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Comment by Smolaru

Those are fished in Suramar when Sha'leth is up (Fish them in the yellow moving puddle). Magicus (you can summon him with Glowing Fish Scale while standing near Sha'Leth) also drops stacks of 20, 25, 30, 40, 50.

Comment by keilee341

Golden Minnows can be fished up when Sha'leth is up in Suramar.

Sha'leth is at 50.7, 49.3 in Suramar, which is located on The Grand Promenade, southeast of Tel'Anor. On the map, it's where the right finger of water meets the edge of the circle marking the start of the city. She's standing next to the foliage on the edge of the bridge, halfway across, with a beautiful tiered waterfall behind her.

Upon approaching her, you will gain the Something's Fishy buff. This does not mean that you can only fish next to her, however. If you look in the water behind her, there is a traveling School of Golden Minnows (big yellow/green circle) and THAT is where you need to fish. Waterwalking vital.

When you fish up the Glowing Fish Scale, you need to be near Sha'leth to use the item and summon Magicus. When he dies, make sure to loot him! He drops somewhere between 20-30ish Golden Minnows. If he was killed on the water, his body will sink to the bottom and the loot won't be very evident. Don't forget to swim down and pick it up.

Comment by WeazelGames

is it just me or almost every time the Lure hits a fish it becomes unclickable?

Comment by NessieMo

For Fisherfriend of the Isles you need to obtain "Best Friend" level of Reputation with six fisherfriends.

It takes 42,000 rep to get all the way to Best Friend, via 5 No levels of 8,400 each.
The rep items award 75 rep each so a total of 530 No rep items are needed.
If you're human, which gives Racial - Human, OR have any other 10% buff, such as WHEE! from the Darkmoon Fayre you get 82.5 rep each, so need only 510 No.
With Racial - Human, AND any other 10% buff, e.g. WHEE! you get 90 rep each so need only 467 No.
With both Racial - Human and WHEE! and in a large raid group, I reach Best Friend in just under one hour.

To obtain rep with each fisherfriend you fish up rep items, different for each fisherfriend, in the waters adjacent to each fisherfriend.
You know you're in the right area because you'll get the buff Something's Fishy.
These items are also used to purchase toys; you can only have 100 of any of the rep items in your bag.
WARNING - When you turn in items for rep they will ALL be accepted, not just enough to max your rep.

One fisherfriend is available each day, they're listed on the wowhead front page, rotating clockwise on the map in the following order:

Hand in Shiny Bauble to the NPC Corbyn in Stormheim for 75 / 82.5 / 90 rep with the faction Corbyn.
Hand in Golden Minnow to the NPC Sha'leth in Suramar for 75 / 82.5 / 90 rep with the faction Sha'leth.
Hand in Desecrated Seaweed to the NPC Impus in Broken Shore for 75 / 82.5 / 90 rep with the faction Impus.
Hand in Fragmented Enchantment to the NPC Ilyssia of the Waters in Azsuna for 75 / 82.5 / 90 rep with the faction Ilyssia of the Waters.
Hand in Corrupted Globule to the NPC Keeper Raynae in Val'sharah for 75 / 82.5 / 90 rep with the faction Keeper Raynae.
Hand in Ancient Totem Fragment to the NPC Akule Riverhorn in Highmountain for 75 / 82.5 / 90 rep with the faction Akule Riverhorn.

This will go a LOT faster if you are in a raid group, because for each fisherfriend area there's an item that can be fished up which is thrown back to attract a mob who provides a buff that provides extra rep items for a few minutes after it's been killed.

Good luck!

Comment by Neuport

There is no reason a Golden Minnow shouldn't be caught on every cast.

Follow the big green pool, but don't try an lead the pool from behind like this https://imgur.com/a/wFBN1VG If you do, the clickable bobber will go away. I promise.

What you need to do is lead the pool in an "L" formation like this https://imgur.com/a/DkGjLmA you almost can't lead to far (within reason), but I would shoot for the distance in the screenshot. If you do, you will catch a Golden Minnow every time.

Side note, you can always lead the pool from ahead like this https://imgur.com/a/Qw0lSTm , which works WAY better than leading the pool from behind. That said, the perpendicular strategy gets way better results.

Comment by Volleynova

Hopped onto my Anglers Fishing Raft and just stayed parallel to the Golden Minnow School. The moment a Glowing Fish Scale popped, I would use it immediately.
If there was a drought and I didn't catch any Glowing Fish Scale for a lengthy period, and then suddenly looted one, I would keep Golden Minnows 50 or under for turn in to prevent overlap.

This best friend took less than half the length of time that the other fishing friends did, only an hour and a half solo for me, including getting the 100 item bobber toy.

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Golden Minnow

Item Level 1
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Unique (100)

Max Stack: 100

Dropped by: Magicus

Drop Chance: 100.00%

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This item can be fished in Suramar (6).

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