First you have to have done this part in the mini-quest of Barbarian Training. It's fairly simple, but if you can't figure out how to do it go here.
Here is the location of where you can Barbarian Rod Fish. The easiest way to get there is to use a Games Necklace and teleport to Barbarian Assault, then follow the directions on this map:
To start, you can use feathers, fish-offcuts, roe, and caviar for bait. There are three kinds of fish you can catch with this type of fishing - Leaping Trout, Salmon, and Sturgeon. All of these fish are caught fairly frequently, plus they give great experience comparable to fly fishing. The bonus to these fish are they can be cut open with a knife to give you fish-offcuts(works as fishing bait), roe(used to make fishy mix potions with Herblore), and caviar(used to make higher level fishy mix potions with Herblore). The fish alone are basically worthless until cut into caviar.
List of Leaping Fish:
Leaping Trout - Requires 48 Fishing and 15 Strength & Agility; gives 50 Fishing and 5 Strength & Agility experience.
Leaping Salmon - Requires 58 Fishing and 30 Strength & Agility; gives 70 Fishing and 6 Strength & Agility experience.- Leaping Sturgeon - Requires 70 Fishing and 45 Strength & Agility; gives 80 Fishing and 7 Strength & Agility experience.
Barbarian Rod Fishing is actually very similar to Fly Fishing. You can do basically the exact same thing, but Barbarian Rod Fishing has the bonus of giving you roe/caviar and fish-offcuts(essentially recycling bait). This type of fishing also gives decent Strength and Agility experience on top of great Fishing experience. The only minor fault is it is not as quick as Fly Fishing in Shilo Village, but it is so very close that it barely matters.
Now onto the actual fishing.
Barbarian Rod Fishing Methods:
- Fish similar to fly fishing with lots of feathers, but drop or bank the fish.
- Fish with feathers originally and continue by cutting fish to receive fish-offcuts to use as bait; drop the roe and caviar.
- After fishing a load of fish, cut them open and keep the fish off-cuts (10 cooking experience per cut), run to the closest bank and deposit the roe and caviar(roe sells for dirt, but caviar sells for about 500g each). A faster way of doing this is to use Rings of Dueling(made with Crafting) to teleport to Castle Wars and bank real quick, then use a Games Necklace(made with Crafting) to teleport back to the Barbarian Outpost to go south and fish more.
At this point you have two options, one is to fish by using the fish off-cuts to fill up the small amount of space remaining in your inventory. Two is drop the fish-offcuts and fish with just the remaining roe and caviar. I fished with just the roe and caviar for about a month and only had to use fish-offcuts to make up for lost roe/caviar as bait about 3 or 4 times(the reason why you lose space is because leaping trout has a 50% chance of giving roe and 50% chance of giving nothing).
Guide created by Kaejer.
