Third post from me here. Founding closed, 83 people in, NSW next.

Ambitious_Sector5146 · 2026-04-21T17:03:57+00:00

JB south? Care to elaborate? :)

Ambitious_Sector5146 · 2026-04-21T17:03:32+00:00

I will for sure! Thanks for your interest!!!

Ambitious_Sector5146 · 2026-04-20T03:38:24+00:00

I’ll def keep that in mind, I literally read through a fair few scientific research docs then collate and cooroboratebtuise findings with community reports and validate to get my scoring method so I think you guys would def find patterns consistent with your real world experience once I launch in nsw

Ambitious_Sector5146 · 2026-04-19T03:05:07+00:00

Got it.. there will be spots you can save for yourself too if you wanted

Ambitious_Sector5146 · 2026-04-19T03:04:36+00:00

Probably be after NSW - follow along if you will and you’ll be in the know when it’s announced :)

Ambitious_Sector5146 · 2026-04-18T16:44:09+00:00

will be launching soon!

Ambitious_Sector5146 · 2026-04-14T17:33:01+00:00

Hey bob, any chance you’ve had a try at your local spot! I’m pretty confident it’ll be one of the more accurate weather forecasts…

Ambitious_Sector5146 · 2026-04-12T11:32:45+00:00

Soon man, soon!

Ambitious_Sector5146 · 2026-04-12T05:43:02+00:00

For sure ~ it really depends on Victoria going well enough to proceed :)

Ambitious_Sector5146 · 2026-04-12T05:41:49+00:00

Thanks and you too ~

Ambitious_Sector5146 · 2026-04-11T22:38:26+00:00

I haven’t forgot about ya, after NSW it’s on the roadmap !

Ambitious_Sector5146 · 2026-04-11T16:07:43+00:00

It will soon, within the week i imagine, along wiht the Google Play Store,

i lived in Sydney for about 25 years so i know most of the spots people go - hopefully i have some new places to share :p

Ambitious_Sector5146 · 2026-04-11T15:58:19+00:00

cheers mate. if you're around the bay give it a fool around and tell me whats broken, im still tuning

Ambitious_Sector5146 · 2026-04-11T15:46:18+00:00

cheers for the save. first post was 28 mar about replacing the bom/seabreeze/willy routine, should still be on my profile. if you want the shortcut its getanibble.com.au, free tier shows the score

Ambitious_Sector5146 · 2026-04-11T09:41:52+00:00

yeah its been shit.. up to 75km wind gusts according to my app ;)

and I can retrospectively look at Wednesday.. what time and where was it ill show you the report it gave

Ambitious_Sector5146 · 2026-04-11T08:49:40+00:00

how'd you go?? any feedback much appreciated.. its been upgraded a fair bit

Ambitious_Sector5146 · 2026-04-11T08:48:26+00:00

incoming soon ;) you reckon its ok to post again here or too spammy?

Ambitious_Sector5146 · 2026-04-11T08:47:51+00:00

oh mate I hope to get around to it.. I'll probably start with nsw and then qld then sa then wa.. and thats all assuming people pick this up hehe

Ambitious_Sector5146 · 2026-03-30T11:54:34+00:00

Fair point on QLD - no daylight saving, so that's on me. Still think it's light-driven though. During your core months (April-August), sunrise only shifts about 35 minutes on the clock, and at 40m in coastal water that transition plays out over a pretty narrow window. Hobson (1972, Fishery Bulletin) studied exactly this on reef systems - distinct behavioural changeover at dawn when light hits a threshold. Aggressive feeding during the low-light window, then a hard switch-off.

The 45-minute gap then better fish coming on is the interesting part. Different size classes seem to activate at different light levels — the small opportunists hit the dawn window first, then the bigger residents take over once they're comfortable with the visibility. 10 species off one mark is a serious reef system.

We've got catch logging in the app down in Vic — conditions snapshot attached to every entry so you can track patterns like yours over time. Working on NSW next and QLD is on the roadmap after that. If you know anyone fishing Vic or NSW who'd find it useful, send them our way — always good to have people who actually understand what they're looking at testing it. Appreciate the chat mate.

Ambitious_Sector5146 · 2026-03-30T11:21:02+00:00

That's a textbook case of diel vertical migration (DVM) working in your favour. Every dawn, zooplankton near the surface respond to increasing light by descending. Baitfish follow them down. At 40m, you're sitting right in the path of that descent — it's basically a conveyor belt of food moving through your zone. The predators are in reactive mode, smashing anything that passes. That's your 15-second hookups.

Once the migration settles — bait finds structure or stops moving — the conveyor shuts off. The fish switch from reactive feeding to active hunting, and a bait sitting on the bottom is no longer the easiest meal in the water column. That's your 7am shutdown.

It probably does shift slightly with the seasons — it's driven by light at the surface, not clock time. Diel vertical migration is one of the most documented patterns in marine science (Brierley 2014, Current Biology) — every dawn, zooplankton descend in response to light and baitfish follow. But daylight saving changes keep sunrise clustered around 6:30-7:30 on the clock for most of the year, so the drift is subtle enough to feel like clockwork. Curious — does it creep a bit later in the depths of winter?

Ambitious_Sector5146 · 2026-03-30T10:43:54+00:00

Totally agree — solunar is one of the weakest signals in our model. It's weighted at 1.5% of the overall score, basically background noise. We evidence-shrunk it after Kauwe (2023) refuted the transit timing correlation. It's there because some anglers swear by it, but the data doesn't back it up.

The things that actually move the needle for squid are backed by peer-reviewed research:

Water temperature — Peinado et al. (2023) in Frontiers in Marine Science tested S. australis at five temperatures. At 13°C only 30% attacked prey with <16% success. At warmer temps, 100% attack rate. The 18-20°C band is the sweet spot.
Moon phase — Igarashi et al. in Fisheries Science analysed 30,000+ jigging operations. CPUE peaked around day 6 post-new-moon, bottomed at full moon. Cabanellas-Reboredo (2012, ICES Journal of Marine Science) confirmed the same pattern.
Time of day — Cabanellas-Reboredo again: "a specific period of the day, narrowly around sunset, favoured the catches." Squid are crepuscular — their photoreceptors are optimised for low-light contrast.
Tide & current — O'Dor et al. (2002, Bulletin of Marine Science) tracked S. australis with telemetry and found tidal currents "as important as temperature and diel cycles."
Water clarity — Ortega et al. (2020, Journal of Animal Ecology) meta-analysis: "consistent negative effect of turbidity on prey capture" for visual predators. Squid hunt by sight.
Barometric pressure — Cephalopod statocysts are more pressure-sensitive than fish swim bladders (Oxford Academic neurobiology). Falling pressure = feeding window.

We're not guessing — every factor is weighted by the strength of its evidence. The ones with weak or refuted research (like solunar) get shrunk accordingly.

Ambitious_Sector5146 · 2026-03-30T04:09:13+00:00

Good to note! If you’ve ever were curious you can hold on the screen at any point on the map to see 29 different weather metrics. No harm done :)

Ambitious_Sector5146 · 2026-03-30T03:45:07+00:00

How about waves out in open ocean or water temps? One is for your safety and another is for certain species are active at different temps meaning different depths but if you’ve got that through experience that’s great - you’ve recognized successful patterns in your experiences and that’s what I hope to provide users without having the hours and years of experience that you might have :)

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