The map

The map gives you a visual overview of where you have been fishing. You will find it under Map in the app.

Where you start

The map covers both Norway and Sweden, and it opens on the whole of Norway every time, wherever you were last. That gives you the same starting point whether you are standing by the water or planning a trip at the other end of the country. The view is calculated for the screen you have, with room for the search field at the top and the menu at the bottom, so that the country from Lindesnes to Nordkapp is visible and does not end up behind them. The easternmost part of Finnmark is just outside the edge, one drag away. If you want to go even further out, you can zoom out to the whole of the Nordic region. Both your own places and the reported species are drawn all the way out, as small dots.

The buttons on the map:

• The search field at the top finds lakes, rivers and fish species. If you tap the field before you type, you see your favorites and the places you have searched for recently.
• Plus and minus at the top right zoom in and out.
• The layers symbol and the bookmark just below open the map layers and the favorites.
• The location button at the bottom right shows where you are.
• The information button at the bottom left opens "How to use the map", a short explanation of all the buttons, together with where the map data comes from.

If you tap the location button, the blue dot appears and the map flies there. If the app has not been given access to your location yet, this is the button that asks for it, so that the question comes when you yourself asked to be found. If you have said no to location access before, the app tells you that you can turn it on in your phone's settings.

The dot is shown straight away, and over the next few seconds it tightens as the GPS gets a better fix. If the first reading is so uncertain that it could be off by kilometers, the map stays a little further out and zooms in when the position is certain. If you take hold of the map yourself while this is happening, your view stays where it is.

What you see

• My places: green fishing markers for the places you have fished, including your exact GPS points. Many points close together are grouped into clusters with a number, which you can zoom in on.
• Reported species: where fish have been reported in the shared species data, grouped per water. Shown as markers with numbers, and as a heat map when you are close enough. The markers are drawn to the same design as your own, only in blue.
• Rivers and streams: named rivers throughout the country are drawn as lines you can tap, not as dots.
• Gauging stations (Premium): round, red markers with a wave symbol when you have zoomed in a fair way. In Norway these are the stations of NVE (the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate), in Sweden those of SMHI (the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute), and they are shown in the same way.
• Fishing bans and zones: when you have zoomed in to about the level of a fjord or a village, areas with fishing bans, protected periods and similar rules are drawn as colored areas on the water. An area that does not apply today, because it is outside the period, is drawn with a dashed edge. If you tap inside such an area, the water opens, and the rule is at the top of the panel.

Tap a marker to jump on to the catch, the session or the place it belongs to. If you choose a water, you also see an estimate of the water temperature there.

If you tap one of your own markers, the panel tells you what is behind that particular marker, for example "You have 2 trips and 3 catches here". If the entry is missing an exact point, the marker is on the water's fixed point, and the panel tells you that the location is approximate.

Add from the map

If you hold your finger on a water for a little while, a sheet called Add here comes up. There you choose New catch or Log observation, and the form opens with both the water and the exact point you pointed at already filled in. If you are standing by the water, an entry is then just a few taps away.

You need to have zoomed in a fair way for this to work, and the sheet does not come up when you hold your finger on land. You close it with the cross, by dragging it down or by tapping outside it.

Map type and map layers

The button with the layers symbol opens the map layers. At the top you choose the base map:

• Satellite: aerial photo. Shows rapids, shallows, islets and where the forest ends at the water's edge, that is, where you can actually stand and fish.
• Map: the drawn map with place names and roads.

Below the dividing line, where it says Show details, you turn the layers that are placed on top of the base map on and off:

• My places: your own sessions and catches, with the number of fish on the marker. On by default, free for everyone.
• Reported species: anonymously reported catches and observations from the members who share. On by default, free for everyone. The row also shows the color scale that goes from fewer to more fish, so you know what the heat map means.
• Gauging stations (Premium): gauging stations for water flow and water level, from NVE in Norway and SMHI in Sweden. On by default. Below each reading it says who measured it. Swedish rivers mostly measure only water flow, since the water level there is only measured in the large lakes.
• Depth map (Norway) (Premium): depths in the sea and in lakes, with depth contours and clear depth figures on the lakes. Off to begin with, since the depth shading covers the water surface when you are not looking for depths. The depth data currently covers Norwegian waters only.

If you do not have Premium, the two premium layers are in the list with a padlock, so you can see what is available. If you tap one of them, you go to the page that tells you what Premium gives you.

All the choices are remembered until the next time you open the map. The highlighting of lakes and rivers adjusts automatically so that it is equally easy to see on both base maps.

The compass

The map always faces straight down from above and cannot be tilted. It can, however, be rotated with two fingers, and if that happens by accident, a compass appears below the favorites button. One tap turns the map back to north. If the map is already the right way round, the button is not there.

The map without coverage

The map works without internet. If you lose coverage, lakes, rivers and names are drawn from the map data that is already stored in the app, so you can see which water you are standing by wherever you are in the country. Your own fishing spots and your favorites stay. What others have reported is fetched from the internet, so the reported catches disappear until coverage is back.

The aerial photo and the drawn map, on the other hand, are fetched from the internet, so these two base maps are unavailable for as long as you are without coverage. The map layers menu tells you so. As soon as the connection is back, the base map you had chosen comes back by itself.

Without coverage, the map opens zoomed in some way, where the rivers stored in the app start to be drawn, instead of on the whole of Norway. The overview level has nothing to show when the base map is missing, and a completely empty screen looks as if something has gone wrong. If you lose coverage while looking at the whole country, the view is brought in in the same way.

What you can tap

The rule is simple: if it is highlighted, you can tap it.

• Rivers can be tapped however far out you are zoomed.
• Large lakes, that is, lakes that fill a good part of the screen, such as Mjøsa and Tyrifjorden, can also be tapped at any zoom level.
• Smaller lakes need you to zoom in until they light up blue. Norway has tens of thousands of small lakes, and if they could be tapped before you saw them, a tap next to the river you were aiming at would open a random tarn nearby instead.
• Your own places, the green markers, can always be tapped.

If you tap the map before the lakes have lit up, the message "Zoom in to choose a water" appears at the bottom of the map, so that you know the tap was registered.

Rivers and streams

All named rivers in Norway are drawn in the way they actually flow. Tap anywhere on the river (you do not need to hit a dot), and the same information opens as for a lake: the name, the water temperature, whether it is a salmon river, observed species and your own catches there.

• The river shows the same name wherever you tap it. Long watercourses are divided into stretches, each with its own name, the way people actually refer to them: you get "Drammenselva" and "Snarumselva", not "Drammensvassdraget" all the way.
• Some rivers have several names in use. Glomma is called Glåma in the data of Kartverket (the Norwegian Mapping Authority) and in Østerdalen, but it is shown as one continuous river under the name Glomma, and you will find it in the search whether you type "Glomma" or "Glåma".
• Large rivers are drawn thicker than small ones, so the main channel is easy to tell apart from the tributaries.
• Rivers you have fished in turn green, in the same way as your lakes.
• Every river on the map can be searched for. About 3,700 named rivers and streams are missing from the official place name register, but are found in the watercourse data from NVE. They are now included with municipality, postcode and town, so you will find them in the search and can log catches and sessions on them like on any other place.
• The streams are shown when you have zoomed in a fair way. There are more than 17,000 named streams in the country, so they are kept out of the overview so as not to make the map unreadable.

The rivers are stored in the app, so they work without internet.

Sami and other names

Many lakes and rivers have more than one name. Foldvikvatnet in Gratangen is called Girkojávri in Northern Sámi, and both are main names at Kartverket. In other places it is Norwegian spellings that live side by side: Naglestadvannet and Naglestadvatnet, Holttjern and Holttjernet.

• You will find the place whichever name you know. If you search for "Girkojávri", the lake comes up even though the app shows it as Foldvikvatnet. The result says "Also called Girkojávri", so you can see why it came up.
• You do not need the Sámi characters. Type "javri", and you will find Girkojávri, Gaskajávri and the others. The same applies to š, đ, ŋ and ž, which are not on a Norwegian keyboard. About 6,800 lakes in the app have a Sámi name, and in practice they were impossible to search for before.
• The other name is shown in the location details, right below the name of the place, with the language in brackets: "Girkojávri (Northern Sámi)".
• The names come from Kartverket's place name register, which covers Northern Sámi, Lule Sámi, Southern Sámi, Skolt Sámi and Kven. 5,037 places in the app have such a name today, and 42,935 have an extra spelling that makes them easier to find.
• Swedish lakes can be found without ä and ö. If you type "Vanern", "Vattern" or "Malaren" on a Norwegian keyboard, Vänern, Vättern and Mälaren come up. Almost 35,000 Swedish lakes and rivers have a letter that is not on a Norwegian keyboard, and they were just as hard to search for as the Sámi names. The letter å is left alone, in both Norwegian and Swedish names: it is a separate letter in both languages, not an accent.

The place you choose and save is the same as before. The catch is linked to the water, not to the name, so a catch you entered last year stays where it has always been.

Search for a fish species

In the search field at the top you can search for a fish species as well as lakes and rivers (with Premium also gauging stations). If you choose a species, the map shows only the places where the species has been logged, and it zooms out so you can see its whole distribution at once.

If you have searched for one species, it is drawn as itself: a picture of the fish on each water the species has been logged in, with the number of reported records above it. If the waters are so close together that the fish would cover each other, they are merged into one fish with the total, and they separate again when you zoom in. If you zoom all the way in on a water, the usual markers for reported catches take over, and the map is then about where in the water the fish have been caught. With several species on the map at once, the usual markers are shown instead of the pictures: if each water had to pick one fish to show, the map would keep quiet about the rest.

You can have several species on the map at once. If you search for perch while trout is already shown, the perch is added as well, and the map stays where you are. Each chosen species gets its own button at the top of the map, with a picture of the species and a cross, so you can see what is on the map and remove one at a time.

All entries count equally, your own and the ones other anglers have reported (the shared species data), so you see the whole distribution. Tap a marker to open the water the catches were reported in. This is free for everyone.

If you search for sea trout or sea-run charr (in Norwegian sjøørret, sjøaure or sjørøye), you get the fish in saltwater and nothing else. The result is shown as a separate row marked "Species in saltwater", and the map shows the fjords and sea areas where the species has been logged, without the mountain lakes. If you want to see the species everywhere, search for trout or Arctic charr instead. See Trout and charr in saltwater.

If the species has not been logged anywhere yet, the map is empty. You then get a short message saying exactly that, so you know why.

Waters where the species is documented (Premium)

If you have Premium, the map also shows the waters where the species is documented without anyone having reported a catch in the app. They are shown as faded fish, without numbers, and are based on the same occurrence data as "Likely species" in the water card, that is, records from Artskart (the Norwegian species map service) and systematic surveys. If you tap one of them, the water opens, and you see what has been recorded there. A line of text below the species button says how many such waters there are, and it is also shown without Premium, so you know what is behind the lock.

A faded fish means that the species has been found in the water by someone who has surveyed it, not that the fishing is good there. And a water without a faded fish is usually just a water nobody has surveyed.

Your own catches of a species

If you only want to see where you yourself have caught a species, go to the species under Fish species and tap Show where you've caught … at the bottom of the fact card. The map then opens in a separate view that is about exactly that question: each place where you have caught the species is marked with a picture of the fish, and the number above the picture says how many you have caught there. If you have saved an exact point on the catch, the fish is where you actually stood; otherwise it is on the water's own point.

Everything else is cleared away while the view is on, that is, the usual markers for your places, what other anglers have reported, the favorites and the gauging stations. At the top of the map there is a field with the name of the species and the Done button, which takes you back to the normal map. The view stays until you end it yourself, so you can zoom and move around freely in the meantime. If you tap a fish, the water it is in opens, and the view stays underneath.

Only your own journal is counted here, including your private entries, and nothing from the shared species data. That is why the view also works without internet.

Favorites

The button with the bookmark, below the layers symbol on the right of the map, opens the favorites list, that is, the lakes and gauging stations you have saved as favorites. Tap a favorite, and the map flies there and opens the details. You save a place as a favorite with the bookmark at the top of the panel when you have chosen it on the map, and another tap on the bookmark removes it again.

If you would rather see all the favorites at once, tap Show favorites on the map at the top of the list. The list then closes, the favorites are placed as gold dots on the map, and the view fits around them so you see the whole collection at once. The dots stay until you turn them off again, also the next time you open the map, and a tap on a gold dot opens the place in the same way as a row in the list.

Reported species on the map

The map shows where fish have been reported, without you needing to turn anything on. It is based on the shared species data from the members who share, and nothing else. Your journal is not drawn in this layer: your own sessions and catches have their own green layer, My places. If you take part in mapping the fish species, the catches you have shared are in the shared data on an equal footing with everyone else's, so that the map shows the same thing whoever is looking at it. If you do not share, your entry is only in the green layer.

The fish pictures are gone from the map surface itself. Twenty species are twenty shapes without a legend, and the pictures covered the water they were meant to say something about. You find the species where it belongs: in the water's own card under Reported species, and in the search. The map answers where there are fish, not which species it is.

How close you are decides what you see:

• Fully zoomed out, the entries are drawn as small dots, so you can see where in the country fish have been reported.
• From about county level, they are gathered into a marker with a hook and a number that says how many entries the marker covers. If several markers are close together, they are merged into one, and they separate again when you zoom in.
• When you are inside the water, the markers turn into a heat map. The color is strongest where the most has been reported, so you can see which part of the water gives fish. The scale is in the map layers menu, next to the layer. If two fishing spots in the same water are close to each other, the heat map links them with a faint thread, so that a stretch with activity reads as one area. The thread follows the water: in rivers it runs along the channel, and in lakes and on the coast it stays inside the shoreline.

A tap on a marker opens the water the catches were reported in.

The heat map was chosen on purpose: a single dot from a stranger pretends to be more accurate than it is, while an area can handle both two and two hundred points without promising more than it can deliver. Your own places are still drawn as precise, green markers, because it is your data and you know what it means. The green markers also stay when you zoom all the way in, where the blue ones give way to the heat map.

If you have both layers on, your own points come first. If a reported entry is so close to one of your own markers that the two would touch on the screen, the blue layer draws neither a marker nor a dot there, so that your green marker and your number stand alone. The distance is measured in what you see, so the rule applies just as much when you are looking at the whole country as when you are inside the water. The whole blue layer, including the heat map, is also drawn underneath the green markers. The reported entry is not gone: it is still in the heat map when you zoom in, and in the species list in the water's own card. If you turn off My places, the blue markers come back straight away.

If we know where the fish was caught, it is drawn there, rounded to about 50 meters. If there is no point on the entry, it is placed on the water's fixed point. This applies to everything reported before points existed, and there the marker means "fish have been caught in this water", not "this is where the fish was". All reports in the shared data are treated exactly the same, so that the map looks the same whichever account you are logged in with.

A point that lies on land is not drawn. If someone sets the position wrongly, so that the fish ends up in a housing estate or in a field next to the water, the marker drops off the map instead of staying there. The answer is calculated once for each point, against the water surfaces in the map data the app carries with it, and applies just as much zoomed out as zoomed in. So a marker does not appear and then disappear again as you zoom. The app knows both the lakes and the sea surface from Kartverket's map data, so this works just as well inland as out on the coast, and it works without coverage. A point set from the beach, the jetty or a rock slab is still placed out on the water instead of dropping off. Rivers and streams are an exception, since a river is stored in the map data as a single line however wide it is, and a catch can therefore be some distance from the line and still have been caught in the river.

In Sweden this applies to the lakes. The app carries the Swedish lake surfaces with it, so a point in a field next to a Swedish lake drops off in the same way as in Norway. On the Swedish coast the points stay as before: there we have no sea surface to measure against, and an empty map is no proof that something is land.

The entry itself is not touched: it stays in the journal of the person who logged it, and the species is still listed under Reported species in the water's own card.

Reports from others are fetched from the internet. Without coverage you see your own. If you want a calmer map, turn the layer off under the layers symbol, and the choice is remembered.

Reported species in the water

When you choose a water, Reported species is right below the conditions. There you see pictures of the species that have been reported in the water, with the one reported most often first and the number on the picture. If there are many species, the eight most common are in the row with a More button at the end. Below the row there is a line about how much has been reported in the last month, for example "18 fish reported in the last 30 days, most recently yesterday", so you can see whether there is life in the water right now.

If you tap See all species, the whole list opens with how many fish of each species have been reported, when the species was last seen, and whether it is confirmed. Each species has a small badge: Confirmed in green when the species is certain in the water, and Unconfirmed in yellow when it has only been reported a few times. A species counts as confirmed when it has been reported enough times, or when MinFangst has quality checked it. The information button at the top of the list explains the same thing. The list requires an internet connection.

At the bottom of the list you can contribute yourself. If you are not sharing species data, it says Help map the fish species with a short explanation and the Turn on species sharing button. If you are sharing, there is an Add observation button, so you can report fish you saw without getting a bite.

This is free for everyone and is based on anonymous species data, never on who was fishing.

Likely species in the water (premium)

The reported species tell you what someone has reported in the app, and on a water nobody has reported from, there is not much to see. That is why MinFangst also shows which species have been recorded in the water in public species data, that is, in Artskart from Artsdatabanken (the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre) and in systematic surveys such as test fishing and electrofishing.

These species come last in the species row, paler than the reported ones and with the number zero, because nobody has reported a single fish of them here. If you open the whole list, they are at the bottom with the Likely badge in yellow, the same yellow badge as a species that has only been reported a few times. Below the name is the year the species was last recorded in the water.

The year also decides which of the two groups the species ends up in. If it has been recorded in the water within the last twenty years, it is listed under Likely species. If it is longer ago, or the record has no year, it is listed further down under Less likely species, in gray and with the Older record badge. The species may still be in the water, but a fish community has time to change in twenty years, and a record from 1935 is not the same promise as a record from last year.

Without Premium, the same species are in the row as dark silhouettes with a padlock, one per species, and in the full list they are ordinary rows with a darkened picture and the name hidden. So you can see how many species are known in the water, when each of them was last recorded and that they are marked as likely. The only thing behind the lock is the name of the species, and if you tap one of the rows, you go to the Premium page.

A species is only included when there is good enough evidence for it: either at least two independent records in the water, or at least one record from a systematic survey. That is why pike does not turn up in a mountain lake and burbot does not turn up in a small tarn, unless it has actually been found there.

In the sea, two records are always required, also when they come from a systematic survey. A research cruise can trawl deep in a fjord and bring up a single deep-sea fish, and that says nothing about what you can catch on your hook there.

Likely species on the coast

All the fish species in the species register are included, not just the most common ones, so a sea area is just as likely to show viviparous blenny, gunnel, deep-snouted pipefish, other pipefish, black goby, sea scorpion, poor cod and the skates as cod and saithe. If you go species hunting, these are often the whole point of reading the list. A sea area is large, often a whole fjord, so the list is cut at the thirty best documented species. This applies to both the Norwegian and the Swedish coast.

Note that a water without likely species is not a water without fish. The vast majority of lakes in Norway have never been surveyed, and then we have nothing to show.

The panel when you choose a water

At the top is the name of the water, and below it a line that tells you where you are: what kind of water it is, which place it is near, how high above sea level it lies, and how far away you yourself are. For example "Lake · Tessanden · 985 m a.s.l.".

The height is often what decides which trip it will be. A lake at 1,100 meters can be under ice long after it is summer down in the valley, and the fish up there get going weeks later than in a lake at 120 meters. The figure comes from Kartverket's map data and is available for the vast majority of Norwegian lakes. If you fish in Sweden, the height is shown there too, taken from Svenskt vattenarkiv (the Swedish water archive).

Rivers and streams have no height in the app. A river flows downhill, so there is no single figure that applies to the whole river. Sea areas are at sea level and do not need it. If we are missing the figure for a water, nothing is shown instead of a guess.

Below the heading is the information about the water, in the order you need it when you are standing by the water:

1. Fishing bans and zones at the top, as clear cards you read straight away, without tapping anything.
2. The current conditions, gathered in one card. With Premium, the fishing forecast for the place is at the top of the card, together with a sentence about the water flow, for example "The water flow is low for the season, but rising". Below are the figures on one line: the water temperature, the air temperature, the water flow or the water level from the gauging station, and the next high or low tide. At the bottom of the card is See full forecast.
3. Reported species, with pictures of the species reported in the water.
4. Season and sizes for the species you tap in the species row (Premium).
5. Your catch here, that is, your own catches and trips at the place. The row is written as a whole sentence, for example "You have caught 8 fish here", and the number counts both fish you have entered as separate catches and fish you have counted on a fishing session.
6. Useful information about this place at the bottom, with salmon-bearing watercourses and fishing permits. This is something you read once before the trip, and the row is only there when the place has something to show.

Figures that do not apply to the place are not shown: the water flow is only there when the water has a gauging station, and the tide only where there is one. If the place does not have a single figure, the whole line disappears.

If you tap one of the figures, it opens in its own view in the panel, with graphs and more details and a back button at the top. The water flow is rounded on the overview, so that it fits, and the exact figure from the gauging station is shown inside the view.

Without Premium, the water temperature is shown as before, free for everyone, where there is a figure. The rest of the card is gathered in one line with a padlock, for example "Unlock weather, water flow, tides and fishing forecast". The line only mentions what the place actually has, so a mountain lake does not promise tides. Below it is See an example forecast, which opens the forecast page with a real forecast for Mjøsa, calculated the moment you open it. So you can see what the forecast is before you decide.

Tide

The tide applies to the sea and the rivers. At the bottom of a watercourse the water follows the sea, and there the next high or low tide is shown in the panel in the same way as on the coast.

Further up the river, where the sea can no longer be felt, the app shows the tide at the mouth, as long as you are on a salmon-bearing stretch. It is the high and low tide down there that decides when the sea trout and the salmon run up the river, so the figure is worth knowing a fair way up the watercourse too. The panel makes it clear that the figures apply to the mouth, not to the place where you are standing. How far up this applies follows the register of anadromous stretches kept by Miljødirektoratet (the Norwegian Environment Agency), that is, the part of the river the salmon and the sea trout actually reach. Above the migration barrier, and in rivers without salmon and sea trout, the tide is not shown at all.

The figure is the level of the sea and not the river's own water level. If you want to know how big the river is, it is the gauging station with water flow and water level that answers that. Lakes never show the tide, not even the ones close to the sea.

On the Swedish coast, the panel shows the water level instead of the next high tide. Sweden has almost no tide, so there it is the wind and the air pressure that move the water. The panel shows the measured level now and whether it is rising or falling, and inside the view you can also see the highest and lowest level over the last day, that is, how much the water actually moves at the place. The figures come from SMHI's gauging stations.

The gauging station

The gauging station follows where you tapped. A long river can have several stations, and if you tap by Døvikfoss in Drammenselva, you get Døvikfoss, not the station at the other end of the river. If the water has several stations, you can switch between them inside the view, and the switch applies until you close the panel.

In Sweden the app knows which station belongs to which water, in the same way as in Norway. 213 of SMHI's stations are linked to the river or lake they actually stand in, so the water flow turns up when the water has a reading, and the figure stays on the catch and the fishing session you enter there. Swedish rivers usually only have water flow, since the water level is measured in the ten large lakes. If the station is at a confluence where two rivers meet, we would rather leave it unlinked than guess: a figure from the wrong river looks just as trustworthy as a correct one.

Season and sizes (premium)

If you tap a species in the row of reported species, a section appears with the name of the species and the water in the heading, for example "Trout in Mjøsa". There you can see which months the species has been reported in the water, and which months have the most, and the average weight or average length together with the biggest fish. The figures are based on the reported catches. If you tap the same species again, the section closes. Without Premium, the section is shown as a single row with a padlock.

Fishing bans and fishing permits

When you choose a water, information about fishing bans, zones and fishing permits may be shown. This is curated information that helps you fish legally and look after the fish stocks.

• Fishing bans are shown as a clear red warning at the top when they apply to the whole water.
• Zones apply to part of the water, for example an area with a protected period or a restriction. They are at the top of the panel when you have tapped inside them, with what applies, in which period and where the rule comes from. A zone that does not apply today is still shown, marked "(not in effect today)", so you can see that a protected period starts in a few weeks.
• Fishing permits are found under Useful information about this place, with a link where you can buy or view the fishing permit. It also says there whether the watercourse is salmon-bearing, with a link to Lakseregisteret (the Norwegian salmon register).

All of this is free for everyone, you do not need Premium to see it. Always check the local rules before you fish.

Fishing rules, fishing permits and depth maps currently cover Norwegian waters only. On a Swedish water there is a line at the bottom of the panel saying exactly that, so that an empty field is not read as a free-for-all.

Free and premium

Free for everyone: your own waters and points, reported species both on the map and in the water, searching for a fish species, water temperature, fishing bans, zones and fishing permits, and adding from the map.

With Premium you unlock the planning tools:

• Fishing forecast with a bite score for the place and the day.
• Weather and tides in the panel when you choose a water.
• Water flow and water level from the gauging stations, as red markers right on the map when you zoom in. The figures come from NVE in Norway and from SMHI in Sweden.
• Depth maps for the sea and lakes, which you turn on under the layers symbol. On lakes, the depth contours are shown with large, clear depth figures. The depth data currently covers Norwegian waters only.
• Likely species in the water and Season and sizes per species.
• Search for gauging stations, and the waters where a species is documented, when you search for a species.

Without Premium you can see what is available: the conditions are gathered in one locked line in the panel, the likely species are shown as dark silhouettes, and the premium layers have a padlock in the map layers menu. If you tap one of them, you go to the page that tells you what Premium gives you.

Without internet

If you lose coverage, lakes and rivers are drawn from the data stored in the app, and at the bottom of the map the message "Offline: showing lakes and rivers" is shown with a red network symbol. Then you know that what you are seeing is the app's own map, not a map that has frozen. The names of lakes and rivers only appear when you have zoomed in on an area, so that the overview map shows the shapes of the waters instead of filling up with text.

If you have Premium, the gauging stations are downloaded in the background when you are online, so the red markers are on the map even without coverage. The latest reading for all stations is fetched at the same time, so water flow and water level are shown instantly and even with no coverage at all, whether or not you have opened the station before. The reading is shown with a "Last updated" time, so you know how fresh it is. New figures require coverage, and the app fetches them again automatically when the connection is back.

Tips for use in the field

• The map is useful for finding your way back to places that have given you fish before.
• You decide for yourself who can see your exact points, see Exact GPS point and Privacy.