Pro Feature · Catch Journal + Tackle
Every catch. Every spot. Your spots stay yours.
A private catch journal with AI auto-fill. Waypoints that are private until you choose to share. A tackle logbook that learns what's working. The fishing memory you never had — without giving up your spots.
Free forever · 14 days of Pro on signup · Journal + waypoints + tackle are Pro
What you're tracking
Five tools, one place to remember every trip.
Private Catch Journal
Every catch you log has a private record — completely separate from the public feed. AI auto-fills species, GPS location, and tackle from your photo, so the logging takes 5 seconds.
- ✓AI species ID with regulations lookup
- ✓GPS extracted from photo EXIF
- ✓Tackle detection from the photo
- ✓What worked / what didn't / weather / water clarity
- ✓Promote any private entry to a public feed post when you're ready
Every catch gets a private journal entry — auto-filled from the photo.
Private Waypoints
Drop a pin on any spot worth remembering. Only you see it. Share it with a specific bud via DM, or open it to your trip crew — nothing is ever forced public.
- ✓GPS pin or map-tap to drop
- ✓Notes, icon, and conservation tier
- ✓Share with one bud or a trip crew
- ✓Use as a trip destination or float-plan target
- ✓Catch heatmap with opt-in spot privacy (Pro)
Your spots stay yours — share to one bud, a trip crew, or no one at all.
Tackle Logbook
Photograph your lures, rods, reels — AI identifies what they are. Tag tackle on every catch and the logbook surfaces what's actually working. Build "saved rigs" for one-tap loadouts.
- ✓Photo-based tackle ID
- ✓Tag any catch or journal entry with the gear used
- ✓Per-tackle hit rate over time
- ✓Saved rigs — group your spinner + line + hook + lure into a one-tap preset
Per-item catch counts turn your tackle box into a leaderboard.
AI Tackle Picks
"What to throw today?" reads your catch history, the current season, and what your tackle is actually producing — then picks the three lures most likely to land a fish now.
- ✓Sonnet 4.6 picks from YOUR box, not a generic catalogue
- ✓Reasons each pick — month, season, species you're catching
- ✓Ranks by historical catches first, then seasonality
- ✓Updates as you log more catches with tackle linked
"What to throw today?" — three picks with reasons, ranked by what's worked.
Lifetime stats + trophy case
Species life list, personal bests by species, average size trend, conservation score — your fishing year, summarized.
- ✓Species life list (every species you've caught)
- ✓Personal best per species — weight, length, photo
- ✓Conservation score — releases vs. kept ratio over time
- ✓Year-over-year summary cards
Your spots stay yours
Three privacy layers, with a hard wall between private and public.
Three layers of privacy
- ▸Journal entries: completely private by default — never on the feed unless you flip them
- ▸Waypoints: completely private by default — share to specific buds or a trip crew
- ▸Feed posts: pick public, buds-only, or "location hidden" so the catch shows but the spot doesn't
Why Fishbrain's model isn't enough
- ▸Fishbrain requires location sharing to contribute to the heatmap
- ▸You can't log catches privately without giving up your spots
- ▸A "private mode" that only hides the location is still surfacing the catch
- ▸MyFishingBuds keeps a hard wall: journal is journal, feed is feed
Build a fishing memory worth having.
Every new account starts with 14 days of full Pro — journal + waypoints + tackle logbook — no credit card.
Try Pro Free for 14 Days →After 14 days, accounts drop to Free unless you subscribe at $12.99/mo or $129.99/yr.