Angling Applications

August 2020

There are various computer and mobile applications that have been developed to support fishing.  There are 2 main types of fishing apps.  The first type is fishing social applications like FishBrain.  The second main type of fishing app supplies predictions and logging functions.  The last type of application is aligned to weather and “patterns” for fishing such as FishingSpots, FishAngler, etc.

FishBrain

FishBrain is the preeminent fishing related application.  It has over 10M+ downloads and is available on both Apple and Google mobile devices.   There is a free and a paid (Pro subscription) version of FishBrain.  The Pro version provides more detail on individual catches and locations.  It is quite a mature application with a rich data entry and mining capability.    You can create a post on FishBrain by taking a picture of your catch, recording the species, size, location, gear, bait, date, time, etc.   It even tries to autodetect the species from a picture of your catch.  

You can also research other fishing spots via a map interface.  In my local area in Connecticut, there are over 500 fishing reports documented.  Via the map interface, you can see how many posts have been made at a specific spot and drill down into those catches to see more detail.   This can be very useful to explore and find new waters to target.

FishBrain is a valuable tool to explore new fishing locations and keeping logs of your fishing catches.  As with any social media platform, the information you see in FishBrain might or might not be completely correct and I have certainly noticed some posts that are not accurate.  

FishAngler

FishAngler is another mobile accessible fishing application.  FishAngler has about 1M downloads on the Apple and Google phone platforms.  FishAngler provides  a similar platform to FishBrain but adds items such as solunar, tides and other information.

Others

There are quite a few other fishing applications such as:  Bass Forecast, Fishing Knots, FishAngler, FishingSpots, etc.   Many of these are focused specifically on logging, weather, knot tying, etc.   Google Maps is also a useful tool to locate and research new fishing spots.  You can search via the map interface for bodies of water or specific spots and then drill down for more detail.

Please send feedback, suggestions or fish stories.  You can contact me by email [email protected].

Tight lines …  Captain P.