Raw rocktail

This article is about uncooked Rocktail. For the cooked form, see Rocktail.

Raw rocktail

Release date	17 September 2009 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Quest item?	No
Tradeable?	Yes
Equipable?	No
Stacks?	No
High Alch	360 coins
Low Alch	240 coins
Destroy	Drop
Store price	Not sold
Examine	I should try cooking this.
Weight	0.3 kg

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Raw rocktail is a fish that is found in the Living Rock Caverns. Rocktails require a Fishing level of 90 or higher to fish and give 380 experience per catch, which is the most experience obtainable from a single catch of any fish in RuneScape. The player needs a normal fishing rod and Living minerals as bait to catch Rocktails. The Living minerals can be obtained from a living rock protector's/striker's/patriarch's dead remains or they can be bought from the Grand Exchange. Level 73 Mining is needed to mine the dead body. The Living Rock Caverns, however, are quite dangerous. Players could be attacked by level 120+ monsters. Fishing in the unofficial worlds for Living Rock Caverns (84, 77, 88) can be safer for an individual by spreading the creatures' attacks out amongst the group. Since 11 April 2012 it is possible to get a strange rock by fishing rocktails.

Fishing rocktails gives approximately coins profit per hour with level 99 fishing, assuming about 100 fish are caught per hour.

They require a Cooking level of 93 to cook and give 225 experience per fish (228 when a dwarven army axe is wielded after completion of some Burthorpe/Taverley tasks). Rocktails stop burning with a Cooking level of 94 while wearing cooking gauntlets, and receive around 270k experience per hour.

Trivia

• If you were to start fishing rocktail at level 90 and continue until you hit level 99 you would have to fish 20,232 rocktail. You would earn roughly a profit of   35,062,056.
• To reach 200M fishing experience from level 90 you would have to fish 512,247 rocktail. You would roughly earn   823,693,176, taking into account the loss from minerals, in the process.