About It’s a Fishing Day
It’s a Fishing Day answers one question for every public access point we cover, from the Chesapeake Bay to the Gulf, the Pacific coast, the Great Lakes, and the trout rivers of the Mountain West: is today a good day to fish, and for what?
We do it by combining live water and weather conditions from federal agencies with each state’s own fishing regulations into a single 0–100 fishing-day score per species per location. Every location gets its own page with a full conditions dashboard, the day’s best species to target, and current regulations.
What we aren’t
We aren’t a travel blog. We aren’t a tournament site. We don’t write “10 Best Fishing Spots” listicles or accept payment to rank access points. The only thing that determines where a spot shows up in our daily ranking is the live data.
Editorial integrity
Local charters, guides, and bait shops can list their businesses with us. Those listings appear in a clearly-labeled section on relevant location, state, or water-body pages. They never reorder our scoring, rankings, or “best spots today” lists. The alternatives sold their integrity to ads and affiliate links; we won’t.
Coverage
We currently cover 489 public access points across 50 states, 15 water bodies, and 50 target species. The Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries remain our flagship region — the Atlantic coast, Delaware Bay, the tidal Potomac under PRFC jurisdiction, and western-Maryland freshwater from Deep Creek Lake to the Gunpowder Falls trout fishery — and from there we extend to the Gulf and South Atlantic, the Pacific and Great Lakes, Hawaii’s reefs and flats, and the blue-ribbon trout rivers and reservoirs of the Rockies.
We add public access points as we verify them. Suggestions welcome at [email protected].
For business owners
Run a charter, guide service, bait shop, marina, or lodging business along one of these waters? See our For Businesses page for listing options.
Contact
Something wrong on a location page? Know a public access point we should add? Want to list a business? Email [email protected].
Related
- Methodology — how the fishing-day score works
- Data sources — where the numbers come from
- Privacy — short version: we don’t collect anything
- itsabeachday.com — sister site for swim conditions