Fishing cape

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This cape has a trimmed, hooded, hooded trimmed, master, inverted hooded, inverted hooded trimmed, and inverted master version.

Fishing cape
Release																				18 October 2006 (Update)
Members																				Yes
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				No
Equipable																				Yes
Stackable																				No
Disassembly																				No
Destroy																				Drop
Actions
Backpack																				Wear
Equipped																				Boost
Values
Value																				99,000 coins
High alch																				59,400 coins
Low alch																				39,600 coins
On death																				Reclaimable Reclaim: 100
Weight																				0.453 kg
Examine
The cape worn by the best fishermen.
Advanced data
Item ID																				9798
Links																				MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

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The Fishing cape is the Cape of Accomplishment for the Fishing skill. It can be purchased for 99,000 coins (or 92,000 coins with the ring of charos (a) or its imbued version) alongside the Fishing hood from the Master fisher standing inside the Fishing Guild by players who have achieved level 99 in Fishing.

Fishing is a popular skill to train to level 99. Although the experience/hour rates are not high, one can simply click on a fishing spot and wait without performing any other action. Fishing can also bring in a moderate profit, and can be combined with Cooking to train the two skills simultaneously.

The cape has an emote, lasting 6.8 seconds, during which the player harpoons a fish out of a small pond of water which appears during the emote. The Fishing cape must be equipped in order to perform this emote.

Should a player achieve skill mastery in a second skill after Fishing, their Fishing cape will automatically become a Fishing cape (t), which has a yellow trim. Should a player achieve 99 Fishing after any other 99, they will be unable to acquire the untrimmed version of the fishing cape.

The fishing hood can be attached to the cape by using one on the other, creating a hooded fishing cape. It can be detached with a right-click option.

Talking to the Master fisher gives an option to toggle the appearance of the cape to a retro version, overriding the normal appearance and making it look similar to how it did before the 2015 graphical update. Despite it not being a new item, the retro cape can be used with a keepsake key.

Combat stats

Requirements						Tier
99						80
Class			Slot			Attributes
All						Armour				33.9
						Life points				0
		Auto		Ability		Prayer				2
Damage		-		-		Damage reduction
Accuracy		-				PvM: 0%			PvP: 0%
Style		-				Style bonuses
Range		-				21.6		21.6		21.6
FAQ • docs

Perk

The Fishing cape's perk provides a 5% chance to gain an additional catch. No experience is given for the additional catch.

Up to three perks of the capes of accomplishment can be added to the max cape, the completionist cape, the trimmed completionist cape, and their master versions. Up to two perks of the capes of accomplishment of a specific skill type can be added to the respective Expert cape of Accomplishment. This can be done by using a Cape of Accomplishment with the desired perk on one of the capes. The cape of accomplishment is then lost in the process. To make space for other perks, it is possible to later remove the added perks, but with no reimbursement. All of the added perks are shared among max cape, completionist cape, trimmed completionist cape, and their master versions, thus it is not possible to have different configurations of perks on the different capes.

Store locations

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Seller	Location	Cost	Currency	Base stock	Members?
Master fisher	Fishing Guild	99,000	Coins	∞

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 28 August 2018 (Update):
  • Fixed a typo when the fishing skillcape perk activates.

• ninja 17 December 2013 (Update):
  • Skillcapes are no longer unequipped when logging into a F2P world.

• patch 7 February 2012 (Update):
  • The Fishing skillcape animation has been updated to not clip with the ground.

• update 18 October 2006 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Currently, 224,949 accounts are able to own this cape (as seen on the highscores).