Old School Runescape Officially Recognizes Player Who Reached Level 99 Fishing Catching Only Shrimp and Anchovies

The authoritative Old School Runescape X relationship has responded aft a subordinate managed to get their Fishing accomplishment up to level 99 catching lone shrimp and anchovies.

Fishing is an integral portion of the Old School Runescape experience. There are respective antithetic tools players tin usage to drawback food oregon different marine critters, specified arsenic assorted types of sportfishing rods, harpoons, lobster traps, and overmuch more.

One of the archetypal tools players get successful the crippled is simply a tiny sportfishing net, which, you guessed it, tin lone beryllium utilized to drawback tiny prey similar shrimp, minnows, monkfish and anchovies. It can’t drawback thing larger than these species, and it tin lone beryllium utilized astatine definite sportfishing spots passim the satellite (not counting swamp lizards and salamanders erstwhile utilized with a rope).

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As players progress, they’ll evidently privation to upgrade their instrumentality to drawback much food and level up their Fishing accomplishment faster… but 1 instrumentality rejected these methods successful favour of a acold much hard path.

A subordinate named Bosby challenged himself with the task of maxing retired his Fishing stat by catching lone shrimp and anchovies, the lowest-level food successful the full game. He started an relationship aptly named OnlyShrimp99 connected May 11, 2024, and worked tirelessly implicit the adjacent 2 years to execute his goal, which necessitated the usage of a Smal Fishing Net, fixed that shrimp can't beryllium caught immoderate different mode successful the game.

He explained the process implicit connected Reddit, revealing that helium enactment a full of 4,304 hours into the project, which officially ended connected August 7, 2026.

for the past 2 years and 3 months one person been leveling a runescape relationship by sportfishing lone shrimp, the lowest level fish. tonight, one deed 99 pic.twitter.com/EfooGQuKqq

— Bosby!!! (@Bosby_) August 8, 2026

“This relationship was a gag thought successful my person radical for years earlier I yet made it. I started retired reasoning it would conscionable beryllium thing comic to do, and ended up having the dedication to spot it through,” helium wrote. “Across the span of this relationship I started a caller job, got married, and made tons of friends.

“All successful all, this was a amusive 2nd show project, and I met a batch of chill radical astatine the Al Kharid sportfishing spot. My mean acquisition per hr was thing similar 3,000, fixed however AFK I was. I relish having the surface existent property back, but I volition miss catching those lil’ h2o bugs.”

Players indispensable accrue 13,034,431 Fishing points to scope level 99. Shrimp reward players with 10 Fishing points each, portion anchovies springiness them 40; Bosby caught 275,196 earthy shrimp and 257,064 earthy anchovies implicit the people of 2 years and 3 months to scope that number. What’s more, helium banked them all, keeping them successful retention to commemorate his journey.

pic.twitter.com/FYCN6I6Whc

— Bosby!!! (@Bosby_) August 9, 2026

Bosby’s antithetic accomplishment rapidly went viral connected societal media, adjacent drafting the attraction of the authoritative Old School Runescape X account, who created a peculiar representation of a shrimp utilizing the game’s signature polygonal benignant to reward him for his efforts.

“Congrats connected the lone tiny nett 99 Fishing, Bosby! Our information squad has verified your accomplishment,” they wrote.

“This artwork is incredible. Thank you!” helium replied.

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME https://t.co/eJqw8CZa6t

— Bosby!!! (@Bosby_) August 10, 2026

While Bosby isn’t definite what his adjacent large AFK task volition be, helium did notation utilizing bronze daggers to scope level 99 Smithing. We’ll person to spot if helium really ends up going done with it, though.

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