Secret Fish and Where to Find Them

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• Secret Fish and Where to Find Them
• Use the  [Secret Fish Goggles] to collect all the secret fish.
• Criteria:
  • Ancient Mana Fin
  • Camouflaged Snark
  • Dead Fel Bone
  • Deceptive Maw
  • Elusive Moonfish
  • Inconspicuous Catfish
  • Jade Story Fish
  • Mechanized Mackerel
  • Queen's Delight
  • Rotted Blood Cod
  • Tortollan Tank Dweller
  • Unseen Mimmic
  • Veiled Ghost
  • Green Roughy
  • Thin Air Flounder
  • Barbed Fjord Fin
  • Collectable Saltfin
  • Deadeye Wally
  • Drowned Goldfish
  • Golden Sunsoaker
  • Invisible Smelt
  • Kirin Tor Clown
  • Prisoner Fish
  • Quiet Floater
  • Thunderous Flounder
  • Travelling Goby
  • Spiritual Salmon
  • Very Tiny Whale
  • Displaced Scrapfin
  • Well Lurker
• Toy Reward: Hyper-Compressed Ocean

Secret Fish and Where to Find Them is an achievement earned from obtaining all the Secret Fish with the  [Secret Fish Goggles]. It unlocks the  [Hyper-Compressed Ocean].

Locations and notes

Everywhere

These fishes can be caught anywhere in the world of Azeroth.

•  [Camouflaged Snark]
•  [Collectable Saltfin]
•  [Deceptive Maw]
•  [Inconspicuous Catfish]
•  [Invisible Smelt]
•  [Travelling Goby]
•  [Unseen Mimmic]
•  [Very Tiny Whale]

Zone-specific

These fishes require to be in a specific zone:

•  [Ancient Mana Fin] – Astravar Harbor, Suramar City
•  [Barbed Fjord Fin] – Howling Fjord, Northrend

•  [Dead Fel Bone] – Antoran Wastes, Eredath and Krokuun
•  [Drowned Goldfish] – Drowned Lands, Stormsong Valley
•  [Jade Story Fish] – The Jade Forest, Pandaria
•  [Kirin Tor Clown] – Dalaran (both Broken Isles and Northrend works)
•  [Mechanized Mackerel] – Mechagon
•  [Green Roughy] – Mechagon, but requires the  Painted Green buff that can be obtained from the Paintbot Green at Bondo's Yard or a  [Green Paint Filled Bladder] (which will require another player)
•  [Displaced Scrapfin] – Alternate Mechagon, requires  [50 Daily] The Other Place to be up or use a  [Personal Time Displacer]
•  [Prisoner Fish] – Tol Barad, the battleground zone which contains the entrance to Baradin Hold.
•  [Queen's Delight] – Nazjatar
•  [Rotted Blood Cod] – Zul'Nazman, Nazmir
•  [Thunderous Flounder] – Isle of Thunder, Pandaria

Static-spawn

These fishes are already spawned at a specific location:

•  [Thin Air Flounder] – Very top of Neverest Pinnacle, Kun-Lai Summit
•  [Tortollan Tank Dweller] – Next to a tortollan bar in the Drunk Tank under Anyport, Drustvar
•  [Well Lurker] – At the bottom of the lake under Nordrassil, Mount Hyjal

Time-specific

•  [Elusive Moonfish] – Night, 12:00AM / 00:00 is a safe bet to start.
•  [Golden Sunsoaker] – Day, daily reset time (anyday, not just Tuesdays/Wednesdays) is a safe bet to start.

Shadowlands / Veil

Just die then farm or farm in the Shadowlands.

•  [Deadeye Wally]
•  [Quiet Floater]
•  [Spiritual Salmon]
•  [Veiled Ghost]

Series

1.  [Secret Fish of Mechagon]
2.  [Secret Fish and Where to Find Them]

Trivia

• The name is a reference to the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them book and to its film adaptation. The book  [Powerful Magical Foci and Those Who Wielded Them] is also a reference to these.

Patch changes

• Patch 8.2.5 (2019-09-24): Typo fixed.
  
• Patch 8.2.0 (2019-06-25): Added.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB