I’d normally think Druid is the best option but after fishing up in Hallowfall’s weird tributaries today, I kinda feel like Shaman, DK, Priest or any other “water walker” would be better.
What are you guys using, and why?
I fish with a dracthyr for the perception bonus, so I usually use an evoker because that’s the only class I play as a dragon! If dracthyr could be shaman and I fished enough to want to min/max, that’s what I’d play.
That’s not a bad idea. Given the class limitations, I guess a Priest is the best option since Levitate gets you into safer positions.
I just fish on my main, my rogue. If I need to walk on water I use the Anglers Fishing Raft.
I need to work on that rep i guess. Ok so i guess perception is the best race/ability.
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You get a free one from the Tuskarr that is way easier to get.
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Oooooh good to know. Thanks!
Pandaren get a bonus to food stats, so they get +60 fishing skill and +300 perception from Ghoulfish Delight (instead of 30/150)
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Oh damn, ok. Thats big.
I dont really know how Perception works but im guessing the food buff is better than the Perception bonus?
Also, a bear fishing just makes sense.
Apologies for digging this up so much later. I had to test things.
So I just changed my fisher to Highmountain Tauren.
Highmountain Tauren get the racial “Waste Not, Want Not” which gives you extra meat and fish.
This ability is far better than any amount of perception.
Perception works the same way for all gathering professions. If you get a rare item, it has (perception chance) to give you a second one.
Because the second event proc depends on the first happening, mathematically the odds of perception proccing is:
(odds of rare drop) x (perception chance)
For example, if the rare fish has 1% drop rate and you have 50% perception (which is a stupendously high perception chance), your odds of proccing perception are: 0.01 x 0.5 x100% = 0.5%
If perception scales the same as other gathering perception (a big if as it is not shown), then your perception chance is perception rating/30. So, that 300 perception rating bonus works out to an increase of 10% to your perception chance.
If you already have 450 perception and you add 300 perception that makes your total perception chance as … [750/30]% = 25%. If you have a rare fish that has a 1% drop rate, that will give you 0.25% chance for perception to proc.
Also, perception ONLY works on rare fish, such as Cursed Ghoulfish, Sanguine Dogfish, etc.
On the other hand, “Waste Not, Want Not” works on ALL fish. Including Kaheti Slum Shark (which is uncommon and therefore does not proc with perception). I have confirmed with my data that this can proc on these as well as rare fish. It has a flat ~5% chance to proc, which is significantly higher than any amount of perception.
The only thing is, is that it is extremely difficult to spot when you get a duplicate, especially when you are fishing the same thing for an amount of time (so your chat is full of duplicate messages).
It is subtle. If you fish something normally, it will say: You receive loot: [fish name]. If you get a “waste not, want not” proc it will say instead: You receive item: [fish name].
Here is an image to show you what this looks like:
https://imgur.com/a/IhKmKoX
Here is the raw data:
With perception rating = 429
N = 200 casts
perception procced 2 times (note that I was buffing the rare drop chance throughout with bloody perch)
“waste not, want not” procced 11 times (including 1 rare duplicate and 1 kaheti slum shark duplicate)
Hope this helps! 
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Any class may fish. My priest and hunter are zen master fishermen
Monk is fun. Fishing on a cloud is comfy
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