For guides, and the people who fish with them

Built for the people who know the water best.

The guides who make their living on the water are the ones who look after it.Scout & Cast handles their bookings, trip prep and recaps, so they can spend their time where it matters — on the water, with you.

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Free for guides. No card, no commission.

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Where guides are working now.

Start with the water you want to fish. Every lake and river here has a guide on it who knows it well.

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What it does

Three things, done properly.

Requests on the days you actually have open.

Anglers pick a trip and the days they could go from your page. Days you've blocked, or already have a trip on, are crossed out. Nothing is held or charged until you confirm it.

Trip prep, and a page for the angler.

Where to meet and how to drive in, when to be there, what to bring, who's coming. The angler gets all of it on one page, and the conversation about the trip lives there too instead of in a text thread.

A recap worth keeping.

Mark spots and log fish on the water, one hand, wet screen. Afterwards the angler gets the day written up under your name — where you fished, what came up, and on what.

A guide nets a walleye over the side of a boat while a client watches from the bow.
A guide's hands tying a jig onto line above an open tackle tray on a boat gunwale.

How a trip works

Request, prep, recap.

Built so you can put the phone down, and pick it back up at the ramp knowing where everything is.

  1. 01

    Someone asks

    An angler finds you by the water, picks a trip and the days that work for them. You get an email. Confirm a day or say it won't work — they hear back either way.

  2. 02

    You get it ready

    Set where to meet and when you push off. The trip keeps its own checklist — details sent, reminder the day before — and ticks itself off as those go out. Texted them instead? Tick that, and it moves on.

  3. 03

    The day gets written down

    Drop spots and log fish while you're out. When you finish the recap it goes to the angler under your name, and the spots stay in your own record of the water.

Why we’re building this

More people should be on the water. One of the best ways to get there is a day with someone who knows it — where it fishes, how to read it, what the day actually asks of you.

Guides make their living on clean water and healthy fish, so they’re the ones who look after it. We’d rather they spent their time doing that than building booking pages and writing up trip reports at the kitchen table at night.

So we built the busywork for them. The requests, the prep, the recap — handled, on the phone, from the boat. We just want more good guides working, and more people out there with them.

Pricing

Free for guides. Actually free.

Trips are yours. The only money we’ll make is a share of intel subscriptions, and those aren’t built yet.

Requests, trip prep & recaps

$0a month, forever
  • No commission on your trips. Not now, not later.
  • Every feature. No tiers, no upgrade prompts.
  • No card to start.

Lake intel subscriptionsComing

80%of every subscription is yours
  • Anglers subscribe to your spots, patterns and what's working.
  • The other 20% is the only money we make.
  • You choose what goes out and what stays yours.

Questions

The things guides ask first.

It's free. So how do you make money?

Eventually, from intel subscriptions: anglers subscribe to yours, you keep 80%, and we keep 20%. That isn't built yet, so for now we make nothing. Trips stay yours either way — no commission, no monthly fee, no tier holding a feature back.

Can anglers pay through it?

Not yet. An angler requests a trip, you confirm the day, and money changes hands the way it does now. Every screen and email tells them nothing's booked or charged until you say yes, so nobody thinks they've paid for something they haven't. Deposits online are the next thing we're building.

I already sort trips out by text. Do I have to stop?

No. Add the trip yourself and it gets the same prep, the same angler page and the same recap. If you texted someone the details instead of emailing them, tick that you did and the checklist moves on.

What does an angler see?

Your page: your trips, what they cost, and the waters you fish. After they ask for a trip, a page of their own with where it stands, and once you confirm it, where to meet, when to be there and what to bring.

Do I have to sell intel?

No. Plenty of guides will only ever use the trip side, and that stays free forever. Intel will be there if you want another way to get paid for what you know.

Will my spots end up on the internet?

No. A spot you mark stays inside your service. Outside it, the only person who sees one is the angler on that trip, in their recap, on a private page search engines don't index. We don't put your spots on a lake page, sell them, or show them to any other guide service. The waters you add are public — that's how anglers find you. Where you fish on them isn't.

Won't selling spots hurt my guiding?

It shouldn't, and you set the line. You choose what goes out and what stays yours. Intel doesn't replace a day in the boat — it keeps you in someone's season until they're back out with you.