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Expeditions,
War Stories &
Culture
“The barbfish you brought should work well as bait for most fish, but I fear it’ll attract a monster! When I first arrived, I put some of Nat Pagle’s favorite bait on my hook and cast it into the water. A huge monster latched on, with giant teeth and icicles hanging from its fins! Would’ve pulled me into those icy waters if I hadn’t cut the line! I can’t use the new bait until ol’ Frostfin’s been dealt with. Use this bait near the sunken boat in the middle of the lake.
He won’t be able to resist!”
-Christopher Sloan
Christopher Sloan at Fort Wildervar wants you to defeat Frostfin.
Provided item:
![Find the Sunken Boat:
Swim to the center of Caldemere Lake, near 64.0, 19.7.
Look for a submerged boat on the lakebed.
Use the Fresh Barbfish Bait:
While near the boat, right-click the [Fresh Barbfish Bait] provided with the quest.
This will summon the target fish.](https://gamertribute.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/The-One-That-Got-Away-Map.png)
You will be able to choose one of these rewards:
You will receive:
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
Quest Giver: Christopher Sloan — Fort Wildervar, Howling Fjord [60, 19]
Objective: Use Fresh Barbfish Bait near the Sunken Boat in Caldemere Lake to summon and defeat Frostfin.
Quick Facts
Walkthrough
Find the Sunken Boat
Summon and Kill Frostfin
Return to Christopher Sloan
Efficiency Tips
Lore Context
Explore Howling Fjord’s hidden easter eggs, lore mysteries, and connections across Warcraft history in Vikstone’s Howling Fjord Chronicles, along with the complete quest storyline.
Vikstone's War JournalSloan’s relief at having bait was short-lived.
“The barbfish you brought should work well as bait for most fish,” he said, already looking worried, “but I fear it’ll attract a monster!”
He launched into the story, obviously waiting to tell it for some time.
“When I first arrived, I put some of Nat Pagle’s favorite bait on my hook and cast it into the water. A huge monster latched on, with giant teeth and icicles hanging from its fins! Would’ve pulled me into those icy waters if I hadn’t cut the line!”
He pressed a pouch of fresh barbfish bait into my hands.
“I can’t use the new bait until ol’ Frostfin’s been dealt with. Use this near the sunken boat in the middle of the lake. He won’t be able to resist!”
I swam out to the half-submerged wreck at the lake’s center, dropped the bait, and waited. The water churned, then Frostfin rose.
Sloan hadn’t exaggerated. The thing was massive, jaws lined with teeth like broken glass, fins crusted with actual ice. It came at me in the shallows and I met it with steel, fighting in waist-deep water that numbed everything below the chest. The creature’s bulk worked against it in the shallows. Three solid blows to the skull and Frostfin went still, drifting belly-up among the reeds.
I dragged myself back to shore.
“At last, we can finally fish in peace! ‘Course, by the time we catch anything, the expedition’ll arrive and claim it all for themselves.” Sloan shrugged. “You have our thanks. Don’t be a stranger ’round here.”
Prospector Belvar had been reading reports out of Giants’ Run about iron dwarves carving runes into stone giants and marching them like weapons, which is why he wanted The Book of Runes before anybody worked out how to stop it.
