Know before you go.
Live flows, water temps, dam schedules and a plain-language briefing for the waters you fish. OUTFISH reads the river so you don't drive to find out.
The water near you, live.
Live USGS gauges
Your briefing, right now
Caney Fork
23,417 tips, cited to the second.
One screen. Every water you fish. Then a briefing that tells you where to stand.
Your waters, one glance
Flow, trend, water temp, wade or float band, weather, moon, drive time. Grouped into your areas: the Blue Ridge, the Ozarks, the Catskills, central Pennsylvania, the Front Range, Montana, the Pacific Northwest — wherever you fish.
Written from the live numbers
What the river is doing, when the dam runs, where to be at first light and what to tie on. On demand on Float, every morning at 5:30 CT on Guide.
23,417 tips, cited to the minute
Distilled from 21 shows the field actually listens to. Every card names the speaker, the episode and the minute, matched to your species, season and water.
When your river turns on
Guide tier. Every 30 minutes in daylight the engine checks your waters and emails you the moment one flips into its band and holds.
Fourteen days of context
Flow and temperature trends on every card, a live gauge map by state, and a coverage engine that keeps finding new sources as waters are added.
The cabinet and the calendar
Your rods and rigs, your trips with countdown intel, and a fishing log the engine reads back into your next briefing. Add any gauged water in the country and the engine researches it.
Start on the bank. Get in the water when you're ready.
- Conditions board, 3 rivers
- Live flow, temp and weather
- Top 10 Tips
- River pages: gauge and map
- Unlimited rivers and areas
- Full river pages: hatches, stretches, guides, shops
- The complete Tips library
- Trips, gear cabinet and log
- Weekend-preview briefings
- Everything in Wade
- Midweek and weekend briefings
- 8 on-demand briefings a month
- Trip countdown updates
- Photo logs (voice notes coming)
- Everything in Float
- Daily 5:30 AM CT briefing
- Unlimited on-demand briefings
- The Guide, your AI guide
- GO alerts by email when your river turns on
More than two hundred waters with a live page.
Straight answers.
What is OUTFISH?
OUTFISH is a fly-fishing intelligence service. It reads live river gauges, dam release schedules, water-temperature sensors and the weather for the waters you fish, and writes a plain-language briefing each morning: go or stay home, wade or float, when to be on the water, where to put in, what to tie on, with directions to the access.
Which rivers does OUTFISH cover?
Any water with an active USGS gauge, in all fifty states, can be added to your board. The registry ships with more than two hundred curated waters across the country — tailwaters like the Bighorn, the White River, the South Holston and the Green below Flaming Gorge; freestones like the Madison, the Deschutes, the Delaware and Penns Creek; the Smokies and the Catskills; warmwater rivers in the Ozarks, Texas and the Midwest — each with wade and float bands, hatches, access points and safety notes. Every one has a public page at out.fish/water.
How does OUTFISH know when a dam is generating?
It reads the operator's published release schedule — TVA, the Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation and the utilities that run the dams — and the gauge below the dam. The gauge outranks the schedule for what is in the river now; the schedule owns the forecast. Rising water at a tailwater gauge is treated as the wade window closing, never as a positive.
What is in the daily briefing?
One call per day for your best water: the read on what the river is doing, the stretch and access with directions, the window, drive time from your home base, the target species and what is hatching, flow and temperature, the sky, a rig built from the gear you own, one field tip from the library cited to the show, the one thing that would change the call, a backup water, tomorrow's outlook, and why the other waters you track were passed over.
Is there a free plan?
Yes. Riverside is free: a conditions board for three rivers with live flow, temperature and weather, the top tips, and river pages with the gauge and map. Wade ($15/mo), Float ($25/mo) and Guide ($50/mo) add unlimited waters, the full tips library, trips and gear, briefings, GO alerts and The Guide. Every paid plan starts with seven days free.
What is The Guide?
The Guide is a conversational fly-fishing guide on the Guide plan. It answers with your live gauges, your gear cabinet, your fishing log, the water's dossier, today's weather and sunset, and the tips library, and it cites its sources. Ask it what to bring for two hours before dark on the river closest to you and it plans inside that window.