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Comment by jjanchan

This lure can be obtained using Funky Sea Snail.

Funky Sea Snail can be fished up in Highmountain. After it it is obtained, you receive the buff Funky Sea Snail; on expiration of this buff, a Drogbar mob is summoned (Bitestone Fishbrul) that can be killed, dropping Salmon Lure.

Salmon Lure is a bait used to catch Ancient Highmountain Salmon.

Note that Funky Sea Snail disappears from your inventory when the Bitestone Fishbrul spawns.

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!

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 Kraineth

Dropped by a Bitestone Fishbruhl mob that spawns when the buff you get from Funky Sea Snail

This lure attracts Ancient Highmountain Salmon

Comment by phyber

Used this lure today and was fishing up Mountain Puffer instead of Ancient Highmountain Salmon for some reason. I definitely used the correct lure, I did not use a Swollen Murloc Egg. I definitely had the Salmon Lure buff up.

The only difference compared to the last time I used this lure was that I now have the Underlight Angler and that my Salmon Lure had been in the bank for a few days (ie. I didn't get it from a Funky Sea Snail during this session).

Posting this just in case any other anglers notice it too.

Comment by Alfa

This can be sold/bought on the AH.

Comment by neiljwd

After using this lure I got my Ancient Highmountain Salmon, fishing from a POOL of normal Highmountain Salmon.
Only 1 though, cast in open waters 3 times, and the pool 3-4 times. Only got 1 Ancient Highmountain Salmon. and it was definitely from a cast into a pool.

Comment by rysalia

This lure did not seem to work in Trueshot Lodge--after a long time spent getting this lure, fished in the open waters at Trueshot Lodge for two minutes and only fished Mackerel. I'd recommend only using this lure outside of the Trueshot Lodge area... just in case.

Comment by 928254

This is a good lure to use to level your artifact fishing pole. It lasts for 5 minutes, most others last for 2 minutes. Go to Sylvan Falls in Highmountain (flight path). 4-8 Highmountain salmon pools spawn here. You'll need an Anglers Fishing Raft. Use your lure and fish all the pools. Most rares I have been able to catch with one lure was 7 and I caught another Funky Sea Snail for another lure to do it all again. Makes leveling the pole go much faster. Happy Fishing!

Comment by Munchausens

I've murdered at least 4 of these Bitestone Fishbruls, and not one of them has dropped the bait. All I get is a bit of gold and maybe some junk. No problem getting the snails, apparently, but I just can't get the salmon bait.

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 = "133710" local countBags = GetItemCount(id) local countTotal = GetItemCount(id, true) print(GetItemInfo(id)..":", countBags, "(bags)", (countTotal - countBags), "(bank)")

Salmon Lure: 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 Lisq33

There are three Hightmountain Salmon Schools in Whitewater Wash at 42, 59.

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Salmon Lure

Item Level 40
Unique

Use: Apply the lure to your fishing pole to attract rare fish.
Requires Level 39
"Useful when fishing in Highmountain."

Sell Price: 2

Dropped by: Bitestone Fishbrul

Drop Chance: 97.60%

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This item can be fished in Highmountain .

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