WoW Forever's Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza runs every Sunday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. realm time, as the game's own calendar sets it, and Forever changes how it ends: the winners now get a coin they trade for a prize of their choice.
When it runs
Build 1.60.1.70938 of the game keeps the contest as a weekly holiday: every Sunday at 2:00 p.m., realm time, for two hours. Our Events and holidays page counts down to the next one, in your time or in your realm's.
What Forever changes: a coin for the winners
The game's files carry a new currency, the Extravagant Extravaganza Coin. In its own words, it is "awarded to the winners of the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza" and exchanged "for a prize of your choosing from Jang". Four new items sit beside it: the Master Angler's Fishing Hat, the Empty Fish Bucket, the Surfer Shoes and the Bitter Baitling.
Guides that have played the event, Icy Veins among them, say that Forever crowns the first 50 anglers to hand in 40 Speckled Tastyfish, not only the first one, and that each winner receives the Arcanite Fishing Pole and a coin. Jang, in Booty Bay, then trades the coin for one prize: one of the four new items or the Hook of the Master Angler. Blizzard has not published these rules itself; we will update this page if it does.