Magical Crawdad

Visited Lake Jorune and Lake Ere'Noru. Nothing. Came back a couple days later and got him on my first wish in Blackwind Lake. Maybe 40 casts total if that. For once I got lucky with a pet!! Good luck to all!

Fished him up today!  Was just bored, and messing around, and got him on the 15th cast.  LOL!  Anyone know if I cage him to sell, do I still have him, or do I lose him?  I just collect - I don't battle - so I've no idea about this stuff.  Thanks!

Similar to another poster's experience below, I fished this up on my 47th attempt today. The pet was what I got on the first wish.  The second wish was a giant irate Mr Pinchy trying to kill me.  Not sure what the third wish will bring yet.  The timer on the wish is 4 hours.

This guy's a stud.  Leveled him from 1 to 25 and he was almost always pretty much my tank.  Crazy health, nice heals, and good steady damage make him a formidable, if unspectacular, part of any team.  Mine is named "Mssr Pinchy".

Shaping up to be one of my fav pets for battling.  If you keep Renewing Mists up, he's extremely durable, and you can use Whirlpool on cooldown for some pretty big damage.  Also, I've only gotten mine to 16 so far, but it seems like he has freakishly high health for his level.

Plus there's the emotional attachment... I fished for this guy for at least a month, sometimes for hours a day, before battles even came out.  Probably the most time I've ever sunk into a pet, lol.

Extremely durable, if you run it with renewing mists and wish you'll find that there are very few pets who can take it out without flying moves. 

What would be really hot is if he was classified as a magic pet so he could only take 50% of max health per attack. That along with Wish would make this pet ridiculous.

nice pet got mine after 142 tries in fishing

I just started fishing for Mr. Pinchy a few days ago.  I have been unsuccessful while having a buffed fishing skill of over 500.  As soon as my base fishing level hit 435 (I had 573 buffed), I got Mr. Pinchy!  Is this a coincidence or does it require a base level of 430?

Mr. Pinchy now has a 4 hour cooldown :)

It might not be the easiest pet to get, but if you are serious about battling and levelling your pets, you CANT go without the Magical Crawdad.  I would argue this guy is the single most useful pet in the game for blowing through single-player content and it can even SOLO a couple of pandaria trainers. Wish being a ridiculously great heal, a huge health pool to abuse said heal, shell armor to basically nullify stampedes and other DoTs - this immovable wall will make your game EZ mode.

I got Mr. Pinchy in Blackwind Lake after 143 attemps. First wish, Magical Crawdad Box. I'm glad that one didn't take long. Now, back to the Azure Whelpling.

Today i got someone to sell me this for 1325G! Thats so cheap for a pet like this. And he did some leveling to, it was already lvl 10 when i bought it. I wanted this for so so long, i cant believe i got it, and for that price! Anyway just wanted to post how happy i am. Happy hunting to everyone! 

Oh my....very giddy right now...Only cast about 75 times and got Mr. Pinchy...clicked...no luck just the guardian so I continued to fish and got another Mr. Pinchy about 6 casts later!!!! They share the same CD but I am not complaining!!

I did try this quest sometime ago and no luck. I tried again today and fished all three fishing holes.

I got him at Lake Jorune

Mr. Pinchy makes a great power leveler for your team. With his area heals that last three rounds (you can switch another character in for two of those rounds), and his "Wish" that heals the next battle pet for 50 percent of their hit points, Mr. Pinchy makes an excellent cleric for your battle pet party.