Guides

Remembering and getting back to your spots on the water.

• How to Remember Your Fishing Spots and Actually Get Back to Them

  How to remember your fishing spots for good: ranges, GPS marks, what to log, and how to keep your hard-won numbers yours and backed up.

• Spot Burning 101: How to Keep Your Fishing Spots Private

  Most spots get burned by your own photos and apps. Here's how to keep your fishing spots private, from EXIF tags to where your marks live.

• How to Get Back to the Same Sandbar (and the Clear Water Off It)

  How to remember a sandbar spot and get back to it: why open water hides them, marking by ranges or GPS, reading the tide, and keeping the good ones yours.

• How to Save GPS Coordinates on iPhone (and Get Back to Them)

  How to save GPS coordinates on iPhone for a fishing or dive spot: drop a pin, store the exact lat/long with a name and note, and get back to it offline.

• How to Mark a Dive Site by GPS and Log It Right

  How to mark a dive site by GPS from the boat: save the exact coordinates topside, log depth, entry, and viz, and get back to the same reef or wreck offline.

• How to Remember a Good Anchorage for Next Time

  How to remember a good anchorage you already liked: mark where you dropped, note holding, depth, wind protection and swing, and find it again offline.

• How to Remember Your Snorkeling Spots

  How to remember your snorkeling spots: mark the entry and the reef by GPS, note the tide, viz, and what you saw, and get back to the same water offline.

• A Navionics Alternative for the One Job of Saving Spots

  Want a Navionics alternative just to save your spots? Wakelog keeps your marks offline and private, with no chart subscription. It is a memory aid, not nav.

• The Best App to Save Fishing Spots Offline and Private

  Looking for the best app to save fishing spots offline? Here's what matters: no signal, no monthly plan, no feed. Wakelog keeps your spots on your phone.