What finding more fish looks like

Daily guide reports

A fresh report for your lake, every day — where the bite is, what's working, and a game plan broken down hour by hour. This is a real one from Lake Fork: topwater early, then out to the channel swings and ledges.

Today's guide report and game plan — Lake Fork, Texas

Real-time conditions

Live water temp, pool level, wind, and an hour-by-hour bite score that weighs weather, solunar windows, and pool trend — over survey-grade two-foot contours on one of Texas's premier big-bass factories. And it looks a week ahead: every day scored with its best window flagged, so you know the window is Friday 7 to 10 before Wednesday is done.

Live conditions and hourly bite forecast — Sam Rayburn Reservoir, Texas

Survey-grade depth, in 3D

Real bathymetry — not traced contours. Flip on 3D Depth and read the creek channels, ledges, and drains the way the lake actually lays. This is Lake Fork's lakebed, every foot of it.

3D Depth view — Lake Fork, Texas

Submerged structure

Old roadbeds, flooded timber, homesteads, points, humps, and creek swings mapped and labeled so you can fish structure by depth band instead of hunting for it.

Old roadbeds, buildings and flooded timber on the bottom — Sam Rayburn Reservoir, Texas

The lakebed, photographed dry

When a lake draws down, the bottom becomes a photograph. We pull the aerial flown while the water was off it, so the creek channels, roadbeds and hard spots you would normally be guessing at are simply there to look at — bare ground, from above. O.H. Ivie's frame caught 11,286 acres of exposed bed in August 2016. On 131 lakes and counting.

Aerial of the exposed lakebed at a drawdown — O.H. Ivie Reservoir, Texas

The land before the dam, in 3D

The USGS mapped this ground before there was a lake on it. Those sheets — Ivie's were surveyed between 1931 and 1967 — are laid back over the terrain, so you can stand the old river channel up and look at the valley your fish are holding in. 73 lakes carry theirs.

Pre-impoundment USGS topo, in 3D — O.H. Ivie Reservoir, Texas

Fish attractors

State-placed brush piles and habitat sites, straight from the agencies that sank them. Table Rock alone carries 2,441 marked sites — every one of them on your map.

2,441 state-placed attractor sites — Table Rock Lake, Missouri

Mud lines

Satellite-tracked water clarity shows where the mud line sets up — and the forecast slider shows where it's headed — so you can pick the color line you want to fish before you launch.

Mud lines and clarity forecast — Lake Texoma, Texas/Oklahoma

Simulated pool

Set the lake to any level and the shoreline moves with it. Put Fork half a foot over normal and you can see which contour becomes the bank, which flat goes under, and which brush pile ends up at the depth you actually want to fish — before you pick a ramp.

Simulated pool at 400.5 ft, half a foot over normal — Lake Fork, Texas

Routed trip plans

Pick a launch and how long you've got — your guide lays out a timed, routed day: which spots, in what order, when to move, and how long each run takes. Launch to last cast.

A routed 6-hour plan, launch to last cast — Lake Fork, Texas

In your hand at the lake

Straight off the phone, on the water — full 3D depth, every contour, your plan, one thumb away. Complete understanding of the lake is how you find more fish.

Your boat on the contours, depth corrected to today's pool — Cedar Creek Lake

3D depth, tilted like you're flying the lakebed — Sam Rayburn

Every contour and drop on satellite — Grand Lake o' the Cherokees

Plan stop 4, staged over a submerged oil well — Lake Fork

The week scored ahead, best window flagged — Lake Fork

Bite score, hourly forecast, and solunar windows — Lake Fork

Today's guide report, next best window on top — Lake Fork

The bottom has stories — we mark them

Old schoolhouses, submerged oil wells, railroad grades, flooded timber, and agency brush piles with type, depth, and install year. The stuff that holds fish, named and on your map.

The old schoolhouse on the bottom, ~6 ft — Lake Tyler

Old railroad grade through flooded timber — Lake Holbrook

Brush pile: hardwood trees, 14 ft, installed 2019 — Grand Lake

Concrete rubble attractor on a hump — Bois d'Arc Lake

Timber pile off the dam in 3D — Bois d'Arc Lake

Where you are, and how deep it really is

GPS puts your boat on the contours in real time, so you can see the ledge you are easing onto instead of guessing at it. And every depth is corrected to the lake's pool level today: when the water is down four feet, a 17-foot hump reads 13, the same number your depthfinder is showing you.

Log it, and the lake gets sharper

Log your catches with the bait, the spot, and what they hit, plus action and after-action notes from the day. Every entry sharpens your own read on where the big ones are holding and what they are hungry for, trip after trip.