time it was.

Comment by alpoxwolf

Just to add my stats to the list:

1926 x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
743 x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
556 x Raw Brilliant Smallfish
6 x 17 Pound Catfish
6 x Lesser Healing Potion
3 x Lesser Mana Potion
1 x 19 Pound Catfish
1 x 22 Pound Catfish
1 x Bloated Mud Snapper
---- 1 x Shadowgem inside
1 x Dwarven Hatchet
1 x Soldier's Girdle of the Quickblade
1 x Recipe: Swiftness Potion
1 x Old Crafty

Total: 3247 casts

It took me 3 days to finally get him. I found that towards the end, fishing buddy summoned my Horde Fanatic, and his cheering helped keep me motivated! Though he did start to get a little creepy...

Comment by vikn

Keeping with the traditions of this wowhead page. Here is my results.

Two evenings of fishing, about 120 hearthstone games and half a season of tv-series:

2018 Casts.

2 Lesser Mana Potion
5 Lesser Healing Potion
1 The 1 Ring
1 Bloated Mud Snapper

2 19 Pound Catfish
9 17 Pound Catfish

429 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
1227 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
341 Raw Brilliant Smallfish

1 Old Crafty

I fished at the coordinates /way 46, 43 in Valley of Wisdom behind the waterfall.

I got visited by four druids, one priest, and one level 72 warrior of which the warrior was the only one who actually attacked me. So all in all it was very undisturbed.

If you are alliance like me, remember to pick up Doomsayer's Robes while in Orgrimmar if you don't have it.

Comment by Goodmoon

Caught him in 99 casts and the dialogue no longer pops up requiring you to click it; you automatically get the achievement and the item is auto-looted if you have that set.

Comment by Abbelle

18.08.2019 - was ready to spent hours for this

25 attempts

its possible guys!

Comment by Mitstel

Many years ago, when the Drunken Fisherman guild was a small guild of only a few friends, we had no real direction or intention of having a direction beyond drinking a lot and fishing in Orgrimmar (we were Horde at the time, but we revisit Orgrimmar often even to this day, more on that later). Down by the small pond in the Valley of Honor, we were hanging out, fishing for the legendary, extremely rare fish: OLD CRAFTY

Now, at the time of this happening, I had been fishing for Old Crafty for years. YEARS. Without any luck. It was one of the last fishing achievements I needed and it had become something of a “Whale” (the name of whom may not be posted due to filters in the forums) to my Captain Ahab. I was ravenous to finally catch Old Crafty – so much so that I had dedicated a sizable amount of my time and energy into fishing (and found a really enjoyable hobby along the way!)

So, back to the story. A part of our time was to joke around in Trade – like ya do – talking about fish, making fish puns, obviously adding “…hic!” and “sh” to everything, when I receive a random whisper from someone I had never met. His name was “Ikonix” – an Undead Warlock.

“Where are you guys fishing at?” he said to me, “I’ve never really done it and I want to get into it.” We told him, of course, and true to his word, he reveals he had not even trained fishing before this meeting.

He comes over and casts a line, catches his first fish, we all cheer and continue onward. Sometime during our musings, we learn that everyone in attendance is named “Brian” except myself and my wife (I suspect they were not actually named that, but it was fun anyway).

So, there I was, Brians to the left of me, Brians to the right of me, when 45 casts later – his first 45 casts, mind you – an achievement flashes:

Who earned it, you may wonder? Why Mr. Newboots Fisherman himself, Ikonix! Discord erupts in cheers! The Brians are in an uproar! I celebrated along with them, happy for the guy, but also secretly cursing under my breath. 45 casts and the guy catches the fish I’ve been after for years.

Ah well, good for him. That’s worth getting excited for!

The celebrations eventually taper off into banters and varying subjects when I spot in the chat, where it tells you who looted what, a familiar and heart-racing name:

For an instant, I think it was me! But… there was no achievement ding. I look at the name… and my eyes went wide. Ikonix!

“Unbelievable!” I yell into Discord and the Brians spot it right as I did, and once again the audio explodes with cheers and jiving. “Unbelievable.” I repeated to myself. Imagine the plethora of emotions I’m feeling here, friends. This new fisherman, the sales sticker still on his fishing pole from the vendor, just caught Old Crafty TWICE within about 20 casts of one another. The fish that I was still hunting for YEARS.

The fun continues into the night and eventually we all disperse for sleep and recovery and, for some of us, to brood on the happenings of the night. From there, the social part of the guild tapered off and a number of the Brians went their separate ways – bless their fishermen’s hearts even to this day for such great memories.

By the time it was just the two of us left – myself and Tui (my aforementioned wife, Ikonix was taking a break, I think) – we made the decision to move to the Alliance. We joined a guild or two here and there, but ultimately we ended up remaking Drunken Fisherman on the Alliance side, in memory of the fun times we had.

Of course, the original guild (Drunken FishermEn) on the Horde side still existed, though we anticipated that it was empty. But when I reformed the guild, both Tui and I couldn’t shake the memory of that epic night when the Legendary Ikonix – fledgling of the craft yet master of the Crafty hunt – caught two Old Craftys nearly in a row. I had to know if he was still there.

So one of us (I can’t remember) logged over to the guild on that side and updated the MOTD to read “Ikonix, if you’re still around, add our BattleTag, the guild is still around, just on the Alliance side.” I really didn’t expect to ever hear from him.

The next day, I have a friend request on BattleNet and, you guessed it, it was the man himself. I messaged him, asking “What would it take to convince you to faction change and come to the Alliance?”

His response? “Already did, send me an invite.”

Now, you’d think that’s about the end of the story right? A week ago, I would have said that it was. But what prompted me to write this story out for you all will floor you as surely as it floored me.

Just yesterday, Ikonix and I were in Orgrimmar, fishing for Old Crafty, laughing and joking about the ‘old days’, you know, like ya do, when he says: “I have an idea for a new drinking game: every 250 fish we catch that aren’t Old Crafty, we take a drink.” Of course I agreed.

TEN CASTS LATER… and only minutes later… shows up in the loot log.

The legend strikes again! Just like before, we flip out on Discord and our guildies, who have only heard the legend of Ikonix but had not been in the guild during its day, witnessed it.

“Unbelievable” I said after laughing and cheering.

So, Ikonix says next: “I have an idea” and opens Trade with me and tosses his Old Crafty into the Non-tradable part of the trade right as I cast my next line. I don’t know if it was the waters, the great stars aligning, the Legend’s luck rubbing off on me just a bit, or what, but that cast, my dear friends, I too caught .

Comment by pure162

Got it on my 830th cast

Fishing Rod: Underlight Angler

Location: 35.8 , 66.3 (Valley of Spirit, Orgrimmar)

List of what I caught:
487x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
212x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
122x Raw Brilliant Smallfish
2x Lesser Healing Potion
2x Lesser Mana Potion
1x 19 Pound Catfish
1x 17 Pound Catfish
1x The 1 Ring
1x Pioneer Boots
1x Old Crafty

Comment by Preuz

87x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
48x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
26x Raw Brilliant Smallfish
1x 19 Pound Catfish
1x Lesser Healing Potion
1x Old Crafty

... Guess I was a little lucky, seeing as I got mine after less than 200 catches...

Comment by Vandwyvern

Attempts: 144
Fishing Skill: 94

Comment by Micini94

The Old Crafty can be founded in any pond or body of water in Orgrimmar, but I've fished this item in the Valley of Honor.
Before I got that fish I was spending a lot of time on looking for it.
I worked in 2 fractions: 14:40 - 15:54 and 17:21 - 17:39, for a total of 1 hour and 32 minutes.
Before fishing Old Crafty, I got other items such as:
- Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
- Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
- Raw Brilliant Smallfish
- Bloated Mud Snapper (1 Shadowgem inside each = 3 Shadowgem)
- Lesser Healing Potion
- Lesser Mana Potion
- The 1 Ring

Comment by davemanvell

Caught on 203rd cast.

Comment by Dawnson

Finally got him just now. My last fishing achievement (as of 8.3). Caught it as Alliance behind the waterfall in the Valley of Honor.

I had tried to fish up Old Crafty off and on over the years, but this time made a concerted effort. Not nearly as lucky as most others here seem to have been. Right around 4000 casts.

Comment by TheHutHut

Alright, here's how it went for me.

1554x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
572x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
473x Raw Brilliant Smallfish
8x 19 Pound Catfish
5x 17 Pound Catfish
6x Lesser Mana Potion
4x Lesser Healing Potion
1x Pattern: Red Linen Robe
1x Inscribed Leather Boots
1x Bandit Cloak
1x Disciple's Boots
3x Bloated Mud Snapper
and....
1x Old Crafty

A total of 2630 casts.
Keep going, don't give up!

Comment by BruhMoment768

Posting this here now, will update once caught:

260x-Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
102x-Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
49x---Raw Brilliant Smallfish
1x----Lesser Healing Potion
1x----Lesser Mana Potion
1x----Birchwood Maul
0x----Old Crafty

Comment by ebonarcana

1157 catches
685 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
205 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
258 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
7 - 17 Pound Catfish
1 Lesser Healing Potion
1 Old Crafty

Comment by Jaylib

Caught Old Crafty just now on a 120 Alliance Paladin. It took about 10+ hours, on the first day I only got killed twice by Horde players, the second day was harder as a DK kept taunting me by interrupting my fishing casts which resulted in me getting ganked multiple times by several Hordes. Because of this I took a break and came back a few hours later and was then successful to catch Old Crafty.

On all three accounts I remained in the Valley of Honor around the waterfalls, I successfully caught Old Crafty up at the top waterfall in that location. Here are my fishing counts:

868 Longjaw Mud Snapper.
311 Bristle Whisker Catfish.
271 Brilliant Smallfish.
6 17 Pound Catfish.
1 Lesser Mana Potion.
2 Lesser Healing Potion.
1 Old Crafty.

Last week I caught Old Ironjaw in Ironforge after 50-60 casts after many previous failed attempts, though this time I was lucky. It can be a hefty grind but if you're an achievement huntress like me and enjoy fishing in-game, I would say it's worth your time.
Good luck and happy fishing!

Comment by Rethric

1029 attempts.

Comment by Enzinio

I didn't even know what this was I just saw my Rarity pop up with "Old Crafty: 1 attempts" while I was starting out on WoW with a new character. Have only played a little bit of BFA and classic before now and decided to buy shadowlands as I heard good things (Bfa got very tedious very quick). After only 19 attempts I got the fish and thought I'd look it up online to find its a 0.1% drop chance to get it. Pretty insane for just 19 tries whereas I've farmed mounts before with 200+ runs on a 1 % drop chance and still not got them. Luck was on my side today I guess!

Comment by Dragovich

Dropped to me after fishing up
94 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
36 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
31 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
1 17 Pound Catfish

Not counting earlier attempts, but they were no more than 60 tries

Comment by maxou1240

Got it on my first cast. Lucky day

Comment by gruthless

I spend years catching the Old Ironjaw and basically after all these years was bored to get it. Nevertheless i didnt want to gave up. I felt the stars aligned for me tonight, the moon was strong in a clear sky, the old gods must have had a laugh at my furious attempts for getting the Dwarven city counterpart that they must have had mercy on my soul... Soooo surprised that after 96 casts, this jolly old fish jumped out of the water to kiss me on the cheek!

Comment by natblida

820 Casts
Alliance
Valley of Honor (62, 40)

Comment by sunnygirl37

Well, if you're on an Alliance toon, you can do one of two things before you go into Orgrimmar. You can either A) Get yourself to Stormwind and put WM on or B) Do this the hard way and get ganked by lots and lots of Horde. I recommend you to fly to Ratchet (flight master), fly yourself to Orgrimmar, fly as high as you can above the Valley of Honor so the flyers can't reach you (make sure you're above water) and just dismount in midair and land in the pond. This is so easy that a five-year-old can do it. It may help if you have the Underlight Angler, too. Happy fishing, everyone!

Comment by Fargotroniac

Fish in Orgrimmar on location 63 | 43.

Fishing skill: 31

Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper - 163
Raw Brilliant Smallfish - 35
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish - 57
17 Pound Catfish - 2
Old Crafty - 1

Comment by DupontHeal

Caught in The Valley of Honor 63, 40
242 casts, Fishing level 2

Comment by thepita

Took me approximately 631 casts and I caught him at exactly 1 am after going at it for about 3 hours haha, here are the results:

Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper x392
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish x137
Raw Brilliant Smallfish x94
Lesser Mana Potion x2
Lesser Healing Potion x1
22 Pound Catfish x1
17 Pound Catfish x1
19 Pound Catfish x1
The 1 Ring x1
And of course, Old Crafty x1

This was totally revenge from the RNG gods because I had caught Old Ironjaw in Ironforge with 28 casts. They really showed their true face this time... And of course anyone else out there still trying to catch this sucker, I wish you the best of luck and do not give up!

Comment by BrigadeIRL

1082 casts and no fish yet... D:

Comment by VictorVolts

Guys I went on a 5 hour fishing spree including breaks and w/e and I caught this guy at literally 4:20am

In the meantime i got:
x665 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
x175 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
x243 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
x3 19 Pound Catfish
x2 17 Pound Catfish
x4 Lesser Mana Potion
x1 Lesser Healing Potion

And on my 1093 casts i got the Old Crafty

GL guys if you're farming this

Comment by Zilverblade

Had my rarity reset at around 150 attempts due to new update and prepatch.

Today it took me 15 attempts - talk about luck!

Comment by Zilverblade

Had my rarity reset at around 150 attempts due to new update and prepatch.

Today it took me 15 attempts - talk about luck!

Comment by Beks

So. I need to brag a bit... I really REALLY want the Salty title. I have been fishing like a fiend. I thought that fishing up Old Crafty in Org (because I'm puny Alliance) & winning a fishing tourney would be my barriers.
Well, I figured 30 mins after midnight on a Monday morning would at least be a good time to sneak into Org... park myself... expecting to die. Was just gonna leave my main there, fish until someone found and killed me, log another toon, come back later and rez... rinse and repeat. For as LONG AS NECESSARY.
I got in there no issue, took the zep from Borean, ran in back gate, parked myself under the waterfall and started casting. Naked, empty bags, laying down in the water, tiny nogginfogger going.
21 casts later, I GOT IT!
TWENTY ONE! I have been farming the one in IF for 2 weeks... hundreds if not thousands of casts.

Comment by neiljwd

Playing In Dragonflight, I'd just like to report the end of a 13 year old battle; I finally caught this bastard.

I've had so much angst and tries at this a-hole, it ruined fishing in WoW permantly for me. My brother who quit WoW during WoD, still teases me a decade later just by mention the bastard's name.

But in patch 10, there's not much to worry about, Orgrimmar at night is dead, plenty of quiet places with no guards.
I shrunk the game window and just had a tiny slice visible while I watched Youtube.

I had auto loot ON,

He still went in to my bags by itself, no extra clicking, just click the bobber like any other cast. I even have "FasterLoot" addon on.

747 casts this expansion, but many thousands prior.

Rot in ^&*!ing Hell, Old Crafty.

Comment by Kaino

For what its worth, you can level Dragon Flight fishing while fishing for this sob

Comment by Rhordric

1286 casts
215x Raw Brilliant Smallfish
678x Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
239x Raw Bristle Whisper Catfish
2x Lesser Mana Potions
3x 17 LB Catfish
2x 19 LB Catfish
1x 22 LB Catfish
1x Old Crafty
Unsure where the cast count and fish total discrepancy comes from perhaps rarity bugged a few times.