FishingBC User Reviews
Customer Experience
~ Based on 78 written reviews from the US App Store.
What users say
Summarized from real user reviews of FishingBC. Based on 69 reviews and a 4.6/5 average, it highlights the 40 positives and 60 negatives reviewers mention most about this Sports app.
Positive things
- 👍Easy to use
- 💡Comprehensive information
- 🗺️Useful map feature
- ✅Clear regulations
- 📱Digital license
- 🚀Fast and efficient
- 🎯Accurate data (mostly)
- 🤝Good collaboration with DFO
- ✨Best app encountered
- ✅One-stop shop for fishing needs
- 👍Well-executed app
- 👍Great for tidal water fishing
- 👍Informative
- 👍User-friendly
- 👍Great job by developers
- 👍Makes regulations easier to understand
- 👍Syncs regularly for updates
- 👍Helpful for checking regulations
- 👍Good for managing tidal water license and catches
- 👍Great resource
- 👍Makes fishing information accessible
- 👍Time saver compared to DFO web pages
- 👍Convenient
- 👍Updated regs
- 👍Good for planning
- 👍Updated information on areas for fishing
- 👍Good to have on boat
- 👍Daily updates for fishing regs
- 👍Easy to find fishing areas
- 👍Quick response from support
- 👍Works great after updates
- 👍Vital information on the go
- 👍Must have for fishermen
- 👍Good functionality
- 👍Easy to scan license
- 👍Quick and easy to use
- 👍Super easy to use
- 👍Intuitive with clean layout
- 👍Finally all fishing info in one app
- 👍Easier to find fishing limits
Negative things
- 🐛Inaccurate closures/openings
- 🐛Incomplete regulations (e.g., max size)
- 🐛Catch log portal displays productive areas
- 🐛Unable to register account (verification email)
- 🐛Pop-up salmon facts annoying
- 🐛Pop-up tips annoying
- 🐛Corrupted data requiring re-download
- 🐛Species ID not always accurate (e.g., all salmon as chinook)
- 🐛Maps are terrible/difficult to discern boundaries
- 🐛Maps not detailed enough/zoom issues
- 🐛Confusing and hard to understand regulations
- 🐛Regulations are chopped up
- 🐛Difficult to understand sub-area regulations
- 🐛Missing info on legal transport/packaging of catch
- 🐛Dead link for AI species identification
- 🐛Boundary map could be better/zoom needed
- 🐛Prawn opening times confusion
- 🐛Rockfish identification needs improvement
- 🐛Species identification generic
- 🐛Bio toxin reports outdated
- 🐛Regulation changes not always timely in app
- 🐛Seasonal changes not communicated ahead
- 🐛Rockfish Conservation Area maps vague/poor resolution
- 🐛Sub-area closures unclear
- 🐛Needs live GPS map with boundaries
- 🐛Crab fishing regulations info lacking
- 🐛Useless without internet/account
- 🐛Requires internet connection
- 🐛Confusing shellfish biotoxin report
- 🐛Regulations can be inaccurate
- 🐛Species ID needs work
- 🐛Hatchery identification missing
- 🐛Needs more detailed and useful maps
- 🐛App is confusing
- 🐛Regulations are hard to understand
- 🐛Needs to be easier to understand for responsible fishing
- 🐛Unable to link BC gov account
- 🐛Wrong regs for area 14
- 🐛Species ID needs improvement
- 🐛Map feature needs improvement
- 🐛GPS overlays would be useful
- 🐛Offline use not described well
- 🐛Max size for halibut not listed
- 🐛Some fishermen gun shy about using it due to catch log portal
- 🐛Unnecessary addition in catch log portal
- 🐛Needs to be spot on with closures/limitations
- 🐛Needs better maps
- 🐛Needs RCA and sponge reef on maps
- 🐛Needs more detailed area maps
- 🐛Needs to be able to zoom into area maps
- 🐛Needs to check tides
- 🐛Needs to communicate seasonal changes ahead
- 🐛Needs scaleable maps
- 🐛Needs clearer sub-area closures
- 🐛Needs live, zoomable, GPS enabled map
- 🐛Needs alarm for drifting into new areas with different regs
- 🐛Crab sizes/limits unclear
- 🐛Shellfish biotoxin report conflicts
- 🐛Does not trust app for regulations
- 🐛Lacks info about crab fishing regulations
Is FishingBC Safe?
FishingBC appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for FishingBC is 87/100.
This assessment is based on 69 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.
Safety Analysis
~ Based on 69 App Store ratings for FishingBC.
Is FishingBC Legit?
FishingBC appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for FishingBC is 73/100.
Based on 73 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.
Top reviews
The regs are so complex that an app like this helps a lot.
This app is awesome. It is user friendly. You will enjoy discovering it.
Useful, handy and easy to use
Wish it could hold freshwater license too. Why wouldn’t it? Right? Like, I feel like I’m taking CRAZY pills…
These government funded apps are always BS, but someone clearly has put proper resources and thought into this one. Whatever is being done please keep doing it, this thing is great.
The app is not monitoring closures/openings correctly, especially when it comes to shellfish. following the apps open/closure information and catch limits can result in SEVERE fines, seizure of property (your boat) and fishing prohibition if you run into an officer, as they don’t care at all if you’re using the app, even though it’s supposedly made in collaboration with the DFO using their data.
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I’m really liking this fishing bc app for its species id, regulations by area (although some are incomplete ie max size for halibut is not listed as far as I found) and easy catch log. I do have a feeling some fisherman are gun shy about using it since it publicly displays which areas are most productive at any one time in the catch log portal. I feel like that’s an unnecessary addition that will scare off the majority of Cagey fisherman from using the app and deprive dfo of potentially useful data. Hopefully removing that is considered for a future update otherwise great first month with the app.
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Easy to use
Best app I've come across in years. These guys rock! All the stuff any fisher wants and it's at your fingertips. Amazing! Well done!!!
Tried to create an an account multiple times but wont get any email to verify your account creation.
Get rid of the pop up salmon facts please.
The regs are inaccurate in the app. Don’t trust it.
Please remove the pop up tips.
I use the app constantly while fishing. Great to see updated regs, fish identification and catch log. Great job.
Great app. Makes reading and understanding the regulations much easier.
Everything , regulation, weather conditions, tide charts, etc
Solid app allowing up to date regulation changes. Love the map feature that provides your GPS position relative to management areas! Only suggest would be the ability to more easily toggle back and forth between sub-area specific regulations and the map, then back again. Also, it’d be great if the map could remember your previous settings or allow you to set default layers instead of having to turn them on each time you visit the map page. Overall, fantastic!!
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If they described off line use better I would have given it 5 stars
Very easy to use and the GPS button at top right in maps is good to have so you can clearly see where you’re at so you’re not near the RCA areas .
Helpful app for checking regulations, but it’s missing important info on how to legally transport and package your catch. Clear guidance (with examples) would make it much more useful and help anglers stay compliant.
