This page summarises how to catch Steelscale Crushfish.
About Steelscale Crushfish
- Use: Equip: Acts as a one-handed mace: 22-42 damage, speed 2.50 (12.8 damage per second), +4 Strength bonus. Requires level 20. Binds when equipped.
- Value:
- Vendor: 25s 51c
- Auction: 60g - Novelty value.
Catching Steelscale Crushfish
- Notes: Probably the rarest catch in Azeroth. Possibly from just coastal open waters of Ashenvale, Hillsbrad Foothills, and Wetlands - but it is so rare, we can't be sure!
- Achievements: One That Didn't Get Away: Catch one of the rare fish: Dark Herring, Rockhide Strongfish, Steelscale Crushfish, 103 Pound Mightfish, 22 Pound Lobster, 15 Pound Mud Snapper, 52 Pound Redgill, 29 Pound Salmon, 68 Pound Grouper, 32 Pound Catfish. All these fish are very rare catches: This may be the most frustrating of all fishing achievements because the heaviest off-hand fish are exceptionally rare.
| Water | Areas | No-Junk Skill | Catch Rate | Common Catch | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % of Catch | Sample | |||||
| Open Water | Coastal: Ashenvale, Hillsbrad Foothills, Wetlands | 150 | <1% | 154 | Raw Rainbow Fin Albacore | |
Learn More
- Valuable Fish - Details the most valuable fish, and how to catch them.
- Fishing Achievements - Introduction to fishing-related personal achievements.
- One That Didn't Get Away - Options for completing One That Didn't Get Away.
Comments about Steelscale Crushfish
Below are readers' comments about "Steelscale Crushfish":
Crushfish Update
Marlburo, May 2008:
Been going for Crushfish and seeing how many times I've seen "got it after a couple casts in South Shore" I thought I'd update you on my stats thus far in South Shore:
Rainbow Fin Albacore: 64.6% (1473)
Oily Blackmouth: 23.8% (542)
Firefin Snapper: 10.0% (227)
Small Locked Chest: .7% (15)
Message in a Bottle: .5% (12-2 Day 4 Diary Pages)
Waterlogged Crate: .5% (11)2280 casts, and still no luck BUT I WILL NOT QUIT!
Marlburo, October 2008:
Well since the new fishing achievement "One That Didn't Get Away" came out I decided to return to my Crushfish search. Waited for Fishing Buddy to get updated for new patch (WoLK) and here are stats thus far:
Rainbow Fin Albacore: 62.5% (1830)
Oily Blackmouth: 24.9% (730)
Firefin Snapper: 10.8% (317)
Small Locked Chest: .6% (17)
Message in a Bottle: .6% (17)
Waterlogged Crate: .5% (15)No luck yet, but will keep u posted.
Marlburo, October 2008:
I GOT HIM!!!!!!
Rainbow Fin Albacore: 62.4% (2135)
Oily Blacksmouth: 24.8% (849)
Firefin Snapper: 11.1% (378)
Waterlogged Crate: .6% (21)
Small Locked Chest: .6% (20)
Message in a Bottle: .5% (16)
STEELSCALE CRUSHFISH: 0.0% (1)If you take these stats (3420) and add first posts (2280) you get 5700 exactly.....so I would say at best guess the 5000-6000 cast rate is about right in Southshore.
Gummo, November 2008:
And you have (and log out with) TWO Hooks of the Master Anglers?
Marlburo, November 2008:
hahaha I wear my fishing gear 24-7, Im a fisher not a fighter!
Famos, November 2008:
i do not have all the stats and % of things caught. but i do want to confirm Crushfish was caught off the south shore dock. open water (not a pool of any kind). got lucky and only took me about 200 casts. one of my missunderstandings was in the pools. i thought this fish might act like the rockhide strongfish, and need to be fished from pools. nope! just good ol' open water fish'n. (another note enchants dont add color effect to this fish) :(
Trokair, April 2010:
I have a similar story to the above.... caught the Crushfish in open water off the coast of Southshore (on the coast, not off the dock, but it is all the same area, fish-wise).
Caught it after about 200 casts. I feel so horrible for Marlburo! Those are the breaks with the RNG though... I'm sure Karma will pay me back when I go for my Sea Turtle.
I have a screen shot with the FB stats... I'll post that up tonight.
Marlburo, April 2010:
lol no worries my man.....i NEVER feel bad about someone catching a fish....especially after my 22 lobster story....its somewhere on here, unreal!
Congrats though, finally tax season is winding down and I'm getting back into the world....just checking my favorite wow website to see whats been going on with fishing these days. Good to see people are still fishing for crazy stuff like this!
EDIT: trokair, I see you're on lightninghoof I have/had a fishing guild <Poles Before Trolls> I'll get in touch with you in game once I get my account squared away.....if you want to see how crazy we were/are about fishing look up a post called "Ultimate Fishing Video?" Pretty wild, look forward to speaking with you!
Trokair, April 2010:
Marlburo,
Is that a Horde guild? Unfortunately I'm alliance... but always interested to speak with a fellow fisherman if you have an Alliance character.
I'd love to hear the 22 pound lobster story as well.... as of last night I am 1,000 casts into the Bay of Storms. I have a 15 pound lobster and an 83 pound mightfish to show for it.... but no 22 or 103 (respectively), which is obviously what I'm going for.
Marlburo, April 2010:
oh yeah i was wondering what that -A after the realm ment lol. Yeah im horde....i coulda sworn i posted a pic and story about that lobster but musta been somewhere else. I'll throw it in the thread for that. Right now im a little devastated because my fish museum got 90% wiped out.....got a ticket open, hopefully they can restore the rest of it.
jeraz, April 2010:
What happend to your museum?
Marlburo, April 2010:
man i took a break and when I came back a couple days ago I found out my account got hacked...../sigh
Trokair, April 2010:
Marlburo,
My sister has a few Horde on LH... she does fish occasionally. She mentioned this weekend that there was "A Horde guild that specialized in fishing... poles and trolls or something".
I said, "That's my man Marlburo with Poles Before Trolls!".
She a rogue that goes by Urimaku or something. She always has these weird names I can't pronounce. I'll find out what her name is and hook you two up.
Good luck on getting the museum restored! I'm sure it will be no issue... they're usually good about that sort of stuff.
Mareak, April 2010:
Marlburo wrote:
man i took a break and when I came back a couple days ago I found out my account got hacked...../sigh
I am very sorry to hear your account got hacked...surpised the password was still the same...BUT anyways *pulls out a milk crate to lecture from ontop of:
" Change your password!! buy a authenticator !! Oh-My-Gawd !! " heheheI actually had something similiar happen, was not an account hack, cause i gave it to my brother in law - however, after 6 months he still was not paying for the account, so I took it back to find my toon in Rachet, in front of the bank, completly naked, and with nothing at lvl52. ((Two hordies rode past and did and did the /lol at me. but look at me now !!
I am all authenticatored up, I have 7 of the 11 glacial bags I am trying to aquire for my bank/and bags, mostly full all the time...plenty of junk is my point.
Sorry...had to do it. I wish someone had done it to me a long time ago.
*puts milkbox away and is now quite*wyrmsmom, April 2010:
Marlburo, I sure hope your museum is restored!
Marlburo, May 2010:
fully intact + all the items not yet in my old video....when I get the 3 "one that didnt get away" fish I still need a new, more insane video will be posted.....stay tuned
wyrmsmom, May 2010:
Glad to hear that everything has been set right!
Looking forward to a new video.
Mightfish, May 2010:
Good luck, Marlburo.
Mark of the Wild!!!!!
Steelscale crushfish
Gavotte, February 2008:
For the past month or two I've been fishing on and off in the Wetlands (Baradin Bay) for about, on average, an hour a night. My goal has been to catch a Steelscale Crushfish and come up with an approximate catch-rate. Well...after quite a long while, my goal was finally realized.
As you can see, I unfortunately was not using Fishing Buddy. However, I can confidently say that catch-rate for me was approximately .001%. Hopefully this helps the fishing community a little. I urge others to attempt to catch this fish themselves, even though it can be terribly boring, and record their own catch-rates so we can finally know the exact catch-rate of this fish.
I also must say...holding the crushfish and old ironjaw while in my fishing outfit looks quite nice. =)
lyllyth, March 2008:
I went out to Hillsbrad tonight and caught one of these off the coast of Southshore after only 150 casts! This is a catch rate of .667% that took me a little over 50 minutes of total fishing, from between 3-4am server time. I know that I'm very lucky to have caught this from the small amount of casts that I made, but I still feel the information is helpful to the community.
I made this catch just southwest of southshore, total fish:
95 Rainbow Fin Albacore
35 Oily Blackmouth
18 Firefin Snapper
1 Message in a Bottle (also cool item)
1 Steelscale CrushfishI'll probably try and catch another one and update the posting if I do, but for now I'm gonna go celebrate.
As a side note this site is an incredible blessing to the fishing community and I thank all of you that help provide it to us.
voxie, March 2009:
Just thought I'd post my progress too, with NO CATCH as of yet.
Raw Rainbow Fin Albacore x 203
Firefin Snapper x 36
Oily Blackmouth x 75
Waterlogged Crate x 3
Message in a Bottle x 2About 2 hours worth of fishing there!
Marlburo, March 2009:
I caught him a while ago and decribed how long it took me in more detail in a thread called Crushfish Update. This is the last post from that thread.
Rainbow Fin Albacore: 62.4% (2135)
Oily Blacksmouth: 24.8% (849)
Firefin Snapper: 11.1% (378)
Waterlogged Crate: .6% (21)
Small Locked Chest: .6% (20)
Message in a Bottle: .5% (16)
STEELSCALE CRUSHFISH: 0.0% (1)If you take these stats (3420) and add first posts (2280) you get 5700 exactly.....so I would say at best guess the 5000-6000 cast rate is about right in Southshore.
Trokair, May 2010:
Here are my own results for the Steelscale Crushfish. I caught the fish after 204 casts.
Rainbow Fin Albacore: 135 (66.2%)
Oily Blackmouth: 50 (24.5%)
Firefin Snapper: 17 (8.3%)
Watertight Trunk: 1 (0.5%)
Steelscale Crushfish: 1 (0.5%)Extremeadin, July 2010:
I just caught Steelscale Crushfish in Menethil Harbor. I was fishing in the small boat next to the docks.
1664 Total Fish
Rainbow Fin Albacore: 1033 (62.1%)
Oily Blackmouth: 409 (24.6%)
Firefin Snapper: 179 (10.8%)
Small Locked Chest: 19 (1.1%)
Waterlogged Crate: 12 (0.7%)
Message in a Bottle: 11 (0.7%)
Steelscale Crushfish: 1 (0.1%)
Steelscale Crushfish
Micha, October 2008:
Has anybody caught this? If so, do you have cast numbers? I know El did, after a very long time. I'm really starting to wonder at the catch rate on this one, though.
I'm thinking it's probably significantly more rare than 1/1000, even. I'm actually looking at somewhere in the ballpark of 1/5000. What do you guys think?
Jolly Rogers, October 2008:
I wouldn't mind knowing a bit more about the Steelscale Crushfish iv been trying for the Rockhide fish-weapon from the tasty fish pools but no luck thus far and only recently was aware of another fish-weapon perhaps its a higher drop rate then Rockhide? I dunno but i would also like to know.
Marlburo, October 2008:
Missed this post before I updated an old post I had made, been fishing in southshore, stats are in the other post....no luck yet.
dush91, May 2010:
got it in 10 minutes of fishing at achenvale north.
Avenant, July 2010:
Got it in 74 casts in Wetlands
Raw Rainbow Fin Albacore: 47
Oily Blackmouth: 23
Firefin Snapper: 3
Steelscale Crushfin: 1
