For this section of my Alliance Cooking Guide we'll take you Raw Sunscale Salmon fishing to level your cooking skill through the difficult 225-300 ranges. Many players find that it takes several hours of farming to level to 300 using other guides, but with Raw Sunscale Salmon fishing my Alliance Cooking Guide will get you there in about 1 hour, not including travel time buying recipes.

In order for my Alliance Cooking Guide to be effective, you must have a minimum fishing skill of 300. You’ll also need a few Aquadynamic Fish Attractors because it’s a 375-425 fishing skill zone.

Okay, this is where I need to confess that Raw Sunscale Salmon fishing alone will not level your cooking skill to 300. My Alliance Cooking Guide requires 2 other types of fish - Raw Redgill and Raw Whitescale Salmon. Luckily, they are all caught from the same pond.

You should grab the recipes to cook up your fish before heading to the fishing pond. Hopefully, you already have the Flight Paths to all these locations; otherwise you’re going to do a lot of riding.

Fly to Booty Bay. Find cook Kelsey Yance and buy Recipe: Filet of Redgill. Take boat to Rachet. Fly to Gadgetzan. Ride East to Steamwheedle Port and buy Recipe: Poached Sunscale Salmon from Gikkix. Ride back to Gadgetzan and fly to Feathermoon Stronghold in Feralas. Buy Recipe: Baked Salmon from Vivianna.

Alliance Cooking Guide Travel Tip: If your Hearth Stone is set to Dalaran, you could hearth there after Booty Bay and take the portal to Tanaris.

Gold-Making Tip: Buy extra recipes to sell on the Auction House. They can easily bring in up to 5-10 times more gold than what you bought them for depending on your server.

Once you've bought all of the recipes, fly to Everlook in Winterspring. Head West to the Frostfire Hot Springs just before the entrance to Timbermaw Hold.

We need 25 Raw Sunscale Salmon (35% CR), 25 Raw Redgill (5% CR) and 25 Raw Whitescale Salmon (40% CR). All three can be caught here, but the only time you can catch Raw Sunscale Salmon is between 12:00-18:00 server-time, so you should only fish during that time of day. If you are having trouble catching enough Raw Redgill for the Alliance Cooking Guide, try the waters on the other side of Timbermall Hold in Felwood. The catch rate there is about 40%.