Releases

Added

• You can now record who caught a fish on your catches, kept private to your own log.
• You can ask to join the Barbless community straight from the app, and asking twice is treated as the same request.

Improved

• Logging a catch or sighting and identifying a bug now work with any way the app refers to a water, so river tags from search no longer fail.

Fixed

• Bug identification on a water Barbless does not have in its charts now returns general fly matches instead of an error, and tells you the results are general.

Added

• Bug sightings are here: log an insect with a photo, see it identified, and have it appear on your profile and in the feed.

Infrastructure

• Shared bug sightings hide your exact location and photo storage details, and are only visible to you, the public or mutual follows depending on the audience you choose.

Added

• You can now photograph an insect and get an identification: likely order and family, life stage, approximate size and colour, plus a link to the bug's page and the flies anglers fish for it on that water, with where each hatch stands right now.

Improved

• Fish ID now explains how it measured your catch in a few words, such as "angler's hands" or "landing net".

Fixed

• Fish ID notes and measurement details no longer get cut off mid-word.

Fixed

• Fixed photo fish identification failing with an error instead of returning a result.

Added

• Fish ID: snap a photo of your catch in the app and get likely species, with a length and weight estimate when something in the frame gives scale.

Added

• Catches now have three audience settings: just me, just my friends, and everyone, with friends meaning you follow each other.
• You can add a caption to a catch, name the river or lake it came from, and tag other anglers, who get notified when they are mentioned.

Improved

• Friends-only catches are now hidden everywhere from anglers who are not mutual follows, including photos, catch pages and angler listings.
• Catches can record how precisely your location was kept, and that location stays visible only to you.

Added

• Catches you share now appear in the community feed, with the fish, its length and your photo, linking back to your angler page.
• Angler pages now include a Catches section showing that angler's shared catches, without revealing locations.

Improved

• Setting a shared catch back to private or deleting it now removes it from the feed.

Added

• Catch log: record your catches with a photo, species, length, notes and whether you released the fish.
• New account page to browse your catches in a photo grid and switch each one between private and shared.

Infrastructure

• Catch photos are stored privately by default, and your catch locations are never shown to anyone but you.
• Shared catch photos are served through short-lived links, so un-sharing a catch takes effect immediately.

Infrastructure

• Sign-in emails now include a one-time code for signing in on the upcoming Barbless app, which web readers can ignore.

Added

• You can now follow fish migration runs in the community feed, with channels for steelhead, spring, summer and fall chinook, sockeye and coho.
• Migration channels post updates when a run moves into a new phase at Lower Granite, plus cards for waves heading to the dam or confirmed there.
• Follow buttons are now on run pages and the steelhead group header.

Infrastructure

• The site's API can now sign in requests from the upcoming native iOS app, as well as from the website.

Fixed

• In the rigs library, a highlighted row now settles back down when you tap somewhere else on devices with both a mouse and a touch screen.

Added

• Rig pages now have an Edit button for owners, alongside Clone and edit.

Improved

• Rig diagrams now draw sections to scale by length, so a long butt section reads much longer than a short tippet, and the hero pans in one row instead of wrapping.
• Labels on long rows now sit over their own sections instead of being pulled into a dashed callout.
• On-line tackle now appears as catalog artwork on knot-sized discs, matching the builder.
• Crowded pieces such as a stop above a slip bobber now sit at their true positions so the ruler reads correctly.
• Hovering any on-line piece now shows its name.
• Rig and Knot pages now use a darker, deep-water look with the builder's dot grid behind the diagram.
• Tag captions to the right of a spanner now line up flush with their spec.

Added

• Rig owners can now edit the "When and how to fish it" notes directly on their own rig page.

Improved

• Fishing reports, regions, fish, hatches and forage, and releases pages now refresh hourly, and still update right away when new data is published.

Improved

• Fishing report region pages now load much faster, with page sizes cut from about 1 MB to under 170 KB by loading map boundaries from a shared cache instead of the page itself.

Added

• Added a Beta Tester role that opens up the Rigs closed beta, plus a Beta Testers filter on the admin users list.
• Admins can now assign and remove any role, including Admin, directly from the Edit access dialog.

Improved

• The Edit access dialog now explains what each role unlocks, with consistent role labels across the admin pages.

Infrastructure

• Added safeguards so admins cannot change their own role or remove the last remaining admin.

Infrastructure

• The rig builder and knot pages are in a closed beta: admins and contributors can see them, while everyone else gets a not found page until launch.

Fixed

• Corrected the bass panel's photo import description: it reads a written rig formula from a book, website or notebook, not a photo of a tied rig.

Fixed

• Fixed the tank view so the fly rod keeps its correct thickness when the rod rack is open.

Added

• Rig builder: beads now carry an attachment method, with an Attachment field and picker in the bead sheet.
• Bead attachments are drawn on the canvas and the rig page, and appear in the tying steps, supplies and tools list.
• New Test Tank mode in the rig editor: a side-view water column where your rig sinks, drifts, trolls and casts across lake and river settings, plus a Rod bench and Casting view with five preconfigured 9 ft 5-weights.
• Flies can now carry a weight (bead, cone, wraps or dumbbell eyes, with material and diameter), used by the tank and shown on the rig page, print, hover card, bench list and supplies.
• River rigs can be fished "Wading, tight line" as well as from a boat, with the target zone read against the riverbed under each fly.
• Putty and twist-on sinkers now take their weight in grams, which is used in the tank and named in the supply list.
• Guided walkthroughs for the rig builder, test tank and rod bench, available from a new help menu in the builder header.
• Share button on published rigs, with a reminder to publish first when a rig is still private.
• Hundreds of published leader formulas are now in the rig library as house rigs, rewritten as rigs you can open, build on and fish.

Improved

• Knots can now be saved with up to 30 turns, so Bimini twists and FG knots validate correctly.
• A swivel, ring or snap at the end of a rig now carries line past it and prompts for what comes next, while a tippet ring can still finish a leader on its own.
• Clicking the open end of a rig now opens the picker, not just dragging.
• The canvas keeps its pan and zoom when you return from the Test Tank or Preview.
• Preview now shows the rig page's hero exactly as it will appear.
• The builder toolbar has a labelled Edit button, the Rod bench as its own mode, and tooltips on every button.
• The Test Tank and Rod bench reopen where you left them, and the Rod bench now eases to fit rod, reel and fish at true scale.
• The Casting view frames the rod much closer, drawing it about 1.5x larger.
• Fly line catalog expanded with the rest of the RIO single-hand range, a RIO spey head, and new Sunray and Scientific Anglers lines.
• House rigs went through a practicality review, with 130 of 131 published and species and water tags added.

Fixed

• Bead attachment marks now move with the bead instead of drawing above it.
• Rig tours no longer restart when a new rig is first saved.

Removed

• Seeded rigs no longer show a source credit.
• The rod tip spring in the tank solver is gone, along with the "bent to the cork" readout; the line is now held rigidly at the hand.
• The Rod bench no longer accepts drags, since the fish holds the fly in place.

Infrastructure

• A rig section now needs a diameter before it can be published, and missing diameters on existing house rigs were filled in and checked.
• Updated dependencies to clear high-severity security advisories.
• The Test Tank is off in production and limited to admins on desktop.