RoguePin

Keep the mark honest after the water moves it.

RoguePin is for the angler learning offshore fishing—often alone, piecing it together from videos and radio chatter—who still wants a pin they can trust an hour from now.

The app drops the pin, applies real drift physics based on wind and current, and runs completely offline when you lose cell service. Coordinates stay in degrees and decimal minutes, distance is in nautical miles, and speed is in knots. When another boat needs the same kelp, the pin goes right with them.

You already know where you are.

But it's harder to know where a kelp will be.

Being relativly new to the Southern California private boatfishing scene and a first time boat owner there was a lot of learning to do. Being able ot read the water was something I felt comfortable with from surfing, but predicting how something like a kelp will move over 24 hours when you're not watching the currents all day has taken me some time to sort out. .

Thus RoguePin was born, a tool to help me and others to take the guesswork out of the water and get more time on the fish.

A working pin, not another chart company.

The chart is here so you can see the pin. The work is the drift, the start spot, and the other boat. The formulas are written out here.

Mark it

Kelp, debris, or a skiff, each with its own wind leeway. The search area is drawn on the phone.

Deep drop

Pick the target, the boat, the depth, and the weight. The start card is the coordinate where the boat belongs.

Anchor

Style, size, and chain from the boat you saved, then the set and the swing.

Hand it off

A VHF card you can read aloud, a still picture of the pin, and a live pin for a mate when Pro is on.

Two skiffs far apart on calm water at sunset

One person can fish it. Pro is the crew.

The chart, the GPS, and one kelp are free. Pro is the rest of the fishing day. A new account can start a 7-day Pro trial, then stay on Free if they do not continue. The store purchase is not connected yet, so the phone cannot charge anyone until the listing opens. The price when it does is $19.99 a year. There is no monthly plan.

Free

The download

Chart, layers, themes, GPS, coordinates, deep drop, and anchor
The VHF card for a pin already on the phone
One live kelp, tracked for 4 hours after the drop
Mates, a PASS CARD picture, and a pin someone sent you
Boats already saved on the phone. Example boats stay free

Pro

$19.99 a year after 7 days

Eight live pins, kelp or any other type
The scrubber from 24 hours back through 48 hours ahead
Send a live pin to a mate
Add another saved boat
Everything in Free

Fleet

Seats a landing buys

Free and Pro stay the plans for one boat. Fleet is not a third plan.
The landing can run more than one fleet and assign boats by username, or hold a seat for an email.
Each assigned boat is Pro while that seat is active. Empty seats stay with the landing.
SHARE sends one pin to one mate. FLEET sends that pin to the other boats.
The landing does not see a pin until someone sends it.

The longer hours stay visible on Free. They cannot be selected. After 4 hours the kelp stays where that free track ended. A second kelp, or a pin that is not kelp, asks for Pro. Parking the current kelp makes room for a new one. Nothing is deleted. When Pro ends, one kelp stays live and the rest are hidden. The other boat does not need Pro to open a pin you sent. A cloud drift run is later, and it is not part of this price. Fleet seats are not for sale yet, and no fleet price is listed until they are.

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