Fishing Buddy
A fishing addon that keeps track of the fish you catch and helps manage your fishing gear.
Other Versions
Features:
- Double-click fishing
- Supports the new WoW "fish without a pole" feature
- Bring out your fishing pets! Drink heavily!
- 'Fish Watcher' lets you see the fish you've caught here before (or the fish that you've caught in the current session)
- Display your current skill level and the time since you started fishing - Choose your fishing outfit and change into it easily
- Support for automatically adding a lure to your fishing pole
- Support for tracking 'cycle fish' such as the Nightfin Snapper so you know when to go looking for them
Example commands:
/fishingbuddy or /fb toggle the display of the Fishing Buddy window /fb help print the list of Fishing Buddy commands
/fb switch wear your chosen fishing outfit, or change back
Known Issues:
"Fast Loot" addons will mess with FB counting fish -- they're gone before they can get counted. I am trying to find a work-around, but nothing solid yet.
Silly stuff:
In addition to displaying the fishing bonus for your fishing outfit, it also displays your 'style points' as inferred from Draznar's Fishing FAQ (http://wow.toshimo.com/viewtopic.php?t=272).
Fishing Buddy Plugins:
- Outfit Manager - https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/fboutfit
- Fish Tracking --https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/fishing-buddy-tracking
- Broker: Fishing Buddy -- https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/broker-fishing-buddy
- Titan Panel [Fishing Buddy] -- https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/titan-panel-fishing-buddy
Feel free to send comments to Sutorix=AT=hotmailDOTcom.-
Right click is buggy. I often times have to right click multiple times to get this add-on to cast a single cast. Really annoying!
Is there a selection option somewhere I'm not seeing for "raft" selection? The other two glam "rafts" are fun, but they do not have the utility of the original raft in that they do not go as fast.
In reply to Roachtacular:
Hmm. It's supposed to work. Let me revisit that code and see what's going on. Thanks for the report!
Hey really weird one, FB will not work on my main, easy cast and the watcher dont work/dont show, but they work fine on my alts. ive uninstalled and reinstalled and also disabled every addon bar FB. Any possible fixes or do you know how i can fix this please. It's really frustrating!
Ive used the addon once before and then uninstalled/ reinstalled yesterday and discovered this issue.
Many Thanks
In reply to geekasauruss:
Okay, that is weird. I will see what I can figure out. Thanks!
In reply to Sutorix:
I was having the same issue and found it to be when I have it set to use rafts. If I disable that option then the easy casting works fine. Re-enable the option and it stops working again. I wasn't having that issue the other day, only difference I can think is that I just got the legion legendary fishing rod with water walking, whether that's causing some issue maybe?
In reply to InSpectreGadget:
Ah,yes. That's it -- water walking and rafts don't mix. Since there isn't an "is swimming" check (or wasn't anyway :-) it made it difficult to figure out when to use the spear :-) I will look into it again.
Hey all, loving this addon. I have question about the fish watcher feature. My fishing buddy addon says I have looted 3 "Strange Goop" since I have installed the addon yesterday. But when I check my bags I don't have any Strange Goop. Would this more likely be an issue with the addon? Or is it more possible that the strange Goop is bugged? Thanks in advance for any replies. Have a great day
In reply to iDazidan:
That's weird -- I will have to go look.
I caught strange goop, but i want to catch another one, how can i reset the attemps?
Great addon!
Just wanted to share a quick update. I messaged Sutorix (the addon owner), and I was advised that updates are coming, albeit very slowly. Apparently computer issues are bogging things down, as the hardware can barely run the game in it's current state.
Hi I'm using FB on a SoM Classic server and this time when I catch a fish the loot window doesn't come up, it's just message in chat saying what fish I got. If the FB addon is disabled everything works fine and the loot window appears normally.
Is there a way to bring back the loot window at my cursor position while using Fishing Buddy?
In reply to St127:
Did you try disabling the autoloot option in FB?
In reply to St127:
I'm not the addon creator, I'm just a C# programmer that has a familiarity with LUA and was trying to figure out why this was happening. I figured out why the loot window isn't showing up win fishing buddy is installed. If you have the your WoW interface configured to auto loot, Fishing Buddy assumes you don't want to see the loot window, regardless of what the FB auto loot is set to.
Find these lines in your [wow folder location]\Interface\Addons\FishingBuddy\FishingBuddy.lua (line 1406 as of the current version on 2022/02/22) you can open it with notepad.
if autoLoot or (autoLoot == nil and BlizzardOptionsPanel_GetCVarSafeBool("autoLootDefault") ~= IsModifiedClick("AUTOLOOTTOGGLE")) then
doautoloot = true
else
doautoloot = FishingBuddy.GetSettingBool("AutoLoot")
end
...and replace them with this...
-- if autoLoot or (autoLoot == nil and BlizzardOptionsPanel_GetCVarSafeBool("autoLootDefault") ~= IsModifiedClick("AUTOLOOTTOGGLE")) then
-- doautoloot = true
-- else
-- doautoloot = FishingBuddy.GetSettingBool("AutoLoot")
-- end
doautoloot = FishingBuddy.GetSettingBool("AutoLoot")
... this will make the window appear as normal if your FB AutoLoot is unchecked.
After this change:
If FB auto loot is checked, the window will not pop up and your fish will automatically go into your bag. Your WoW interface\Controls\AutoLoot is ignored.
If FB auto loot is UNchecked, the window will pop up. The loot window will follow your WoW interface\Controls\AutoLoot settings.
In reply to bodhirana:
Thanks, this worked for me, had to remove the -- at the beginning of each line though.
Thank you for the update.
Why it does say it's updated here to 9.1.5 if the .toc files still shows ver.9.1.0?
Been having fun with the addon! I can't seem to get the macro generated by FB to use the Trawler Totem toy. The macro will activate the Tuskarr Spear, Captain Rumsey's Lager, Lures, etc. but not the totem. :( The right-click function will trigger it, just not the macro I have on my action bars. Help is appreciated! Thanks!!
Fantastic addon and thank you for maintaining it - I've been using it for nearly 14 years now.
The one problem I am having, though, is that I can't get it to maintain Elysian Thade bait in any of the Shadowlands zones.
I have the following options ticked:
Easy Lures
Special bait
Maintain bait only
After the 30 mins of the manually applied Thade bait expires, it re-applies the special bait specific to that zone, rather than my Thade bait.
(e.g. in Bastion it reverts to Silvergill Pike bait, does not reapply Thade bait)
Do I have the wrong options ticked, or is this a bug?
Is there somewhere in the code I can change the special bait assigned to each zone (and make it Elysian Thade as default) as a fix, or is this a server-side thing?
Your help and advice would be much appreciated!