Whats the fishing like in Ae?

[axe11154]

is it deep? is it its own skill? can I purchase a boat and go fishing? can I catch new fish that wernt available before? Can I give my orc wife a fish I caught with the fishing rod as a gift to tell her Im hooked? Will she leave me after I say such a bad joke? I need answers.

[LightBringer]

Theres a lot of new fish and they all can be cooked and benefit nicely in survival mode. The fishing.... its not deep at all. Fishing rod is a weapon that behaves exactly like a sword. You can swing and block even. When its equip though you must find a fishing site to fish at. Typically they're signified by some fisher's tent, where you will see a bait bucket. Interact and it basically force locks your camera in the direction of the water. You watch a simple casting animation. And you just wait.. until you get a bite. Not too fast but when its right press E to real it in. Thats it. Use bait bucket, wait, Press E once, done. Its not deep at all to the point where you have absolutely no control during its minigame. I suppose there is a little depth in specific species of fish in other regions and maybe in the questline too? havent played that though

[indy-anna]

I'm doing the fishing quest. You are told to catch certain fish. I finished the first one where the fish are warm water fish. I'm doing the 2nd one, (I don't know how many parts there is to the quest) which is fish that can be caught in the rain. The quest is time consuming.

Also I caught a enchanted helm and several different items. When I finish the rain fish, (you get a hat quest that makes it rain when you fish, it's her hat and I think she'll take it when the 2nd part is done) I'm going to wear the helm because I really need it. (I miss my mage robes that I used to get free in my inventory when leaving the cave. I refuse to buy them, besides I'm broke anyway).

You are told to watch for ripples when you cast to see if there's fish there. Then when you catch a fish there's ripples on the fishing line but if you don't see any ripples and you see the fishing pole bending, if you reel it in that's when you catch things other than fish. I like the fishing.

[RPG Gamer Man]

Originally posted by indy-anna:

I'm doing the fishing quest. You are told to catch certain fish. I finished the first one where the fish are warm water fish. I'm doing the 2nd one, (I don't know how many parts there is to the quest) which is fish that can be caught in the rain. The quest is time consuming.

Also I caught a enchanted helm and several different items. When I finish the rain fish, (you get a hat quest that makes it rain when you fish, it's her hat and I think she'll take it when the 2nd part is done) I'm going to wear the helm because I really need it. (I miss my mage robes that I used to get free in my inventory when leaving the cave. I refuse to buy them, besides I'm broke anyway).

You are told to watch for ripples when you cast to see if there's fish there. Then when you catch a fish there's ripples on the fishing line but if you don't see any ripples and you see the fishing pole bending, if you reel it in that's when you catch things other than fish. I like the fishing.

At least it sounds like you can fish up items and stuff. That is a good thing to do if you start a new game i guess.

[Transairion]

As already said the fishing itself is just use interactable at certain location, reel in after X amount of tugs on the line, get a fish. Single tugs are an item, while 5 tugs are the rarest fish (if you get a 5th tug, reel in immediately or you'll lose the fish. Every other catch you can wait for the line to bend). If there's ripples/splashes in the water when you cast your line, there's still fish to catch. No ripples means only items remain (usually junk).

There's at least 12 different fish to catch across different areas, the new Argonian NPC Swims-in-Deep-Water at the Riften Fishery will challenge/guide you to them. He's essentially the living tutorial.

However the second new Redguard NPC, Vivyne(?) who can be inside the Riften Fishery or wandering the docks outside afterwards offers unique quests that I very much enjoyed. Apart from the first one or two you don't actually have to fish for many of them, offering... let's just say interesting encounters with unique rings across the questline. The penultimate quest was pretty wild. However you may need to advance Swims-in-Deep-Water's (or vice-versa) challenges/quests in order to get new quests from Vivyne.

There is no bait you have to find/farm (provided by the fishing spots), and three unique rods you are granted via challenges/questline. One increases odds of catching Big Fish, Little Fish, and the final one Items; the base fishing rod is seemingly random. The Item-catching Rod may be important to you later on as there are four unique rings only caught up via fishing.

Hearthfire homes have the option to build an Aquarium area in your Cellar now, where you can put fish on Trophy Plaques or in fish tanks to live and swim around. Big Fish are used as food (though they all seem to give +5 Health no matter rarity) while Small Fish are almost all Alchemy ingredients with new combinations.

Swims-in-Deep second challenge has you catching rainy weather fish and finding his Lucky Fishing Hat, which causes rain while fishing. You have the option to return it to him or [LIE] and keep it... seemingly there is no way to get it back if you return it to him, as it isn't even in his Pickpocket inventory anymore and he hasn't gifted it to me after I "mastered" fishing. So, you may want to keep it; apparently one of the rings you can fish up will cause rain as well but that's more work. DO YOU NEED RAIN AFTER HIS QUEST? Not that I can see. Your call.


TLDR: Fishing itself is very simple, an Interact prompt at certain locations. You can wield 4 different fishing rods as weapons, and find 8 unique rings in total (half via questline, half via fishing them up). A new (craftable) appearance for Dwarven War Axes. Your Hearthfire home/s can now have fish tanks in the Cellar. Little Fish can be used for Alchemy.

The non-challenge quest line is very unique though and I greatly enjoyed it, though your experience may vary.

[indy-anna]

Originally posted by Transairion:

As already said the fishing itself is just use interactable at certain location, reel in after X amount of tugs on the line, get a fish. Single tugs are an item, while 5 tugs are the rarest fish (if you get a 5th tug, reel in immediately or you'll lose the fish. Every other catch you can wait for the line to bend). If there's ripples/splashes in the water when you cast your line, there's still fish to catch. No ripples means only items remain (usually junk).

There's at least 12 different fish to catch across different areas, the new Argonian NPC Swims-in-Deep-Water at the Riften Fishery will challenge/guide you to them. He's essentially the living tutorial.

However the second new Redguard NPC, Vivyne(?) who can be inside the Riften Fishery or wandering the docks outside afterwards offers unique quests that I very much enjoyed. Apart from the first one or two you don't actually have to fish for many of them, offering... let's just say interesting encounters with unique rings across the questline. The penultimate quest was pretty wild. However you may need to advance Swims-in-Deep-Water's (or vice-versa) challenges/quests in order to get new quests from Vivyne.

There is no bait you have to find/farm (provided by the fishing spots), and three unique rods you are granted via challenges/questline. One increases odds are catching Big Fish, Little Fish, and the final one Items; the base fishing rod is seemingly random. The Item-catching Rod may be important to you later on as there are four unique rings only caught up via fishing.

Hearthfire homes have the option to build an Aquarium area in your Cellar now, where you can put fish on Trophy Plaques or in fish tanks to live and swim around. Big Fish are used as food (though they all seem to give +5 Health no matter rarity) while Small Fish are almost all Alchemy ingredients with new combinations.

Swims-in-Deep second challenge has you catching rainy weather fish and finding his Lucky Fishing Hat, which causes rain while fishing. You have the option to return it to him or [LIE] and keep it... seemingly there is no way to get it back if you return it to him, as it isn't even in his Pickpocket inventory anymore and he hasn't gifted it to me after I "mastered" fishing. So, you may want to keep it; apparently one of the rings you can fish up will cause rain as well but that's more work. DO YOU NEED RAIN AFTER HIS QUEST? Not that I can see. Your call.


TLDR: Fishing itself is very simple, an Interact prompt at certain locations. You can wield 4 different fishing rods as weapons, and find 8 unique rings in total (half via questline, half via fishing them up). Your Hearthfire home/s can now have fish tanks in the Cellar. Little Fish can be used for Alchemy.

The non-challenge quest line is very unique though and I greatly enjoyed it, though your experience may vary.

Do you get a rod for doing the warm water fish? I didn't get one yet.

[Transairion]

Do you get a rod for doing the warm water fish? I didn't get one yet

It seems "temperate climate fish" is just fish in areas it can rain, without it raining. So any spots outdoors that isn't freezing cold, and make sure your Lucky Hat is off. You may need to quick travel around/wait if it's naturally raining (or use Clear Skies shout if you have it).

The area/s Swims-in-Deep-Water guides are Temperate Fish, Raining Fish, Frozen Water Fish and Underground Fish. The rod types you can get only seem to be regular rod, Big Fish rod, Small Fish rod and Item Finder rod.

Oh, and some "General Stores" (and fishing camps/near fisherman outfit NPC's) offer maps of all the fishing locations under Books, with maps for all of the 9 Holds existing. Some general stores offer multiple (Winterhold's Brunma Oddments sold like, 3 different maps while Windhelm's Dunmer general store sold none... you may need to shop around).

[Ommamar]

Does the fishing gear I see in stores do anything? Are there any enchantments tied into the system you can place on the fishing rod? I haven't tried it but think about every time I am dealing with hunger.

[indy-anna]

Originally posted by Transairion:

Do you get a rod for doing the warm water fish? I didn't get one yet

It seems "temperate climate fish" is just fish in areas it can rain, without it raining. So any spots outdoors that isn't freezing cold, and make sure your Lucky Hat is off. You may need to quick travel around/wait if it's naturally raining (or use Clear Skies shout if you have it).

The area/s Swims-in-Deep-Water guides are Temperate Fish, Raining Fish, Frozen Water Fish and Underground Fish. The rod types you can get only seem to be regular rod, Big Fish rod, Small Fish rod and Item Finder rod.

Oh, and some "General Stores" (and fishing camps/near fisherman outfit NPC's) offer maps of all the fishing locations under Books, with maps for all of the 9 Holds existing. Some general stores offer multiple (Winterhold's Brunma Oddments sold like, 3 different maps while Windhelm's Dunmer general store sold none... you may need to shop around).

Thank you!

[Transairion]

Originally posted by Ommamar:

Does the fishing gear I see in stores do anything? Are there any enchantments tied into the system you can place on the fishing rod? I haven't tried it but think about every time I am dealing with hunger.

Fishing Rods can be equipped like weapons then used at certain fishing pegs in the world to catch Food (Big Fish) or Alchemy ingredients (Little fish). The earliest you can find is directly behind the first three STANDING STONES, the Mage/Warrior/Thief with a fisherman and lootable rod/fishing intro book. The different rods can be crafted after you earn them BUT there's no unique enchantments you can put on them to make them better than how they come to you.

Time SEEMS to not advance while you are fishing (NPC's still wander around, but I haven't been attacked) but I don't know if it actually does stop, so for all we know you may still starve while fishing for your dinner. The actual questlines for fishing send you all over Skyrim so they may be difficult to complete on Survival mode with no quick travel.

Fishing for the sake of food may be okay, but since you can't fish anywhere with water (only certain interactable spots) you'll probably find it hard unless you manage to buy up all the Fishing Maps you can find every time you visit a General Store type shop.

[Rumi]

you can slit throats with the fishing rod lol

[HellSlayer]

Even new world has better fishing. Its as if todd made fishing mod under 5min. :| todd why.. why you abandon skyrim..

[✨ZV✨]

Originally posted by LightBringer:

Theres a lot of new fish and they all can be cooked and benefit nicely in survival mode. The fishing.... its not deep at all. Fishing rod is a weapon that behaves exactly like a sword. You can swing and block even. When its equip though you must find a fishing site to fish at. Typically they're signified by some fisher's tent, where you will see a bait bucket. Interact and it basically force locks your camera in the direction of the water. You watch a simple casting animation. And you just wait.. until you get a bite. Not too fast but when its right press E to real it in. Thats it. Use bait bucket, wait, Press E once, done. Its not deep at all to the point where you have absolutely no control during its minigame. I suppose there is a little depth in specific species of fish in other regions and maybe in the questline too? havent played that though

Wow now thats really boring and sad.... Whats the point

[Rumi]

Originally posted by ZV:

Originally posted by LightBringer:

Theres a lot of new fish and they all can be cooked and benefit nicely in survival mode. The fishing.... its not deep at all. Fishing rod is a weapon that behaves exactly like a sword. You can swing and block even. When its equip though you must find a fishing site to fish at. Typically they're signified by some fisher's tent, where you will see a bait bucket. Interact and it basically force locks your camera in the direction of the water. You watch a simple casting animation. And you just wait.. until you get a bite. Not too fast but when its right press E to real it in. Thats it. Use bait bucket, wait, Press E once, done. Its not deep at all to the point where you have absolutely no control during its minigame. I suppose there is a little depth in specific species of fish in other regions and maybe in the questline too? havent played that though

Wow now thats really boring and sad.... Whats the point

you can use it as a weapon

[DPMR]

It is a pretty good weapon too, took down a wolf one swoop. Well he had a few arrows in him already but still...

[Lionheart 01]

The fishing quest is funny imho.