Meet Bruce

An AI that sees what you see.

Bruce is BiteCast's in-app AI fishing companion. Other apps give you a chart. Bruce takes the chart, your tackle box, your catches, your friends' lure stats, and the live ocean data — and gives you a plan, in seconds, in plain English.

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Free tier: 5 companion messages / month. Pro: 200 / month.

What it sees

Six inputs. One context.

Every chat turn carries this context to the model. No copy-paste. No re-explaining which pin you mean.

Your viewport

Where you're looking, what depth you're viewing, which layers are active, the dates you've scrubbed to.

Your pins + waypoints

Every pin you've dropped, with names. The companion can reference any of them by name in conversation.

Your catches

Logged catches with the conditions snapshot at the time you caught them — SST, depth, lure, time of day.

Your tackle box

Every lure with structured attributes — type, action, depth class, pattern, UV, scented — so it can rank what you have for current conditions.

Live ocean data

SST, subsurface temperature at any depth, eddies, MLD, currents, salinity, chlorophyll, true-color satellite.

Conditions at a point

Wind, wave, tide phase, solunar rating, water clarity, sun and moon for any spot you ask about.

What it does

Six actions. Always your call.

Action tools render as one-tap confirm buttons in chat. The companion never moves your map without you saying yes.

Fly your map

“Show me 25 km ENE of Browns” pans + zooms to that spot. Confirm with one tap.

Switch layers

“Show me eddies and SSHA” toggles the right overlays for what you're asking about.

Suggest pins

Drops a pre-filled pin draft for a spot it recommends. Edit and save, or skip.

Share via radio

Convert any pin into an encrypted radio code you can read out to crew over VHF.

Start a session

Begin a tracked fishing session right from chat — log catches against it, replay later.

Rank your tackle

“Which of my lures is best right now?” Returns your tackle box scored against today's conditions.

In practice

Real exchanges.

You

Best spot for tuna off Sydney tomorrow morning?

BiteCast

There's a 22.4 °C edge running ENE of Browns at the moment, with a warm-core eddy parked ~25 km offshore. Solunar major hits 06:14 with a rising tide — that lines up with first light. Your skirts and small Halco lasers should both work; I'd start with the JB Lures Pequod on the long rigger.

You

What depth's the thermocline sitting at right now off Botany?

BiteCast

Mixed layer is to about 38 m today, then a sharp drop into 18 °C by 60 m — gradient is 0.14 °C/m. Most pelagics will be holding right above that, 35–40 m. The water column profile's open if you want to scrub.

You

I've got a 4" pearl pearl Squidgy Wriggler. Is it any good for the snapper run on the weekend?

BiteCast

Solid choice but probably not the best one in your box. With water clarity at 4–5 m and a slack tide forecast, the snapper will likely sit deeper and want a more visible profile. Try the larger 5" Pearl in white or the Z-Man 5" Streakz in a darker pattern. Squidgy can be your second-half plan if the others go quiet.

You

Drop a pin where the warm-core eddy is.

BiteCast

Centred on roughly -33.92, 151.71. I've drafted a pin labelled “Warm core eddy — 22.4°C centre” — tap to save.

Honest about limits

What it's not.

—AU waters only. Global SST + chl + currents work, but the AU-native layers (AusSeabed bathymetry, BOM tides + cyclones) are local.
—It only acts when you ask. No proactive notifications — if conditions change overnight, you'll need to ask in the morning.
—Action tools always require your one-tap confirm. The companion never moves your map, drops a pin, or sends a radio code without you tapping.
—Doesn't fish for you. It surfaces information; the calls are still yours.

Try it on the free tier.

5 messages on the house, every month. Pro lifts you to 200/month for $14.99.

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