Finlore Guide

Finlore Guide is an illustrated field guide to freshwater fish. Forty-eight species, each painted as a single plate in one style, with the marks that actually name the fish drawn where you can see them. IDENTIFY Six questions about the fish in your hands: body shape, dorsal fin, mouth, tail, barbels and colour. Every answer is a drawing rather than a paragraph, and the counter beside the question shows how many species are still in the running. Skip any question you are unsure about — the guide simply keeps more candidates. Colour is asked last and weighted lightest, because young fish, spawning fish and fish from stained water all read wrong. SPECIES PLATES A full-width painting for every fish, with callouts on the marks that separate it from everything else. Pinch or double tap to look closer; the labels step aside and the points stay in place. Under each plate: typical and record length drawn beside a human hand at the same scale, the water layers the fish holds in, a ring of its active months, what it eats, when it feeds and how it behaves. LOOK-ALIKES Eighteen prepared pairs, drawn to the same scale one above the other, with the differences circled and numbered on both plates and one sentence at the top giving the quickest way to tell them apart — roach against rudd, common bream against silver bream, brown trout against salmon, gudgeon against stone loach. Any two species in the guide can also be compared by hand. WEIGHT Length and, if you measured it, girth, turned into a weight range for twenty-two species using a curve fitted per species. The answer is always a range, never a single number, and without girth the range is wider — two fish of the same length can genuinely differ by a third in condition. The estimate is shown against the typical and record length for that species, so you can see where your fish sits. CATCH LOG What you caught, where, how big, in which layer of the water, with photos. Log straight from a species plate and the species is already filled in; the weight is estimated for you from length and girth. Your own season, your biggest fish and your species list are worked out from the entries, and everything exports as CSV or JSON. READING WATER Six painted cross-sections of the places fish hold: the drop-off, sunken timber, the weed edge, a river mouth, a back eddy and a wind-blown shallow. Two or three lines each — the picture carries it. HOW IT MOVES The home screen is a cross-section of a lake from the bank to the bottom. Pull it and the water line follows your finger; the sections lie at different depths, and whichever one meets the water line lifts. Tap anything to open it straight away. WHAT IS DELIBERATELY ABSENT No size limits, no bag limits, no closed seasons. They change every year, differ from water to water, and an offline copy would be wrong within a season and would mislead exactly the person trusting it. Check the rules in force where you are fishing. No account, no network, no adverts, no tracking, no purchases. Everything works in flight mode, and your log stays on your device.