Your spots stay yours.
A spot you mark goes to the angler on that trip and nowhere else. The waters you add are public, because that is how anglers find you. Where you fish on them isn’t. The whole answer.
For fishing guides
Every trip, every deposit, every boat ramp, in one place.
Right now your bookings live in texts, your deposits in Venmo, your meeting spots in a notes app and your schedule in a spreadsheet you update when you remember. Every trip is a little different: a different river, a different group, a landing that depends on the weather, a balance still owed. Scout & Cast keeps all of it in one place on your phone, from the first request to the recap you send afterward.
What it does
What it does today.
Trip requests on your calendar.
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 until you say so, and you answer from your phone.
A trip page for the angler.
Where to meet and how to drive in, when to be there, what to bring, who's coming, the forecast. Set it once per trip type, adjust it per trip, and the angler reads it on their own page instead of in a string of texts.
Messages, kept with the trip.
An angler's question lands in your inbox and on the trip, not in a text thread you'll scroll for in March. Reply by email and it's kept with the trip too.
Payment tracking.
Cash, check, Venmo, Zelle, card: log each one in a few taps and the trip shows what's still owed. What's owed sits on the trip, not in your head.
Trip recaps.
Mark spots and log fish on the water, one hand, wet screen. Afterwards the angler gets the day written up under your name, with the photos. The spots stay in your own record of the water.
How a trip works
Request, prep, recap.
Each trip keeps its own list: where to meet, when you push off, who’s coming and what’s still owed.
- 01
An angler 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.
- 02
You set up the day
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.
- 03
You write up the day
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.
What it costs.
Booking and trip management are free to use, and there is no card to start. The details are on the pricing page.
Rather talk first?
We’re doing calls with guides about how they run their season: what you use today, what eats your evenings, what you’d want from this. Email tyler@scoutandcast.com and say so.
[NEEDS REAL GUIDE QUOTE: the evenings lost to texts, Venmo and the notes app, in a guide’s own words, with their permission to be named.]
[NEEDS REAL PHOTO: a guide rigging or rinsing the boat at the ramp, before first light or at dusk, with permission to use it. The frame on the hero above is a stand-in until then.]
Set up your service.
About five minutes: your email, your service, a trip type and the water you fish. Your public page goes on when you say so.