Every change we have shipped to FishIntel lately, newest first.
Our public sample report is now drawn with the same parts as the report members get, so it shows everything a real morning does, including where to look and how to fish each species, reef conditions and the upcoming days.
Ask FishIntel on Telegram now answers up to 20 questions a day per member. If you find yourself running into it, tell us and we will look at raising it.
When the National Weather Service has a marine advisory in force for your water, your morning email now shows one line for each, with its flag, the event and when it ends, plus a link to the full notice. The morning summary no longer ends with the line about the 50 nautical mile circle, the guide now points you to your dashboard for live marine alerts, and the data sources page explains our weather data credit.
Your morning summary keeps its sentence about zone 1, with the same distance, layers, depth and confidence shown on the zone 1 card. Before, that sentence could be cut when its distance did not match, and the summary named no spot.
Your morning report now leads with the best-backed of its three spots when their runs are close, and the opening summary starts with zone 1 instead of pointing you somewhere else.
One windy hour no longer turns a whole day POOR. When the model shows a single hour over 20 knots but the National Weather Service forecast for that day stays below 20 knots with no advisory, the day reads FAIR at worst on wind.
New in the guide: a walkthrough of the convergence map using a real Florida Keys report, and a 60-second tour of your report.
Your report now separates rising and falling water at the named tide station, and its safety notice comes straight from the official marine forecast. Required regional cautions are now written by code, and tide times and heights appear in the tide section rather than in the fishing advice.
On a calm day your spots no longer call the zone's sharpest temperature change a "temperature break". That word is now kept for a real break of 2°F or more, the same standard the temperature section uses, and the currents section no longer says there is no current edge when one of your spots sits on the zone's strongest one.
Your report's warmest, coolest, greenest and bluest water readings now come only from the sea inside your zone, so they no longer point you at a lake or the shoreline. Salinity, sea level and currents are still read a little wider to catch edges just past your zone, and the report says when a reading sits beyond it.
First reports check wind, current and direction facts in code before they reach you, and no longer call a spot sheltered unless the source says so.
Each day card now leads with the forecast that set its rating, and sea and wind numbers say which hour they describe.
Your first report now names the tide station it uses, states whether a known season is open today, and keeps every wave height in feet.
The sample report now shows a real October 2 morning off Islamorada, with its sea temperature, color and current maps.
Past reports in your archive now show that day's satellite map layers, not just the convergence heat map.
When the productivity layer has no fresh satellite picture, the report now says it is missing instead of calling it a backup.
Email preferences now shows your dashboard menu, and the menu on other pages no longer sends you back to the dashboard by surprise.
The free weekly email now shows our biggest recent upgrades, with a link to everything that shipped.
The rating on the Conditions tab now uses the same live forecast as your dashboard, so the two always agree.
The home page now says plainly what FishIntel is, the report guide is organized around the questions anglers ask, and the sample report names its water: Islamorada, Florida Keys.
Productivity now uses the Aqua daily composite, with its observation date and a seven-day age limit. Cloudy days can still leave it unavailable. Chlorophyll uses Copernicus first and NOAA as backup, and our source and methodology pages explain the difference.
We published new versions of our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy that take effect on November 14, 2026, in place of the November 12 privacy update. They add terms for the FishIntel iPhone and Android apps and cover the phone and browser notifications you can turn on.
Install FishIntel from your dashboard and keep your latest report on your phone for reading without signal. The saved copy shows its date, updates when you reconnect, and clears when you sign out. You can also turn on notifications from the dashboard.
New page: How to read your FishIntel report. It explains the day rating, the three ranked spots, the charts and the species labels, with a night-before and morning-of checklist. Find it in the footer and on the sample report.
The report links in your daily email now carry a small tag so we can see which email layout gets opened. Nothing else changes for you.
Our Privacy Policy now says more plainly which cookies we use, what we record about how you use FishIntel, and how we will treat it if you choose to tell us how a fishing day went. The new version takes effect on November 12, 2026.
Today now has a conditions rating in your email and on the Conditions tab, with one line explaining the wind, seas, wave period and any advisory. The same rule rates Upcoming Days, and the seas line shows the marine forecast beside the model.
Alligator Reef and Molasses Reef reports show separate modeled waves for Hawk Channel and the Straits of Florida. Sunrise and sunset are printed from the data in every report, in your zone’s local time.
The dashboard loads faster.
The home page now has a short film, Find Your Water, that you tap to play. The Keys page links to it.
FishIntel’s Instagram and Facebook pages are now linked from the site footer and from the foot of your daily report email.
When you pick a station for your zone, setup now checks that station’s own buoy. If it is silent, setup says so and, when it can tell, names the nearest live station, and the footnote on your report says the same. You can still sign up.
Your first report and your morning report now open their safety line with a National Weather Service marine warning or advisory in force for your water, including hurricane, tropical storm, hazardous seas and tsunami warnings. The plain safety sentence follows the notice.
The What’s New page now lists what has shipped, with the newest three updates on the home page. Find the full list through the footer link.
If the report text ever disagrees with the ranked spot order, you still get your report, with the ranked spots and a plain factual line for each, instead of your zone losing its report. Zone numbers in the text follow the published order.
The chlorophyll and sea level numbers in your morning report now come from the same ocean data the spot map reads, with matching dates, so the words and the map agree.
A spot far from your station no longer ranks above one at least 10 NM closer unless it is clearly better on location and at least as good on confidence and overall score. The order is now set before the report is written, so the text explains the ranking instead of reshuffling it.
Season notes for several Washington, Florida and Alabama species were brought up to date for windows that change in mid October. Confirm current regulations before you keep a fish.
In your zone’s evening, the dashboard now says Today’s Fishing Report over the morning’s report instead of Yesterday’s. Unlocks, booked reports, the archive and exports all follow your zone’s own calendar day.
Ranked spots can now sit anywhere inside the 50 NM zone circle, up from 40 NM.
Zone setup now offers Wilmington Canyon and East Breaks spars (Boomvang) as 50 NM zones. Search Baltimore Canyon, Spencer Canyon or Lindenkohl to find Wilmington, or Hoover Diana to find Boomvang.
Station 46086 now has its own Southern California fishery model, so zone setup offers it again. It covers island and bank species, tells you to confirm current regulations, and is not yet calibrated against catches.
Spot picks stay out of shallow Florida Bay and backcountry water in the Keys and the neighboring Florida regions. Lake zones are judged by the lake’s own coastline and depth, and a lake square is never offered as a spot on an ocean zone.
The report now treats the Gulf Stream position as dated, approximate context, and names a Gulf Stream landmark only when it sits inside your zone’s circle, never on a lake zone.
A new signup’s first report now knows the water depth under every spot before it picks them. Its summary opens on today and tomorrow, wind is in whole knots, and run distances match the spot list.
Report export now follows the zone on your screen, and a day that has only a signup report exports that report.
A new free account’s report now starts on our servers the moment you save or join a zone, so you can close the tab or lock your phone and find it waiting. Its spots come from the same scored spot map as the morning report: on the water and at least 10 NM apart.
The convergence map now zooms out to about twice the opening view and no longer draws the zone circle. The edge of US fishing water follows NOAA’s line along the Keys, labeled US water on one side and the neighbor’s name on the other, and a Layer data ends here label marks where a layer stops.
The signup picker now lists only stations whose water has a fishery model. Existing zones keep their station, reports and readers.
The home and pricing pages now load faster for visitors who are not signed in.
Dozens more Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic, Caribbean, Chesapeake, Alaska, Pacific and Hawaii waters now get species and fishery reads instead of conditions only. Each one says it is drafted and not yet calibrated.
Hawaii zones now get a report built for their own morning. A late run at 5:05 AM Hawaii time builds them, so the date, tides and sunrise match the day you are fishing.
The dashboard and the daily report email now show National Weather Service marine advisories, Small Craft Advisory and up, for your zone’s own marine forecast areas, with the traditional warning flags. If the advisory check fails, you see a could not check line instead of silence.
Every confirm current regulations note now links to the agency that sets the rules, such as FWC, NOAA Fisheries or your state agency. This covers the report email, the dashboard, the species pages and the sample report.
Tampa Bay, Big Bend, Forgotten Coast, Panama City, Mobile Bay, Louisiana Delta, Galveston, Coastal Bend, Middlegrounds and Puerto Rico now get species and fishery reads instead of conditions only. Each says it is not yet calibrated.
Upcoming Days are now rated from fresh National Weather Service daytime forecasts, so the ratings match the forecast.
Every covered US zone, free or paid, now has map layers from its first report. A zone with no map of its own uses the regional map that covers it.
A buoy that has not reported in more than 6 hours is now counted as not reporting, so a report never presents a days-old reading as today’s. The note at the foot of a report says how many of your zone’s buoys are current.
When no current was measured that morning, the report no longer describes a current edge, set or speed. It also stops calling a patch of warm, cool or green water bay side, ocean side, inshore or offshore unless the data places it there.