Every fishing app rates your day. None of them asked you.

Ask five anglers what turns fish on and you'll get five answers: the tide stage, the moon and its solunar majors and minors, barometric pressure on the move, the wind laying down, the swell backing off, fresh rain colouring the water. Here's the honest bit — they can all be right, on their own water, for their own species. What loads the wharf on a spring tide flat does nothing up the estuary. There is no universal "good fishing day", and any app that pretends there is, is guessing.

First, the go / no-go call. You set your own bands for the conditions that limit you — wind, swell, and rain — from ideal through rough to flat-out unfishable. Fifteen knots is a write-off in a kayak and a decent day in a hardtop, so your numbers are the ones that count. A day that breaks one of your limits can never be dressed up as a good day — and the app still shows you the score AND the warning side by side, because forecasts get it wrong and you're the one standing at the ramp.

Then the bite call. You weight the fish-catching conditions by how much they matter to your fishing — tide, solunar periods, pressure, moon phase. Live by the tide? Crank it up and the tide drives your ratings. Think moon phase is fairy dust? Turn it down and it barely moves the needle. Every best-times rating and entry recommendation in the app is then measured by your ranking — not a hidden formula, not a one-size average angler who doesn't exist.

Haven't set it up? Sensible defaults apply and everything still works — it just isn't yours yet.

The strongest signal isn't a prediction at all — it's your own record. Every catch you log stores the real conditions at that moment: tide stage, moon, weather, season. The app compares a coming day against the days you ACTUALLY caught, weighted by what you rate — no hardcoded idea of "good", because what matters is what your fish were really caught in. With App Pro it goes the final step and ranks your own marks by how well today lines up with their catch history — so it's your diary talking, not an AI making it up.