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This is built for the people who fish these spots, and it gets better from what you tell us: what’s wrong, what’s missing, what would make it more useful.

Each one opens an email to [email protected] with a few questions filled in.

Something wrong?A score, a reading, a rule or a place that doesn’t match what you see on the water.
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It’s a fishing day

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