Fisherman

 is a profession.

Fishermen can gather Fish as well as make Gutted Fish. Most Fishermen go on to become a Fishmonger, turning the Fish they catch into Edible Fish.

See Fishing Locations for gathering locations.

Obtaining

 * Foreman Ikure in Incarnam at [3,3]
 * Kana Petch in Astrub at [1,-17]
 * He will give you a list of special bait to bring back to him, talk to Bish Fone [2,-17] He will give you the baits, return and talk to Kana Petch to learn the profession fisherman.


 * Bhan Laka in Amakna at [9,0]
 * He will ask you to get baits from Aga Dou at [1,1], which you have to bring back to Bhan Laka in less than 5 minutes.

Tools
All these rods (except Apprentice Fisherman's Rod and Fishing Rod for Snappers) can be bought from Bhan Laka at [9,0] in Amakna. Level is the profession level needed to equip a rod, Range indicates how many squares away it can reach fish.

Workshops

 * Incarnam [3,3]
 * Astrub [2,-17]
 * Amakna [9,0], [14,26]
 * Bonta [-35,-54]
 * Brakmar [-24,40]

Gathering
See Fisherman/Gathering

Crafting
See Fisherman/Recipes

Leveling
See Fisherman/Guides

Success Rate
Here's the problem of fishing: the success rate is bad, and you don't get XP when you don't catch a fish. Apparently it's about 50% for small fish (river); please fill the survey (Fishing Research), so that we can make out a general formula.

From fisherman level 30, there are two different types of rods, sea rods and river rods. They drastically increase your success rate, since you will have high chance of catching a fish after the 50% base rate (something like 90%). Obviously, this works only with the rod corresponding to the fishing school.

Fishing Hints
When you're fishing, go to options > show the grid. The grid will be shown, so the places where the grid is on water are the spots that you can fish. So you're not going to have problems finding where to use the rod.

The amount of fish and devourers you catch depends on the time. Keep track of it and you'll learn the magic hours (See Fishing Research).

Try not to scare the fish, the longer you fish at one location the less likely you will be to catch a fish there as the fish get scared. Different fishing polls give you a higher chance of catching certain fish. Some times and weeks fish are better for fishing than others.

It seems that if you fish in one spot for too long it will become over-fished, meaning that your odds of catching something go down.

If you're no higher than character level 15 and profession level 5, you can repeat the quest Manufacture for Poss'Ybel Nhin in the side room of the Incarnam Inn [3,3]. Each time, give her a Gutted Gudgeon, whether you gutted it personally or not, to receive 75 Fisherman XP. 11 repetitions of the quest, thus 11 Gutted Gudgeons, are sufficient to get you from profession level 1 to 6.