Forecast

Read the forecast

The Forecast tab shows the fishing forecast for one place, for today and the next six days. The place and the days - At the top is the place the forecast is for, with a caption: "Your location", "Saved spot", "Marked water" or "Marked location". To change it, tap the button in the top right corner: Choose the place for the forecast - Under it is a row of seven days. Each day has a ring with a number — the day's score out of 100. Tap a day to see its forecast. - An amber dot on a day means an official weather warning touches that day (United States only). Best fishing windows The stretches of the day when the bite score is high, in clock order. Each window shows: - its time, for example 6 PM-8 PM; - today only — how far away it is: "Starts in 1h 38m", "Happening now · 2h left", "Ended 25m ago"; - tags: night, rising tide or falling tide, rain, and the highest score in the window, for example 70 peak; - sometimes a Caution line about strong wind or swell during the window. "No strong windows today" means no part of the day scores high enough. What the numbers mean: The bite score and the best fishing windows Sun and moon The times of sunrise and sunset, the phase of the moon and how much of it is lit. The graphs Under the hour ruler (12am … 9pm, with Now marked on today) there is one section per measurement: | Section | What it shows | |---|---| | Bite score | a bar for every hour and the score out of 100 with a word — Great, Good, Fair or Slow | | Tide | the tide curve with the times and heights of high and low water, and whether it is rising or falling | | Wind | speed, gusts and direction | | Waves | wave height, period and direction | | Weather | air temperature, sky, rain and the chance of rain | | Pressure | air pressure and whether it is rising, steady or falling | | Water temperature | the temperature of the water | The shaded parts of the graphs are the night. Read any hour Drag a finger across the graphs, or tap an hour: a line follows your finger and every section shows its value for that hour. Drag back to Now to return to the current hour. On today, the sections show the current hour. On another day, they show the lowest and highest value of that day until you pick an hour. Good to know - All times are the local time of the place, not of your phone. - The line at the bottom of the screen tells you how fresh the weather is: Where the forecast comes from and how fresh it is - A section without data says so — for example "Tide data isn't available for this area yet." More: The forecast shows no data or looks outdated - Units: Change the units The forecast is an estimate, for personal recreational use. It is not a navigation or safety service: check the official local sources and the conditions around you before you go out.

Choose the place for the forecast

The forecast is always for one place, named at the top of the Forecast tab. This guide shows you how to change it. From the Forecast tab 1. Tap the button in the top right corner of the Forecast tab. 2. Choose the place in one of three ways: - type a name in Search location and tap a result — a place or one of your saved spots; - tap the map; - tap the arrow button to use your current position. 3. Tap Use this location. From a saved spot Open the spot on the map and tap Forecast. The arrow in the top left corner of the forecast brings you back to the spot. From any point of the map Touch and hold the point on the map, then tap Forecast in the sheet: Drop a pin on any point The first time If the app may use your location, the first forecast is for where you are. If not, you see "Choose a forecast location" — tap Choose location and pick a place. Good to know - The forecast does not follow you. "Your location" is the place where you were when it was set. After you travel, choose your current position again. - The app remembers the chosen place the next time you open it. - Choosing a place for the forecast saves nothing on the map. To keep a place, save it as a spot. - All times in the forecast are the local time of the chosen place. - Places close to each other (within about a kilometre) share the same weather. If it does not work "Location is off for this app" when you tap the arrow button — the app has no access to your location: Location does not work

The bite score and the best fishing windows

The bite score is the app's estimate of how good an hour is for fishing at the chosen place. The score of an hour - A number from 0 to 100 for every hour of the day. - 50 is a typical daylight hour. Most hours fall between about 30 and 85. The score is a scale, not a percentage chance of catching a fish. - Next to the number is a word: Great, Good, Fair or Slow. You see it in the Bite score section of the forecast, as a row of bars — one per hour. What goes into it - Tide — a rising tide and moving water score higher; slack water adds nothing. - Dawn and dusk — the hours around sunrise and sunset score highest. - Wind — only ever lowers the score, the more the stronger it blows. - Rain — a light shower adds a little; drizzle and heavy rain add nothing. - Moon — a small bonus when the moon is overhead or underfoot, and around the new moon. - Overcast sky in the daytime — a small bonus. Air pressure, water temperature, waves and air temperature are shown in the forecast but are not part of the hourly score. The score is not specific to a species. If some data is missing, the score is worked out from what is there. Away from tidal water there is no tide part; without weather data the app says "bite score uses tide & sun/moon only". The best fishing windows A window is a stretch of consecutive hours with a high score: at least one hour of 70 or more, together with the hours around it that stay at 50 or more. - A window is usually two hours or longer; there is no upper limit. - A day can have several windows, or none: "No strong windows today". - The number at the end of the row, for example 70 peak, is the best hourly score inside the window. - A Caution line warns about strong wind or swell during a window. It is our guide, not an official warning. The number in the ring of each day The ring on each day is the score of the whole day, out of 100, built from that day's daylight hours. - A typical day is in the low 60s; 90 or more is an exceptionally good day; under 25 is a poor one. - The ring is blue from 50 up and grey below. - Rough weather limits the day's score whatever the tide and the moon — strong wind, gusts, heavy rain or, at sea, high waves. - A faded ring means the day was scored without weather data — from the tide, sun and moon only. - A dash instead of a number means there is not enough data to rate the day. The score on a catch A logged catch shows the score for the moment and place it was caught, with a word — Great, Average or Poor: Open a catch and read its conditions Good to know The score is an estimate built from the tide, the sun, the moon and the weather. It cannot promise fish, and it knows nothing about the local rules or the safety of the water. Official weather warnings never change the score — read them separately: Official weather warnings

Official weather warnings (United States only)

In the United States the app shows official weather warnings from the National Weather Service (NWS) and tropical storms from the National Hurricane Center (NHC). Warnings are free for everyone. There are no warnings in the app for other countries. Weather warnings come with an update of the app. If you do not see them — for example there is no Weather warnings row under the layers button on the map — update Fishing App in the App Store. Where you see them - Forecast — at the top of the day, one card per warning, the most serious first. An amber dot marks every day a serious warning touches. - A saved spot and a dropped pin — the warnings that cover that place. - The map — the areas of the most urgent warnings and the active tropical storms. Read a warning A card shows the name of the warning as the agency gave it (for example "Small Craft Advisory") and when it was issued. Tap Details to read the agency's own text, including What to do. - An amber card is a warning or one of the advisories that matter most on the water. - A blue card is a watch, another advisory or a statement. A warning disappears when the hazard ends. Warnings on the map 1. On the Map tab, tap the layers button in the top right corner. 2. Under Layers, turn Weather warnings on or off. It is on by default. What is drawn: - amber areas — Tornado, Severe Thunderstorm, Flash Flood, Special Marine and Extreme Wind warnings; - active tropical storms and hurricanes — the current position, the forecast track and the cone. Other warnings, such as a Small Craft Advisory, are not drawn on the map. To see every warning for a place, touch and hold the map there and read the cards in the sheet, or open the forecast for that place. The areas on the map cannot be tapped. The line under the layers button | The app says | What it means | |---|---| | Storms and urgent warnings · as of 10:20 PM | The map is up to date as of that time. | | Warnings shown for the US only | The part of the map you are viewing is outside the United States. | | Warnings unavailable | The warnings could not be loaded — no connection, or the data is too old to show. | | Zoom in to see every warning | There are too many warnings in view to draw all of them. | Important - No warning in the app does not mean the water is safe. The app never says "all clear": a warning may be missing because it could not be loaded, because it is not a type the map draws, or because the place is outside the United States. - The app is not a real-time alert service and does not send notifications. A warning can reach the app some minutes after it is issued. - Always check the official sources — in the US, weather.gov and your local marine forecast — and the conditions around you before you go out.

Where the forecast comes from and how fresh it is

What the forecast is built from - Weather — wind, rain, sky, temperature, pressure — and tide, waves and water temperature come from a weather data provider, for the point you chose. - Sunrise, sunset and the moon are calculated on your phone. - The bite score is worked out in the app from the tide, the sun, the moon and the weather: The bite score and the best fishing windows - Official weather warnings come from the US National Weather Service: Official weather warnings How far ahead Seven days: today and the next six. Past days are not shown. Where it works - The weather and the bite score are available for any point you can choose on the map. - Tide, waves and water temperature are shown where the data exists for the point. Where it does not — for example on most inland waters — the section says so ("Tide data isn't available for this area yet.") and the bite score is worked out without the tide. Tide heights and times in the app are a guide for planning a fishing trip. Do not use them for navigation. How often it is updated - The weather is refreshed automatically about once an hour while you use the app — when you open the forecast, when you come back to the app, and when the connection returns. - There is nothing to pull or tap to refresh. To get the newest data, make sure the phone is online and open the Forecast tab again. - The app does not update the forecast in the background. The line at the bottom of the forecast | The app says | What it means | |---|---| | Weather updated 3:24 PM | The weather is current. | | Weather outdated (3:24 PM) - refreshing when possible | The weather is more than a few hours old and the app is trying to get a newer one. | | Offline - live updates paused · weather from 3:24 PM | The phone is offline. You see the last weather the app loaded. | | No weather data yet - bite score uses tide & sun/moon only | No weather could be loaded for this place. | Without a connection The forecast for places you opened while online stays on your phone for up to seven days. As the saved weather gets old, the coming hours are scored from the tide, the sun and the moon only, and the rings of those days are faded. More: Use the app without a signal · The forecast shows no data or looks outdated