• Profession skill cap rises to 600.
• Cooking specializations: For example, “grilling may create Strength food.” Choose a specialisation or “learn all.”
• Inscription’s prime glyphs “might go away”, with more major glyphs instead.

• Seafood Magnifique Feast ingredients halved: Now viable for 10-raider groups.
• Gikkix’s old cooking recipes are now taught by trainers: Training cooking with fishing 250-275 is much easier again.
• Scalding Murglesnout: Finally a use for Murglesnout!
• Azeroth Daily Fishing (and cooking) quests are not currently giving skill-ups (fixed).

Read on for a full list of changes:

Casting

• A new fishing cursor (illustrated).
• Bobber does not splash at the very end of the spell cast bar anymore. The cast time has become longer, but the average time to catch a fish may have decreased slightly – see Moonraker’s observations.

Equipment

• “Rare fishing poles” (Bone Fishing Pole and Jeweled Fishing Pole) in reward from Azeroth Daily Fishing Quests (via official notes). Reward bag may also contains Recipe: Captain Rumsey’s Lager and Weather-Beaten Journal.
• Heat-Treated Spinning Lure lasts 15 minutes (up from 5). The Engineering schematic now makes 2 lures, not just one.
• Feathered Lure recipe is sold again by Stormwind and Orgrimmar daily cooking quest vendors.
• Glass Fishing Bobber should now give +15 skill (temporarily?), but is bugged and cannot be used.
• Hotfix: Bone Fishing Pole now gives +5 Shadow Resistance (down from 40).

Cooking

• Seafood Magnifique Feast cooked with 2 of each fish (down from 4).
• Scalding Murglesnout – a non-buff food, cooked from 3 Murglesnout. Sold by Stormwind and Orgrimmar daily cooking quest vendors for 3 Chef’s Awards. Requires cooking skill 500.
• Recipes for Grilled Squid, Nightfin Soup, Poached Sunscale Salmon and Spotted Yellowtail now trained from cooking trainers.
• Feathered Lure recipe is sold again by Stormwind and Orgrimmar daily cooking quest vendors.

Achievements

• “Turtles all the Way Down” (Sea Turtle achievement) description officially confirms catches from Cataclysm pools. Tol Barad is not listed, but turtle catches there will still count towards the achievement.

Stranglethorn Extravaganza

• Inland Tastyfish pools removed.
• Starting announcement heard in Northern Stranglethorn, but the winner and ending announcements cannot be heard (discussion).

Unconfirmed

• Reinforced Fishing Line +1 fishing skill line (applied to your pole). Update: Found in Stendel’s Bane.
• “Venture Co. Archaeology Crates”, containing archaeology fragments. 8 crates have been data-mined, one for each archaeology race. These have not yet been found while fishing – further discussion.

• Train Illustrious Angler up to 525 fishing skill. Realm firsts available at launch.
• Catch and cook Cataclysm fish from new zones (officially). Also fish for Volatile Water and Fire, and Alchemists’ Albino Cavefish.
• Complete guild pool-fishing achievements to gain the recipe for the new feast, Seafood Magnifique Feast.
• Gain a Lure Master Tackle Box, the first fishing bag.

For a brief guide scan the Cataclysm FAQ. For more details, see the Cataclysm section. We’re still searching for some of “the fun stuff“, so if you catch anything new, please let us know.

• With 300+ cooking, chance to find a Waterlogged Recipe (image) in the Bag of Fishing Treasures. Can be traded. Starts quest (requires level 70 and 350 cooking). Turn in for 5 Dalaran Cooking Awards and 250 Kirin Tor reputation.
• Blackened Dragonfin only requires 1 fish to cook.
• Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat can be used to lure a pole the moment it is equipped (undocumented).

• New Sea Turtle jump animation (video and images).
• Fishing poles do reasonable damage again.
• Corroded Jewelry from anywhere in Dalaran sewers (even the Circle of Wills).
• Phantom Ghostfish also from Nettlefish School.

• Ulduar fishing. Fish also caught in Icecrown, Storm Peaks and Zul’Drak. And now Naxxramas.
• Feast are no longer soulbound and can be traded/sold. Fish Feast requires 425 cooking and level 70 to use.
• The 5 Ring, confirmed epic reward from the new fishing dailies.
• Extreme Angler FC-5000 has been reduced to a +20 bonus. DPS on many poles reduced, and level restrictions removed. Stamina bonus removed from Seth’s Pole. Kalu’ak pole change not intended.
• Essence of Fire now caught by fishing (discussion).
• Unusual Scryers Fishing Trainer in Shattrath.
• Phased Orgrimmar fishing removed.
• Dark Herring seems more common.
• Fix: Dalaran Cooking dailies require level 65 again.
• Fix: “Certain fishing nodes [presumably Pool of Blood] for one of the fishing daily quests should no longer be spawned on land.”

• The recipe for Fish Feast has been added. Fish Feast gives a +80 Attack Power, +46 Spell Power and +40 Stamina buff. The recipe requires 5 Dalaran Cooking Awards and 450 cooking skill to buy. Fortunately, Gigantic and Small Feasts become “yellow” until skill 450, making it much easier to skill-up cooking to 450.
• About half of all catches from Northrend’s pools have a Pygmy Suckerfish attached: Much more common than existing open water fishing.