What happens while you fish

Log the catch by voice

Wet gloves, a fish in the boat. Instead of typing, you tap the microphone and say it out loud — species, weight and length. FjordSpot recognises the species name and files the catch in your log with position and time.

If it is unsure about the species, it offers the most likely ones and lets you choose. Nothing is saved until you confirm.

You still enter the depth yourself — voice does not pick that up yet.

Tide, moon phase and air pressure follow every catch

When a catch is saved, FjordSpot collects the conditions on the spot and adds them to the entry automatically:

• High or low water, and the sea level in centimetres — official tidal data from Kartverket
• Moon phase and how much of the moon is lit
• Air pressure, with the trend in the hours before and after
• Wind, temperature and weather from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute

This is not decoration. After a season you can see which conditions your own catches actually came under — not what a general table says.

GPX in and out — take the spots to the chartplotter

The spots you save in FjordSpot can be downloaded as a GPX file and loaded straight into your chartplotter or handheld GPS. Already have a file of marks from the boat? Import it the other way, and they sit in the app with the rest.

Size limits and closed seasons

FjordSpot carries minimum sizes and closed seasons for recreational sea fishing from the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries, with the regional differences that actually apply: separate rules north and south of 62°N, and separate rules for the Oslofjord.

We have a separate page on the fishing rules →

Rules change. Use this as planning support, and always check the current rules with the Directorate of Fisheries before you head out.

Fish Alone — someone knows where you are

Heading out alone? Start a solo trip before you leave. You pick a contact and how often you will check in. Your contact gets an email when the trip starts, with a link to follow you, and a note every time you check in. Miss a check-in and your contact gets an alert with your last position.

You can add a second contact, and the app can keep the screen awake and sound an alert when a check-in falls due.

Fish Alone is a tool, not an emergency service. Alerts are sent by email and may be delayed or fail to arrive. In an emergency in Norway: call 112 or 113, or use VHF channel 16.

The species guide — 187 species

The guide covers 187 Norwegian species. 138 of them are realistically catchable in Norway; the rest are included so you can recognise one if it turns up on your hook — protected species, deep-water species and species rarely seen in Norwegian waters.

The illustrations are watercolours by Finnish artist Sakke Yrjölä, who catches every species he paints. See the full species guide →

Does it work without coverage?

FjordSpot works partly without a signal — right where you are, out on the fjord. Maps you have viewed, and the last weather, wave and tide data, are there, as they were when you last had coverage. If you ask for a new analysis, it is queued and runs once you are back in coverage. Logging a new catch needs a connection, both in the form and by voice.