Point your phone at any water. BaitIQ reads the conditions, your location, and the live weather, then gives the exact bait, color, retrieve, and where to cast. Built on real catches, by a bank angler in Alabama.
Every entry below was logged with the AI recommendation that pulled it. Some have photos, some are pure log entries. None are stock.
Slow-roll the grass edge, 4–7 ft. Hit on the second pass off the wind-blown corner.
Bluff wall, 18–22 ft, dead-stick.
Bait pod marked at 30 ft, counted down to 25, steady retrieve.
Brush pile at 12 ft. Pulled four off the same pile.
Front passing. App told me to rethink it. I didn't. My fault.
Rip-rap, retrieve fast with stalls.
No tutorials. No premium gates on the basics. Open it, point it, fish it.
Open Scan. Point at the bank, dock, or shoreline you're standing on. One tap. Live camera, no upload.
Water clarity, cover, structure, light angle, surface activity, and your live weather, all weighed against the regional gamefish for your GPS, in under two seconds.
Exact bait, weight, color, retrieve speed, depth zone, and where to cast. Plain English. Plus a confidence score so you know when to trust it.
Fourteen weather and timing variables, weighted by their proven impact on fish behavior, condensed to a single 0–99 read for your location. No charts to argue with at the boat ramp.
Falling pressure, comfortable water temp, solunar major opening in 12 minutes. Workable wind out of the southwest.
The AI doesn't see a generic lake. It clocks the cover type, structure orientation, sun angle, depth zone, and surface activity, then cross-references your location's regional gamefish and the current weather window.
3/8 oz black-and-blue jig.
Pitch the laydown at the 25-ft cast. Slow-drag, 2–5 ft. Watch the line on the drop.
Backup: chatterbait, ½ oz, chartreuse-white, slow-roll the grass edge.
Bass, walleye, crappie, stripers. Tell it what you're hunting, or let it pick the most likely fish for the water and the day.
“3/8 oz black-and-blue jig.” Specific bait, color, weight, retrieve cadence, depth. The kind of sentence a guide would say standing next to you.
Confidence score on every read. When the photo's unclear or conditions are working against the call, the score drops and the app says so.
Free gets the Bite Score and a basic catch log. Pro unlocks the AI Spot Scan, ranked duels, tournaments, crews, the trophy display, and the rest.
BaitIQ is live on the iPhone App Store. Free to start, Pro upgrade available in-app. Android is on the roadmap.
14 variables: air and water temp, barometric pressure with trend, wind speed and direction, cloud cover, humidity, sunrise and sunset windows, moon phase, solunar major/minor, recent precipitation, and season pattern. Each is weighted by its proven impact on fish behavior. Every recommendation includes the reasoning.
Open the Scan tab, point your phone at the water, tap. BaitIQ reads the cover type, structure orientation, light angle, and likely fish-holding spots. It returns specific casting targets and a bait call, in plain English, with a confidence score.
Yes. Catches, photos, and locations live encrypted in Supabase under your account. We don't sell data, don't run ads, don't share with third parties. Catches log to city or state level, never GPS coordinates. Friends see your username and avatar. That's it.
No. The app stands alone. The book is for anglers who want to understand why the app makes the recommendations it does. They reinforce each other; neither requires the other.
Solo build. Tuned on real catches, not stock footage. If the recommendation is wrong, I want to hear about it; there's a feedback link in Settings. Tight lines, and thank you for trying it.