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What an app for fishing spots should do
An app for fishing spots has two jobs, and most apps only do one. The first is helping you find somewhere to fish, a directory of real waters near you. The second is helping you remember and understand your own spots, the exact places your catches actually came from. GilledIt does both, and its core is free to use.
One honest thing up front: GilledIt is not a crowd-sourced heatmap that claims to show you where the fish are biting right now. It gives you a directory of real venues to fish, an interactive map of your own catches, and GPS on every catch you log. That is a spot finder plus a personal spot book, not a promise that strangers have pinned the fish for you.
Find a water: the venue directory
GilledIt includes a directory of fishing venues, thousands of UK ponds, lakes and fisheries plus a growing US directory, with the details that decide whether a water is worth the drive: species, access and location. If you are asking "where can I fish near me", that is the part of an app for fishing spots you actually use.
Browse the fishing venue directory or fishing spots guides to see what is near you.
Map your own: the interactive catch map
This is where a fishing map app earns its place. Every catch you log in GilledIt is plotted on an interactive map, so your history becomes a picture: the productive corner of the lake, the stretch of river that keeps producing, the mark that only works in a certain wind.
Because the map is built from your real catches and their conditions, it is genuinely yours, not a generic overlay. See how it works on the map feature page.
Save the GPS: never lose a spot again
Every catch GilledIt logs records its GPS location automatically, so the swim that produced a good fish is saved to the metre, not to a fuzzy memory. That is the quiet superpower of using GPS for fishing: a year later you can return to the exact spot instead of guessing.
Your locations stay yours. If you would rather not show a precise spot publicly, GilledIt lets you hide the exact location on shared catches, so you can log the real GPS for yourself without handing your mark to everyone.
Start mapping your spots
Find a water in the venue directory, see your catches on the map, or download GilledIt and log your first spot, GPS and all, in under a minute. The core is free to use.
Frequently Asked Questions
It depends on what you mean by a spot. For finding a water to fish, a venue directory like GilledIt's, with thousands of listed fisheries and their species and access, is what you want. For remembering your own productive spots, you want an app that maps your catches with GPS, which GilledIt also does. It is not a crowd heatmap of where fish are biting, and we would rather say so.
Yes. GilledIt's core is free to use, including the venue directory, the interactive catch map and GPS logging on every catch, with no ads.
Yes. Every catch you log records its GPS location automatically, so you can return to the exact spot later and see all your catches on a map. You can also hide the precise location on catches you share publicly.
Yes. GilledIt's venue directory lists thousands of UK fisheries and a growing US directory with species and location details, so you can find waters near you, then log and map your own catches once you are there.
No, and that is a deliberate honesty. GilledIt maps your own catches and lists real venues; it does not claim a live crowd-sourced heatmap of where fish are feeding. What it gives you is a real spot finder and a personal, GPS-accurate record of your own productive water.