The Fishing Report
Privacy
The short version: no accounts, no cookies, no third-party trackers, nothing sold to anyone. Your settings live in your own browser; our visit counts are anonymous; a link you share carries the town and boat size it needs to rebuild the report — never a name or phone number.
What stays on your device
Your location, boat size, cruise/burn numbers, map-layer choices, dashboard-card choices, wind unit, float-plan details (vessel, souls aboard, emergency contact) and a random visit identifier are stored in your browser’s localStorage. They never leave your device except as described below, and clearing your browser data removes them.
Anonymous visit counts
Each browser generates one random identifier so we can count visits and returning visitors. We aggregate by day. We do not store IP addresses with it, and it contains nothing about who you are. When you tap a fishing spot, we record the tapped coordinates rounded to roughly 3 nautical miles — enough to see which grounds are popular, never enough to identify a person or a dock.
What a shared link contains
Share links (reports, days, float plans) carry the coordinates (rounded to about 1 km), the town label, boat length, and — for float plans — the route and times. Float-plan personal details (vessel description, souls aboard, contact numbers) are never put in a link. They ride only in the message text you choose to send. Share preview images are rendered on our server and may be cached; they show conditions and a place name only.
Where the data comes from
Forecast, tide, buoy, chart and satellite data come from U.S. government services (NWS, NOAA, NDBC, NCEI) plus Open-Meteo geocoding and OpenStreetMap reverse geocoding for town search. Your browser only ever talks to thefishing.report — our server fetches everything else, so those services never see your visit.
Affiliate links
Some gear suggestions link to retailers (e.g. Amazon) and may earn us a commission at no cost to you. Those sites have their own privacy policies once you’re there.
Contact
Questions, corrections, or anything else: [email protected].