I average about 1 perfect row per 100 fish.

I used to get every 40 fish like clockwork then quite suddenly my rng changed, wasnt worth my time anymore. I have been thinking of trying my luck again lately though.

Mine is running about 0.7%. It's so low that it's completely discouraging for anyone who wants to fish for income. I only fish for achievements, but my stats are the outcome from a full master angler run plus all dlc fishing up through high isle (I haven't done galen yet).

In over a year and a half I've only found 2. I don't spend a lot of time fishing, but I do fish, and only 2.

I average around 1 roe per 5000 fish - it’s rare stuff- I just buy it now.

When I think of perfect roe, my biggest annoyance is why you need perfect roe to make an Elsweyr breadbasket or a potter's wheel...

The RNG is unpredictable. I was reading this thread today thinking "yes, I've also been unlucky getting perfect roe recently", then I just cleared 1 fishing hole and got 2 perfect roe from it.

The only perfect Roe i get is from Special Crafting Award containers during Events.

I remember getting some from fishing activities, but it has been a long time

If you think there's a problem one option is to record how many fish you fillet and how many perfect roe you get to get an actual drop rate. You would need to note down every single fish you fillet, but I think you could do it in batches - 50 fish opened, 1 perfect roe etc. I don't know if different rarities of fish have different drop rates, but it might be worth recording that too just in case. Then when you've gone through a few hundred, ideally about 1000 you should have enough data to reasonably accurately estimate the current drop rate.

Otherwise it could just be normal distribution. RNG means random after all, not evenly distributed. Getting 2 in a row then none for several hundred fish would be as likely as getting 1 on every 200th fish.

I never fish in ESO, but I've noticed similar things with other drop rates. Last week I spent a few nights going around Craglorn gathering whatever I came across, hoping for nirncrux. On one night I got none at all, on the next night I got 2 from one node and another one shortly after, and on the 3rd night I got none again, even though I harvested a similar number of nodes each night. I didn't actually do the maths but I'm fairly sure that fits within the normal distribution given how rare nirncrux is.

As someone who does not fish I can tell you the drop rate has gone down. I usually just buy mine at the vendors when I need one or two. Prior to the last few months I could find them easily at almost any major guild trader hub and reasonably priced 10 to 11 k on PS4. The last ferw months they are hard to find at a vendor and 20 to 25k each. I hadn't really thought about that until seeing this post but that's probably why the decrease in finding them at a vendor and increase in price.

I would never fish just to farm for perfect roe, even when the drop rate was higher than it seems to be now.

I'm just bowled over by fishing for over two hours (on more than once occasion) and not getting a single one.

Years ago, when I started on console, it seemed like it was almost 1 roe in 50 fish. Those days are gone.

Here's my other question... when you fillet the fish, should meticulous disassembly be slotted? Does this have any affect? I had it slotted anyway and nope.

Oh well, just thought I'd make my observations. I'm only fishing for the DLC achievements, and I don't mind it. Eat the right food, slot angler's instinct and reel technique... listen to some music, it's quite relaxing.