About
Why I’m building Keep Fishing for Pacific Northwest anglers.
Keep Fishing started with a common Pacific Northwest routine: checking gauge pages, weather, tides, fish reports, stocking schedules, maps, access notes, regulations, old notes, text threads, and checklists across too many places. The app brings those pieces together so anglers can follow their water over time, learn from private history, plan future trips, and stay coordinated with fishing contacts when they head out.
Why it exists
The water changes. Your notes should show what happened last time.
The point is not to tell anyone where to fish. It is to keep the practical pieces together: what the water is doing, what the reports say, what your notes show from last time, and how plans change when you head out.
Sources visible
Gauge readings, forecasts, tides, stocking reports, hatchery returns, and run timing show where they came from, so an angler can tell official sources from field reports and personal notes.
Trip notes tied to conditions.
Catches, slow days, water notes, hazards, and photos stay beside the conditions around that trip. The point is remembering what happened on the waters you fish.
Private by default
Journal entries, saved spots, and private pins stay tied to your account. Sharing is a deliberate choice, entry by entry.
PNW fishing focus
Built around the specific logistics of Pacific Northwest fishing: checking whether water is in shape before loading the truck, watching tide and marine conditions, remembering the right gear, keeping the record, and coordinating plans with fishing partners, family, shuttle contacts, or trusted contacts when heading out.
Region
Built first for Pacific Northwest waters.
Keep Fishing is built around Northwest waters: rivers, streams, lakes, bays, tidewater, the Columbia estuary, Puget Sound, and nearshore ocean days. That can mean a coastal river in winter, a trout lake in spring, an estuary tide window, or ocean weather when the season points that way. Salmon, steelhead, trout, cutthroat, and halibut, depending on the season. Coverage will expand as more waters are added, but the first version is rooted in the PNW.
Sources
Every number shows where it came from.
USGS NWIS
Flow, temperature, turbidity, and gage height
NOAA / NWS / CO-OPS
Weather, tides, currents, and watches
NWS NWPS
National Water Prediction Service river forecasts
DART / Fish Passage Center
Fish passage, smolt, and run-timing reports where a water has a linked source
State and tribal fish sources
Stocking schedules, hatchery returns, return estimates, and related fish reports as coverage grows
Field and user-logged reports
Field observations clearly separated from official data and private journal records
Project
A small project from a PNW angler.
Keep Fishing is a solo project from Thalweg Fishing LLC. The business model is product access, not ads or resale of spot notes and catch history.
I started building Keep Fishing after too many mornings with gauge pages, tide tables, hatchery reports, old notes, and text threads open before I even loaded the truck. I wanted one private place to keep the water, the plan, the record, and the contacts together.
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