To start playing this game, talk to a Fisherman at one of the start locations to obtain an Entry ticket. Each day, he will give you 2 Entry tickets. If you were unable to claim these tickets, you may claim them the following day as long as you do not already have 10 tickets. Additional tickets can be earned from catching heavy fish during during a competition.

Locations to find a Fisherman include:

• Barbarian Outpost
• Barbarian Village
• Burgh de Rott
• Burthorpe
• Catherby
• Deep Sea Fishing Hub
• Draynor Village
• Fishing Guild
• Living Rock Caverns
• Lumbridge
• Lumbridge Swamp
• Menaphos Port District
• Menaphos VIP skilling area
• Piscatoris Fishing Colony
• Prifddinas Waterfall
• Shilo Village

Upon arriving on Isla Anglerine, you will be placed in a group of players who have joined from the same world. You will have 5 minutes before the competition begins. Fishing with a clan or group of friends will help you earn more medals and tokens.

How to Play

When the gates open the competition has begun! The competition lasts for 10 minutes. Competitions run every 20 minutes with a 5 minute grace period and a 5 minute waiting time between competitions. This game is mostly based on playing around with different hooks, weights, and bait in different areas of the island.

You will notice that you now have a menu for the items you can use. You MUST have at least one weight, bait, and hook before you can cast your line. These are selected by clicking them in your menu. You can then cast either by clicking a barrel or choosing the "cast" option on the lower left of your inventory screen. Choosing "Clear line" will remove all your tackle and you will need to select some before you can re-cast your line.

Sometimes it takes a moment for a bit of tackle to take effect and catch a fish. Be patient with it and click again if necessary!

Baits include:

	Worms		Maggots		Locust		Cricket
	Crayfish		Shrimp		Green moth		Grey moth

Hooks include:

	Standard		Slim		Large
	Double		Bone		Wooden

When on Isla Anglerine, there are four areas you can choose to fish at: docks, beach, river, or lake.

At the top of your screen you will find your catch history. This will tell you the species of the fish, where you caught it, the weight of the fish, and how accurate your lure was, as well as which bait, hook, and weight(s) you used. There are 6 different types of fish that you can catch: bass, cod, pike, herring, trout, and salmon. During each competition, one of these will be considered the "heavy breed". This is the one that everyone will be trying to catch. The interface will also tell you the best combinations you have found to catch each fish.

Lure Combinations

When choosing your bait, weights, and hook, keep in mind that you are aiming for 100% rating and the heaviest fish to earn the max reward. While fishing in certain areas you can fish up 2 different types of fish. Example: Herring and Cod can be fished at docks by switching your tackle.

NOTE: The combination for 100% rating is scrambled EACH time you play! You can't use the same one you did last tournament.

Clues

For each game, you can ask the Fisherman to give you a clue for the best lure combination. Note that you should ask him before the game actually begins - before being teleported to the lobby or while waiting for the game to actually begin. Each person will receive their own clue so it is advised to share amongst the others there. Using the "fishflingers" fc while on World 89 is highly advised. More people (who know how to play) makes it more likely for you to obtain medals.

Each clue will contain 3 bits of information: Type of fish, Where to catch it, and either the bait, hook, or distance to the fish. Example below.

As can be seen with this example, we now know that we can catch a Trout at the beach with a weight of 3 or 4. How we cam to this conclusion can be seen in the coming sections.

Bait Clues

Clue	Color	Correct Bait
Leaping	Brown	Cricket
	Green	Locust
Fluttering		Green moth
	Gray	Grey moth
Shellfish		Crayfish
	Red	Shrimp
Wiggling		Worms
	Brown	Maggots

Hook Clues

Clue	Correct Hook
That species is fairly normal and doesn’t need a special hook. A normal hook should catch them just fine.	Standard
That species has a small mouth, so you'll need to take that into account when choosing your hook.	Slim
That species tends to nibble its food, so a double hook helps to catch them.	Double
That species has a wide mouth, so you'll need to take that into account when choosing your hook.	Large
They're clever and can spot metal a mile off. You'd better think carefully about what type of hook you use.	Bone OR Wooden

Distance Clues

Clue	Correct Distance
They've been spotted close to the shore, so you won't need much weight on your line to reach them.	1 or 2
They've been seen a fair distance from the shore, but not too far. You'll need to attach a few weights to your line to reach them.	3 or 4
They've been sighted far from the shore, so attach lots of weights to your line to reach them.	5 or 6

Strategy

Since the game only lasts a total of 10 minutes, the goal is to find the 100% Lure Combinations as fast as possible so that you can obtain Medals. Remember to share your Clues and call 100% combinations that you discover for others playing with you. Using the "fishflingers" fc while on World 89 is highly advised. More people (who know how to play) makes it more likely for you to achieve the goals.

Keep in mind that only ONE species will have any given Bait, Hook, or Weight. As such, it is suggested to begin by testing: Standard, Worms, 1 - unless you know a specific Bait, Hook, or Fish for that location. From here you will want to begin testing various Hooks.

Hook Strategy

The best place to start when attempting to find 100% is with the Hooks. Despite there being 6 hooks to choose from, in reality, there are 3 sets of hooks. Hook sets are as follows:

	Hook 1	Hook 2
Set 1	Standard	Slim
Set 2	Large	Double
Set 3	Bone	Wooden

If changing from the Standard hook to a Bone one gets you +33%, then your desired hook is a Wooden one.
If changing from the Standard hook to a Bone one gets you +16%, then your desired hook is a Wooden one.
If changing from the Standard hook to a Bone one gets you 0%, then your desired hook is a Large or Double hook.

Bait Strategy

Once you have discovered your Hook, you can begin to work on the Bait used. Like the Hooks, Bait has similarities between them that can be used to find the correct bait faster. Baits have both a similiar color and a similar shaped bait.

Bait	Similar Color	Similar Shape
Cricket	Maggots	Locust
Maggots	Cricket	Worms
Worms	Shrimp	Maggots
Crayfish	Grey moth	Shrimp
Grey moth	Crayfish	Green moth
Green moth	Locust	Grey moth
Locust	Green moth	Cricket
Shrimp	Worms	Crayfish

The easiest way to solve for the correct bait is to imagine them on an octagon. Each of the cardinal directions are 2 baits that have a similar color (or shape) and the intermediate sides are ones with similar shape (or color). You will then want to try a bait on the opposite corner of the octagon. So for example, you would want to change from Shrimp to Green moth, Locust, or Cricket to best know what to try next.

If changing from Worms to Grey moth gets you +33%, then your desired bait is Grey moth.
If changing from Worms to Grey moth gets you +16%, then your desired bait is Crayfish or Green moth.
If changing from Worms to Grey moth gets you 0%, then your desired bait is Locust or Cricket.
If changing from Worms to Grey moth gets you -16%, then your desired bait is Shrimp or Maggots.

Distance (Weight) Strategy

Finally we reach the strategy for discovering the proper weight. At this point, if you are not at 100%, you should be at either 66% or 83%. If you are not at 1 of those ratings, then you have not found the correct Hook or Bait.

When trying to discover the proper weight, it is advised to start on weight 4, catch a fish, then switch to weight 2. If your rating increases with this change, the correct weight is either 1, 2, or 3. Conversely, if the rating decreases, then it is either 4, 5, or 6. The amount the rating changes will also help you to narrow down your options.

If you are at 66% rating and changing from 4 to 2 gets you 0%, then your desired weight is 3.
If you are at 66% rating and changing from 4 to 2 gets you +16%, then your desired weight is 1.
If you are at 83% rating and changing from 4 to 2 gets you 0%, then your desired weight is 6.
If you are at 83% rating and changing from 4 to 2 gets you -16%, then your desired weight is 5.

Big Fish

Once you have found the 100% lure combination for any fish, you can start attracting big fish. Note that you only have a chance to attract big fish when there are others in the game with you. Also be aware that big fish cannot spawn within 4 paces of one another, so you will want to distance yourself from any current big fish if you are aiming for your own.

When someone has hooked a big fish, a notification will appear in the chat box. That person will now need help to reel it in; up to 8 people can help per big fish. Each person can only be rewarded for helping with 6 big fish per game. Once you have assisted 6 times, you will no longer be informed when a big fish has been hooked and, though you can assist, you will no longer receive experience for it.

To help reel in a big fish, click the bubbling water near by. Note that your bait, hook, and weight to not affect your ability to help. Above the bubbling water you will see a box that lists how many are assisting and how close to catching the fish they are. Once the fish is fully caught, all who helped reel it in will be given credit for the weight of the fish - usually 220kg to 250kg. Now that the fish has been caught, the person who initially hooked the fish has the option to discard or re-cast to release the fish. Choosing to recast the fish will disable you from obtaining another one for a minute. You are only able to hook up to 3 big fish per game. Doing so will complete the "Master Angler" Achievement.

Scoring

After 10 minutes have elapsed, everyone will be teleported back to the lobby area and the round scoreboard will appear. There are two tabs: Results and Details. Results will give the overall evaluation your catches during the competition. Details will list your personal scoring and records from all the competitions. Overall competition results can also be viewed by obtaining a Fish Flingers scorecard from the Fisherman.

Points

At most, you can obtain a score of 48 points. This score is derived from several factors in the game...

Category	Factoring	Possible value
Fish Caught	0-79 = 1 80-89 = 2 90-109 = 3 110-129 = 4 130+ = 5	5
Big Fish Caught	Amount X 2; up to 3 X 2	6
Total Assists	1 per; up to 6	6
Total Weight	1 for every 500kg; up to 10,000kg	20
Heaviest Fish	1 for every 60kg; up to 180kg	3
Perfect Tackle Found	0 = 0 1 = 1 2 = 2 3 = 4 4 = 5 5 = 6 6 = 8	8
Total		48

Experience

For every game played, you will earn a certain amount of experience. The total amount of experience earned is dependent upon your Fishing level as well as your Score. At most, a player can earn 23,197 experience per game IF they are level 99 and get 48 points.

Tokens

During the game, tokens can be earned several different ways during a game. For each of the occurances below, you will earn 1 token.

• Assist with 2 Big Fish (3 tokens max)
• Catch 4 fish
• Catch Big fish (3 tokens max)
• Find 2 Perfect tackle (3 tokens max)

At maximum, you can have 2,000 tokens at any given time.

Medals

Medals are earned by fulfilling any of the possible tasks listed below during a competition:

• Junior angler: Find the perfect tackle for three species.
• Master angler: Find the perfect tackle for all six species.
• Whopper: Catch 3 big fish.
• Team player: Assist in catching at least 6 big fish.

Best Results

Best results are also given to players who score the highest in the following categories:

• Most total fish
• Most total weight
• Heaviest fish

If multiple people get the best results they will all be rewarded with points.

Winners' Podium

The top five competitors have the option to stand on the podium located in the lobby after a competition has ended. They may remain there until the end of the next competition.