Ten products, all on sale
Everything on this page is finished, and buying it works. Four field decks at $12 each, and six working instruments from $16 to $29. Every one of them is a self-contained browser edition plus a print set, both sent the moment you pay.
No account, no subscription, no expiry, no download limit, and updates are free. Everything free on this site stays free: the guides, the water-reading work, the field checks and all seven field instruments. Fourteen days to change your mind, no reason required.
Hook the Horizon
The Field Shop
Everything here is built to get used outside — opened on the bank, printed and cut apart, riding around in the box until the second something stops working. Nobody can sell you what your water’s doing today, so there are no lure lists or hotspots in here. What we sell is the hard part: figuring out what you’re looking at, and what to try next.
Start with the problem
What went wrong?
You don’t need to know yet whether the fix is a deck, a lab or a field course. Start with whatever’s making the next decision hard.
The water is new.
Too much map and no reason to cast here instead of a mile away. Cut unfamiliar water down to a few zones worth a real test.
Field Deck 03 — Water You Have Never Fished
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The day changed.
The plan worked, then the wind, flow, light, temperature or water changed underneath it. Work out what moved before you change five things.
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A fish came over and left.
A follow is not nothing. Keep the parts the fish already settled and test only what is still open.
Field Deck 02 — The Last Six Feet
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I know this water. It stopped making sense.
The waypoint stayed put. The reason may not have. Compare what stayed, what moved and what has to be verified before an old spot earns another cast.
Read the free water-change guide · Try What Moved? · Get Deck 04
Deck 04 · $12 · Available now
Every trip feels like starting over.
Use one variable per outing and make the record from this trip give the next one a better starting point.
Run the free First 10 Trips sequence · Get the Field Course
Field Course · $29 · Available now
The tackle box is full. The gap is not obvious.
Work out which jobs the tackle already covers, where it truly overlaps, and whether a missing capability survives the cheaper fixes before shopping.
Start with Gear Systems · Open Tackle Link · Get the Tackle Box Audit
Lab · $19 · Available now
The line broke. Again.
Retying is not diagnosing. Read the physical end of the break, bench-test the one thing it points at, and change the smallest thing that actually fixes it.
Lab · $19 · Available now
Nothing happened all day.
A blank is evidence if you debrief it before the story sets. Ten causes, ten gates, and one test worth carrying into the next trip.
Field Guide · $16 · Available now
Three places I could fish. No way to choose.
Compare up to three public waters for one real trip, every fact carrying an as-of date — and permission to conclude there is no clean winner.
Water Compare — The Dynamic Brief
Dynamic Brief · $16 · Available now
It’s yours to keep. No subscription, no expiry, no download limit, and updates are free, because you bought the deck, not one version of the file.
Bought it and it wasn’t what you needed? Tell us inside 14 days and you get your money back, no explanation needed. If a file won’t open or won’t print, there’s no clock on that at all — that one’s ours to fix. How refunds work.
Field Deck 01 · 29 cards
What Changed
$12
Something worked. Then it stopped. Most fishing advice answers that by handing you a different lure, which is a guess wearing a price tag. This deck does the other thing — it tells you what a change actually did to the water, what it did not touch, and how to test one variable at a time so the result means something.
The river came up. They ran the dam. The wind swung. Turnover. The tide turned. What moves, where that puts fish, and how to confirm it standing there.
Depth, speed, pause, angle, profile. One variable each, and a result table that says what every outcome actually means.
Sometimes there is no card left that says try harder. Nothing else sold to anglers has a reason to tell you so.
Works in any browser with no signal. Plus a 46-page print set laid out to be cut apart. Seven original diagrams.
Nothing in the deck reads a gauge or forecasts your water. You bring the event; the card tells you what that event does to water of its class. Public water only, no marks, no coordinates.
Deck 01 is ready. Twenty-nine cards, seven original diagrams and a 46-page print set laid out to be cut apart. It opens in any browser and keeps working once the signal stops. Buy it once — updates are free, because you are buying the deck rather than one version of the file.
Get Deck 01 — $12 Read a card freeThe free situation library
Field Deck 02 · 28 cards
The Last Six Feet
$12
It came all the way in, looked at it, and left. The standard answer to that is an ordered list of five things to change, with no way of telling which one is live — so people change all five and learn nothing they can repeat. This deck starts somewhere else: a follow is evidence, and it has already settled half the question.
Turned at your feet. Hung back. Veered off inside the final foot. Swiped and missed. Nudged it. Stopped following the moment you changed something. Different refusals, different information.
One variable each — the pause at the follow, the cast angle, time in the zone, one size down, the turn, the connection. Every one ends in a result table, including the outcomes where nothing happens.
The species changes the answer more than the tackle does. Pike and musky, bass, trout in current, clear stillwater, inshore, panfish.
Works in any browser with no signal. Plus a 52-page print set laid out to be cut apart. Eight original diagrams.
Every follow card ends with a ledger: what your fish has already proved — so you stop spending casts there — and what is genuinely still open. That split is the whole deck.
Try it before you buy it. The Refusal Reader is free and reads one observation the same way the deck does. If it is useful, the deck carries all eleven signatures, every result table and the print set.
Field Deck 03 · 26 cards
Water You Have Never Fished
$12
Water in every direction, all of it looking about the same, no reason to cast here rather than a mile that way. You know how to fish; nothing out there has told you where. That is a search problem, and search problems shrink — nine cards run in order, each one removing part of the map.
What kind of water this is. Which way it is moving. Where the edges are. Delivery next to relief. Light and fetch. Something alive. Where two good things meet. Three zones. What the first hour is actually for.
A freestone, a tailwater, a natural lake, a reservoir, a pond, a beach and an estuary are different problems wearing the same word. What draws the map in each, and three places to start.
Everybody can name a seam. Far fewer can say what changes across one — which is what decides whether it is worth twenty casts.
Works in any browser with no signal. Plus a 45-page print set. Seven original diagrams.
Every one of the 26 cards ends with that line. No marks, no coordinates, no spots — a deck that only told you what it knew would be selling certainty it does not have.
On buying more than one
There’s no bundle, on purpose
The decks cross-reference each other, so a second one is worth more than the first — but every deck is $12 on its own, and there’s no discounted set, collection or pass. A clever bundle price is a lousy reason to buy a deck you were never going to open. Buy the one that matches what went wrong last time out; the shelf is still here in March.
Current and next
The working instruments
A deck is for the bank, cut apart and riding in the box. These are the other kind: things you sit down with, fill in, and open again next season. Each one keeps its own working record on your device, exports to JSON so you can move it yourself, and prints. Six are finished and on sale. One’s still being built, and it says so instead of taking your money early. Deck 04 sits in here too, since it keeps a Return Record the same way.
First 10 Trips — The Field Course
Every trip feels like starting over. Ten sessions, one job each, and an explicit list of what you are deliberately not learning yet. The ten mission records accumulate into a one-page Trip 11 brief built from your evidence rather than somebody else’s. Browser edition plus a 26-page Letter print set.
Field Course · $29 · Available now
Deck 04 — Reading One Water All Year
Familiar water is dangerous because memory starts doing the observing for you. Twenty-six Return Map cards separate what stayed, what moved, what to verify, what to do next, and what the evidence still does not prove. Includes the local-only Return Record, self-contained browser edition, and 37-page Letter print set.
Field Deck · $12 · Available now
The Tackle Box Audit
The box is full and you still cannot say whether you have the right answers in it. Twelve jobs a box has to cover, scored against the water you actually fish, and a verdict that is allowed to be buy nothing. Shopping comes after the audit. Browser edition plus an 18-page Letter print set.
Lab · $19 · Available now
Blank Day Autopsy
Nothing happened, and you do not know what the day ruled out. Ten causes, ten gates, and a verdict allowed to say the day cannot be read — run it before memory turns the trip into a story about the fish not biting. Browser edition plus a 21-page Letter print set.
Field Guide · $16 · Available now
One Water, Twelve Visits
You know the water by memory and cannot tell which relationships actually repeat. Eleven variables across twelve visits, three synthesis points, and an engine that finds the pairs of visits differing in exactly one thing. A field study, not a catch diary. Browser edition plus a 13-page Letter print set.
Field Study · $24 · Available now
Teach the Decision
A mentor-and-learner pack for taking somebody fishing without burying them in tackle names. Six outing structures built around noticing, choosing and testing.
Mentor Pack · In development · not on sale
Line Failure Lab
The line broke again and you need to know what failed rather than tie another knot and hope. Eleven failure sites diagnosed from the physical end of the break, a bench test for each, and the smallest correction that addresses what you actually observed. Browser edition plus a 19-page Letter print set.
Lab · $19 · Available now
Water Compare — The Dynamic Brief
Several places you could fish and no honest way to pick one. Compare up to three public waters for one real trip: every fact carries an as-of date and a decay class, the brief re-reads itself against today’s clock each time you open it, and it is allowed to conclude there is no clean winner. Browser edition plus a 14-page Letter print set.
Dynamic Brief · $16 · Available now
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The free side stays free. We don’t paywall basic fishing education. The situation pages, the species library, the water-reading work and all seven field instruments stay open. If you can learn it from an article, you shouldn’t have to buy it.
What you pay for is the whole kit, built to work outside — every card, the diagrams, the print layout, the result tables, and an offline copy in your pocket. That’s a different thing from an article, and it’s priced like one.