Species Codex
The Species Codex
Every species you have caught, and what you know about catching it.
What it is
The Species Codex is your own record, per species. It opens on one plain number: how many species you have caught. Not how many exist in your country, but how many you have actually landed and logged.
Each species gets its own page, built from your own catches: your photos of it, how many you have caught, the first one, your personal best, the methods that worked, and the patterns and conditions those catches happened in. It grows every time you log a fish.
It counts what you caught
That is the whole discipline of it. The Codex tells you that you caught one, on this date, this size, on this method, in these conditions. Everything on the page came out of your own logbook.
Species that aren't on the list
The species list is worldwide: a curated list of angling species grouped by fishing region, with local names and nicknames searchable, and the species of your own waters ranked first. One fish is one species everywhere; the local names sit under it as alternatives.
If you catch something the list misses, add it. It gets a card of its own in your Codex, labelled as yours, and it stays entirely private to you until it is reviewed.
An empty Codex has something to do
If you have just installed the app, the Codex offers to import your old catches from photos, GPX, KML or CSV, and fills itself in from a decade of pictures you already have.
Where it leads
From a species page you can turn what you know into something other anglers can read: write a Local Intel piece about fishing that species in an area you know, or share a post with the photo, the count and the pattern.
It is a progression system, and deliberately not the main event. The main event is still the fishing.
Get the app
The Species Codex is part of the free app on the Apple App Store and Google Play. Import your old photos and it fills itself in.