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BiteVantage: every fishing app wants your GPS spot, so we built the one that never asks and still tells you what to do today.

A real time fishing intelligence app for Lake Erie walleye, built for anglers who want one answer at the dock: depth, speed, lure, color and presentation, with a confidence score and the number of boats behind it. All 12 Ohio and Pennsylvania ports are ranked by how much the reports out of them agree. Filing your own report is 30 seconds of taps, and there is no GPS field anywhere in it, on purpose.

Applied Monday 11:16pm, paid Wednesday 11:48am, live 5:17pm All 12 Lake Erie ports ranked by how much the reports agree A 30 second report with no GPS field anywhere
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BiteVantage
Greg Owens · built by The App You Want
The call, with a confidence score12 ports, ranked30 second report, no GPSWind, waves and warningsConfirm or question any reportWhat is producing
Real screens
The call out of Vermilion over the last 72 hours: 62 to 66 feet, purple crankbait, a depth bar marking the band, speed 2.3 to 2.5 mph, lead back 110 feet, water 70 degrees stained, what is producing with percentages, and a confidence of 62, building, from 14 reports and 10 boats
The callPick a port and this is the plan. Depth, speed, how far back, water, the baits that are producing and by how much, then the confidence score and exactly what it is built on: how many reports, how many boats, how fresh, whether the depths agree. Sample reports shown.
Where to launch: every port on the lake sorted by how much the reports agree, Lorain 61, Vermilion 57, Port Clinton 52, Fairport Harbor 49, Conneaut 47, each with its depth band, hot lure, report count and wind, and a Fishable badge
Where to launchEvery port on the lake, sorted by how much the reports out of it agree. Depth band, hot lure, how many boats reported and what the wind is doing there right now. Tap one to get the whole plan.
Thirty second report: taps and dropdowns, no typing. Where did you launch, a chip for each of the 12 ports, when, how far out, and the depth you fished, with the note that there is no place to put a GPS position and there never will be
The reportTaps and dropdowns, no typing. Port, day, how far out, depth, bait, speed, how it went. Thirty seconds at the ramp. There is no place to put a GPS position and there never will be, which is the reason anyone will file one.
On the water for Lorain, marked Fishable: wind 9 SE, gusts 15 mph, waves 0.6 feet, air 72, pressure steady, light 6:57am to 7:58pm, a gusts chart for the next 12 hours, then the latest reports out of Lorain
On the waterWind, gusts, waves, air, pressure and daylight for the port you picked, with the next 12 hours of gusts as a bar chart, from Open-Meteo and the National Weather Service. Free public data, no cost to the app.
The community: every report on the lake this week, each with the port, depth, distance out, bait, speed and presentation, a Skunked, Slow or Good box tag, a water temperature, and Confirm, Question and Comments buttons with counts
The communityEvery report on the lake this week. Back one up or question it, because a report nobody can question is a report nobody trusts. Confirmations and questions feed straight into the confidence score.
What is producing: purple crankbait tagged hottest bait on the lake at 14% from 15 reports, most named brand Reef Runner, then orange craw spoon 11%, chrome silver spoon 7%, chartreuse crankbait 7%, chartreuse spoon 6%
What is producingEvery bait ranked by the last 14 days of reports across the whole lake, with the brand named most often under each. Nobody pays to be at the top of this list.
See it live

BiteVantage is live

It runs in the browser and installs from it on any phone, no app store. Sign in is an emailed six digit code. The app opens on the best port on the lake right now, and switching ports or the 24, 48 or 72 hour window is one tap.

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The challenge
"If I went fishing today, what should I do?"

That was the whole application, in the owner's own words, at 11:16pm on a Monday. A construction project manager and a serious walleye angler, who had looked hard at the big fishing apps and knew exactly what was missing. They will show you a map and a forecast. None of them will tell you what to actually do at the dock this morning, and every one of them wants your spot to do it. The call the next afternoon narrowed it to one lake and one fish: Lake Erie walleye, all 12 ports, with the rest of the lake and the rest of the country able to come later.

The offer was written from the call at 2:12pm: a 30 second report at the dock with no GPS, pick a port and see the last 48 hours, a confidence score on the call. The owner was traveling. Paid Wednesday at 11:48am, live at 5:17pm, with a full season of sample reports in it so the call, the rankings and the gear page all worked on the first open.

What we built
One answer at the dock, and the receipts behind it.
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The call

Depth, speed, lead back, water, bait, color and presentation for the port you pick, over the last 24, 48 or 72 hours. Under it, what is producing and by how much, and a confidence score that says how many reports and boats it is built on and how fresh they are.

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12 ports, ranked

From Maumee Bay to Erie, every port on the lake sorted by how much the reports agree, with its depth band, hot lure and the wind at that ramp right now. The app opens on the best one. Tap any other to get its plan.

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Wind, waves and warnings

Wind, gusts, waves, air, pressure and daylight for the port, a 12 hour gust chart, and a Fishable or a little chop badge at the top. Open-Meteo and the National Weather Service, free public data, so the forecast never costs the app a cent.

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The community and the gear

Every report on the lake this week, with Confirm and Question on each one. A gear page that ranks every bait by the last 14 days across the whole lake and names the brand most often behind it. Nobody pays to be at the top of that list.

The signature feature
A 30 second report with no GPS field anywhere. There never will be one.

Anglers do not file reports because every app that asks for one wants the spot, and the spot is the one thing nobody gives away. So the report here is taps and dropdowns, nothing to type: which port, which day, how far out, what depth, what bait, what speed, how it went. Thirty seconds at the ramp. That is enough to build the call, because the call is about depth and presentation and the port, not a pin. The rankings, the confidence score and the gear page are all arithmetic on those reports, in the open, with the report count and boat count shown beside every number, and anyone on the lake can confirm or question any report that fed them.

No GPS field, everTaps only, 30 secondsReport and boat counts shownAnyone can question a report
How it moved
Applied Monday night, mapped Tuesday afternoon, paid and live Wednesday.
31 Aug
11:16pm, the application: a real time fishing intelligence platform that answers one question, if I went fishing today, what should I do? Lake Erie walleye first, with the big fishing apps named as the ones that stop short of the answer.
1 Sep
1:30pm, the gameplan call. 2:12pm, the offer in writing, from the call: walleye on Lake Erie first, a 30 second report at the dock with no GPS, pick a port and see the last 48 hours with a confidence score, and the hot lure a tap away.
2 Sep
11:48am, paid, from the road. 5:17pm, live: the call for every port, all 12 ports ranked, the 30 second report, wind, waves and warnings beside the reports, the community feed with confirm and question, and the gear page ranking what is actually producing.
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