Publishing

A log entry is a real catch with everything that produced it: the species, the method, the length, the date and the season, the moon, the wind, the swell, the pressure, the tide where the water is tidal, and the place.

An angler reading your entry learns what to throw, when to be there, and what the water was doing when it worked.

Your advice could help someone catch their very first fish and turn their first trip into a day they'll never forget.

A catch logged with its conditions is knowledge another angler can fish by.

An entry is one real catch from your logbook, with its conditions, its photos and its location. Entries captured with the app camera can be published any time. While the one-time early-adopter window is open, entries you imported from photos or waypoint exports can be published too.

A Local Intel is what you know about fishing an area or a fishery, written under your own headings: the timing, the gear, the technique, getting in, and what a local angler knows. Any angler can write one, about any water they know, using any photo of any age.

Nothing in your logbook is public until you publish it. You publish one entry at a time, and only the ones you pick. You also pick how each one goes out:

• Free to claim: any angler can claim it, and it stays on their map for five days.
• A single entry — theirs forever, one payment, from $2.99.
• The logbook, live: a monthly or yearly subscription to your bundle of entries plus your free ones.
• The whole logbook, forever: one payment, everything you have published and everything you publish later.
• Local Intel: its own one-off, or its own subscription.

You can unlist anything at any time, from the app or the website. Anyone who already has it keeps what they have.

They get the entry, its photos, its conditions, and its exact location, on their private map in the Fishing Codex app.

The public map is a different thing: it shows a wide area, so people can see where anglers are active before they decide anything.

When you publish an entry, Fishing Codex protects roughly 500 m around it: twelve months for a paid entry, ninety days for a free one.

You can publish as many of your own entries as you like inside your own area. Unlist or delete a listed entry and its protection ends early. Once protection expires, a catch made after that date can be published there.

Fishing Codex takes the standard 15% fee, plus Stripe and card processing fees (anglers typically net around 80%).

You are the seller: Stripe pays each sale straight into your own Stripe account, and the fee comes off the top of the charge.

Prices are yours, from $2.99 up. You can also limit how many people can buy a single-entry listing.

Three steps: create your angler profile, connect Stripe so you can be paid, publish your first entry. Free listings go live straight away, even before Stripe has approved you.