Thanks to our anglers around the world for another great year! You shared your knowledge and memories with our global userbase all year long. Now see how the stats add up!

We introduced new features, added more users than ever, and saw record video uploads in 2022. Below are just a few highlights from 2022, including some of your favorite app’s top yearly stats, the latest and greatest FishAngler features, and top catches! Join us in this look back on the year, before all sights are set toward the next year’s fishing aspirations.

 

Milestones

🎣 3 Million Anglers Worldwide

  • With millions of users adding their catches, advice and expertise from around the world, FishAngler has quickly become the premier place to encourage and support anglers of all ability levels to get back out there and fish.

🎣 700K Catches Logged 

  • 2022 saw a record number of logged catches flood the FishAngler app feed. We saw thousands of posts come in every week, which worked out to one catch posted every 45 seconds. Posts featured different species and different fishing styles from every corner of the world! 

🎣 60K NEW Pieces of Fishing Gear Added

  • Over 60,000 rods, reels, lures and baits were added to the FishAngler gear database in 2022. FishAngler users now have insight into the most effective fishing gear and its best uses, like never before.

🎣 24K New Bodies of Water Added

  • 24,000 ponds, lakes and creeks were added to the FishAngler database. These fishable bodies of water are all over the world and waiting for fishing memories to be made.

🎣 240 Countries and Territories

  • Anglers from 240 countries and territories now post their fishing photos to the platform. With this many anglers posting their species and tactics, FishAngler is now the best free fishing resource anywhere!

🎣 20K Videos Uploaded

  • You asked and we delivered! Video has been one of our most popular features this year, with over 20,000 videos uploaded to date. Why waste time on other platforms when you can stream fishing footage exclusively on FishAngler!?

 

New Features

Fishial Recognition™ 

  • Like facial recognition, Fishial‘s artificial intelligence isolates fish traits from images to help users identify species. With over 33,000 species scientifically described, and more being discovered each year, identifying species accurately can be a challenge. Fishial Recognition™ assists anglers in confirming their catches by suggesting the most appropriate species in the catch-logging process. Before this update, anglers manually sorted through options to choose a species when logging their catch.
  • To access this feature: 
    • Open the FishAngler app on your device
    • Tap the “+” icon at the bottom of your app screen and select “Log a Catch”.
    • Select the photo of your catch from your phone’s database or take a photo and select “Next”.
    • Either confirm that the pre-populated date and time of your catch is correct, or edit it and select “Next”.
    • Confirm the location of your catch on the map, or select a location by adjusting your position on the map, or type in the location in the search bar at the top of the screen.
    • Select whether your location is Public or Private at the bottom of the screen, then select “Next”.
    • Choose your fish species from the provided list or search for it. Select “Next”.
    • Complete the catch-logging process to submit this catch!

Improved Posting

  • We improved the posting process, streamlining the process to make adding information easier and faster, while retaining the ability to keep your favorite spots a secret. With this update, anglers can now seamlessly post images or videos and edit privacy settings and location from the beginning of a post. Users can also tag fellow Anglers, Pages, Groups, Species and more with the new post utility bar. But that’s not all! Now, users can respond to post comments with images.
  • To access this feature:
    • Open the FishAngler app on your device
    • Tap the “+” icon at the bottom of your app screen and select “Add a Post”
    • At the top of the screen, tap “Public Feed” to edit privacy settings
    • Select the “@” icon to tag Anglers, Pages, Groups or Species
    • Tap the photo icon to add and remove photos and videos
    • Choose the waypoint icon to include the location
    • Select the species icon to easily add species you’ve selected and species in the region
    • After you’ve added everything you’d like, select “Done” to submit your post!

Multiple Catches

  • Before multiple catch logging, anglers had to individually submit catches for every one of their fish. Now, the date and time of catches are pre-populated, the location of the catch will be supplied (if location services are enabled,) and species are automatically detected. All you have to do is ensure the data that displays is accurate, and add whatever other details you’d like, such as fishing gear, methods used, and release status, to augment the quality of the catch log.
  • To access this feature: 
    • Open the FishAngler app on your device
    • Tap the “+” icon at the bottom of your app screen and select “Log a Catch”.
    • Select the photos and/or videos from your library or take a photo or video and select “Next”.
    • Confirm whether you’d like to log multiple catches or log a single catch from the prompt
    • Tap “Edit Catch” for each catch to adjust the image and/or video that displays, catch location, species, gear used, etc.
    • Once you’ve edited each of your catches, confirm whether you’d like your catches to display publicly, privately, or to Groups or Pages you select
    • Select “Done” to submit these catches!

 

Top Catches

  • With a record number of logged catches and photos populating the Local, Following and Global feeds, here are just a few of our favorite catches from 2022. We’re looking forward to seeing what makes the angler “Bucket List” for 2023 and wish you all tight lines in the new year!

 

Thank You!

We want to thank each and every one of you for being part of our fishing community. It’s been an amazing year here at FishAngler, but we’ve barely scratched the surface! More functions, news and catches are coming to our users in 2023. Stay tuned as we make FishAngler even better than ever! 

We hope you all have an amazing 2023 and keep making memories out there. 🎣

Tight Lines!

– FishAngler Team

 

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