Fishing

Fishing (Skill)
Activity	Catching Herring, Trout, Bass, Tuna, Swordfish, Parrotfish, Grouper, and Fangtooth across eight waters — plus mounts, pets, cosmetics, furniture, gold, and Molten Rock on rare or special casts
Tool required	Starter Fishing Rod · Level 2 Fishing Rod · Fire-Resistant Fishing Rod
XP per action	125–160 per catch, varies by fish (see table)
Max level	40 (Fishing 30 required to wear the Angler Outfit)
Counts to Total Level	Yes

Fishing is a full core skill in Kintara, rebuilt from the ground up around eight fish, eight waters, a bait ladder, three rods, and a chase cosmetic set. It replaces the old single-generic-fish system entirely.

Update: This page previously described a much simpler system — one generic Fish item, a single Fishing Rod, and cooking into "Cooked Fish Meat" for the Traveling Merchant. That system has been fully retired. The old fish item was renamed to Herring rather than replaced — same item, same stacks, same Marketplace listings, just a new name. Everything else below is new.

Eight Fish, Eight Waters

Fish	Where	Fishing level	Bait	Cooked heals	Catch XP / Cook XP
Herring	The Pond	1	Feather Bait	5 HP	125 / 125
Trout	Whisperwood	6	Trout Bait	10 HP	130 / 130
Bass	The Shores, south of the buoys	13	Bass Bait	15 HP	135 / 135
Tuna	The Shores, north of the buoys	20	Tuna Bait	20 HP	140 / 140
Swordfish	The Deep — raft-only water at The Shores	28	Squid Bait	25 HP	145 / 145
Parrotfish	The Sunken Isles — the Coral Reef	32	Reef Jig	30 HP	150 / 150
Grouper	The Sunken Isles — around the wreck	36	Diving Plug	35 HP	155 / 155
Fangtooth	The Sunken Isles — the trench	40	Glow Jig	40 HP	160 / 160

Dunes heat: No cooked fish heals in The Dunes — every cooked species is refused in the heat, and cacti is the only food that works there. The heal values above apply in the Wilderness realms and Emberstone, the only other places food can be eaten.

Note: The fishing level is on the catch, not the door. The Shores is walkable at any level — what actually stops a low-level player from pulling Tuna out of it is the fish itself, the required bait, and the required rod, not a zone gate. Swordfish adds one more requirement: its water, The Deep, can only be fished while afloat on a Wooden Raft. The three fish of The Sunken Isles need a Wooden Raft too: it has to stay in your bag the whole time you're at sea.

Free accounts: Free accounts (holding under 1,000 $KINS) can fish The Pond and Whisperwood only — The Shores, The Sunken Isles and the Emberstone open when you hold 1,000 $KINS — and never receive mount, pet, cosmetic or furniture drops from fishing.

The Bait Ladder

Every rung trades 10 fish for 5 bait of the next tier, at either the Old Fisher (The Pond) or Dockhand Maren (The Shores). Raw or cooked fish both count, and raw is spent first so your cooked food survives as long as possible.

Trade	Cost
Feather Bait ×1	1 Feather
Trout Bait ×5	10 Herring (raw or cooked)
Bass Bait ×5	10 Trout (raw or cooked)
Tuna Bait ×5	10 Bass (raw or cooked)
Squid Bait ×5	10 Tuna (raw or cooked)
Reef Jig ×5	10 Swordfish (raw or cooked)
Diving Plug ×5	10 Parrotfish (raw or cooked)
Glow Jig ×5	10 Grouper (raw or cooked)

Every bait is also purchasable outright for 1 Gold per 100 at either counter, except the three sea baits, which only Dockhand Maren sells — bait is deliberately a rounding error, since the ladder is paced by the level gates and exchanges, not the price of a hook. Bait is spent on a catch, not a cast: an empty bite or a cancelled cast costs nothing.

The bottom rung isn't a fish — Feather Bait comes from Feather, which chickens now drop alongside raw chicken meat (they used to drop finished Feather Bait directly, which read as a bird carrying a tackle box).

Burnt fish into bait

A burnt catch isn't wasted any more: the same two counters will chop 5 burnt fish into 5 bait for that same species, so you can go and catch another one.

Trade in	Get
5 Burnt Herring	5 Feather Bait
5 Burnt Trout	5 Trout Bait
5 Burnt Bass	5 Bass Bait
5 Burnt Tuna	5 Tuna Bait
5 Burnt Swordfish	5 Squid Bait
5 Burnt Parrotfish	5 Reef Jig
5 Burnt Grouper	5 Diving Plug
5 Burnt Fangtooth	5 Glow Jig

A burnt-fish row only appears in the exchange while you're carrying that burnt fish — banked burnt fish don't count.

Rods

Rod	Price	Water
Starter Fishing Rod	Free, from the Old Fisher at The Pond	The Pond + Whisperwood
Level 2 Fishing Rod	10 Gold, Dockhand Maren at The Shores	Everything except lava — including The Deep and The Sunken Isles
Fire-Resistant Fishing Rod	15 Gold, Dockhand Maren at The Shores	Emberstone lava only

An upgraded rod keeps working in the water it replaces — the Level 2 rod still fishes The Pond. The Fire-Resistant rod is the exception: it's built for lava and does nothing anywhere else.

Emberstone lava fishing: Casting the Fire-Resistant rod into Emberstone lava pulls out Molten Rock, not fish — no bait consumed, no cooking involved, 125 XP per haul. A lava cast can also bring up the Magma Pebble pet (1 in 10,000) or the Ember Party Hat (1 in 30,000), on top of the Molten Rock.

The Shores Dock

Dockhand Maren's 11-tile pier reaches ten tiles out to sea on the north side of the buoy line, fully walkable (including straight through Maren herself). It's load-bearing, not decoration — a cast only reaches 5 tiles, so the far ocean columns (where Tuna lives) are unreachable from the sand alone. Walking the planks brings the Tuna water into range.

The buoy line itself is a marker, not a depth change: north of it is Tuna water, south of it (and everything below) is Bass water — both sides are the same water.

Moving Fish Spots

An active fishing spot is a 2×2 block of water that stays hot for 2–5 minutes, then moves — every spot runs on its own independent timer.

Fishing Alerts: the game plays a short ping when the fish leave the spot you're casting into, and a warning sound when a shark starts circling you at sea. Both are on by default and can be switched off with Fishing Alerts in Settings → Sounds (saved per browser).

Water	Live spots
The Shores — Tuna	3
The Shores — Bass	3
The Deep	2
The Sunken Isles — Coral Reef	3
The Sunken Isles — the wreck	3
The Sunken Isles — the trench	2
Whisperwood	3 — one in the river, one in each accent pond
The Pond	2
Emberstone	2, spread across its three lava pits

Update: Whisperwood's two small accent ponds are now live water — they used to be purely decorative, so every Whisperwood fisher stood at the river. One spot is now pinned to each pond, so a pond always has a spot in it. Emberstone's two spots roam across all three lava pits (only the hand-placed pool used to be fishable; the north and west pits were scenery) — the two spots can never share a pit, so one pit is always cold and you have to go look. If a spot moves out from under your line mid-cast, the line is pulled in and you're told the fish moved.

Your own line is drawn in gold, thicker than everyone else's and with a bobber on the end, so you can always find it in a crowd. Other players' lines are drawn slightly faded.

Wooden Raft

Detail	Value
Price	200 Gold, from Dockhand Maren
Where it works	The Shores and The Sunken Isles
Type	Real inventory item — not a mount

Carry a Wooden Raft and clicking the ocean at The Shores steps you onto it. The raft's job is The Deep — the Swordfish water, which refuses every cast unless you're afloat. (Tuna water is reached by walking the dock instead.) It is also the only way to reach The Sunken Isles, the open sea past the far east edge of The Shores' ocean — and it has to stay in your bag the whole time you're out there, or you're ferried straight back. Boarding dismounts you, and you can't mount while afloat. It lives in your backpack (must be in inventory, not bank), and being a real item means it can be traded, banked when not in use, or lost on your corpse — that's what makes 200 Gold a real price. It doesn't work on The Pond or Whisperwood (fishable end-to-end from the bank already) or on Emberstone lava (nothing wooden floats on lava).

Cooking and Burning

Every fish has a burnt version, and cooking one is a roll against your Cooking level.

Cooking level	Burn chance
5 and below	30.0%
10	26.4%
20	19.3%
30	12.1%
40	5.0%

The rate slides roughly 0.7% per level between those anchors and never reaches zero — a mastered cook is a rare accident, not an impossible one. The Roast Pit shows your exact current burn chance.

A burnt fish gives no HP, can't be eaten and pays 0 Cooking XP. It still stacks, trades and sells, and 5 of them trade back into 5 bait for the same species (see Burnt fish into bait) — but every burn is a fish that no longer counts toward the Angler Outfit raffle, which is paid entirely in cooked fish.

Fishing buffs

Two dishes help fishing for 10 minutes after you eat them:

• Fisher's Chowder (Cooking 10) — fish bite sooner; the wait for a bite is 15% shorter.
• Seared Tuna Steak (Cooking 26) — +10% Fishing XP on every catch.

Catching 500 and 5,000 fish unlocks the Angler (3,000 Fishing XP) and Master Angler (12,000 Fishing XP) achievements.

The Angler Outfit

Three pieces — Angler Hat, Angler Vest, Angler Waders — obtainable only from the raffle at The Angler (The Shores).

Requirement	Value
Cost	500 points → 1 Angler Raffle Ticket. Every cooked fish is worth points: Cooked Herring 1, Cooked Trout 5, Cooked Bass 8, Cooked Tuna 9, Cooked Swordfish 10, Cooked Parrotfish 11, Cooked Grouper 12, Cooked Fangtooth 13
Odds per ticket	1 in 1,000 for one random piece
Other prizes	A ticket that misses rolls once more, for the Anglerfish mount (1 in 2,400), Ocean Aura (1 in 1,800), Anglerfish Lantern Hat (1 in 1,200) or Mounted Swordfish (1 in 800) — see The Angler
Duplicate protection	None — duplicates possible, all pieces tradeable
Wear requirement	Fishing level 30
Set bonus	30% faster fishing everywhere, including Emberstone lava

A ticket costs 500 points — 50 Cooked Swordfish, or 500 Cooked Herring — so a hit lands on average once every 1,000 tickets. This is the game's intentionally long chase set.

Something Else in the Water

Drop	Where	Odds
Whale Mount	The Pond, any cast	1 in 250
Gold Whale Mount	The Pond, any cast	1 in 5,000
Stingray Mount	The Shores, any cast	1 in 10,000
Dolphin Mount	The Shores, any cast	1 in 10,000
Shore Crab Mount	The Shores, any cast	1 in 20,000
Pufferfish Mount	The Shores, any cast	1 in 20,000
Seahorse Mount	The Shores, any cast	1 in 20,000
2–10 Gold	The Shores, any cast	1 in 10,000
Orca Mount	The Deep, any cast	1 in 8,000
Lanternfish (pet)	The Deep, any cast	1 in 25,000
Waterlogged Crate	The Deep, any cast	1 in 600
Sunken Treasure Map	The Deep, any cast	1 in 2,500
1–3 Silver Ore	The Deep, any cast	1 in 35
Magma Pebble (pet)	Emberstone lava, any cast	1 in 10,000
Ember Party Hat	Emberstone lava, any cast	1 in 30,000
Coral Crown	The Sunken Isles, reef casts	1 in 15,000
Ship's Wheel	The Sunken Isles, wreck casts	1 in 6,000
Anchor	The Sunken Isles, wreck casts	1 in 6,000
Trident	The Sunken Isles, trench casts	1 in 20,000
Kraken	The Sunken Isles, trench casts	1 in 30,000
Sunken Treasure Map	The Sunken Isles, reef, wreck and trench casts	1 in 2,500
Pearl	The Sunken Isles, reef, wreck and trench casts	1 in 500

The mounts are independent rolls — each is genuinely its listed rate, not split from one shared pool. The Turtle Mount is not part of this pool. A mount lands in place of that cast's fish; a rod relic's rare-find shortens every one of these odds, the crate, map, silver and Pearl included. The pets, the Ember Party Hat and the cosmetics and furniture of The Sunken Isles land on top of the catch instead, and are lost if their bag is full, as are a crate, map, silver or Pearl that find a full backpack; one wreck cast never brings up both the Ship's Wheel and the Anchor. The gold drop is a "look what I got" moment rather than a real income stream — the biggest purse (10 Gold) is the price of a Level 2 rod.

Related Fixes

• Magma Brute respawn in Emberstone defaults to 90 seconds (lengthened from 45 seconds), giving fishers there a real window to operate.
• Cooked Trout, Bass, and Tuna were previously uneatable from the client despite the server accepting them — this is fixed; they heal as advertised wherever food can be eaten (the Wilderness realms and Emberstone), but never in The Dunes, where no cooked fish heals at all.
• "Deliver Cooked Fish" scroll tasks now accept any cooked species, not just Herring, and spend your cheapest fish first.
• Fishing gear (rods, raft) previously had a bug where it could vanish after any server-side inventory grant (a mob drop, a chicken kill, a completed trade). This has been fixed.

Related pages

Page	Why it matters
Herring	First fish tier.
Trout	Second fish tier.
Bass	Third fish tier.
Tuna	Fourth fish tier.
Swordfish	Fifth fish tier — The Deep, raft-only.
Parrotfish	Sixth fish tier — the reef at The Sunken Isles.
Grouper	Seventh fish tier — the wreck at The Sunken Isles.
Fangtooth	Eighth fish tier — the trench at The Sunken Isles.
Old Fisher	Free starter rod, bait ladder trades, at The Pond.
Dockhand Maren	Rods, bait, and the Wooden Raft, at The Shores.
The Angler	Runs the Angler Outfit raffle.
Wooden Raft	The only way to fish The Deep and to reach The Sunken Isles.
The Pond	Herring water.
Whisperwood	Trout water.
The Shores	Bass and Tuna water, plus The Deep.
The Sunken Isles	Parrotfish, Grouper and Fangtooth water, reached by raft.
Emberstone	Lava fishing — Molten Rock, not fish.
Cooking	Skill that determines burn chance.
Angler Hat	Piece of the Angler Outfit.
Angler Vest	Piece of the Angler Outfit.
Angler Waders	Piece of the Angler Outfit.
Stingray Mount	Rare Shores fishing drop.
Dolphin Mount	Rare Shores fishing drop.
Shore Crab Mount	Rare Shores fishing drop.
Pufferfish Mount	Rare Shores fishing drop.
Seahorse Mount	Rare Shores fishing drop.
Lanternfish	Rare pet from The Deep.
Magma Pebble	Rare pet from Emberstone lava.
Ember Party Hat	Rare hat from Emberstone lava.
Whale Mount	Rare Pond fishing drop.
Gold Whale Mount	Rare Pond fishing drop.
Kraken Mount	Rare sea fishing drop, from the trench at The Sunken Isles.
Pearl	Sunken Isles fishing find, 1 in 500 per cast.

Skills of Kintara
Gathering	Woodcutting  ·  Mining  ·  Fishing
Production	Cooking  ·  Smithing
Combat	Combat