Fish Spotting Planes!
Fishdope contracts with commercial fish spotting planes to find our members new bodies of fish away from the fleets. With the eye in the sky looking offshore once a week from July to October, our members have an advantage over the regular weekend warriors....
Interactive SST Chart Sample - Try it out!
This is a demonstration of the FishDope chart covering the Southern California Islands and Offshore region. Data is old and provided for demonstration only. Our member interface consists of 5 charts from Point Conception to San Quintin. Each chart has...
Sea Surface Temperature Charts
Sea surface temperate (SST) measurements are made by numerous satellites orbiting our Earth.
Because we receive live-feeds from multiple satellite receiving stations we are able to make Sea Surface Temperature Chart images available to our user’s ri...
Cloud Free Sea Surface Temperature Chart
Sea Surface Temperatures (SST’s) can finally be measured through clouds, but not at the same resolution as our high-resolution SST images.
Cloud Free Sea Surface Temperature Chart
Our custom Cloud Free Sea Surface Temperature Chart uses high-resolution S...
What Is Chlorophyll
What is chlorophyll?
Surface chlorophyll concentration (CHL) is a measurement of the quantity of plant life in the surface layer of the ocean. Chlorophyll observations give us information about how clear the water is at a particular location and ...
Bite Zone Map
Bite Zone
Pelagic fish accumulate and travel along fronts, or regions of abrupt changes in temperature and chlorophyll.
We have developed a method to identify these fronts in both temperature and chlorophyll. Bite Zone maps show you where ...
Hot Bite Report Map
The Fishdope Hot Bite Chart is one of the most used tools for the offshore fisherman.
By gathering daily fish reports from professional captains, sport boats, 6 pack and 4 pack charter boats, fly over planes, commercial fishermen, VHF and private anglers...
LIVE VHF and Archives
Streaming Live Marine VHF
The VHF radio is one of the tools we use to listen in on what is going on offshore. Our own “code group” of captains and fishermen we have put together call in fish reports from offshore so we can get the info in a timely man...