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Comment by jjanchan

Decayed Whale Blubber is an item that can be fished up in the Broken Isles. When used, it attracts flies, which can be looted to obtain Ravenous Fly.

Ravenous Fly is a bait that is used to catch Ancient Black Barracuda.

There are a number of Rare fish in Legion, and items (bait or otherwise) that will help you catch them.
The Rare fish and items to catch them are zone specific (although some are obtainable on any shoreline of the Broken Isles).

Rare Fish

There are 18 rare fish coming in Legion that can be fished up. Each rare fish grants +5 to Fishing skill when used, consuming it in the process.

There are 3 Rare fish per zone, and 3 that can be caught on any coastal waters.
These can be fished up from a Fishing skill of 1, so this can be an effective way to power level Fishing.
Catching one of the rare fish listed below while fishing will grant the achievement A Cast Above the Rest. Catching them all will grant the achievement Bigger Fish to Fry, which is a requirement to get the Underlight Angler Fishing Artifact Weapon.
All Rare fish are Bind on Pickup.
If you are fishing with the Underlight Angler equipped, you will obtain a DIFFERENT version of each rare fish that grants Artifact Power instead of Fishing skill (e.g. you would fish up Coldriver Carp instead of Coldriver Carp)

Note that this does not retroactively apply to rare fish you obtained before getting the Artifact - the only use for these short of maxing fishing skill is vendoring for a decent chunk of change.

The Rare fish in the chart below are marked with a star (*)

Fishing Bait and Items

Some of the items that help you catch Rare fish will spawn and NPC that grants a fishing buff; others contain bait, or spawn NPCs that drop bait.

All fishing bait buffs last for 2 minutes once used (except for Rusty Queenfish Brooch and Ancient Vrykul Ring, which last 5 minutes each).
All buffs last the full duration, except for Moosehorn Hook, which expires as soon as you catch a bait.
Almost all baits can be bought/sold on the Auction House. Use this if you are having trouble with a particular fish!

The exception to this is the Stunned, Angry Shark, which has a 1 minute duration in your inventory.

All baits are Unique, meaning you can only carry one. The further caveat to this is that you WILL NOT catch any bait that is currently in your inventory!

This can be used to your advantage if you are looking for a particular bait in a zone - by having certain baits in your bags, you will ensure you do not catch them again.
If you are wanting to obtain multiples of the same bait, you can put baits on the Auction House, mail them to an alt, or put them into a Guild Bank or Guild Bank Tab that only you have access to. This will allow you to catch the same bait again.

A portable mailbox like MOLL-E (Engineering) or GUMM-E (from the Draenor garrison Engineering Workshop) is a huge boon when doing this out in the field!

It is worthwhile saving some rare fish bait, in order to level Artifact Power on your Underlight Angler if and when you get it.

Items and Rare Fish by Zone

Highmountain	Val'sharah
Item	Used to Obtain	Item	Used to Obtain

Drowned Thistleleaf

Funky Sea Snail (1)	Salmon Lure	Rotten Fishbone (3)	Ancient Mossgill*
Salmon Lure	Ancient Highmountain Salmon*	Nightmare Nightcrawler	Terrorfin*
Frost Worm	Coldriver Carp*	Drowned Thistleleaf (4)	Thorned Flounder*
Swollen Murloc Egg (2)	Mountain Puffer*

Azsuna	Suramar
Item	Used to Obtain	Item	Used to Obtain

Skrog Toenail (5)	Aromatic Murloc Slime	Enchanted Lure	Magic-Eater Frog*
Aromatic Murloc Slime	Leyshimmer Blenny*	Demonic Detritus	Tainted Runescale Koi*
Pearlescent Conch	Nar'thalas Hermit*	Sleeping Murloc (7)	Seerspine Puffer*
Rusty Queenfish Brooch (6)	Ghostly Queenfish*

Stormheim	All Coastal Legion Waters
Item	Used to Obtain	Item	Used to Obtain

Moosehorn Hook (8)	Silverscale Minnow Soggy Drakescale	Message in a Beer Bottle (10)	Axefish Lure
Axefish Lure	Axefish*
Silverscale Minnow	Thundering Stormray*	Stunned, Angry Shark (11)	Seabottom Squid*
Ancient Vrykul Ring (9)	Oodelfjisk*	Decayed Whale Blubber (12)	Ravenous Fly
Soggy Drakescale	Graybelly Lobster*	Ravenous Fly	Ancient Black Barracuda*

Notes:
* Indicates a Rare fish
(1) Funky Sea Snail is an item that will summon a Bitestone Fishbrul that drops a Salmon Lure when killed.
(2) Swollen Murloc Egg is an item that will spawn a Murloc NPC, Swamprock Tadpole, that grants the buff Blessing of the Murlocs, increasing your chance to fish up Mountain Puffer.
(3) Rotten Fishbone is an item that will attract a Druid NPC (Lorlathil Druid) that casts the The Cat's Meow buff on you, increasing your chance to fish up Ancient Mossgill.
(4) Drowned Thistleleaf is an item that will grant the buff Blessing of the Thistleleaf, increasing your chance to fish up Thorned Flounder.
(5) Skrog Toenail is an item that will summon a Salteye Skrog-Hunter that drops a Aromatic Murloc Slime when killed.
(6) Rusty Queenfish Brooch is an item that is required to see Ghostly Queenfish pools in Azsuna.
(7) Using Sleeping Murloc will awaken a Confused Seerspine Murloc, who will run around briefly and drop some Seerspine Puffer into the water.
(8) Moosehorn Hook is an item that increases your chances to catch rare bait in Stormheim, rather than fish.
(9) Ancient Vrykul Ring is an item that is required to see Oodelfjisk pools in Stormheim.
(10) Message in a Beer Bottle contains Axefish Lure when opened.
(11) Using Stunned, Angry Shark will spawn a Landlocked Shark, which will yield Seabottom Squid when killed. Using it on land makes it much less dangerous than in water (hits quite hard).
(12) Decayed Whale Blubber is an item that attracts flies - Ravenous Fly can be looted from these.

Comment by SirPent666

I fished 3 of these up in one hour of fishing on the eastern shores of Suramar from the Black Barracuda pools. I was using the Arcane Lure which in my opinion is a must if your purposely trying for the rare fish lures.

Once you have the Decayed Whale Blubber stand on a remote shoreline to avoid interruption just to be safe.Using the item will place a whale blob in front of you as the item describes. Cast your line out and shortly after a silithid wasp will fly down and hover over the whale blubber.You'll need to click on the fly to add it to your inventory which will give you the Ravenous Fly.This is the actual bait to catch the Ancient Black Barracuda Ancient Black Barracuda.

Happy Hunting & Fish On!

Comment by wonderboyjon

You don't actually need to be in The Great Sea to fish this bait up.

I accidentally fished one up while fishing at Shipwreck Cove in the northern part of Highmountain.

Comment by AllureMG

I am so far beyond frustrated I'm ready to cry :( I'm going into my 5th hour of fishing for this stupid thing. I must be doing something wrong. I'm fishing in Azuregale Bay, east coast of Suramur. I've used too many Arcane Lures to count. I fish both in and out of schools (better luck out of schools for every other kind of bait that I don't need....). I don't know what else to do. If anyone has ANY helpful suggestions I would appreciate it...***EDIT***OH. MY. GOD! I just tried to buy one from the AH and it said "I can't carry any more of those." I HAD ONE IN MY BANK THIS WHOLE TIME AND DIDN'T KNOW IT! I am the most stupid person in the world......smh

Comment by Beasita

I found that the best way to fish these is in Suramar City around Astravar Harbor (it's where the Party Crasher world quest takes place). There are plenty of pools there and most of them are pretty close to each other so you can see which one you'll move on to.

Comment by lunamoonraker

Not limited to coastal areas.

I fished one up from El'dranil Shallows, S of Nar'thalas Academy, Azsuna.

The main criteria seems to be they are caught alongside Black Barracuda which are also caught here, even though it is some way inland.

Comment by 839416

VERY IMPORTANT

While you can catch the bait fish (Decayed Whale Blubber & Message in a Beer Bottle) on the coast or out at sea, once you attach the bait to your rod you MUST fish in the GREAT SEA!

Do not attempt to fish with your bait attached if you caught the bait on the coast where you caught it at. Make sure you go out far enough where the location switches to Great Sea. After going through multiple Axefish Lures and Ravenous Flys trying to catch their corresponding rares and catching nothing I tried my luck further out and caught 4 of the rare Ancient Black Barracudas my first time. So make sure you don't waste your lure and go out to the Great Sea. This is only relevant for the Coastal Legion Waters rare fish.

Comment by SirNorek

TIP: If the world quest for Wild Northern Barracuda is up in Highmountain (all the way north in Rockaway Coast right next to Shipwreck Cove FP) the fishing pools here seem to stay even after you finish your WQ (they respawn very fast and you can fish 1-2 times per, very plentiful) and will give Black Barracuda which CAN drop bait I got Decayed Whale Blubber as of this post Oct 7th.and then got a few Ancient Black Barracuda from them. As a bonus, if you do not have any form of water walking Anglers Fishing Raft etc, the NPC Nacea Shorewalker is right at the pools, and will give you a 10min water walking that doesn't break from combat.

EDIT: to add to this, I was able to get an axefish, stunned angry shark, as well as my Luminous Pearl as these were the last fish I needed :D

Comment by Counterclockwork

Really wish it were more clear as to what waters classify as "Oceanic Waters". Fishing for 5 minutes at the farthest point in Suramar City netted me a whole zero Ancient Black Barracuda.

Comment by Blutooth

I just found out you can place and get the fly while on the Anglers Fishing Raft

Comment by pixielynn

I just fished this up out of a mossgill perch pool with the arcane lure active in the water near Lorlathiel in Val'Sharah. I almost wasted it just to see what it did. Came here instead and saved myself from having to fish it up again. Thanks everyone!

Comment by nirv

Since patch 7.2.5, I have not seen a single one of these drop while fishing in Suramar even with Arcane Lures. I caught over 400 Black Barracuda and I didn't see any bait at all since 7.2.5 except sleeping murloc. What the hell is going on with this buggy game?

Comment by Sillygoo

Do not try to collect the Ravenous Fly while flying.

Being impatient as I am, I mounted and tried to collect it a little earlier but instead of getting the item I got the message "You are mounted." and the fly disappeared.

Comment by Kamaztle

got blubber and fish at 34.0, 50.0 on Borken Isles

Comment by gverderamo

Just fished this up in northern Stormheim (50, 19), near the wounded adventurer, for First Aid.

Comment by RiokaR

After returning to the game and trying this, I was frustrated to realise I already had some of the lures in my bank, and as they are unique, I ended up wasting too much time fishing for nothing. This macro will check if you have an item hidden away in your bags or bank.

/run local id = "133724" local countBags = GetItemCount(id) local countTotal = GetItemCount(id, true) print(GetItemInfo(id)..":", countBags, "(bags)", (countTotal - countBags), "(bank)")

Decayed Whale Blubber: 0 (bags) 1 (bank)

You simply need to change the id to the correct item id you are searching for.

Zone	Item Name	Item ID
Azsuna	Skrog Toenail	133701
Azsuna	Aromatic Murloc Slime	133702
Azsuna	Pearlescent Conch	133703
Azsuna	Rusty Queenfish Brooch	133704
Val'sharah	Rotten Fishbone	133705
Val'sharah	Nightmare Nightcrawler	133707
Val'sharah	Drowned Thistleleaf	133708
Highmountain	Funky Sea Snail	133709
Highmountain	Salmon Lure	133710
Highmountain	Swollen Murloc Egg	133711
Highmountain	Frost Worm	133712
Stormheim	Moosehorn Hook	133713
Stormheim	Silverscale Minnow	133714
Stormheim	Ancient Vrykul Ring	133715
Stormheim	Soggy Drakescale	133716
Suramar	Enchanted Lure	133717
Suramar	Sleeping Murloc	133719
Suramar	Demonic Detritus	133720
The Great Sea	Message in a Beer Bottle	133721
The Great Sea	Axefish Lure	133722
The Great Sea	Stunned, Angry Shark	133723
The Great Sea	Decayed Whale Blubber	133724
The Great Sea	Ravenous Fly	133795

Comment by OptikRise

Fished this up in The Great Sea near Highmountain. Not from a school. 100 + 22 fishing and an Arcane Lure. /way 37.32 14.03 Decayed Whale Blubber

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Decayed Whale Blubber

Item Level 40
Unique

Use: Place the blubber on the ground to attract flies.
Requires Level 39
Requires Impus - Good Friend
"It smells... not good."

Sell Price: 2

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