FishFry v1.0.6 is here!

Bug fixes and guide accuracy patch.

• Fixed a bug introduced in 1.0.5 that broke Tackle Swap and caused valid fishing gear to appear unavailable or red.
• Basically, FishFry was asking WoW the wrong question when checking whether fishing equipment could be used. WoW sometimes answered “no” even when the item was actually valid, so FishFry rejected gear it should have equipped.
• Tackle Swap now checks the item’s real requirement text instead, allowing valid gear while still skipping equipment the character genuinely cannot use.
• Improved Alliance Guide Step 2 so it clearly tells players to buy Recipe: Bristle Whisker Catfish from Catherine Leland before leaving Stormwind.

New in FishFry v1.0.5!

FishFry 1.0.5 reorganizes the Guide into focused Current and All sections, with dedicated Dailies, Recipes, and Goals tabs for the Master Angler & Cook endgame guide.

Players can expand any leveling step to review its instructions, important fish and recipes, NPC locations, and full TomTom, HandyNotes, or plain-coordinate support without changing their current recommended step.

v1.0.5 also improves everyday fishing with smarter double-right-click recasting and catch protection, lowest-count-first lure and consumable usage, safer Tackle Swap handling for unusable equipment, and corrected Weather-Beaten Journal guidance for learning Find Fish.

v1.0.4 Major Updates

FishFry now includes a permanent Master Angler & Cook endgame Guide step for characters who reach 375 Fishing and 375 Cooking.

Instead of leaving max-level players on the final leveling route, the Guide now shifts into a collection and completion dashboard featuring fishing and cooking dailies, missing fish recipes, tackle upgrades, rare catches, trophy goals, and pinnable endgame objectives.

v1.0.4 also adds expanded NPC and route coordinates throughout the Guide and Zone Info, with selectable copy formats for:

• TomTom waypoint integration
• HandyNotes pin integration
• Plain coordinates for players using neither addon

That's right, the guide now integrates HandyNotes and TomTom addon interaction to provide full GPS support.

FishFry

FishFry is a TBC Anniversary fishing addon by GildedVellum, built for players who want fishing to feel cleaner, smarter, and less like fighting the default UI.

It brings the usual fishing-addon conveniences together with a full fishing + fish-cooking guide, tackle management, milestone tracking, current-zone info, and a compact HUD designed around manual play.

FishFry does not fish for you. It does not cook for you. It does not buy things, loot things, or play the game for you.

It gives you better tools, better information, and better control while keeping every gameplay action in your hands.

Fishing Addon Basics, Covered

FishFry includes the kind of quality-of-life tools players expect from a strong fishing addon:

• Compact fishing HUD
• Manual Cast Fishing button
• Optional double-right-click casting near fishable water
• Find Fish helper
• Lure and fishing consumable support
• Fishing sound helper options
• Auto-loot while fishing option
• Fishing cast timer with warning pulses
• Keybind support for major FishFry actions
• HUD shape, scale, lock, visibility, and layout options
• Character-specific or shared settings memory

What FishFry Expands On

FishFry covers the expected fishing-addon basics, but it also pushes further into territory most fishing addons leave to spreadsheets, memory, or separate tools:

• Fishing + Cooking together — FishFry treats fish-cooking as part of the fishing journey, not an unrelated profession window.
• Route-aware progression — the guide looks at your faction, zone, base Fishing skill, Cooking skill, inventory, and route state to keep the next step readable.
• Milestone-based goals — progress is broken into searchable, pinnable goals instead of one long wall of instructions.
• Current-zone context — Zone Info gives conservative fish data, zone notes, timing notes, and relevant current-zone goals without pretending uncertain data is confirmed.
• Effective Fishing clarity — the HUD shows your active Fishing setup, while tooltips explain bonuses and best available setup possibilities.
• Flexible gear workflow — use FishFry’s built-in Tackle Swap, Outfitter, ItemRack, or manual gear management without being forced into one system.
• Per-character control — FishFry settings can be shared or saved per character, with copy-from-character support for faster setup.
• Manual-first safety — helper buttons stay player-triggered, combat-aware, and intentionally limited instead of drifting into automation. The goal is simple: keep your fishing tools close, readable, and easy to use without turning the addon into a giant control panel.

Tackle, Gear, and Effective Fishing

FishFry helps you understand and manage your fishing setup.

It can track fishing poles, lures, fishing gear, selected consumables, glove enchants, fishing lines, and other useful bonuses where the TBC client exposes enough information.

FishFry also supports multiple gear-management styles:

• Use FishFry’s built-in Tackle Swap
• Use Outfitter
• Use ItemRack
• Use your own manual gear setup

FishFry’s built-in swapper is intentionally basic and convenient. If you already use Outfitter or ItemRack, those remain the stronger full gearset tools. FishFry is designed to work alongside that choice instead of forcing one workflow.

Fishing + Fish-Cooking Guide

FishFry is not just a cast button addon.

It includes a route-focused fishing and fish-cooking guide built to help smooth out two professions that can be awkward to level together.

The guide can account for:

• Faction
• Current zone
• Base Fishing skill
• Cooking skill
• Inventory
• Known recipes
• Fish needed for upcoming cooking steps
• Route state and progression

FishFry also includes a milestone Journal with hundreds of built-in goals covering fishing progress, cooking progress, recipe/vendor goals, optional objectives, rare catches, and trophy fish.

The point is not just to tell you where to go. The point is to make the grind feel readable, trackable, and a little more social and fun.

Cook Fish

The Cook Fish tools focus only on fish-related cooking.

FishFry can show:

• Raw fish in your bags
• Cooked result
• Known recipe status
• Required ingredients
• Missing ingredients
• Possible crafts
• Recipe scan status
• Fish-related utility recipes such as Captain Rumsey’s Lager

FishFry may ask for an extra click when it has to open or scan the Cooking window first. This is intentional. It avoids delayed protected-action behavior.

Current Zone Info

FishFry includes current-zone fishing information so you can quickly see what the addon knows about the area you are standing in.

Zone Info is intentionally conservative. That means FishFry would rather under-list a zone than confidently tell you a fish exists somewhere it does not. Some edge cases may remain incomplete until confirmed through source data or tester reports.

Customization and Control

FishFry is built around user preference.

You can adjust HUD shape, layout, lock state, scale, visibility behavior, action buttons, sound helper behavior, auto-loot behavior while fishing, and whether FishFry settings are shared across characters or saved per character.

If you prefer one setup across your whole account, use shared settings.

If each character has different gear tools, HUD placement, sound preferences, or fishing workflows, use character-specific settings.

You can also copy settings from another saved character to get close quickly, then tweak from there.

What FishFry Does Not Do

FishFry is a manual-play addon.

It does not:

• Auto-fish
• Auto-loot by itself outside the enabled fishing-helper window
• Auto-cook
• Auto-buy
• Bot
• Play the game for you
• Replace full gearset addons like Outfitter or ItemRack
• Try to become a full Cooking profession addon

FishFry is here to help you make better decisions faster, not to remove the player from the game.

GildedVellum Design Philosophy

GildedVellum addons are built around a few simple standards:

• Respect the player’s control
• Keep useful information close to the action
• Make common workflows easier without hiding what is happening
• Prefer clear UI state over chat spam
• Avoid bloated settings panels
• Avoid automation-first design
• Be honest about limitations
• Build tools that feel polished, compact, and practical

FishFry follows that philosophy closely.

It is meant to feel like a handcrafted utility addon: readable, useful, configurable, and focused on making a specific part of the game feel better.

Feedback and Testing

Feedback is welcome, especially for:

• Missing or incorrect zone fish data
• Recipe detection issues
• Tackle or Effective Fishing oddities
• Tooltip confusion
• UI overlap or layout problems
• Lua errors
• Edge cases with Outfitter, ItemRack, or manual gear setups

When reporting an issue, please include:

• FishFry version
• Character level, faction, and zone
• Fishing and Cooking skill
• Relevant gear, lure, consumable, or recipe
• What you clicked
• What happened
• What you expected
• Full Lua error text, if one appeared

FishFry TBC is NOT a continuation of some other project. It was hand crafted from the ground up by GildedVellum with a love for making fishing enjoyable in every game.