Fishing/Moneymaking

This strategy was calculated for v1.0.5 and may have changed in newer updates.

Requirements

• Level 95

Improves GP Rate

Name	Description
Dragon Fishing Rod	-40% Fishing Interval
Amulet of Fishing	-15% Fishing Interval, additive with Dragon Fishing Rod for a total of -55%
Fishing Skillcape	Doubles the number of fish caught
Aorpheat's Signet Ring	+10% Fishing Doubling
Fishing Hook	+10% Fishing Doubling
Sailor's Top	-3% Special drops, resulting in more fish
Pudding Duckie	+5% Fishing Doubling
Level 99 / Level 99	Doubles the number of fish caught
50% Fishing Mastery Pool Checkpoint	+5% Fishing Doubling
95% Fishing Mastery Pool Checkpoint	+25% chance to receive an additional random special item whenever special items are received.
Fishermans Potion IV	+12% Fishing Doubling
Ameria	Up to +15% Fishing Doubling Up to -15% Fishing Interval, additive with the above bonuses for a total of -70%
Rock Climb	+5% Fishing Doubling
Ice Jump	+5% Global Doubling
Pillar of Skilling	+3% Global Doubling
Octopus	+3% chance to get 1 extra resource in Fishing (cannot be doubled)
Octopus + Pig Synergy	75% chance to receive an extra fish as a cooked version while fishing

The Fishing Skillcape and Level 99 Mastery bonuses will stack, causing at least four fish to be caught each time. The rest of the doubling bonuses result in a 55% chance to catch eight fish.

Method

Fish for Raw Whales if using the Octopus + Pig Summoning synergy, or Magic Fish if not. Other fish providing good GP/hour rates are also listed below. Each piece of equipment will give a substantial boost to profit per hour. Fishing is the most profitable single-skill money making method, though it gets outclassed by the multiplicative benefits of the combinations above. This method does not include extra gold gained from special chances which would boost profit per hour marginally. Maximum GP/hour rates assume all improvements to GP rate are obtained and in use.

With the Throne of the Herald expansion, higher level fish may yield higher profit than base game fish. Raw Static Jellyfish is the first fish with greater GP/h than whales. Alternately, prioritizing fish with higher XP rates will get you to the most profitable high-level fish such as Raw Mystic Shark faster. Fish GP/h is listed in the Fishing page.

With the Atlas of Discovery expansion, The Fisherman's Bounty point of interest in Cartography provides several useful buffs to this method.

Alternative Fish

Players may choose to consider the following options:

Fish	Requirements	GP/Fish	Expected Output/Hour		Maximum GP/Hour
					With		Without
			With	Without	With	Without	With	Without
Raw Magic Fish	Level 80 Message in a Bottle	960	3,540	1,770	3,413k	3,398k	1,715k	1,699k
Raw Whale	Level 95	750	4,470	2,235	4,422k	3,353k	2,745k	1,677k
Raw Manta Ray	Level 85	650	4,510	2,255	3,805k	2,932k	2,339k	1,466k
Raw Shark	Level 70	270	7,112	3,556	2,481k	1,920k	1,521k	960k

Sources

Fishing Money Making - Google Sheets

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