Yep, the drop rate is poor. That's one of the factors that made me stop fishing, because it takes too much time doing nothing (what I find boring) for quite often no results. It's like double pain somehow.

If they could find a way to bring some more "excitement" to that activity, that would help...

If your plan is to complete a zone before moving on to another... you're gonna have a bad time!

And if it only took three days before "wall bashing frustration" has kicked in... this may not be a chievo for you. lol

A possible plan...

For myself, I picked a zone... and a water source (i.e saltwater)... then started somewhere in the zone. Walked along the source and fished until I brought up the greens (or if I lucky and got the blue, I'd just fish up the greens as well), then move to another zone, I'd maintain the saltwater theme and do the same.

This provided a change of scenery as well as avoiding frustration of "waiting" on a particular drop in any one zone.

I'd rinse and repeat that until bored and then move back to other things.

When returning to the achievement, I'd either pick-up where I left off (in zone and water type) or choose a different water source and start from the start.

That just left picking the stragglers up from each zone at the end (and of course starting and completing Cyro - which I (and most, I'd imagine) leave for last (unless you're a PVP'er).

It's definitely a LONG journey. Took me almost two years (granted it is a bit easier now with the CP options and how they've modified showing the bait and water types on screen). None of that existed when I completed this so doing this today, it should be quicker, but YMMV.

Pro-tips: Fish with a buddy. Two people (three max) will maximize your chances of catching the rare fish. And/or you could make (or buy) the Artaeum Pickled Fish Bowl food, which will increase your chances of catching rare fish (akin to fishing with another person).

Good luck on your fishing trip! It is certainly a cool title (only one my main has sported since attaining it many years ago), so settle in and keep going, even when it gets frustrating (and it will as you have already seen), but it'll make sporting that title even more satisfying when it finally pops for you!

Cheers!

It gets a bit frustrating when a zone only has three water types instead of four and you keep catching the wrong blue fish. I have two characters that are master fishermen and was working on a third when account wide achievements ruined it.

A friend had ten characters with the achievement when the account wide fiasco happened.

We were in a guild that ran a fishing event once a week and that really helped.

I did a lot of my fishing waiting for a trial group to fill. I also would keep an eye out for players in zone asking for help. If someone wanted help with a world boss or something I would go hep them then get back to my fishing. That helps break it up some.

Are you using fish food?
Are you running the Green CP to both boost drop rates AND speed things up?
Are you running an add-on to make it easier to notice when to pull the line up (which helps you speed things up).

I found most zones had 1 fish that came way after the others - but thankfully for me the worst was only about 4 hours on 1 fish, which is very good compared to some people.

I haven't been able to get this because it requires you to go into Cyrodiil. No thanks.

I can recommend some podcasts for you to listen to, it helps relieve some of the boredom!

With the CP and food, it took me just over an hour per zone to get the achievement. Coldharbour was the worst zone for me.

I had no problems fishing in Cyrodiil. In fact, at least one enemy fished with me.