Fishing journal

A fishing log for every trip, catch, and water.

Write the day down once. It is there when you want to know what happened last time, and it is still there in five years.

Record the trip

Start with the day itself: the water, the date, how long you were out, how you fished, who came along, and the setup you brought. Everything else hangs off it, so when you look back you see a trip, not a pile of entries with the same date.

Short evenings count. So do blank days. If nothing bit, log it anyway. Anglers who keep logs will tell you those entries teach as much as the good ones.

Trip detail in Cast Your Line for Mac: a September morning at Spinney Mountain Reservoir with Dad, a spinning combo, 4 fish of 3 species in 5 hours, the biggest a 15.7 inch brown trout, and each catch listed with its time, length, and whether it was kept or released
A finished trip: 4 fish, 3 species, 5 hours, with Dad.

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Keep every catch

Each fish stays attached to the trip it came from, with its species, the time, a photo, and whatever you measured. Mark whether you kept it or let it go. Even the species is optional.

Open a catch later and you also see where it sits among every fish of that species you have logged: how many, your longest, and the first.

Catch detail for a 10.4 inch rainbow trout: a photo, the date and water, technique Streamer, released, clear sky and 50 degrees from Apple Weather, the trip it belongs to, and totals for all rainbow trout: 44 fish, longest 19.0 inches, first caught April 13, 2024
A 10.4 inch rainbow, released, caught on a streamer.

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Tackle, gear, and what worked

Record the lure, bait, or technique with a catch, and save the setups you fish with so you can attach one to a trip. After a season, each species page adds it up: which waters you catch them in, and what they took.

It is a count of what you recorded. The app does not score lures or predict anything.

Species page for rainbow trout: 44 caught, longest 19.0 inches, first caught April 13, 2024. Where you catch them: Eleven Mile Reservoir 28, Clear Creek 7, Blue River 5, Spinney Mountain Reservoir 3. What they take: Panther Martin 17 fish, Olive Woolly Bugger 10, Nightcrawler 7
Where you catch them, and what they take.

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Weather and notes

One click saves the sky and air temperature from Apple Weather, or type the conditions yourself. Then write what the photo cannot show: what you tried first, and what you would do differently.

Who came along

Record who was there, and you can pull up every day you spent with your dad, your daughter, or the friend who always brings the bad coffee.

Trips you already took

Add past trips from your photos or an old notebook, at a real keyboard. Past trips count toward your ten free trips.

Search and filter your trips

In Trips, search by water, species, person, or lure. Filter trips by year, water, species, or who you fished with, and filter your catches by lure or bait.

It is the quick way to answer the question you actually have: when was I last at Clear Creek, and what was I throwing?

The calendar

A calendar shows the rhythm of a season in a way a list never will: the busy stretches, the long gaps, the month you got out every chance you had. Each fishing day shows its fish count, and a mark for photos or a personal best.

Fishing calendar for August 2026 with six fishing days highlighted, the number of fish on each, and markers for personal bests and photos. Totals below: 6 days out, 6 trips, 18 fish
August 2026: six days out, 18 fish.

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Mosaic

Mosaic lays out your history by what there was most of. Switch between species, places, people, and memories, for this year or all time. It is a way to look around, not a scoreboard.

Mosaic view answering What did I catch, with a tile for each species sized by how many were caught: rainbow trout 44, brown trout 35, brook trout 15, kokanee salmon 13, and smaller tiles for the rest
All-time species, sized by how many were caught.

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Works without signal

A lot of good water has no service. Your journal is saved on your device, so it is there offline. Only weather lookups and map tiles need a connection.

Nobody has to read it

There is no profile, no feed, and no followers. Write the way you would in a notebook you keep in a drawer.

On your other devices

Your journal syncs through your own private iCloud. iPhone and iPad apps are coming soon.

See what a year of entries becomes   Pricing

Start with your next trip. Or your last one.

Available now for Mac. iPhone and iPad coming soon.

Download on the Mac App Store