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At Ye Olde Fishing Vortex (also known as Underwater Fishing), each of your Neopets is allowed to cast their line and fish up an item.
Fishing Limits
Your pet can cast a line at least once per day. There seems to be a cooldown period between successful catches, ranging from 2 hours to over 12 hours, but an exact time range is unknown. Each pet has an independent cooldown, which means even if one pet is on cooldown, your others will not be until they cast a line.
Levels
Each time your pet fishes at the cavern, there is a chance that their fishing skill will increase by one level, and as their level increases so does the list of items they could possibly hook. You can also increase their level (up to a maximum of 3 levels) by reading them the book Fishing Made Easy.
The maximum fishing level that your pet can obtain is 500. Whenever a Neopet is abandoned or transferred, their fishing level resets back to 1. If that same Neopet returns to an account where they had accumulated levels, those levels will be reinstated. In other words, your Neopets' fishing level record is locked to your account.
The fishing level for a pet can be found in the Fishing Skill section of the pet's lookup (https://www.neopets.com/petlookup.phtml?pet=PETNAME).
Prizes
Below is a list of the items you can find at the Vortex, along with the minimum confirmed Skill Level your pet must be at in order to find them. If you'd like to see the information for these items, click on the item's name or image to be taken to its page in the Item Database.
At any level, it is also possible to fish up a Paint Brush, Petpet Paint Brush, Transmogrification Potion, or other rare items, although this is a very rare occurrence.
Confirmed Paint Brushes (at any level)
| Eventide Paint Brush | Get Off My Lawn Paint Brush | Maraquan Paint Brush | Mystery Island Paint Brush | Orange Paint Brush |
| Pink Paint Brush | Pirate Paint Brush | Relic Paint Brush | Stealth Paint Brush | Water Paint Brush |
| Woodland Paint Brush |
Confirmed Petpet Paint Brushes (at any level)
| Checkered Petpet Paint Brush | Faerie Petpet Paint Brush | Fire Petpet Paint Brush | Island Petpet Paint Brush | Zombie Petpet Paint Brush |
Confirmed Transmogrification Potions (at any level)
| Bruce Transmogrification Potion | Chia Transmogrification Potion | Cybunny Transmogrification Potion | Draik Transmogrification Potion |
| Elephante Transmogrification Potion | Grarrl Transmogrification Potion | Hissi Transmogrification Potion | Ixi Transmogrification Potion |
| JubJub Transmogrification Potion | Korbat Transmogrification Potion | Kougra Transmogrification Potion | Lenny Transmogrification Potion |
| Lupe Transmogrification Potion | Moehog Transmogrification Potion | Quiggle Transmogrification Potion | Ruki Transmogrification Potion |
| Techo Transmogrification Potion | Uni Transmogrification Potion | Usul Transmogrification Potion | Xweetok Transmogrification Potion |
Other Rare Items (at any level)
| Baby Aisha Morphing Potion | Cui Codestone | Darigan Eyrie Morphing Potion | Desert Lutari Morphing Potion | Faerie Ixi Morphing Potion |
| Grey Grarrl Morphing Potion | One Thousand Dubloon Coin | Plushie Hissi Morphing Potion | Plushie Scorchio Morphing Potion | Transparent Skeith Morphing Potion |
| Water Gnorbu Morphing Potion | Wraith Gelert Morphing Potion |
Fish and Squid
| Blandfish Level 1 | Breadfish Level 1 | Lesser Spotted Fish Level 1 | Rockfish Level 1 | Scrawnyfish Level 1 |
| Waterfish Level 1 | Butterfish Level 5 | Madfish Level 20 | Small Giant Squid Level 20 | Tanglepus Level 20 |
| Landfish Level 30 | Large Giant Squid Level 40 | Fractalpus Level 50 | Eyefish Level 51 | Giant Giant Squid Level 62 |
| Cubefish Level 70 | Doomfish Level 75 | Inferno Mollusk Level 80 | Titanic Giant Squid Level 80 | Tyrannian Mechafish Level 80 |
| Radarfish Level 91 | Bombfish Level 100 | Chaosfish Level 100 | Diseased Mechafish Level 100 | Frozen Mechafish Level 100 |
| Glistening Mechafish Level 100 | Golden Mechafish Level 100 | Spooky Mechafish Level 100 | Spectral Shrimp Level 130 | Transparifish Level 130 |
| Neopet-Eating Carp Level 253 |
Gardening
| Giant Brown Kelp Level 1 | Giant Green Kelp Level 1 | Giant Red Kelp Level 1 | Mossy Rock (wearable) Level 1 | Grey Sea Fern Level 5 |
| Spongy Algae Level 5 | Cheery Plant Level 13 | Cinder Block Sea Fungus Level 20 | Cubical Sea Fungus Level 30 | Cave Rock Level 32 |
| Shimmery Seagrass Level 41 | Void Plant Level 50 | Prismatic Sea Fern Level 61 | Darigan Seaweed Level 70 | Magic Crystalline Kelp Level 80 |
| Dead Bonfire Level 87 | Starry Sea Fern Level 90 | Plushie Fungus Level 100 |
Petpets
| Lurman Level 20 | Noak Level 30 | Nupie Level 40 | Splime Level 50 | Yoakie Level 60 |
| Kora Level 70 | Mundo Level 91 | Surzard Level 101 |
Books
| Fishing Made Easy Level 20 | On Gelert Pond Level 30 | Ancient Shopping List Scroll Level 40 | The Old Mynci and the Sea Level 40 | Waterlogged Book Level 40 |
| Mouldy Tome Level 51 | Slimy Bog Scroll Level 73 | Soggy Scroll Level 75 | Secret of the Bogberries Level 100 |
Battledome Weapons
| Cheap Water Ring Level 1 | Rotten Beetroot Level 1 | Scroll of the Sea Level 1 | Water Mote Level 1 | Bubble Mote Level 10 |
| Magical Healing Potion Level 15 | Ultra Bubble Beam Level 16 | Water Muffin Level 20 | Water Faerie Water Blaster Level 32 | 17-Pound Trout Level 50 |
| Fish Scale Breastplate Level 50 | Pike Pike Level 60 | Shiny Shoal Shell Shield Level 60 | Necklace of the Water Faerie Level 62 |
Miscellaneous Items
| Bag of Broken Neopoints Level 1 | Broken Fishing Pole Level 1 | Bucket of Sludge Level 1 | Healing Springs Residue Level 1 | Old Rotten Left Boot Level 1 |
| Old Rotten Right Boot Level 1 | Old Rotten Left Sandal Level 1 | Old Rotten Right Sandal Level 1 | Old Rotten Left Shoe Level 1 | Old Rotten Right Shoe Level 1 |
| Rotting Driftwood Level 1 | Rusty Old Can Level 1 | Stagnant Puddle of Water Level 1 | Watery Hot Dog Level 1 | Mouldy Left-Overs Level 10 |
| Petrified Bone Level 10 | Dull Grey Pearl Level 20 | Rotten Omelette Sandwich Level 21 | Broken Toy Sailboat Level 30 | Old Picket Fence (wearable) Level 47 |
| Enormous Fake Diamond Level 50 | Leminty Elixir of Healing Level 52 | Old Box Fort Level 51 | Healing Potion XV Level 60 | Edible Smelly Gym Socks Level 61 |
| Giant Bath Plug Level 70 | Irritable Genie-in-a-Bottle Level 70 | Mouldy Petpet Bed Level 80 | Mysterious Swirly Potion Level 80 | Flask of Rainbow Fountain Water Level 87 |
| Gravitic Urn Level 100 | Pant Devil Attractor Level 100 | Plushie Clam Level 100 | Smooth Black Sphere Level 100 | Molten Borovan Rod Level 110 |
| Obelisk of Doom Level 120 | Mouldy Pencil Case Level 130 | Hovering Four-Dimensional Pyramid Level 139 | Golden Meepit Statue Level 154 | Glowing Wooden Mask Level 171 |
| Shiny Sloth Head Level 189 | Rockfish Plushie Level 200 | The Two Ring Level 222 | Lesser Spotted Fish Plushie Leve 226 | Flask of Clear, Odourless Liquid Level 244 |
| Strange Glowing Disc Level 258 |
Avatar
At around level 80, it is possible to catch a Titanic Giant Squid. Fishing up one of these will also net you an avatar!
Fishing - Titanic Squid / Guide
Catch a Titanic Giant Squid in the Underwater Fishing Cavern.
Released: June 20, 2005
Note that it is not possible to borrow a pet with a >80 fishing level from another player, as a Neopets' fishing level is linked to the account, not the Neopet, and so will return to 1 if you abandon or transfer them to another account.
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This page was last updated on June 8, 2024.
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