Your fishing journal that learns what works.
Log a catch in seconds. The weather, pressure and river conditions are added automatically. Over time, Pocket Angler shows which flies, times and conditions produce for you, at each of your spots.
No account. Your spots never leave your phone.
Log it in seconds. Learn from every outing.
Built for fly anglers on rivers and stillwaters, especially trout — and just as useful with conventional tackle.
Log a catch in seconds
Photo, species, length, fly and spot — with big, glove-friendly buttons and your usual flies one tap away. It works with no signal, too.
Conditions added for you
Weather, pressure and its trend, wind, sunrise, plus river flow and water temperature from a nearby gauge — for the moment you caught it, even if you log it later.
See what works for you
Your best flies, hours, pressure trends and water temperatures at each spot — based on your own outings, including the blank days.
Every catch remembers the day it came from.
No more trying to recall whether the pressure was dropping or the river was up. Pocket Angler fills it in for the exact time of each catch.
- Weather from Apple Weather, matched to the hour of the catch
- River flow and water temperature from USGS stream gauges
- Logged offline? Conditions are added when you're back in signal
A fly box that knows what catches.
Keep your patterns and sizes in one place, start from thirty classic patterns in a tap, and see how many fish each one has produced.
Know when to go.
Pro turns your journal into a forecast built from your own fishing.
Match scores and best windows
A 0–100 score for how today compares with your best days at a spot, and the best hours in the next three days.
What works at each spot
Flies, times, pressure and water temperatures that produce — always with the sample size, never a misleading chart.
Condition alerts
A heads-up the evening before a window that looks like your best days.
Your spots are yours.
Pocket Angler isn't a social network. There are no feeds, no leaderboards and nothing to share unless you choose to.
Stays on your phone
Catches, photos and spots are stored only on your device. There is no Pocket Angler server.
No account
No sign-up, no email, no login. Open the app and start fishing.
Spots never shared
Conditions are fetched using a location rounded to about 1 km. Your exact spots never leave your phone.
You own your data
Export everything — catches, spots, flies and photos — as a backup at any time. No tracking, no ads.
Questions, answered.
Is Pocket Angler free?
Yes. Logging catches, photos, spots, flies and outings is free forever, with conditions added to every catch and full export. Pro adds match scores, best windows, insights and condition alerts, with a one-week free trial on the annual plan.
Does it work without a signal?
Yes. Everything you log is saved straight away on your phone, with no network needed. Weather and river conditions are filled in automatically — for the time you caught the fish — once you're back in signal.
Where does the river data come from?
Flow and water temperature come from U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) stream gauges. When you save a river spot, Pocket Angler suggests the nearest gauge, and you can change it. Weather comes from Apple Weather and works anywhere.
Why do blank days matter?
If you only record the good days, every pattern looks better than it is. Start an outing when you arrive — or log a past one — and the days you caught nothing count too, so your insights stay honest.
Is it only for fly fishing?
It's designed around fly fishing — fly box, patterns, hatches — but it works just as well for spinning and bait. Log whatever you were using.
What happens to my data if I get a new phone?
Your journal lives on your phone, so export a backup now and then (Settings → Export data) and import it on the new phone. Pro comes back with Restore purchases.
What do I need?
An iPhone with iOS 17 or later.
Know when to go.
Pocket Angler is coming soon to the App Store for iPhone.