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Open the complete ranked spot read for your water and species. Compare alternatives, choose your fishing window, and take a more useful plan to the water.
Every depth map, the top-ranked prime, good and fair spots for a water that size, and the daily outlook for today and tomorrow stay free.
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Free gets you started. Pro opens the rest of the ranked locations, so you have alternatives when your first spot is busy or the conditions change.
Find your own water →Survey depth data · fall structure read
Reading this water's supported structure…
Where. When. Which water.
See every ranked spot, why it grades that way, and which bank the wind favors.
Pick your fishing day a week out, then see when the bite window opens by the hour.
Rank your saved waters head-to-head for the next seven days.
Know what supports the recommendation
Every bite score names its inputs, explains its weighting, and tells you whether a water has surveyed depths, interpolated soundings, or a shoreline guide.
Thousands of waters carry real agency depth surveys. Waters without suitable depth evidence are shoreline guides, with no modeled contours or rated fishing targets.
Where each species stages through the year, matched against the structure actually present in that water.
Weather, water-temperature trend, moon phase, and major or minor feeding periods, resolved to the hour.
Every spot and window states its reason in plain English, so you can see exactly what the read weighted.
Also included
Free can add 3 waters to the synced Your Waters list; Pro removes the addition ceiling.
Get an email when a watched water crosses the bite threshold you chose.
When you have not heard from DepthScout for a week, get an honest ranking of the waters you watch.
Turn a published seasonal window into stage timing, bite impact, and where to fish it.
See source-backed public banks, plus parking and parking-to-shore routes where supporting evidence exists.
Turn your own catch log into the pressure, light, timing, and bait patterns you actually catch on.
Take rated spots and your saved spots to a chartplotter or another mapping app.
No hidden downgrade
Every depth map, the top-ranked prime, good and fair spots for a water that size, and the daily outlook for today and tomorrow stay free. Pro adds every ranked spot, the seven-day hourly forecast, and more waters across alerts, the quiet-week read, and the trip planner.
| What you get | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Depth map and daily readBrowse every depth map, the best-ranked spots for a water that size, and the daily outlook for today and tomorrow. | Included | Included |
| On-water GPS overlaySee your position on the chart, mapped depth at that position, and the range and bearing to the nearest rated spot. | Included | Included |
| Offline water mapsSave a water before launch so its chart, included spots, and fishing read remain available without signal. | Included | Included |
| Your Waters listFree can add 3 waters to the synced Your Waters list; Pro removes the addition ceiling. | Up to 3 additions | Unlimited additions |
| Bite alertsGet an email when a watched water crosses the bite threshold you chose. | 1 alert | 50 alerts |
| Weekend trip plannerRank your saved waters head-to-head for the next seven days. | 2 waters | 10 waters |
| Quiet-week water readWhen you have not heard from DepthScout for a week, get an honest ranking of the waters you watch. | 1 watched water | 4 watched waters |
| Full ranked spot readSee every ranked spot, why it grades that way, and which bank the wind favors. | Top spots by water size | Every ranked spot |
| 7-day hourly forecast and solunarPick your fishing day a week out, then see when the bite window opens by the hour. | — | Included |
| Hatch and forage tacticsTurn a published seasonal window into stage timing, bite impact, and where to fish it. | Published windows | Timing and tactics |
| Foot access plansSee source-backed public banks, plus parking and parking-to-shore routes where supporting evidence exists. | — | Included |
| Your patternTurn your own catch log into the pressure, light, timing, and bait patterns you actually catch on. | — | Included |
| GPX waypoint exportTake rated spots and your saved spots to a chartplotter or another mapping app. | — | Included |
| Stocking updates and official regulationsSee available stocking history, request a stocking email, and open the official rules for the water. | Included | Included |
State fisheries GPS depth soundings, measured rather than modeled
State DNRs, USGS, NOAA and USACE. Every chart says which.
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DepthScout Pro
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Every depth map, the top-ranked prime, good and fair spots for a water that size, and the daily outlook for today and tomorrow stay free.
Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Nova Scotia, with more as agencies publish usable data. Stocking data and stocking emails are free; Pro is not required.
We link to the responsible agency's official regulations instead of paraphrasing legal limits. Regulation links remain free, and coverage gaps are labeled instead of guessed.
Inspect the water before you pay: every depth map is free to browse. Use the feedback button on a lake page or email support@depthscout.com and tell us what needs attention.