Each panel a sharpened tool. Spot mapping down to the rock. Conditions: wind, pressure, water temp, moon phase, light hours. Session logging so tight you can replay a bite three years later.
Drop pins for gravel, weed, silt, clay. Tag each with depth, bait history and bite count. Your swim becomes a chart, not a memory.
Talk and walk. Ears hears your notes, timestamps them against the swim, and files them to the session. Read them back as a clean write-up.
Weight, scales, spot, bait, time, pressure, moon. Every variable logged against every fish you ever capture all in one place.
Pressure, wind, moon, frontal moves. Watched live, lake by lake. Watercraft pings you when the next good window's forming, early enough to clear the diary.
Scrub through a 48-hour session like a timeline. Bite windows, rig checks, bait drops, weather shifts, stitched together, making any patterns or connections as clear as day.
Add the water you fish most, start a session when you get there, and see what patterns emerge after logging everything that happens. True watercraft isn't given, it's earned. Start your first year now, or take a single session pass and see.
A session pass counts pound for pound toward your first year. Buy a pass, fish with it, and if you go annual the £4.99 comes off. £29 is the launch price, held until 30 August, £39 after.
You'll log in or create an account first (your Swimbooker login works), then enter code FIRSTYEAR29 at checkout for the £29 price. Access is added to your account automatically.
Anyone can cast. Few can read the water. Fewer still remember what it told them.
You've been doing this a long time. The water, the bait, the read. That stays yours. Watercraft just sits alongside the three phases of every session, sharpening what you'd already do.
The session starts before the drive. You're reading the forecast, researching swims, checking your bait. Watercraft holds what's hard to keep in your head: every spot fished here, every fish off it, every condition that's worked.
Your hands are full. Rods on the rests, eyes on the water, head in the moment. Watercraft is your ears for the rest. Every show, every liner, every take, every passing thought, captured by voice and tied to the swim. Nothing missed.
The patterns aren't new. You'd half-noticed them already. Which swim wakes up on a southerly wind. What time the takes come on a falling pressure. Seven sessions in, watercraft just brings them out properly. The hunches you had, now proven.
Hundreds of thousands of anglers book their fishing through swimbooker. If you're one of them, watercraft is plugged directly into it, so every booking lands here automatically.
Names that travelled because somebody took the time to write everything down. Carp angling's whole memory is built that way.
Watercraft is a place for yours.
A few things worth saying plainly.
A precision logging instrument for carp anglers, and a place to learn the practice. Map the swim, record the session, watch the patterns surface across the year. It also teaches you the conditions, observations, and patterns that have helped anglers throughout history capture their target fish.
It means the app is out, it works, and you can fish with it on your next session. But it is version 1.0 and it will not be perfect. Some things are still settling. If you hit something odd, tell the team and it usually gets fixed within the week. That is the trade: you get it early and rough, and you get a say in how it ends up.
Carp anglers serious about the water, at any stage of the practice. Some already keep notes, watch the conditions, and record every session. Others are just starting, knowing they want to fish this way but unsure where to begin.
Built by Alfie Tilley and Keanu Griffin (co-founders of swimbooker), in partnership with Scott Lloyd (professional carp angler) and Tom Wilshaw (professional angler & creative), alongside several other anglers and industry stakeholders who've spent years fishing seriously without a tool fit for the way they fish. The team is deliberately small; the relationships with the anglers shaping it are deliberately deep.
watercraft is live on the App Store and Google Play, in public beta. From here it is weekly builds: fixes first, then whatever early users ask for most.
Offline access is included. Maps, swims, dictation and session logging all work without signal. Anything you record syncs the moment you're back in coverage.
iOS and Android, both live now. Web access will follow. The app is designed mobile-first because that's where session work actually happens.
