WoW Classic Fishing Pools & Locations

Author: Luxrah
Date: January 11, 2025
Updated: January 11, 2025
Expansion: WoW Classic

You can find fishing pools all over Azeroth, especially in higher level zones. These pools always include items or fish that are in demand and worth more than what would be caught on average when not fishing from a pool. You can even catch items other than fish from them, making it possible to farm materials for other professions through Fishing.

Fishing from Pools

It can be tricky to know exactly when you’re fishing from a pool. You need to make sure your bobber appears inside the boundaries of the pool. To adjust this, you need to gauge your distance away from the pool and then to cast straight towards it. Casts will randomly go in different directions. If the cast doesn’t land in the pool then you need to recast until it does. Keep casting until the bobber is within the edge of the pool’s circle.

Fishing Pools and Locations

Pools will spawn randomly at fixed locations around zones. Only so many pools will be active at any one time so finding a pool can require moving around a bit to keep fishing in pools at a maximum.

Here are all of the fishing pools in the game, their locations, and what you can catch from them. Salt Water locations can be found along the coast while Fresh Water consists of inland lakes and rivers. If neither is specified, the schools can be found in any body of water. Junk pools are listed separately in their own section below.

Fishing Pool	Pool Contents	Location
School of Deviate Fish	Deviate Fish	The Barrens – Oasis (Deviate Fish Farming Guide)
Oily Blackmouth School	Oily Blackmouth	Salt Water: Arathi Highlands Azshara Darkshore Desolace Dustwallow Marsh Feralas Hillsbrad Foothills Silverpine Forest Stranglethorn Vale Tanaris The Barrens Westfall Wetlands
Firefin Snapper School	Firefin Snapper	Salt Water: Arathi Highlands Azshara Desolace Dustwallow Marsh Feralas Hillsbrad Foothills Stranglethorn Vale Tanaris Wetlands
Oil Spill	Firefin Snapper Oil Covered Fish	Stonetalon Mountains
Sagefish School	Raw Sagefish	Freshwater: Ashenvale Hillsbrad Foothills Loch Modan Silverpine Forest Stonetalon Mountains
Greater Sagefish School	Raw Greater Sagefish	Freshwater: Alterac Mountains Stranglethorn Vale
Stonescale Eel Swarm	Stonescale Eel	Salt Water: Azshara Feralas Stranglethorn Vale Tanaris
Patch of Elemental Water	Globe of Water Elemental Water Essence of Water	Salt Water: Azshara Feralas Stranglethorn Vale Tanaris
School of Tastyfish	Speckled Tastyfish	Salt Water: Stranglethorn Vale (Only during the Stranglethorn Vale Fishing Extravaganza)
Muddy Churning Waters	Zulian Mudskunk	Zul’Gurub (Needed to summon Gahz’ranka)

Floating Wreckage

In addition to the contents of the pools listed above, other items can be found routinely in “junk pools.” All pools except Patch of Elemental Water, Muddy Churning Waters, or School of Tastyfish can also spawn as Floating Debris or Floating Wreckage depending on the zone.

Wreckage Pool	Pool Contents	Location
Floating Debris	Tightly Sealed Trunk Stranglekelp Rumsey Rum Light	Salt Water: Darkshore Loch Modan Silverpine Forest The Barrens Westfall
Floating Wreckage	Watertight Trunk Stranglekelp Rumsey Rum Dark	Salt Water: Ashenvale Arathi Highlands Hillsbrad Foothills Stonetalon Mountains Wetlands
Floating Wreckage	Iron Bound Trunk Stranglekelp Rumsey Rum Black Label	Alterac Mountains Arathi Highlands Desolace Dustwallow Marsh Stranglethorn Vale
Floating Wreckage	Mithril Bound Trunk Stranglekelp Rumsey Rum Black Label	Azshara Feralas Stranglethorn Vale Tanaris

Trunk Contents

The trunks you can fish from junk pools contain various trade goods at the respective levels of the area where the trunks were fished from. Trunks all contain money as well as:

Trunks can also contain general uncommon BoE items and crafting recipes at the trunk’s appropriate level.

About the Author

Luxrah

I've been playing World of Warcraft on and off since vanilla, usually as a healer or caster and often as a guild leader. I play both retail and classic. I also love RPGs, sandboxes, and sims.