TideHook: Fishing Tides

TideHook tells you when the fish bite, anywhere in the world, without a bar of signal. Tide times, solunar feeding periods and the right bait for 85 species are all computed on your phone, so the app still works at the end of a track on a headland where nothing else does.

The tides are the real thing. Every prediction is a harmonic calculation from 3,996 stations — the same maths behind the official tide tables, not a rough interpolation — and the engine has been checked against NOAA's published predictions to within 1.7 cm. You get the full curve for today and the week ahead, with the state of the tide described the way anglers actually say it: mid flood, top of the tide.

On top of that sit the things that decide whether a session is worth the drive. Solunar bite windows from the sun and moon show you the best two hours before you commit. A bait and rig guide for 85 species is written for real fishing — live nipper, peeler crab, ragworm, poddy mullet — with the rig and the tide state each fish wants. A map of 1,339 marks across 166 countries lets you filter by target species, see which spots have the right tide right now, and scrub forward through the next 24 hours to plan. Long press anywhere on the map for tides at a spot no app knows about.

The catch log closes the loop: it records tide, moon and coefficient with every fish, then tells you the conditions you personally catch in — your best tide state, your best time of day, your most productive bait, from your own data. Home screen widgets, tide alerts and 27 languages are included. Only the map tiles need a connection. TideHook is a fishing tool, not a navigation aid.