Why Bite Intel — your logbook writes itself, the water plays over time

Your logbook writes itself.

Trips record themselves from the dock. Mark a catch, a miss or a raised fish with two taps on your phone. Every one is pinned to the spot, the hour and the water.

After the tournament, when the stories start, open your own track. Where you were. What the water was there. Where you got bit. Where you did not.

The Bite Intel viewer replaying one real Gulf trip. A yellow working track loops back and forth over the fishing ground with labelled pins dropped along it — sailfish, white marlin, blue marlin, mahi mahi — each one sitting on the spot that fish came from, over the GOES-19 sea-surface-temperature composite for that morning. Straight red legs run off the frame: the run out and the run home. — One real trip, replayed over the water as it was that morning — the track the boat ran, and every fish pinned to the spot it came from.

The Bite Intel viewer with the Logbook panel open on the right listing recent catches by species and date, a blue marlin chosen, and the replayed Summer Slam track with its catch pins on the map beside it. — Tap a fish in the Logbook and the map goes to the spot it came from.

The Bite Intel app on an iPhone, offshore with a trip recording. The Quick Catch panel is open over the chart: four buttons across the top — Catch, Missed, Raised, No Activity — with Catch chosen, a list of billfish under them with Blue Marlin ticked, the line “Logged at your current position and time”, and a Log Fish button. The seafloor chart and the depth readout are behind it. — A catch, a miss or a raised fish: the type, then the fish. The spot, the hour and the water come with it.

Play the water over time.

Any layer. Every time step. Scrub it back and watch an edge form, move and hold. Then look at where it is now.

A day or a week on your phone, and on the web as far back as we have it.

The full Summer Slam track over the Gulf on GOES-19 sea-surface temperature the day before the fish were caught, the warm water a broad tongue with a soft edge. — The day before. The warm water is a broad tongue with a soft edge.

The same track and the same layer on the morning the fish were caught, the edge holding where the catch pins cluster at the offshore end of the track. — The day. The pins sit on the edge.

The same track and the same layer the day after, the edge of the warm water moving on from where the pins sit. — The day after. Where it went.

The latest water, in the heat of it.

In a tournament you do not have a day to wait for a chart. Sea surface temperature comes in hourly from GOES-19, and a live five-minute frame covers the Gulf, East Coast and Baja.

When cloud puts a hole in one picture, we fill it from a second source. You are not waiting on the sky.

One map you can read.

Temperature, color, currents, sea height, the edges, the seafloor, the rigs. One tap each, explained in plain words.

Turn on the currents and the measured satellite current moves across whatever layer is under it, so you watch the water set across the temperature break or the color change itself. Sea height shows the eddies, and where the current runs hard around them.

The edge has two sides. We draw it and show you both. Which side the fish are on today is what you go and find out.

Every layer in plain words

The Bite Intel viewer with the Data Layers panel open on the left, its families expanded — sea-surface temperature, fronts, chlorophyll, altimetry, currents and the seafloor — and the replayed trip on the map behind it. — Every layer, one tap, grouped the way you think about the water.

Free records it. Pro shows the water it came from.

Free

Every region at the newest frame. Your trips record and your catches pin, everywhere. No card. No clock.

Bite Intel Pro

The time bar as far back as we have it, the computed layers, the five-minute frame in the Gulf, East Coast and Baja, offline packs, and every trip replayed over the water as it was. $999 a year or $119 a month, one region included.

One region, one year, less than one run's fuel.

In development

Species maps are in the app and marked in development. We are actively working on new ways to read the water, using real trips and catches.

The cockpit of Blue Rush under way: rods standing in the covering board, reels spooled with red line, the white wake behind, and a crew member in a Blue Rush shirt watching the spread.

Built on Blue Rush.

A Viking 72 out of Port Aransas that fishes the whole Gulf. Every trip she has made is in it. When a layer looks wrong, we are standing in the cockpit looking at the water it claims to show.

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