Help & Reference
What each part of Strikepoint does
Your town and location
Pick your town from the header, anywhere on the Florida coast (Gulf, Keys, Atlantic, Panhandle). Strikepoint scopes the spots, tide, and weather to that town. If your device shares its location it snaps to the nearest town automatically and follows you when you travel; the picker is a manual override. Conditions and weather are live and free (no key); tide is real NOAA data; everything still works offline on bundled data.
Dashboard
Your at-a-glance read: the AI-free briefing headline, solunar rating, live water temp, tide phase, wind, moon, red tide status, and sea state, plus a go/no-go run-conditions call, with a live clock and refresh to the minute. A red or amber storm banner appears whenever a severe-weather threat is active.
Forecast and patterns
See the conditions in the future, not just the present: a multi-day weather outlook (wind, gusts, temp, rain), and an hour-by-hour timeline that merges the weather forecast with the tide and solunar windows into a bite score. It calls out the feeding windows ahead, and finds when a productive pattern repeats (the tide + solunar + wind + barometer setup behind the best window), so the bite is reproducible. Weather from Open-Meteo, tide from NOAA, solunar computed.
Lure color and tackle
On the Find screen, for the species you pick: color guidance from water clarity and light (natural and translucent in clear, bright water; gold and chartreuse to cut through stain; loud high-contrast in muddy water; dark and solid for silhouette in low light and after dark), plus a tackle and rig card (leader, hook, rig, and how to work it).
Light and moon
The dashboard shows first light, sunrise, sunset, and last light for your town, plus the moon illumination. The low-light edges at dawn and dusk are prime feeding windows.
Red tide
Strikepoint reads FWC's live Karenia brevis sampling (the official red tide source, refreshed several times a day) for the water near you and shows a status on the dashboard, Find, and spot screens: Clear when calm, amber for low, red for medium or high. It reduces the recent samples within about 25 miles to the worst reading, so a bloom on your stretch of coast shows even if the closest sample is clean, and when a bloom is moderate or high the briefing flags it. Source: FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute.
Sea state and run conditions
The Seas reading is the current wave height and period near you from the free Open-Meteo marine model (shown where the model has open-water coverage). Run conditions turns wind and seas into a single go/no-go call: Good to run when both are light, Marginal when it is building (fish the protected lees), and Rough when it is time to stay inshore. It is the judgment you make before leaving the dock, not a substitute for your own eyes on the water.
Alerts
Turn on alerts (header button) for native notifications when a prime solunar window opens or a storm warning is active while the app is running. On the desktop these are real system notifications.
Find Fish and Read the Water
Two layers. Read the Water analyzes the live tide, wind, barometer, water temperature, season, and solunar window and ranks the kinds of water that are productive right now (down-current rock at a pass, windward oyster bars, sand potholes, mangrove points, creek mouths, beach troughs, shadow lines, channel drop-offs), each with the reasoning and a search rubric for what to look for, so you can run unfamiliar ground and find your own fish. Below it, the known public-landmark spots are ranked by the same conditions, all of them, either across every species or for one you pick. The score weighs water temperature, tide, tide strength (the day's measured spring/neap range, and how hard each spot funnels it), wind, the barometer, and the feeding window. The more catches you log, the more the water read leans toward the water you actually produce on.
Candidate water
Beyond the curated spots, Strikepoint carries real fishing structure (reefs, wrecks, breakwaters and jetties, groynes, and named fishing piers) pulled from OpenStreetMap for Southwest Florida and bundled offline. Each is scored by the same live read and shown with its real coordinates, so you can run structure the catalog does not name. These are real points from open data, never invented; verify them on the water. Source: OpenStreetMap contributors.
Spawning now
Strikepoint tracks the inshore spawn calendar for each species: the months, the moons that concentrate it, the water temperature it needs, and the tide that releases it. The Spawning now panel reads the live conditions and tells you which fish are spawning, staging, or waiting on the water to warm, and where (snook and tarpon in the passes and beaches in summer, bull redfish at the passes in the fall, seatrout over the grass flats). A spot scores higher when a species is actively spawning right on it.
Spot detail and map
A satellite map of the spot on free, keyless tiles, with conditions, tide chart, solunar windows, the sight-fishing light window, and today's bite forecast. Toggle the manatee-zone overlay, a live precipitation-radar layer (RainViewer), and a heatmap of your own catches.
Storm safety
Built on free NWS severe-weather alerts plus radar. When a thunderstorm or tornado warning covers your area, the dashboard banner and push alerts say to leave the water. Safety aids can be delayed or wrong; never rely on them alone.
Manatee zones
Toggle the protection-zone overlay on the spot map. With location on, you get a banner and a buzz if your position enters a zone. Boundaries are the official FWC State Manatee Protection Zones (FAC 68C-22), generalized for display, so verify the exact line with FWC.
Species
A reference on every target species: a researched behavior profile (how and when it feeds, its forage, time-of-day pattern, seasonal movement, the structure it holds on, and presentation tactics), its best water-temperature range and prime tide, where it spawns, and an annual activity strip. The Spot Finder uses the same behavior to weight each species' water differently. Published biology and Southwest Florida angling knowledge, not invented data.
Log a catch
Logs save on your phone instantly, even with no signal, and sync when you reconnect. Species, bait, size, and release are captured per catch, along with the conditions at the time.
Your patterns
Once you have logged a handful of catches, the log page shows the conditions you catch fish in most (for example a falling barometer or the outgoing tide), counted straight from your own catches and the conditions stamped on each. It only reports a pattern when there is a clear leader, and gets sharper the more you log.
Regulations
A convenience copy of the major FL inshore/nearshore rules, statewide, by coast (Gulf vs Atlantic state waters): pick your county and the slot check shows whether a fish falls short, lands in the keeper slot, or runs over, with bag limit and season. Snook differs by coast; seasons and zone bag limits shift year to year, and the Keys carry extra rules, so always verify at myfwc.com before keeping a fish.
AI briefing
Optional, and the app is fully usable without it. The dashboard can write a short briefing over the day's conditions. It runs on your Claude subscription when one is available (no per-use charge), and only falls back to your own Anthropic API key if you add one (stored on your device). It is on-demand and cached against the day's conditions, so it does not make constant calls. The rankings stay fully deterministic; the model only writes the summary and is told to use only the computed facts, never to invent spots or numbers.
Where the data comes from
Tide highs and lows are NOAA CO-OPS predictions, bundled offline per town. Weather, wind, the barometer, and the multi-day forecast come from Open-Meteo (free and keyless), and water temperature, sea state (waves and swell), and the water-temp trend come from the Open-Meteo marine model. Storm and severe-weather alerts are the US National Weather Service (NWS). Red tide (Karenia brevis) is FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute sampling. Regulations are a convenience copy of FWC rules, so always verify at myfwc.com. Fishing structure (reefs, wrecks, jetties, and piers) comes from OpenStreetMap contributors, and the satellite basemap is Esri World Imagery. Every source is free and keyless, so the app costs nothing to run, and it falls back to bundled data offline.
Cost and privacy
Strikepoint runs on free, keyless data sources, so it costs nothing to operate. Your catches and logs stay on your device until you choose to sync.
Conditions, forecasts, and safety features are aids, not a navigation, weather, or rescue service, and can be delayed or wrong. Regulations are a convenience copy; verify current rules at myfwc.com.