OSRS Minnows Fishing Guide: XP & GP Per Hour

Minnows can be caught using a small fishing net at Kylie Minnow’s fishing platform at the Fishing Guild. They can be exchanged for noted raw sharks by trading with Kylie Minnow, at a rate of 40 Minnows for 1 shark. Since they can be caught relatively faster, catching and exchanging them for sharks is a faster method of getting sharks. Minnows are also stackable, so players won’t need a bank.

Catching Minnows is more click-intensive than other forms of net fishing because the fishing spots always move 1 tile in a clockwise direction, at a fixed rate of 15.6 seconds or 25 ticks. There is also a 1/10 chance that a fishing spot will spawn a flying fish, which will eat 16–26 minnows directly from the player’s inventory; players will have to click another fishing spot when this happens, 

It’s a good idea to use RuneLite when catching minnows and ensure the fishing plugin is turned on, as it highlights each active minnow fishing spot and shows the time left before it moves. The highlight also turns red when a flying fish starts to eat the player’s minnows, allowing the player to react faster. This feature also shows how many fish you catch each hour, This method of catching sharks offers the player twice the raw sharks and XP rates from catching them from other fishing spots.

Catching Minnows is one of the best ways for ironman to get raw sharks, which can be cooked to train cooking and used as food for combat. Cooking a shark grants 210 fishing XP if successful, up to 1300 raw sharks can be cooked each hour, resulting in 273,000 cooking XP.

Requirements for Catching Minnows

• 82 fishing: this cannot be boosted
• Completion of Fishing Contest quest and Angler’s outfit: Players need to have these two requirements before Kyrie agrees to take them to the Kylie Minnow fishing platform. To get the Angler’s outfit, players have to compete in the fishing trawler minigame. It takes between 10 and 20 hours to obtain the full outfit. Players will also get 2.5% additional fishing XP if fishing while wearing the full outfit. It is quite easy to obtain this outfit, and it has been explained in our Fishing trawler guide
• Small fishing net

Recommendations for Catching Minnows

• Rada’s Blessing: This is a reward for completing the Kourend and Kebos Diary. It offers a boost to fishing yields by giving players a chance to catch an extra fish. The Rada's Blessing 4 provides an 8% chance to catch twice the number of minnows that can be caught at once(10-14). The chance reduces to 6% while wearing Rada’s blessing 3, 4% with Rada’s blessing 2, and 2% with Rada’s blessing 1.
• Spirit flakes: These are obtained as drops from the reward pool after defeating Tempoross. They offer a 50% chance to catch double the fish when fishing, If using Spirit Flakes while catching minnows, you would be able to catch 26 minnows at a time instead of 13.

Location for Catching Minnows

Minnows can be caught on the minnow platform, north of the Fishing Guild. To get here, players have to speak to Kylie Minnow, who will take them to this platform if they meet all the requirements which have been mentioned above. There are four minnow fishing spots here. This platform is not considered within the guild, so the invisible level boost will not take effect. After Kyrie takes a player to the fishing platform for the first time, they can row the boat next to him to get to the fishing platform when returning, without having to speak to him.

Here are the fastest ways to get to the fishing guild

• Skill necklace; The fastest way to get to the fishing guild is by using the skills necklace. 
• Fishing Guild teleport: The fishing guild teleport is a lunar spell, and players have to complete the Lunar Diplomacy quest to use it.
• Camelot: players can teleport to Camelot then run west through Seer’s Village and south-west through Hemenster to get to the fishing guild
• Ardougne: This requires completion of the plague city quest, players can run north from Ardougne directly to the fishing guild

XP rates From Catching Minnows

Players will get an average of 26.1 fishing XP per catch of minnows. Here are the XP rates that players will get from actively catching Minnows at different fishing levels

• At 82 Fishing, players can get 39,150 XP per hour while catching minnows.
• At 85 Fishing, players can get 43,000 XP per hour while catching minnows
• At 90 Fishing, players can get 45,000 XP per hour while catching minnows.
• At 95 fishing, players can get 48,000 XP per hour while catching minnows
• At 99 Fishing, players can get 52,023 XP per hour while catching minnows.

GP Per hour From Catching Minnows

Catching minnows is very profitable, especially for ironmen. It can also be a relaxing way to make some extra GP on regular accounts. Players can catch 10–14 minnows each time. The profit below assumes that the rada’s blessing is not worn. While wearing the rada blessing, the profits will increase based on the bonus of the tier of rada’s blessing worn 

• At 82 Fishing, players can expect to catch 15,000 minnows per hour, which can be exchanged for 375 raw sharks, resulting in a profit of 297,000 GP per hour.
• At 85 fishing, players can expect to catch 17,000 minnows per hour, which can be exchanged for 425 sharks, resulting in a profit of 328,000 GP per hour
• At 90 Fishing, players can expect to catch 19,500 minnows per hour, which can be exchanged for 487 raw sharks, resulting in a profit of 377,000 GP per hour.
• At 95 fishing, players can expect to catch 22,000 minnows per hour, which can be exchanged for 550 raw sharks, resulting in a profit of 425,0000 GP per hour
• At 99 Fishing, players can expect to catch 26,000 minnows per hour, which can be exchanged for 650 raw sharks, resulting in a profit of 508,300 GP per hour

Cooking the raw sharks provides an additional profit of 258,700 GP for every 1300 sharks that can be cooked each hour.