Tournament formats
Four ways to compete, all scored on length, all catch-and-release, all running on a weekly cycle so there is always a reason to go fishing this weekend.
Weekly Bags
One species. Five fish. Longest total wins.
The core format. Each week a Weekly Bags tournament opens for a single species — Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Crappie, Red Drum and so on. Log up to five of that species; your total length is your score. Once the bag is full, a bigger fish automatically culls your smallest, so you never have to decide whether to bother submitting.
Slams
Several species. Best of each counts.
A slam asks you to catch a set. The Southeast Salty Slam wants a red drum, a spotted seatrout and a snook. The Freshwater Slam wants a largemouth, a crappie and a bluegill. The Cold Water Slam runs on salmonids. Only your best fish of each species counts, so a slam rewards range rather than repetition — and usually means fishing more than one kind of water.
Series
A species group, over a longer run.
Series tournaments group related species — the Bass Master Series covers largemouth and smallmouth, the Panfish Master Series covers crappie and bluegill — for anglers who would rather chase a season than a week.
Custom tournaments
Your rules, your water, your people.
Build your own: title, format, species set, date range, bag limit — and optionally a geographic boundary. Pick a country or a state, drop a circle around a lake, draw a rectangle, or trace a polygon around exactly the water you mean. Fish caught outside it will not count, and the app tells the angler why before they waste a submission.
Elimination brackets
Last angler standing.
Bracket formats like the Bass Angler Elimination, Trout Angler Elimination, Panfish Angler Elimination and Salty Angler Elimination narrow the field round by round. Miss a cut and you are out.
Records & season standings
The long game.
Beyond any single tournament: all-time Record Holders for each of the 25 species, plus seasonal and annual leaderboards built from tournament placements. Finishing first is worth 300 points, second 200, third 100, fourth through tenth 20, and everyone else 10.
Everything is scored on length
Not weight. Weight requires a scale, a boat, a livewell and a fish that stays out of the water long enough to be weighed — which is exactly the model this app exists to replace. Length can be verified from a photo, and a fish measured on a wet mat is back in the water in seconds.
That single choice is what makes a nationwide, asynchronous, catch-and-release tournament possible at all.
- Total length in inches, measured from the scene
- Bags total the lengths of your best fish
- Slams total your best fish of each required species
- Records boards track the single longest fish per species
- Estimated weight is shown for context but never scored
Boundaries: how to make a regional tournament fair
A nationwide largemouth board is fun, and it is also structurally unfair — a Florida-strain bass in a Kissimmee chain canal and a northern largemouth in a Minnesota lake are not competing on the same terms. The same goes for smallmouth in Ontario versus smallmouth in a Tennessee tailwater.
Custom tournaments exist to fix that. When you create one you can attach a geographic boundary in four shapes:
- Country or state — the simplest option. "Iowa only."
- Circle — a radius around a point. Good for a single lake or a stretch of coast.
- Rectangle — a bounding box. Good for a river system or a county.
- Polygon — draw the shape yourself, for water that does not fit any of the above.
When an angler logs a catch, the coordinates are geocoded and checked against the boundary at the moment they choose tournaments. Ineligible tournaments still appear in the list, greyed out, so it is obvious why the fish does not qualify rather than mysteriously missing.
Achievements and ranks
Tournaments are the weekly hook. The progression system is what keeps people logging fish on a Tuesday evening in November.
- XP ranks — seven tiers, three levels each: Junior, Rookie, Amateur, Pro, Elite, Master and Elite Master.
- Achievement badges — species count, total fish logged, cumulative inches, the Inch Club (20″ through 50″), tournament joins, tournament wins, personal bests, and daily and weekly logging streaks.
- Personal bests — a new PB gets its own banner and ribbon on the catch.
- Season and annual boards — points from tournament placements roll into standings by species and by season.
Common questions
How much does it cost to enter a tournament?
Nothing. Standard tournaments are free to join. Free accounts can run one tournament at a time with a monthly join allowance; paid tiers remove that cap and unlock custom tournament creation. Subscriptions are sold only inside the app through the App Store.
Can I run a private tournament with just my friends?
Yes — that is what custom tournaments are for. You set the title, format, species, dates and bag limit, optionally draw a geographic boundary, and invite people from your followers list or by sharing a link.
How does culling work?
In a Weekly Bags tournament, once your bag is full, a new fish that beats your shortest one automatically replaces it. The smaller fish is marked released rather than deleted, and the cull earns bonus XP. You never have to manage it manually.
What happens when a tournament ends?
Final standings are computed automatically and everyone in the tournament gets a results screen and a notification. Placements convert to XP points that feed your seasonal and annual leaderboard standing.
Do custom tournaments count toward the season leaderboards?
No. Custom tournaments earn you XP toward your rank, but only standard tournaments contribute to the seasonal and annual species leaderboards. That keeps the public boards comparable.
Stop arguing about who caught the biggest one.
Every catch is measured from the photo and checked against the species you claimed. No weigh-ins, no honor system, no driving to a boat ramp at 4 a.m. Just fish, log, and watch the leaderboard move.
Free download. Optional subscription unlocks your full fishing log, weather data and custom tournaments — available only in the App Store.
