The Secret Fish - Achievement and Toy Guide (2024)

This guide covers how to get all the Secret Fish required for the following achievements: Secret Fish of Mechagon and Secret Fish and Where to Find Them.

Completing the achievement Secret Fish of Mechagon rewards you with the Secret Fish Goggles which allows you to find secret fish throughout Azeroth. Completing the achievement Secret Fish and Where to Find Them rewards you with the Hyper-Compressed Ocean toy, which creates a huge water sphere that you can fish in for 15 minutes.

Secret Fish of Mechagon

The Secret Fish of Mechagon achievement requires you to catch and deliver ten fish to Danielle Anglers.

Secret Fish and Where to Find Them

To complete the achievement Secret Fish and Where to Find Them you will have to use the Secret Fish Goggles.

While you have the goggles on, a random fish will spawn within 40 yards of you every 30 seconds. Once you catch it there is a chance you will receive "a rare secret fish" that is required for the achievement.

Common Fish

You can find the following fish in any zone. There's no need to focus on these fish as you'll probably have them all by the time you're done with the others.

Tip: The best place to farm these fish is on top of one of the floating rocks in Nagrand (Outland). Stay on one side of the floating rock as shown in the picture below and the fish will spawn on the opposite side.

If you have a friend with the Secret Fish Goggles then you can speed up the process and catch the fish without much effort or movement.

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Time Scheduled Fish

Elusive Moonfish - Can only be caught during the night.
Golden Sunsoaker - Can only be caught during the day.

Ghost Fish

You can find the following fish only while dead. Make sure to get the buff from the Secret Fish Goggles before falling down.

Tip: One of the best places to catch these fish is the floating island south of Dalaran (Broken Isles). Stay on the edge of the island and the fish will spawn around your character.

Zone Specific Fish

You can find the following fish only in specific zones throughout the world.

Note: Some fish may bug out and you might not be able to catch them. This issue has been reported for Neverest Pinnacle and Nordrassil; to avoid this issue make sure you approach the zone on foot, without flying or riding a mount.

Mechanized Mackerel - Mechagon
Jade Story Fish - Jade Forest
Kirin Tor Clown - Dalaran (Broken Isles & Northrend), including Margoss's Retreat and Underbelly
Ancient Mana Fin - Astravar Harbor, coordinates 52.8 69.5 in Suramar. You can fish it upstairs to avoid the demons
Drowned Goldfish - Drowned Lands from Deadwash, coordinates 46 53 in Stormsong Valley
Barbed Fjord Fin - Howling Fjord
Dead Fel Bone - Coordinates 34.5 76.5 in Krokuun
Rotted Blood Cod - Coordinates 55.4 57.9 in Nazmir
Prisoner Fish - Tol Barad (PvP Zone)
Thunderous Flounder - Isle of Thunder
Tortollan Tank Dweller - The Drunk Tank, the underwater bar under Anyport, coordinates 19.5 42.7 in Drustvar
Queen's Delight - Nazjatar
Displaced Scrapfin - This fish is caught in Mechagon's Alternate Future. To get to Mechagon's Alternate Future for the first time you will have to talk to Chromie at coordinates 70 31 in Mechagon when she is up as a daily visitor. If you've been to Mechagon's Alternate Future before and have obtained the Blueprint: Personal Time Displacer (random drop from npcs), then you can craft and use a Personal Time Displacer to travel to the alternate future of Mechagon.
Green Roughy - This fish required the Painted Green buff from Mechagon. You can get it by walking over the green puddle from the Mechanocat Painting Station at coordinates 63 42 in Mechagon
Thin Air Flounder - Neverest Pinnacle, coordinates 44.5 52.5 in Kun-Lai Summit
Well Lurker - To catch this fish you have to swim down in the Nordrassil lake in Mount Hyjal

Hyper-Compressed Ocean

The reward for completing the achievement Secret Fish and Where to Find Them is the Hyper-Compressed Ocean toy!

The Hyper-Compressed Ocean toy creates a huge water sphere that you can fish in for 15 minutes. The loot table for the fish is the same as the loot table for the zone in which you are using the toy.

Credits

We'd like to give a big shout-out to Discord User Kiingy#2452 for putting in hours of work and finding most of the secret fish on the Public Test Realm even before Patch 8.2 Rise of Azshara went live.