Frequently Asked Questions

There is a FishIntel Discord, and it is the fastest way to get an answer. Ask a question and you will usually hear back from Kit or another subscriber before an email would have been read. It is also where captains compare notes on what is actually being caught, and where changes to the product get mentioned before they ship. Email still works if you would rather: support@fishintel.ai.

FishIntel is an AI-powered fishing intelligence platform that analyzes government satellite data (sea surface temperatures, ocean currents, chlorophyll concentrations, and more) to generate daily fishing condition reports and species forecasts. Think of it as having an oceanographer on your team.

FishIntel uses NOAA and satellite data to provide its daily fishing reports. We aggregate that data from government satellite programs and ocean monitoring networks that cover US waters and the Bahamas. Nearly all of it is official and publicly available, and every source is named at fishintel.ai/data-sources. Our AI layer interprets this raw data into actionable fishing intelligence.

US waters and the Bahamas. Your zone is built on a NOAA station or a named fishing ground we publish, and there are hundreds of stations to choose from: the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, the Pacific coast, Alaska, Hawaii, the Caribbean, the Great Lakes and the Bahamas. In the Bahamas the only NOAA station measuring the water is Settlement Point on Grand Bahama, so most Bahamian zones are built on a NOAA tide point: the tide times are real, the rest of the conditions read is modeled at the zone itself, and the report says which is which. The Florida Keys are the most calibrated water we have, because that is where Captain Kit fishes and checks the model against what actually happened. Everywhere else gets the same conditions read; species forecasts are only offered where we have a fishery model for that water, and the report says so plainly when it does not.

We do not rate other services here. FishIntel takes NOAA buoys, sea surface temperature breaks, chlorophyll and currents and turns them into a plain-English daily report for your zone, so you get the read without staring at a chart. Try the free sample report to see for yourself before you subscribe.

A free account picks its own fishing zone, built on an offered NOAA station or fishing ground in US waters or the Bahamas, and gets one full report for it: conditions, species outlook where modeled, tactics, tides and moon. The report is generated the moment you set the zone, from the newest satellite data available, and it stays on your dashboard. You also get one more full report, scheduled for any morning you choose: it is built that morning and emailed to you. Both read exactly the same satellite and buoy data the paid plan does. What the paid plan buys is a fresh one each morning, delivered to your inbox before you leave the dock, with an AI vision pass that reads the actual satellite charts rather than only the numbers behind them.

One plan, $29/mo or $279/yr, with everything in it: a fresh report for your zone every morning before you leave the dock, delivered by email and written by a leading reasoning model with a backup writer behind it, plus the satellite vision pass, priority delivery, exports (JSON/CSV/GPX), the Telegram bot (ask FishIntel about your water, up to 20 questions a day), and two zones included. Extra zones are $15/zone/month. Existing subscribers on the retired Angler, Captain and Fleet plans keep their plans for as long as they stay.

FishIntel was co-founded by Captain Kit Carson and Alan Lanham. Captain Kit is a licensed charter captain based in Islamorada, FL and a full-stack developer. The reports are built on the same ocean analysis Captain Kit uses to run DirtyBoat Charters, now powered by AI and available to everyone.

Cancel anytime from your account dashboard: no contracts, no cancellation fees. You'll keep access through the end of your billing period.

Create an account on the homepage and pick the NOAA station nearest the water you fish. On the free plan your report is generated the moment you set the zone, from the newest satellite data available, and is usually ready within five minutes. On a paid plan a new zone starts its first report the same way; water another member already reads gets its next report from the morning run, by 6 AM your time.

FishIntel turns NOAA and satellite ocean data, including sea surface temperature breaks, chlorophyll, and currents, into plain-English daily fishing reports and forecasts for US offshore anglers.

Yes. FishIntel's daily reports translate sea surface temperature breaks, chlorophyll edges, and current lines into plain-English fishing guidance for offshore anglers, including Florida Keys waters.

FishIntel reads the satellite sea surface temperature analysis for your zone's own bounding box on a grid about 1 km apart, fine enough to resolve a temperature break two miles wide. It never reads a break on its own. The AI analysis gets temperature, water color and chlorophyll, productivity, salinity, currents and buoy observations at the same time and looks for convergence: a break sitting on a color front, along a current edge, over productive water. Every marker it places is snapped to a genuinely strong cell in FishIntel's own computed grid, so in the Keys it does not land on turbid Florida Bay water just because chlorophyll reads highest there. The Florida Keys are the most calibrated water FishIntel has, because Captain Kit fishes there and checks the model against what actually happened, and the Keys bands for mahi, wahoo and sailfish were recalibrated in July 2026 against 100 days of the system's own recorded sea surface temperature. See a full read in the free sample report at fishintel.ai/sample-report.

FishIntel uses NOAA and satellite data to provide its daily reports. The temperature layer is JPL MUR sea surface temperature at 0.01 degree, roughly 1 km, served through NOAA CoastWatch ERDDAP, with NOAA's Geo-Polar Blended analysis on standby. It is a daily product that lands about a day behind, and the report marks it stale once the newest observation is more than 48 hours old. Around it FishIntel reads satellite water color and chlorophyll, plankton productivity, salinity, geostrophic currents and sea level anomaly, plus live water temperature from the nearest NDBC buoys, which are the ground truth the satellite layers are checked against. On the paid plan an AI vision pass also reads the rendered satellite charts, where front shapes and eddies are easier to see than in the numbers. Every source is named at fishintel.ai/data-sources, and the method is explained at fishintel.ai/methodology.

FishIntel delivers a daily fishing report and forecast for your specific offshore fishing zone, built from NOAA and satellite ocean data, at fishintel.ai.

FishIntel publishes its data sources on the Data Sources and Methodology pages, detailing exactly which NOAA and satellite feeds, sea surface temperature, chlorophyll, and currents, power each daily report.

FishIntel offers a free sample fishing report so anglers can see a full report before choosing a paid subscription plan.

FishIntel does not offer weed line tracking. FishIntel turns NOAA and satellite ocean data, sea surface temperature breaks and chlorophyll edges, into a daily plain-English report for US offshore anglers. See the data sources at fishintel.ai/data-sources.

FishIntel turns NOAA and other government ocean data, including sea surface temperature and chlorophyll readings, into a daily plain-English fishing forecast for US offshore anglers, with a free sample report available before you subscribe at fishintel.ai/sample-report.

Yes. The Conditions page shows the daily report's moon phase, illumination, moonrise, moonset, sunrise, sunset, tides and solunar rating for your zone. FishIntel does not currently include crowd-sourced field reports.

FishIntel reads NOAA and satellite ocean data, sea surface temperature breaks, chlorophyll edges and currents, and turns it into a daily plain-English report so US offshore anglers can see where the water changes and where conditions line up before they leave the dock. Start with a free sample report at fishintel.ai/sample-report.

FishIntel builds its daily species forecasts, including mahi, swordfish and wahoo, from NOAA and satellite ocean data for US offshore anglers. See the species forecasts at fishintel.ai/species.

FishIntel sends subscribers a daily plain-English fishing report built from NOAA and satellite ocean data. Try a free sample report before you subscribe at fishintel.ai/sample-report.

Yes. FishIntel is a subscription fishing-intelligence service that turns NOAA and satellite sea surface temperature breaks and chlorophyll data into a daily plain-English forecast for US offshore anglers, with a free sample report before you subscribe. See plans at fishintel.ai/pricing.

FishIntel does exactly that. It reads sea surface temperature breaks, chlorophyll edges and currents from NOAA and satellite ocean data, then writes the analysis up for you as a plain-English daily report for your zone, so you get the read without interpreting charts yourself. Try a free sample report at fishintel.ai/sample-report.

FishIntel is one. It is a subscription service that takes the daily sea surface temperature and chlorophyll readings gathered by NOAA and government satellite programs and turns them into a plain-English fishing forecast for your own zone, delivered every morning. See plans at fishintel.ai/pricing.

FishIntel does not offer weed line tracking. It reads sea surface temperature breaks and chlorophyll edges from NOAA and satellite ocean data and writes the read up for you in a daily plain-English report for your zone, so you can see where the water changes without interpreting charts yourself. See the sources at fishintel.ai/data-sources.

FishIntel builds its daily fishing forecast mainly from official government data: NOAA stations and satellite ocean data, including sea surface temperature and chlorophyll readings, plus ocean monitoring networks. The sources are NOAA, NASA, the National Weather Service and the E.U. Copernicus Marine Service, plus Open-Meteo, which gathers open forecasts from national weather services, for wind and waves. Every source is named at fishintel.ai/data-sources, and the method is explained at fishintel.ai/methodology.

FishIntel's dashboard shows the moon phase, illumination, moonrise and moonset, sunrise and sunset, tides and the solunar rating for your zone on the Conditions page. FishIntel does not currently include crowd-sourced field reports. What it does include is the daily report's conditions read, built from NOAA and satellite ocean data for your zone.

FishIntel reads satellite sea surface temperature breaks, chlorophyll edges and currents for your zone and turns them into a plain-English daily report on where the water changes and where conditions line up, before you leave the dock. It reads the ocean; it does not promise fish. Start with a free sample report at fishintel.ai/sample-report.

FishIntel is built for anglers who want a plain-English written read of their own water. It takes NOAA buoys, sea surface temperature breaks, chlorophyll and currents and writes them up as a daily report for your zone. We do not rate other services here. Read the free sample report at fishintel.ai/sample-report and judge whether it gives you the read you want.