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Fishing Guide
This guide will attempt to show what can be caught when (and where, if location does matter as the Dev Diary says); what poles, bait, and other equipment is available and how it helps; what new titles and recipes come with it; and any other information of value (or not) to the budding anglers of LOTRO. Additional input and data always welcomed!
To begin fishing, simply go to your local Hobby Master. They will teach you how to fish, give you a basic fishing pole, and give you a short quest to find the local Fishing Supplier.
You'll find the fishing icon in the Hobbies tab of your Character screen. Drag that to a free slot. Then when you're ready to fish, click the icon and you'll cast your line. In anywhere between 1 and 30 seconds, you'll see the tip of the rod dive down, meaning you've got a nibble. Immediately click the icon again to reel in your catch. You have less than a second to make that second click, so you have to watch closely.
Fishing Trophies
 Items |
 Fish Trophies |
 Barter |
 Giant goldfish Trophy |
 Colourful Charr Trophy |
 50 salmon Trophy |
 Barbarous Barbel Trophy |
 Superb Smelt Trophy |
 Bright Bitterling Trophy |
 Brawny Bullhead Trophy |
 Cunning Catfish Trophy |
 Delightful Dace Trophy |
 Gleaming Grayling Trophy |
 Magnificent Minnow Trophy |
 Ruthless Rudd Trophy |
 2-Pound Salmon Trophy |
 4-Pound Salmon Trophy |
 6-Pound Salmon Trophy |
 10-Pound Salmon Trophy |
 15-Pound Salmon Trophy |
 20-Pound Salmon Trophy |
 40-Pound Salmon Trophy |
 50-Pound Salmon Trophy |
|
 Sturgeon Group Trophy |
 Trout Group Trophy |
 Darter Group Trophy |
Fishing by level
| Catchable | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Weeds
|
1c |
No Known |
N/A |
1 |
Goldfish
|
1c |
No Known |
5 |
5 |
Rusty Dagger
|
1c |
No Known |
N/A |
6 |
Minnow
|
1c |
No Known |
20 |
10 |
Bitterling
|
1c |
No Known |
30 |
10 |
Ball of Gunk
|
2c |
No Known |
N/A |
10+ |
Salmon*
|
-- |
All Are Trophies |
varies* |
17 |
Charr
|
1c |
No Known |
40 |
21 |
Dace
|
1c |
Cook Recipe |
51 |
27 |
Barbel
|
1c |
No Known |
60 |
31 |
Smelt
|
1c |
No Known |
71 |
35 |
Catfish
|
1c |
Cook Recipe |
80 |
50 |
Rudd
|
1c |
No Known |
90 |
50 |
Rusty Hammer
|
1c |
No Known |
N/A |
55 |
Bullhead
|
1c |
No Known |
100 |
58+ |
Darter*
|
25c |
No Known |
varies* |
60+ |
Trout*
|
25c |
No Known |
varies* |
62+ |
Sturgeon*
|
25c |
No Known |
varies* |
65 |
Old Boot
|
2c |
No Known |
N/A |
66 |
Grayling
|
13c |
No Known |
111 |
77 |
Houting
|
13c |
No Known |
120 |
86 |
Perch
|
13c |
Cook Recipe |
132 |
90 |
Rusty Mace
|
1c |
No Known |
N/A |
99 |
3-Spined Stickleback
|
13c |
No Known |
140 |
106 |
9-Spined Stickleback
|
13c |
No Known |
150 |
110 |
Drift-wood
|
1s 70c |
No Known |
N/A |
117 |
Golden Mullet
|
13c |
Cook Recipe |
160 |
125 |
Rusty Sword
|
1c |
No Known |
N/A |
125 |
Flounder
|
13c |
Cook Recipe |
170 |
133 |
Carp
|
13c |
No Known |
180 |
148 |
Pike
|
13c |
No Known |
190 |
149 |
Dirty Skull
|
1s 70c |
No Known |
-- |
156 |
Largemouth Bass
|
13c |
Cook Recipe |
Through Max |
172 |
Rusty Axe
|
1c |
No Known |
-- |
* These fish offer many variants that differ by location and fishing level.
Table of Rare Fish By Region/Zone Level
|
RARE FISH
|
LOW ZONES
Ered Luin, Shire, Bree |
MID ZONES
Lonelands, ND |
MID-HIGH ZONES
Evendim, Trollshaws |
HIGH ZONES
Forochel, Angmar, MM |
END ZONES
Mirkwood |
| Salmon | 2-lb (FL10) 15-lb (FL50) |
4-lb (FL11) 20-lb (FL70) 40-lb (FL170) |
6-lb (FL30) 30-lb (FL80) |
2-lb (FL190) 4-lb (FL190) 10-lb (FL40) 15-lb (FL190) 30-lb (FL190) 40-lb (FL100) 50-lb (FL151) |
2-lb (FL180) 4-lb(FL180) 6-lb(FL180) 15-lb(FL180) 30-lb(FL180) 40-lb(FL180) |
| Darter | Redfin (FL60) |
Blackfin (FL85) |
Longfin (FL80) |
Orangefin (FL70) Firebelly (FL 90) Greenfin (FL190) Bloodfin (FL190) Longfin (FL190) |
|
| Bandfin (FL65) |
Greenfin (FL60) |
Bloodfin (FL87) |
Redfin (FL190) Blackfin (FL190) Bandfin (FL190) Splendid (FL190) |
||
| Splendid (FL100) |
|||||
| Trout | Brown (FL60) |
Bull (FL80) |
Cutthroat (FL75) |
Redband (FL70) |
|
| Speckled (FL85) |
Red Spotted (FL80) |
Rainbow (FL90) |
Golden (FL90) |
||
| Lake (FL95) |
Rainbow (FL52) Redband (FL56) |
||||
| Sturgeon | Dwarf (FL60) |
Shortnose (FL69) |
Green (FL75) |
Fringebarbel (FL70) |
Starry (FL180) White (FL180) Shovelnose (FL180) |
| Shovelnose (FL80) |
Pallid (FL80) |
Lake (FL88) |
Starry (FL90) |
Green (FL180) Dwarf (FL180) Pallid (FL180) |
|
| White (FL100) |
Fringebarbel (FL180) Lake (FL180) |
TROPHY FISH FOR DECORATIONS: Many fish have a rare "trophy" counterpart with a nifty name ("Giant Goldfish," "Magnificent Minnow," etc.) that can be caught, starting a few levels above the regular fish. If you catch one (you'll know it - the text is purple), a fishing taxidermist (there's one in Bree-Town near the vault) will mount it free as a wall decoration for your home. The decorations are tradable, so a potential moneymaker if rare enough. Check out the taxidermist to see what trophies are available.
Most fish can be caught virtually everywhere in the LOTRO world. However, a few fish species offer several variants, related both to fishing levels and zone level. In order to catch them, you must be the appropriate fishing level and fishing in an appropriate zone of the world. Since these fish are quite rare, numbers are still iffy as of 5/1. So far these fish all appear to be worth 25c each. And none yet appears to have any use. Note: Zone levels are approximate. As more info comes in it'll hopefully be much easier to define where you can catch what.
I got the sturgen deed below the Haunted House after 2 hrs of fishing got all but one this morning third cast landed me the last one all from the same lake level 141 to 151.
Your Table of Rare Fish By Region/Zone Level is not correct. I have caught some fish in different zones and areas other than what is printed above.
As of February’s game update a lot of changes have been made to fishing, including much more fishing Region/Zone. If anyone has any additional information that could help us to update the guide please post your experiences here.
Caught the following fish withing 50 to 60 proficiency in North Downs:
6-pound salmon
4 types of trout (first one was caught at 51 profi)
Golden Trout, Lake Trout, Red Spotted Trout, Speckled Trout, and 6 lb Salmon all caught at 7.7S, 39.9W
caught a 50lb samon in merkwood
Not sure about sturgeons, but I can confirm that all the trout can be caught in the lake in Evendim and all the darters can be caught at Aughaire in West Angmar. This is after the Feb 2010 update. Still looking for where the sturgeons are!
Caught my first 50 pounder today and 2 casts later caught a second one. That was at level 189 with a +4 rod in Forochel, the north side of the lake at Suri-kyla.
My quest darters were caught in Aughaire, Angmar, right there in town, from levels 112 to 131.
My quest sturgeons were caught in Eregion, from Sad Rechu to Fordirith, in the ponds along the dried up river bed, from levels 149 to 165.
Caught another 50 lb salmon at fishing level 198 in the pool beside Gloin’s camp in the Misty Mountains. I am level 37 with a +4 rod. I caught a fine array of 20 darters, 20 trophies, including 13 salmon, and 40 of the top 4 food fish among the 138 casts of my final 9 levels in that pool. Level 198 took 44 casts and was the worst level ever. Previous sets of 10 levels working backwards took 105, 107, 80, 113, etc casts.
My final catch to reach level 200 was a goldfish!
Well levels differ, caught all normal fish under level100, All Trout in kingsfell ND, Busy with darters in Forocell.
So look like minimum levels have dropped a lot.
This is not correct, i’m lvl 80 in fishing and i have caught loads of perch
I caught all the Sturgeons in Moria in that fountain just north of the 21st hall.
Caught everything,trophied everything,but was wondering after re-catching all the sturgeon again at the fishing hole[nabbed 2 50lb salmon as well],can you get another group trophy after completing deed? All 3 group trophies are at the kin-house and I was hoping to catch one for my personal house.Any one know?
Caught all the sturgeons in Enedwaith. North, north west of Lhanuch
I just want to mention this spot in lonelands. When u travel from the Inn to caihtlins camp there is a small waterfall at 31.3s 37.8w. Im not sure if i was just exremely lucky or it has to do with the spot. I pulled out one purple after the other. Fishing prof around 60 (yew rod). Got 7 trouts (5 different species) and 5 trophy fish including 4 and 10 pound salmon and a cunning catfish. It must have been in about 15 minutes! It was so out of proportion that i cant believe it was only luck. The pool was just full with purples and how did that happen?
I wonder if more people experienced this in that spot. Maybe this particular spot had’nt been fished for a while giving it the high rate of purple? Hope someone will try the spot and mention it here. Could tell us if Lotro uses some speciall fishing places for us to discover. Or about a building up on purples in unfished spots maybe?
Caught all my trout in under an hour in Rivendell. Two friends also had the same luck. One fished near the forge-master, one under the bridge north of the stables, and I fished below the falls near Elrond’s Hall. I was at about 90 prof. and caught 40% trophy fish, 35% food fish, 25% vendor trash.
I’ll just confirm Apple’s reply. I found this spot on my own but remembered the post after I had fished it. I was lvl 171 when I fished it…usually took me around 15 casts to lvl. I went up 10 lvls in 62 casts here and caught 20 purple and 12 cooking fish in that time. The quality of the fish remains the same for the area…no sturgeon or darters here, but the rate of lvling and purple and food fish is much higher. 6.2 to 15 or more…nice reduction in leveling time and good chance for quality fish!
50 pound salmon caught in Lake Evendim today. Fishing is maxed.
Just finished trout and darter.
Trout-caught all at the little pond next to broken bridge after Foresaken Inn-2hours
Darter- caught all inside Syri-Kali first water to the left outside hall -2 hours.
Will update when I find Sturgeon