I was recently given the opportunity to check out a fishing app called onWater. Of course, I’ve checked out a lot of fishing apps over the years (and at one point even considered designing one myself) and had never seen one quite so comprehensive and packed with information as this app. It’s a great one-stop shop for real-time conditions and forecasts, lake and river stats and survey data, fishing regulations, access information, future trip planning tools and documenting past fishing successes…and failures.

For my test, I decided to run the app in a location I knew quite well and had been fishing at least once per year, most of my adult life. This was my annual trip to Northern Wisconsin, an area with a wide diversity of fish species, but where I would primarily be targeting largemouth and smallmouth bass.

So, I picked a lake for that afternoon and did a little research with the onWater Fishing app.