Built by an angler, for anglers

I'm Jon Williams. I fish the Bristol Channel from a small inflatable boat and from the shore, and I built Primetide because I wanted everything I check before a trip on one screen.

How I got here

I started sea fishing on the Gower as a boy in the late 1980s. Then I spent years on freshwater: carp, pike, catfish and, on trips abroad, sturgeon. My best fish is a 143lb beluga sturgeon, my first ever.

A few years ago I came back to the sea with a SIB (a small inflatable boat). Fishing from a small boat, the conditions matter far more. Before every trip I was flicking between a tide app, a wind app and a weather app, trying to line them up in my head.

So I built one app that puts tide, wind, swell, weather and light on one scrolling timeline, and a planner that shows the tides for the whole year. That's Primetide.

What Primetide covers

Conditions work for any coast in the world. Species guidance covers hundreds of fish across Europe, North America, the Caribbean, Africa, Australia and New Zealand, so it doubles as a pocket guide when you fish abroad.

Primetide describes conditions. It doesn't tell you whether it's safe to go, and it isn't for navigation.

Built with local anglers

Nobody knows every coast. If you fish somewhere we've got a fish wrong, or you know a local name or a better month, email hello@primetide.app. Every correction is read, and the ones we use get a thank-you.

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