Comments

Comment by bwbw

can't be caught before A True Draenor Angler
caught in inland Nagrand
you can only hold 5 lunkers of each type in your inventory at once.

Comment by Tharelos

With A True Draenor Angler completed and Nat moonlighting in my shack,
I ventured out to find this magnificent beast that goes by Fat Sleeper Lunker,
yet after reeling in 471 of his best buddies, this one still eludes me.
I fear that he may outsmart me for weeks to come. Crafty old bastard.

Edit: Bite #589. Finally! Legend stretched a tentacle upon my Home waters and tickled forth the The Lunker from the depths. Prepare to get eaten, damn fish!

Comment by Taoma

Some useful info:

* Fished in the inland waters of Nagrand.
* The drop rate at 700 skill is around 1%.
* It appears as additional loot to the main catch.
* Using Fat Sleeper Bait does not influence the catch rate. It does however influence the main catch, so I recommend using it to maximize your profits!
* Buffs to fishing skill (enchants, lures, poles, etc.) DO influence the catch rate (changed in 6.1). So far Ive managed to get to 1089 skill and the drop rate has increased to 5-6% (average 100 casts/5 lunkers)
* Can be caught from fishing pools (as of 6.1)
* Can be caught while in a raid group. If you aren't catching one, it's just bad RNG.
* Use it to get Nat's Lucky Coin and purchase pets, a mount and other fishing goodies!

Comment by 346630

20 min with Ephemeral Rod and Worm Supreme. Skill > 1000. No Catches.

Having JUST fished up 100 fish from each zone, I can say with clear memory and decent data that I fish about 45 fish per 10 minutes. Lures make great timers.

If drop rate is 1% then 20 minutes per Lunker is a fair estimate. It is probably on the low side, so 30, 40 minutes is statistically likely. Worse still, the nature of the RNG is that you can easily expect to go an hour, and 3 hour spells WILL occur. So unless this gets nerfed, expect AT LEAST...

Hat/Pole = 25 Coins = 8+ hours each
Shark Pet = 50 Coins = 16+ hours
Mount = 100 Coins = 32+ hours

All four items above = 64 hours.

I think Nat is trying to be the new Winterspring Frostsabers.

Comment by glycereth

Here's what I found out about catching lunkers:

1. You don't need 1000 skill to catch lunkers.(I've been fishing them up at 880-905), not sure if it helps with the droprates if you get higher.
2. Nat Pagle has to be assigned and working in your garrison fishing shack.
3. El said the bait doesn't affect lunker droprates.(so use it anyway to avoid catching 70% junk fish)
4. Don't fish in pools.

Edit: When 6.1 hits, the higher your fishing skill will also increase the chance of catching lunkers.

Comment by Vyncent1982

Ok...my two cents, and I know some will say that I am wrong. Someone somewhere said that because Nat Pagle runs up to you and say '(and beer)', that you needed to be drunk to fish up the lunkers. That definitely is not accurate, but it is not totally wrong.

Like everyone here I have been sorely frustrated...putting it mildly...with the drop rate for the Lunkers. Since I got Nat as a follower, prior to today, I had only caught two Lunkers, and those purely by chance. I kept thinking about his statement about the (and beer) and no matter where I looked, and mind you I was not going to spend hours looking all over Azeroth...I could not find any 'beer'. There is stout, and lager, both of which could be obtain easily enough.

However, I remember a recipe for years back that you could make up yourself. Captain Rumsey's Lager. So I looked it up in my recipe list and checked it out. Sure enough if you drink one, it adds +10 to your fishing. The ingredients for it is 1 Skin of Dwarven Stout, and 1 Flagon of Dwarven Mead, and it will in turn allow you to make 5 Captain Rumsey's Lager.

I decided to give it a go...so I bought two stacks of stout and mead, and ran the recipe...have a ton of Lager to spare at the moment. Then I went out to Nagrand, had the daily, and before I cast used the Worm Supreme, the bait for the Fat Sleeper, and my old fishing hat from long ago, and drank a Lager. Cleared out the pool of fish I had in front of me, and just kept fishing in the same spot. Not 5 casts later, I caught a Lunker.

I then went to Gorgrond, and found a spot that I commonly fish for the Skulker, it had a pool, and I repeated everything as I had before. It DID take longer, but I did catch another Lunker. I cannot say that this is the perfect solution, but it fits the situation. I even ended up catching the seven day fishing hat, and with that, the bait, the Worm Supreme, and the beer...I also found the hidden treasure in Talador that gave me a +4 enchant to my fishing pole, and I had a total of 1088 level for fish, FAR surpassing the max of any of the fishing areas in WoD.

I still have to try this out in Frostfire Ridge, Talador, Spires of Arak, and Shadowmoon Valley, but I think that it at least increases the chances of catching the Lunkers. I hope that this helps out and good fishing to all.

Comment by jaquis

I have actually caught a Lunker and it did not go into my bag. I'm not sure if there is a bug, but it is possible for those people that are experiencing a really poor rate that you are catching it, but it isn't looting. During the Drainer Angler quest they did not loot to bag either, so I'm wondering if there is a bug.

Comment by 503532

Abashera’s Lunker Fishing Journal

I noticed a few people have said they averaged approximately three fish per hour. Others have lamented that "the drops are dismal," pointing out that they've been at it for an hour or two with no catch.

Rather than take guesstimates of how many lunkers drop per hour, I decided to turn on my Blizzard UI Stopwatch and record the amount of time that had past between each lunker catch, so as to get a more accurate idea of DROPS-PER-HOUR - which I believe is what the average person wants to know: “How long is it going to take me to get my mount and/or pet?”

This is the purpose of this journal, to get an accurate idea of how long it takes to get 100 lunkers for Nat’s mount. This way players can plan their fishing schedule accordingly. (Note: This journal is not however to figure out the drop-rate of lunkers, which is determined by the number of lunkers per cast, which percentage wowhead has already data-mined).

I also notice some debate on wowhead as to whether or not “BEER really brings in the big catch” as Nat Pagle suggests in his dialogue. I have to admit, when I read that, I too thought Blizzard may have added a “beer mechanic” into the game that increases the chances. Therefor, along with logging my catch times, I also split my lunker catches in half: 50 lunkers with Captain Rumsey's Lager, and 50 without.

Regarding Sample Size: 100 Lunkers may look like a small sample; but consider too that I caught 10,408 Enormous fish, along with hundreds of smaller fish, bait, lures, etcetera—so the 100 lunkers represent well over 11k casts.

If others want to duplicate this experiment and add their numbers with mine to further increase the accuracy of catches per hour, , please do. However I’m off to fish up 75 more lunkers for pet and the fishing pole; but I personally won’t be continuing this experiment, the grind is GRUESOME!

I applied bait, while casting, using the following macro:

/use Anglers Fishing Raft
/use Sea Scorpion Bait
/use fire Ammonite Bait
/use Jawless Skulker Bait
/use Blackwater Whiptail Bait
/use Abyssal Gulper Eel Bait
/use Blind Lake Sturgeon Bait
/use Fat Sleeper Bait
/cast Fishing

I hope you will benefit from my records.

LUNKER LOG

Here’s my log of . I rounded each catch to the nearest minute (however I rounded all catches under a minute, up to one minute).

50 LUNKERS WITH RUMSEY BUFF:
a) 13 / 13 / 28 / 1 / 65 / 12 / 64 / 47 / 12 / 6 / 43 / 7 / 2 / 4 / 119 / 26 / 26 / 4 / 8 / 66 / 33 / 77 / 18 / 9 / 15 (= 718)

b) 18 / 27 / 10 / 75 / 11 / 71 / 2 / 131 / 44 / 9 / 3 / 16 / 9 / 52 / 9 / 54 / 2 / 45 / 26 / 45 / 5 / 11 / 22 / 1 / 66 (= 764)

1482m / 50L = 29.65m per Lunker
Approximately two Lunkers per hour.

50 LUNKERS WITHOUT RUMSEY BUFF:
c) 72 / 32 / 61 / 47 / 9 / 1 / 36 / 1 / 12 / 1 / 1 / 8 / 27 / 138 / 34 / 4 / 24 / 30 / 21 / 26 / 47 / 46 / 1 / 5 / 13 (= 697)

d) 50 / 11 / 14 / 8 / 49 / 15 / 1 / 24 / 6 / 12 / 5 / 4 / 28 / 90 / 15 / 51 / 55 / 1 / 61 / 6 / 28 / 23 / 46 / 38 / 39 (= 680)

1377 min. / 50L = 27.54m per. Lunker
Approximately two Lunkers per hour.

GRAND TOTALS - 100 LUNKERS
— 2859min / 100 = 28.59 min. per Lunker
— Approximately two Lunkers per hour = Plan approximately 50 fishing-hours to catch 100 Lunkers

CONCLUSIONS

Captain Rumsey's Lager didn’t make any difference. In fact the drops were better without it, though marginally, likely due to RNG.

Because Captain Rumsey’s Lager didn’t make a difference, I recommend not using it for the simple reason that 1) obviously, it makes no difference, and 2) you have to stop every three minutes to drink, and that only interrupts your fishing rhythm. For the same reason, I also didn’t apply lures, hooks, or Worm Supreme, it makes you have to stop fishing to apply them, and lures and bait have a cast time to apply. The less time you spend applying buffs that don’t increase your lunker chances, the more times you can Cast & Catch, the more catches you can pull in per hour… the faster you’ll get your booty! (mount/pet/etc)

So what about Nat’s mention of drinking beer to bring in the big catch?

Nat also says “Don’t EVER go fishing without a cooler.” Are we to conclude that we need to have a Portable Refrigerator in addition to drinking Captain Rumsey’s Lager? And what about the Discarded Lucky Coin, which bears more than a remarkable resemblance to Nat's Lucky Coin? …I mean, it’s the same icon, and the name is only one word off.

But I would expect a lush to recommend beer and a cooler. Truth is, I don’t think Nat’s a good fisherman (or he’s just too drunk to fish), which is why I have to catch his food for him.

But go ahead and drink the lager if the placebo effect makes you feel good… or for the actual +10 fishing bonus.

THE CATCH

3 Tentacled Hat
6 Hightfish Cap
20 Grieferfish
31 Ephemeral Fishing Pole
100 Lunkers
157 Sharpened Fish Hook
174 Worm Supreme
193 "Fragrant" Pheromone Fish
204 Awesomefish
10,408 Enormous Fish

NOTABLE (favorite) FISHING SPOTS

(These are spots where you won’t be interrupted by hostile NPCs)

Frostfire Ridge
36, 38 (Jump to island in middle of lava)

Gorgrond
61, 55 (I prefer darker places)
40, 76 (This spot is the quickest to access for Horde)

Nagrand
72:15 (on raft, under rock overhang)

Shadowmoon Valley
36, 48 (BEAUTIFUL ZONE! Path entrance @ 41:53)
33, 36 (Deep, clear pool)
53, 77 (Drop down waterfall from lvl 100 zone)
For Sea Scorpion Lunker I usually fished just above Temple of Karabor. Note: The NPCs on the boat are friendly to Horde unless you attack them.

Spires of Arak
60, 13 (Note: seems to be the greatest chance for fishing pole and hat - easy to catch 5 poles in one session.)

Talador
72, 63 (By waterfall)
57, 41 (Under bridge by waterfall)

FISHING FACTS

— ~~The Nat Pagle Follower must be assigned to your Fishing Shack to catch Lunkers~~.

— Lunkers are unique - only 5 of each type can be caught and owned before needing to return to base to turn them in.

— The addon Fishing Buddy is nice, and helps pass the time.

— I fished up between one and six Ephemeral Fishing Pole per day, and just kept equipping the newest pole.

— My fastest lunker catch was 3 seconds after the first cast; My longest time between catches was 2 hours and 18 minutes (ETERNITY). If you go over two hours, it’s just bad RNG. It evens out when you catch two or three within a few minutes or seconds.

— I alternated fishing spots (zones), catching equal amounts of all “enormous” fish types, mainly so I could send them to alts to level fishing through the Fishing Shack dailies.

— Saberfish are the best way to level cooking, I leveled up the cooking skill on four toons, and have more than enough Enormous Crescent Saberfish for the rest of my toons (if they were all lvl 100). I’m even sending some to friends so they can level cooking.

— I did the Pandaria Nat Pagle dailies at the same time, and got my rep from buddy to to Best Friend (exalted) in just four days!

— Nat Pagle is a real putz. Oh, and “GET THE HELL OFF MY RAFT NAT!” If you ever fish in the 1st person view, Nat WILL make you lose a few fish! They should have named him Gnat.

This complete post, along with screenshots and discussion, can be viewed here: http://www.warcraftpets.com/community/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12997

HAPPY FISHING

Comment by 937612

Now with 6.1, the higher your fishing skill will also increase the chance of catching lunkers!

Sure it's still RNG, but took me less than half hour for all five with 1100 fishing, using Tentacled Hat , Ephemeral Fishing Pole and Worm Supreme

Also, they now can be caught from pools.

Thanks, Blizzard!

Source: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/17561381/61-ptr-patch-notes-february-13-2-13-2015

Comment by Volleynova

Unique (5) is extremely annoying.

Comment by 1254969

In Nagrand with 885 fishing I caught 79 enormous fat sleepers and 5 lunkers from pools.

Comment by mirage82401

At 700+400/700 fishing .I caught batch of 5 Fat Sleeper Lunker in between 30 -45 min. at 71,24. Lake next to the throne of elements. just in open waters

Comment by thulsadoom

Nat Pagle was assigned to a mission when I caught 5 Fat Sleeper Lunker and 2 Blind Lake Lunker. I was also able to turn them in to him at the fishing shack.

Comment by angeldefury

with 700/835 fishing, it took me 30mins to catch 4 lunkers, however the last lunker ( i was determined to get a full stack) took me another 40min. So an hour and 10min for 5 lunkers in nagrand near thrones fp

Comment by 1466651

Hello fishermen!

I decided to analyze how many casts it would take for me to get 5 Fat Sleeper Lunker

My base skill was 700.
For fishing skill buffs I used:

Hightfish Cap which give +100 fishing skill.
Ephemeral Fishing Pole which give +100 fishing skill.
Worm Supreme which give +200 fishing skill.

That made a total of 1100 fishing skill. I also used Fat Sleeper Bait during this test. This item will not improve the catchrate of the lunker tho.
I fished in Nagrand at (63.78),(63.70) at first but I was unlucky and got my first lunker at my 90th cast. So I moved to (64.43),(61.48) instead to see if my fortune increased.
I didn´t drink anything to increase the catchrate.
I got 5 Fat Sleeper Lunker in 30 minutes.
On my 26th, 90th, 112th, 117th and 127th cast.
My catchrate this try was around 3,94%. (Math: 5/127)

If you have any questions about this, feel free to leave a comment.
If any of this information is incorrect, please let me know.

Comment by 448857

Some information that needs to be confirmed.

Fishing from pools greatly increases the chance to catch lunkers. Don't use any baits though.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh229/pollux82/WoWScrnShot_052215_131755.jpg
http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh229/pollux82/WoWScrnShot_052215_114806.jpg

If you find it to be true upvote this so more people can work on Nat Pagle's Friendship.
I can't find the time to do millions of casts to crunch the numbers so I am outsourcing it :)

Comment by pipes

You can now have more than 5 Fat Sleeper Lunker at you at any time.
This also concern the others, such as:
Blind Lake Lunker, Fire Ammonite Lunker, Blackwater Whiptail Lunker,
Sea Scorpion Lunker, Jawless Skulker Lunker, Abyssal Gulper Lunker,
and the new one Felmouth Frenzy Lunker.

Screenshot as proof if anyone needs it.

Comment by Verenda

Some helpful tips about lunkers;
1) You cannot fish them in your garrison. You must be outside in Draenor.
2) They can be fished from pools or from normal water.
3) You do not need to have bait to get them.
4) Buff your fishing skill as much as you can for higher success rate. There are fishing hats, lures and even glove enchants that can increase your fishing skill.
5) You can only carry up to 5 of them, so remember to hand them in!

Comment by imtheculprit

After fishing for all the different kinds of lunkers I've found fat sleeper lunkers to have the highest drop rate.

Out of 180 fish caught, 15 were lunkers = 12% drop rate.

And yes you can indeed now stack more than 5 lunkers (screenshot in images above)

Comment by hmrhead

Tips for catching lunkers....As if we still needed to prove to ole Nat that we're still best friends. ;-)

1. Leave Nat working in the fishing shack. You can't catch these if he isn't there. But bring a follower with you on the trip. If no players are around, you can throw the "Fragrant" Pheromone Fish to get an extra 100 skill.

2. Spend a little time fishing in your garrison for Frostdeep Minnow. Throw them into your garrison's waters and kill the cavedweller that spawns. Among other things that are less likely, he will drop things like Ephemeral Fishing Pole, Worm Supreme, Hightfish Cap, or Tentacled Hat.

3. Use the Ephemeral Fishing Pole and put a Worm Supreme on it. Assuming you are at max level fishing, your skill level is now at 1100 as a base. "Fragrant" Pheromone Fish is simply a bonus at this point as skill level affects drop rate now.

4. Pandora, Spotify, or whatever provider you choose, make sure you have some sort of noise in the background to regulate your sanity while enduring the sport that is known as fishing in WOW. ;-)

I have approximately 6700 casts in various locations across Draenor since starting to use this method and my current average on lunkers sits just shy of 6%. It still isn't for the week at heart but I find that in two hours, I generally go back to Nat with 20-23 of them. (There is no longer a limit of 5 that can be carried.)

Hope this helps oh fishing pals of mine! Enjoy your fishing excursions and remember to always bring a cooler. ;-)

Comment by 436846

Hand-in macro
If you need to turn in a lot of lunkers, paste this in a macro:
/script SelectGossipAvailableQuest(X)
/script CompleteQuest()
/script GetQuestReward()

Then replace 'X' according to which type of lunker you're handing in:
1 - Fire Ammonite Lunker
2 - Jawless Skulker Lunker
3 - Fat Sleeper Lunker
4 - Black Lake Lunker
5 - Blackwater Whiptail Lunker
6 - Abyssal Gulper Lunker
7 - Sea Scorpion Lunker
8 - Felmouth Frenzy Lunker

It'll work like this:
Right-click Nat Pagle, spam macro 3 times, and you've handed in 1 lunker.
It'll go faster than handing them in manually, and you won't have to download some addon either.
Happy fishing!

Comment by Safrienaer

I'm not entirely sure if they've upped the chance of fishing up these guys or if I'm just having some serious luck, but I've caught FOUR so far, within 100 casts with 1100 fishing skill and a bait.

Edit: Fifth and sixth came within two casts of each other.

Final result: 11 Lunkers with just 300 casts.

Comment by jakchal

You can hold over 5 of a single lunker now.

Comment by Xabbusan

Now that WoD is over, Worm Supreme are in very low supply. So I was trying to figure out if it was worth it to use all these expensive baits to boost my fishing skill or not. I did a quick experiment (I only did a 10 minute session for each which equaled between 35-40 casts) and these are my findings (This would apply to all Lunkers in all zones.):

Summary: Fishing skill from 800 - 1195 made NO difference on Lunker drop rate. It seems there is a cut-off somewhere between 860 and 1035 where you will stop getting Crescent Saberfish and Jawless Skulker. In my opinion, it is not worth it to boost your fishing level more than whatever gear you happen to have if all you are going for is Lunkers. The cost of the baits (high) vs the market price of the Enormous fish (low) makes it not worth worrying about.

Fishing Skill 800 (Using only Jawless Skulker Bait)
12% Crescent Saberfish (5)
5% Enormous Crescent Saberfish (2)
53% Enormous Jawless Skulker (23)
5% Fragrant Pheromone Fish (2)
14% Jawless Skulker (6)
2% Jawless Skulker Bait (1)
9% Jawless Skulker Lunker (4)

Fishing Skill 860 (Using Underlight Angler and Jawless Skulker Bait
9% Crescent Saberfish (4)
9% Enormous Crescent Saberfish (4)
51% Enormous Jawless Skulker (22)
2% Fragrant Pheromone Fish (1)
16% Jawless Skulker (7)
2% Jawless Skulker Bait (1)
7% Jawless Skulker Lunker (3)
2% Sharpened Fish Hook (1)

Fishing Skill 1035 (Underlight Angler, Jawless Skulker Bait, Nat's Drinking Hat, Tuskkar Spear)
2% Bladebone Hook (1)
0% Crescent Saberfish (0)
18% Enormous Crescent Saberfish (8)
64% Enormous Jawless Skulker (29)
4% Fragrant Pheromone Fish (2)
0% Jawless Skulker (0)
2% Jawless Skulker Bait (1)
9% Jawless Skulker Lunker (4)

Fishing Skill 1185-1195 (Underlight Angler, Jawless Skulker Bait, Tentacled Hat, Tuskkar Spear, Captain Rumsey's Lager, Trawler Totem, Worm Supreme)
0% Crescent Saberfish (0)
15% Enormous Crescent Saberfish (6)
74% Enormous Jawless Skulker (29)
3% Fragrant Pheromone Fish (1)
0% Jawless Skulker (0)
3% Jawless Skulker Bait (1)
3% Jawless Skulker Lunker (1)
3% Sharpened Fish Hook (1)

Comment by Lynkyn

<start vent> Using my warrior with Boots of the Bay +15 fishing, Underlight Angler +60, Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat +5, Warsong Gloves with Enchant Gloves - Angler +5, and Worm Supreme +200, and Nat's Hookshot with my Legion Fishing Skill of 800, Fishing Buddy is telling me I'm at 1085 after catching about 300+ Enormous Fat Sleeper I put in a ticket because I cannot seem to get a Fat Sleeper Lunker. The Response from Blizzard was

" Zendrikcele
Hey there,

Game Master Zendrikcele here, thanks for your patience - I'll be handling your issue today. :)

So sorry for any frustration that pesky Lunker is causing! I've dug as far into our database as I could, and checked reports and current issues - but there's really nothing of note with this particular fish. It is notoriously troublesome to catch, though.

The best available information and suggestions on fishing them up are likely posted in these comments:
Fat Sleeper Lunker/fat-sleeper-lunker#comments

Please follow up if anything else comes up! Be it a new issue, question, or concern - we're happy to hear from you again. If we've handled the current issue, you can head to https://us.battle.net/support/en/case/ to mark it as resolved. Good luck and have fun! :)"

Trying to complete A True Draenor Angler to catch a lot more lunkers to get Rep with Nat Pagle to get Nat's Drinking Hat and get a Dezian Queenfish so I can max out my skill with High Test Eternium Fishing Line. It shouldn't take 300+ Cast's to get a Lunker with the Hookshot :( I am not Happy Blizzard, seding me to wowhead, does not help :( </end vent>

Comment by Borgoth

Went back to catch some more Lunkers and as I've seen countless times people saying one should go for schools, I figured I'll finally test it.

Using 1020 fishing skill, in Nagrand:

200 fish caught in schools (200 enormous fat sleepers), 10 Lunkers. That's 5.0%.

200 fish caught in open water (155 enormous crescent saberfish, 45 enormous fat sleepers), 9 Lunkers. That's 4.5%.

Those two results are well within error margin to be identical, but either way the end result is same: fishing Lunkers from schools is slower, stick to open water and avoid traveling.

Comment by Niteowlpc

Is there some prerequisite that I am missing to get these? I have the fishing shack at 3, Nat Pagle is in the garrison and assigned to the shack. My fishing skills is capped at 100. I fished for about 2 hours yesterday in Nagrand (pools only) and never got a single lunker.

Comment by twinax

Drop rate from pools in Nagrand is amazing. Relog if your luck dries out - I fished for 45 minutes after
a strange dismount-DC, and there were zero lunkers. Relogging helped, fishing one straight on first cast...

Comment by Fuzzytail

End of BFA max level fishing (100 WoD) + 35 (Nat's Hat, Underlight Angler, +6 enchant and +9 lure, was using glow worm):
- fished for 2 and a half hours with varied success
- longest without lurkers around 50 fish - all from schools, you are not running out of them really
- the best catch rate was 4 lurkers in 6 casts
- catch rate fluctuated between 6% and 7.5%, at the end out of 450 casts 33 lurkers were caught (7.3% catch rate)

Comment by Probenzo

Having some trouble catching lunkers in shadowlands. I got draenor angler, in the process I got 9 Blind Lake Lunkers, but not a single kind of other Lunker. I ended up getting the quest from Nat Pagle to go catch Lunkers in each zone, and I have not gotten a single one to drop in hours.

Comment by Jacmacthepirate

Wanted to type up a guide of my experience on Nat's Lunkers as of Shadowlands patch 9.1

Nat Pagle in this incarnation has 6 friendship tiers
Stranger
Acquaintance
Buddy
Friend
Good Friend
Best Friend

Each friendship level is 8,200 reputation, and each lunker gives 385 reputation per turn in. It takes 22 lurkers for each friend tier. As of patch 9.1 you can carry all 22 lunkers required for each friend tier in your bag at a time (assuming your fishing up the same one as I did) and each Lunker has a less than 2% drop chance (I don't want to say 1% because I feel like fishing items and level play a huge part in this, When I would forget to apply my lures and other fishing items it would take ages to get a lunker until I reapplied everything and started getting them more frequently, so don't forget your lures and lagers!). 1 lunker turn in gives 1 "Nat's Lucky Coin" and the 385 rep and the coins can be used to buy rep based items.

Nat's Drinking Hat - Purchased at "friend" status, it increases your fishing by 8 and has the ability to attach a special lure to your pole increasing your fishing by another 10 for 10 minutes
Cost 25: coins

Draenic Fishing Pole - This pole is purchased at "friend" status and increases your fishing skill by 13, and can also apply a special lure increasing your fishing by 10 for 10 minutes as well. This pole is Alliance only
Cost: 25 coins

Left Shark - Shark pet purchased at "good friend" status
Cost: 50 coins

Sea Calf - Sea calf pet purchased at "stranger" status (couldn't find on him where it said any status of friendship required so I'm assuming it's at stranger but if not please let me know and ill edit)
Cost:50

Angler's Water Strider - Mount equipment that doesn't require a friendship tier, gives your mount the ability to walk on water
Cost 47 Gold 58 Silver

Reins of the Crimson Water Strider - Mount purchased at "best friend" status
Cost 100 coins

Nat's Draenic Fishing Journal - Permanently increase your skill in Draenor fishing by 25 up to a max of 100
Cost 25 coins

All in all, it takes about 110 Lunkers to get all the way to best friend status with this Nat Pagle. When you have reached "best friend" you also receive the famed "Nat's Fishing Chair" in your mailbox as well! it is essentially a mirrored copy of the TCG fishing chair.

As always the level 3 fishing shack is still gated behind the achievement "Draenor Angler" which is still essentially the same, catch 100 enormous fish for each area, which unlocks the blueprints to the level 3 fishing shack. If you have already achieved this on another character and want to get the hat on an alt, this is not required a second time, and as of patch 9.1, you only need Draenor fishing skill level 80 for the quest "Luring Nat" to show up instead of max level like before.

Really hope this helped, new to Wowhead so sorry for any mistakes.

9/14/2021

Comment by Entimidator

High Mountain Tauren have a Racial Passive that allows them a chance to loot additional meat and fish called Waste Not, Want Not. While fishing in Nagrand, I caught a Fat Sleeper Lunker, the passive procced and gave me a second Lunker in the same cast. Might not be a huge advantage, but catching two lunkers instead of one is definitely a win.

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Fat Sleeper Lunker

Item Level 35
Binds when picked up

"Ugly and slimy. Surprisingly delicious when cooked. Only caught by masterful anglers with the help of Nat Pagle."

Max Stack: 20

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This item can be fished in Nagrand (157).

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Garrison Preset Buildings: Fishing Shack, Herb Garden, Menagerie, Mine Guide to the Garrison Fishing Shack Warlords of Draenor Fishing

Fat Sleeper Lunker

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