OSRS Karambwan Fishing Guide: XP Rates & GP Per hour

Karabwan fishing is a popular method of training fishing, especially for ironman because they can be caught relatively quickly and serve as a great food for both PVP or PVM when cooked, healing up to 18 hitpoints.  Cooking Raw Karambwans is also a great way to train cooking while getting food in the process, every successfully cooked Karambwan gives the 190 cooking experience. 

Requirements for Karambwan Fishing

• 65 fishing
• Loaded Karambwan Vessel: A Karambwan vessel must be loaded with Karambwanji before it can be used to catch Karambwans. The Karabwanji is a brightly colored fish used as bait to catch Karambwan.
• Completion of Tai Bwo Wannai

Recommendations for Karambwan Fishing

• Partial Completion of Fairytale II - Cure a Queen: This is required to use fairy rings. Although it is not a requirement to catch Karambwans, it is needed to bank the Karambwans and return to the fishing spot quickly.
• Rada’s blessing: This is a reward for finishing the Kebos and Kourend Diary. It increases fishing yields by providing an opportunity to catch additional fish. There is an 8% chance to catch twice as many Karambwan at once with the Rada's Blessing 4. When Rada's blessings 3, 2, or 1 are worn, the likelihood drops to 6%, 4%, and 2%, respectively.
• Spirit flakes: These are obtained as drops from the reward pool after defeating Tempoross. They offer a 50% chance to catch twice as many fish when fishing. 
• Fish barrel: This item can store a total of 28 raw fish like Karambwans. It can also be obtained from the reward pool after defeating Tempoross. When full, players can only empty it at a bank or a bank deposit box, similar to a looting bag.
• Anglers outfit: This item gives players a 2.5% additional fishing XP when fishing, It can be obtained from searching the trawler nest after completing the fishing trawler minigame. Check our fishing trawler guide to learn how to get this outfit quickly.
• Dragon harpoon: when the Dragon harpoon’s special attack is activated, it temporarily increases the player’s fishing level by 3, improving yield and XP rates. This is recommended for players who have completed the Elite Lumbridge and Draynor Diary so they won’t need to carry the dramen staff, saving inventory space.

Catching Karambwanji

To catch Karambwans, players must first catch Karambwanji which would be used as bait, and load them into a Karambwan vessel. At least 5 fishing and a small fishing net are required to catch Karambwanji, and each Karambwanji catch grants 5 fishing experience. The amount of Karambwanji a player can catch at a time depends on their fishing level, this formula, [fishing level / 5] + 1 determines the amount of Karambwanji a player can catch at a time. From the formula, a player with 70 fishing and above can catch at least 15 Karambwanji at a time. 

Alternatively, players can buy Karambwanji from Tiadeche for 10 coins each after completing the Tai Bwo Wannai Trio. He usually has 50 raw Karambwanji with a full stock and he restocks every 6 seconds. He also sells Raw Karambwans and the Karambwan vessel. 

Where to catch Karambwanji

Karambwanji can be caught at the Holy Lake south of the Tai Bwo Wannai Village, northwest of Shilo Village. The fastest way to get here is with the fairy code CKR. Since they are stackable, there is no need to bank until you have enough Karambwanji. At 65 fishing, it will take an average of 6.5 minutes to catch enough raw karambwanji for one hour of fishing Karambwans.

How to Catch Karambwans

When sufficient bait is loaded into the Karambwan vessel, click the Karambwan fishing spot to start catching Karambwan. Karamja fishing spots don’t move, allowing you to reach an entire inventory of Karambwans without interactions. With the fish barrel, it’s possible to be AFK for up to 5 minutes, and it also improves the number of fish that can be caught each trip.

Where to Fish Karambwans

Karambwan fishing spot can be found northeast of Karamja. The only efficient way to get here is through fairy ring DKP, which requires partial completion of Fairytale II -  Cure a Queen. 

There are different ways to go to a bank and return, but at minimum, access to a fairy ring is required. 

• Shilo Village mine: this is the fastest method to bank when fishing Karambwans. Players first use the Karamja gloves 3 or 4 to go to the Shilo Village mine, bank and then use a quest point for quickest access to a fairy ring to return to the fishing spot.
• If you don’t have a quest point cape, use teleport to house tablets if you have the fairy ring in your POH.
• Shayzien Bank: players can get to this bank quickly, and it has no requirements to access, The fastest way to get here is through Fairy Ring DJR. After banking, you can return using the fairy DKP
• Zanaris: this is the slowest method to bank. Use the fairy ring to Zanaris, run to the bank and then use the fairy ring DKP to return to the fishing spot 

XP per hour from catching Karambwan

Each Karambwan catch gives 50 fishing XP. Here are the XP rates to expect at different fishing levels.

• At level 65, players can get 29,000 fishing XP per hour
• At level 70, players can get 31,000 fishing XP per hour
• At level 75, players can get 32,900 fishing XP per hour
• At level 80, players can get 34,900 fishing XP per hour
• At level 85, players can get 36,800 fishing XP per hour
• At level 90, players can get 38,700 fishing XP per hour
• At level 95, players can get 40,600 fishing XP per hour
• At level 99, players can get 42,000 fishing XP per hour

GP per hour from catching Karambwan

Here are the amount of Karambwans players can catch per hour and the GP rates to expect at different fishing levels.

• At level 65, players can catch 580 Karabwans each hour, resulting in 229,680 GP per hour
• At level 70, players can catch 620 Karabwans each hour, resulting in 245,520 GP per hour
• At level 75, players can catch 658 Karabwans each hour, resulting in 260,568 GP per hour
• At level 80, players can catch 698 Karabwans each hour, resulting in 276.408 GP per hour
• At level 85, players can catch 736 Karabwans each hour, resulting in 291,456 GP per hour
• At level 90, players can catch 774 Karabwans each hour, resulting in 306,504 GP per hour
• At level 95, players can catch 812 Karabwans each hour, resulting in 321,562 GP per hour
• At level 99, players can catch 840 Karabwans each hour, resulting in 332,640 GP per hour