Fishing bait

For the fishing bait used in The Arc, see Wushanko fishing bait.

The Old School RuneScape Wiki also has an article on: osrsw:Fishing baitThe RuneScape Classic Wiki also has an article on: classicrsw:Fishing Bait

Fishing bait
Release																				11 June 2001 (Update)
Members																				No
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				Yes
Equipable																				No
Stackable																				Yes
Disassembly																				No
Destroy																				Drop
Actions
Backpack																				Grind
Values
Value																				3 coins
High alch																				1 coin
Low alch																				1 coin
On death																				Always kept outside dangerous area
Weight																				0 kg
Examine
For use with a fishing rod.
Grand Exchange
Exchange																				6 coins (info)
Buy limit																				10,000
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Advanced data
Item ID																				313
Links																				MRID • recipe

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Fishing bait is used with the fishing rod. It is used to fish in any fishing spot as long as the spot has the Bait Fishing Spot option.

When a player has level 5 Fishing they can try to fish for sardine. At level 10 Fishing, they can fish for herring. A player can fish for pike at 25 Fishing. At levels 48/58/70, bait can be used to catch Leaping trout/Leaping salmon/Leaping sturgeon, although any type of fishing bait can be used with the Barbarian rod for these fish (bait, feathers, fish offcuts, roe, caviar). At 85 Fishing, fishing bait can be used to catch cavefish. During the Heroes' Quest, the player learns how to fish for lava eel with fishing bait.

Each catch uses up one piece of bait unless the player has claimed the reward from the prawnbroker in their player-owned house which allows them to fish without bait.

Fishing bait is commonly dropped by zombies, men/women, and many other undead monsters. Four sets of fishing bait spawn around a dead troll in southern Taverley, south and slightly west of Turael/Spria.

Fishing bait is also used to feed the second and third growth stages of God birds (Guthix raptor, Saradomin owl, Zamorak hawk) and Ravens, which makes sense, considering that fishing bait is essentially composed of maggots. This is revealed during the quest Let Them Eat Pie, where the player grinds grain with fishing bait to make maggoty flour, and in Recipe for Disaster, where the player uses Spice on 1 piece of bait to create Spicy maggots.

Fishing bait can be used with a pestle and mortar to create ground fishing bait, which is used to feed most pet birds when they are babies.

Products

This is an auto-generated list (update now), and shows the first 100 items alphabetically. For all items, click here.

Item	Skills	Materials	GE price
Bait barrel	74	4 × Mahogany plank 100 × Fishing bait	N/A
Spicy maggots	1	1 × Fishing bait 1 × Spice	N/A

Locations

Store locations

This is an auto-generated list (update now). For a full list, see here. For help, see the FAQ.

Seller	Location	Cost	Currency	Base stock	Members?
Etceteria Fish	Etceteria	3	Coins	1,000
Fernahei's Fishing Hut	Shilo Village (location)	3	Coins	1,000
Fishing Guild Shop	Fishing Guild	3	Coins	1,000
Fremennik Fishmonger	Rellekka	3	Coins	1,000
Gerrant's Fishy Business	Port Sarim	3	Coins	1,000
Harry's Fishing Shop	Catherby	3	Coins	1,000
Island Fishmonger	Miscellania	3	Coins	1,000
Jack Oval's Crafting Shop	Taverley	Free sample	-	10
Jack Oval's Crafting Shop	? (edit)	3	Coins	30
Lovecraft's Tackle	Witchaven	3	Coins	1,000
Lumbridge Fishing Supplies	Lumbridge	3	Coins	1,000
Meena's Fishing Shop	Menaphos	3	Coins	1,000
Nicholas Angle's Shop	Taverley	Free sample	-	10
Nicholas Angle's Shop	? (edit)	3	Coins	30
Survival Shop	Anachronia	3	Coins	1,000

• Gerrant's Fishy Business and Lovecraft's Tackle share the same stock.

Item spawns

• North-east of the wheat field in Taverley (four spawns)
• In the western Ruins in Wilderness (two spawns)

Drop sources

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Afflicted	60; 61; 63; 64	1	Uncommon
Al Kharid warrior	18	1	Uncommon
Anja	4	1	Uncommon
Armoured zombie	21; 42; 46; 84; 86; 91	7	1/128
Corpse archer	18	50	4/128
Corpse mage	21	80	10/384
Corpse spider	4	20	8/195
Crawling corpse torso	9	35	Common
Cuffs	12	1	Uncommon
Dagannoth (Lighthouse)	77; 78	50	2/128
Dragith Nurn	26	80	1/128
Drunken man	5	1	Uncommon
Dung kalphite	N/A	20	Common
Farmer P2P	7	1	Uncommon
Farmer F2P		1	Uncommon
Giant Sea Snake	63	50	Uncommon
Giant lobster	40; 70	Unknown	Uncommon
Hengel	4	1	Uncommon
Jeff	12	1	Uncommon
Man	2; 4	1	Uncommon
Mogre	54	5–15	Common
Mugger	15	Unknown	Common
Narf	12	1	Uncommon
Outlaw	32	1	Common
Rock Crab	71	1–10	Uncommon
Rogue Enforcer	35	1	Uncommon
Rogue	9	Unknown	Uncommon
Rusty	12	1	Uncommon
Sea Snake Hatchling	63	50	Common
Sea Snake Young	63	50	Common
Skeletal hand	70	10	Common
Skeleton (Lumbridge Catacombs)	15	50	5/128
Skoblin	19	50	Common
Sorebones	49	10	Common
Thief Normal	11; 12; 14	1	Uncommon
Undead Lumberjack	54; 64; 74; 78; 86; 97; 101; 108; 119	5	Uncommon
Warped bat	16	50	Uncommon
Warped cockroach	1	10	10/128
Warped fly	7	30	Common
Warped rat	12	43	Common
Woman	2; 4	1	Uncommon
Zombie (Tarn's Lair) High level	82; 84; 85	7	Uncommon
Zombie (random event)	14; 29; 49; 79; 120; 159; 170	27; 50	Common
Zombie hand	75	10	Common
Zombie pirate	35; 49; 50	10	Common
Zombie swab	47	7	Common
Zombie Level 12	12	5	Common
Zombie Entrana	29	5	Common
Zombie Level 29	29	7	Common

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included—see here for how to help out!

• patch 3 August 2020 (Update):
  • Fixed an issue to prevent Fishing Bait from Ashdale being dropped on the floor which allowed players to repeatedly claim free bait.

• patch 1 February 2016 (Update):
  • Fishing bait can no longer be disassembled.

• patch 4 January 2012 (Update):
  • It is no longer possible to grind fishing bait or ashes on a free world.

• update 12 June 2001 (Update):
  • There is more fishing bait available in the shop and as monster drops.

• update 11 June 2001 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• During the quests Recipe for Disaster and Let Them Eat Pie, as well as Issue 25 of the God Letters, fishing bait is revealed to be maggots. This explains why decaying zombies and many other undead creatures drop fishing bait.
• Fishing bait could be disassembled before an update on 1 February 2016.