The gaps are printed on the dial
What this won't tell you
Species & Presentation Analyst explains biological plausibility. It does not compete with catch-prediction products. The list below is a chosen editorial stance, not a shortcoming waiting to be fixed. These limits are product rules, not preferences.
- AI-generated bite scores
- Catch probability
- Hotspot maps
- Social catch feeds
- Anonymous crowdsourced locations
- Quietly learning your secret spots
- Automatic exact GPS collection
- Best-lure-today catalogs
- Recommendations with no explanation behind them
- Exact spawning aggregation locations
- Vulnerable-fish targeting
- Species biology written by a general-purpose chatbot
- Reasoning without a cited source
- Cross-app silent tracking
No unreviewed species falls through to generic AI-written text. With no reviewed record for a fish, the app says so and stops.
Catalog knowledge
What is actually known
Enrichment is a ranked queue of lookalike groups, not a race to fill seventy-five encyclopedia pages. A species becomes knowable only when identification, behavior, diet, and seasonal calendar are reviewed together from agency or peer-reviewed sources.
Counting the reviewed overlays…
23 of 111 species carry a reviewed image (6 of them a scientific illustration rather than a photograph). Every one names its publisher, its licence and the diagnostic features the identification rests on. The rest show a plain outline, which marks the space without asserting anything about what that particular fish looks like — an unreviewed picture of the wrong fish is the one error this catalog would find hardest to notice.
Landed · wave 01
High-confusion lookalikes
Field ID collisions that collapse the catalog: trout, kokanee/sockeye, black bass, Morone, cisco/whitefish, goldeye/mooneye, carp/buffalo, gars, bullheads.
Landed · wave 02a
High-use trout
The trout people actually open: brown, brook, lake trout, and steelhead kept off inland rainbow.
Landed · wave 02b
Coolwater predators
Walleye/sauger and the Esox/perch set are the next search targets. They collapse in the field and they drive Quick Read after the opener chips.
Landed · wave 02c
Core panfish
Crappie and sunfish that anglers treat as one pile.
Landed · wave 02d
Remaining sunfish
After the core panfish set, finish the Lepomis/Centrarchus leftovers as one group.
Landed · wave 02e
Catfish
Same family, four different jobs.
Landed · wave 02f
Pacific and landlocked salmon
Keep chinook, coho, pink, chum, and landlocked Atlantic from collapsing into trout or steelhead.
Landed · wave 02g
Remaining salmonids and burbot
Whitefish, grayling, chars, sheefish, and burbot after the trout people actually open.
Landed · wave 03
Recognition-first conservation records
Bull trout, wild anadromous Atlantic salmon and tarpon stay fail-closed. They carry the full four overlays as biological context — knowing what a fish is and what it does is not a targeting layer — but no presentation implication appears anywhere in them, and no weighting rule exists for them.
Landed · wave 04
Remaining catalog
Drum, bowfin, smelt, eel, shad, sturgeons, paddlefish, and suckers after the fish people actually search.
Landed · wave 05
Saltwater inshore and surf
The fish a saltwater angler actually starts with: the ones reachable from a beach, a marsh edge, a bridge or a skiff on a flat. Written first because the four marine water types are only worth having if the inshore ones carry weight.
Landed · wave 06
Saltwater reef and bottom
Structure-oriented species where identification carries legal weight, because bag limits are species-specific and rockfish and grouper are routinely confused. Spawning appears as conservation context only: these are the aggregations that get fished out.
Landed · wave 07
Saltwater offshore and pelagic
Fish read on features rather than structure: temperature breaks, weed lines and current rips. Thermal sourcing is thinner here than anywhere else in the catalog and the records say so.
Landed · wave 08
Coastal sharks
Separated out because misidentifying a shark has legal consequences the rest of the catalog does not carry: several species are prohibited outright, blacktip and spinner are genuinely hard to tell apart, and state and federal rules disagree.
A distinction group, with every required overlay written together. Openers and high-use targets before rare, regulated, or lookalike-only leftovers. We do not fill remaining species with model text. Deferred until the high-use set is knowable: fight, table quality, gear ranges, and live regulations.