A Most Amazingly Salty Sixty Seconds

So I’ve been gradually chipping away at the Accomplished Angler achievement for the last few weeks since I maxed out my fishing.  This morning I was thrilled to finally see Bait Bandits pop up as the Outland fishing daily quest for the first time since I’ve started working on them.  This finally knocked out my Old Man Barlowed achievement after nearly 4 weeks of waiting.  With this one out of the way, it left me with only Master Angler of Stranglethorn and One That Didn’t Get Away yet to complete for my Salty title.  The Stranglethorn achievement is a crap shoot, but One That Didn’t Get Away is truly, deeply, 100% based on luck.  Read a bit about it and you’ll see that most catch counts put these fish at about a 1:2000 chance to be caught.  I’ve logged nearly 3,000 catches in Northrend alone looking for a Dark Herring, with no success.

I then headed down to Stranglethorn for the Fishing Extravaganza, pretty confident that I could win the thing now that I was actually awake early enough on a Sunday to catch the start of it.  Things were going according to plan, I was nearing the finish line, and then something incredible happened…

Yeah.  I about wet myself.

PS – My condolances to Rektam, who lost by 15/10/3/.5 seconds (depending on when you asked him).  You’ll get it next week, buddy