Fishing related mobile Apps?

Just got an android phone and loading it up with the Apps that I expect might find useful in my outdoor pursuits.

So far:

Navionics
Lakefinder
Weather Underground
Radar Now!

What others do you guys have that you’ve found useful when out on the water or in the woods?

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Just got an android phone and loading it up with the Apps that I expect might find useful in my outdoor pursuits.

So far:

Navionics
Lakefinder
Weather Underground
Radar Now!

What others do you guys have that you’ve found useful when out on the water or in the woods?

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Those are the top ones right there. I use Navionics all the time. Its best if you have a cigarette lighter style adapter outlet in the boat and a charger so you don’t have to worry about the battery dying on you. The GPS will run continuously when the app is open and chew up your charge fast.

If you want to keep a fishing log, there are several out there. However I have only found them useful for recording info that I can transfer to my personal fishing log, because none of them have very good analytical tools.

Pug,

I’ve never kept a log but would like to give it a try this year. Do you use a PC application of some kind to give you the analytical capability you mentioned?

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Try one called “River Flows” — It will give you the current water levels and is very accurate and up to date.

Enjoy your new phone, they really are great! I tried the Navionics app and after several months of using it I gave up on it. It is nothing like real gps chips in the boat or hand-helds. It is not worthless but pretty close to it in my opinion. Weather bug elite is one app I do recommend getting. It costs $3.95 I believe. It has all of your typical weather stuff but the radar and maps are top notch. The big thing for me with Weather Bug elite over the free apps is the barometric pressure live mapping. When it comes to fishing I always look at this first. You can zoom in supper close to see the breaks and fronts coming through, or look at the entire US or world for that matter. Hit the play button and watch the info change right before your eyes just like they have on tv. Of course it has the detailed radar, lightning strikes, gps tracking if you would like, cloud cover, high temps, low temps, winds….yada yada. I have had different android phones for a couple years now and this is the only fishing related app that I use. The Radar Now is a good simple app but it just to low quality for my liking.

Does it have lightning strikes?

Cabelas has an interesting logging app. Need to look into it more but it’s free…

Good info so far. The WB Elite does have lightning strike info. At 1.99 its way cheaper than the associated hardware and subscription to add this data to your lowrance or humminbird.

Evernote. allows you to keep notes and syncs them with your computer so you have access to them where ever you are. I keep one note for fishing log type info,one for to-do lists and one for shopping list etc. many possibilities

The dnr lake finder app is a good add on.

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I like the Fox 9 Weather app. Can be set for a local zip code and shows radar in motion.

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Pug,

I’ve never kept a log but would like to give it a try this year. Do you use a PC application of some kind to give you the analytical capability you mentioned?

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I enter it on the free site I created ProFishingLog.com, however I will admit that even that is not deeply analytical yet. Also, I realize now I could have done a better job making it easier to enter logs.

I plan on revamping the site once I create the app. My intention is to make the app quick and simple to use, but will also sync with the site where you will be able to do more analytical research to discover seasonal patterns and patterns specific to the body of water.

I plan on releasing the app spring early summer so people can start entering logs this year. Then I’ll code the syncing so next year you can start researching trips from this year.

I have a moonrise/moonset,sunrise/sunset apps that i always reference when out muskie fishing. There are a dozen of them out there. The one i downloaded is simply called “moonrise”. There are others that show majors and minors that cost a little more, but this one is really simple and was like $0.99 i think.