CatchKeeper
Species

Decades of knowledge at your fingertips.

What it looks like, what you'd call it here, where it holds, how people catch it and whether it's worth taking home — for every species on your water and more of them every month.

Identification

What is it and what do you call it?

One fish, a dozen names.

The same species is a different word in the next state, let alone the next country. CatchKeeper® leads with the name you'd actually say and keeps the science underneath for when it matters.

  • What it looks like — the marks you'd actually pick it by
  • The name used where you're standing, not just the textbook one
  • Scientific name and classification underneath
  • Search by whatever you call it and still find it
CatchKeeper app — Species • Identification + names
Where and when

Worth being there or not.

Where it holds and when it moves.

Not academic biology. The observable patterns that decide whether it's worth being there on a given tide, in a given month.

  • Habitat, depth and the water it holds in
  • Where it occurs — and whether that's near you
  • Seasonal movement where it's known
  • Behaviour written for the water, not the lecture theatre
CatchKeeper app — Species • Habitat + behaviour
Methods

However you fish.

How people catch it.

The techniques that actually work on this species — and which of the four types they sit under, so it reads the way you fish.

  • Methods that work, ranked by how well they do
  • Covered across line, fly, spear and bow alike
  • Gear that suits the species and the water
CatchKeeper app — Species • Methods
Worth keeping

Rated by the people who ate it.

Worth the trip home or worth the photo?

Not one score from one desk. Every fisher who keeps a fish can rate how it ate and the species picture is what all of them add up to — which is why it gets truer the longer it runs.

  • Rated fresh, frozen and raw — because they're different answers
  • Flavour and texture, scored separately
  • How much work it is to clean and prepare
  • Built from real catches, not one opinion
CatchKeeper app — Species • Consumption ratings
How it grows

Never finished, by design.

A knowledge base that keeps filling in.

Species data is built in layers — researched first, then localised to the water you're standing on. New species and new regions land continually and what's already there sharpens as catches stack up against it.

  • Researched species by species, region by region
  • Localised so the names and the behaviour match where you are
  • Sharpened by what gets logged — every kept fish rates how it ate
  • New water added country by country
CatchKeeper app — Species • Regional coverage
The game fish

Read it before you download it.

A slice of the same knowledge base, open on the web — no account, no app, no wall.

Browse the game fish 179 species
Start your story

Every catch is a story. Yours starts with the next.

Free on iOS and Android. Know when your spots will fire, learn from every catch you log and share it with fishers who get it.