Intelligence — understanding your fishing data

Intelligence is accessible from the main navigation (or from your customised navigation bar — see Customise the navigation bar). At the top of the screen a data strip shows your total sessions logged, total catches, and how many months of data you have built up.

How much data is needed?

Intelligence requires a baseline of completed sessions before pattern detection activates. Until that threshold is reached, a message tells you how many more sessions are needed. You can still see the Today's Fishing Plan and planning tools during this time, but the deeper pattern charts and predictions require a solid baseline to be meaningful.

Today's Fishing Plan

The first and most prominent section is Today's Fishing Plan. This is a seasonally aware recommendation card that uses your recorded history to suggest where to go, what to use, and when to fish. It is a history-based planning aid, not a forecast or a promise of results.

How it works

The plan compares your session history with the current season and month and — if you set today's conditions — narrows the data further to sessions recorded in similar weather. It then surfaces the four recommendations with the strongest recorded catch rates in that filtered set:

• Best Venue — the water with the highest recorded catch rate among comparable sessions
• Best Rod Setup — the tackle type that has produced the most catches per hour in similar sessions
• Best Bait — the hookbait with the highest catch rate in comparable conditions
• Peak Window — the time of day (dawn, morning, afternoon, evening, or night) when your catch rate peaks for this season and weather

Each recommendation shows a catches-per-hour figure and a confidence indicator (one to three dots) reflecting how much relevant history supports the observed pattern.

Setting today's conditions

You can provide the current weather in three ways:

• My Location — tap to let the app detect your GPS position and pull live weather automatically
• Postcode — type a postcode to pull live weather for that area
• Venue — select one of your saved venues (if it has a postcode or map pin) to pull the weather at the water

Once detected, the weather condition and temperature are pre-filled. You can also select the weather condition manually from the chip picker (Sunny, Partly Cloudy, Overcast, Drizzle, Light Rain, Rain, Windy, Foggy) and enter a temperature in Celsius. Changing these values instantly updates the plan.

The plan header shows the current season with a colour-coded badge (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter) and the total number of matching sessions the recommendations are drawn from.

Save the plan for your next trip

Today's Fishing Plan can be saved as a named Session Plan. Where the plan editor supports them, review or adjust practical details such as the venue, tackle, bait, alternatives and notes before you save. The full workflow — including reuse and the boundary around historical recommendation evidence — is explained in Learn how to create and use a session plan. Saved plans are managed from Using the Sessions workspace.

Plan your week

Plan your week provides a seven-day weather forecast with a fishing-condition score for each day. Weather describes expected conditions; personal recommendations use your own recorded Coarse sessions where relevant evidence is available. Neither is a promise of a catch.

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The seven-day fishing forecast in Plan your week, with daily weather and fishing-condition scores.

Set the weekly location with Use my location (GPS), Postcode, or a saved Venue. GPS and postcode provide general weather for the selected location. Choosing a saved venue shows the forecast for that venue.

Each day shows its forecast and one of the current scores: Good, Fair, Tough, or No Data. The score is a planning indicator, not a catch prediction. No Data means there is not enough usable evidence to produce a score.

Open a day to review its forecast and any available personal recommendations, such as venue, rod setup, bait, or peak time. Which recommendations appear depends on the history and evidence available for those conditions. Past patterns show associations in your records; they do not establish causes or guarantee results.

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Open a day to review its forecast and available personal recommendations.

Best nearby venues

Best nearby venues appears when the weekly location is set with GPS (Use my location) or Postcode. It compares your own saved, mappable venues within the selected 25-mile or 50-mile radius. The chosen location is the distance anchor; each venue is evaluated using its own forecast. This is not a directory of all nearby fisheries.

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Best nearby venues compares saved venues using each venue's own forecast.

Use the optional Focus species filter to narrow the venue comparison to a species. Venues without saved location data cannot be mapped or evaluated and are left out; mappable saved venues outside the selected radius are also excluded. If no saved venues meet those criteria, there are no nearby results to compare.

The best-day marker belongs to Best nearby venues: it identifies the best-ranked day in that venue comparison. It does not mark a best day in the seven-day forecast.

If the weekly view offers Save plan, it saves a Session Plan for preparation; it does not start a fishing session. See Creating and using a session plan for the planning and save workflow.

Today's Predictions

Today's Predictions are short statements about patterns in your history that may be relevant to today's planning. Examples include the time of day with the highest recorded catch rate, how recorded catch rates vary by season, and how today's weather compares with conditions in past sessions. These describe associations in your records, not what is certain to happen today.

Each prediction shows a confidence indicator reflecting how strongly the pattern holds across your data.

Suggestions

Suggestions are actionable tips generated from gaps or patterns in your data. High-priority suggestions appear at the top and are highlighted. Examples might include enabling bait tracking to add detail to future comparisons, reviewing venues with stronger recorded results in comparable sessions, or comparing a different tackle type with your usual choice. These are based on past records and do not guarantee that a result will repeat.

Pattern Sections

Below the planning tools, Intelligence displays a set of detailed pattern charts built from your complete session history. Each section shows catch rate (catches per hour) broken down by a different variable, with a confidence indicator per row.

Weather Patterns

Shows how your catch rate varies across different weather conditions — Sunny, Partly Cloudy, Overcast, Drizzle, Light Rain, Rain, Windy, Foggy. The best-performing condition is highlighted. Each row shows total catches, number of sessions, and catches per hour, so you can see both rate and volume.

Pressure vs Catches

Shows your recorded catch rate grouped by atmospheric pressure band (Very Low, Low, Normal, High, Very High). Compare these results as associations in your session history; they do not show that pressure caused a change in catches. Pressure data is collected automatically when live weather is recorded at session start.

Time of Day Patterns

Breaks your catch rate into five time windows: Dawn, Morning, Afternoon, Evening, and Night. Catch rate is calculated from total catches divided by hours actually spent on the bank during each window across all your sessions. The highest-performing window is highlighted.

Monthly & Seasonal Patterns

Shows your catch rate for every calendar month you have fished, grouped by season. Each row shows total catches, number of sessions, catches per hour, and season. This view makes it easy to spot your most productive months and how your performance shifts across the year.

Tackle Performance

Shows recorded catch rate and average weight per catch broken down by rod setup type (Method Feeder, Pole, Float, Running Line, etc.). Compare the results for each setup in your logged sessions; the setup with the higher catch rate may differ from the one with the higher average weight.

Bait Performance

Shows recorded catch rate broken down by hookbait, drawn from sessions where bait tracking was enabled. Each row shows total catches, sessions fished, and catches per hour. Over time this builds a record of your results by bait and venue; it describes past sessions rather than guaranteeing future performance.

Confidence Indicators

Throughout Intelligence, every recommendation and pattern row shows a confidence indicator — one, two, or three filled dots:

• One dot — based on limited data; treat as directional
• Two dots — a reasonable pattern is emerging
• Three dots — strong pattern backed by substantial data

More relevant sessions can provide additional evidence for a pattern. A three-dot indicator means the observed pattern is supported by more data; it is still a summary of past records, not a guarantee.

Tips for getting the most from Intelligence

• Log every session, including difficult days — sessions with few catches add useful context to the range of results in your history
• Enable weather recording at session start so pressure and condition data is captured automatically
• Enable bait tracking and tackle profiles so those pattern sections populate fully
• Add location details to saved venues so mappable waters can be included in Best nearby venues
• A wider range of sessions — across venues, weather, seasons, and setups — can support more detailed comparisons