Mine took 119 real life hours if I recall. I did a blog post about it on here

I would never do it on an alt but that said I’m down to my last 50 perfect roe

Just a disclaimer to the above only 30% of that time was with the food. It did speed things up though as well as fishing with friends

I'd say about 10 hours per zone (if alone. It's quicker in groups).

My girlfriend and I did it in about a week and a half to 2 weeks, that was fishing as a pair and with Artaeum Pickled Fish Bowl active. And doing very little else in game bar daily writs lol.

From zero fish to master in two months. Used pots, fished with another when possible. Cyrodiil wasn’t terribly painful, malabol tor foul water was my moby ***. That last fish took days to hook.

When you see that achievement pop, it is very satisfying. Now people say that angler is the toughest, mind numbing thing in the game, but grandmaster crafter was far more in depth. I mean true grand master, nine trait, all food, all alchemy, all enchants, ALL motifs. Ten million gold to buy unavailable or rare motifs, hundreds of real dollars to buy crown only motifs. When I see a grand master, I tip my hat, because I know they went through hell.

akdave0 wrote: »

... malabol tor foul water was my moby ***. That last fish took days to hook.

That one took 3 days for me. I thought that was going to be the longest, but then the lake fish in Greenshade took 5 days.

Just thought I would update this thread with my newly aquired Master Angler title with the new CP changes. It takes about 1 hour per zone if you have Arteum Picked Fish bowl, exactly ONE extra person fishing with you, and the "Reel Technique" and "Angler's Instincts" CPs slotted. I was able to complete all of the achievements from scratch in about 16 hours over 4 days, which averages about 1 hour per zone.

Ratzkifal wrote: »

If you have a friend, you can be done in one week. That's how long it took me and I only had two zones completed before. The new CP, the food and friend bonus make it a lot more pleasant and honestly quite fast. Some zones are annoying of course and if you are fishing with a friend you sometimes need to wait for them to get their last fish so expect to be spending a minimum amount of time in each zone because of it. I got 2.5 zones done every day and only fished for a few hours per day.

Cyrodiil is absolutely the worst zone of all and it's not because of players killing you. It's the worst zone because there are only three salt water spots in the entire zone and they are relatively far apart. A Dominion character will have the easiest time doing that achievement though due to the salt water being in Dominion home turf death won't result in having to ride across the entire map again.

Its an second set of saltwater spots at the south east, go to the place there the EP border river goes into the sea and up the coast some hundred meters and you find couple of saltwater fishing spot. Might be more up the coast but I was not there to fish.

Now the AD spot is pretty safe as long as AD hold the nearby fort and have the scroll in the temple inside as they will port to it rater than ride from the inner gate to it. If AD don't have it they will ride from the gate to the fort just past you and you also risk scroll runs.
The spot i found on the EP side should be pretty safe as only reason to go there is to fish.

I remember I used many days getting it but I focused on the zones and unlocking the dyes rater than the title until halfway.
One tactic I learned early is to focus on the rare spots, say its just 2 fool water spots, then focus them and fish other places then they are down, so in Cyrodil saltwater was focus and I did river then they was down, later lake, then finished lake and finally fool water.