A Bear of an Appetite

Quest Giver: Hugh Glass — human male at Redwood Trading Post [69, 40]

Objective: Bring 6 Northern Salmon to Hugh Glass. Collect them by using the provided Fishing Net on Schools of Northern Salmon along Eastwind Shore.

Quick Facts

• Level: 75 (available at 72)
• Type: Normal (standalone)
• Prerequisite: None.
• End of chain. No follow-up.

Walkthrough

Step 1: Accept Quest at the Redwood Trading Post

Hugh Glass is at the Redwood Trading Post [69, 40], a small trapper camp just northeast of Camp Oneqwah. He’s standing with his bear companion Griselda. When you approach, he mistakes you for his friend “Limpy Joe” and launches into instructions without waiting for introductions: “Thank goodness you’re back, Limpy! I worried that Griselda and I were going to be all alone.”

He gives you a Fishing Net.

Step 2: Find Schools of Northern Salmon on Eastwind Shore

Travel east to Eastwind Shore (the eastern coast of Grizzly Hills). Schools of Northern Salmon appear as sparkling bubble patches in the water along the coast.

These are NOT regular fishing schools. They do not appear with the Find Fish tracking ability, and you cannot catch Northern Salmon with a fishing rod. Many players have wasted time trying to fish them. You must use the quest net.

Schools are found scattered along the coast roughly from [75, 32] in the north to [82, 48] in the south. Reliable coordinates reported by players:

• [79, 38] — consistent cluster area
• [78.4, 36.5]
• [81, 36]
• [80, 42]

Step 3: Use the Fishing Net on Each School

Swim (or walk on water) to a school and right-click the Fishing Net from your inventory or action bar. Each school yields one Northern Salmon, so you need to find 6 separate schools.

Water-walking makes this much faster:

• Death Knights: Path of Frost
• Shamans: Water Walking
• Priests: Levitate (recast every 2 minutes)
• Everyone else: Water Walking potions work, or use a flying mount to hop between schools

A flying mount at level 77+ trivializes this: fly low over the water, spot the sparkling schools, land on the water (with water walking) or hover near the surface, use the net, remount.

Step 4: Return to Hugh Glass

Bring the 6 salmon back to the Redwood Trading Post [69, 40]. Hugh Glass’s reaction when you return is the quest’s punchline:

“You! You’re not Limpy Joe!”

He then launches into a paranoid monologue:

• “By the Light, you killed Limpy Joe and took the meat! How did you know where to find us?”
• “Well, if you’ve come to kill me, too, can you at least wait until I’ve fed Griselda? Poor girl hasn’t eaten in days.”
• He feeds Griselda: “Here, girl. I’ve got one last meal for you before Limpy Joe’s killer does us in!”
• “How could you kill poor, defenseless old Joe? And why did you bring the meat back?”
• “You’re an enigma, that’s what you are… And let me tell you, enigmas and I don’t get along….”
• “I think you’d best leave before Griselda decides she’s in the mood for dessert.”

The quest gives you gold and XP but no gear rewards. The real reward is Hugh’s unhinged dialogue.

Lore Context

Hugh Glass is “not right in the head.” He’s a paranoid hermit living alone with a bear, convinced that enemies are everywhere. His idle chatter includes lines like “They’ll never find us here, will they?” and “We won’t let them get us like they got Limpy Joe and Flannel McGee!” and “Keep an eye out for them, girl! Don’t let them get us!”

He claims to have escaped from the Wolfcult and believes Loken is personally out to get him. Horde players visit him for the quest In the Name of Loken, where he responds: “That’s not something Limpy Joe would ask! But yeah, I know Loken. He’s out to get me, too!”

Griselda is the “girl.” The entire quest plays on the assumption that “Griselda” is Hugh’s wife or girlfriend. His language (“I worried that Griselda and I were going to be all alone,” “wouldn’t want to keep the girl waiting,” “it’ll be more than just her stomach growling”) only makes sense when you arrive and realize Griselda is a bear.

The quest title “A Bear of an Appetite” is a double pun: Griselda literally has a bear’s appetite, and the phrase echoes “a bear of a problem” meaning something large and difficult.

The real Hugh Glass (c. 1780-1833) was an American fur trapper and frontiersman famous for surviving a grizzly bear mauling in 1823. Left for dead by his companions, he crawled roughly 200 miles to the nearest settlement despite a broken leg and severe wounds.

He later confronted the men who abandoned him. His story was dramatized in the 2015 film “The Revenant” starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Blizzard’s version is a pitch-perfect homage: a frontiersman in Grizzly Hills, living at a trading post, with a bear companion, who has clearly gone mad from isolation, with friends named things like “Limpy Joe” and “Flannel McGee.”

Hugh Glass is also a vendor. He sells Howlin’ Good Moonshine and Silvercoat Stag Meat. Alliance players buy his moonshine for a separate quest involving the Explorers’ League.