CastCue Atmosphere / Open-Meteo
The weather around you.
Temperature, wind and gusts, cloud cover, weather context, pressure trends, sunrise and sunset. Current conditions and an hourly view help you compare the day.
Fishing conditions, made useful
Your spot.
The conditions.
Your call.
Choose a fishing spot, understand the conditions, and find a favorable time to go. All before you leave home.
A conditions score. Not a catch probability.
Android · In development
Current focus: South Texas & Gulf coastal waters
From the Android app
A window to consider.
A tide to plan around.
Cropped for presentation and privacy. Select an image to enlarge.
From place to plan
“Should I fish this spot, and when?”
Choose your water.
Open a Location, choose a candidate Spot or mark your own point. You can plan from wherever you are.
Read the outlook.
Check the conditions score, recommended windows and tides, with reasons and data coverage alongside.
Make your call.
Explore the hourly detail, add your local knowledge, and decide when and where to fish.
Conditions & recommendations
See the window.
Understand the why.
Less time comparing scattered forecasts. More context for your next fishing trip.
- Find a favorable stretch.
- CastCue compares upcoming hours to highlight the best two- or three-hour window, plus alternatives when available.
- See what’s behind the score.
- Water movement, light, wind, clouds and pressure trends inform the outlook. Supporting reasons explain what matters.
- Look beyond one number.
- Review 24-hour conditions and score-data coverage. Limited inputs are labeled; too few inputs or unsupported coastal coverage can mean no score or recommendation.
The score evaluates environmental conditions. It doesn’t predict bites, estimate catch probability or guarantee success.
How the current score is weighted
These are the current model’s configured weights, not a measure of fishing success.
- Water movement
- 40%
- Light & time of day
- 20%
- Wind conditions
- 20%
- Cloud cover
- 10%
- Pressure trend
- 10%
When inputs are missing, available weights are rebalanced and coverage is reported. “Full score coverage” means all five scoring components are available—not that every source is precise at your Spot. Open-Meteo Marine values do not enter this score.
A closer lookHour by hour
Fishing Locations → Spots
The bigger water.
Your particular place.
You don’t have to be standing there.
Explore a fishing area now, and head out later.
How your places are organized
Location / the wider areaSouth Padre Island /
South Padre Island /
Laguna Madre
Candidate Spots
Places to explore
Geographically sourced features from the bundled catalog.
Personal Spots
Points you choose
Your own named coordinates, saved on your device.
An editorial guide to the hierarchy, not an app screen or map.
Explore. Save. Come back.
Browse or search for a Location, filter its candidate Spots, or open an Area overview where available. Save the Locations you want in My locations; simply opening one doesn’t save it.
The current bundled prototype contains 256 candidates across four Locations. They’re mapped geographic features to explore, with source information—not expert-verified fishing hotspots or confirmation of public access.
Your point sets the request. A Spot’s coordinates are sent to providers. Nearby Spots may share the same station or model grid. An Area overview uses a representative point.
Make a Spot your own
A good place doesn’t
need an address.
That channel edge. An unnamed stretch of shoreline. The point you want to check next time.
Open a Location and choose Add spot. Pan and zoom the map, confirm your point, then pick a suggested name or write your own. Place search and advanced manual coordinates are available too.
Reopen, rename or delete your personal Spots in My spots. They’re stored locally, with no account-based sync or sharing. Removing a saved Location keeps your personal Spots.
Choose a point
Move the map to the water you have in mind.
Confirm & name it
Check the coordinates. Give the Spot a name you’ll recognize.
Return to its outlook
Open it again from your personal Spot list.
Map selection works without GPS permission. Current location is a separate option that uses Android location access. Map tiles and fresh forecasts need an internet connection.
NOAA tide predictionsHarbor Light
The tide, in plain sight
Make the tide
part of the plan.
For coastal trips, the water’s timing deserves more than a footnote.
- Read what’s happening now.
- See predicted tide height and rising, falling or near-turn context.
- Look ahead to the next change.
- Next high and low times and heights, plus an approximately 24-hour curve with now and event markers.
- Keep the source in view.
- The NOAA station, its distance from your Spot and the height reference stay with the prediction. Times follow the fishing location.
These are predictions at a NOAA station, not measurements at your exact Spot. Tide availability depends on station coverage; non-tidal stations and missing predictions are identified in the app.
Weather, water & source context
One outlook.
Different kinds of information.
Know what you’re looking at: weather forecasts, station observations, modeled guidance or regional context.
Observations / NOAA CO-OPS
What nearby stations report.
Observed water levels and trends, plus salinity where offered. Station identity, distance and observation times help you judge relevance. Products and freshness vary by station.
Bay guidance / NOAA NGOFS2
A modeled view of the water.
Water movement, levels, temperature and salinity where covered. Guidance comes from nearby model points under a distance policy—not a sensor at your Spot.
Regional / Open-Meteo Marine
The wider marine picture.
Waves, swell, water temperature and current context where available. Display-only; not used in the score. Regional grids may not represent conditions inside a bay or behind a barrier island.
Go deeper: where did this information come from?
A nearby source is still a nearby source.
Expand the app’s forecast details to inspect station names, model points, distances, available timestamps and reference information. Nearby Spots can share data; choosing a precise point doesn’t make every provider equally local.
The model’s water-level reference also differs from observed tide datums. CastCue keeps those distinctions visible rather than treating every value as interchangeable.
This real expanded bay-guidance screen shows the model point, distance, valid time and model cycle together.
Harbor, light or dark
Read it your way.
Choose System, Light or Dark in Settings, alongside Metric or Imperial units. Both preferences stay with you across app restarts.
Harbor Light
Sea-glass, sand & a brass score accent.
Harbor Dark
Deep teal, coastal cyan & warm highlights.
Actual Android screenshots of the same outlook. Cropped, never recolored. Values are examples from the supplied captures.
Availability & current coverage
A coastal starting point.
Room for your waters.
CastCue is Android-first and currently in development.
Today’s V1 environmental scoring is focused on saltwater conditions, centered on South Texas and the Gulf. Tide, observation and bay-model availability depends on your Location and its providers.
The Location → Spot structure can organize bays, inlets, lakes, reservoirs and river regions. That broader geography is not a promise of worldwide environmental coverage or complete freshwater scoring.
In the current bundled catalog
- Texas coastPort Mansfield / Lower Laguna Madre
- Texas coastSouth Padre Island / Laguna Madre
- Texas coastPort Aransas / Aransas Pass
- Inland geography prototypeLake Sidney Lanier, Georgia
Lake Lanier tests inland discovery and Spot organization; it does not establish supported freshwater forecasts or scoring. This is a bundled prototype, not a live global Spot database.
CastCue for Android
Make your next trip
a better-informed one.
CastCue is currently in development. Explore how fishing conditions, personal Spots and tides come together to support a better-informed plan.