Questions about Keep Fishing.

Keep Fishing is a private fishing app for Pacific Northwest salmon, steelhead, and trout anglers. It brings water conditions, tides, weather, reports, regulations, runs, stocking, counts, saved-water alerts, private trip notes, map context, custom checklists, and on-water coordination into one place.

PNW anglers who already check gauges, forecasts, tides, marine conditions, stocking schedules, run timing, hatchery returns, regulations, maps, and old notes before deciding where to go. It is built for rivers, streams, lakes, bays, and ocean days where conditions change fast and spot notes are better kept private.

No. Keep Fishing is not built around followers, public profiles, friends-of-friends, public catch feeds, or public spot maps. The contacts side of the app is closer to a private fishing contact list: fishing partners, family, shuttle contacts, and trusted contacts you choose for planning, coordination, and trip details.

Yes. Journal entries, private pins, saved-water notes, and catch history are private by default. You choose what to share, entry by entry.

No. Private means your journal and spots are readable only by you unless you choose to share a specific entry. Your records can sync between your devices and stay backed up without being posted publicly or used for advertising. The full details are in the Privacy Policy.

Sharing is your choice, entry by entry. Your journal stays private by default. Field reports and public reports stay separate from your personal spots and notes.

No. Your journal entries are visible only to you unless you choose to share a specific one.

USGS stream gauges, NOAA weather, NOAA tide tables and currents, NWS National Water Prediction Service river forecasts, DART and Fish Passage Center fish-passage and smolt reports, state or tribal stocking schedules, hatchery returns, return estimates, creel counts where available, regulations where coverage exists, and field reports. Every reading or report should show where it came from.

For each spot you save, you set condition ranges for flow, temperature, turbidity, and depth: too low, low, in shape, high, or too high. The app shows where current conditions sit against those ranges and is built around alerts when saved waters move into the windows you care about.

When you log a trip, catch, skunked day, scouting note, tip, hazard, access note, or field observation, Keep Fishing attaches the relevant environmental picture for that time and place where available: water readings, tides, weather, reports, source freshness, and saved-water range context.

Yes. Build separate reusable checklists for leaving home, getting set up at the water, leaving the water, and getting back to the truck. Start from the default gear and safety lists, then add the boat, shuttle, bait, PFDs, kids, dog, or whatever the day needs.

The app shows readings, forecasts, fishing reports where available, and when conditions move into the ranges you set. Readings can lag, forecasts can miss fast changes, and reports can go stale. What to do with that information is still an angler call.

Trip Watch is a virtual float-plan feature designed to message selected fishing contacts with overdue-trip details and last known location when available. It is not an emergency service and does not guarantee rescue, dispatch, or SMS delivery.

Not by itself. Queuing actions offline is planned, but overdue status messages need a working cell signal to go out. No satellite integration is published yet. If you are heading somewhere remote and solo, carry a PLB or satellite messenger regardless of what app you are using.

Field reports are treated as a separate, non-authoritative source. Your private spots and journal notes are visible only to you and stay separate from public reports.

Request launch updates by email. Covered-water notes and practical product updates will go to the launch list.

Offline support is planned for Journal entries, photos, voice notes, and Trip Watch status updates. Live gauge readings require signal.

Keep Fishing is PNW-first. Some sources have national coverage, but the value is specific to PNW waters, regional coverage, and regional fishing reports. If you fish outside the region, check the coverage list before counting on the first version.

Bug reporting will be available through product support.