Why Should I Use the "Your Location" Tab?

The idea for this came while testing the app. I was on the water and wanted to pull live conditions and tides. A few additions came from this trip including an indicator of where you are on the map, an ability to lock into your location, and the Your Location tab with the ability to save the spot. For this trip, I was on my friend's boat. I had an area I wanted to take him to but the pin was on my boat, not his. I took a guess at it but it gave me the idea that if I got that area into my Big Buoy account, it wouldn’t be an issue.

Conditions on the Fly

When I’m out, I don't want to be on my phone. That takes away casts you can make. So say I want to see what's going on where I am, I can now do it as fast as possible. I open the Big Buoy app, hit the Your Location tab and now I'm looking at the conditions of where I'm at. The one thing I need to be better about that I could do is if the bite is going off, open it up and see what exactly is going on. If it’s the start of the tide bite, when that bite ends there's also the option to find an area a little bit away where the tide is starting again.

Save Spots While Out

There are many reasons why you would need to do this and one reason why you shouldn't. If you are taken out by a guide or friend to a special area and secretly save the spot, it won’t be well received by them. Now why you would need to do this is if you don’t have a fish finder (wading, kayaking). It’s an easy way to capture exactly where you are in case you want to come back.