Deviate Fish

🐟 FishFishing

Derived from the WoW Classic 1.12 game data, not copied from a wiki. How this is built. Updated 20 August 2026.

Use: Eat me. (10 Sec Cooldown)

Deviate Fish crafts

Deviate Fish is used for crafting multiple items, like:

Alchemy

Name / QualityRecipe SourceRates
Elixir of Giant Growth
drop
90 120 140 160

Cooking

Name / QualityRecipe SourceRates
Savory Deviate Delight
drop
85 125 145 165

Deviate Fish is a fish caught with the Fishing profession in WoW Classic Era. The zones it is usually found in require around 75 Fishing skill to fish without constant getaways.

What Deviate Fish is used for

Cooking: Savory Deviate Delight

Where to fish Deviate Fish

5 stretches of water across 2 zones, from the game’s own fishing tables. The best of them is Lushwater Oasis in The Barrens at 29.3% a cast, which needs 1 fishing. Zones are ordered by their best water. The pools are shaded on each map — 16 spawns, and a pool is worth far more per cast than the water around it.

The Barrens29.3%
Wailing Caverns29%

Map of The Barrens showing where to fish Deviate Fish: 16 fishing pools and 3 named stretches of water — The Barrens — fishable from 1 skillThe dashed outlines are the named parts of the zone whose water yields Deviate Fish — the game’s own boundary for each place, not the waterline, so look for the water inside one.School of Deviate Fish — 16 pools at 85%, shaded where they crowd

Water in The Barrens that yields Deviate Fish
Where	Per cast	Fishing
Lushwater Oasis	29.3%	1
The Stagnant Oasis	28.9%	1
Open water	28.4%	1
The Forgotten Pools	26.4%	1

Wailing Caverns is a dungeon or a battleground, and the site has no map art for it — the water is listed below all the same.

Water in Wailing Caverns that yields Deviate Fish
Where	Per cast	Fishing
Open water	29%	1