Speckled trout spot finder · Louisiana coast · beta
Live gauges pulled USGS NWIS · NOAA CO-OPS
Testing SpeckSignal? Start here
Check the plan above. Do the top spots and times match what you know about these waters this week?
Log every trip, fish or no fish: tap Log trip on a plan card, ＋ Log a trip here on a spot or rig. Takes 10 seconds. Slow days matter as much as good ones.
Import your GPS waypoints in Your spots (GPX from your unit) and see how they rank.
Look at the heat map for tomorrow and tap the red areas.
Ask the trip planner one real question about your next trip.
Tell us what's off with the Feedback button (bottom right). Wrong spot, confusing screen, missing feature: all of it helps.
The model re-tunes itself every Sunday from logged trips. Logging and feedback need a free Claude account and Contributor access from Zach.
Trip planner
Ask about a day, a launch, your boat or how you like to fish. Answers use the conditions, scores, pins and tactics on this page.
Each question uses your Claude account; you'll be asked to allow it the first time.
Coast chart · tap a spot
Area detailTough → PrimeTap a spot to load its detail.
Your spots
Bring your own waypoints from your boat's GPS. Each one is scored for the chosen day with the nearest area's water, wind and tide, plus its own depth, wind exposure, nearby structure, your tags and the trips you log there.
Paste coordinates
How to get waypoints off your unit
Garmin: ActiveCaptain app → Waypoints → share/export GPX, or Garmin HomePort / BaseCamp → export GPX. On the unit: User Data → transfer to card (GPX).
Lowrance / Simrad / B&G: Waypoints, Routes & Trails → Export → choose GPX (not USR) → save to card.
Humminbird: HumminbirdPC or the One-Boat Network app → export GPX; or Navionics sync below.
Raymarine: My Data → Import/Export → Save data to card → GPX.
Navionics / onX / Google Earth: export markers as GPX or KML/KMZ.
Spreadsheet: CSV with name, lat, lon columns. Decimal degrees or degrees-minutes (N29 27.072) both work.
Private storage: only you can read your spots, not even the app owner. Depth is from NOAA's coastal elevation model at ~400 m, so treat it as approximate; spots more than 20 mi from a scored area get low confidence.
Best rigs and platforms
Oil and gas structures within 40 mi of a launch and 90 ft of water, scored with the same water, wind, tide and season data as the spots, plus depth and run distance. Top picks are spread out: at most 2 per area and none within ~1 mi of each other. Every rig is on the map, colored by score. Tap one to see it.
Locations: NOAA nautical charts (every charted platform, incl. state waters) + BOEM federal platform list (standing structures). A charted structure more than 3.5 mi out that BOEM doesn't list may have been removed. "Ruined" = charted as a submerged or wrecked structure: great fish habitat, but a hazard to your lower unit. Fishing side: from the NOAA water model's current during the best tide where the rig is within 8 mi of a model-covered spot; otherwise estimated from the tide (falling = toward open water) or the wind when the tide is weak. Clarity: estimated from nearby satellite readings, clearer offshore (NOAA's satellite server was down when this was built). Always check the marine forecast before a Gulf run.
Log a trip
Every trip you log, fish or no fish, makes the scores more accurate. Reports from the last 7 days nudge nearby spots up or down.
Recent reports
No reports yet. Log the first one.
7-day outlook
Fishing reports this week
Alerts
A push to your phone the afternoon before a spot you watch lines up. Checked at 2:48 PM by the social monitor, at most one alert a day.
Log a trip
The app saves that hour's water, wind, tide and score with your trip. Your exact spot isn't displayed to other users.