News and updates · October 23, 2026
The whole Arkansas River, and new limits on the White
Twelve locks and dams on one card, buddies who can ask about a day in the app, and a note on the White River rules that change November 1.
Friday note
This week Pocket Fishing Guide learned the Arkansas River. Every lock and dam from Trimble to Norrell is on one strip, each pool reads the Corps every hour, and Ozark Lake has a page of its own beside Lake Dardanelle. If you fish a pool, save it and the latest read follows you.
Buddies grew up too. Open a buddy's calendar, tap a day, and the ask goes to them in the app with the read for your water beside it. They answer with one tap, and once you are both in, the day goes on your calendar.
On the White from Bull Shoals Dam down to the Norfork access, you can keep two rainbows a day now, and anything 14 inches or longer goes back. On November 1 the water just below the dam closes, and browns are catch-and-release through the state park. Check the water's page in the app for the rule as AGFC posts it.
Anglers who chose the Friday email in the app get this note there, with their own water's week, the dam's week by the hour and anything new since they last looked. This page is the public copy.
The regulation lines are from Corey's note in the Friday digest for 2026-10-23 (Pocket Fishing Guide), which quotes AGFC.
What shipped in Pocket Fishing Guide
One entry per change a person can see or use.
The same notes anglers read at pocketfishinguide.com/whats-new, where feedback on any change goes straight back to the build it came from. Newest day first; earlier days fold.
October 22, 2026
21 changes · Waters, Account & settings and 4 more
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WatersAnglers · Oct 22
The whole Arkansas River on one card, with a week of release
The Arkansas River page now opens with every lock and dam on one strip, like the Buffalo's: the release from the lowest dam to the highest, which pools are rising or falling, and a week of daily release for the pool you tap.
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WatersAnglers · Oct 22
Ozark Lake has its own page
Ozark Lake, the Arkansas River pool behind Ozark-Jeta Taylor Lock and Dam, now has a page of its own like Lake Dardanelle: its signals, forecast and species, with the lock and dam on the Tailwaters tab.
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MapAnglers · Oct 22
Make the map bigger
On the Live Waters Map, a button beside the zoom controls fills your screen with the map, its card and its legend; press it again or Escape to come back. The dam card now gives its access points the full card width, so their names read whole.
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WatersAnglers · Oct 22
Each Arkansas River pool shows its own lock and dam
Pick a pool on the Arkansas River page and the Tailwaters tab shows that lock and dam alone, laid out like the Bull Shoals dam card: the pool against normal, the release, what it means below the dam, and Upstream and Downstream to step along the river.
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WatersAnglers · Oct 22
Arkansas River pools, tailwaters and locks on the map
The Arkansas River page now lists its twelve pools, each with its level and its dam's release. Pick one to see its lock and dam, or open the Tailwaters tab. Each lock and dam has its own pin on the map, and a pool's Map button goes to its dam, not the middle of the river.
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Profile & calendarAnglers · Oct 22
Save an Arkansas River pool and see its latest read
Save a pool from its card to see its latest Corps read on Saved, and open it on the Arkansas River page from there.
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13 more from October 22, 202613 changes · Waters, Buddies & plans and 3 more
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Account & settingsEveryone · Oct 22
What's new says where a change lives, and takes your word on it
Every note here now names the part of the app it changed, with a filter at the top and a link into that part. A picture rides along where one helps. Something off since an update? Tell us under the note: the feedback carries the change and the build you are on, so we can tie the two together.
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WatersAnglers · Oct 22
Arkansas River pool levels now update every hour
The Arkansas River pool cards on Waters now read the Corps every hour: each lock and dam's pool level, which way it moved over the day and the dam's release, with the time of its own reading. A pool that misses an hour says how old its reading is.
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MapAnglers · Oct 22
Dam generation on the map
On the Live Waters Map, Beaver, Bull Shoals, Norfork and Greers Ferry now show how many units are running and whether the water is off, partial or full, with the reading's age. Tap a dam for the tailwater read without leaving the map.
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Profile & calendarAnglers · Oct 22
Quick links on your profile, and plans you tap anywhere
Your profile has a row of quick links that stays in reach as you scroll: Fishing plans with what waits on you, Buddies, My days, Tanks and Saved. A fishing plan now shows its day as a calendar tile with the time beside it, and tapping anywhere on it opens the conversation.
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Buddies & plansAnglers · Oct 22
Fishing plans: answer an ask in one tap
The badge on your picture now opens Fishing plans when a buddy asks or answers. Each plan shows the day and time with I'm in, Can't make it or Suggest another time, plus your messages. Once you're both in, Add to calendar saves it.
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WatersAnglers · Oct 22
Every Arkansas River lock and dam, from Trimble to Norrell
The Arkansas River pools on Waters now cover all twelve locks and dams in Arkansas. Each read pool shows its level and its dam's release over the last day, and the Ormond pool opens Arkansas River at Morrilton. Two dams with no Corps reading show their facts only.
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WatersAnglers · Oct 22
Arkansas River pools say when they were read
The Arkansas River pool cards on Waters now show the day the Corps reading was taken once it is more than a few hours old, instead of Rising or Falling. Each card opens a page: Lake Dardanelle its own, the other pools the Arkansas River.
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WatersAnglers · Oct 22
Get your water's read every Friday, from the water's page
Under a water's read, type your email and tap Go. The 6-digit code makes your free account and the Friday read box starts checked; you can clear it. A new box asks if you want to hear when a guide on your water has a day open. In the game, a signed-out read now offers to save your stamps to an account.
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Account & settingsAnglers · Oct 22
Sign in brings you back to what you tapped
Tap a box on a species page, the game's sign-up, Start your Tackle Box, or a buddy's link while signed out and, after the code, you land on that page, not the Tackle Box. A page that needs an account now opens sign-in and says why, instead of dropping you on the home page.
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Buddies & plansAnglers · Oct 22
Tap a day on a buddy's calendar to plan it
On a buddy's card, tap any day from today on. The day opens with the read for your water, their hours beside yours and the bite window. Ask them sends a text to that buddy, and Plan this day saves the day and adds it to your calendar.
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Buddies & plansAnglers · Oct 22
Ask a buddy about a day, right in the app
On a buddy's calendar, open a day and tap Ask. They see it under Asked you to fish on their Buddies card, with a count on their profile picture, and See the day opens your card on that day. Text still sends it from your phone. A buddy of under two weeks wears a New buddy tag.
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Profile & calendarAnglers · Oct 22
Setting up is three pictures and a name
Pick where you fish from a picture, tap the fish you want most, say how you like to fish, then add a name. Each tap saves, so you can come back. Your fish is your picture now, and it hatches into your tank at the end.
October 21, 2026
19 changes · Outfitters & guides, Profile & calendar and 5 more
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Profile & calendarAnglers · Oct 21
See the fishing on your calendar, and each day's forecast
Conditions on your free-days calendar now marks each day with an icon: a fish for a hot bite, the forecast sky, wind or storm warnings, and full or new moons. A line counts the hot days ahead and how many fall on days you're free. Tap a day for its forecast and fishing window.
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Profile & calendarAnglers · Oct 21
Your calendar starts at this week
The free-days calendar on your profile and on a buddy's card no longer fills the screen with weeks that are already over. This month now opens on the week you're in, so the days still ahead sit higher on the screen.
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For businessesGuides · Oct 21
Set up your business account from one email link
We can now email your business a setup link. Sign in with the address it was sent to and tap Link my account, and that login runs your page: your days, trips, prices and requests. The link works once, for a week.
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Buddies & plansAnglers · Oct 21
The buddy badge waits until you see Buddies
Opening your profile no longer clears the buddy count before you reach the Buddies card. It clears once the card has been on screen for a moment, and the people who were waiting say New for that visit.
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HomeEveryone · Oct 21
The home page's guide card opens the guide's page
The Outfitters & Guides card on the home page now opens the business's page, where their days, trips and doors are, instead of calling or leaving the app. On a guide's page, Check availability opens the booking panel.
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For businessesGuides · Oct 21
Every guide on a listing posts their own open days
Set up your listing now asks whose days you're marking, so each guide keeps their own. Saving another step no longer refreshes the posted date: tick These days still hold when they do, and step 4 tells you when anglers stop seeing old days.
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For businessesGuides · Oct 21
Reopen asks first, and the Guide desk waits for each save
On the Guide desk, Reopen on a booked trip now asks before it frees the day. A form stays open until the save comes back, says what went wrong in plain words if it didn't, and past trips no longer offer buttons. Every button is large enough for a thumb.
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WatersAnglers · Oct 21
A water's Partner Spotlight is local
On a water's Signals tab, the Partner Spotlight now shows only the businesses that work that water, nearest first, with where they are. It stays put until you swipe.
11 more from October 21, 202611 changes · Outfitters & guides, Profile & calendar and 3 more
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Outfitters & guidesAnglers · Oct 21
Page through a guide's calendar month by month
A guide's booking panel now shows one month at a time with Previous and Next, out to the last day they posted, so a spring trip they opened in the autumn is there to pick. Each month says how many days are open.
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Profile & calendarAnglers · Oct 21
Pick the water and the day when you plan a trip
The day sheet on your profile no longer assumes your home water. Change the water to any lake, river or tailwater (your saved ones first) and the read follows it, pick any day up to a year out, or tap Plan a day. Ask them now names the water.
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Outfitters & guidesAnglers · Oct 21
Search and filter Outfitters & Guides
Outfitters & Guides now has the same search and filters as Waters and Species: pick a kind, search by name, town, water or guide, filter by water or what you need, and switch between cards and a compact list. The order stays by name.
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Buddies & plansAnglers · Oct 21
New buddies arrive with a name and can share their days
Saying yes to a buddy link now asks for your name first, so your buddy never sees "An angler", and a ticked box shows your free days to your buddies. If your days are set to Only me, your Buddies card and theirs say so, with one tap to show them.
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For businessesGuides · Oct 21
Sponsors show at the top of the water they work
A sponsored business now shows at the top of each water page it works, with its logo. The map is now an icon beside Share, so the top of the page has more room. Where several sponsor one water, the first changes each visit and the rest are a swipe away.
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Profile & calendarAnglers · Oct 21
Put your own photo and cover on your profile
Tap the camera on your profile to add your photo, or Cover to set the picture behind your name and slide it up or down. Your photo shows in the top bar and on your buddies' view of you, and the location and camera details come off before it uploads.
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Outfitters & guidesAnglers · Oct 21
A guide's booking panel keeps your trip in view
On a guide's page the doors now take one row at the foot of the panel, so the trip you picked stays in sight. A day opened from a card or the Friday email opens the panel on that day, and a day that was booked or has passed says so instead of vanishing.
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Outfitters & guidesAnglers · Oct 21
Pick how many anglers and see that trip's own price
On a guide's page that prices by party size, choose 2 or 3 anglers once: every trip shows that party's price, the request and your message say how many of you are coming, and their rates show one row per trip instead of one per party.
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Buddies & plansAnglers · Oct 21
A buddy invite now explains itself
Someone you invite now reads what Pocket Fishing Guide is and the three steps from their side, then sets up a profile right after saying yes, so you see their name and the days they can fish. Opening your own link shows what your buddy will see.
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Outfitters & guidesAnglers · Oct 21
A guide's page now says when your trip request was sent
After you text, call or email a guide from their page, the panel says what you asked for and where it lives next: Your trips, or sign in to keep it there. Tapping twice never sends the same ask twice, and signed in, you choose whether the guide sees your angler profile.
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SpeciesAnglers · Oct 21
Tap a lure on a species or water page to open it
The lures and baits on a species page, in the tackle box and on a water's Techniques tab now open when you tap them: a big picture of the lure on the fish's water, why it works, the water it does best in, and How-To and Shop.
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October 20, 20269 changes · Buddies & plans, Profile & calendar and 4 more
October 20, 2026
9 changes · Buddies & plans, Profile & calendar and 4 more
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Profile & calendarAnglers · Oct 20
Tap a day on your free-days calendar to open it
Your free-days calendar now opens a day when you tap it: who's free, the read and Ask them, with a row to mark that one day. To mark many days at once, switch to Edit my days, then Save.
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Buddies & plansAnglers · Oct 20
Buddy invites arrive as one message with a new card
A buddy invite sent by text now shows up once: your note and one preview card, not the card twice. The card shows a river, your name and a small day chart of when the bite lands while you're both free.
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ReportsAnglers · Oct 20
Angler reports say whether they were verified at the water
Each angler report on a water's Reports tab and the weekly board now carries the label the submit sheet promised: Verified at the water when the report came with a fresh location fix there, otherwise Unverified. Your tank also stops counting reports that were turned down.
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For businessesGuides · Oct 20
Sponsors on species pages and the weekly report
A sponsored guide now shows on the page for a fish found where they guide, with the water named. On the weekly report, a sponsored business on a water in that week's edition shows with its own river note, posted from its profile and dated.
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Buddies & plansAnglers · Oct 20
See a buddy's free days on a calendar
A buddy's card now shows when they can fish as a month calendar instead of a long list: their free days filled in, yours marked underneath, the days you're both free ringed in green and the best one starred.
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Buddies & plansAnglers · Oct 20
A hello from the founder when you join
When you finish setting up, Corey, who built Pocket Fishing Guide, asks to be your fishing buddy. Say yes and you see each other's free days; Not now is fine, nobody is told, and the ask never comes back.
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Fish ArkansasAnglers · Oct 20
Buddy's tips on the Go-Fishing cards
After you pick a fish in Go-Fishing, the best read gets Buddy's take beside it: a few tips for that fish and what it does this season, swipe for the next. Pick the wrong fish and Buddy still leaves you a tip on the one you chose.
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Outfitters & guidesAnglers · Oct 20
Keep a guided trip for later, or share it
On a guide's page, pick a trip and its day shows as one card with what the morning or afternoon is like and the trout you may meet. Tap Keep to hold it on your Saved page, or Share to send it to a fishing buddy.
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Buddies & plansAnglers · Oct 20
Name who a buddy link is for
Invite a buddy now asks who it's for, so Links you sent shows Rick waiting and Erin said yes instead of five identical rows. Only you see the name. Send again makes a fresh link for the same person; links without a name fold into one row you can take back at once.
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October 19, 202618 changes · Buddies & plans, Profile & calendar and 3 more
October 19, 2026
18 changes · Buddies & plans, Profile & calendar and 3 more
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Buddies & plansAnglers · Oct 19
Open a buddy's profile to see their fish tanks and catches
Tap a buddy's name on your Buddies card to see their fish tanks, home water, when they're free and, if they share them, their catches with photos. You choose what your buddies see in Settings, under What your buddies see.
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Outfitters & guidesEveryone · Oct 19
Guide pages show what a half day looks like
A guide's page now lays out the morning half, the evening half and the full day on the day's real sunrise and sunset, with their prices and the next open day for each. On the White, the trout year shows what each season brings, with a source for every fact.
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Buddies & plansAnglers · Oct 19
See the buddy links you sent, and take one back
Your Buddies card now lists the links you sent: still open, used and by whom, taken back or expired. Sent one to the wrong person? Tap Take back and it stops working. A buddy request that waits 30 days now drops off on its own.
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For businessesGuides · Oct 19
Your week on Pocket Fishing Guide, first on your profile
Businesses now see their week at the top of the Guide view: how often anglers saw them, opened their card, tapped a door and asked for a day, each with last week beside it, a bar for every day, where anglers found them, and one next thing to do.
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Buddies & plansAnglers · Oct 19
Remove a buddy, and say yes to an invite with a tap
You can now remove a buddy from the menu on their row without blocking them; you stop seeing each other's free days and they are not told. An invite link now waits for you to tap Say yes, so a link passed along in a group text cannot add the wrong person.
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Account & settingsEveryone · Oct 19
Signing in is sturdier: a button and a 6-digit code
The sign-in email now opens a page with one Sign in button, so an email app that checks links can no longer use yours up first. The same email has a 6-digit code you can type in the sign-in box, handy when the email is on your phone and you are on a computer.
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Profile & calendarEveryone · Oct 19
Mark free days up to a year ahead
Your open-days calendar now shows one month at a time with big Previous and Next buttons and a Go to month list, so you can mark days as far as a year out. Every weekend fills the month you are looking at. Guides can post a year of open days too.
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Profile & calendarAnglers · Oct 19
Tap a day to see if the bite lines up with your crew
A day on the 14-day calendar or your open days now opens one sheet: the day as a timeline with the bite window, your time and each buddy's, one line saying who it suits, and Ask them. Your open days get a Buddies or Conditions view and the best days together up top.
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For businessesGuides · Oct 19
See your business in the app before you sign up
The partner page now lets a guide, lodge, marina, boat rental or tackle shop pick what they are, type their name and see their listing card, the lead they would get and what each plan includes.
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Profile & calendarEveryone · Oct 19
Your listing and the console, one tap under your name
A guide business or an admin now finds their page, Set up your listing and the console right under their name on the profile, not at the bottom of the page. Saved & planned shows your first three and a See all link to the full list.
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Buddies & plansAnglers · Oct 19
Your buddies show when they're free
Each buddy on your profile now shows the days they've marked free and the days you're both free, with the best one named. A buddy who runs a guide service carries a Guide tag that opens their page. Block and Report sit behind the three dots.
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Profile & calendarAnglers · Oct 19
A simpler open-days card
Who sees your days sits at the top, the picked days read as one line that opens to the list, and setting up a profile asks for one name.
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Buddies & plansAnglers · Oct 19
Fish with a buddy
Invite someone you fish with by link. When they tap it and sign in, you're buddies: each of you can see the days the other marks free, never where you are. The Buddies card is on your profile; a number on your avatar says who is waiting on you.
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Profile & calendarAnglers · Oct 19
Mark the days you could fish
Your profile has a six-week calendar: all day, a morning or an afternoon. They stay yours unless you switch them to My buddies.
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Account & settingsAnglers · Oct 19
Nudges are off until you say so
Nothing is sent unless you pick a cadence and a channel. Settings keeps the same switch.
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For businessesGuides · Oct 19
Guides: your open days from the calendar you already keep
Make a calendar named PFG Open days, add an all-day Open (or Open AM, Open PM) on each day you can guide, and paste its iCal address on the Open days step of Set up your listing. It is read every hour.
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For businessesGuides · Oct 19
Guides: your week in one line
The Guide view on your profile says how often your listing was seen, opened and had a door tapped, and which surface sent anglers to you. Counts only; no visitor is kept.
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October 17, 20261 change · For businesses
October 17, 2026
1 change · For businesses
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For businessesGuides · Oct 17
Guides: evaluate a request before you answer, and record the deposit
Each request on your desk opens to what the angler saw and asked for, the day's season bands and your deposit policy; Confirm prefills the posted price, and a deposit you received is recorded with its date.
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October 16, 20261 change · Outfitters & guides
October 16, 2026
1 change · Outfitters & guides
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Outfitters & guidesAnglers · Oct 16
A guide's page shows the water they work, now
Under the business's name, one card per dam that sets their water, with the same status the dam cards print.
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By the numbers · read October 22, 2026
The numbers we watch, with their sources.
- 379
visitors in the week of Oct 12
The last complete week; 314 so far in the week of Oct 19
Vercel Web Analytics
- 57
Arkansas waters with a live read
16 reservoirs, 9 tailwaters, 12 lakes, 16 rivers, 4 streams
PFG database, water_conditions
- 33
species pages, trout to smallmouth
PFG catalog
- 478K
condition readings since June
About 4,000 new readings a day, every 20 minutes across 57 waters
PFG database, conditions_history
- 326
open days posted by anglers
Days anglers marked free on their calendars
PFG database, angler_open_days
- 16
buddy pairs connected
17 invite links sent, 7 asks about a day
PFG database, connections
- 3
partners published
Guides, outfitters and shops with a page in the app
PFG database, partners
- 9
guide-trip requests
None confirmed yet; the step we are watching
PFG database, trip_requests
Visitors per week
Unique visitors to pocketfishinguide.com by week (Mondays). The last bar is the week in progress.
Vercel Web Analytics, read 2026-10-22
- Visitors to Pocket Fishing Guide ran between 8 and 26 a week through September. The weeks of October 12 and October 19 read 379 and 314. The step up follows the guide pages, Fish Arkansas and the buddy features going live in the first half of October.
- Water pages and species pages are what people open: 254 and 227 visitors in the last 30 days against 156 for the home page. The read on a specific water is the product.
- Most visits arrive with no referrer, which on a phone usually means a shared link or a saved home-screen app. Google sent 27 visitors, talewatersandtides.com 19, Facebook 25 across its hosts. Tagging the links we share is what will make this chart readable.
- Three partners are published and nine real guide-trip requests have come in since the booking panel opened. None is confirmed yet, so the request-to-trip step is the one to watch and the one guides can help with by posting open days.
Read on 2026-10-22 from Vercel Web Analytics for pocketfishinguide.com and the Pocket Fishing Guide database. Demo and test accounts are left out. Visitor counts include the team's own use; Vercel cannot exclude it. The current week is still in progress.
From the lab and the practice
Tale Waters and Tides this week.
Guided weekday fishing starts November 2026
Early trip requests are open for the White (Bull Shoals), Norfork and Beaver tailwaters. Requests are expressions of interest; dates are confirmed personally and no payment is taken online.
Explore guided trips →Progress dashboard for both businesses
One private page reads Pocket Fishing Guide traffic and accounts, Tale Waters and Tides leads, Google Analytics and Search Console week by week, with a plain-language line under each chart. Partners get a trimmed view by link. The numbers on this page come from the same sources, read by hand until the dashboard is wired in.
How it is built →Partner field playbook
The sales kit for outfitters, guides, marinas and tackle shops is an internal page: segments, scripts, the pack checklist and a day-by-day route. Partner pages, open days and the booking panel live in the app.
The partner program →How you can help
Small things that move the numbers above.
Anglers
Open your water, then type your email under its read to get the Friday email. Reply to it with one thing it should do better.
Find your water →Anglers
Invite one person you fish with. Buddies see each other's free days, never where you are.
Your profile →Guides, outfitters, shops
Set up your listing and post your open days. Anglers see them on your page and in the Friday email.
Become a partner →Business owners
The lab runs on public data feeds, scheduled refreshes and AI agents that draft while a person decides what ships. If that shape would help your business, book a call.
Book a call →