GuideHourFISH
Two anglers running a bass boat across open water under an overcast sky
Free on iOS & Android

A guide that already knows the day.

Pick a fish and the Guide pins three areas to start today, on 20,000+ Midwest lakes and rivers. Depth, bait and the hour to fish it — no setup, no homework.

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See how Spot Finder picks today's three areas
20,000+
Lakes & rivers
9
Midwest states
DNR
Survey & stocking records
Free
iOS and Android
AI Spot Finder New

Three areas to start, picked for today.

Pick a fish, or let the Guide choose, and pick today or tomorrow. The Guide reads the lake's depth contours and finds the points, humps, drop-offs, flats and deep holes in them. It picks the three areas most likely to hold fish right now.

What it weighs
  • The DNR survey
  • Stocking
  • The last three days of weather
  • The forecast, hour by hour
  • Water temperature
  • Where the fish should be for the season
The Guide on a tablet beside the Lake Minnetonka depth map: a walleye plan with depth, rig and hours, and three spots pinned to your marks — mid-lake west break, north open break and north east point
One Spot Finder pin opened on the map: the structure, the depth, what to look for in the area and how to work it, with a button to ask the Guide about the spot
Each pin

Where to start

Each pin marks where to start, not an exact spot: it leads you to the right area, and you find the fish there.

The plan

How to fish it

The Guide tells you what depth to fish, the bait or lure to use and in what color, and how to work the area. It also says what to look for when you get there, like a weed edge, fallen timber or hard bottom on your finder.

On the water

Fish it, or move on

Fish where you find it, and move on where you don't. Every spot saves to your map, and you can ask the Guide follow-up questions about it.

Included with Guide and Pro plans.

Scout new water and plan the trip before you launch.

Four screens take you from picking the lake to picking the hour.

The GuideHour map showing lakes near Clear Lake with boat landings and a filtered search

Open on the water

Filter lakes by species, depth, size and boat landings.

The guide answering where to start for walleye on Clear Lake, with the sources it read listed underneath

Ask the guide

Depth, presentation and the hour — plus what it read to get there.

The walleye page for Clear Lake showing stocking history and late-summer bait, lures and depth

Know the fish

Bait, lures, holding depth and stocking history, by season.

The Today sheet showing barometer trend, sun and moon times, feeding periods and a six-day outlook

Read the day

Barometer, sun and moon, and the day's feeding windows.

Offline maps New

Your lake, even with no signal.

Download an area before you leave home, either a few miles around a lake or the part of the map you're looking at.

Saved with the area

  • The map
  • Depth contours where the lake has been surveyed
  • Each lake's species, stocking and boat landings
  • Any special regulations for that water

Comes with you

  • Your marks
  • Your saved Guide spots
  • Past Guide answers and reports, still readable
  • Each with the date it was written, so you know how old it is

Works anywhere

  • GPS
  • Sunrise and sunset
  • Solunar times

Marks on the water

  • Drop new marks
  • Edit the ones you have
  • They sync when you're back in range

Included with Guide and Pro plans.

Special regulations cover only the rules specific to each lake. Check your state's fishing regulations for statewide rules.

GuideHour on an iPhone in Offline Mode near Walker, Minnesota: depth contours on the downloaded map, with May Lake listed as downloaded
Built for iPad & tablets New

The whole lake, with room to plan.

On an iPad or an Android tablet, the map fills the screen and stays live.

  • The Guide, fish profiles, reports and your logbook open in a column beside it
  • Keep panning and zooming the lake while you read
  • Works in portrait and landscape
GuideHour on a tablet in landscape: Lake Minnetonka's depth map fills the screen, with the lake sheet — conditions, a quick read and the fish found there — open in a column beside it
Depth maps

Every contour, before you launch.

  • Surveyed contours and full-color depth shading
  • 3D rendered maps and 3D viewing in MN and MI
  • Outdoors basemap or satellite underneath, with boat landings
  • Contours live in MN, IA, IN, MI and NE — more on the way
Grindstone Lake, Minnesota — surveyed depth contours and depth shading over satellite imagery
Gull Lake, Minnesota — the same contours over the outdoors basemap, with boat landings marked
The Clear Lake sheet showing acres, average and max depth, today's conditions and the species on file
Lake & DNR data

The whole water on one sheet.

  • Acres, average and maximum depth, distance from you
  • Species on file, with how common each one is
  • Surveys, stocking history, water quality and regulations
  • Today's conditions on that exact water
AI fishing report

A daily read on the bite.

  • Written each morning for your water and species
  • The hours worth fishing, and where fish are holding
  • Days ahead with their major and minor feeding periods
  • Regenerate it whenever conditions shift
Today's report for Woodruff, Wisconsin and walleye — assessment, outlook and feeding periods for the days ahead

What the guide reads first.

Three sources, every time you ask — plus your own logbook.

The day

  • Days of weather leading up to now
  • Wind, sky and air temperature
  • Barometric pressure and its trend
  • Water temperature, live where gauged
  • Sun, moon and feeding periods

The water

  • Acres, average and max depth
  • Contours where surveyed — five states today
  • Boat landings and shore access
  • State survey and stocking history
  • Regulations for that water

The fish

  • What it eats, and what works on it
  • The depth and structure it holds on
  • The hours of the day it feeds
  • How that shifts with season and temp
  • Whether it's stocked there, and how heavily

And your own logbook. Log species, counts, bait and hours. Over a season the guide works from how you fish, not anglers in general.

Where it works

Built deep on Midwest water.

Depth contours & 3D beds

Five states

Minnesota Iowa Indiana Michigan Nebraska 3D maps: MN & MI
Lakes, DNR data & species

Nine states

Iowa Indiana Michigan Minnesota Missouri Nebraska North Dakota South Dakota Wisconsin
Guide, report & conditions

Every water we cover

All 20,000+ lakes and rivers in the app.

Out now on iOS and Android.

Free to download. Ask the guide where to start on the water you're headed to.

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