So I've decided to give alchemy a whirl, even though I've never been big on it. I can't for the life of me, get salmon roe. Is there a trick to this? Am I missing something? I understand you need to catch them mid air as they swim upstream. Ideas? Thanks

How unbearable.

That's the gist of it. I haven't been very successful. I do it by the waterfall near the meadery in Whiterun.

I think you can get salmon roe of any salmon that you kill.
You can get 1 salmon roe in the HF house kitchen. (respawns)

Slow Time? Just saying

I guess it's a matter of finding the right waterfall. I caught one salmon in like 20 minutes. Freakin frustrating"

Animal Allegiance, they jump, die, and you can find the roe floating in the water.

Can you elaborate a bit? Thanks

Sure, you stand near the waterfall, preferably on the rock where the water falls, use the shout, and I can't remember whether they jump towards you or simply die, but they should die and you'll find the lootable salmon corpses and salmon roe floating in the water.

Awesome, thanks.

Welcome.

Not a trick, just very hard to catch. Go near a waterfall, that's where they appear the most, use the shout slow time when you think you see one and it should be easier to catch 馃槃

I start at the bottom of the waterfall and spam the jump button to basically climb the waterfall against the current. If you continuously spam the jump button, you can hover the same area. All the while spamming the activate button.

With a little practice you can clear a waterfall area within 5 minutes.

That is IF one doesn't have the aforementioned shouts.

I stood at the base of a waterfall with my favorite bow. Aimed at a place about where it appeared salmon were leaping past and started firing. I actually hit one. Only took 15 arrows. It occurs to me that throwing fireballs or shock spells at a waterfall might be an effective harvesting techniques.

I never thought about that. Maybe the use of one of the Cloak Spells and jump in the water.

Easiest way to catch salmon is to go fishing.

Find a spot with lots of salmon and 'Fus' shout them, their bodies all float up to the surface. Simples

So far ive tried spamming the jump button upstream. Worked good until i ran out of salmon. Think ill try flames or Fus'ing them. Thanks for the replies.

There was a lengthy discussion about this in a previous thread (I'll try to find it) where it turns out that getting roe from salmon in a lake or fishery works differently on Xbox than the PC. On the PC, players can collect roe by shooting or shouting the salmon. However, on Xbox, I couldn't get this to work. I can only get roe from the salmon who are spawning in Xbox. FYI, the easiest way I found to do it (current PC doesn't have shouts) is

Also, here's a thread with a bunch of great recipes: http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1469110-fun-with-alchemy-your-recipes/

Finally, consider the quest for the White Phial and the quest for Sinderion's Serendipity to build up your alchemist.

Edit: The earlier thread about acquiring roe: http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1468859-cant-get-salmon-roe/

Besides the usual Fus Ro Dah, you can also use Iiz Slen Nus (Ice Form), kinda poetic to see the floating ice cubes of salmon.

I've never had a problem on Xbox 360 collecting Salmon Roe. Unrelenting Force shout and Cloak spells work great on all fish types. They just float to the surface and die.

Never had the patience to shoot them with arrows.

I tried that the other day, it didn't do anything. I have all three words for this shout and still it didn't work...of course I'm running with the Unofficial Patches, perhaps that might have something to do with it.

Haha, I do the very same thing shouts or no shouts

Think like a bear my friend, think like a bear......

That spoiler is freakin genius. That by far seems to be the easiest way, assuming you have that item.

I know! I love those things. I got them pretty early, too - and with a squishy character. In case you didn't look them up, they are part of

Good luck, have fun.

I had problems getting salmon roe when I first installed Heartfire. For some reason the spawning salmon wouldn't give it up until I went up a few levels. Odd, since any new saves would have it from level 1.

Anyways, damaging shouts, spray magic, and bows are a good way to get it. Actually killing the salmon instead of catching them in mid air gives you twice the amount you'd normally find, too. Assuming you can get both the fish corpse and the little pouch that broke off of it.