I was contacted by probably the best fisherman in World of Warcraft, if not any MMO ever, and I was not prepared for how deep the waters went: "It's literally been an almost 10-year battle"

World of Warcraft fisherman posing.

In June, I wrote about a World of Warcraft player who'd spent years buying up, and occasionally catching, 10 million of a specific fish, assembling one of the smelliest collections in the entire MMO. A few days after that article was published, another World of Warcraft player emailed me. "If you ever want to see an actually insane Warcraft FISHING (not [Auction House]) collection, let me know," he said.

"I would love nothing more than to see this fishing collection," I immediately replied.