People do fish, and people do it to complete achievements. From personal experience, getting the Master Angler title took a month and a half, and lots of patience! Increase your chances to get a rare fish by teaming up with 2 or more people.

Since fishing is still only good for achievements, when I do go fishing, I try to do an entire zone at a time, so I can more easily keep track of what water-type I still need.

That means having enough bait saved up to probably last till I'm done. That's no problem for guts, crawlers and insect parts, but I come by worms so rarely, it takes me about a month to get a stack and I wanna have two stacks before I start. I've tried to buy them, but haven't found a seller yet. I guess fishermen keep them for themselves and everyone else deletes them.

That means I go fishing about once every two months.

@ZOS_JessicaFolsom‌ When the provisioning update goes live, please convert plump worms to bait.

It's part of my roleplay so I do it often. It's also relaxing and I get some money when I sell the fish.

I don't care about rare fish or achievements.

I've recently started fishing purely for the achievements, it's quite boring.

TRIP233 wrote: »

I forgot about it till I seen this thread.

Im glad I could help haha

Yea i was busy grinding today and accidently killed a crab and some bait dropped out right next to a fishing spot so I was like oh well while I'm here may as well have a go.

I did it once got a longfin and thought I wonder what else I could catch haha killed a few more only got 7 longfins and 1 minnow.

That made me intrested in what people catch and if other did it

it was a bit of the rage in headstart but haven't seen any going on since then

I've caught a few rares. I like to just turn off all zone chat and guild chat and listen to the ambient noise and music from time to time. Reminds me of fishing with my dad when I was a kid except no snakes slither over the tops of my bare feet in the game....

Fishing is real life isn't so often about actually catching fish either... just sayin'....

eserras7b16_ESO wrote: »

They could Improve the fishing by just adding many interesting/usefull cooking recipes and/or potion reagents.

Year that would defiantly make sense. What else do u think they could change? would that be enough to get more people doing it do u think?

astro74 wrote: »

like1tiger wrote: »

If you do, do u find it enjoyable?

You should add a how to your sentence.. thats my question.

If you do, HOW do you find it enjoyable?

I tried but no reward and no challange so...pointless.

Haha - people do a lot of things in life that don't necessarily have any adrenalin or high-powered reward attached. I think there are plenty of people who realise that rushing around going "RAAAAAR" at life isn't actually all that satisfying, sometimes you just want to sit back and relax.
The guild I am in had a really great fishing event, we all fished and sat around chatting on teamspeak -we found it really good fun.
Tip - different people like different things. Try to remember that as you go through life (and the internet, and games), and you will do well.

At the moment I have no time to try fishing

But I have a lot of worms and other baits in my bank, so I will try fishing as soon as possible

Yes I enjoy it from time to time and yes I catch rare fish, fishing is one of those things me and my friends just stop and do, nothing that is really planned

clayandaudrey_ESO wrote: »

They could improve it by adding a title. Master Baiter seems to fit here.

There is a title: Master Angler.
And that's what I am.

I always loved to explore the worlds of TES (played all from III to V), just running around and finding things by chance.
I started fishing, because I wanted that bright yellow for the Aldmeri fisherman achievement. And in the end it was me that had been caught. XD Because I got to see parts of the landscape I usually never would have seen.
Fishing is relaxing, that's true. But also a bit thrilling at time. Funny. Frustrating. Standing between so many agressive mobs, trying not to be seen and yet one turns around and smacks your head and you go "MrrrrOAARleavemealone!!!"
Fishing next to a worldboss (char is VR14) and the lower chars sneak around you, back and forth til you cry out "Oh cmon. If you need help, just ask!". Happened more that once.
For frustrating I just name Rift river/foul water and Cyrodiil sea fishing spots -.- (I'm DB).
So much more to see for explorers, adventurers and RPs.

And for the ones who need a reward for everything they do:
XP thanks to the mobs blocking your fishing spot.
Money. I made so much gold while walking around.
I found so many well hidden treasure chests. I never used harvest map!
You get surprisingly lot attention from other players. Almost everyone stops next to you while you're fishing. Some talk to you, ask questions about it.
Once you've got the title ppl whisper to you their respect. And most of them mean it. XD

Because it's a rare title that needs a bit of patience and a lot of endurance. Looks boring at first, but once you've finished your first map... you'll be hooked.

I have been fishing on AD because I would like that shade of yellow that comes with the achievement. It appears to be a more solid yellow that looks less like biological waste.

I have found fishing to be one of the most boring experiences I have endured in any game. I have blown through stacks of 100 bait trying to get the 2 green 1 blue fish in each type of water in a zone for the achieve. I have literally fallen asleep while doing this. I understand your chances of getting better returns in a group, but people would rather be off playing the game than standing around wasting time.

As much as I would like that yellow, it's just way too boring. I have lost motivation to keep at it.