Know before you go.
Every species ranked for the water you are standing on, this hour — and the seven days ahead, spot by spot.
Every one of 215 species ranked 0–100 for this hour, this water — season, water temperature, moving tide, low light, and what members caught nearby this fortnight — with the reasons in plain words.
NOAA's tide table for the nearest station, the live water temperature, sunrise and sunset, and the prime windows in the next 24 hours — the middle of every tide, marked up when it lands at dawn or dusk.
Reefs, wrecks, rocks and markers off NOAA's charts, and the flats, oyster bars, passes, piers and ramps the states have mapped, each with depth and coordinates in the format your plotter takes. Satellite, chart and street layers.
Wind, gusts, seas, rain and temperature for the week, each day scored, the calmest window found — and every spot scored for each day, because a NE wind that blows a beach out lays a mangrove bank flat. It tells you which day, and which bank.
Tap the map to mark one, save any public spot to your list, import your Navionics or Garmin marks, and export them back out as GPX. They're yours — nobody else sees them.
Share your location or search a pass, a lake, a town or a zip. Fish Scouter finds the nearest NOAA tide station on the coast and the nearest sensor that is actually reporting a water temperature.
Highs and lows become a curve; the strength of the flow, the height, the next turn. Sunrise and sunset from the almanac. Then your region's calendar — what this month means in this water.
Each species has a temperature band, a season, the structure it holds on and how much it wants moving water. Score them, rank them, say why. Then the spots near you, sorted by what they're good for right now.
A Panhandle bayou and a Puget Sound point are different planets, and so are a Minnesota walleye lake and a Texas reservoir. Each water carries its own season calendar and a month-by-month guide. This is October.
Every plan reads the same water. Start free for 14 days; cancel from inside the app.
No. It is a rule of thumb — a guide's reasoning written down and applied every hour to real tide and temperature data. It tells you why it thinks what it thinks so you can disagree with it. The fish still decide.
NOAA's electronic charts carry the charted wrecks, obstructions and rocks; state wildlife agencies publish their artificial reefs, fish attractors and ramps — Florida's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission every reef deployment in the state, with depth and relief. Fish Scouter reads them and draws them on the map with coordinates. Your own marks come from you.
Both directions. Export your marks from the Navionics Boating app (Menu → Markers → Export) and import the GPX file; save spots in Fish Scouter and export them as GPX to import into Navionics, Garmin, Lowrance, Simrad or Humminbird.
Your spots are private, full stop. A catch you log shows on the feed as the general area — rounded to about three-quarters of a mile — never the exact position. Only you see your own exact positions.
A summary for each fish, with the date it was checked, and in Florida the snook season and slot for your region. Limits and closures are the state's and change — FWC's in Florida — so Fish Scouter points you at the state agency before you keep a fish.
Fish Scouter is built for the phone in the browser — add it to your home screen from Safari or Chrome and it opens like an app, full screen, with your location.
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