Fishing Log: Catch Journal — A private logbook for every catch, spot and bite window

The useful test is whether it keeps spots and catch details private while still building real patterns from them — bait, tide, time, species. Fishing Log: Catch Journal does both: a searchable species picker, a tackle box tied to each catch, private GPS-pinned spots never shown on a public map, and Bite Windows that ranks future days from your own fishing history once you've logged enough catches. Free on Android, coming to iPhone.

Solunar theory holds that fish feed more actively around certain phases of the moon's daily cycle — moonrise, moonset and its transit overhead. It's a traditional, general pattern used across many anglers and waters, not a guaranteed forecast for any one spot. Fishing Log shows the traditional solunar pattern for Bite Windows until you've logged 15 catches, then switches to ranking days using the hours, months and moon phases your own fish actually came on.

It ranks the next 7 days in 2-hour blocks, calculated entirely on your phone with no internet connection needed. Before you have 15 logged catches, it shows the traditional solunar pattern and says so plainly. After 15 catches, it switches to your own record — the hours, months and moon phases your fish actually came on — and shows the specific catches behind each score rather than a black-box number.

No. Tide stage, water temperature and the weather note are fields you fill in yourself at the time of the catch; Fishing Log does not fetch or forecast them. Moon phase is the one condition calculated for you, from the date and time you record. For a tide forecast ahead of a trip, check a local tide table.

Yes. Spots can have an optional GPS pin and notes on access and timing, but they are never shared and never shown on a public map. Sharing a catch as an image is optional and the spot name in that image is also optional; coordinates are never included in a shared catch, which is a deliberate difference from apps built around a public catch feed.

Fishing Log tracks personal bests separately for length and for weight, per species, and flags the moment a new one is set. Tracking both matters because the longest fish of a species caught isn't always the heaviest — a lean, long fish and a short, heavy one can each hold a separate personal record for the same species.

Yes. The free tier saves up to 25 catches (with a way to earn 5 more by watching a short ad, twice a week), unlimited spots and gear, all stats, Bite Windows, the Life List and personal bests, with occasional ads. Editing a saved catch is never limited. Pro adds unlimited catches, AI Insights from your own catch history, logbook backup and restore, CSV export and an ad-free app.

The Life List is a 90-species checklist, marked caught or not, with field notes drawn from FishBase for each species — an idea borrowed from the birdwatching tradition of the same name. Slams are themed groups of species, such as the Black Bass Slam or the Trout Slam, that give anglers a specific multi-species goal to chase across a season rather than chasing size alone.

Once you have 5 or more logged catches, AI Insights produces structured findings about your own best time of day, the tide and moon phase your fish favor, and your most productive spot and bait — each tied to the specific catches behind it. It is built only from your own records and is never compared against other anglers' catches. It is part of Pro and requires consent before your catch data (never GPS coordinates or photos) is sent for the report.