Backcast Fishing Journal

Backcast is the field journal that knows how to read the water with you. Log every trip. Tag every fly. See your year unfold across rivers, weather, and water temperatures — and let last season teach this one. A journal designed for the way anglers actually think. Backcast pairs the warmth of a Moleskine with the recall of a database. Every outing captures the moment honestly — water and air temp, hatches, the fly that worked at 11:00, the bend you fished, the fish you broke off. Tagged, searchable, and yours. Your fly box, visualized. Catalog your tied flies in a visual grid organized by pack — dries, nymphs, streamers, your homebrew custom patterns. Tag a fly "BWO match" or "summer hopper" and find it later by typing one word. Bulk-add a session's worth of patterns from a single table view when you're restocking. Smart search, built for fly names. Backcast's search is forgiving — "phesant" still finds Pheasant Tail, "olive 14" surfaces only your size-14 olive flies. Match by name, color, size, pack, notes, or any tag you've added. Spots that remember themselves. Tap "Use my location" to drop a GPS pin where you're standing. Or search any river, creek, or watershed by name — Pine Creek, Madison, Texas Hole. Backcast remembers your spots and surfaces them as one-tap chips on your next outing so you don't retype. A map for the way you actually look at water. Mapbox's outdoor style emphasizes waterways, terrain, and contour lines instead of streets and businesses — the view that matters when you're finding access, not driving directions. Yours, forever. No public feed. No social leaderboards. No ads. No data sold. Just a well-built journal that respects what you carry into it. Sign in with Apple, Google, or email. Backcast syncs across all your iOS devices and keeps every photo, every catch, every fly safe in the cloud.