El's Extreme Anglin' - World of Warcraft Fishing Guide // Pools & Wreckage // Pool Locations

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  This page lists the zones that contain different pool types. On this page:

  • Northrend Pools
  • Outland Pools
  • Old Azeroth Pools
  • Learn More

Northrend Pools

90% of the catch from each of Northrend's pools will be a named fish. There is also a chance of catching Crystallized Water and Reinforced Crate. There no pools that contain only Crystallized Water or crates.

About 2 out of every 3 Northrend pool catches will have a bonus Pygmy Suckerfish attached to the main catch (except Glassfin Minnow School, where the chance is lower).

Net-fished, and unusual pools are not shown. For full details, read Wrath of the Lich King Pools.

Outland Pools

Outland has a completely different set of pools:

The Burning Crusade topic contains further information about Outland's pools.

Old Azeroth Pools

The table below shows Old Azeroth's pools and the locations they are found in.

Pools appear at a fixed set of possible "nodes" within each zone. Not all these points will have a pool at any one time, as discussed in the Pool Spawning section. In most zones, each possible spawning location may contain any of the pool types that appear in the area. For example, a node on the coast of Hillsbrad Foothills may contain a Firefin Snapper School, Oily Blackmouth School, or Schooner Wreckage Pool. Coastal and inland pools are completely separate. So inland pools in Hillsbrad Foothills will only ever contain School of Sagefish or Floating Wreckage Pools.

Wreckage pools may appear instead of any other pool in Azeroth, except for Muddy Churning Water, Patch of Elemental Water, School of Tastyfish and School of Red Snapper. The pool name, and type of trunk caught, depends on the area the pool is found in.

Several unusual pools are not shown in the table above. For example, pools called "School of Red Snapper" can be found in Ammen Ford, Azuremyst Isle. These pools cannot be fished conventionally. See the Unusual Pools section for further details.

Learn More

• Pools
• Pool Contents - Describes the contents of pools and trunks found in Azeroth.
• Wrath of the Lich King Pools - New and changed pools/schools in WotLK.
• Catching Furious Crawdad and Mr. Pinchy - How to catch Furious Crawdad, and Mr. Pinchy, who may grant you a rare Magical Crawdad pet.
• Catching Stonescale Eels - Answers the question, where is the best place to catch a Stonescale Eel?
• Catching Deviate Fish - How to catch Deviate Fish, which may be cooked to make Savory Deviate Delight.
• Northrend Fishing Pools Distribution Map - Mightfish's map of most Northrend pools.
• A Guide to Special Fishing Spawns - Archive of Pleather's list of pool/debris types and locations.
• Also in Pools and Wreckage: Pool Fishing, Pool Spawning, Unusual Pools, and Pool Strategies.

Comments about Pool Locations

Below are readers' comments about "Pool Locations":

Northrend Pools Distribution Map

1. Mightfish, January 2010:

   Northrend Pools Distribution Map

   Distribution Map Zone Shortcuts (only work with 1024x768)

   • Borean Tundra
   • Dragonblight
   • The Frozen Sea - south-east coast of Borean Tundra
   • The Frozen Sea - west coast of Howling Fjord
   • The Frozen Sea - south-east coast of Howling Fjord
   • Grizzly Hills
   • Howling Fjord
   • Sholazar Basin
   • Crystalsong Forest

   Northrend's fishing pools distribution map.

   Let you can easily understand location and number of pools
   Let you more easily to gain the Kalu'ak Fishing Derby!

   Distribution map only can display approximate location or number of pools, because fishing pools appears location and number is random.

   Distribution map size:2581x1363
   Note: You can click or mouseover on pools icon, to get information for the fishing pools.

2. el, January 2010:

   Looks interesting, Mightfish. Unfortunately, the download gives a 403 Forbidden error at the moment.

3. Mightfish, January 2010:

   I have fix this error.

1. Balazar, January 2010:

   I note the link takes to you a web page, and the download link on the web page is to a .rar file. Perhaps I'm a tad bit paranoid, but I would prefer a straight up image file.

2. Mightfish, January 2010:

   Balazar wrote:

   I note the link takes to you a web page, and the download link on the web page is to a .rar file. Perhaps I'm a tad bit paranoid, but I would prefer a straight up image file.

   Thank you for your comments.
   Now, you can direct view a picture.

3. Mightfish, January 2010:

   Updated to version 1.1 !

   • Added some Musselback Sculpin School
   • You can click or mouseover on pools icon, to get information for the fishing pools.

4. Christhina, February 2010:

   This is actually very handy, and a good record to show new anglers (and handy for us older, more forgetful types like me) :)

   Mightfish - I wonder only one thing - the links above appear to take me to the same map that is the entire continent of Northrend, and this map is populated with fishing pools where they spawn in each zone.

   Am I missing a reason for the separate links? The map always seems to open "focussed" on Borean Tundra (though I can scroll easily enough to the other zones, of course) - I'm just hoping I'm not missing something, hence I thought I'd ask :)

   Either way, this is well done, and thank you for sharing your hard work with us all :)

5. Mightfish, February 2010:

   Christhina wrote:

   Am I missing a reason for the separate links? The map always seems to open "focussed" on Borean Tundra (though I can scroll easily enough to the other zones, of course) - I'm just hoping I'm not missing something, hence I thought I'd ask :)

   Thank you for your support !
   This function seems simple, but the design is very difficulties.
   Sorry, i do not have the ability to solve this problem.

6. wyrmsmom, February 2010:

   Thanks for this contribution to fishing knowledge, Mightfish.

7. Szarsky, February 2010:

   OMG.......

   ..Traitor......

   WTF.....

   ^ø^

   You are now handing out all our well kept secrets... my god what have you done...
   *Equips a fishingpole with razorblades attached and starts hunting newbies looking at maps while fishing*

   On a serious note..

   Job well done, maps looks nice and not overfilled with useless information.
   big thumbs up for the work, love the links to Els site..Cuz I gotta admit..other fishing sites dont reach El´s site to the socks and are not worthy...

   Not so serious note..

   a troll blog..... ;( why not an ally toon..(cuz they kinda rocks)

   ;)

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Overlaid Pools?

1. hollyd58, July 2008:

   I was fishing the Booty Bay coast and had several instances with both Oilyblackmouth and Firefin pools in the same place. The minimap labeled the @ as both. In one case there were two Firefin pools in the same spot.

   Is this new or have I not noticed it before? It sure is nice. Gives more fish from one location.

2. el, July 2008:

   It is rare, but has been happening for several years in Stranglethorn Vale. It is more obvious now with pool tracking (Find Fish).

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