Multi-Rod sessions

What is Multi-Rod mode?

Multi-Rod mode lets you track a session where you are fishing with 2 or 3 rods simultaneously. Each rod gets its own catch button and its own cast timer, so your data stays accurate even when you have multiple lines in the water at the same time.

Prerequisites

Multi-Rod mode depends on the Rod Roost feature. Before you can use it you must have both enabled in App Settings:

1. Open Profile → App Settings.
2. Scroll to the Session Features section.
3. Enable Rod Roost — this allows you to store and manage multiple rod setups within a session.
4. Enable Multi Rods — this unlocks the simultaneous rod count selector when creating a session.

Both toggles must be on for multi-rod sessions to work.

Setting up a multi-rod session

When creating a new session:

1. Tap New Session and fill in your venue and session details as normal.
2. In the rods section, add each rod you plan to fish with. Give each one a name (e.g. Ledger Rod Hook 14, Float Rod – Hook 16). These become your rod setups.
3. Below your rod list you will see a Rods fishing simultaneously selector. Choose 2 or 3 depending on how many rods you will have in the water at any one time.
4. Start the session.

The number you select determines how many lines are active at the start of the session. If you added more rods than that number, the extras sit in your Roost — ready to be swapped in when you change rigs.

During the session — catch buttons

Instead of a single catch button, you will see a grid of purple buttons, one per active line:

• Line 1, Line 2, Line 3 — each button shows the line number and the rod name assigned to it.
• Tap the button for the line your fish came from. The catch entry screen opens pre-attributed to that rod.
• Log the species and weight as normal and confirm. The catch is saved against the correct rod.

If you need to correct which rod a catch is attributed to after the fact, tap the pencil icon on any catch entry and use the rod picker to reassign it.

During the session — cast timers

Above the catch buttons you will see the Cast Timers section with a compact card for each active line:

• Each card shows Line 1 / 2 / 3, the elapsed time for the current cast, and either a Cast Out or Reel In button.
• Tap Cast Out on a card to start timing that line. The session timer also starts automatically if it has not already.
• Tap Reel In to stop that line's timer. The cast duration is recorded.
• When you log a catch on a line, that line's timer resets automatically.

Each line timer runs independently, so you can have all three lines fishing with their own elapsed times showing at once.

Swapping a rod onto a line

If you change a rig or move to a different rod while fishing:

1. Tap the ⟳ icon in the top-right corner of that line's purple catch button.
2. A panel appears listing the rods currently in your Roost (not fishing).
3. Tap the rod you want to move onto that line.

The catch button updates to show the new rod name. The cast timer for that line continues unaffected.

The rod you swapped off moves into the Roost automatically. Rods in the Roost are shown in the greyed In Roost (Not Fishing) strip below the catch buttons.

Voice commands in multi-rod mode

The Voice Entry button works in multi-rod mode with line-aware commands:

What you say	What happens
"Line 1 Roach 2lb"	Logs a Roach at 2lb against Line 1's rod
"Line 2 Bream 4lb 8oz"	Logs a Bream at 4lb 8oz against Line 2's rod
"Cast out line 2"	Starts Line 2's cast timer
"Reel in line 1"	Stops Line 1's cast timer
"Cast out"	Starts all line timers simultaneously
"Reel in"	Stops all line timers

Voice command grammar is evolving — if a command is partially recognised, the catch entry sheet opens with whatever was understood so you can finish it manually.

Session statistics and rod breakdown

At the end of (or during) a session, a Catches by Rod breakdown is available in your session summary. This shows total fish, total weight, and a split of every catch across each rod — useful for comparing which approach or swim position produced the most.

Tips

• Add all the rods you might use during the session at setup — it is easier to have extras in the Roost than to add them mid-session.
• The simultaneous rod count cannot be changed once the session has started. If you only end up fishing one rod, the extra catch buttons do no harm and can be ignored.
• Cast timer data from multi-rod sessions feeds into your overall cast analytics the same way single-rod data does.